M Gray

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

NPR is not state affiliated media. It is public media. The NYT is not propaganda. It is the most robust news organization in the English speaking world. The bias as to who is being targeted on this site by its leadership is so very clear. And it’s not a small thing.

[Emily Kwong @emilykwong1234]

We ♥️ you Thomas Lu

For 6.5 years, @thomasuylu has made NPR sound great, but it's his core values that make this organization so much better.

To Thomas's future colleagues: you are very lucky. Read on to see why.

[J.C. Howard ($8) @TheJCHoward]

Thomas is one of those people that makes the people around him better. Like sure he makes the work sharper, but also, his laughter is contagious, he WILL encourage you to take the stairs, and his smile can brighten a room. Read his 🧵

[anthony christian ocampo 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈 @anthonyocampo]

Three children spent this morning eating cereal, getting ready for school, and kissing their parents goodbye only to be killed in yet another mass shooting at an American elementary school.

[Mandalit del Barco @Radioactive22]

Karen Grigsby Bates has always been one of my heroes-- a wonderful writer, top notch journalist with a beautiful voice, a gracious and hilarious friend and colleague. I'll miss you so, so much. #NPR and #NPRWest won't be the same without you, hermana. Heartbroken.

[Neal Carruth @nealcarruth]

It's already been a tough few weeks for my friends and former colleagues at NPR who are facing potential layoffs. The next few days and weeks will be deeply painful for many. Re-upping my offer to talk with anyone about the state and future of our industry.

[Howard Berkes @hberkes]

It's Layoffs Week @NPR. How NOT to make it worse on those affected. A thread:
1) Do NOT reTweet or repeat unconfirmed reports and unsourced reports with names of people laid-off;
2) Give these journalists the respect and dignity they deserve. Let them announce if/when they want;

[Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @GurdeepPandher]

If you are living and breathing today, this is an example of your resilience. All you need to do is recognize it and let it become your core strength. With bagpipe music from my cabin in the wilderness of the Yukon, I'm dispatching joy, hope, healing and positivity.

[Lego Lost At Sea @LegoLostAtSea]

This is quite remarkable. After winter storms in January last year, we found the remains of an old teddy bear washed up. When we shared a picture online, Anglican priest @CassWoollibold asked if she could restore him.

A thread.

[Darius Rucker @dariusrucker]

Hahhhhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Awesome. Hahahahhhahaha

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

As an actor and a writer, Emma Thompson looks for ways to dramatize female heroes as more than just a support team for men. In her life and career, she said, she has felt “viciously angry, viscerally enraged by the belittling of women”: https://t.co/dH5gWX6tX0

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

This is excellent. https://t.co/eGnvE0Fm54

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

So we’re very clear about what happened earlier today: Nancy Pelosi was the target. If she had been at her home in San Francisco, she’d be dead. The Speaker of the House of Representatives would have been killed.

Everyone, please condemn this & all political violence. Everyone.

[Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler]

The burning issue: What will Rishi Sunak's lectern look like?

[gracie @qrracie]

Received this at my grandmas funeral. What an icon.

[M Gray @melissagray69]

I still think of poor Walt and the car crash. Jenny and Garp's shootings. Dr. Larch with his ether. Fuzzy slipping away.

[M Gray @melissagray69]

I read "The World According to Garp" when I was 13. Over the next few years, I gobbled up several of his other books - Irving constructs detailed worlds, and you feel you KNOW his characters. So when he inevitably offs them in shocking ways... you're kind of ruined.

[Kitty Eisele @RadioKitty]

There's the picture! Wonderful Walter Mosley with his dad Leroy. Hear their story and how it inspired a novel and TV series ... at https://t.co/aenrSpgJqy