I not-so-humbly submit:
Montgomery's Law
50% of all nonfiction books should be articles
50% of all nonfiction articles should be blog posts
50% of all blog posts should be tweets
50% of all tweets shouldn't be written
@jfitzgeraldMD
After our first daughter was born (via c-section) my wife said, “How come nobody told me I would have a six week long period after delivering?” We laugh about it now…
@SpencerGuard
@TDeryugina
This is horrifying. Thank you, John, for watching it on our behalf and reporting. This needs to be seen, but I don’t think most of us could handle it. Just reading your transcript made me sick to my stomach. Those poor, poor children. It makes me cry to think of the nightmare
@kelsieswrites
@ChrisSnowCGY
I am so sorry. My heart breaks for your little ones. I lost my wife in June after a 2-year battle with cancer. We have two amazing teenage daughters, and now I’m a single father, a life I never dreamed I’d live. If you need someone to talk to, you can DM. (I assure you, I’m not a
I live in
#VA10
, a battleground district with a key Congressional election coming up in November. I am a lifelong Republican. And I will be voting for
@JenniferWexton
, the Democrat candidate for the House. We need change and we need it now. She gets my support.
@JennieTetreault
@yhdistyminen
“Why is it acceptable to marry people you don't think are 100% the hottest thing you've ever seen?”
I’m sorry, but this is madness. On the list of reasons to get married, this is probably not even Top 3.
@AmyGDalaMD
Too many dads are crappy at it, and their kids are the ones who suffer. As a society we let them get away with it, and it irritates the crap out of me. I gave up a big part of my life to be a stay-at-home Dad, but I see women praising fathers for doing the absolute minimum.
@BretWeinstein
If I might offer a piece of advice -- saying things like this on Twitter is likely to lead to misunderstanding and contribute to the confusion surrounding vaccines. And might just be used by the anti-vaxx crowd to endanger lives. Twitter is not the forum for the nuance you need.
@EruditeElf
Look, clearly I’m a dude (surrounded by females). And I can state unequivocally that any woman who has never had a disruptive period is BLESSED.
@DrZedZha
My late wife and I were pretty laidback as parents. But I think we demonstrated through our actions what we desired and respected. Now we have two smart, ambitious teenage daughters. I think they turned out ok.
@MDaware
When I took my daughter to the ER for a broken finger, they asked me to step out of the room at one point. It took me a sec, but I realized quickly what they were doing. I didn’t have a problem with it — why would I? I have nothing to hide. My daughter later told me they asked if
@USAttyBrady
@PghPolice
This is not true. This is not how fentanyl (or reality) works. It cannot be aerosolized in this fashion. For a US Attorney to promote false information like this causes even more LE officers to fear something that isn't real, and leads to cases of anxiety attacks and "nocebos."
@Kimmer4444
@kelsieswrites
@ChrisSnowCGY
Thank you. We are so blessed. Even though my wife is gone, her spirit is alive every day in the faces of my beautiful daughters. So many people are so much worse off than I am. It would be churlish to complain.
@emilykmay
Yes! I was a stay-at-home-Dad (while working part time) for 16 years. My wife provided 80% of our income, along with our insurance. Then she got cancer and died. Not fun.
Shout out to my ED docs -- how are y'all holding up? I know it must be hard, especially those of you who can't be with your family. You're doing the Lord's work, though. Thank you.
@MDaware
@RyanMarino
@jmugele
@DrSuperSalty
@jeremyfaust
Plus everyone I missed.
@ParkerMolloy
@DGreenbaum
@businessinsider
@nichcarlson
Don't you suppose it was assumed that people wouldn't object to a woman playing a trans woman, thus she used the wording she used (i.e., she singled out the roles people would presumably object to if they followed this line of logic).
@MrErnestOwens
The work of the Lincoln Project was the only meaningful take down of Trump that I saw. They had smart, effective ads of the kind that could resonate with the marginal Trump voters (white, female, middle class). I don't know anything about their money, but I loved their work.
@kane_daniel
@KelseyObGyn
My 15yo daughter has become a beloved companion and “friend.” She’s fun to talk to, smart, funny… We can geek out over Star Wars or Marvel together — it’s great. Raise ‘em up right and it pays off!
