@barryyeoman.com
Freelance journalist in North Carolina who writes longform stories about political, social, and environmental issues. Web site: http://barryyeoman.com. Newsletter: http://barry-yeoman.beehiiv.com. Teaching: Duke University.
@jackelhai.bsky.socialReposted by @barryyeoman.com"To redesign living organisms to make them better suited, or more useful, to the altered world we have created." Great work by @barryyeoman.com. www.nwf.org/Home/Magazin...
@barryyeoman.comThank you, Jack.
@barryyeoman.comMY LATEST: Should we rewrite the genetic codes of endangered animals and plants in order to save them? To make one species more hardy, should we borrow from the DNA from another? For National Wildlife magazine, I explored the controversy over synthetic biology and conservation.
@laurenleharper.bsky.socialReposted by @barryyeoman.comCop is subject of community complaints (including for punching a driver in the face during a traffic stop).
Local newsroom files a public records request about him.
Eugene, Ore says sure thing, that’ll cost $2.5 million and take at least 44,000 hours to complete.
My latest for @theintercept.com:
@barryyeoman.comAs part of a three-state experiment, journalists at @theassemblync.bsky.social and @propublica.org tested whether they could get a North Carolina state license to open a private school inside Ponysaurus Brewing. #ncpol @carlibrosseau.bsky.social @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
@barryyeoman.comYouth baseball is becoming a sport for rich kids, writes Harriet Ryan for @wsj.com. Many adults remember Little League and rec programs, dad coaches and the snack shack. But it's now an intense and costly year-round endeavor dominated by for-profit enterprises. Spending $10,000 a year is common.
@barryyeoman.comMAGA activists now consider Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders too woke, writes @theatlantic.com's @dgraham.bsky.social. "They’re upset because the face of loafing in Sanders’s [Medicaid work requirement] ad is a cheese-ball-snarfing couch potato named Brad who is a young white man."
@barryyeoman.comCancer patients are being persuaded to spend tens of thousands on unproven treatments. Trisha Thadani's father was one of them and—dozens of interviews later—she wrote about him for @nytimes.com.
@barryyeoman.comI've been waiting to read this: journalist Evan Gershkovich's account of his 491 days in a Russian prison. An excerpt from his new memoir, "This Cursed Beautiful Land," published by @thetimes.com. Hat tip: @thesundaylongread.bsky.social.
@barryyeoman.comOur @theguardian.com investigation into overcharging by 7-Eleven and Circle K caught the attention of some members of Congress.
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@barryyeoman.comMy former student Andrew Long writes about the social-media conspiracies that followed Hurricane Helene, and the officials who say they’re better prepared to address disinformation two years later. @theassemblync.bsky.social #ncpol
@barryyeoman.comSo good.
@barryyeoman.comThe world moved on after Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return to the United States. But other deportees without criminial records are disappearing into El Salvador's prisons. Brave on-the-ground reporting by Kevin Sieff for @theatlantic.com. No paywall.
@barryyeoman.comThe Little River north of Durham NC was the scene of a 1981 murder that helped spark the state's LGBTQ+ movement. The details have always been fuzzy. Now, 45 years later, Andrew Nurkin has told the story of Sonny Antonevitch's killing and the movement it launched. @theassemblync.bsky.social #ncpol
@barryyeoman.comExcited to introduce North Star Way, a podcast series launching Oct. 27. We interviewed Minnesotans about the creative and courageous ways they showed up for their neighbors during the largest federal immigration operation in U.S. history. A collaboration with John Noltner and A Peace of My Mind.
@barryyeoman.comOur Guardian story about how 7-Eleven and Circle K, the US's top convenience store chains, habitually overcharge customers appears to have hit a nerve.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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@barryyeoman.comA Stanford law professor reacts to our investigation.
@byardduncan.bsky.socialReposted by @barryyeoman.comNEW for @theguardian.com: U.S. Convenience store giants have been quietly overcharging consumers for years.
It's salt in the wound for ppl struggling with out-of-control living costs. W/ @barryyeoman.com, @sophiemsullivan.bsky.social and @jocelynzuck.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
@sophiemsullivan.bsky.socialReposted by @barryyeoman.comWas happy to add "7-Eleven secret shopper" to my resume this summer and help report this excellent investigation into serial overcharging by America's convenience stores, alongside @jocelynzuck.bsky.social, @barryyeoman.com and @byardduncan.bsky.social.
Thanks to our editor Mike Hudson! Read below.
@barryyeoman.comMY LATEST: Today @theguardian.com published our investigation of 7-Eleven and Circle K. Both chains routinely overcharge customers for food, toiletries, tobacco, and medicine, and yet elude government scrutiny. With @jocelynzuck.bsky.social, @byardduncan.bsky.social, @sophiemsullivan.bsky.social
