Derek Beres
@derekberes.bsky.social
🎙Co-host: Conspirituality
✍️ Writer (bylines: NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone)
✍️ Writer (bylines: NY Times, The Guardian, Time, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone)
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Derek Beres
@derekberes.bsky.social
· Sep 9
Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories
www.nytimes.com
How does someone become an anti-vaxxer or come to believe that chemotherapy is more dangerous than cancer?
I’ve spent all year working with Alexander Stockton and The NY Times trying to answer that question. Here’s our findings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
I’ve spent all year working with Alexander Stockton and The NY Times trying to answer that question. Here’s our findings.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...
As predicted, they’re going after the entire childhood vaccination schedule (second slide, from WaPo).
November 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
As predicted, they’re going after the entire childhood vaccination schedule (second slide, from WaPo).
I had to see it and now you do too.
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
I had to see it and now you do too.
The Democrats really know how to slam the brakes on momentum.
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The Democrats really know how to slam the brakes on momentum.
After a really good night not even a week ago, Democrats possibly caving now is so fucking deflating.
This is going to hurt everyone, no matter how great you think your benefits are.
If you're one of the very few Americans who can pay out of pocket, good on you. That's not most of us.
This is going to hurt everyone, no matter how great you think your benefits are.
If you're one of the very few Americans who can pay out of pocket, good on you. That's not most of us.
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
After a really good night not even a week ago, Democrats possibly caving now is so fucking deflating.
This is going to hurt everyone, no matter how great you think your benefits are.
If you're one of the very few Americans who can pay out of pocket, good on you. That's not most of us.
This is going to hurt everyone, no matter how great you think your benefits are.
If you're one of the very few Americans who can pay out of pocket, good on you. That's not most of us.
Sometimes an album hits you the first time.
Sometimes, you know something's there, but you can't put your finger on it quickly.
When it's such a stark departure from their previous work, it's a bit disconcerting.
Now 6x through Rosalia's "Lux" and it's masterful.
Sometimes, you know something's there, but you can't put your finger on it quickly.
When it's such a stark departure from their previous work, it's a bit disconcerting.
Now 6x through Rosalia's "Lux" and it's masterful.
November 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Sometimes an album hits you the first time.
Sometimes, you know something's there, but you can't put your finger on it quickly.
When it's such a stark departure from their previous work, it's a bit disconcerting.
Now 6x through Rosalia's "Lux" and it's masterful.
Sometimes, you know something's there, but you can't put your finger on it quickly.
When it's such a stark departure from their previous work, it's a bit disconcerting.
Now 6x through Rosalia's "Lux" and it's masterful.
Can't believe it's been 5+ years since I taught yoga, but I still somehow update my playlist weekly for fun.
This week it's a tribute to Rosalia, so a bunch from her, but also some of my other favorite flamenco artists.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1oR...
This week it's a tribute to Rosalia, so a bunch from her, but also some of my other favorite flamenco artists.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1oR...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Can't believe it's been 5+ years since I taught yoga, but I still somehow update my playlist weekly for fun.
This week it's a tribute to Rosalia, so a bunch from her, but also some of my other favorite flamenco artists.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1oR...
This week it's a tribute to Rosalia, so a bunch from her, but also some of my other favorite flamenco artists.
open.spotify.com/playlist/1oR...
Listened 3x today. Fully agree with this assessment.
Rosalía’s new album, “Lux,” “wants to make us stop whatever we’re doing and listen, which inevitably means that it’s less broadly appealing—less listenable, in a sense—than albums that ask less,” Kelefa Sanneh writes. “It’s also much harder to forget.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vfn39b
Rosalía Doesn’t Want to Take It Easy
On “Lux,” her intense and expansive new album, the artist transgresses the limits of pop music.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Listened 3x today. Fully agree with this assessment.
I absolutely want someone with no prior health experience scanning my bloodwork to figure out what supplements to sell me.
