Nick Keppler
@nickkeppler.bsky.social
Freelance writer with a specialty in health and science and public policy thereabout. Bylines: New York Times, Washington Post, Slate, Daily Beast, Men's Health, Mental Floss. I'm here to like nature pics and not be on X.
I wrote this for the @nytimes.com: Scammers are calling seniors more than 50 times a day. Some who get scammed wind up with weird charges on their Medicare and mysterious packages on their porches
Medicare Scammers Are Calling Seniors 50 Times a Day, Trying to Trap Them
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I wrote this for the @nytimes.com: Scammers are calling seniors more than 50 times a day. Some who get scammed wind up with weird charges on their Medicare and mysterious packages on their porches
Traveling today? Entertain yourself with episode three of Listen or Die! We're talking about Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis and Arrival by ABBA. Includes brief and somewhat informed discussions of early jazz subgenres and the Eurovision song contest!
Episode 3: Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis and Arrival by ABBA
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November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Traveling today? Entertain yourself with episode three of Listen or Die! We're talking about Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis and Arrival by ABBA. Includes brief and somewhat informed discussions of early jazz subgenres and the Eurovision song contest!
Hey all, for a New York Times story, I am looking to speak to people who are getting inundated with Medicare enrollment scam calls, to the point that the calls themselves are a quality of life issue. If you know someone in this situation, hit me up here or nickkeppler@yahoo.com. Thanks
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Hey all, for a New York Times story, I am looking to speak to people who are getting inundated with Medicare enrollment scam calls, to the point that the calls themselves are a quality of life issue. If you know someone in this situation, hit me up here or nickkeppler@yahoo.com. Thanks
Special Halloween episode of Listen or Die! Stacey and I tackle (What's the Story) Morning Glory by #Oasis and the Marshall Mathers LP by #Eminem. We also talk about Wonderwall as a meme, the ongoing crisis with men, lessons about healthily playing the villain learned from acting at a haunted house
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October 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Stacey Federoff and I have a new podcast! We are second-guessing the book 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, doing deep dives on two albums at a time. Episode 1: The Velvet Underground and Slade. Please check it out and like and subscribe.
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Episode 1: White Light/White Heat by the Velvet Underground and Slayed? by Slate
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October 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Stacey Federoff and I have a new podcast! We are second-guessing the book 1,001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, doing deep dives on two albums at a time. Episode 1: The Velvet Underground and Slade. Please check it out and like and subscribe.
open.spotify.com/episode/3WD7...
open.spotify.com/episode/3WD7...
You can listen to me on Dallas's public radio station @kera.org And also watch me shuffle my notes on their YouTube page.
KERA's Think
There’s a cottage industry of self-help books for dealing with a narcissist. But what if you are the narcissist? Nick Keppler joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how narcissistic personality disorder is d...
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August 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
You can listen to me on Dallas's public radio station @kera.org And also watch me shuffle my notes on their YouTube page.
Have you noticed that everyone who's bad is labeled a narcissist now? Unbearable parents, shitty exes, the president. Some people with actual narcissistic personality disorder would like a word on that. My latest for @slate.com
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
It’s the Most Hated Personality Trait in the World. The People Who Have It Think You Should Listen to Them.
The diagnosable illness is also the internet’s punching bag. These narcissists have had enough.
slate.com
July 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Have you noticed that everyone who's bad is labeled a narcissist now? Unbearable parents, shitty exes, the president. Some people with actual narcissistic personality disorder would like a word on that. My latest for @slate.com
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
I did the two-week free trial of Ancestry.com. I always wondered if I was related to Johannes Kepler, the astronomer and mathematician. Nope. I am a descendent of someone who lived at the same time with kinda the same name, the era's equivalent of an Autozone manager named Steven Hawkin.
June 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I did the two-week free trial of Ancestry.com. I always wondered if I was related to Johannes Kepler, the astronomer and mathematician. Nope. I am a descendent of someone who lived at the same time with kinda the same name, the era's equivalent of an Autozone manager named Steven Hawkin.
Journalism crowd source: Are you or do you know someone who has been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder and are trying to work through it? Real names are always preferable. Thanks!
April 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Journalism crowd source: Are you or do you know someone who has been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder and are trying to work through it? Real names are always preferable. Thanks!
