| 1 | Aug 18, '22 | Our beloved son Henry passed away. He had the softest blue eyes, an easy smile and a contagious giggle. We always surrounded him with love and he returned it, and so much more. Mar | 14.8× | 0 | 220k | 8.4k | 653 |
| 2 | Jun 24, '23 | So this has all been very strange. Prigozhin reportedly agrees to pull back and go to Belarus? He was marching on Moscow. I wonder what the deal could have been. Maybe he gets to k | 11.9× | 4.2M | 13k | 2k | 222 |
| 3 | Feb 27, '22 | You know you’re an unpopular leader when Sweden is sending your enemy 5,000 anti-tank missiles. | 6.8× | 0 | 110k | 13k | 528 |
| 4 | Aug 15, '21 | Walking around kabul. Hard stares. Mood changing. People not just sad, but angry, blaming the US for abandoning the country to war, chaos, and the Taliban | 6.7× | 0 | 90k | 16k | 558 |
| 5 | Jan 26, '23 | From abroad, the mass shootings in the US seem like a preventable illness. Two friends in the UK independently told me “if Americans don’t want to fix the problem, I can’t feel sor | 6.3× | 2.3M | 30k | 5.4k | 209 |
| 6 | Jan 7, '21 | Police seemed very chummy with the protesters who also seemed to know exactly where to go. | 5.6× | 0 | 81k | 14k | 253 |
| 7 | Feb 23, '23 | Frankly i’m getting tired of hearing people “losing interest” in the war in Ukraine like it’s a hobby or new toy. History isn’t kind to those who don’t pay attention to world event | 5.2× | 1.9M | 23k | 4.2k | 108 |
| 8 | Oct 19, '19 | US officials tell me ALARM BELL RINGING among diplomats in DC that U.S. could one day be held responsible for Crimes Against Humanity for ethnic cleansing of Syrian Kurds by openin | 5.1× | 0 | 50k | 21k | 326 |
| 9 | Oct 12, '19 | Turkey’s conflict in Syria took a major turn today. First alleged atrocities by Turkish-backed Arab militias, executing Kurds. US military officials tell me it's true, and they are | 4.9× | 0 | 40k | 24k | 304 |
| 10 | Sep 30, '19 | So much disinformation out there. Independent investigators here in Ukraine have told me, repeatedly: Joe Biden did NOT stop an investigation into his son. In fact, US officials, i | 4.6× | 0 | 46k | 20k | 357 |
| 11 | Nov 17, '19 | The more I talk talk to sources, the more i’m hearing America’s betrayal of the Kurds, and the humiliation, “misogynistic” “squashing” of US ambassador in Ukraine for political mot | 4.6× | 0 | 50k | 17k | 249 |
| 12 | Nov 17, '19 | Massive attacks underway against the kurds in northern syria. No ceasefire. Total nonsenses there is. US military officials tell me they are ashamed, “sickened.” It’s cold now outs | 4.2× | 0 | 35k | 20k | 180 |
| 13 | Jun 4, '19 | One of the centerpieces of the London protests. Trump on a golden commode, and it talks, says “fake news” and “witch hunt” | 3.9× | 0 | 45k | 14k | 426 |
| 14 | Oct 17, '19 | The kurds lost their homeland in Syria which they fought for with US forces in the battle agaist Isis, losing 11 thousand of their men and women. Tonight they were sold out by Trum | 3.7× | 0 | 43k | 14k | 208 |
| 15 | Feb 26, '22 | Just watched Ukrainians tear down road signs in an effort to confuse advancing Russian troops. | 3.5× | 0 | 60k | 4.6k | 230 |
| 16 | Aug 15, '21 | Thinking tonight about all the Afghans who only knew what life was like over the past 20 years. There was violence, yes, but also hope and opportunities. Now both are gone, especia | 3.4× | 0 | 50k | 7.9k | 204 |
| 17 | Aug 16, '21 | Biden says human rights center of US policy. A hard sell tonight where im sitting outside the kabul airport. | 3.3× | 0 | 47k | 8.4k | 185 |
