Tom Zeller Jr.
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Journalist; @NYTimes & @KSJatMIT alum; Editor in Chief, @undarkmag (); Formidable lyric vault; Scion of #CLE .
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Please teach this in schools. Acreage does not vote. People do. This is how election results should be displayed.
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It's been 30 years since I left Ohio and began mixing with upper-income elites. I still haven't met one who gets this. (via
@girlziplocked
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Did you ever imagine you'd live to see a headline like this splashed across American TV screens?
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As a former NYT staffer, I'm embarrassed by a post like this — and that
@nytimes
management would tolerate it. The press owes no fealty to protesters (or anyone). But it's also true that no one — including protesters — owes fealty, or courtesy, or attention to the press. smh
When protests are not about actually explaining your cause or trying to engage journalists who are there to listen.
@Peggynoonannyc
describes her visit to Columbia before the raid.
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"There were never adults in the room. There were only accomplices."
"You may remember the delusional mantra 'the generals will save us' and the praise for Mattis, McMaster and Kelly as 'the adults in the room'. But there were never adults in the room. There were only accomplices." --
@gaslitnation
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It is my honor to be among the first to share the beginning of this week-long effort at scientific truth-telling — a year in the making — from
@undarkmag
, and under the sharp editorial direction of
@ashleythesmart
and Angela Saini.
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@BridgetPhetasy
Your principles should be based on weighing the most likely outcomes in the real world, not on how you wish things were. The former considers the well-being of the masses. The latter considers only ... you.
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source, which provides a good breakdown of different visual choices:
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@powellAtlantic
@nytimes
I don't disagree, though a journalist complaining that sources won't open up is weirder to me than young protesters displaying caution around the media. Overcoming the former is literally your job. The latter is probably a healthy reflex in anyone.
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Trump supporter saying the not-so-quiet part very much out loud:
"They’re supposed to shoot BLM," she said, "but they’re shooting the patriots.”
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The folks calling for Senate to block any Obama replacement for
#Scalia
are also chastising the Twitterverse for politicizing his death. Huh
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Definitely my favorite
#berniesmittens
meme of the day. Tagging you
@nycjim
in case you haven't seen.
#GratefulDead
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Words to live by in these troubled times...
Keep your standards high even if you do not believe they will be met. Do not let autocracy chip away at your expectations and values.
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Why are white people living/working abroad called expats when everyone else is an immigrant?
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If
@Google
's
@Nest
Secure devices really had secret microphones that they hid from consumers, those consumers should probably be forgiven if they don't trust the company's after-the-fact promises that it never spied on them.
#DontBeEvil
via
@csoonline
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Because it should be shared across the land as often as possible, until it sinks in:
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“...the worst of any president at nine months in office since modern polling began. ”
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Hat trick: 1) AG who stymied federal probes of Exxon; 2) EPA chief who blocked state probes of Exxon; 3) Exxon CEO as Secretary of State.
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So
@SarahPalin
is baldly Tweeting white-supremacist trash now? (Hint: Google "14 words"). How these people look in the mirror is beyond me.
Trump Gives Speech to the People of Poland, Says 14 Words That Leave Americans Stunned
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Real
#journalism
. It's all we've got. Please support it: "Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War" via
@NewYorker
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if there was a pulitzer for political ads, this would certainly be a contender.
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@soledadobrien
@PutinistaJonez
@girlziplocked
100%. People lucky enough to receive it too often fail appreciate the value of parent-to-child wealth transfer. It's invisible to them.
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A hospital bills $50,000 for knee replacement surgery. A detailed investigation pins the actual cost of the procedure, all told, at $10,550. This is American health care.
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You can be a Republican. You can be a Democrat. You can be liberal, conservative, or any flavor in between. But wherever you sit, you have to concede that this take by
@TuckerCarlson
is morally, intellectually, and journalistically bankrupt.
Tucker: How shocked are we that 17 year olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would
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Um... The EPA will “no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assessments."
