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My latest for
@VanityFair
is a romance thriller that's stranger than fiction. A 95-year-old diamond heiress and a much younger genderfluid reality star got famous on TikTok for their epic feel-good romance. Was it all a long con? Online and in print now:
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The trailer for my new docuseries dropped today!
How far would you go to find your twin flame? 🔥 Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe, a three-part series, arrives October 6 on Prime Video.
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My latest story about the botched results of drug testing giant, Averhealth, is a must read for anyone who’s ever been tested for work, court, etc., and wants to know how the process can go wrong. It’s far from foolproof. And it ruins lives.
EXCLUSIVE: Three years ago, her kids were put into foster care after she overdosed on heroin. It was a wake-up call—she got sober. But despite being clean, she couldn’t reunify with her kids. Why? Her weekly random drug tests often came back positive.
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It was a crazy ending! We definitely didn’t expect a dick pic from our main source. Watch the full piece here:
Vice tried to make a sympathy piece about reintegrating sex offenders into society and it ended with this lol
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Last year a 16-year-old died in a restraint at a residential treatment facility in Michigan. Ever since we’ve been investigating Sequel Youth & Family Services and the shadowy world of for-profit foster care. Watch our 1-hour special on
#ViceNewsTonight
at 11pm.
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SCOOP: Averhealth, a drug testing company used by courts to decide whether people go to jail or parents lose custody of their children, was under investigation by the Department of Justice for fraud in 2022, according to emails reviewed by VICE News.
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People don't realize it, but widespread, publicly accessible facial recognition is already here:
@PimEyesOfficial
. It's being used by everyone from war-crime researchers to 4Chan trolls, I report in my latest for
@ViceNews
with
@bellecushing
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WORKED FOR A YEAR ON THIS CRAZY ASS STORY.
They give your life purpose. They tell you who to date and what your gender should be. You've only met them on Facebook.
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My latest report from conspiracy land for
@VICENews
: the trippy alternate universe that is Mexico’s anti-vax commune scene.
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My article on right-wing rap's biggest star,
@IAMTOMMACDONALD
, is out now in the May issue of
@RollingStone
. Tom is a nice guy, I actually liked hanging out with him. But his lyrics are absolutely bonkers. 1/
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The trailer for my new Vice show !!!!!!!!!!
Discover a world where interest can become obsession.
THE DEEP END with
@alicehines
premieres Thursday at 11:30p.
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I'm on at 1150 EST talking about the surreal experience of reporting this segment :) Spoiler: my covid vaccine has yet to cause an untimely early death!
My latest report from conspiracy land for
@VICENews
: the trippy alternate universe that is Mexico’s anti-vax commune scene.
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10 years as a journalist in NYC this year :) Print for most of those, then 1 year ago someone told me I was good on camera and now all my stories have my face in them ! It’s a weird industry y’all. Glad to still be in it.
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Have you watched our new docuseries DESPERATELY SEEKING SOULMATES yet? 💘🔥
Check it out and let us know what you think! Now streaming on
@PrimeVideo
@MarinaZenovich
@alicehines
@primevideouk
#desperatelyseekingsoulmate
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"Trans People Aren't Forcing Anyone Else to Transition—But This Heteronormative Cult Is" writes
@meyrude
of
@outmagazine
. This article gets the topic of gender identity coercion in Twin Flames Universe spot on.
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Lmao I got paparazzid
Admittedly I was jealous of her hat pillow? after waking up at 5am, having my 630am flight cancelled to sfo.
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The most fascinating story I've reported is out today, on the strange, blissful world of multilevel marketing in Utah
http://t.co/bo03UzJ1L9
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Texas is a new global hub for
#BTC
mining -- which is either really scary for a fragile grid (remember the blackouts?), or *just maybe* a solution to all of the state's energy problems. I looked for answers on
@motherboard
's new show
#CRYPTOLAND
: )
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The letters, as well as the emails documenting the DOJ investigation, were made public in a lawsuit brought by parents who say they received false positive reports from Averhealth. Averhealth has moved to dismiss the suit.
