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Grace Rubenstein

@gracenotes9.bsky.social
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Journalist, editor, podcast coach. Cofounder seedpodmedia.com. Social/bio science translator. Reports on health science & immigration. Spanish speaker & dancing fool.

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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's my salute in poetry to the great and gracious Mike Krukow, celebrating what baseball meant 40 years ago to a kid with a then-sick dad who loved the @sfgiants.com. My son and I were there to send off Kruk yesterday. tinyurl.com/gracenotes9b...
Mom and son at SF Giants stadium
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This is the West's last chance — to rebuild trust, restore peace, and secure international rules and cooperation for a generation to come. Let's hope the world is listening. (3/3)
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
My not-small task was to help a very busy sitting President crystallize his three decades of diplomatic experience and his vision for a stable global future into a cool and compelling 200 pages. (2/3) ...
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Out today! I edited this book with and for Alex Stubb, President of Finland, whose savvy diplomacy and clear thinking have put him at the center of Ukraine peace negotiations and in fruitful conversations with leaders from Emmanuel Macron to Donald Trump to Xi Jinping. (1/3) ...
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I had the honor of speaking with Jane Goodall and writing this essay for her in her voice. I can't think of a person I admire more or whose moral clarity, kindness, and unwavering humanity we need more. Let us carry it forward. (2/2)
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"This is what I want every child to understand: Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. What's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world... And that message is not just for youth -- that's for everyone." (1/2)
edutopia.org
Kid Power: The Roots & Shoots Program
Children learn they hold an important place in this world, and that they can make a difference.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I haven't but will check that out!
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A little light reading: research for the book I've been writing for the last 10 years. Almost done! Any titles you would add?
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Bono 10 of 10
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Bono 9 of 10
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Bono 8 of 10
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Bono 7 of 10
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Bono 6 of 10
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Bono 5 of 10
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Bono 4 of 10
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Bono 3 of 10
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Bono 2 of 10
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Thank you, Bono, for one of the most humane, balanced, humble, broadly compassionate reflections on the Israel-Hamas conflict that I've read. Israel does indeed face an existential threat, but not from starving civilians in Gaza. No ends justify these means.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If this is how federal agents treat a U.S. Senator asking a question at a press conference, how will they treat you?
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Proof that policy matters: In states with looser gun laws, more children die by guns. New data analyzed over 13 years: www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/about/new...
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Researchers Find Thousands of Pediatric Firearm Deaths Linked to More Permissive State Gun Laws | Mass General Brigham
The new study from Mass General Brigham researchers found that since 2011, states with the most permissive gun laws experienced 67 percent more pediatric deaths than expected.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Simple, beautiful, true, and shattering. @mcsweeneys.net
mcsweeneys.net
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy
Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Go ahead and eat your blueberries. And ask yourself, at the same time, how you will resist making your own small mistakes. cc @americantheatre.org
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The 60-year-old American Conservatory Theater observed, "At its best, the NEA affirms that access to the arts is not a luxury, but a national value—essential to civic dialogue, education, and a vibrant democracy."
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
These are the age-old tools of autocrats, from Stalin to Franco to Hitler to Mao. He who controls what we see and hear, and who can speak, controls what we believe. And ultimately what we do.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The cutting of national arts funding is not a Holocaust. But it is — along with the terrorizing of dissenters, the purging of government, and the vilifying and scapegoating of immigrants and anyone different — a step towards the annihilation of diverse thought.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
A message from the play that won't leave me is that great national mistakes are made of many, many small mistakes, made by each of us.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
When the heinous job is broken into so many separate, small parts that every participant feels shielded from responsibility for the outcome. When the context allows and encourages them to narrow their frame of vision, to see only what's comfortable and crop out the horror.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The play presented an array of possible answers to those questions, all of which are true at the same time. People participate in atrocities when the messages around them, from family, friends, and leaders, assert that they are part of a bigger mission, something important enough to sacrifice for.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The greatest power of the play was the question it forced us all to contend with: how can ordinary, decent people do horrific things? And how might we ourselves be vulnerable to doing the same?
