Susan Campbell Beachy
@susancb.bsky.social
Researcher, reader, connoisseur of dumb jokes
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As Trump plans to deploy national guard troops in DC, citing "crime that is totally out of control," it's worth noting just how high up, or far down, a news organization includes this fact in its reporting:
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v....
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v....
Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low
Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) a...
www.justice.gov
August 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
As Trump plans to deploy national guard troops in DC, citing "crime that is totally out of control," it's worth noting just how high up, or far down, a news organization includes this fact in its reporting:
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v....
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v....
Who doesn't love a tiny New York? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/n...
TikTok Loves the New York City He Built Out of Balsa Wood
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Who doesn't love a tiny New York? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/n...
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More than 70K new homes could be built within a half mile of stops along the train line over the next decade, if some land-use changes are approved by city officials, according to an analysis released today by the New York Building Congress, a trade group for construction and real estate companies.
A New Rail Line May Come to New York. Will a Housing Boom Follow?
www.nytimes.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
More than 70K new homes could be built within a half mile of stops along the train line over the next decade, if some land-use changes are approved by city officials, according to an analysis released today by the New York Building Congress, a trade group for construction and real estate companies.
This remains an excellent campaign promise
June 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This remains an excellent campaign promise
No alternative facts on the Alex Trebek stage www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
Opinion | Ken Jennings: Trivia and ‘Jeopardy!’ Could Save Our Republic
www.nytimes.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
No alternative facts on the Alex Trebek stage www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/o...
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“The event was unlike anything in recent American history — not a campaign fund-raiser but a gathering arranged by the president’s business partners to directly enrich the first family.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
Hundreds Join Trump at ‘Exclusive’ Dinner, With Dreams of Crypto Fortunes in Mind
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 2:31 AM
“The event was unlike anything in recent American history — not a campaign fund-raiser but a gathering arranged by the president’s business partners to directly enrich the first family.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
Times staffers could roll out of bed and be at the office www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/n...
A Times Square Office Tower Will Be Converted Into Apartments
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Times staffers could roll out of bed and be at the office www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/n...
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Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
May 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0
That's a NOPE from me www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/b...
Chatting in Movie Theaters Is a No-No. But What About Chatbots? (Gift Article)
Blumhouse, the horror movie studio, has teamed up with Meta on a chatbot that encourages people to use their phones while watching a movie.
www.nytimes.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
That's a NOPE from me www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/b...
Come for the skyscraper, stay for the fatberg www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/n...
Want to Try Driving a City Bus, Hauling Trash or Building a Skyscraper? (Gift Article)
A new exhibit at the New York Hall of Science celebrates cities by letting visitors get hands-on with urban infrastructure.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Come for the skyscraper, stay for the fatberg www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/n...
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This kind of story is why we need the NYTimes and other institutions like it. Multiple bylines, weeks of work, deep research, important sourcing based on relationships earned over long periods, and, of course, the institutional strength and money to resist any retaliation for it.
Outstanding and important accountability reporting here by a team of NYT colleagues.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs,Hamed Aleaziz, Alan Feuer, Devlin Barrett, Julie Turkewitz, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Annie Correal.
Everyone should read this. Here is a free link.
nyti.ms/4d1yEnu
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs,Hamed Aleaziz, Alan Feuer, Devlin Barrett, Julie Turkewitz, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman and Annie Correal.
Everyone should read this. Here is a free link.
nyti.ms/4d1yEnu
Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison (Gift Article)
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
nyti.ms
April 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This kind of story is why we need the NYTimes and other institutions like it. Multiple bylines, weeks of work, deep research, important sourcing based on relationships earned over long periods, and, of course, the institutional strength and money to resist any retaliation for it.
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
The administration is substantially scaling back the State Dept's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
www.npr.org
April 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The administration is substantially scaling back the State Dept's annual reports on international human rights to remove longstanding critiques of abuses such as harsh prison conditions, government corruption and restrictions on participation in the political process www.npr.org/2025/04/18/n...