The only good news story this week: A grey cat named Sophie briefly joined the White House Press Corps.
AP PHOTOS: Cat wanders onto the White House grounds and joins the press corps
WASHINGTON (AP) — A gray cat wearing a collar and a name tag that said “Sophie" wandered into the White House grounds.
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April 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The only good news story this week: A grey cat named Sophie briefly joined the White House Press Corps.
Far me be it for one health journalist to counter the HHS secretary, but I have interviewed several people on the spectrum about their jobs and social lives
Autistic people and their loved ones have swiftly and publicly rejected statements by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, that people with autism will never play baseball, date, pay taxes or have a job.
RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong.
The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball or pay taxes, enraging those in the community.
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April 18, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Far me be it for one health journalist to counter the HHS secretary, but I have interviewed several people on the spectrum about their jobs and social lives
They marked 6,000 immigrants who are not dead as dead
Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
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April 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
They marked 6,000 immigrants who are not dead as dead
New one I wrote for the @nytimes.com: They Were Deactivated From Delivering. Their Finances Were Devastated. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/b...
The Financial Fallout of Being Deactivated from Delivery Work
Millions of Americans earn money finding gig work through platforms like Uber, Lyft or DoorDash. Many see their financial lives upended when their account is suddenly blocked for unclear reasons.
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March 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
New one I wrote for the @nytimes.com: They Were Deactivated From Delivering. Their Finances Were Devastated. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/b...
Reposted by Nick Keppler
Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student who was a leader in talks between demonstrators and Columbia University officials last spring, was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents Saturday night despite having a green card, his attorney said.
Palestinian protester arrested by ICE despite green card, lawyer says
Mahmoud Khalil is being detained as his lawyer fights for his release.
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March 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student who was a leader in talks between demonstrators and Columbia University officials last spring, was arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents Saturday night despite having a green card, his attorney said.
Some of these are new terms associated with movements and pushes towards greater sensitivity. And many others, like "disability", "victims" "at risk", "sex", "women" are just common words for things.
These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
www.nytimes.com
March 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Some of these are new terms associated with movements and pushes towards greater sensitivity. And many others, like "disability", "victims" "at risk", "sex", "women" are just common words for things.
It finally happened. Someone found a use for LinkedIn
#pearljam #1990s #the90s #grungerock #musictok #genx #tiktokcomedy
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February 28, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It finally happened. Someone found a use for LinkedIn
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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
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February 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
Reposted by Nick Keppler
Hey if any editor out there wants like 1500 words on Paul Ingrassia and his stolen charity, groyper associations, Mar-a-Lago adventures, friendship with DC’s US attorney Ed Martin, and his vast connections to Andrew Tate, I can write it in my sleep.
February 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Hey if any editor out there wants like 1500 words on Paul Ingrassia and his stolen charity, groyper associations, Mar-a-Lago adventures, friendship with DC’s US attorney Ed Martin, and his vast connections to Andrew Tate, I can write it in my sleep.
It's this cold out
January 23, 2025 at 3:02 AM
It's this cold out
The best thing Lynch did was Twin Peaks: The Return, the only TV revival that has ever been good. Instead of reuniting Coop, Harry and the Log Lady to solve another mystery, it went as far beyond what was expected for TV in 2017 as the first show went for 1990. And it was often damn funny.
Twin Peaks - THIS IS WHAT WE DO IN THE FBI
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January 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The best thing Lynch did was Twin Peaks: The Return, the only TV revival that has ever been good. Instead of reuniting Coop, Harry and the Log Lady to solve another mystery, it went as far beyond what was expected for TV in 2017 as the first show went for 1990. And it was often damn funny.
I don't see a point in "canceling" someone to punish or effectively boycott them. Consumers don't have that much power. But to laugh at someone's joke, empathize with a character they portray or read their story I have to like them for at least a moment.
There Is No Safe Word
How the best-selling fantasy author Neil Gaiman hid the darkest parts of himself for decades.
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January 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I don't see a point in "canceling" someone to punish or effectively boycott them. Consumers don't have that much power. But to laugh at someone's joke, empathize with a character they portray or read their story I have to like them for at least a moment.