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Author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, a NYT bestseller. The Taste of Salt, a history of cystic fibrosis, coming 2023.

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Joined January 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Nov 2019

    So honored to see Terry Gross' 2015 interview with me on included in 's new searchable archive of the best of 40 years of Gross' interviews. She is the reigning master of the author interview.

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    2 hours ago

    DeSantis should be arrested for this.

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    1/ There will be no update today. At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech. They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint. They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids..
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    1 hour ago
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    Merde. RIP, Howard.

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    2 hours ago

    As death toll soars nationwide, drug maker execs decline to be trotted out at public relations "summit" contrived to give Trump credit for vaccines.

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    2 hours ago

    Ya gotta love GOPers talking about "defending freedom" when they literally send armed agents to stop a FL whistleblower from telling the truth about .

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  6. 1 hour ago

    I'm sorry to say that Howard Wales, the keyboardist who inspired to play some of his most adventurous "outside" music, died today. Rest in beauty.

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  7. 2 hours ago

    Ya gotta love GOPers talking about "defending freedom" when they literally send armed agents to stop a FL whistleblower from telling the truth about .

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    19 hours ago

    Bodgers making chair legs out of green wood, Buckinghamshire UK, woodcut by Clare Leighton, 1937.

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    2 hours ago
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    Or listen to his groovy podcast with . It’s VERY good.

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  10. 2 hours ago

    As death toll soars nationwide, drug maker execs decline to be trotted out at public relations "summit" contrived to give Trump credit for vaccines.

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    9 hours ago

    Remember when a restaurant owner comped Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ cheese plate and then asked her to leave and it was a weeks-long story?

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    “Dozens of armed individuals” showed up to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s home last night, shouting “Stop The Steal!”
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  12. Retweeted
    Dec 6

    .'s "Nate" on blew my mind. It's one of the most savagely subversive comic acts I've ever seen, and has at least one moment (no spoilers) of pure magic, even alchemy. Worth watching if you can ride edges of discomfort.

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    8 hours ago

    I don't think Trump is playing Vulcan chess. It's pretty simple: as long as the headlines and tweets are about "crazy" Trump and his GOP enablers, they're not about the tsunami of preventable death and disease washing over this country. 15M cases. Thousands of deaths every day.

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    5 hours ago

    The president is committing treason out in the open. Most of the Republicans stand by him. Yet the Democrats fear using the T-word. It's long past time they start using it. A THREAD

    1. There’s one thing I can rely on when I write about the president, the Republicans and their treasonable rhetoric and behavior. Like clockwork, a liberal reader will respond, saying isn’t, in fact, treason.
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  15. 5 hours ago

    Chef's kiss. #2020

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  16. 6 hours ago

    No need to mince words: , a sociopath who should *already be in prison* for insider trading during a deadly pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans, is advocating the criminal overthrow of a national election.

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  17. 6 hours ago

    This.

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    Vaccine mythbusting in one minute. Please share.
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  18. 7 hours ago

    Tom Waits was born on this day in 1949. This is one of my favorite pieces of fan art, made by Martin Bedford for a tribute concert in Sheffield UK - a great town with a radical history - sent to me by my charming comrade Richard Henderson of .

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    8 hours ago
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  20. 8 hours ago

    I don't think Trump is playing Vulcan chess. It's pretty simple: as long as the headlines and tweets are about "crazy" Trump and his GOP enablers, they're not about the tsunami of preventable death and disease washing over this country. 15M cases. Thousands of deaths every day.

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  21. 10 hours ago

    [insert snarky Dylan quote here]

    Bob Dylan has sold his entire songwriting catalog to Universal Music Publishing in a deal reportedly worth more than $300 million
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