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Maggie McGrath
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ForbesWomen editor. Also found in Know Your Value segments 📺 / rooting for the Eagles 🦅 / stress baking 🍰
I have been trying to craft something smart about this Brady comment for the last five minutes but honestly "WTF" sums it up. "Eagles have rained on *our* parade" is SUCH a choice.
“Eagles have rained on our parade today” WTF
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
this is entirely conjecture and also niche but imho the NY City Center website crashing the morning Fall for Dance tickets go live seems to be another indication that folks are DESPERATE for affordable live performances.
August 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
as a millennial with a one-time unbearably large Beanie Baby collection... I resent every last five-figure Labubu sale. (iykyk?)

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
This Limited Edition Labubu Could Be The Next To Resell For 5 Figures
Special edition Labubu dolls are selling for tens of thousands on the secondary market, and one expert says she thinks they’ll hold their value.
www.forbes.com
July 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
not the main point in this article but I'm never getting over the fact that in a city of 8 million people, we were just over 7k votes away from having a different outcome in 2021 / what could have been NYC's first female mayor
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/n...
July 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
google docs AI seems desperate to write my words yet refuses--REFUSES!!--to keep the damn word count widget on the page between sessions.

let's, oh, idk, crawl before we marathon??
June 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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From our poll conducted Sunday-Monday: President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes against Iran is broadly unpopular with Americans www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...
June 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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We pored through more than 900 grants worth $2.6 billion that the Trump administration canceled at Harvard.

“This is larger than any individual grant,” a researcher told us. “What we are losing is a future.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

With @emmbadger.bsky.social and @ethansinger.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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You Gov numbers: "Only 16% of Americans think the U.S. military should get involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran; 60% say it should not and 24% are not sure"

It's going to change quickly, but let's at least remember where we started.

today.yougov.com/politics/art...
Trump approval falls, Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and vaccines: June 13-16, 2025 Economist/YouGov Poll | YouGov
This week’s Economist/YouGov poll covers Trump approval numbers, the Israel-Iran conflict, anti-ICE protests, and opinion of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his actions
today.yougov.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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This is what the “I can’t operate on him, he’s my son!” riddle looks like in real life.
June 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This story (a.) outlines a terrible trend and (b.) misses the ties to diet/Ozempic culture that *could* have something to w/cigs' resurgence. The correlation/causation may not be as clear as the one between cigarettes and cancer, but... I would read a deeper dive.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/m...
Pop Culture Takes Up Smoking Again
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
For the past several months, we've been collecting nominations for the 50 Over 50--specifically, the U.S. portion of this franchise. Age & location requirements are listed on our website.

And yet, I'm currently reading a nomination for someone based in Dubai, born in... 1989.

People. READ. Please.
June 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A very important story on the repercussions of Trump visa pause on physicians. With the Association of American Medical Colleges predicting a 124,000 physician shortfall within the next nine years... this matters.
www.forbes.com/sites/emmawh...
Visa Pause Could Leave U.S. With Fewer New Doctors Amid Shortage
Hundreds of young foreign-educated doctors who matched to American residency programs could miss their start date as the Trump administration puts all new visa appointments on hold.
www.forbes.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Four ways women are stronger than men

Good stuff from @starrevartan.bsky.social, author of The Stronger Sex

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
4 ways women are physically stronger than men
Discussions of strength often mean brute force and sprint speeds — qualities associated with male physiology. But female bodies excel in other areas.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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The Tush Push lives.
May 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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NEW: Russell Vought, acting head of CFPB and director of OMB, just killed a rule to protect US residents' personal information from predatory data brokers. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...
CFBP Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
www.wired.com
May 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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“Egg freezing has surged nearly 30% year over year.”

@mika-brzezinski.bsky.social, Huma, and @mcgrathmag.bsky.social break down what rising fertility rates among single women mean for the future of work, healthcare, and policy.
More women than ever are freezing their eggs to delay parenthood
Forbes' Maggie McGrath and Huma Abedin discuss the rise in egg freezing for women who want to delay parenthood.
on.msnbc.com
May 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Grateful to join @forbes.com for an interview about the suspension of the US Refugee Admissions Program.

As I told @mcgrathmag.bsky.social, we’ve been so heartened by the outpouring of support and encourage Americans to join us in advocating for this work of welcome 👇

www.globalrefuge.org/act-now/
March 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
Google’s Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time In the Office (Gift Article)
The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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NEWS: The FDA abruptly canceled its upcoming advisory committee meeting to select the strains for next year's flu shot.
by @berkeleyjr.bsky.social
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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In 2020 they used the Big Lie (100s of misleading claims) of "voter fraud" to try to overturn an election. In 2024 they're using similar tactics to create/amplify misleading claims of "government waste and fraud" to justify dismantling huge sections of the U.S. government.
Elon Musk is making wild claims that #DOGE has found evidence of massive Social Security fraud....

The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation.
www.wired.com
February 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despite receiving an exceptional performance evaluation in the fall.
After landing his dream job as a park ranger, he’s ‘heartbroken’ to be let go in federal cuts | CNN
Brian Gibbs had no clue Friday would be his last day at his dream job. The education technician park ranger at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa reported to work, only to be terminated on despit...
www.cnn.com
February 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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On the first day of RFK Jr: 5200 HHS workers got fired; the director and much of the staff of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) got fired. At the NIH directors learned of the imminent firings - about 1500 people. At the CDC 1300 people are about to be fired.

As a result...
🛟 That last-ditch chemo trial your family member was hoping to be in
🥙 The investigation of a food-borne illness outbreak in the next town over
🧠The study looking for preventable causes of Alzheimer’s
🧪The assurance that TAXPAYER-PAID-FOR studies & data collection see the light of day
February 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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Serena Williams was on the field longer today than Harrison Butker.
February 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM