Loved this essay by Mackenzie Scott about her philanthropy, her humble origins, and her interconnectedness to all things: yieldgiving.com/essays/we-ar... (She's given over 7 billion to non-profits over the past year).

The @tignotaro.bsky.social is talented, hilarious and kind. One of the best things she's ever done is make this film: Come See Me in the Good Light, about the extraordinary life and love of poet Andrea Gibson. On Apple TV. Don't miss it! Life-affirming to the max. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...

YASSSSS!!! Proud to be from WA state.

Huge loss. Such a privilege to know her and be on her board.

Love the concept behind Ig Nobel Awards--laugh first, then think. Here's this year's winners. It turns out that being tipsy really does improve your foreign language fluency. www.popsci.com/science/ig-n...

As a polyglot, I find this to be an amazingly affirming study! Multilingualism linked to greater gray matter, cognitive potential, executive function, and increased healthspan! Thanks, @erictopol.bsky.social, for your always illuminating blog posts. erictopol.substack.com/p/multilingu...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy

A seminal framework for thinking through Sexual and Reproductive Health Well-being from a former star med student of mine, Dr. Christine Dehlendorf (just elected to NAM!). This seems so obvious and yet it's paradigm-shifting. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

In @nytopinion “When your country pursues abhorrent policies, when the face it turns to the world is the face of a monster, what does that say about you?” our columnist M. Gessen writes after speaking with Jewish Israeli dissidents.

A chilling piece about Iran's persecution of human rights activists abroad by the excellent @faribanawa.bsky.social, who has an amazing podcast on this subject. I'm grateful to the Nazemi sisters, Narges Mohammadi, Nasrin Soutodeh + so many others fighting 4 our rights. theworld.org/stories/2025...

Thank you to the humanitarian medical workers (Arab and Jewish) who are risking their lives to try and help with the horrific situation on the ground in Gaza. The silence of our fellow Americans has been deafening. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

super fascinating long read by the wonderful Larissa MacFarquhar. I'm definitely on the aphantasia spectrum myself, which is perhaps why I don't hold grudges and am less vulnerable to trauma and to work so hard to visualize anatomy in med school.

US delegation in Israel = Bibi-sitters 😂😂😂

It’s day 26 of the government shutdown. Republicans are still refusing to come to the table to negotiate about Americans’ health care.

Heartwarming

Wow, this is a chilling read. AI performing love, empathy, and intimacy without feelings or real witness. AI as a mirror of ourselves in its most reduced form. What kind of mass experiment are we conducting on our children?

excellent news about a safe and tested medication; despite our nutty current HHS leader and his politicized and off-kilter choices for US health.

This is my first time reading Tangle News and I found it a very interesting way to dissect a complex issue and let the reader decide. If I were on the committee, I wouldn't have voted for MCM, despite the misery of the Venezuelan people. Many other worthy choices.

Yesterday, 7 million people gathered to make it clear: America has no kings. 🇺🇸

It's going up to $40 billion. USAID's budget last year was $28 billion.

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now. Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Funny, not funny. Speaks to the heart of the curiosity collective salon I curated recently on what makes us human in the age of AI: www.instagram.com/reel/DPeshTA...

I was there during the apagón/blackout in Spain. I was guessing cyberattack, but apparently not. It was super interesting to see how it shut down every aspect of life (funny for someone who's lived thru blackouts in Cuba, Afghanistan, etc www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Very important article and worth the read - Opinion | 6 U.S. surgeons general: RFK Jr. threatens the health of Americans - The Washington Post

Over the weekend ICE abducted an NIH contractor when he showed up to a courthouse for his green card hearing. He is documented. His wife is a citizen. He is also member of the skeleton crew of animal care staff that works through a shutdown, to ensure the health and wellbeing of research animals.

Promising science, still early stages, but hopeful

100% this: wapo.st/3VTALll proud of the 6 surgeon generals, including my friend Vivek Murthy, who united to help eject this anti-science conspiracy theorist who is badly damaging our nation’s health.

So proud of my friend @lisaborders.bsky.social

Schlafly's mother supported the family during the Great Depression when her father was out of work. She herself worked in a factory and then did a BA, MA and law degree. She talked traditional but acted like a feminist

The last three government shutdowns have happened while Donald Trump was President. This shutdown, like all recent shutdowns, is a REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN. Enough with the chaos. Time for Republican leadership to work with Democrats to reopen government and save your health care.

As a novelist I appreciate this piece of evidence about the persistence of human character across time.

What a joy to find Gabrielle Zevin's novel Tomorrow + Tomorrow + Tomorrow in a Marjane in Rabat. The protagonists are gamers (a subject that doesn't really interest me and yet I devoured the 480 pages of the novel in less than a day!). Brilliant characters in a long, complex, intimate friendship.

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.

Shero!

Super proud of ace producer, Baktash Ahadi, for signing on Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai + Succession actor Arian Moyaed as Execs for his award-winning doc--about ski racing in Bamiyan, Afghanistan. It's been a joy working with Baktash on my forthcoming film. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Critical work by Alliance for Middle East Peace on whether Israelis will accept a Two State Solution (and what their conditions are around that): blogs.timesofisrael.com/most-israeli... also, Trump's 21 point plant for peace is much better than I thought: www.timesofisrael.com/revealed-us-...

Wondrous new children's book to order: Maria Popova's The Coziest Place on the Moon. www.themarginalian.org/2025/09/12/t...

Must listen episode of TED Radio Hour with the ever-wonderful Manoush Zamorodi. The astonishing story of world-class cellist (+ my dear friend) Joshua Roman's near erasure from LongCovid, how he transforms himself and his music. www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

The scientific and legal insanity of cutting DEI programs in health/medicine and research in the @nejm.org written by the amazing scholars and health policy advocates, Drs. Nancy Krieger and Mary Bassett. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

How AI fails low-resourced, culturally distinct (from Western) contexts. Brilliant article about how AI misreads the Persian art of ingrained politesse ("taarof"). arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/w... TY @susannepari.bsky.social for this. I often wonder if Iranian diplomats are misunderstood this way.

brilliant PSA on what we're doing when we give our kids a smartphone without parental controls: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_xw...

Excellent piece by Dr. Dhruv Khullar from my perspective as a clinician and AI clinical trainer who interacts with AI daily and also sees its flaws. It's all about the prompting and what details you know to highlight.

A month ago, the famine in Gaza, deliberately created by the Israeli government, was officially confirmed by UN agencies. Since then, there has been an eerie silence in the media here, with far fewer reports than there were before. But it hasn't ended. On the contrary, it has intensified.

This hits too close to home given my work examining refugees seeking political asylum who have been survivors of torture. A must listen of the disintegration of the US justice system.

Sooo good.

Amazing discussion between Rob Malley and Hussein Agha w/ @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-... I get that Bibi/Hamas have never wanted 2-state solution, but most Israelis + even MAGA-supporting Americans do according to hopeful new survey data: www.timesofisrael.com/most-america...