Jessica Silver-Greenberg

Cannabis Poisonings Are Rising, Mostly Among Kids

Powerful and terrifying investigation. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/h...

Trump Delayed a Medicare Change After Health Company Donations

The company donated, and the rule was delayed. Powerful article by the greats.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

A Zoo in Denmark Wants to Feed Your Pets to Its Predators

One of e stranger stories ive read in weeks.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

How Louisiana Built Trump’s Busiest Deportation Hub (Gift Article) ICE wants to make immigration enforcement as efficient as FedEx or Amazon. Louisiana was poised for this moment.

Truly chilling account of the Trump administration’s deportation apparatus in Louisiana.

ICE’s head, Todd Lyons, has said the agency must become: a logistics juggernaut, like Amazon or FedEx, “but with human beings.”

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Damning exposé into how Uber prioritizes profits over women’s safety. @nytimes.com 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

Here's a taste of Epstein's photo displays. These were on a credenza in his dining room. More in the story, which I wrote with @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social @jsgatnyt.bsky.social et al.

A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair

A glimpse inside Epstein’s townhouse helps answer some of the mysteries surrounding the sex offender. He used the space as a stage to show off, and further amass, the rich and powerful.

As Ehud Barak glowingly wrote, he was a collector of people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: What is legal during ICE raids?

SOLID explainer by @pbsnewshour

What is legal during ICE raids?
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The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

No One Is Defying Trump Like Brazil’s President

Brazil’s president said that if the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the U.S. Capitol had happened in Brazil, Mr. Trump would be facing prosecution just like Mr. Bolsonaro.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...

His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...

He profited from using undocumented workers. Now he’s profiting from Trump’s crackdown on undocumented workers. Powerful story. www.propublica.org/article/nath...

We also learned that Trump inscribed a book to Epstein back in 1997, saying "You are the greatest!" We're publishing that here, as well as a previously undisclosed photo of Trump with Epstein and James Brown. More in the article>> www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

New: @nytimes.com has confirmed that Trump was listed as a contributor to Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday book. We are publishing a page from the book: a letter handwritten by Ghislaine Maxwell. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

Health Insurers Are Denying More Drug Claims, Data Shows

Research on insurer coverage rules is in today’s NY Times.

Denials are rising. Good managed care or bad administrative burden? Hard to know.

Featuring research by @michaelannica.bsky.social @jacobwswallace.bsky.social @mikegeruso.bsky.social me and colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...

ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants "They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

“They don’t want anyone to see how they treat people. They want to be doing this”—their deportations—”with no witnesses.”

Wild story.

DeSantis has removed local officials who he doesn’t like from office …. and courts have let him. But Orange County (FL) Dem officials are not complying here:

Is the US military poised to experience a new surge in conscientious objectors? For troops experiencing ethical dilemmas, following one's conscience can be costly.

Hotline callers were saying, “I do not want to be part of pointing a gun at US citizens and maybe shooting it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...

Lawmakers tour Florida’s new detention center in the Everglades Alligator Alcatraz was built into the Everglades just eight days and state officials said would cost $450 million to operate for one year.

More than two dozen state and federal lawmakers took a 2½ hour tour of Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday, arranged by the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). It came weeks after several Democratic state lawmakers were turned away at the gate.

Padilla: "What if I was outside a Home Depot, because I like to do some work around the house, not dressed in a suit. Would I be a target of ICE enforcement under Tom Homan? Probably. And it is just wrong."

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable. A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.

“No drug cases, no human trafficking, no child exploitation,” the agent said. “It’s infuriating.” The longtime ICE employee is thinking about quitting rather than having to continue “arresting gardeners.”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.

Medicaid pays for 41% of all births. The highest share is in Louisiana, where Medicaid covers 64% of births.
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A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state...

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety"

www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Canada Wants to Kill 400 Ostriches. Kennedy and Dr. Oz Want to Save Them.

RFK & Dr. Oz want to relocate ostriches w/bird flu to Florida. They say it's an opportunity to study infected birds in a natural environment.

Biosecurity, anyone? I remember when that was their stated reason for closing the top BSL4 lab studying dangerous pathogens. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/w...

“They’re trying to kidnap someone” On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE raids have 'overwhelmed' coastal California communities Communities in three California counties "overwhelmed" as ICE raids ramp up in the region.

A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind.
“They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.”
www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...

Scientists Hail This Medical Breakthrough. A Political Storm Could Cripple It.

Scientists Hail This Medical Breakthrough. A Political Storm Could Cripple It. mRNA therapies hold great potential in treating several diseases, but some U.S. lawmakers want to ban them and the government is cutting funding, by Kate Zernike www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u... via @nytimes.com