Michael Moss

#1 NYT bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize for some bad burgers, have keynote will travel

[Michael Moss @MichaelMossC]

My turn from investigating Pentagon failures to provide body armor in Iraq to probing big food was like going from one war to another. What we eat, and how they manipulate us, has never mattered more. https://t.co/jCVO3jcWrg

[corinne_perkins @corinne_perkins]

Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C. Photo by @orr_photo

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

America is a constant work in progress. Every generation must take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further—protecting what’s right, fixing what’s wrong, and making our union a little more perfect. 250 years later, that’s more important than ever.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[Michael Moss @MichaelMossC]

Has the MAHA Movement Given Up? https://t.co/4mNyRbEro5 via @NYTimes

[Michael Moss @MichaelMossC]

That court decision on a weed killer gets some surprising support https://t.co/kJsgffzVYe

[Michael Moss @MichaelMossC]

@WSJ is doing terrific, sharp reporting on Trump’s windfall.

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

THE TELEMUNDO CALL OF THE MALIK TILLMAN FREE KICK IS THE BEST THING YOU'LL EVER HEAR 🇺🇸🦅❤️

[The Associated Press @AP]

When something breaks, most of us replace it. At this Brooklyn repair cafe, volunteers are helping neighbors fix everything from lamps and jeans to vintage fans and old smartwatches for free. The events are part of a growing global movement to reduce waste, save money and bring back repair skills that many people say have been lost.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani greeted Panama vs. England fans, helped with wristbands, and joined volunteers guiding matchgoers toward NJ Transit before they headed to MetLife Stadium. Have you ever seen any politician like him????

[Michael Moss @MichaelMossC]

A Fancy Name for Junk Food — the science writer Gary Taubes pushes back on the focus on “ultra-processed” https://t.co/ySDFtf3pbn

[Michael Moss @MichaelMossC]

@davykevinp I hope you got some nice runs in yourself on the Boulder trails.

[Michael Moss @MichaelMossC]

Judge scraps federal junk food rules, dealing a blow to MAHA https://t.co/UZrDmEjczw

[Michael Moss @MichaelMossC]

Where Billionaires Summer, a Gardener Died in the Snow, terrific reporting by @rcallimachi

https://t.co/R49xiEOVcL via @NYTimes

[Michael Moss @MichaelMossC]

The Quiet Unraveling of America’s Food Safety Net - POLITICO https://t.co/L3DsfUFJ6Y

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The Iran war ended, as Trump had predicted in March, with a surrender. Unfortunately, it was a US surrender. But too many people seem to be learning the wrong lesson. The problem was not getting out of the war, but getting in.

Ever since Homer, we've stupidly rushed into wars; Achilles called the Trojan war "insane." But each generation seems to need to learn anew the importance of distrusting hawks who promise painless victories.

In the case of Iran, we had a diplomatic approach that was working -- imperfectly -- to limit Iran's nuclear program. But then Trump tore up the JCPOA and set in motion the events that would lead to his abject surrender this month. A gift link to my column: https://t.co/oHOMhx1Da0

[Edward Wong @ewong]

NEW from @nytimes: What did the Iran war that the US and Israel started cost Americans, Iranians, Israelis and many others? More than 7,000 people have been killed in Iran and Lebanon, along with 13 US military members. The cost to the US is at least $132 billion, Moody's said.

[Amanda Litman @amandalitman]

Zohran’s speech from the Knicks ceremony and Obama’s speech from the presidential center opening are cousins — two different ways of getting at the same belief that hope is a choice, that hard work is worth it, that setbacks are never permanent and long odds are not a fate. Stubborn collective optimism is back!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

this is honestly an excellent celebratory and motivational speech from Mamdani at the Knicks parade. i'm ready to run through a wall, and i'm not even a Knicks fan

[Sheryl Gay Stolberg @SherylNYT]

Blockbuster report on how a company marketing kratom - an addictive gas station drug — found allies in Markwayne Mullin and RFK Jr. @kenvogel @By_CJewett

https://t.co/dqRNNAD7ZO

[Michael Moss @MichaelMossC]

U.S. health agencies join fight against ‘ultraprocessed foods’—whatever they are | Science | AAAS https://t.co/1whMBec1EU