@ProfDBernstein
The reporting on this war has been skewed since the outset. I would say it's eye-opening, except my eyes are sadly already open. (And I'm not a Jew.)
@kurteichenwald
@simon_schama
I don't get it. The whole notion is absurd. The rainbow of book jackets peeking out from a full bookshelf is a beautiful sight. This is just garbage.
@RNSuperHero
Nobody thinks it’s a good idea for their neighbor to take out their appendix on the dining room table. People need to stop living like it’s still the 17th century. There’s no point to it. Why would you put your baby and yourself (or you partner) in jeopardy? I don’t get it.
@MarissaFalk
I don’t see any difference. My success rate is still 100%. Not saying that to brag, as I don’t find the game that hard. I don’t think the structure of the game makes it that difficult. But I’m a word nerd. 😀
@katewillett
Wait -- are you talking about
@Noahpinion
. He doesn't do those things. He's one of the good guys. I think maybe you have him mixed up with someone else.
@emilykmay
It’s been almost 5 months since my wife died. It’s awful and painful and sad and lonely and frightening, everything you’d believe. But my girls seem to be doing ok, and I thank God for that. The key thing is to make sure you have life insurance on the working spouse. Make sure
@yhdistyminen
It’s not unreasonable for your partner to find you more attractive because of XYZ or ABC. It’s a feeling, an emotional reaction. Having been on the wrong end of this equation, I understand that it doesn’t feel good. But I think it’s probably a natural part of a relationship.
@razibkhan
Attaching people’s names to a document they signed isn’t doxing, is it? If there’s anything wrong with doing that, I’m missing it. (Obviously revealing their addresses, phone numbers, etc. would be very wrong.j
Bill Bixby’s Hulk was an amazing show. It was filled with true emotion, including a lot of pathos. He made you feel for the situation of this man filled with a monster of rage. Just a wonderful show. I enjoyed it so much back in the day. Does it hold up??
@RyanMarino
An airplane should have Narcan just like they have an AED. If you eat bacon for breakfast every day and have a heart attack, we don't say "You don't deserve the defibrillator because it's your own damn fault." Why do we treat ppl w/addiction that way?
@Kavya_Davuluri
Anytime someone offers you something — unless it’s a creep in a bar — take them up on it. 95% of the time, they’re sincere and WANT to help you. 5% of the time they aren’t sincere and we’re hoping you’d say no. Those people need to learn their lesson.
So go for it!
@Lex_NdTheCity
I’m sorry you experienced this. Treating other people like a jerk just because you can is a sign of a petty, pathetic person. I started to lose some of my hearing as I got older (I’m only 54!) and I can agree — it’s damn frustrating.
Hang in there!!
@mattyglesias
Accusing people who make good faith interpretations of scientific results that differ from your own of being racist and promoting inequality is no way to conduct public discourse.
@LauraMLippman
@MrsFridayNext
@Slate
He agreed to move to New Zealand, then DC, then Australia, then Virginia. That sounds like a keeper to me. I won’t even move across town!
@AmyGDalaMD
Amy: Any diseases?
Pt: Nope, I'm healthy as a horse.
Attending walks in, reading labs: Look at this, your blood sugar was 500! That's not good.
Pt: Yeah, I'm diabetic.
@wanderinghomo
@KaiDaigoji
@whstancil
How much do you think the cost of housing and food have gone up in the last decade? Certainly not enough to make that nostalgic $30k job buy more than $100k today. $30k would translate to maybe $40k. I think you might be feeling wistful for the past for other reasons. I’ve
@rauchway
One of the saddest realities of our collective “knowledge” of history (speaking here of the gen pop) is that too many of the things we believe to be true are not, and the motivation for those beliefs generally depends on our political urges.
@Noahpinion
PJ O’Rourke wrote a thing about China…. He said Americans would like the Chinese. They like to get drunk, they have a good sense of humor, they enjoy sports, don’t care much about politics. Not so different from us.
Good article. Want a Scandinavian-style welfare state? You won't get it by taxing the rich. You get it by taxing everyone. Denmark, e.g., has a marginal rate of 60% on all income over $60,000 (translated to U.S.). They also have a 25% VAT (national sales tax).
