Megan K. Stack

I never even understand how people with active, mentally taxing jobs find time to cheat on their spouses (and so many of them do), let alone this kind of elaborate flirtation?!

There are some exciting, much-deserved Pulitzers this year. I actually felt really satisfied reading the list. To name a few: @brian_goldstone Yiyun Li Sahar Alghorra @mashagessen

As someone who at one point had my internal organs lashed together with endometrial growths, I can confirm this is an under-researched and poorly understood condition. Like all things that only affect women, the medical establishment has historically shown little interest.

“We have done right. People will say hard things of us now, but later on will praise us.“

And the US government is absolutely criminal and self-destructive in its failure to enact policies and funding that support families and kids.

That’s all to say, if you think you probably want kids, in my experience, that feeling is only going to grow. And I suggest having them. And it won’t be perfect. And sometimes it will feel very hard. But other times transcendent. And that’s life.

The problem with the “should one have kids” discussion. Having kids is like another realm that’s hard to imagine/assess unless you did it. Like falling in love. Should you have a boyfriend? Imagine trying to have that discussion with a child who’s never experienced romantic love.

It’s my daughter’s birthday and I just wanted to say that all of this is true. You should have kids. It’s a beautiful mess.

Gaza needs reconstruction. Instead, Israel is tearing down the few remaining buildings and no building materials are being allowed in. Everyone is playing political games while the people of Gaza rot: 1) The main obstacle is Israel. Itcontinues to classify essential items like cement, steel, and heavy machinery as "dual-use," meaning they could be used for military purposes. 2) The Israeli government has explicitly stated it will not contribute financially to reconstruction, arguing it has no responsibility to fund the rebuilding of a territory from which it was attacked. 3) The presence of Hamas discourages international investors who fear their funds will indirectly support rebuilding. Their presence makes it dangerous for the NCAGt he, technocratic body meant to manage rebuilding, to actually enter the territory. 4) Nickolay Mladenov, serving as the "high representative" for the Board of Peace has conditioned large-scale reconstruction on the disarmament of Hamas. 5) The U.S. administration is currently focused on its 20-point peace plan, which prioritizes a specific sequence that delays immediate rebuilding. The U.S. strategy insists on establishing a vetted technocratic government and an International Stabilization Force (ISF) before significant funds are released. Meanwhile, they have not built this force. 6) No one is donating money. While over $17 billion has been pledged, key donors like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar are hesitant to release funds without a long-term political solution, fearing that any new infrastructure will simply be destroyed in a future conflict. All of this serves Israel well, with its plan to make Gaza so unlivable, that everyone there either dies or leaves. But the entire international community is cooperating by doing nothing to stop this horror.

When Trump pulled out of the international nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2018, Iran lacked even a single bomb's worth of uranium. Since then, it accumulated 22,000 pounds of enriched uranium. @BlackiLi @WilliamJBroad nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Whenever I see an upsetting video like this I feel most confused/despairing over people like the man in the white shirt who doesn’t even break his stride. Is that normal? There is no way I’d see anyone (especially a nun!) attacked like that and not get into a fight over it.

@jeremyscahill @joshua_landis A better translation: x.com/FredrikoBandik…

@joshua_landis this is a totally fake translation and not what he’s saying in Arabic.

I was at a packed, serious-topic lecture hall event in Ireland. ~10 U.S. students came in late, entry mildly distracting but not too bad. But — they brought snacks. Candy, chips. Crinkling wrappers, crunching like they were at the movies. Oblivious. I felt shame by association.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

Wait, there there was something to “win” in places like Gaza (to which Israel has laid waste) or Syria (where Israel took advantage of regime collapse to invade and occupy a chunk of land)? Let alone the chilling “DEFEAT Palestinians in the West Bank.”

I haven’t seen such ham-fisted fear mongering since the hysterical apex of the “war on terror.”

Trying to tie dissident republicans in Northern Ireland to Iran bc 6 years ago there was a report that unidentified people connected to other unidentified people (yes 2 points of unidentified removal) signed a condolence book — is truly unhinged.

This is legitimately insane. Banning cell phones in schools might turn out to be the best thing we’ve done for our kids in a generation.