| 18 | Aug 18, '21 | At kabul airport, military side, more order than before. Evacuations picking up. Seeing more Afghan families being taken through. Planes taking off. Base well guarded. | 3.2× | 0 | 50k | 6.1k | 142 |
| 19 | May 29, '20 | I’ve long worried how Trump would react when forced into a corner/ nervous/angry. For 3 years, he’s mostly gotten his way - passing though impeachment proceedings and various scand | 3.2× | 0 | 44k | 9k | 132 |
| 20 | Feb 25, '22 | Vatican Press Office confirms to @NBCNews that Pope Francis went to the Russian embassy in Rome on Friday to personally express his concern about the war in Ukraine, in an extraord | 3.1× | 0 | 44k | 8.4k | 263 |
| 21 | Feb 26, '20 | Don’t panic. Doctors/ virologists I’m speaking to say 98% of people will be fine, even if they get Covid-19. They expect it will go around the world, but that most people who get i | 3.0× | 0 | 34k | 8.9k | 300 |
| 22 | Aug 18, '22 | Researchers are making amazing progress using Henry’s cells to help cure RETT Syndrome so others don’t have to endure this terrible disease. To support the research: | 2.9× | 0 | 47k | 4.3k | 130 |
| 23 | Feb 22, '23 | My wife @MaryKForrest wrote an essay about grieving our son Henry that is sensitive, bold and above all brave, writing about the hardest thing a parent can ever do. The Week I Sp | 2.9× | 1M | 15k | 1.3k | 395 |
| 24 | Jan 5, '20 | What a mess in the Middle East. Shiite world enraged. Sunni states nervous. Isis fight on back burner. US allies against ISIS (Kurds) betrayed. Iran and US trading blood curdling t | 2.8× | 0 | 31k | 11k | 175 |
| 25 | Aug 15, '21 | Seeing Taliban fighters on streets in kabul now. Armed. | 2.6× | 0 | 35k | 6.9k | 155 |
| 26 | Jan 7, '20 | Exasperated Iraqi PM can’t understand how USA can send a letter “clearly talking about withdrawal” and then say its a mistake. Prime minister’s overall message is: how disorganized | 2.6× | 0 | 32k | 8.2k | 100 |
| 27 | Jun 30, '19 | The highest-ranking North Korean defector in decades told me Kim Jong UN likes President Trump because he’s not “moral,” and doesn't judge."All previous US presidents so far have b | 2.5× | 0 | 25k | 11k | 176 |
| 28 | Dec 21, '18 | A sr military official told me US special forces troops distraught, upset, morally disturbed by having to tell their kurdish allies in Syria that, because of orders, their promises | 2.5× | 0 | 23k | 11k | 91 |
| 29 | Oct 7, '19 | Syria Kurdish official told us, reacting to Trump’s overnight decision. “The Americans are traitors. They have abandoned us to a Turkish massacre. We can no longer fight against is | 2.5× | 0 | 23k | 12k | 128 |
| 30 | Aug 17, '21 | Brave Afghan women protesting for their rights in Kabul. “Work, education and political participation is every woman’s right” | 2.4× | 0 | 30k | 7.3k | 226 |
| 31 | Feb 28, '20 | Two virologists I’ve spoken to say coronavirus is not an end of days virus. They say take precautions/work for a vaccine, but emphasized this isn’t “the big one.” | 2.3× | 0 | 30k | 6.8k | 130 |
| 32 | Feb 28, '22 | Perhaps the biggest risk-calculation/moral dilemma of the war so far. A massive Russian convoy is abt 30 miles from Kyiv. The US/NATO could likely destroy it. But that would be dir | 2.3× | 0 | 20k | 3.6k | 488 |
| 33 | Nov 8, '20 | Biden speech. None of the Trump swagger. Not sarcastic. Not all about him. It’s about America. About healing. About respect. About opportunities. This is the kind of speech that at | 2.2× | 0 | 36k | 4.4k | 78 |
