"When you are an obstetrician-gynecologist who has cared for 11-year-olds giving birth and 11-year-olds having an abortion, it really changes your perspective on what the dark corners of humanity are," writes Ghazaleh Moayedi, DO, MPH 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️. nyti.ms/2ZMMcBB

Washington Square Park used to be a paved road and parking lot for cars. If we decide to, we can upgrade our towns for people.

I’ll miss reading your illuminating work, Nicolas Kristof New York Times Opinion

He was a cynical midlist author until he read the words of one DOJ lawyer gearing up for the anti-trust trial of the century. He was surprised to find he wanted to be nowhere else but IN YOUR BRIEFS: a legal erotica.

Goober the Clown (who had an abortion when she was 23)

If you are worried about what the Supreme Court is going to do in the Mississippi abortion case, I'm sorry to report: there's even more to worry about from this conservative court. My essay on the Rule of Six wapo.st/31a5eCr

The Abortion I Didn’t Have nytimes.com/2021/12/02/mag… What an incredible, must-read piece:

Employer: "We need ppl w/ critical thinking skills." Historians: "Ooh right here!" E: "Who can research." H: *holds up hand w/ other hand* E: "And write." H: *jumping up & down* E: "And who can analyze unstructured data." H: *literally crying* E: "We need a coder!" H: "Motherf-"

One of the Didion quotes I think about most often: “I think writing anything at all is a kind of high-wire act. The minute you start putting words on paper you’re eliminating possibilities. Unless you’re Henry James.” And unless you're Joan Didion, I'd add. RIP to a giant

Such a beautiful essay on human connection: Finding a Shared Language Through Word Games nytimes.com/2021/12/22/cro…

Returning to a sport after injury is a mental game. Here’s how to do it. #running washingtonpost.com/health/return-…

The Decline of Yelling newyorker.com/culture/cultur… via The New Yorker

The conservative effort to remake the idea of American "freedom" was championed by the nation’s Realtors, Gene Slater writes. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

I Am Not Proof of the American Dream nytimes.com/2022/02/02/opi…

Another way to empower nurses: Listen to them statnews.com/2022/03/11/ano… via STAT

A group of treasure hunters claim that they located a buried hoard of Civil War–era gold—and that the FBI absconded with it in the dead of night. Chris Heath reports on the mad search for the gold of Dents Run: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

The scene at the Supreme Court this afternoon

Watch “Picchu” on #Vimeo vimeo.com/728328061

Can't believe they are going to make a MAN queen. This woke nonsense has gone too far.

Stop the destruction of the Hotel Quito in the capital of Ecuador—let it live on Municipio de Quito Santiago Guarderas María Elena Machuca Ministerio de Cultura y Patrimonio 🇪🇨 - Sign the Petition! chng.it/zxqtYNgJ via Change.org