"Musings of the Night Nurse," the series I am running on Substack (link in bio), is about navigating the hellholes of my mom's slide into dementia. It's also for you. Forewarned is for forearmed.

I am taking credit for the relationship between these two! @TheHistoryOfTh2 and @MattWelch each have, of course, their own awesome podcasts, and together, mwah!

A man jumped into action after spotting two toddlers wandering in the middle of a busy road in Brevard County, Florida. https://t.co/rYuwmDsu1O

New @wethefifth episode just dropped, about the various things in the news.

I think we’re done here

Oglala Sioux Tribe president Frank Star Comes Out is quoted: "The irony is not lost on us."

"Pain is not a punishment."

.@emzanotti on Catholicism, Chickens, and Not Fitting Political Boxes: @NancyRomm and @sarahhepola chat w/ the writer/politics veteran who has 14 chickens and a kink for Japanese New Wave vinyl. They talk pro-choice vs. pro-life and how a woman's uterus after 40 is a loaded gun

@WSJopinion @WSJFreeEx @jamesbmeigs @Louise_m_perry @BenSasse @continetti @jackbutler4815 @MJ_Koch @heymiller @MeghanGurdon also @NicoleReneeAult on saving women's sports, @emmma_camp_ on that dumb Bowen Yang controversy, @nancyromm on Saks Fifth Avenue, Nic Rowan on Aldrich Ames and much more.

Me, this week #iykyk

WTF?

Throughout my 903 days in captivity, I reflected on this odd juxtaposition: my torturers were incredibly ignorant, yet highly skilled at inflicting harm on others. https://t.co/LPEjgpZnut I wrote the first draft of this article while still in captivity. Now it's in @TheAtlantic

This this pure thuggery: What defense does MAGA want to offer for "Trump is threatening to indict the Chairman of the Fed on fake charges because he won't cut interest rates like Trump psychotically demands"? Spare me "I voted for this."

“Do you want to come with me to a nudist camp?” your mom asks. “You can write an article about it!” You are in your early 30s, writing for various magazines and newspapers. That any one of which might relish a piece about going to a nudist camp with your mother tempts you not at

A proper country

“Things were made and remade there in ways that people, at least, still couldn’t entirely explain… when compared against existing catalogs of genetic material, they didn’t match any known species.” On the Gowanus Canal. cc ⁦@MattWelch⁩

The moment Spiderman tore down the Islamic Republic flag at Iran's embassy in London, and raised the lion and sun flag 💪

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the

So, my international free-speech brethren: this is a big one. A tyrannical theocracy has shut down the internet for an entire country so the world can’t see the brutal tactics it plans to use to crush a free Iran. In my view, this is the biggest free-speech story in the world

Incredible stuff in London where the pre Islamic Republic flag has been hoisted over the embassy. 📹@GhorbaniiNiyak