| 34 | Mar 25, '20 | The Coronavirus Is the Worst Intelligence Failure in U.S. History, and It's All Trump's Fault | 2.2× | 0 | 22k | 8.9k | 468 |
| 35 | Dec 22, '18 | Spoke to a professor with deep connections into Kurdish leadership in Syria. I asked him about the mood there after Trump announcement, his answer sent chills: Hurt, betrayed, and | 2.1× | 0 | 16k | 11k | 101 |
| 36 | Oct 19, '19 | Kurdish commander Gen Mazlum Kobane makes an urgent appeal, telling @NBCNews Syria's Kurds face what could become “the biggest ethnic cleansing operation of the 21st century... hap | 2.0× | 0 | 18k | 10k | 91 |
| 37 | Oct 2, '19 | Pompeo was so unpopular among many staffers at CIA for his bullying and outbursts that two well-placed sources tell us his security detail had an “Emancipation Party” after he left | 2.0× | 0 | 27k | 6.5k | 59 |
| 38 | Feb 26, '22 | Seeing lots of Ukrainian checkpoints, heavy weapons and plenty of civil defense volunteers. Ukraine is digging in for a big fight. | 2.0× | 0 | 34k | 3.2k | 69 |
| 39 | Oct 21, '19 | US officials tell me Trump wants to wash his hands of responsibility for the Kurds. The US mil/gov gave Kurds REPEATED assurances of protection. US even asked Kurds to REMOVE defen | 2.0× | 0 | 18k | 9k | 132 |
| 40 | Nov 5, '20 | Just watched a fox news reporter criticizing a lack of transparency in vote counting while he was INSIDE a voting center, as ballots were calmly being processed behind him. | 2.0× | 0 | 28k | 4.9k | 103 |
| 41 | Sep 30, '19 | A former Ukrainian lawmaker deeply familiar with the Giuliani dirt-digging campaign told me Trump's phone call to the Ukrainian president asking for an investigation into the Biden | 1.9× | 0 | 23k | 7.2k | 83 |
| 42 | Feb 13, '22 | Ukrainian great grandmother, Valentina Constantinovska, on an Ak-47, training to defend against a possible Russian attack. “Your mother would do it too,” she told me. | 1.9× | 0 | 21k | 5.4k | 426 |
| 43 | Jan 5, '20 | US military announced its suspending anti-ISIS operations in Iraq. Iraq parliament requests govt to kick out US forces. Massive protests in Iran. North Korea says it will show off | 1.9× | 0 | 20k | 7.2k | 117 |
| 44 | Mar 3, '22 | I asked President Zelenskyy how he’s holding up under the pressure of this situation, with his popularity soaring and comparisons to Churchill. He said he’s happy to be helping his | 1.9× | 0 | 30k | 3.1k | 151 |
| 45 | Oct 28, '19 | There’s a reason Kurds are sharing so much intelligence. They want to show they played, and still play, a vital role fighting ISIS. That they lost 11,000 people doing it, and shoul | 1.8× | 0 | 21k | 6.7k | 58 |
| 46 | May 31, '22 | For everyone following Henry’s story, unfortunately he’s taken a turn for the worse. His condition progressed and he’s developed dystonia: uncontrolled shaking/ stiffness. He was i | 1.8× | 0 | 31k | 782 | 137 |
| 47 | Mar 7, '22 | Seen many Ukrainians evacuating dogs and cats. First squirrel. | 1.7× | 0 | 29k | 2.6k | 238 |
| 48 | Oct 13, '17 | Why would North Korea negotiate on its nuclear program if US walks away from a deal international agencies say Iran is living up to? | 1.7× | 0 | 17k | 7.8k | 0 |
| 49 | Oct 25, '19 | There is something I call the Dictator's Treadmill: once you get on, you can’t get off, because falling off means ending up in jail. It's something I often consider wherever I repo | 1.7× | 0 | 20k | 6.4k | 136 |
| 50 | Jun 4, '20 | Seems like some in the military, now openly being encouraged by respected former commanders, have decided they will not takeover America for President Trump. A possible tipping poi | 1.7× | 0 | 24k | 4.9k | 85 |
