Erin Durkin
@erinmdurkin
Reporter, New Yorker, curiouser and curiouser. [email protected]
Reddit is so horrifying bc you can go to a sub for people with health problems and see tons of people desperate for help, strategizing on how to be taken seriously, and then you go to a doctor sub and it's full of professionals talking about hysterical women and blue hair.
One thing I have to say on this: you should be able to buy one stalk of celery at a time at most grocery stores
eating at home costing $60 with time and labor and eating outside costing $56.78. alright.
Deeply concerning part of Columbia's capitulation to Trump: Foreign students arrested at protests can now be detained by ICE regardless of whether university admin's punish them. Significant escalation of efforts to chill speech & protest activity by non-citizen students.
I'm a totally normal, mild-mannered guy until the moment someone brings up what Hulk Hogan did to Gawker
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV
This is so incomprehensible to me. Congress has repeatedly told the White House that they want to continue support for PEPFAR. It's a conservative initiative. It's shockingly cost-effective. Who is the constituency for this???
I can only hope that one day these people will understand the crime in which they've taken part
Ignore the pseudoscience from US Dept HHS: get your annual flu vaccine, it’s also one of the best ways to protect your heart health. Summary study from @CIDRAP here and linked to this post cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-gene….
With #CDC still director-less, Sec. Kennedy has signed off on #ACIP recommendations to require all #flu vaccine for the US market to be #thimerosal free. He did not, however, sign off on the ACIP recommendation that everyone get a flu shot. statnews.com/2025/07/23/ken…
It’s genuinely hilarious, and sort of perfectly fitting, that MAHA neuroticism about food chemicals combined with Trumpist love of trash food is cashing out in dietary wins like “now your 3,000 calorie Bloomin Onion is made with beef tallow!” and “Apple Jacks still have enough…
Froot Loops is finally following its nose — toward common sense. Thanks to the many parents who spoke out and pressured @KelloggsUS to remove harmful food dyes from its products. I urge more companies to step up and join the movement to Make America Healthy Again.
6 months into the current administration and there’s still no CDC director. This is why vaccine recommendations are being approved by a lawyer and not a physician/scientist. rollcall.com/2025/07/23/ken…
What happens when you compare brain scans from people before and after the pandemic started? A new study with 996 participants shows the pandemic accelerated brain aging for all, but those infected with COVID also presented reduced cognitive performance. #NeuroCovid #LongCovid
Journalists are starving in Gaza. cjr.org/news/journalis… via @cjr
The virus which caused the worst pandemic in a hundred years lists 'significantly accelerated brain ageing' among its myriad of negative effects. I don't understand why it is now fine to get it repeatedly. Can someone please explain?
The Covid pandemic accelerated brain aging as seen in @uk_biobank paired MRI, 2 cohorts nature.com/articles/s4146…
Nightmare scenario: this man was detained for months just because they couldn’t find an interpreter for his court hearing.
ICE releases deaf Mongolian immigrant after holding him for months without interpreter calmatters.org/justice/2025/0…
🚨 Important findings that address the question: Is cognitive decline primarily due to the stress of the pandemic or the impacts of actual COVID infection? Spoiler: It’s the infection (1/x) nature.com/articles/s4146…
"Imagine being so harmed by an infection that everyone around you refers to as harmless that you can’t walk more than 500 steps a day. Imagine you have to plan your week around taking a shower (sitting down)." thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandemic…
Only 5.1% of ballots were exhausted after 11 rounds! I think we can completely put to bed the (frankly insulting and condescending) idea that voters somehow can’t understand how to do Ranked Choice Voting.
🧵 The data you have all been waiting for! The NYC mayoral primary WITHOUT batch elimination (and some early analysis) 1) Zohran's first round (469,642) would have been enough to win against Cuomo's final round (443,229)
MAHA is now the greatest thing that has ever happened to big food. They can announce superficial changes to their poisonous food (in 2 years! lol) and get a full fledged advertisement from the US government This is the "fat free" advertising craze of the 2000s all over again
Froot Loops is finally following its nose — toward common sense. Thanks to the many parents who spoke out and pressured @KelloggsUS to remove harmful food dyes from its products. I urge more companies to step up and join the movement to Make America Healthy Again.
Bushwick precinct adjacent to Maria Hernandez Park: (Knickerbocker/Central Ave, Jefferson/Willoughby St) Zohran Mamdani — 489 votes (95.9%) Andrew Cuomo — 21 votes (4.1%)
fine fine one map. i was kinda wondering if brad would have won if this was approval voting. answer is no, but it's close! i think the color scheme is clear from the map itself.
This is the most heartbreaking thing I've read in some time💔 Poor woman has severe long covid, and her own family appeared to not appreciate the seriousness. She passed the next day from her disease. Please believe people when they tell you what they're going through.
I called my mom. I told her I'm afraid I'm going to die. Her response? She hung up. 😫#MECFS