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In which I do something I've mostly resisted for decades: Talking about my
#headaches
. Many thanks to the always excellent folks
@nytopinion
for shepherding this.
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Wow: "Army veterans return to Standing Rock to form a human shield against police"
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Thread: A look back at the top 10 most-read
@undarkmag
stories published in 2020, starting with…
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When
@JamesOKeefeIII
starts quoting Noam Chomsky, you know you're through the looking glass.
#cnntapes
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For Alzheimer's, It's Not All About the Genes: Lifestyle Matters, Too.
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From the original NYT story (from June!!): "the EPA has in most cases decided to exclude from its calculations any potential exposure caused by the substances’ presence in the air, the ground or water. ... [focusing instead on] direct contact with a chemical."
Um... The EPA will “no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assessments."
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Profile of an exodus: Eight scientists look back on the last four years, and why they -- and so many others -- left the Trump administration.
#science
“It was like you’re telling me that the sky is green, you know, or the earth is flat."
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The researchers and administrators charged with mitigating threats to public health in the U.S. have been banned from saying:
"Vulnerable"
"Entitlement"
"Diversity"
"Transgender"
"Fetus"
"Evidence-based”
"Science-based"
This is real life.
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Amplifying this:
@EPA
threatening to arrest
#journalists
for doing their job is a good way to spur more
#journalism
:
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Not the Onion: Faculty express concern that paying university workers higher wages could negatively impact UC's "transformative work in ... economic inequality."
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@Mathilde1469
It seemed obvious from the very beginning, and yes, I expected exactly this outcome. But I suppose a part of me still hoped I was wrong, and it's breathtaking to see this historical cynicism and stupidity realized and inscribed.
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And on Jan 11, 2018, the
@NYTimes
published, for the first time in its history, the word "shithole."
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This quote has haunted me since I started researching this book (more here: )
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Journalists ought not be promoting a Johnson & Johnson initiative in return for donations. Indeed, journalists ought to be keeping Johnson & Johnson and its initiatives at the same arm's-length distance they would any other corporation. Think twice.
#WCSJ2019
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Best line in AP stylebook rules on the term "alt-right": "In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi, or white supremacist."
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And
#1
: This probing profile of coronavirus specialists who, over the last decades, watched helplessly as research funding went toward other threats is, simply put, a must-read. Story by the very excellent and very Twitter-shy journalist, Charles Schmidt.
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A truly excellent piece of journalism that's long overdue -- and one that really captures the voracious sneakiness of horizontal drilling. Kudos to
@ProPublica
,
@Kenwardjr
, et al -
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It is mind-boggling — almost the point of straining credulity — that there was so little police presence. No arrests. No National Guard. No apparent plan to protect key buildings. And all despite knowing that this would be the most incendiary day in recent memory. How?
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.
@UndarkMag
is seeking freelance radio/podcast pitches. We pay! Send query to podcast
@undark
.org...
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"[
@benshapiro
] has called for the recovery of something — good-faith disagreement — that his entire career has been meticulously engineered to undermine.”
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“Trump can exist only because America is ... flush with men like Billy Bush.” —
@girlziplocked
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I'm most shocked to learn that The New Yorker is paying anyone on its editorial staff $42,000 as a full-time salary in New York City. And their best offer is to increase that to $45,000? Yeesh.
Today, the New Yorker Union is undertaking a twenty-four-hour work stoppage in protest of
@newyorker
management's egregious wage proposal. Our statement:
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I'm just so proud of
@undarkmag
and
@ashleythesmart
. Thanks to
@ONA
for recognizing this work, and congrats to all of the
#ONA23
nominees and winners.
If you haven't explored , you're missing out on some powerful
#journalism
.
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Alexis de Tocqueville could not have summed up America more succinctly.
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Most people who suffer from primary
#headaches
— principally migraines and clusters, but there are others — will tell you that the hardest part is the hopelessly diluted nature of the word "headache."
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Democrats forever: "You aren't playing fair!!"
Republicans: "Yes, and?"
Democrats: "Ok."