| 51 | Nov 19, '19 | Seems telling about the state of America now that LTC Vindman, a purple heart vet whose hands and papers were shaking nervously, wanted to reassure his father not to worry, that he | 1.7× | 0 | 23k | 5.1k | 52 |
| 52 | Jan 18, '20 | The US national archives - the supposed official record and repository of the nation - is now blurring and censoring historic moments? erasing/editing history to appease the powerf | 1.6× | 0 | 16k | 6.8k | 138 |
| 53 | Aug 15, '21 | The failure to anticipate the rapid fall of afghan cities, including kabul, is a huge US intelligence failure. I know some US mil commanders anticipated it. They told me. Yet someh | 1.6× | 0 | 21k | 4.2k | 137 |
| 54 | Feb 18, '22 | The separatists are claiming Ukrainians are attacking and besieging them. I’ve walked up and down those trenches for the last several months. Saw no signs of ongoing or impending U | 1.6× | 0 | 21k | 5.4k | 72 |
| 55 | Jan 3, '20 | Iranians will consider US killing soleimani an act of war. A proxy war could erupt. Likely in iraq, but also a danger in lebanon and israel. This is a big escalation. | 1.6× | 0 | 18k | 6.3k | 57 |
| 56 | Feb 27, '22 | Multiple reports and videos of Russian vehicles running out of fuel, stuck on the roads in Ukraine. There’s now an online campaign here telling Ukrainians, ‘if Russians ask you for | 1.6× | 0 | 24k | 3.8k | 122 |
| 57 | Oct 15, '19 | This is a shocking dynamic that history will not forget. The Kurds say they are facing ethnic cleansing by a NATO country, Turkey, as US forces nearby have NO ORDERS TO HELP, only | 1.6× | 0 | 15k | 7.4k | 87 |
| 58 | Mar 2, '20 | Just finished interview with Dr. Fauci, US director of infectious diseases. Hour-long interview. Detailed. He said: We're dealing with clearly an emerging infectious disease that h | 1.6× | 0 | 16k | 6.8k | 121 |
| 59 | Aug 19, '21 | Afghans heading out of Kabul on an American C17. One small bag each to start a new life. | 1.5× | 0 | 22k | 3.3k | 162 |
| 60 | Aug 16, '21 | Biden says human rights center or US policy. A hard sell tonight where im sitting outside the kabul airport tonight. | 1.5× | 0 | 23k | 3.5k | 63 |
| 61 | Jul 27, '17 | US intel officials tell me they’re worried the chaos at WH leaves US in weak position to deal with any potential major int crisis | 1.5× | 0 | 13k | 6.4k | 0 |
| 62 | Oct 24, '19 | Kurds say they didn’t sacrifice 11,000 men and women fighting ISIS with US special forces to become guards for remote Syrian oil fields. | 1.5× | 0 | 18k | 5.7k | 52 |
| 63 | Oct 14, '19 | President Trump is saying ‘let the people in the Middle East fight it out, we don’t care.’ What kind of message is that? They are fighting this land grab in Syria right now BECAUSE | 1.5× | 0 | 18k | 5.1k | 37 |
| 64 | Feb 24, '22 | Kremlin spokesman says goal of “special operation” in Ukraine: “it is necessary to liberate Ukraine, to clear it of the Nazis.” But Ukraine is not run by Nazis and Ukrainians say t | 1.4× | 0 | 21k | 3.4k | 132 |
| 65 | Oct 19, '19 | As Syrian Kurds face what seems to be ethnic cleansing, a top human rights lawyer told us Americans could face accusations of Crimes Against Humanity: for knowing about atrocities, | 1.4× | 0 | 14k | 6.1k | 69 |
| 66 | Jan 6, '20 | So Trump - who says he wants to pull US troops out of the Middle East and gave that as a big reason for abandoning the Kurds who fought and lost 11k people in the war on ISIS - now | 1.4× | 0 | 15k | 5.7k | 82 |
