Sam Yellowhorse Kesler

The Supreme Court struck down a bunch of Trump's tariffs. Now what? : Planet Money Live event info and tickets here.The Supreme Court has spoken. Those big, sweeping tariffs that President Trump imposed early last year? They’re illegal. On today’s show: Why were those tariffs struck...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down a bunch of President Trump’s tariffs. What does that mean? Will anyone get refunds? And … what about this new 10 percent tariff the President announced?

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How the sewing machine got us … software : Planet Money Book tour tickets and details here.Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and ambitious inventor who wanted all the credit and was willing to fig...

The Invention Invention: how the invention of the sewing machine helped get us more inventions www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n... @samkesler.bsky.social @erikaberas.bsky.social

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How the sewing machine got us … software : Planet Money Book tour tickets and details here.Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and ambitious inventor who wanted all the credit and was willing to fig...

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How the sewing machine got us … software : Planet Money Book tour tickets and details here.Today, the story of three inventions. The first, the sewing machine, was created by a selfish and ambitious inventor who wanted all the credit and was willing to fig...

If you've seen me in the past year I've probably talked your ear off about sewing machines. A while ago I learned that, besides being a major invention itself, it also kicked off a new era in antitrust that gave us the tech world we live in today. Listen:

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He sold me fresh fruit for years. I was there when immigration agents took him NPR's Adrian Florido has been buying fruit from the same fruit cart vendor in his LA neighborhood for years. On Tuesday, Adrian was there when federal immigration agents swooped in and arrested him.

Please listen to this story from my @npr.org colleague Adrian Florido about a fruit seller named Jesus

We're going on the road for a book tour in April!

Author Alex Mayyasi will be joined by Planet Money hosts and special guests. Attendees can get swag, like a tour-exclusive tote bag (while supplies last/restrictions apply).

Ticket and tour info: planetmoneybook.com

In '28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,' the zombies aren’t the worst villains : Pop Culture Happy Hour 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple picks up where 28 Years Later left off – in a world of zombie-like infecteds and vigilantes that turn out to be a murderous cult. Ralph Fiennes returns as Dr. Kelson, w...

I went on PCHH to talk THE BONE TEMPLE which I enjoyed even though the “We were all busy that weekend please bring Kraven to the theatre a second time” t-shirt I wore to my screening didn’t quite land ...

h/t to @idislikestephen.bsky.social and @ohitsbigron.bsky.social

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The CBS 60 Minutes CECOT segment showed up in Canada's Global TV app and then quickly disappeared. But a direct copy (not a screen recording) is now archived online: archive.org/details/60mi...

Money in Gaza is falling apart. Israel has been blocking the flow of physical cash into Gaza for almost two years. Now, two best friends – one in Gaza and one in Belgium – are finding ways to get money in – in order to get people food, milk, tents.

In Gaza, money is falling apart : Planet Money Israel has been blocking the flow of physical money into Gaza since the start of the war. So whatever paper cash was in Gaza before the war, that’s all that’s been circulating. It’s now falling apart ...

on this episode of @planetmoney.bsky.social, Sarah Gonzalez looks at the state of money in Gaza right now. how to get money into Gaza, how to get money out of a bank in Gaza, how cash works, and what there is to buy: www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

In Gaza, money is falling apart : Planet Money Israel has been blocking the flow of physical money into Gaza since the start of the war. So whatever paper cash was in Gaza before the war, that’s all that’s been circulating. It's falling apart from...

On @planetmoney.bsky.social - the story of two best friends - one in Gaza, one outside - trying to get past a cash blockade.

Sarah Gonzalez explains how money works in Gaza. There are cash brokers, cash fixers, and one young woman just trying to get milk for her sister.

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Meet AIR's 2025 New Voices Public Radio Fellows!

I'm a new voice!

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Spent a day at the Woodlands getting some photos taken so folks can know what I look like lately! Photos by Rachel Del Sordo who is everywhere but BlueSky!

everyone say happy birthday peggy!

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

This is a great resource

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Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social
and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote:

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This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

A must read about what it's like to experience famine in Gaza, and the gauntlet of death and humiliation that is required to get food aid from Israel and the United States, who replaced a perfectly functional aid system with one that routinely kills Palestinians.

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Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.

In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.

Trump signs order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS The executive order also instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt indirect funding of NPR and PBS through grants to local stations.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday evening seeking to prohibit federal funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

The order, which could be subject to legal challenge, called the broadcasters’ news coverage “biased and partisan.”

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

Feds look into underwriting practices at WBUR and other public media outlets As part of its ongoing investigation of NPR and PBS, the Federal Communications Commission asked 13 public radio stations, including WBUR, to turn over information about their on-air sponsorships — kn...

As part of its ongoing investigation of NPR and PBS, the Federal Communications Commission asked 13 public radio stations, including WBUR, to turn over information about their on-air sponsorships — known as “underwriting.”

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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

The key to happiness? Know thyself, says Gretchen Rubin : Life Kit What is happiness? How do you define it? Maybe it's feeling good, having a sunny disposition or being fulfilled, even if you don't feel pleasant all the time. Gretchen Rubin, host of the Happier podca...

I'm spending the next three months with the Life Kit podcast as part of NPR's producer rotation program. If you thought I was annoying when I worked at Code Switch or Planet Money, now I feel entitled to give unsolicited advice, too.

My first production:
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My new reporting focus for a bit is on the restructuring of the federal government.

Wanna talk securely about DOGE + changes in federal workforce/spending/policy?

Is there important context about how government does/doesn't work well that I should know more about?

Let's chat:

'American Primeval' is a nasty and gritty Western : Pop Culture Happy Hour In Netflix's gritty, brutal Western series American Primeval, Betty Gilpin plays a woman determined to get herself and her son across the frontier. But along the way, they find themselves caught up in...

I was on Pop Culture Happy Hour with @ghweldon.bsky.social and @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social to discuss AMERICAN PRIMEVAL. And believe it or not, all the gushing about Dane DeHaan is ONLY A FRACTION of the original. Someday I will release the DeHaan cut.

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I went to shake the realtor’s hand but he said he was a germaphobe. A brutal power move, considering this was a negotiation tactic on my part. I had sneezed in that hand earlier, and planned to weaken his immune system then lowball him. Clearly I’m dealing with an Alpha here.

A fun thing about listening to old This American Life’s is that they used to use NIN’s Ghosts IV as a music bed, the same sample Lil Nas X used for Old Town Road.

(Along those same lines, the Serial theme song is an open source track anyone can use, so you too can sound like Serial!)