T.J. Mitchell
@workingstiff.bsky.social
NYT bestselling coauthor of the Jessie Teska mysteries #FIRSTCUT & #AFTERSHOCK, & the medical examiner memoir #WORKINGSTIFF. Wife & creative partner Dr Judy Melinek does autopsies. I am careful with her.
Books & columns: https://drworkingstiff.com/books
Books & columns: https://drworkingstiff.com/books
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I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
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This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.
CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is a wildly unethical study that would be illegal to conduct in the United States. Have you heard of the Tuskegee experiments (crimes against humanity)? This sounds like that.
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Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
These are the people who are willing to go on the record.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...
December 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Feels to me like the last quote here is more devastating and incriminating than even the birthday book and the photos and the rest.
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The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent.
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
Adopting.
Babies.
What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?
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there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
On that last post: I genuinely cannot think of any good-faith reason to bar international adoptions from those 39 countries. Under this new ban, consulates will refuse adoption visas for any baby from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Nigeria, or any of the 39 other countries.
December 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
there is really no difference between the current administration and having the country run by david duke
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Really great article by Dr. Craig Spencer who bravely attended the CHD anti-vaxxer meeting last week. He makes the case for the need for pro-vaccine public health practitioners to peek behind the curtain to understand the movement in order to better counter it.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/c...
I’m a physician who went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. More of my colleagues should too
A pro-vaccine physician went to the anti-vaccine movement’s biggest gathering. He warns that public health must learn what it’s up against.
www.statnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Really great article by Dr. Craig Spencer who bravely attended the CHD anti-vaxxer meeting last week. He makes the case for the need for pro-vaccine public health practitioners to peek behind the curtain to understand the movement in order to better counter it.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/c...
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For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…
loreandordure.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For your collective delectation this holiday season:
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!)
loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...
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Big news!
On Thursday, January 15th we'll be sharing the stage with Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com for a double book event at the Miracle Theater in Coral Gables, FL hosted by @transitmia.bsky.social.
Don't miss this epic team-up!
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On Thursday, January 15th we'll be sharing the stage with Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com for a double book event at the Miracle Theater in Coral Gables, FL hosted by @transitmia.bsky.social.
Don't miss this epic team-up!
purchase.actorsplayhouse.org/EventAvailab...
December 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Big news!
On Thursday, January 15th we'll be sharing the stage with Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com for a double book event at the Miracle Theater in Coral Gables, FL hosted by @transitmia.bsky.social.
Don't miss this epic team-up!
purchase.actorsplayhouse.org/EventAvailab...
On Thursday, January 15th we'll be sharing the stage with Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com for a double book event at the Miracle Theater in Coral Gables, FL hosted by @transitmia.bsky.social.
Don't miss this epic team-up!
purchase.actorsplayhouse.org/EventAvailab...
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NEW: Mike Johnson says he WON'T call a House vote on extending ACA funding this week
Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed.
Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed.
Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
House Republican leaders ditch vote on ACA funding, all but ensuring premiums will rise
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Republicans worked on the issue throughout the weekend but could not come to an agreement with a group of members who want the funds extended.
www.nbcnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
NEW: Mike Johnson says he WON'T call a House vote on extending ACA funding this week
Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed.
Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed.
Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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“Oh you mean THIS gate key.”
“I’m just as God made me, sir.”
“I had some more fried food for lunch.”
Even the throwaway lines by day players in Rob Reiner movies landed. He delighted in everything.
“I’m just as God made me, sir.”
“I had some more fried food for lunch.”
Even the throwaway lines by day players in Rob Reiner movies landed. He delighted in everything.
December 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
“Oh you mean THIS gate key.”
“I’m just as God made me, sir.”
“I had some more fried food for lunch.”
Even the throwaway lines by day players in Rob Reiner movies landed. He delighted in everything.
“I’m just as God made me, sir.”
“I had some more fried food for lunch.”
Even the throwaway lines by day players in Rob Reiner movies landed. He delighted in everything.
“We’ve got $55 million, roughly, per year to spend on basic science. And if you open up the news, what you hear about is Chris Luxon spending 320 times that on a single road. It’s just kind of pathetic."
Resharing the year’s best commentary on the New Zealand science scene, from @mehr.nz. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/29/w...
Winner of top science prize blames ‘batshit’ Budget for brain drain
Dr Samuel Mehr says the Government values science, but their ‘idiotic’ approach to funding it will cost them their brightest.
newsroom.co.nz
December 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“We’ve got $55 million, roughly, per year to spend on basic science. And if you open up the news, what you hear about is Chris Luxon spending 320 times that on a single road. It’s just kind of pathetic."
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Businesses like safe and secure investment; govt-funded public infrastructure and organisations were that safe, secure, investment for a very long time, until neoliberalism decided to nuke it.