| 67 | Feb 25, '22 | Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy says he remains in Kyiv, has moved his family to an undisclosed location. “I cannot tell you where they are at right now. We have information the enem | 1.4× | 0 | 22k | 2.9k | 127 |
| 68 | Mar 22, '20 | One great side of more time at home. For a smile, hi from Theo! | 1.4× | 0 | 24k | 1.2k | 48 |
| 69 | Oct 22, '19 | Tonight as the Kurdish people look up at the stars here in northern Syria, they have many big decisions to make. Where to send their families? Who can they trust? Can they reconcil | 1.4× | 0 | 16k | 5.3k | 38 |
| 70 | Feb 21, '22 | Smoke and mirrors. Putin just recognized an area in Ukraine he already controls by claiming to be stopping a genocide that isn’t happening. | 1.4× | 0 | 19k | 4.3k | 111 |
| 71 | Jun 15, '20 | Go go go! We love you. | 1.3× | 0 | 23k | 1.4k | 17 |
| 72 | Apr 15, '20 | Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the UK-based Lancet medical journal, wrote Trump’s decision to defund WHO: “a crime against humanity … Every scientist, every health worker, ever | 1.3× | 0 | 14k | 5.6k | 59 |
| 73 | Oct 23, '19 | Often confused is that Syria’s Kurds fought ISIS FOR the US. They fought WITH the US. Kurds also saw ISIS as a threat to their values/families. The most effective fighting force ag | 1.3× | 0 | 14k | 5.6k | 61 |
| 74 | Nov 17, '19 | Spoke to a sr former justice dept official. He too worries Trump can’t get off, won’t get off, “dictator’s treadmill.” Once you’re on the ride is high, so you’ll do anything, and e | 1.3× | 0 | 16k | 4.7k | 89 |
| 75 | Mar 6, '22 | Olesya got married today in a battlefield ceremony in Kyiv as Russian forces push closer into the city. | 1.3× | 0 | 22k | 2.2k | 106 |
| 76 | Oct 20, '19 | Since defense secretary says US troops aren't going home from Syria - where they’ve been EFFECTIVELY fighting ISIS - but moving next door to Iraq to fight ISIS from there, the only | 1.3× | 0 | 13k | 5.9k | 60 |
| 77 | Jan 8, '20 | Iran making threats of mass escalation. To attack more bases in Iraq. To unleash Hezbollah. To unleash shiite militias in Iraq. To attack Israel and Dubai. Making it clear it is re | 1.3× | 0 | 12k | 5.6k | 90 |
| 78 | Sep 30, '19 | Not normal is an understatement. It's off the hook, The wheels have come off the bus. The AG investigating US intel services, via foreign intel services? ,.. what? | 1.3× | 0 | 15k | 5k | 71 |
| 79 | Oct 25, '19 | You’re wrong. It’s been 5 yrs US troops fighting ISIS with Kurds in Syria. I watched it start. Troops coming home? There weren’t ever many in Syria, and many of them were elite spe | 1.3× | 0 | 13k | 5.4k | 51 |
| 80 | Jan 5, '20 | Does seem odd/telling/noteworthy that the Administration is relying so heavily on US intel about Soleimani’s intentions to justify his assassination after Trump has been so openly | 1.2× | 0 | 14k | 4.7k | 50 |
| 81 | Feb 23, '20 | A dr treating coronavirus victims in hong kong just told me he doesn't think the world is aware of the dangers. Thinks, based on what he’s seen, the virus is far more widespread th | 1.2× | 0 | 14k | 4.8k | 98 |
| 82 | Jan 9, '21 | Remember how John McCain said spontaneous protesters in Benghazi don’t show up with RPGs and mortars? Spontaneous demonstrators also don’t show up to a protest with IEDs and flex c | 1.2× | 0 | 16k | 4.1k | 90 |
| 83 | Oct 16, '19 | Kurdish commanders who worked with US troops are growing increasingly angry, frustrated, sad, as they watch US troops leaving...AND WORSE, listen to Trump being utterly dismissive | 1.2× | 0 | 13k | 5k | 43 |
