Kat McGowan
@mcgowankat.bsky.social
Journalist reporting on caregiving. Also, pictures of owls, crows and Mr. Peanut. www.katmcgowan.com.
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Then: How did {wildly silly and incompetent person} ever get appointed to {position of power}?
Now, as I reach the age typical of people in {position of power}: Oh.
Now, as I reach the age typical of people in {position of power}: Oh.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Then: How did {wildly silly and incompetent person} ever get appointed to {position of power}?
Now, as I reach the age typical of people in {position of power}: Oh.
Now, as I reach the age typical of people in {position of power}: Oh.
Terrific that the New York Times is covering family caregiving in such depth!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The People Holding Everyone Together Are Coming Apart
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Terrific that the New York Times is covering family caregiving in such depth!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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When you poke your head outside and it's too cold so you just go back to bed. #birds #ctnaturefans #photography
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
When you poke your head outside and it's too cold so you just go back to bed. #birds #ctnaturefans #photography
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In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
The state aims to give children a better start, but faces supply and staffing concerns.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All
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"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
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Scientists at the CDC have been told to phase out all of their monkey research.
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Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research
Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear
www.science.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Scientists at the CDC have been told to phase out all of their monkey research.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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This is seismic news. It's hard to overstate how big the implications are for both future prosecutions and wrongful convictions. This NJ decision could reshape how courts across the country treat shaken-baby expert testimony.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/n...
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/n...
NJ Bans ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome’ Evidence in Nationwide First (1)
Criminal prosecutors can’t build murder cases on medical diagnoses that the mere shaking of a baby, without further evidence of trauma, resulted in a child’s death, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled ...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is seismic news. It's hard to overstate how big the implications are for both future prosecutions and wrongful convictions. This NJ decision could reshape how courts across the country treat shaken-baby expert testimony.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/n...
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/n...
ICYMI, as I did: Trump has now pardoned two nursing home fraudsters, both convicted for failing to pay payroll taxes. One of the lowest forms of thievery, in my opinion.
www.mcknights.com/news/trump-p...
www.mcknights.com/news/trump-p...
Trump pardons another long-term care convict; frees Schwartz, architect of Skyline chain collapse, $39M fraud
President Trump granted a full and unconditional pardon to Joseph Schwartz on Friday, making him the third upper-echelon nursing home executive convicted of multimillion dollar crimes he has set free.
www.mcknights.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
ICYMI, as I did: Trump has now pardoned two nursing home fraudsters, both convicted for failing to pay payroll taxes. One of the lowest forms of thievery, in my opinion.
www.mcknights.com/news/trump-p...
www.mcknights.com/news/trump-p...
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This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
Hot take (US version):
6. Grey-cheeked #thrush
6. Bicknell's (tie)
5. Robin
4. Swainson's
4. Wood (tie)
3. Hermit
2. Veerio
.....
....
1. *Varied*
#Birdoftheday #Birds
6. Grey-cheeked #thrush
6. Bicknell's (tie)
5. Robin
4. Swainson's
4. Wood (tie)
3. Hermit
2. Veerio
.....
....
1. *Varied*
#Birdoftheday #Birds
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Hot take (US version):
6. Grey-cheeked #thrush
6. Bicknell's (tie)
5. Robin
4. Swainson's
4. Wood (tie)
3. Hermit
2. Veerio
.....
....
1. *Varied*
#Birdoftheday #Birds
6. Grey-cheeked #thrush
6. Bicknell's (tie)
5. Robin
4. Swainson's
4. Wood (tie)
3. Hermit
2. Veerio
.....
....
1. *Varied*
#Birdoftheday #Birds
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can i have a writing job. i’m a horrible writer and can work to become a worse person
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM
can i have a writing job. i’m a horrible writer and can work to become a worse person
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We have to outlaw wildfire and invasive plant metaphors until someone can figure out what the hell is going on
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
We have to outlaw wildfire and invasive plant metaphors until someone can figure out what the hell is going on
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can bad prose be sexually transmitted
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
can bad prose be sexually transmitted
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To paraphrase Warren Buffett, it’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming without a bathing suit
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
To paraphrase Warren Buffett, it’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming without a bathing suit
I cringe whenever well known magazine writers write books and suddenly must go before their public without their usual support network of experienced editors and copyeditors who normally save them from making fools of themselves. I have been that editor.