It is a sad day for the Senate and for the Court. My Republican colleagues put the rule of ‘because we can’ over the traditions and precedents of the Senate, the principles we hold dear as an institution, and the integrity of the federal judiciary.
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Coming later this week:
• Michael Schulson on what exactly the human genome can — and can't — tell us.
•
@deborahblum
on the bigoted history, and complicated present, of standardized testing.
•
@CharlesMBlow
on the failure of scientific advance to change bigoted minds.
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The
@nytimes
and its publisher "want to have it both ways..." They want to be a "neutral, heterodox publication," but they also want "the applause and the welcome of the left."
That latter audience expects the Times to be "Mother Jones on steroids."
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The size of these crowds, in city after city, is really incredible. If that energy becomes sustained action,
@realDonaldTrump
's got problems
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Ashley Smart's opener takes a hard look at modern genetics, and the way bigots make motivated, twisted use of its discoveries to justify their racism.
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Poll: Most Americans want to replace Obamacare with single-payer — including many Republicans
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This is why fact-checkers are valuable. But really, how do you write an entire book without understanding the terminology on which it's based? The BBC took about 10 minutes to uncover what
@naomirwolf
missed during many months (years?) of work.
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@Merz
@undarkmag
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Alex. We have now clarified that indeed, both authors have previously collaborated with Ioannidis. This should have been disclosed prior to and upon publication of the op-ed. Further, Ms. Brownlee has been removed from Undark's board.
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Many thanks to
@CharlesMBlow
for amplifying this crucial reporting by
@undarkmag
.
The RSV vaccine market will likely be worth billions. What is owed to these families who helped pave the way?
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Thread, thread, thread.
As a former conservative activist and journalist, it has been so frustrating to see my former compatriots spreading wild and unchecked claims about "voter fraud."
@jacknicas
of the NYT took a deep look at claims of "dead" people in Michigan voting. Link in next tweet.
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it -- good and hard." - H. L. Mencken
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So proud and honored that
@undarkmag
and
@larrycprice
have been honored by the 2019
@PolkAwards
for our yearlong series on air pollution. ()
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Married men earning a PhD see a 15% salary boost over single men. Analogous married women? A 23 % drop:
http://t.co/g52vcP8cND
#equality
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"The Nobel Prize does not canonize saints. The Prize does not even reflect how science is done; it merely hardens the fiction of individual genius."
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This is incredible reporting — the kind that will get people disappeared in Russia. Indeed, already has. Google Translate will make it accessible.
#PutinsPalace
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The Armed Oregon Ranchers Who Want Free Land Are Already Getting A 93 Percent Discount
#YallQaeda
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So, now it's clear that
@EPAScottPruitt
lied under oath during confirmation hearing. What's the penalty for that?
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And don't miss this short documentary from
@duylinhtu
featuring the incredible Evelynn Hammonds on how Enlightenment-era thinkers helped give human continental variation biological meaning — and the social costs we are still paying for that facile idea.
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It’s interesting to see how triggering this is for people! It’s just data, not an endorsement.
For those who want to digest more, the graphic comes from The Guardian (circa 2017). I just happened to see it. ()
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And yet we repeat that claim, and distribute it far and wide. Journalistic question: At what point does that no longer make sense?
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Honored to represent
@undarkmag
this evening at the
#NIHCMAwards
. Congrats to the whole team behind our "Breathtaking" series on global air pollution.
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From "Origins of Totalitarianism," by Hannah Arendt, 1951.
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"A good bullet should not kill twice." The saga of the lead bullet, via
@UndarkMag
&
@LynnePeeples
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Deeply proud to see
@undarkmag
win a 2023
@NABJ
Award for our Long Division series on race science ().
@ashleythesmart
(pictured), steered this masterful series — a finalist for a National Magazine Award, and now up for two
@ONA
awards as well. 🙌 🎉
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Science journalists "should be as skeptical of scientists as political writers are of politicians" -
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#KimDavis
is entitled to her religion and to her beliefs. She is by no means entitled to her job.
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