Julia Ritchey

Savannah's last roller rink closed last week. Cities need to contend with the market failure of having fewer spaces for young people to hang out and encourage socioeconomic mixing. www.wtoc.com/2025/08/01/s...

Working late to bring you an Indicator show on Monday about what the Bureau of Labor Statistics actually does to collect those jobs numbers. Good data = good decision making. Bad data / No data = Bad decisions.

This sucks.

Pierre Cadault is incensed by this new trend, but Emily convinces him to try it for his TMJ and he loves it so much he releases his own line of haute lace and pearl facial shapewear.

A real pitch that sounds like Emily in Paris wrote it:

"We would love to arrange an interview with you and Hollywood’s most in-demand facial plastic surgeon Dr. Jason Champagne who can weigh in on Kim Kardashian's new Skims Shapewear for your face, and whether it will actually slim your face/jaw."

Temporary Producer I, Planet Money New York, New York, United States

We have a temporary producer position open at @planetmoney.bsky.social. Share with your friends in audio! job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl...

Lady says, I don't step, I don't walk, I don't dance, I just FLOAT. 🎵

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

NEW: We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration.

Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw.

All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.

Quit amazon this year too. Worth it. Would love a decent spotify alternative if you try one.

Horrific.

Lunch with the man who coined TACO The Indicator from Planet Money · Episode

Our host @darianwoods.bsky.social sat down with the guy who coined TACO to talk about why Wall Street is acting so giddy amid the chaos, and if TACO Tuesday will give way to Tariff Thursday. open.spotify.com/episode/7JkW...

Yesss...D.C. just dropped Mighty Crabjoy shirts. I hope this means James Gunn reads my my skeets. tinyurl.com/yu7wejfd

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.

Adopt a Station allows you to search for public radio stations at risk of losing the most funding after the Republican rescission package. Kudos to Alex Curley for creating this. adoptastation.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

My compost pile is at least 80% watermelon rinds at this point in the summer.

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:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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

Conservatives Get the PBS and NPR Cuts They’ve Wanted for Decades

The growing list of "niceties we can do without," as a Republican is quoted here, is growing very long in this administration. Very soon, without niceties, all we are left with is algorithmic slop. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Horrific. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

Very depressing week, I must say.

Still here, still working for you: with Michel Martin in NPR Studio 31 at 5:19am.

Really happy you're covering this, Marianna!

Woah game changer

Debt Reckoning, by Mary Childs Has the Treasury market started to crack?

I wrote 4,000 words about the growing risks in the Treasury market — how we've predicated the functioning of the entire global financial system on the safety + security of US govt debt, while we seemingly/lowkey work to undermine the safety + security of US govt debt harpers.org/archive/2025...

Apparently yes. Over and over.

The inside track. At least I crushed the Kate Moss category.

Could You Have Landed a Job at Vogue in the ’90s? To work for Anna Wintour in Vogue's glory days, you had to know a little bit of everything. Take the quiz to find out if you would have made the grade.

Surprisingly fun, got 24/32. "We'll keep your resume on file...More cultural seasoning is needed."

Could You Have Landed a Job at Vogue in the ’90s? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Enshittification of American Power First Google and Facebook, then the world. Under Trump 2.0, US statecraft is starting to mimic the worst tendencies of Big Tech.

Good (depressing) read on the state of play.

"This time around, Trumpworld understands that—in controlling the infrastructure layer of global finance, technology, and security—it has vast machineries of coercion at its disposal." www.wired.com/story/enshit...

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

In a warehouse in Dubai, 500 tons of high-energy biscuits for starving children were allowed to approach their expiration date. They're about to be incinerated. Important scoop from @hana-kiros.bsky.social. What are we doing here. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Hasn't received the talking points for how to spin an unflattering number.

It is my journalistic duty, however, to point out when Lois faults Clark for interviewing himself as Superman she commits an equally egregious conflict of interest by interviewing him instead. Even if her questions were 🔥

Saw Superman. It rocked. When can I get a Mighty Crab Joys t-shirt?