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Karen Yourish
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Data and visual investigations at The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/by/karen-yourish
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · Sep 6
Greetings from Printers’ Row Lit Fest in Chicago. Please join me at 4 PM CT today, when I will be discussing my book, “Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America.”
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · Aug 31
The great @mikeallen remembers the same: "After a Bush speech, the newspaper reporters would be struggling with their leads when suddenly the gym (or wherever we were filing) was engulfed with the voice of Knoller ... with an efficient, insightful take." www.axios.com/newsletters/...
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Aric Toler @aric.bsky.social · Aug 30
The diaries of the Minnesota school shooter go for over 250 pages. I've spent the last few days reading them. The writing is full of self-hatred, detailed planning, and obsessions with inflicting pain & suffering.

From Julie Bosman, me, and Jeff Ernst:
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In Secret Diaries, the Church Shooter’s Plans for Mass Murder
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · Aug 22
Trump is using emergency powers more than his predecessors. On average, presidents have declared about seven national emergencies per four-year term. Trump declared that many during his first month in office. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions (Gift Article)
The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · Aug 22
Trump is using emergency powers more than his predecessors. On average, presidents have declared seven national emergencies per four-year term. Trump declared that many in his first month. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions (Gift Article)
The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · Aug 22
"All presidents have the authority ...to declare a national emergency ... But Mr. Trump has already invoked this power much more frequently than his predecessors and, experts say, for situations that do not qualify as true emergencies." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump Used 10 Emergency Declarations to Justify Hundreds of Actions
The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · Aug 22
10 emergency declarations
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33 executive orders
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Hundreds of actions
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How Trump Leans on Emergency Declarations to Bypass Congress and Skirt Regulations (Gift Article)
The president has declared 10 emergencies since returning to office, far outpacing what is typical. He has used them to justify hundreds of actions.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 13
President Trump cited a number of false and misleading claims about crime in Washington, D.C., as he announced a federal takeover of the city. Here's a fact check.
Fact-Checking Trump’s False and Misleading Claims About Crime in D.C.
The president cited a number of false and misleading claims about homicides and youth crime in the nation’s capital.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · Aug 13
They'll go where they can make money.

"After making fortunes hauling oil, gas and metals around the world, the traders are turning to opportunities buying, storing and selling energy back into grids. In Europe capacity is set to rise sevenfold by 2030."

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The Next Big Energy Trade Is Mega-Batteries for Europe’s Excess Power
Three years ago, Castleton Commodities International analysts huddled in their London office to discuss how to make money from a growing phenomenon in the European power market — negative prices.
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · Aug 8
The Mar-a-Lagofication of the White House…
My new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Donald Trump, Master Builder of Castles in the Air
The Mar-a-Lago-fication of the White House may be the least bad part of the President’s legacy.
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · Jul 17
Trump calls the Epstein case a "hoax." His MAGA base disagrees. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump and MAGA Fans Are Talking About the Epstein Case (Gift Article)
Their actions range from pressuring the administration to release more information to spinning additional conspiracy theories about the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender.
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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · Jul 16
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Mattathias Schwartz @schwartzesque.bsky.social · Jul 16
The tiny African kingdom of Eswatini announced on Wed that it would repatriate the five migrants who had been deported there by the US, a day after US officials said the migrants’ home countries had refused to accept them.

by John Eligon and @haleaziz.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/w...
African Nation Says It Will Repatriate Migrants Deported by U.S.
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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · Jul 12
“A suburban New York county that recently barred residents from wearing masks is now making an exception for police officers so they can obscure their identities while helping the federal authorities detain immigrants.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/n...
Nassau County Will Let Officers Wear Masks When Working With ICE
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Chris Warshaw @chriswarshaw.bsky.social · Jul 9
The @nytimes.com just posted an updated version of their detailed map of the 2024 election results, with the data available for download. This is invaluable in part because funding constraints have slowed down academic efforts at releasing precinct-level results. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2024 Election
See how your neighborhood voted on our interactive, precinct-level results map of the presidential election.
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · Jul 9
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · Jul 3
As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.
Trump Goes on a Charm Offensive as He Woos Holdout Republicans
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · Jul 2
GIFT LINK: The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official rejected broad uses of two Covid vaccines, citing unknown risks or injuries despite assurances of safety from dozens of staff experts, newly released documents show. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/h...
Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots
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Sarah D. Wire @sarahdwire.bsky.social · Jun 26
USA TODAY reporters called Social Security's 1-800 line multiple times over several days and found the wait times to be consistently over an hour. Multiple times they did not reach a live person before the line disconnected with no warning.
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How long will you wait for Social Security help? Why it's anybody's guess.
The Social Security Administration is providing less information about caller wait times. Critics complain it's misleading the public.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · Jun 23
RIP Rod Nordland, one of our generation's most extraordinary foreign correspondents. For 40 years, if there was a war or conflict or crisis anywhere around the world, Rod was likely to be there reporting the hell out of it. An inspiration to so many of us. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/b...
Rod Nordland, 75, Dies; War Reporter Who Also Wrote of His Own Struggle
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · Jun 23
A sad day for @washingtonpost readers as the standalone Metro section in print is eliminated and folded behind Style. As a lifelong Washingtonian and veteran of the Metro staff, I always admired the Post's commitment to covering Washington as a community not just a capital.
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · Jun 14
What was the 1980s like? Well, there was a buff Australian man who starred in commercials for batteries where he just shouted “oi” and on the basis of that, he got a network series where he drove around in a big custom truck and solved crimes.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Jun 14
New: The White House wants you to laugh at its mass-deportation memes. The Trump admin is using dark jokes, hype videos and personal jabs to promote its immigration policy. A former MAGA organizer is disturbed by how far they've gone: "This is not reality TV. It’s actual reality" wapo.st/3ZT5FNl
Crying deported migrant Spy Guys meme about deportation Hey hey goodbye song to deportations Uncle Sam meme: Report All Foreign Invaders
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Jun 14
I talked to @dieworkwear.bsky.social for this story, who JD Vance and DHS made jokes about deporting.

He's unnerved but hopes it'll backfire, saying most people take no "pleasure in cruelty"

Of X: "It’s hard to recognize when you’re in sewage until you get out of the sewage" wapo.st/3ZT5FNl
The White House wants you to laugh at its deportation memes
The administration is using dark memes, music videos and personal jabs to boost its immigration policy across social media. Not everyone thinks it’s funny.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · Jun 6
NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill.

“AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.

By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social
DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...
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