Jo Craven McGinty
@mcjomcg.bsky.social
Alum of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post and others. Email jacmcginty@gmail.com
I appreciate all of you talking about washing your leafy greens, but it just doesn’t remove much cyclospora. Cooking kills them, otherwise we have to just keep them out of the food supply.
Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 4w ago"…as of July 2025, the CDC made tracking cyclospora optional, as part of scaling back its Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network. At the time, food safety experts worried that it could make it harder to identify and respond to outbreaks."
The Costs of the Iran War: Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...
The Costs of the Iran War: Thousands of Lives and Billions of Dollars
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The conversation a 98-year-old retired physician never expected to have www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The conversation a 98-year-old retired physician never expected to have
Vaccine misinformation isn’t new. These tried-and-true methods work to combat it.
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M. Gessen: This Is the Formula That Defeated Orban. It Would Defeat Trump, Too. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
Opinion | This Is the Formula That Defeated Orban. It Would Defeat Trump, Too.
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The Trump administration is downsizing US science by historic margins — but it's not just via funding or workforce cuts. Our new @nature.com analysis reveals the government has cut more than 100 scientific advisory panels across major agencies. w/ @alexwitze.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social
Key US science panels are being axed — and others are becoming less open
A Nature analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies — and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain.
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You think AI will make life easier? Tell that to folks in Vineland, N.J., who live near a massive new data center serving Microsoft that emits a loud annoying hum, sometimes at 2 am With dozens of data centers in the works, your hometown could be next. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/data...
The annoying buzz of our AI future is keeping Vineland awake | Will Bunch
A massive data center on the outskirts of Vineland is triggering noise complaints as the future of data centers arrives.
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This is so cool. Ten sperm whales assisted as a mother-to-be gave birth. @catrineinhorn.bsky.social reports for NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/c...
Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.
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Journalist and biographer @vermontgmg.bsky.social remembers Robert Mueller. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/rememberin...
Remembering Robert Mueller
The reporting subject I knew best
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My new hero: Ryan Clark. The ex-NFL safety laid out the Trump White House for using a clip from his playing days as part of its ludicrous pro-Iran War propaganda video. PLEASE watch Clark's entire analysis of the obscenity that is the Bozo Fascist Regime. Brilliant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9i...
Ryan Clark reacts to White House war video using hits from him and other NFL players| The Pivot
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ICYMI: James Talarico interview airing on YouTube after #CBS tells #StephenColbert that he can't host #Talarico on the broadcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
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"The deal marked something unprecedented in American politics: a foreign government official taking a major ownership stake in an incoming U.S. president’s company." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
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NYT dissects, frame by frame, the shooting of Alex Pretti. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti
A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.
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WaPo: A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data
A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing.
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
A former Marine contemplates the intent, and effect, of broadcasting and consuming gleeful violence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | What Trump Is Really Doing With His Boat Strikes
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A Highway Is Crumbling. New York Can’t Agree on How to Fix It. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
New York’s BQE Is Falling Apart. The City Can’t Agree on How to Fix It.
The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has exceeded its life span. Clashing visions have hindered a solution.
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enjoyable little video on how wool gets graded and sorted IG community_clothing and campaignforwool
Why are Penn Station platforms so narrow, and why can't the station be (easily) fixed? www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi...
Video: Why Can’t We Fix Penn Station?
The biggest thing holding Penn Station back from a much-needed rehaul is what’s on top of it: Madison Square Garden.
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship www.wsj.com/world/americ... via @wsj.com
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado
The prize was awarded to the opposition leader for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship in the country.
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In a first, astronomers watched a rogue planet in the Milky Way consume six billion tons of gas and dust per second, a rate never before seen. @eniiler.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/spac... via @wsj.com
Scientists Observe Rogue Planet’s Explosive Growth in Real Time
The record-breaking event is providing insight into how these strange objects form.
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How many meaningful social relationships can a human brain handle? One scientist has an answer. @aylinwoodward.bsky.social reports for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/science/soci... via @wsj.com
Our Brains Evolved to Socialize—but Max Out at About 150 Friends
The size of our social networks is limited even in the age of social media.
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A trio of professors in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit. @aylinwoodward.bsky.social reports for #WSJScience www.wsj.com/science/nobe... via @wsj.com
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Trio of Researchers for Work in Quantum Mechanics
John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis shared the prize for their work on the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling.
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How many meaningful social relationships can a human brain handle? One scientist has an answer. www.wsj.com/science/soci... via @WSJ
Our Brains Evolved to Socialize—but Max Out at About 150 Friends
The size of our social networks is limited even in the age of social media.
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Daniel Day-Lewis, pulled out of retirement by his son, finds his acting fire still burns apnews.com/article/dani... via @apnews.com
Daniel Day-Lewis, pulled out of retirement by his son, finds his acting fire still burns
Eight years since Daniel Day-Lewis announced his retirement from acting, he returns in "Anemone." His son, Ronan Day-Lewis, directs the film which they wrote together.
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The Trump administration is considering delaying the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Doctors warn a delay would lead to more childhood cases and, ultimately, deaths. @sumathireddy.bsky.social ready reports for @wsj.com www.wsj.com/health/welln...
Hep-B Is the Only Vaccine Given at Birth. Why Doctors Say It Can’t Wait.
The vaccine has virtually eliminated childhood infections of a disease that doesn’t only transmit through drugs or sex.
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No one could resist that smile, neither man, woman, child, nor chimp. :) She didn't have an undergraduate degree. She wassimply admitted for graduate study at Cambridge University where she received her doctorate in 1966. Gift link!
Jane Goodall, Who Studied Chimpanzee Behavior for Decades in Africa, Dies at 91
The British primatologist and global activist won the trust of a chimpanzee group in 1960 that became the focus of her life’s work.
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Jo Craven McGinty@mcjomcg.bsky.social · 10mo agoJane Goodall, the English primatologist and anthropologist who was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at age 91 www.wsj.com/science/jane... via @wsj.com
Jane Goodall, the English primatologist and anthropologist who was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at age 91 www.wsj.com/science/jane... via @wsj.com
Jane Goodall, Who Studied Chimpanzee Behavior for Decades in Africa, Dies at 91
The British primatologist and global activist won the trust of a chimpanzee group in 1960 that became the focus of her life’s work.
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Scientists have solved the puzzling origin story of the modern spud: “We revealed that tomato is the mother of potato.” @aylinwoodward.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/pota... via @wsj.com
Potato, Meet Tomato: How the Modern Spud Was Born
A potato-like plant interbred with ancient tomatoes. Without this evolutionary event, the tuber we know wouldn’t exist.
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Is there a lesson here? Researchers applied modern-day tools of epidemiology to trace how the spread of false rumors provoked the “Great Fear” of the French Revolution. @eniiler.bsky.social reports for #WSJScienceShorts www.wsj.com/science/fren... via @wsj.com
Panic-Inducing Rumors Went Viral Ahead of the French Revolution
The tools of epidemiology were used to trace how false tales spread from place to place, and provoked a revolt.
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