Kat McGowan
@mcgowankat.bsky.social
Journalist reporting on caregiving. Also, pictures of owls, crows and Mr. Peanut. www.katmcgowan.com.
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:
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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
www.science.org/content/arti...
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘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...
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RIP Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the all-time great postwar actors. And, not for nothing, one of the most heart-stoppingly beautiful too.
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the all-time great postwar actors. And, not for nothing, one of the most heart-stoppingly beautiful too.
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Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Cute day of superb parrot babies 😍
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hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
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Heads Up if you’re in northern California! The US launch of my new book - Billy Bragg: A People’s History - will take place at the Alibi Bookshop, 624 Marin Street, Vallejo CA at 5.30pm Pacific on Sunday 30th November. Scan the QR code on the image for details 1/3
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Heads Up if you’re in northern California! The US launch of my new book - Billy Bragg: A People’s History - will take place at the Alibi Bookshop, 624 Marin Street, Vallejo CA at 5.30pm Pacific on Sunday 30th November. Scan the QR code on the image for details 1/3
I just typed "meatophor" instead of metaphor and now my mind spins with fleshly simile
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I just typed "meatophor" instead of metaphor and now my mind spins with fleshly simile
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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It’s publication day for my book “My Mother’s Money”! How can you help? Glad you asked. Now that my book is launched, I need reviews. Amazon, GoodReads, B&N, Instagram, Facebook, your book club, anyone you think will listen. Thanks in advance for any kind words you put out there in the world.
My Mother's Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving
My Mother's Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving [Pinsker CFP®, Beth] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. My Mother's Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving
www.amazon.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
It’s publication day for my book “My Mother’s Money”! How can you help? Glad you asked. Now that my book is launched, I need reviews. Amazon, GoodReads, B&N, Instagram, Facebook, your book club, anyone you think will listen. Thanks in advance for any kind words you put out there in the world.
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You would think he wouldn't be tired with the extra hour of sleep.
#Owls 🪶 #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited
#Owls 🪶 #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
You would think he wouldn't be tired with the extra hour of sleep.
#Owls 🪶 #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited
#Owls 🪶 #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited
Posting to bookmark for later--a thoughtful essay and CTA exploring secondary trauma in journalists, especially the freelancers. He's a former journalist who left the field for a social work degree, with plans to create resources for traumatized journalists: www.newsweek.com/crime-report...
October 31, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Posting to bookmark for later--a thoughtful essay and CTA exploring secondary trauma in journalists, especially the freelancers. He's a former journalist who left the field for a social work degree, with plans to create resources for traumatized journalists: www.newsweek.com/crime-report...
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I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season
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Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
October 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
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What happens when an insufferable jerk with an improbable name makes up a fake country to scam people out of their money? Nothing good, as it turns out. 🗃️https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/gregor-macgregors-paper-kingdom
Gregor MacGregor’s Paper Kingdom
Inside one of the 19th century’s biggest scams
worldhistory.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
What happens when an insufferable jerk with an improbable name makes up a fake country to scam people out of their money? Nothing good, as it turns out. 🗃️https://worldhistory.substack.com/p/gregor-macgregors-paper-kingdom
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This might be the most slacked-about story so far: a profile of @edzitron.com, who has become the pre-eminent AI skeptic. @tcraggs22.bsky.social takes on what this specific role entails www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This might be the most slacked-about story so far: a profile of @edzitron.com, who has become the pre-eminent AI skeptic. @tcraggs22.bsky.social takes on what this specific role entails www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
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This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
October 23, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.
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New CBO estimate finds changes made to Medicare's price negotiation powers under Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will cost ~$8.8B. My earlier @opinion.bloomberg.com column about that quiet change & why it's important to look at the totality of his actions amid his hyped dealmaking w/pharma (🎁 link):
The White House’s Drug Plan Has Some Convenient Blind Spots
There couldn’t be a more pressing or galvanizing topic for Americans than the high cost of prescription drugs. And after months of blustery talk from President Donald Trump about lowering prices and c...
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
New CBO estimate finds changes made to Medicare's price negotiation powers under Trump's Big Beautiful Bill will cost ~$8.8B. My earlier @opinion.bloomberg.com column about that quiet change & why it's important to look at the totality of his actions amid his hyped dealmaking w/pharma (🎁 link):
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A resonant 2025 cris de coeur that is not about Trump
October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A resonant 2025 cris de coeur that is not about Trump
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my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)
www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
I have so many feelings about this story!
Back in the early 90s, it was *inconceivable* that HIV would be a "geriatric" disease.
This story says that by 2030, 70% of those w/HIV will be 50+, and advises nursing homes to start thinking about these residents.
www.mcknights.com/news/ready-t...
Back in the early 90s, it was *inconceivable* that HIV would be a "geriatric" disease.
This story says that by 2030, 70% of those w/HIV will be 50+, and advises nursing homes to start thinking about these residents.
www.mcknights.com/news/ready-t...
‘Ready to care?’ Nursing homes begin to grapple with nation’s aging HIV population
HIV has been a disease of younger adults, but the need for long-term care is increasing as more patients surpass their 50th birthdays and develop comorbidties much more common in older people.
www.mcknights.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I have so many feelings about this story!
Back in the early 90s, it was *inconceivable* that HIV would be a "geriatric" disease.
This story says that by 2030, 70% of those w/HIV will be 50+, and advises nursing homes to start thinking about these residents.
www.mcknights.com/news/ready-t...
Back in the early 90s, it was *inconceivable* that HIV would be a "geriatric" disease.
This story says that by 2030, 70% of those w/HIV will be 50+, and advises nursing homes to start thinking about these residents.
www.mcknights.com/news/ready-t...
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October 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM