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I’m Michael Hobbes, a journalist based in Berlin. I co-host a podcast with my friend Aubrey and used to co-host one with my friend Sarah. I make videos and write essays and say things on the internet in various places. The title and homepage of this newsletter make it seem like it has a theme but it’s basically just stuff I’m thinking about. If that sounds nice you can subscribe!

Long before I published books, I was a failed diarist. As a child I was obsessed with diaries—fictional ones, actual ones. I named my own (sporadically kept) diary Kitty, on account of the white Persian cat on the cover and the fact that Anne Frank had called her own diary Kitty. Keeping a diary felt very in line with who I imagined myself to be. The reality, of course, was that I was lazy and easily bored.

Subscribe for reporting and observations on D.C. and foreign policy. Veteran foreign policy journalist Laura Rozen has served as the diplomatic correspondent for Al-Monitor, foreign policy reporter for Politico, and for Foreign Policy magazine, where she launched the Cable blog in 2009. She now writes and reports the Diplomatic newsletter here at Substack, and also serves on the editorial board of Just Security. She tweets at @LRozen. And you can now follow her at Mastodon at LRozen@journa.

Hi, I’m Ellie Krieger. Welcome to my food community! One of the things I love most about food is one of the healthiest things about it— the connection it brings between people. So I am happy to connect with you here. I am a passionate food lover and registered dietitian nutritionist whose mission, both personally and professionally, is to find “the sweet spot” where delicious and healthy meet. That intersection is a joyful, flavorful place with enticing food that helps you thrive, and keeps you feeling your best.

Every Tom Waits Song is an email newsletter that — as you might have guessed from the title — explores Every Tom Waits Song. (My other newsletter, about Bob Dylan, I titled Flagging Down the Double E’s, so I decided to go a little more literal this time). If you subscribe, every Sunday morning a short essay about another Tom Waits song will land in your inbox. I’ll be going through the Waits catalog alphabetically rather than chronologically.

I have been writing over on Quora for a number of years. Athena Walker Quora Profile I have consistently been the most viewed writer in psychopathy, and abnormal psychology during that time. I have a follower base of over 35,000 people, and have decided to move to Substack for the majority of my future writing. I have been interviewed for the Jeremy Vine show, for Cut Magazine, and been quoted in, interviewed for, and been the basis for several authors that address psychopathy.

“Too long, perfectly written— just like I like them. WELCOME BACK FOSTER[TALK].” - Alison Roman “lol i loved this” - Edith Zimmerman, Drawing Links “A ripping read!” - Ryan Kearney, Executive Editor, The New Republic “I just subscribed to FOSTERTALK.” - Cat Marnell, How To Murder Your Life “Christ man” - Matt Taylor, National Editor, The Daily Beast “right into my veins” - Jason Linkins, The New Republic “hooray!!!!” - Maura Johnston, Boston Globe, Idolator founding editor “So good!

We all need tools for how to cope with our dangerous climate reality and cultivate resilience in these times. Humans are pushing on planetary limits and it is coming back to bite us as an enormous health threat. A growing field of research shows how the climate crisis and other forms of ecological degradation are putting pressure on our mental health, in unequally distributed ways. The age of eco-anxiety is upon us and climate-aware therapists are just a call away, meanwhile, the afterglow of climate disasters radiates traumatic psychiatric injuries throughout the globe.