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
There, yards away from the biggest human killing center in history, guards, commanders, doctors, secretaries, and typists frolicked, flirted, played music, lounged at a summer chalet, threw Christmas parties for their children, and, yes, ate blueberries as a reward for work well done.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
At the moment I received the emails, I happened to be on my way to see a stunning documentary play, "Here There Are Blueberries," at one of the theaters facing cuts: 57-year-old #BerkeleyRep. The play traces the revelations found in a photo album depicting daily life among the staff at Auschwitz.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The notice accompanying the terminations made plain the reason for the sudden cuts: rather than artists or curators, arts boards or communities, one person, Donald Trump, will decide what we create (and by extension, what we think) in this country.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
These grants, established by Congress and signed into law in 1965, enable arts organizations to create and stage performances beyond the big Broadway hits — to nurture and showcase a wide array of ideas and experiences that reflect all of America — and often, simply to survive.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Yesterday I received 2 emails, within 6 minutes of each other, from 2 local theater companies saying that their National Endowment for the Arts grants had been terminated. So had grants for countless theaters and other arts organizations in every corner of the country.
americantheatre.org
NEA Abruptly Pulls Arts Grants on a Massive Scale
Arts organizations, including dozens of theatre companies, had NEA grants withdrawn or terminated late last week, and leadership resignations at the endowment bode ill.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Don't buy the Trump Administration's fake cries of "antisemitism." It's their cynical, convenient tool to terrorize universities, people born abroad, anyone practicing free speech. And it guts our chances of countering the *actual* antisemitism that now flourishes. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/n...
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He Wanted Peace in the Middle East. ICE Wants to Deport Him. (Gift Article)
Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at a citizenship interview in Vermont. He had spent a decade trying to understand the conflict that shaped his life, his supporters say.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
H/T to the always-illuminating Substack "The New Urban Order" about urban design but more — health, economy, equality, social connection, creativity, and how we build thriving communities in a changing world. I learn something new and useful every time. thenewurbanorder.substack.com
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The New Urban Order | Diana Lind | Substack
Exploring cities around the world, and the housing, climate, mobility, culture, and tech in them. Click to read The New Urban Order, by Diana Lind, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers...
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Welcome to the United States, land of the free — where you can be arrested and thrown in jail, without a lawyer or a hearing, just for having a different opinion. Today it's Rümeysa Öztürk. Tomorrow it's you, your family and friends.
wbur.org
Federal judge suggests Tufts student detained by ICE should return to Vermont for hearing
The matter before Judge William K. Sessions III concerned the Vermont federal court’s jurisdiction in a legal challenge to last month’s arrest of Turkish national Rümeysa Öztürk.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
How #AI helps writers conquer #anxiety and other blocks — plus 10 principles for using AI wisely in #journalism. Great insights from one of my first-ever editors, Bill Brenner. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocddep...
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Memo to Bezos: Journalism ≠ online shopping, streaming video or cloud storage. In the news business, you have the utmost trust or you have nothing. If you can't understand the news business, then get out. Stop killing the most storied newspaper in our nation's history. @washingtonpost.com
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Top 'Washington Post' columnist resigns, accusing publisher of killing piece
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus resigned today, accusing the paper's publisher of killing her piece on owner Jeff Bezos' overhaul of its opinion pages.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Three of my favorite things: science, health and trees! Cool new research shows clinical impact of neighborhood trees on health. via @nature.org
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The Healing Power of Trees: A tree planting project improves the peoples' health
Adding 8,000 trees to a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, improves health conditions that are linked to heart disease, stroke and some types of cancer.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"There is a kind of shadow executive branch that’s operating alongside of and within and maybe displacing the structure set up by the Constitution and by the laws enacted by Congress." One of the starkest interviews I've seen on the implications of Musk's infiltration. @marketplace.org
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Is the way Trump and Musk are running the economy even legal?
Expert Blake Emerson discusses the legal ramifications of Elon Musk and the Trump administration's recent economic moves.
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Grace Rubenstein @gracenotes9.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
How did we get here? Not the way you think. This brilliant book breaks open the myths we all hold about what's wrong with our political system and reveals the real solutions we need. I edited this book and had my own perceptions remade along the way. Read it and you will too.
amazon.com
We Hold These "Truths": How to Spot the Myths that are Holding America Back
We Hold These Truths : How to Spot the Myths that are Holding America Back [Burgat, Casey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. We Hold These Truths : How to Spot the Myths that are Holding America Back
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