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The Q-mobile makes its TV debut.
On the premiere of THE DEEP END,
@alicehines
investigates what causes QAnon followers to believe that storming the U.S. Capitol is a rational decision.
Tomorrow at 11:30p after
#VICENewsTonight
.
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Covered the historic Amazon union drive for
@Vicenews
. These folks work draining 10-hour shifts so the rest of us can obtain custom-sized menstrual cups / b12 vapes / various late-capitalist detritus within hours .... give them 9 min of your consideration!
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Averhealth told VICE News that the accreditor “determined that Dr. Riley’s allegations were unfounded.” But a letter to Averhealth from the accreditor, reviewed by VICE News, shows that it actually substantiated Riley’s allegations.
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What I should ask tech mage Ray Kurzweil when I interview him tomorrow for
#VICEonSHO
? AI? Assistive tech? Our social media reality (dystopia?) Drop your suggestions here 👇
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Reupping lol
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Did a new podcast interview about Desperately Seeking Soulmate! Thanks so much to Sarah and Nippy for having me on.
If you’re seeking a first-person narrative about what it’s like to pay to play in
#TwinFlamesUniverse
, check out Keely Griffin on
@alittlebitculty
.
For this show, we features
@alicehines
—the Emmy-award-winning investigative journalist and executive producer of...
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The DOJ investigation gathered information about court testimony given by Averhealth’s former lab director that up to 30% of the results reported to the state of Michigan’s child welfare agency were wrong, which Averhealth denied.
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must read
“It can be difficult for those inundated by Gaza images on social media to remember that wide swaths of the US population have never seen them, and likely never will.”
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Talking about
@PimEyesOfficial
on at 1:30 EST!
People don't realize it, but widespread, publicly accessible facial recognition is already here:
@PimEyesOfficial
. It's being used by everyone from war-crime researchers to 4Chan trolls, I report in my latest for
@ViceNews
with
@bellecushing
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Wrote about about Pimeyes, a secretive Polish facial recognition website, for
@motherboard
&
@VICENews
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.
@lopez__tony
we made a show about your fans. Specifically, the ones who show up to your house and think that’s completely normal.
Tonight,
@alicehines
investigates the blurred line between public personas and private lives in the parasocial relationship between influencers and their fans.
THE DEEP END. Tonight at 11:30p after VICE News Tonight.
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The ex-lab director also filed a complaint with Averhealth’s accreditor, the College of American Pathologists (CAP). She told them that Averhealth had unacceptable quality assurance and calibration of lab instruments.
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*thinks about how freelance career choices are a deliberate avoidance of this phenomenon*
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'“Free the Nipple” surpassed phrases like “equal pay” and “gender equality” in terms of interest according to Google trends.'
ugh
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Yes, Chloë Sevigny kept every piece of clothing she's owned, & organizes them alphabetically.
#dreams
http://t.co/0JShkv35uw
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Guy on street: Let me get your number
Me (two martinis in): Oh is he bothering you? Dude are you harassing her? Let me get your number. No you don't understand. You're sexy. I need it. Yup. Not gonna leave ya alone. I'm gonna follow your ass around as long as you follow her
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Things I brought back from Utah in addition to a story: pills, essential oils, 2 Books of Mormon. Thanks
@econhardship
for getting me there!
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I wrote about
#Raya
, the secret dating app for Instalebrities on
@nymag
today
http://t.co/xN2KROI7sq
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A+ editing from
@xtinasterbenz
Averhealth drug tests can separate parents from their kids, put people in jail, and get them fired from jobs in dozens of states. But a lot of the time, those results are wrong, according to whistleblower testimony obtained by
@alicehines
. Read:
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"bimbofication" and "parasocial" : two words my aunt wrote down & looked up after my yale talk with
@emilyhund
😅
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One of the weirder products that's been advertised to me on instagram. Also is she masturbating?
