Gady Epstein
@gadyepstein.bsky.social
A longform editor at The Economist. Views expressed may be the opposite of my employer’s
So Grok was trained on the DPRK publishing house catalog
oh my god i take it back, grok is amazing
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 AM
So Grok was trained on the DPRK publishing house catalog
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SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Employee of a Federal Official Charged with Conspiracy to Falsely Report Violent Attack and Giving False Statements to Law Enforcement
A New Jersey woman was charged with conspiring and falsely reporting to law enforcement that she had been violently assaulted with a firearm due to her employment with a federal official.
www.justice.gov
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
SCOOP — A former staffer for Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), Natalie Green, 26, was charged today for falsely reporting she was attacked by 3 men who wrote "TRUMP WHORE" on her stomach bc of her job. It was staged by her + a friend.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
Van Drew isn't named in the complaint but I've confirmed w/ his office.
There’s a creeping inevitability to this Summers news cycle. It didn’t make sense that the one thing he’d keep doing was teach
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
There’s a creeping inevitability to this Summers news cycle. It didn’t make sense that the one thing he’d keep doing was teach
This is super interesting. Trying to fathom the phenotype, as it were, of cops who are keen to leave their local force to join ICE
Underrated thing that's been flying under the radar: ICE's hiring spree, by necessity since there are so few others willing and able, has been hiring away local cops, which infuriates the departments by causing manpower problems and is, ironically, removing the worst of the worst from their ranks.
The more local police see ICE assholes as criminals, the better it will be for us.
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This is super interesting. Trying to fathom the phenotype, as it were, of cops who are keen to leave their local force to join ICE
Not nearly enough Bugonia discourse on here for my taste. One of my favorite Yorgos movies.
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Not nearly enough Bugonia discourse on here for my taste. One of my favorite Yorgos movies.
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Hearing her state out loud “the kids who starved had complicated medical histories actually” is a very “Do you hear yourself?” thing and beyond that a case of anyone thinking that reporting had value even on its own stated terms just massively undermines credibility.
Jewish Federations applauds Olivia Reingold, a staff writer at Bari Weiss's Free Press, as she victory laps her (ghoulish and erroneous) reporting that some of the children Israel was starving to death and denying medical aid to in Gaza had pre-existing conditions.
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Hearing her state out loud “the kids who starved had complicated medical histories actually” is a very “Do you hear yourself?” thing and beyond that a case of anyone thinking that reporting had value even on its own stated terms just massively undermines credibility.
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This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
Further, it’s stunning how Lepore waxes on about the excesses of #MeToo without acknowledging she signed a public defense of a prominent anthropology professor against his accusers, then was embarrassed into retracting when the accusers’ lawsuit dropped. Her interviewer here doesn’t bring this up!
The Lepore interview boils down to her saying that despite better pay, research support, & resources than 99.9% of historians working today, she wanted to quit because some students - whom she barely has to teach given the low load - were too woke. These are not the advocates the discipline needs!
November 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Further, it’s stunning how Lepore waxes on about the excesses of #MeToo without acknowledging she signed a public defense of a prominent anthropology professor against his accusers, then was embarrassed into retracting when the accusers’ lawsuit dropped. Her interviewer here doesn’t bring this up!
Yes the “suddenly the right likes cancel culture now” takes are either credulous or dishonest. Many such cases in each category
The notion that using state power to punish people who say things they don't like is an "about face" for the Republican Party reflects the absolutely hallucinatory dream world we've been living in these last 10 years. Literally nothing could be more characteristically conservative!
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Yes the “suddenly the right likes cancel culture now” takes are either credulous or dishonest. Many such cases in each category
Gosh wonder if there’s a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey
MORE: Under questioning by the judge, prosecutor Tyler Lemons said that he’s under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether there is a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Gosh wonder if there’s a declination memo recommending against the prosecution of Comey
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
“You guys had the option to send reporters from independent media, yet a Saudi state media outlet ended up as the sole foreign pool representative. How? Why?”
Some internal tension on the White House Correspondents Association email listserv today. Some journalists are complaining that background info circulated to the group by a reporter working for Saudi state-owned Al Arabiya did not mention the murder of Jamal Khashoggi...
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“You guys had the option to send reporters from independent media, yet a Saudi state media outlet ended up as the sole foreign pool representative. How? Why?”
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"The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant has been awarded a $1 billion federal loan guarantee that will enable it to shift onto taxpayers some of the risk of its plan to restart the Pennsylvania facility and sell the electricity to Microsoft for its data centers."
Trump officials give $1 billion loan to restart Three Mile Island
The plan to reopen Three Mile Island to supply Microsoft with power wins a federal loan guarantee, shifting some of the risk onto taxpayers.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear plant has been awarded a $1 billion federal loan guarantee that will enable it to shift onto taxpayers some of the risk of its plan to restart the Pennsylvania facility and sell the electricity to Microsoft for its data centers."
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NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
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I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
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From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community
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November 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
If you really want to read more about Nuzzi—and I don’t blame you if you don’t—this is good
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If you really want to read more about Nuzzi—and I don’t blame you if you don’t—this is good
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The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion
Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.
(Published May)
I’m curious who Summers emails for advice these days
Larry Summers stepping back from ‘public commitments’ over Epstein emails
A longtime Democratic adviser, Summers has had significant influence over economic policymaking for decades.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I’m curious who Summers emails for advice these days
Trump when answering a question about Epstein just now talks about wanting recognition for "ending eight wars, and another one coming pretty soon I believe" so I guess for ending nine wars if you count the one he's about to start
November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Trump when answering a question about Epstein just now talks about wanting recognition for "ending eight wars, and another one coming pretty soon I believe" so I guess for ending nine wars if you count the one he's about to start
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Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
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It’s hard to even know where to begin with this. Professor Falk is in his 90s and one of the world’s most prominent international legal scholars. It beggars belief that he could even remotely be considered a threat to Canada.
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
Former UN special rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated for hours in Canada
Falk, who has investigated Israeli abuses, says questioning reflects push to silence truth of Israel's war on Gaza.
bit.ly
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It’s hard to even know where to begin with this. Professor Falk is in his 90s and one of the world’s most prominent international legal scholars. It beggars belief that he could even remotely be considered a threat to Canada.
“(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)”
man talk about end of days…
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man talk about end of days…
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November 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
“(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)”
man talk about end of days…
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man talk about end of days…
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This good Michael Woolf / bad Michael Wolff thing feels like an Aesop’s fable
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This good Michael Woolf / bad Michael Wolff thing feels like an Aesop’s fable
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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Harvard faculty on Larry Summers:
“The cozy friendship between Epstein and Summers is disgraceful."
"Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.”
“This kind of mutually reinforcing corruption is what one sees in failing societies and empires in decline.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
“The cozy friendship between Epstein and Summers is disgraceful."
"Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.”
“This kind of mutually reinforcing corruption is what one sees in failing societies and empires in decline.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Harvard faculty on Larry Summers:
“The cozy friendship between Epstein and Summers is disgraceful."
"Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.”
“This kind of mutually reinforcing corruption is what one sees in failing societies and empires in decline.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
“The cozy friendship between Epstein and Summers is disgraceful."
"Larry Summers told us who he was a long time ago.”
“This kind of mutually reinforcing corruption is what one sees in failing societies and empires in decline.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...