| 84 | Oct 20, '19 | President Trump says he defeated ISIS, totally, but guess what, the new mission for US troops in Syria is to go Iraq to, wait for it, fight ISIS. So, maybe someone convinced the co | 1.1× | 0 | 13k | 4.6k | 44 |
| 85 | Mar 4, '22 | NATO Secretary said unequivocally at a news conference just now here in Brussels that NATO has seen Russia use cluster bombs in Ukraine. “The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a blata | 1.1× | 0 | 15k | 3.6k | 56 |
| 86 | Oct 1, '19 | Pompeo, who accuses lawmakers who want answers of bullying, had fits of “anger” while at CIA, former Sr intelligence officials say. Often, an official said, it would happen if anal | 1.1× | 0 | 12k | 4.4k | 46 |
| 87 | Jan 6, '21 | In other nations, when demonstrators, urged by a cornered president, try to take over the capital building it’s called a coup. Nothing else. | 1.1× | 0 | 13k | 4.2k | 63 |
| 88 | Aug 15, '21 | Some say Afghanistan is coming full circle. Taliban were in power, now returning. It’s much worse than that: people tasted freedom, and Taliban can now claim they drove the US out. | 1.1× | 0 | 14k | 2.8k | 129 |
| 89 | Jan 6, '20 | At outset of 2020 we are seeing two big perils of coming decade. Climate change and its disasters, and rising authoritarian populism and its consequences. | 1.1× | 0 | 13k | 3.9k | 66 |
| 90 | May 31, '22 | Thank you everyone for all the kind messages, from Henry, our Mr. Handsome. | 1.1× | 0 | 21k | 264 | 18 |
| 91 | Oct 3, '19 | Trump faces real accusations of abuse of power. Question now: are Americans smart enough NOT to fall for the conspiracy theories the administration is selling to confuse, fairytale | 1.1× | 0 | 13k | 3.4k | 30 |
| 92 | Aug 15, '21 | More on intel failure. How did the US get duped into thinking there was ever a peace process with the Taliban? Outfoxed by the Taliban? I’d say that’s embarrassing but shameful is | 1.0× | 0 | 14k | 2.1k | 108 |
| 93 | Oct 23, '19 | Deeply upsetting the Kurds of Syria, who fought bravely against ISIS, lost so many -many still injured- now have to hide what they did, as Russia, Turkey and Assad forces will call | 1.0× | 0 | 12k | 4.1k | 32 |
| 94 | Jun 1, '22 | Thank you for the messages of support! Today Henry was able to briefly support himself in a seated position during physio for the first time in a long time. Go Henry! For more info | 1.0× | 0 | 19k | 412 | 31 |
| 95 | Jan 3, '20 | The situation in iraq/iran/Middle East could easily and quickly escalate. This is not a moment for patriotic chest thumping or war drum beating from the media. We know where that’s | 1.0× | 0 | 13k | 3.6k | 26 |
| 96 | Feb 28, '20 | The coronavirus, scientists working directly with it tell me, is fairly easy to kill on surfaces. The disinfectants/ sanitizers do work. The hard part is neutralizing it in people. | 1.0× | 0 | 12k | 3.7k | 71 |
| 97 | Jun 14, '20 | Henry loving being out, cruising and keeping our distance. Enjoying the wind, weather and movement. Happy Sunday everyone! | 1.0× | 0 | 17k | 640 | 28 |
| 98 | Sep 14, '19 | Hi everyone. I’m Theo, new here. This is me, then 30 seconds later. Reason unknown. Captions welcome. | 1.0× | 0 | 16k | 370 | 23 |
| 99 | Sep 7, '20 | And this happened today! Baby steps. Go Theo! Henry and @MaryKForrest cheering on. | 0.9× | 0 | 17k | 629 | 16 |
| 100 | Sep 29, '20 | Happy Birthday Henry! 5 years old today. And to all Rett and other special kids out there, we love you! @MaryKForrest | 0.8× | 0 | 14k | 522 | 11 |
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