Sarah Laskow

Senior editor @theatlantic for science, health, and climate. Also enthusiastic about plants, cities, and my children. slaskow at theatlantic dot com

[Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang]

a fun fact about "whole milk" is that it's not actually whole milk, but skim milk that has fat added back to a standardized 3.25%

meanwhile, the actual fat content of milk coming from cows has quietly been going up and up, because of breakthroughs in genetics and nutrition

https://t.co/vZO8IFYqEn

[Sarah Laskow @slaskow]

@bfurnas deep cut

[Ben Furnas @bfurnas]

Imagine walking from here into Prospect Park without crossing a mini-highway.

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

Quite something to see this all laid out in such stark detail. Excellent reporting from @hanamkiros.

Gift link here because everyone should read this: https://t.co/9pZwCfloz0

[Sarah Laskow @slaskow]

The nine-person board was already down to three members. Then, on Monday, the White House sent them an ultimatum: Fire the CEO, or be fired. Wild reporting from @AlexCKaufman https://t.co/cMsLt8qloA

[Alexander C. Kaufman @AlexCKaufman]

SCOOP: Yesterday, Trump issued an ultimatum to the three remaining board members he hasn't yet fired at the Tennessee Valley Authority:

Fire the CEO or prepare to be fired.

The board balked, aruging the CEO is following Trump's energy agenda.

But insiders suspect the president is angling to install an ally who could help revive privatization plans.

[Hana Kiros @hanamkiros]

The Trump administration will pay to incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When the packets burn, their labels will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one.

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

This is quite something. Excellent reporting from @isaacstanbecker:
https://t.co/uRsnQKAGse

[Hana Kiros @hanamkiros]

My little brother’s friend—a 10th grader—lost it sports betting on Robinhood, of all places. Gambling has never been this easy or accepted! And the government allocates exactly zero dollars to help people being consumed by it.

gift link
https://t.co/VwCpEzZUvc

[Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff]

The great @MariahCBlake has written a powerful new book about the campaign to hide the dangers of forever chemicals. The Washington Post called it “riveting,” a “deft chronicle of one of the greatest moral scandals of our time,” and “a book that none of us can afford to miss.”

[Sarah Laskow @slaskow]

HHS can make ineffective resources available to states but… no one has to take them (great reporting here by @NicholasFlorko) https://t.co/Z1zEjw6TlF

[Sarah Laskow @slaskow]

Who needs a good medical mystery for Friday morning? by @shayla__love https://t.co/mKooRsKTZA

[Shayla Love @shayla__love]

Lots of people have been speculating about Elon Musk’s ketamine use, and so I wrote about what we do know about prolonged, heavy ketamine use in samples of recreational users. Many of these risks are well-known already in psychedelic circles. https://t.co/Wi5sBIKmKe

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

Here's a thread for my fellow night owls. The five most-popular stories from The Atlantic right now, all free to read with the following links:

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

A White House official tells @JonLemire that Trump remains enamored of Musk in part because Trump relishes the idea of the richest man alive working for *him*

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

This is not just an ideological fight over which words to use, @KatherineJWu reports, but a purge of data with substanital implications for scientific understanding.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Data on CDC's website is being removed to comply with the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to scrub federal agencies of any mention of gender, DEI, and accessibility, @katherinejwu reports: https://t.co/Lmwkwmx0cW

[Katharine Gammon @kategammon]

My latest, on the disaster after the disaster -- and what it's like to live in the unknown.

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

A beautiful essay by @nancywalecki, a seventh-generation Californian: https://t.co/YWWfgydsK1

[Zoë Schlanger @zoeschlanger]

I wrote about the mismatches between what climate models say should be happening and what is actually happening. That might sound like a crisis for climate modeling. In reality it's a different, worse kind of crisis. Gift link: https://t.co/eoKNnMWTaq