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Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp, Mahdawi, 34, saw his best friend killed by an Israeli soldier. Rather than calling for vengeance, since immigrating to the U.S., he has delivered 100+ lectures extolling empathy as key to a resolution in the Middle East. He is a practicing Buddhist, he said.
A Columbia Activist Sought Middle Ground on Gaza. The U.S. Detained Him. (Gift Article)
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at a citizenship interview in Vermont. He had spent a decade trying to understand the conflict that shaped his life, his supporters say.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp, Mahdawi, 34, saw his best friend killed by an Israeli soldier. Rather than calling for vengeance, since immigrating to the U.S., he has delivered 100+ lectures extolling empathy as key to a resolution in the Middle East. He is a practicing Buddhist, he said.
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"This is not the homeless problem that New Yorkers are most familiar with," reports @elizashapiro.bsky.social "These are the people who help make New York run, now shut out of the city’s rental market." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/n...
They Work All Day and Go Home to Shelters (Gift Article)
Thousands of working people in New York City now live in shelters, unable to afford apartments despite holding down jobs that pay them $50,000 or more.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"This is not the homeless problem that New Yorkers are most familiar with," reports @elizashapiro.bsky.social "These are the people who help make New York run, now shut out of the city’s rental market." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/n...
Sad to hear about the passing of Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie and many others. Gonna listen to this on repeat for a bit youtu.be/TU3-lS_Gryk...
April 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Sad to hear about the passing of Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie and many others. Gonna listen to this on repeat for a bit youtu.be/TU3-lS_Gryk...
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The title of my email newsletter today is "Decimation": buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
Friday's Elk: Decimation
As we head into the third month of the new Trump administration, some of the damage that it is inflicting on American science and medicine is starting to...
buttondown.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The title of my email newsletter today is "Decimation": buttondown.com/carlzimmer/a...
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Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
April 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.
Happy International Fact-Checking Day! Some resources for those who celebrate:
www.politifact.com
www.factcheck.org
www.snopes.com
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
toolbox.google.com/factcheck/ex...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fac...
www.nytimes.com/spotlight/fa...
reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
www.politifact.com
www.factcheck.org
www.snopes.com
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
toolbox.google.com/factcheck/ex...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fac...
www.nytimes.com/spotlight/fa...
reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
April 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Happy International Fact-Checking Day! Some resources for those who celebrate:
www.politifact.com
www.factcheck.org
www.snopes.com
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
toolbox.google.com/factcheck/ex...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fac...
www.nytimes.com/spotlight/fa...
reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
www.politifact.com
www.factcheck.org
www.snopes.com
www.newsguardrealitycheck.com
toolbox.google.com/factcheck/ex...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fac...
www.nytimes.com/spotlight/fa...
reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
To economists, the policies threaten to undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging areas like artificial intelligence, and to leave Americans as a whole poorer, less healthy and less productive in the decades ahead www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
Trump Science Funding Cuts May Hurt Economy, Experts Say (Gift Article)
Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
To economists, the policies threaten to undermine U.S. competitiveness in emerging areas like artificial intelligence, and to leave Americans as a whole poorer, less healthy and less productive in the decades ahead www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
Dr. Francis Collins, a former director of the N.I.H., said, “If you are taking an F.D.A.-approved drug that is improving the quality or length of your life, there is a 99 percent chance N.I.H. was involved in the pathway to its discovery.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the N.I.H., the Crown Jewel of American Science (Gift Article)
Senior scientists at the National Institutes of Health fear that research on conditions like obesity, heart disease and cancer will be undermined by President Trump’s policies.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Dr. Francis Collins, a former director of the N.I.H., said, “If you are taking an F.D.A.-approved drug that is improving the quality or length of your life, there is a 99 percent chance N.I.H. was involved in the pathway to its discovery.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/h...
Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/h...
Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5 (Gift Article)
A week after terminating thousands of contracts, the administration has sent questionnaires to those programs asking how their work benefits the U.S. national interest.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Trump Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/h...
Today there isn’t a single state, city or county in the United States where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a median-priced two-bedroom apartment www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Today there isn’t a single state, city or county in the United States where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a median-priced two-bedroom apartment www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...