It needs to be emphasized that this paragraph is about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I cringe whenever well known magazine writers write books and suddenly must go before their public without their usual support network of experienced editors and copyeditors who normally save them from making fools of themselves. I have been that editor.
I can’t quote post the original feed but this is the most purely Oregon coast thing I have ever seen
anyway quote replies are disabled so i can't link it but go look up @spindlypete.bsky.social's incredible thread liveskeeting the incredible ongoing rescue of a beached whale. dozens of people working incredibly hard - random townsfolk to keep her alive until the experts showed up to rescue her.
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I can’t quote post the original feed but this is the most purely Oregon coast thing I have ever seen
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i think if it's breathing is okay they'll at least try to tow it out at high tide. the fact that it was tangled might explain why it beached, so it probably won't re-beach itself now that it's been cut free. i hope. who knows
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
i think if it's breathing is okay they'll at least try to tow it out at high tide. the fact that it was tangled might explain why it beached, so it probably won't re-beach itself now that it's been cut free. i hope. who knows
Days like today I like to spend time reviewing how and why many important national publications have rejected my story pitches about family caregiving (63 MILLION in the US). No space, said one. Not relevant enough, said another. "The readers aren't there for it." Or just: "What's new here?"
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Days like today I like to spend time reviewing how and why many important national publications have rejected my story pitches about family caregiving (63 MILLION in the US). No space, said one. Not relevant enough, said another. "The readers aren't there for it." Or just: "What's new here?"
Today I've had interviews by phone, on Teams, via Zoom and on Google Meet. It's the EGOT of modern journalism!
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Today I've had interviews by phone, on Teams, via Zoom and on Google Meet. It's the EGOT of modern journalism!
I always thought the emails I write to myself are pretty weird. Until today.
>>beards and long hair , are meant to catch and hold smells. ?
>>beards and long hair , are meant to catch and hold smells. ?
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I always thought the emails I write to myself are pretty weird. Until today.
>>beards and long hair , are meant to catch and hold smells. ?
>>beards and long hair , are meant to catch and hold smells. ?
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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“This is a very important development,” says Dyann Wirth, a malaria researcher at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health who was not involved in the work. “We’ve been looking for this for a long time.”
🧪 #IDsky
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🧪 #IDsky
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‘A sigh of relief’: New malaria drug succeeds in large clinical trial
As existing drugs falter because of resistance, the world gets a backup—but hard choices loom on how to use it
www.science.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“This is a very important development,” says Dyann Wirth, a malaria researcher at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health who was not involved in the work. “We’ve been looking for this for a long time.”
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
However much the average boyfriend thinks about Ancient Rome, I think about Robert Caro and LBJ more.
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
However much the average boyfriend thinks about Ancient Rome, I think about Robert Caro and LBJ more.
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Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
Grist opens applications for new rural reporting grants on climate and environmental justice
Applicants can request up to $5,000 per project.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Funding alert: @grist.org is offering grants of up to $5,000 for reporting on rural climate issues and environmental justice in the United States. Newsrooms and freelancers are welcome to apply. Please share! grist.org/updates/gris...
Massachusetts house passes a bill to require licensing for home care agencies.
Yep, that's right. Currently, no license required to hang a home care shingle. True in more than half of US states. No background checks required. Not even training.
www.mcknightshomecare.com/news/massach...
Yep, that's right. Currently, no license required to hang a home care shingle. True in more than half of US states. No background checks required. Not even training.
www.mcknightshomecare.com/news/massach...
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Massachusetts house passes a bill to require licensing for home care agencies.
Yep, that's right. Currently, no license required to hang a home care shingle. True in more than half of US states. No background checks required. Not even training.
www.mcknightshomecare.com/news/massach...
Yep, that's right. Currently, no license required to hang a home care shingle. True in more than half of US states. No background checks required. Not even training.
www.mcknightshomecare.com/news/massach...