Ted Alcorn
@tedalcorn.bsky.social
Reporting on health + justice in NYTimes, NM in Depth, more • Teaching @ Columbia & NYU Wagner • Bi-Nuevo: New Mexican in NYC
Albuquerque police make front-page news with successful hoof-chase.
Full footage: www.facebook.com/reel/1590537...
Full footage: www.facebook.com/reel/1590537...
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Albuquerque police make front-page news with successful hoof-chase.
Full footage: www.facebook.com/reel/1590537...
Full footage: www.facebook.com/reel/1590537...
GUN CITY: there’s been a nearly ten-fold uptick in New Yorkers seeking concealed carry permits since 2022, per a new analysis of NYPD data. I tracked down the city’s most prolific instructor to see what it's all about. Today in @thecity.nyc& @thetrace.org. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/12/n...
New Yorkers Fill Gun Classes as Concealed Carry Applications Surge
Would-be gun owners seeking a concealed carry permit are required to take a safety training course, but with few rules on how they are taught, gun aficionados have stepped in to run them.
www.thecity.nyc
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
GUN CITY: there’s been a nearly ten-fold uptick in New Yorkers seeking concealed carry permits since 2022, per a new analysis of NYPD data. I tracked down the city’s most prolific instructor to see what it's all about. Today in @thecity.nyc& @thetrace.org. www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/12/n...
Smart take: Mamdani met voters where they were at, listened to them, centered them. To the extent he had social media “magic,” it was his “understanding that the masses are the message.”
November 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Smart take: Mamdani met voters where they were at, listened to them, centered them. To the extent he had social media “magic,” it was his “understanding that the masses are the message.”
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I am looking forward to being done with an election and a lame duck disgraced mayor so that city government can get to fixing big problems out there, including this one exposed by my colleague @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social.
NYCHA Boiler That Exploded Was One of Dozens With Expired Permits
Machinery at The Bronx’s Mitchel Houses did not get inspected for 17 years, despite a pact to get all public housing heating plants checked for environmental safety.
www.thecity.nyc
November 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I am looking forward to being done with an election and a lame duck disgraced mayor so that city government can get to fixing big problems out there, including this one exposed by my colleague @gregbsmithnyc.bsky.social.
In New Mexico at an interim committee on Monday, lawmakers reviewed their three-year-push to raise alcohol taxes — good coverage by @sourcenm.com.
sourcenm.com/2025/10/28/n...
Just a few additional observations threaded below 👇
sourcenm.com/2025/10/28/n...
Just a few additional observations threaded below 👇
New Mexico legislators float alcohol tax reform proposals for 2026 session • Source New Mexico
As New Mexico maintains the highest rate of deaths from alcohol misuse, lawmakers are again considering changes to state liquor tax policy.
sourcenm.com
October 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In New Mexico at an interim committee on Monday, lawmakers reviewed their three-year-push to raise alcohol taxes — good coverage by @sourcenm.com.
sourcenm.com/2025/10/28/n...
Just a few additional observations threaded below 👇
sourcenm.com/2025/10/28/n...
Just a few additional observations threaded below 👇
DOJ altered the Biden admin's signature gun violence prevention grant program for "Community Based" interventions to make it inaccessible to...communities.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
DOJ altered the Biden admin's signature gun violence prevention grant program for "Community Based" interventions to make it inaccessible to...communities.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A gunmaker redesigning its products to address safety concerns does not happen even in a blue moon. The power of legal and commercial pressure:
thereload.com/glock-to-red... @thereloadteam.bsky.social
thereload.com/glock-to-red... @thereloadteam.bsky.social
Glock to Redesign Pistols as Lawsuits and Legislation Pile Up
One of the country’s most popular handgun makers will soon entirely overhaul its commercial lineup of iconic pistols.
thereload.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
A gunmaker redesigning its products to address safety concerns does not happen even in a blue moon. The power of legal and commercial pressure:
thereload.com/glock-to-red... @thereloadteam.bsky.social
thereload.com/glock-to-red... @thereloadteam.bsky.social
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Inside the alcohol industry’s global campaign to delay Ireland’s world-first health labels
New documents reveal an organised effort by alcohol giants to pressure the Irish government into delaying landmark cancer warnings.
