The NYT takes huge ad payments from the oil industry. Industry reps get regular access to reporters in non-news contexts as a result, and this spills over into the background beliefs and attitudes a lot of them have
Both personal appearances at rallies and paying for votes
I expect that a lot of their constituents do. And the Republcians will change their tune when they fear the public anger over their actions more than they fear the billionaires
Gun owners mostly shoot:
- themselves
- their wife or girlfriend
- their kids
They apparently know now — she was taken to an ICE facility in Loisiana in violation of a court order.
She was transferred to Louisiana despite a federal judge’s order Tuesday night telling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement not to remove Ozturk from Massachusetts without prior notice.
The plan is explicity to force states to change their rules by illegally withholding money from them and their citizens until the states change their rules
Definitely not 100% external. A chunk of cases are known to be genetic.
And these people were eating a mushroom known to be mildly poisonous.
Exactly. There's a reason I won't eat any Amanita: the similarity of edible and deadly species in that genus makes them the main source of mushroom fatalities in North America.
By contrast, messing up a bolete ID is likely to result in a meal that is too bitter to eat. That's a much more acceptable risk.
And these days, that means making sure it's a book written by someone who knows what they are doing, rather than AI auto-generated bullshit.
It's not a direct impact; it's that the ad buys get the oil folks access in a way that you and I don't have. The journalists end up at things like conference panels with oil folks, and not so much with activists or scientists, and the editors choose who to put on a given story.