Fiscal responsibility is one lesson Sanders and AOC refuse to learn from the Scandinavians. That doesn’t mean that they are trying to turn America into Venezuela. It does mean that turning America into Scandinavia will be harder than they imagine. Me:
Saw my endocrinologist today. If you'll forgive me a cliche, I am sick of being sick. It has been year after year of this crap and it just steadily gets worse. I was actually feeling a little optimistic, but today ended that. I try hard not to complain, but it wears me down.
@UPSkandia
@MrsPA_C
My wife was (conveniently!) out of town when we had a snowstorm. I was home with the toddler and the baby. Someone had given us a baby snowsuit, so I dressed the girls and we went outside. I laid the baby (all snug) on a folded up towel and shoveled.
@ampers_ands
@SkepticFeminist
@STSTCast
@aedison
If someone is evil in this scenario, and that's a massive stretch, it's not
@BillGates
or other "high techists." I loathe Zuckerberg and think he's a sociopath and a hypocrite. So he might deserve your opprobrium. But the mere earning of wealth is not by default immoral.
@tracybeanz
These links support what Dr.
@RyanMarino
is saying -- one of them even quotes him. There is no risk from accidental or casual exposure to fentanyl. It can't be absorbed through the skin, nor the air. The so-called "incidents" involving LE are examples of panic/hysteria.
@blondemedSJW
I am not a health care worker, so I have no personal stake in this other than advocating for human decency. Screaming curses in someone’s face *is* abuse. Just imagine if a husband does this to his wife. Clear-cut abuse.
@ZachWLambert
If she can put up with that beard, she is truly in love. 😍 I lost my beloved wife of 24 years last year. It was a terrible blow. I couldn’t have survived it without God’s love, and the knowledge that she was with Him in Heaven. Don’t ever forget how much you love your wife,
@MitchFletcher4
@clairlemon
@safeortrue
"It’s largely irrelevant that Dave Rubin is gay married and pro-choice, what matters is that he angrily calls out the “social justice warriors” of the new left." So you're a reactionary right-winger because you call out SJW's, not because of what you actually believe? Huh.
@NateSilver538
This screenshot is from the day before the election. People need to understand that a 34.5% probability means the event occurs 1 in every 3 tries. This is approximately the same % as our lifetime chance of getting cancer (38.4). Ever know someone who got cancer?
@Peds_Ortho
That's awful. Something I think the general public doesn't really get is that most doctors are as frustrated with the current system as patients are. No physician wants to see his/her patient denied care.
@OrthopaedicOz
Thank you to all the people who made such sweet replies about my wife. She died of cancer in June. She was 45 years old and we were married for 24 years. We have two amazing teenage daughters. She was one of the most extraordinary women I’ve ever known, and I miss her terribly.
@kelsieswrites
Oh my gosh, that’s a rough one. I wasn’t in the room when my daughters got out the stockings, so I don’t know what they did with my wife’s or how they reacted. But from where I sit, I can see the fireplace — and there are only 3 stockings. It makes my heart hurt. 💔
@TheRickWilson
If the takeaway from her tweet is supposed to be that billionaires are evil and politicians are the good guys, that seems a little naive. Who has done more good in the world: Bill Gates or Mitch McConnell/Chuck Schumer?
@blondemedSJW
P.s. And I say this as someone who sat up all night with his wife (nearing death from cancer) in the waiting room of the ED because they didn’t have any beds. I had to beg to get her pain medication. But it never occurred to me to curse one of the nurses.
@RyanWillis
@KevinMKruse
@marianviramont1
Huey Long didn't say it either. Nor did Sinclair Lewis, although it at least sounds like Lewis. Whoever coined the phrase apparently did so in obscurity. To really understand what the speaker meant, and to put it in context, it would definitely be helpful to know who it was.
I just want to say to staff writers at places like
@YahooNewsAU
that writing an article about someone *without talking to or even contacting them* is really fucked up. Pls take this article down. My tweet is public but nothing else about me is ok to print.
@XplodingUnicorn
This reminds me of my 8yo daughter. She had a playdate with a boy a little while back. (First time.) She wondered what they'd do. I told her "Boys like the same stuff girls do." "Like what?" "Minecraft, Legos, tag..." "THEY DO???" ❤️