New documents reveal an organised effort by alcohol giants to pressure the Irish government into delaying landmark cancer warnings.
Inside the alcohol industry’s global campaign to delay Ireland’s world-first health labels
New documents reveal an organised effort by alcohol giants to pressure the Irish government into delaying landmark cancer warnings.
www.thejournal.ie
October 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Inside the alcohol industry’s global campaign to delay Ireland’s world-first health labels
New documents reveal an organised effort by alcohol giants to pressure the Irish government into delaying landmark cancer warnings.
New documents reveal an organised effort by alcohol giants to pressure the Irish government into delaying landmark cancer warnings.
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Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. aid agency, committed $420 million to provide clean water in East Timor.
Now, M.C.C.’s board wants to pull out of the agreement, with the project already underway.
Story by grantee @tedalcorn.bsky.social for @nytimes.com. bit.ly/4oqA9zX
Now, M.C.C.’s board wants to pull out of the agreement, with the project already underway.
Story by grantee @tedalcorn.bsky.social for @nytimes.com. bit.ly/4oqA9zX
In East Timor, U.S. Retreats From Plan To Build ‘Lifesaving’ Sewage Plant
A U.S. aid agency had committed hundreds of millions of dollars to the project, which could help provide clean water. Now its board wants to pull out of the agreement. Ravaged by a brutal military...
pulitzercenter.org
October 16, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S. aid agency, committed $420 million to provide clean water in East Timor.
Now, M.C.C.’s board wants to pull out of the agreement, with the project already underway.
Story by grantee @tedalcorn.bsky.social for @nytimes.com. bit.ly/4oqA9zX
Now, M.C.C.’s board wants to pull out of the agreement, with the project already underway.
Story by grantee @tedalcorn.bsky.social for @nytimes.com. bit.ly/4oqA9zX
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it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator
last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’
The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."
www.yahoo.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator
google reviews for a tailor in my neighborhood are something else
October 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
google reviews for a tailor in my neighborhood are something else
In Albuquerque, where @mayorkeller.bsky.social is cruising towards re-election, his 1st TV ad gives top-billing to his non-police emergency response dept, what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is promising for NYC. Just to say, it's possible to run on community safety. www.facebook.com/reel/1486960...
October 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
In Albuquerque, where @mayorkeller.bsky.social is cruising towards re-election, his 1st TV ad gives top-billing to his non-police emergency response dept, what @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is promising for NYC. Just to say, it's possible to run on community safety. www.facebook.com/reel/1486960...
Today’s insane stat about Chinese renewable energy installation: “Every three weeks.” 🤯 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
October 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today’s insane stat about Chinese renewable energy installation: “Every three weeks.” 🤯 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...
Much hue & cry at the end of USAID but Trump admin is also quietly terminating half the grants of Millennium Challenge Corp including $420 million for a water treatment system in East Timor, where nearly half of kids are stunted from waterborne illness. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...
In East Timor, U.S. Retreats From Plan to Build ‘Lifesaving’ Sewage Plant
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Much hue & cry at the end of USAID but Trump admin is also quietly terminating half the grants of Millennium Challenge Corp including $420 million for a water treatment system in East Timor, where nearly half of kids are stunted from waterborne illness. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...
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remember when we had the hatch act
White House photo op for the president's granddaughter's new $130 sweatshirt line
September 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
remember when we had the hatch act
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More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
September 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%
Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%
Have always thought real estate interests could be leveraged to invest *in advance* in local, evidence-based gun violence prevention strategies, since they stand to make some of the largest, most direct financial gains from safer streets. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...
The People Betting on a Baltimore Comeback
The city’s violent reputation has long hurt its economy. But crime is finally waning.
www.wsj.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Have always thought real estate interests could be leveraged to invest *in advance* in local, evidence-based gun violence prevention strategies, since they stand to make some of the largest, most direct financial gains from safer streets. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/the-...
