BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

Thank you for this. It made me cry good tears. I had health anxiety for many years after my mother died of cancer. It brought evil home and I started asking myself "why NOT me?" How am I any different from people who suffer? How awful it was, to expect that only others should.

It's hard, as both a woman and a journalist, to understand both of these things and figure out a path forward. I can't mitigate them through more personal effort, education or professional experience. And it's galling to read the defenses for the layoffs and the people named in the Epstein files.

i was just thinking that i’d have read this at 9am…

The photos you can download, along with your entire file. As for friends, I realised FB gave me a feeling of being in touch without, in fact, being in touch. So I asked a few friends for phone numbers and left. No regrets really, except that it's harder to sell old shit without marketplace.

these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on Thursday

I worked with them too. Yes, they do some great work in many places around the world. But in a current scramble for funding they are complicit in brutal US and EU migration policies, and often have enabled human rights abuses: see Nauru, Libya, and currently “self deportation” in US.