This has created the obvious hoarding/exploitation we're seeing economically since the 1980s.
This has created the obvious hoarding/exploitation we're seeing economically since the 1980s.
It was never monetary policy, it was always Fiscal Policy that would affect the fortunes of New Zealand
And despite what the Right thinks, it is actually the Public Sector that leads and the Private Sector that follows. Gut the public sector and you end up in a very deep and long recession
And despite what the Right thinks, it is actually the Public Sector that leads and the Private Sector that follows. Gut the public sector and you end up in a very deep and long recession
The sucky thing about being right when it comes to predicting an incorrect policy course, is that when it's bourn out that you're correct, the situation is still terrible. Not that the leading opposition party is offering an alternate vision or even aspiration mind you
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/15/y...
newsroom.co.nz/2025/12/15/y...
December 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Businesses like safe and secure investment; govt-funded public infrastructure and organisations were that safe, secure, investment for a very long time, until neoliberalism decided to nuke it.
This has created the obvious hoarding/exploitation we're seeing economically since the 1980s.
This has created the obvious hoarding/exploitation we're seeing economically since the 1980s.
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Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Announcing the Inaugural Snooping Newsie Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism | dansinker.com
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December 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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Our college PD training cherry picked data to argue there is no profile of a college shooter & basically blamed anyone who didn’t fight or run. They told us to lock classroom doors, which isn’t allowed. I can’t say anything they told us was actually useful. It did make our PD sound amazing though.
On-site training is something we really pushed for and got a bit of.
Half the stuff they tell you in the canned video trainings doesn't apply in our actual workplace. (Run? We're on the third floor.) We wanted them to show us what to do in THIS place if THAT should happen.
Half the stuff they tell you in the canned video trainings doesn't apply in our actual workplace. (Run? We're on the third floor.) We wanted them to show us what to do in THIS place if THAT should happen.
December 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Our college PD training cherry picked data to argue there is no profile of a college shooter & basically blamed anyone who didn’t fight or run. They told us to lock classroom doors, which isn’t allowed. I can’t say anything they told us was actually useful. It did make our PD sound amazing though.
Hey, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social: don’t sleep on the Gray Lady’s podcast. While GOP goons pepper-spray brown American infants, the @nytimes.com reveals who is behind this movement, who is to blame: Surprise! It’s the Democrats.
That pod, It’s a mine rich and deep for your shovel, o stalwart pitchbot.
That pod, It’s a mine rich and deep for your shovel, o stalwart pitchbot.
December 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Hey, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social: don’t sleep on the Gray Lady’s podcast. While GOP goons pepper-spray brown American infants, the @nytimes.com reveals who is behind this movement, who is to blame: Surprise! It’s the Democrats.
That pod, It’s a mine rich and deep for your shovel, o stalwart pitchbot.
That pod, It’s a mine rich and deep for your shovel, o stalwart pitchbot.
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As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
December 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
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Bush v. Gore was an unambitious declaration of war by Republicans against democracy and the rule of law. Republicans made clear they didn't view those principles merely as malleable concepts they could cynically bend; no, they see those principles as fundamentally incompatible with conservatism.
As one of those Democratic attorneys who was camped out in West Palm Beach - taking depositions from inconsolable grandmas swearing they hadn’t voted for Buchanan, I still have trauma. 🥺
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
25 years ago the right wing #SCOTUS coup begin archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....
December 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Bush v. Gore was an unambitious declaration of war by Republicans against democracy and the rule of law. Republicans made clear they didn't view those principles merely as malleable concepts they could cynically bend; no, they see those principles as fundamentally incompatible with conservatism.
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It’s important to contextualize just how much less safe American drivers are than everywhere else in the world, and it’s getting worse!
December 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It’s important to contextualize just how much less safe American drivers are than everywhere else in the world, and it’s getting worse!
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A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A+ trolling from Zelenskyy
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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw
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This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.
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This is the kind of town I live in/only in NZ moment:
Today a kid came into the library to tell me about the book he read for his pizza wheel.
He read the manual for an auto resetting pest trap that can set 100 times to get rats, stoats, possums and feral cats.
We were all very proud of him.
Today a kid came into the library to tell me about the book he read for his pizza wheel.
He read the manual for an auto resetting pest trap that can set 100 times to get rats, stoats, possums and feral cats.
We were all very proud of him.
December 12, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is the kind of town I live in/only in NZ moment:
Today a kid came into the library to tell me about the book he read for his pizza wheel.
He read the manual for an auto resetting pest trap that can set 100 times to get rats, stoats, possums and feral cats.
We were all very proud of him.
Today a kid came into the library to tell me about the book he read for his pizza wheel.
He read the manual for an auto resetting pest trap that can set 100 times to get rats, stoats, possums and feral cats.
We were all very proud of him.
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy