Nicholas Dawes
@nicdawes.bsky.social
New York. Trace amounts of past lives at THE CITY, Human Rights Watch, Mail & Guardian, and Hindustan Times may be present. Slight risk of bicycles and mountains.
No sleep till Brooklyn poll site
November 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
No sleep till Brooklyn poll site
Peak college application season for high school seniors and their families, and some pretty clear signaling from UMich in this full page ad in the print edition of today's Times.
October 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Peak college application season for high school seniors and their families, and some pretty clear signaling from UMich in this full page ad in the print edition of today's Times.
New research from Pew shows that kindness is ranked pretty highly
among qualities Americans value in the people they get their news from. Thanks to @kirstenaeddy.bsky.social for this fascinating slide.
among qualities Americans value in the people they get their news from. Thanks to @kirstenaeddy.bsky.social for this fascinating slide.
September 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
New research from Pew shows that kindness is ranked pretty highly
among qualities Americans value in the people they get their news from. Thanks to @kirstenaeddy.bsky.social for this fascinating slide.
among qualities Americans value in the people they get their news from. Thanks to @kirstenaeddy.bsky.social for this fascinating slide.
The anthroposophists, those longstanding and enthusiastic anti-vaxxers, have long sought to sanitize their Nazi connections. New research is revealing more of them.
September 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The anthroposophists, those longstanding and enthusiastic anti-vaxxers, have long sought to sanitize their Nazi connections. New research is revealing more of them.
Note the presence at the top of this list of the MMR vaccine, the target of RFK's most long-standing and damaging anti-vax advocacy. www.uscis.gov/policy-manua...
![A. Vaccination Requirements for Immigrants
Some vaccines are expressly required by statute. Others are required because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have determined they are in the interest of public health.[1]
The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA)[2] requires applicants to submit documentation of having received the following vaccinations:
Mumps, measles, rubella;
Polio;
Tetanus and diphtheria toxoids;[3]
Pertussis;
Haemophilius influenza type B; and
Hepatitis B.
CDC requires immigrants to receive the following additional vaccines:
Varicella;
Influenza;
Pneumococcal pneumonia;
Rotavirus;
Hepatitis A; and
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September 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Note the presence at the top of this list of the MMR vaccine, the target of RFK's most long-standing and damaging anti-vax advocacy. www.uscis.gov/policy-manua...
How many houses in Cold Spring have one of these on the lawn, and a copy of Abundance on the nightstand?
August 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
How many houses in Cold Spring have one of these on the lawn, and a copy of Abundance on the nightstand?
I like our donor email today a lot. I also like this one that just landed from @defector.com enjoining me to subscribe, and am happy to be in their company.
August 21, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I like our donor email today a lot. I also like this one that just landed from @defector.com enjoining me to subscribe, and am happy to be in their company.
And all year long www.teerico.com/collections/...?
August 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
And all year long www.teerico.com/collections/...?
You know you want it. Limited edition only through Labor Day. www.teerico.com/collections/...?
August 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
You know you want it. Limited edition only through Labor Day. www.teerico.com/collections/...?
Which of these is trying to serve readers in its print distribution area and which is memeing for a President its owner is trying to persuade on Ukraine?
August 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Which of these is trying to serve readers in its print distribution area and which is memeing for a President its owner is trying to persuade on Ukraine?
Totally confidence boosting ad for a gen-AI newsletter service in my inbox this morning. So great to see that humans in the loop are consistently winning at risk mitigation.
August 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Totally confidence boosting ad for a gen-AI newsletter service in my inbox this morning. So great to see that humans in the loop are consistently winning at risk mitigation.
There is a touch of summertime sadness, or maybe just elegy in advance, from @katiehonan.bsky.social in our summer newsletter today, but it still has a few weeks to run, and you can sign up for the last golden goods here: www.thecity.nyc/summer-the-c...
August 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
There is a touch of summertime sadness, or maybe just elegy in advance, from @katiehonan.bsky.social in our summer newsletter today, but it still has a few weeks to run, and you can sign up for the last golden goods here: www.thecity.nyc/summer-the-c...
One case study from the weeks just before the prison strike tells the story of the relationship between solitary and suicides.
August 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One case study from the weeks just before the prison strike tells the story of the relationship between solitary and suicides.
