Mark Toner

@dooley_dooley Brian Sorry for your loss and to never have had the honor to meet your father. I'm awed by the fact he ran a sub-4 hour marathon at age 52.

My father died peacefully on Monday. He was many things, including one of #Ireland’s best marathon runners (2:38 & second place in the 1962 Irish national marathon). RIP Dad.

@mountainrunner Matt - can you elaborate? Fulbright program remains flagship of PD exchanges.

@pricefloyd Where? Also, do it during calls, cuz that wouldn't be annoying.

Sunday cross-country skiing between work conference calls.

@dooley_dooley @dooley_dooley Glib rejoinders aside, these are families - spouses and children - potentially in harm's way. You don't get a "do over." C'mon, man. You know that.

Nothing says American Reassurance like “We’re getting our people tf out of there”

@dooley_dooley @barry_shep @malonebarry @Evanis @ocaireallain Raglan Road

What other places in Ireland are known primarily from a song? Athenry Boolavogue Carrickfergus Garryowen @barry_shep @malonebarry @Evanis @ocaireallain

Thanks to @UnderSecStateP for taking the time to address Russia's threat to Ukraine and why it matters for all of Europe.

@watchyour_TONEr And I saw how much of a Weakerthans bender I went on last year...

@GPA_AS @USApoRusski @USAenFrancais As someone who was present at the creation and then saw the hub model spread to other regions, I can say it is one of the best examples of US foreign media engagement.

@GratefulDead 1970-80 was the band at their very best, IMO

What Grateful Dead era do you want to live in?

I don't tweet/retweet much these days, but this is a really poignant look at the many drawings we received at @USEmbassyFrance from schoolchildren in the days after 9-11

@mountainrunner Looks like it's been as gloomy a summer there as here in Paris

@DaveClark_AFP @PeterRNeumann "A bit dodgy" is a bit of an understatement.

@PatrickPrice He totally reinvigorated my love of the sport with his personality and humor. Great athlete and great ambassador for the event. Sorry he won't be in Tokyo.

A great runner, ambassador of North Carolina and all around good guy, Craig will rebound.

@dooley_dooley @numoorepain @MimiVonPeach @dooley_dooley nicer than my university diploma! A lost art. Now everything looks the same.

My mum died in January. She always said she had - but had lost - a school certificate showing classes she passed. I just found it & it’s beautiful - from Dingle 1944. She was 13 @numoorepain @MimiVonPeach

@jakesNYT @AP @SecBlinken @nwadhams @alexbrandon @TracyKWilkinson @rongxiang @jmhansler Nice beard @nwadhams

Paris is Paris again. Enfin! French terrace cafes finally open after a 7-month pandemic closure. No self-respecting politician is currently in an office. Honestly, though, France needs it (photo credit @SylvieKauffmann)

@ikelly731 @Russian_Starr Ian - looks more like a COVID-related hair grow-out than an actual hat.

@Russian_Starr I prefer a Svan shepherd’s hat, tho I won’t claim that I rock it.

Comments on my hat in the last 45 minutes: “Damn, fam. Where you pick that up at?” “That shit is fly.” “That’s fire, yo!” “Where can I get one of those?” “Stay fly.” A brotha can make anything look good. Even an Uzbek hat.

@pricefloyd @charlie_simpson @JimGoldgeier Dude - invest in some shoe trees.

Going to the office today for the 1st time in 13months and need some shoe help. ⁦@charlie_simpson⁩ ⁦@JimGoldgeier⁩ Also have a business lunch. Thoughts?

@pricefloyd @charlie_simpson One word: deer

This year I’m gonna get an early start on the vegetable garden. It won’t be as hip as ⁦@charlie_simpson⁩ but I will try.

@dooley_dooley @malonebarry @barry_shep @danmahanty @ritasiemion @dooley_dooley Far more disconcerting is the beginning of the film Dunkirk where a scroll refers vaguely to “the enemy” having driven UK and French soldiers to the beach at Dunkirk. It’s not Star Wars!

The 2000 Hollywood war film U-571 is on, distorting history by showing US sailors capturing the Nazi enigma code machine. But the Allies had captured it & broken its codes months before the US joined the war. Does it matter? Yes, it feeds a dangerous US mythology about itself