“I think the main thing that’s caused so much confusion is that he was always generally apolitical for the most part,” the friend told me. “That's the big thing, he just never really talked politics which is why it's so frustrating.”
New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin
Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“I think the main thing that’s caused so much confusion is that he was always generally apolitical for the most part,” the friend told me. “That's the big thing, he just never really talked politics which is why it's so frustrating.”
Interesting to see @gabbygiffords.bsky.social & former Sen. Jeff Flake co-author this. In 2013 he broke a promise to her to support a background check bill, essentially dooming the once-in-a-generation effort. The loss galvanized her to start @giffords.org. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
September 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Interesting to see @gabbygiffords.bsky.social & former Sen. Jeff Flake co-author this. In 2013 he broke a promise to her to support a background check bill, essentially dooming the once-in-a-generation effort. The loss galvanized her to start @giffords.org. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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If the federal show of force in Washington has had a deterrent effect on crime, it appears to have deterred entirely normal aspects of city life, too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
September 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
If the federal show of force in Washington has had a deterrent effect on crime, it appears to have deterred entirely normal aspects of city life, too.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
The US govt. is burying a major report linking alcohol with cancer, as it prepares to water down dietary guidelines advising stricter moderation. Good review of the industry campaign to kill it, with bipartisan help (👀 @mikethompson.house.gov ). @dylanlscott.bsky.social www.vox.com/health/46008...
Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
www.vox.com
September 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The US govt. is burying a major report linking alcohol with cancer, as it prepares to water down dietary guidelines advising stricter moderation. Good review of the industry campaign to kill it, with bipartisan help (👀 @mikethompson.house.gov ). @dylanlscott.bsky.social www.vox.com/health/46008...
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Inbox: The city Correction Department just announced another death on Rikers Island, the 12 this year and third over the past week. The judge overseeing the department is currently looking over candidates for a “remediation manager” role. She’s taken the entire summer and no deadline on the books.
September 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Inbox: The city Correction Department just announced another death on Rikers Island, the 12 this year and third over the past week. The judge overseeing the department is currently looking over candidates for a “remediation manager” role. She’s taken the entire summer and no deadline on the books.
Deaths at Burning Man are exceedingly rare, and none to my knowledge have been violent. If this turns out to be, it couldn’t occur at a worse time for the organization behind the event, which has been struggling to fundraise to keep up with its expenses.
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
Burning Man death investigated as homicide after attendee found in ‘pool of blood’
Authorities are investigating a man’s death at Burning Man as a homicide after he was found in a “pool of blood” Saturday night in Black Rock City.
www.sfchronicle.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Deaths at Burning Man are exceedingly rare, and none to my knowledge have been violent. If this turns out to be, it couldn’t occur at a worse time for the organization behind the event, which has been struggling to fundraise to keep up with its expenses.
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
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Arkadi Gerney and I argue for maximum deterrence as our best path forward in @washingtonpost.com
"Those looking to counter red state power grabs like Texas’s should look to another period of brinkmanship for inspiration."
The latest from Arkadi Gerney and @sarahrknight.bsky.social:
The latest from Arkadi Gerney and @sarahrknight.bsky.social:
Opinion | To defeat the Texas gerrymander, Democrats need to go nuclear
It’s not enough for blue states to redraw their own maps.
wapo.st
August 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Arkadi Gerney and I argue for maximum deterrence as our best path forward in @washingtonpost.com
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Last week, I became someone who knew someone killed in a mass shooting. Here's my remembrance of Wesley, across the decades. www.newyorker.com/news/postscr...
Remembering Wesley LePatner
I met Wesley in 1985, during the summer we both turned four. Until last Monday, our lives always seemed to run on parallel tracks.
www.newyorker.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Last week, I became someone who knew someone killed in a mass shooting. Here's my remembrance of Wesley, across the decades. www.newyorker.com/news/postscr...