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Dating apps, night clubs, and restaurants exclusively for Covid + to socialize and meet new friends safely seems kinda like a fire idea tbh.
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We were all very naïve or self-deceiving to think $10.50 manicures were OK.
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about to go to the reunion of the boarding school i was expelled from 1 month before graduation 10 years ago!
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“Life care terminated 57 percent of employees who provided their names within three weeks of filing their complaint.” WILD stat from
@joshuahersh
and
@TomasJNavia
’s new doc about abuse in nursing homes.
@VICENews
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my lilly pulitzer think piece is better than your lilly pulitzer think piece
http://t.co/J9xnBUDoN9
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For our first episode, I profiled Q author Roy Davis. QAnon fascination with the Kennedys (seen in Dallas this week) goes way deeper than a lot of people think — Roy first ended up on 4chan while researching the assassination.
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.
@openingceremony
tracked down the man behind Brit's OG look & talked denim then and now
#VMA
http://t.co/efNHZkY0Au
http://t.co/YMSJBIG1td
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Bearded dude in a Hooters Tee at Williamsburg Sweetgreen, hope you are enjoying your lifestyle
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"Marijuana is being presented to the masses as medical, GOOD, and WHITE" -
@NJweedman
, quoted in my latest on
@TPM
http://t.co/Xgv5pMlQIY
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But PimEyes also reinforces a lot of existing power structures. Thanks to the tool (and the trolls who use it), cam models and other sex workers can't show their faces online and be anonymous anymore. Doxxing is rampant. This happened in Russia first:
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"club kids learned to stand on the right in a group photo for Details, “so that when the picture runs you’ll be the first name on the left""
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sources who nag you re: "making extra SURE this is off the record" but have nothing interesting or controversial to say
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last thought on other alice: this pic feels like staring @ the future
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So in Utah Starbucks iced coffee comes mega sweetened by default. Barista doesn't believe me when I tell her it's different elsewhere
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Tom has a rabid fan base - people decal trucks with his face! But haters also help his # s. ‘I realized the people who didn’t like me were doing the most for me,’ he told me. ‘Like, ‘I have to show 30 of my friends this piece of shit, because I hate him.’ 3/
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As some of you know, as of today, I'm moving on from Opening Ceremony to pursue freelance writing. Follow my work right here!
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Averhealth runs millions of drug tests a year, working with courts and government agencies in 34 states.
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People either tend to think he's totally bigoted or tongue-in-cheek brilliant. Take this bar for example: "Racism is gay if you're offended that's r*tarded." 2/
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I recently started a new job as a correspondent at
@VICENews
. Really proud of a recent story we worked on investigating a death at a foster-care facility in Michigan.
Will White was one of the few adults Cornelius Fredrick — who died after after being restrained at a youth home — was close to. He says Cornelius was misunderstood and needed someone to care about him.
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Where is the app where you put in the items in your closet and get back halloween costume ideas??
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Read me on fake fur in
@VICE
May issue! A funny thing re: fashion reporting is you end up criticizing things you love
http://t.co/ye9ye7bYjS
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literally never going to be able to convince a cute, consent respecting human to slap me now, thanks asshole
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A judge in Utah just threw out Averhealth results in a custody case that used oral fluid: "The court has serious concerns about the reliability of oral fluid testing as it pertains to amphetamine, ecstasy and methamphetamine."
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Walmart workers are striking today in twelve cities. Check my story for updates
http://t.co/aBeYW2ML
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In 1827 if you were late to publish a story you could cite "feebleness" and move on!
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Shout outs to Portugal-based reporters who helped me:
@anarfranca
for translations and
@maartagoncalves
for research.
@MaxLakner
for the incredible photos.
@mbradylynch
and
@DanielKile
for the expert edits!
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At barre class in alabama the instructor referred to the “Mother Mary” pose. Anyone know the story of this!
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