Lindsay Spell

I read this early this morning and still can’t stop thinking about it…very much worth taking the time to sit with it for a while

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

Almost too hard to read this (my dad had AML as well, when he was barely older than me, and it is brutal) but it is important.
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Just horrifying. On too many levels

I’m not going to read this article to protect my mental health, but as the mother of a stillborn child I urge you to tell every pregnant person you know not to do this.

There is no pain like holding your own dead baby, and I would do just about anything to make this pain rarer than it already is.

A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Gift link: wapo.st/43FXQfO

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

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Imagine, if you will, that NASA updated its website to suggest gravity might not exist, prompting CalTech and CERN to release statements saying, "With great sadness, we can no longer recommend listening to NASA."

This is what's happening in epidemiology.

Also worth noting:
In 2024, Trump got less than 840,000 votes in New York City.
In 2025, Mamdani got more than a million.

For every four votes Trump got, Mamdani got five.

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

Folks, Giving Tuesday is around the corner and this is my yearly PSA that while you may be annoyed with nonprofits raising money that day, please be kind especially this year. It's been BRUTAL trying to raise money in 2025.

Even with glasses that are supposed to help, it’s a constant toss up as to whether I can actually see anything at any given point, lol

Don't forget: President Trump relentlessly attacked@zohrankmamdani & did everything to stop his win. It's funny how his tune changed when confronted with Mamdani's actual focus on affordability — something Trump claims to care about. Let this be a lesson: Always stand up to a bully. 3:45 PM • 11/21/25 • 20K

This guy has his finger on the pulse of his party's base in a way that others in his caucus unequivocally just do not

"Challenging scientific orthodoxy" in the same way an arsonist "challenges current fire safety practices".

In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

See? Just like Brett said. A temporary inconvenience and then all's well!

Human beings are actually wired to hate uncertainty of any kind. We will cling to the familiar even if it is killing us.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Every Republican president of my lifetime has destroyed the global economy and it doesn’t matter at all electorally

Also, HE IS INFLUENTIAL. His cult members revere him. It only takes one or two of them to act in ways that could absolutely harm a lot of people.

I actually remember Charlottesville and some of you do not.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

the nuzzi story is fun and all but at the center of it is the elevation of a man who has dedicated his life to making children catch preventable diseases to a position where he can enact harm at enormous scale

I know we know, but I still have a hard time coming to terms with the fact the United States no longer has a unified, reliable source of scientific and medical information. We all live in their “do your own research” hell now.

Always defer to the WHO over the CDC from here on out.

they’ve been saying it and saying it and saying it, like we all knew, but there’s something about seeing it in print on the official government site where people who don’t know any better will still go looking for information that just really sent a chill down my spine

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

I have long said people don't be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts as much as they should be hatin Chief Justice John Roberts