There is something beautiful about the donations that come in the mail from people who can only give modestly, but want to show their support of @thecity.nyc. Opening those envelopes is one of the best tasks going around here. donorbox.org/nycdonate
August 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
There is something beautiful about the donations that come in the mail from people who can only give modestly, but want to show their support of @thecity.nyc. Opening those envelopes is one of the best tasks going around here. donorbox.org/nycdonate
Editors often have to compress details, but this gloss on the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the ensuing riots, in which thousands were killed, and the long Hindu nationalist campaign to build a new Ram temple on the site deprives readers of vital context
August 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Editors often have to compress details, but this gloss on the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the ensuing riots, in which thousands were killed, and the long Hindu nationalist campaign to build a new Ram temple on the site deprives readers of vital context
Editors sometimes have to compress details, but you deprive
your readers of vital context when you gloss like the the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the ensuing riots, which killed thousands, and the long Hindu nationalist campaign to build a new Ram temple on the site, which Modi ultimately did.
your readers of vital context when you gloss like the the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the ensuing riots, which killed thousands, and the long Hindu nationalist campaign to build a new Ram temple on the site, which Modi ultimately did.
August 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Editors sometimes have to compress details, but you deprive
your readers of vital context when you gloss like the the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the ensuing riots, which killed thousands, and the long Hindu nationalist campaign to build a new Ram temple on the site, which Modi ultimately did.
your readers of vital context when you gloss like the the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the ensuing riots, which killed thousands, and the long Hindu nationalist campaign to build a new Ram temple on the site, which Modi ultimately did.
The Clearview expressway would like a word ... nypost.com/2025/07/31/u...
July 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The Clearview expressway would like a word ... nypost.com/2025/07/31/u...
Criminal tickets for vending surged when Adams became mayor in 2022, as @haidee.bsky.social previously reported. www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/05/n...
July 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Criminal tickets for vending surged when Adams became mayor in 2022, as @haidee.bsky.social previously reported. www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/05/n...
Summer reading is in the eye of the beholder, and this, from Jonathan Mahler, promises to be the perfect counterpoint to our current, weird
moment
moment
July 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Summer reading is in the eye of the beholder, and this, from Jonathan Mahler, promises to be the perfect counterpoint to our current, weird
moment
moment
In addition to immediate impacts on smaller outlets, it's worth flagging possibility of second-round effects on big ones if stations have to cut their spending on national programming, which is an important revenue source
for flagship urban stations, NPR, PBS and American Public Media.
for flagship urban stations, NPR, PBS and American Public Media.
July 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
In addition to immediate impacts on smaller outlets, it's worth flagging possibility of second-round effects on big ones if stations have to cut their spending on national programming, which is an important revenue source
for flagship urban stations, NPR, PBS and American Public Media.
for flagship urban stations, NPR, PBS and American Public Media.
Some of India's biggest newsrooms have created aggregation desks to capture global search traffic. They are very fast, and often succumb to the temptation to amplify extremely sketchy material from x, as my former as Hindustan Times is doing here. It's a very bad look for storied outlets.
July 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Some of India's biggest newsrooms have created aggregation desks to capture global search traffic. They are very fast, and often succumb to the temptation to amplify extremely sketchy material from x, as my former as Hindustan Times is doing here. It's a very bad look for storied outlets.
Elon Musk and I grew up in South Africa's white suburbs at exactly the same time. I told @alixdunn.com why I think that recreating the information environment of that world for a new, accelerated age, is part of his project with Grok and xAI. www.themaybe.org/podcast/shor...
July 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Elon Musk and I grew up in South Africa's white suburbs at exactly the same time. I told @alixdunn.com why I think that recreating the information environment of that world for a new, accelerated age, is part of his project with Grok and xAI. www.themaybe.org/podcast/shor...
I really like these snippets of reporting that you can only get via our newsletter. Here, @gregdavidonnyc.bsky.social updating his June reporting on the New York City economy hitting stall speed. For my like this, sign up! www.thecity.nyc/the-scoop/
July 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I really like these snippets of reporting that you can only get via our newsletter. Here, @gregdavidonnyc.bsky.social updating his June reporting on the New York City economy hitting stall speed. For my like this, sign up! www.thecity.nyc/the-scoop/
You know, if part of our job at @thecity.nyc is to give the Times happy ideas, that's probably ok.
July 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
You know, if part of our job at @thecity.nyc is to give the Times happy ideas, that's probably ok.