Grace Rubenstein
@gracenotes9.bsky.social
Journalist, editor, podcast coach. Cofounder seedpodmedia.com. Social/bio science translator. Reports on health science & immigration. Spanish speaker & dancing fool.
This is the West's last chance — to rebuild trust, restore peace, and secure international rules and cooperation for a generation to come. Let's hope the world is listening. (3/3)
January 13, 2026 at 8:08 PM
This is the West's last chance — to rebuild trust, restore peace, and secure international rules and cooperation for a generation to come. Let's hope the world is listening. (3/3)
My not-small task was to help a very busy sitting President crystallize his three decades of diplomatic experience and his vision for a stable global future into a cool and compelling 200 pages. (2/3) ...
January 13, 2026 at 8:08 PM
My not-small task was to help a very busy sitting President crystallize his three decades of diplomatic experience and his vision for a stable global future into a cool and compelling 200 pages. (2/3) ...
Out today! I edited this book with and for Alex Stubb, President of Finland, whose savvy diplomacy and clear thinking have put him at the center of Ukraine peace negotiations and in fruitful conversations with leaders from Emmanuel Macron to Donald Trump to Xi Jinping. (1/3) ...
January 13, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Out today! I edited this book with and for Alex Stubb, President of Finland, whose savvy diplomacy and clear thinking have put him at the center of Ukraine peace negotiations and in fruitful conversations with leaders from Emmanuel Macron to Donald Trump to Xi Jinping. (1/3) ...
I had the honor of speaking with Jane Goodall and writing this essay for her in her voice. I can't think of a person I admire more or whose moral clarity, kindness, and unwavering humanity we need more. Let us carry it forward. (2/2)
October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I had the honor of speaking with Jane Goodall and writing this essay for her in her voice. I can't think of a person I admire more or whose moral clarity, kindness, and unwavering humanity we need more. Let us carry it forward. (2/2)
"This is what I want every child to understand: Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. What's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world... And that message is not just for youth -- that's for everyone." (1/2)
Kid Power: The Roots & Shoots Program
Children learn they hold an important place in this world, and that they can make a difference.
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October 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"This is what I want every child to understand: Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. What's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world... And that message is not just for youth -- that's for everyone." (1/2)
I haven't but will check that out!
August 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I haven't but will check that out!
A little light reading: research for the book I've been writing for the last 10 years. Almost done! Any titles you would add?
August 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A little light reading: research for the book I've been writing for the last 10 years. Almost done! Any titles you would add?
Thank you, Bono, for one of the most humane, balanced, humble, broadly compassionate reflections on the Israel-Hamas conflict that I've read. Israel does indeed face an existential threat, but not from starving civilians in Gaza. No ends justify these means.
August 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Thank you, Bono, for one of the most humane, balanced, humble, broadly compassionate reflections on the Israel-Hamas conflict that I've read. Israel does indeed face an existential threat, but not from starving civilians in Gaza. No ends justify these means.
If this is how federal agents treat a U.S. Senator asking a question at a press conference, how will they treat you?
Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
If this is how federal agents treat a U.S. Senator asking a question at a press conference, how will they treat you?
Proof that policy matters: In states with looser gun laws, more children die by guns. New data analyzed over 13 years: www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...
Researchers Find Thousands of Pediatric Firearm Deaths Linked to More Permissive State Gun Laws | Mass General Brigham
The new study from Mass General Brigham researchers found that since 2011, states with the most permissive gun laws experienced 67 percent more pediatric deaths than expected.
www.massgeneralbrigham.org
June 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Proof that policy matters: In states with looser gun laws, more children die by guns. New data analyzed over 13 years: www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...
Simple, beautiful, true, and shattering. @mcsweeneys.net
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy
Dear Mr. RFK Jr.,
(The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.)
You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...
www.mcsweeneys.net
May 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Simple, beautiful, true, and shattering. @mcsweeneys.net
Go ahead and eat your blueberries. And ask yourself, at the same time, how you will resist making your own small mistakes.
cc @americantheatre.org
cc @americantheatre.org
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Go ahead and eat your blueberries. And ask yourself, at the same time, how you will resist making your own small mistakes.
cc @americantheatre.org
cc @americantheatre.org
The 60-year-old American Conservatory Theater observed, "At its best, the NEA affirms that access to the arts is not a luxury, but a national value—essential to civic dialogue, education, and a vibrant democracy."
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The 60-year-old American Conservatory Theater observed, "At its best, the NEA affirms that access to the arts is not a luxury, but a national value—essential to civic dialogue, education, and a vibrant democracy."
These are the age-old tools of autocrats, from Stalin to Franco to Hitler to Mao. He who controls what we see and hear, and who can speak, controls what we believe. And ultimately what we do.
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
These are the age-old tools of autocrats, from Stalin to Franco to Hitler to Mao. He who controls what we see and hear, and who can speak, controls what we believe. And ultimately what we do.
The cutting of national arts funding is not a Holocaust. But it is — along with the terrorizing of dissenters, the purging of government, and the vilifying and scapegoating of immigrants and anyone different — a step towards the annihilation of diverse thought.
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The cutting of national arts funding is not a Holocaust. But it is — along with the terrorizing of dissenters, the purging of government, and the vilifying and scapegoating of immigrants and anyone different — a step towards the annihilation of diverse thought.
A message from the play that won't leave me is that great national mistakes are made of many, many small mistakes, made by each of us.
May 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
A message from the play that won't leave me is that great national mistakes are made of many, many small mistakes, made by each of us.