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I absolutely want someone with no prior health experience scanning my bloodwork to figure out what supplements to sell me.
I watched bigotry and ignorance proliferate in the months and years after 9/11 in New York City.
Here's what happened during that time, with a little bit of hope.
derekberes.substack.com/p/why-zohran...
Here's what happened during that time, with a little bit of hope.
derekberes.substack.com/p/why-zohran...
Why Zohran matters
What this victory means in a city I love
derekberes.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I watched bigotry and ignorance proliferate in the months and years after 9/11 in New York City.
Here's what happened during that time, with a little bit of hope.
derekberes.substack.com/p/why-zohran...
Here's what happened during that time, with a little bit of hope.
derekberes.substack.com/p/why-zohran...
Sadly, the only thing that's going to wake MAGA up is looking at their bank accounts. It's coming, it's happening already, and it's the only path forward.
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Sadly, the only thing that's going to wake MAGA up is looking at their bank accounts. It's coming, it's happening already, and it's the only path forward.
Who is RFK Jr? Well, a pharma exec (unfortunately) passes out during a press conference. Dr Oz rushes to help. Where does Bobby go? What a metaphor for MAHA. That’s who Kennedy is.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Who is RFK Jr? Well, a pharma exec (unfortunately) passes out during a press conference. Dr Oz rushes to help. Where does Bobby go? What a metaphor for MAHA. That’s who Kennedy is.
Mikki Willis trying to dump off his cheap propaganda clothing shows you how the "movement" is going.
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Mikki Willis trying to dump off his cheap propaganda clothing shows you how the "movement" is going.
lololol go scratch Ross
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
lololol go scratch Ross
I don’t know how we fix this, but it can’t hold.
November 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I don’t know how we fix this, but it can’t hold.
The company that's been exploiting public benefits for years is about to make a whole lot more money exploiting public benefits thanks to the GOP.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
‘A Big Positive’: How One Company Plans to Profit From Medicaid Cuts
www.nytimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The company that's been exploiting public benefits for years is about to make a whole lot more money exploiting public benefits thanks to the GOP.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...
Between this protein craze, “clean” eating, and MAHA’s demonization of so many food categories (and championing of everyday tallow, butter, and meat), we’re going to be grappling with a surge in disordered eating under guise of “health” for some time.
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Between this protein craze, “clean” eating, and MAHA’s demonization of so many food categories (and championing of everyday tallow, butter, and meat), we’re going to be grappling with a surge in disordered eating under guise of “health” for some time.
Thanks to the GOP’s bill, health care will increase by up to 30% for Americans using Obamacare in 2026.
People who receive health care through their employer will see the biggest increase since 2010.
But if you’re MAGA and well-known? You get a direct line.
People who receive health care through their employer will see the biggest increase since 2010.
But if you’re MAGA and well-known? You get a direct line.
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Thanks to the GOP’s bill, health care will increase by up to 30% for Americans using Obamacare in 2026.
People who receive health care through their employer will see the biggest increase since 2010.
But if you’re MAGA and well-known? You get a direct line.
People who receive health care through their employer will see the biggest increase since 2010.
But if you’re MAGA and well-known? You get a direct line.
“Intentional explosion” and “explosion event” sure sound a lot like bombing.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
'Intentional' explosion at Harvard medical campus under investigation
A responding officer said they saw two individuals "fleeing" the Goldenson Building in Boston early Saturday morning. No one was injured.
www.nbcnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“Intentional explosion” and “explosion event” sure sound a lot like bombing.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Children's Health Defense is missing a few words from the title of their new book.
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Children's Health Defense is missing a few words from the title of their new book.
Oh yes, that transcription was absolutely helpful.
November 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Oh yes, that transcription was absolutely helpful.
42 million Americans will lose SNAP benefits tmw, and this is what the dude shares today.
October 31, 2025 at 5:12 PM
42 million Americans will lose SNAP benefits tmw, and this is what the dude shares today.
