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Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.

Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️

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Statement from Katherine Maher, NPR President & CEO, on Closure of Corporation for Public Broadcasting Today, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced that it will begin a "wind-down of its operations" and ultimate full operational closure following the passage of a federal rescissions p...

Here’s our CEO’s statement. Factually, I just want people to understand that you can still help a lot if this is something you care about. And because at this very hard moment I am not in a position to answer for the network, I’m going to keep this closed. (3/3) www.npr.org/2025/08/01/g...

Reminder that the federal funding NPR directly receives mostly supports the Public Radio Satellite System, which reaches nearly 400 stations to transmit emergency messages in the event of a nationwide crisis.

The rest backs the safety & security of journalists in war zones, including in Ukraine.

Can She Keep PBS on the Air?

Paula Kerger, the longest-serving chief executive of PBS, is used to fights over the public broadcaster’s funding. But to her, the latest threats feel like “all-out effort to take us out.” Read our full interview.

Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

American literacy suffers new assault as Trump fires librarian of Congress

Carla Hayden was the first woman and first African American person to hold the position.

the hallway staredown scenes with Michelle were...electric.

NPR Statement on White House Executive Order NPR is unwavering in our commitment to integrity, editorial independence, and our mission to serve the American people in partnership with our NPR Member organizations. Last night the President releas...

NPR's statement in response to Trump's executive order:

"This is not about balancing the federal budget. The appropriation for public broadcasting, including NPR and PBS, represents less than 0.0001% of the federal budget."

www.npr.org/2025/05/02/g...

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.

It's not just about big bird. It's about fact-based journalism. Now is the time to help out, any way you can. Especially your local public radio station. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time.

“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

a fat ass pigeon with its "nest" which is just a bunch of sad sticks on a rug. there's an egg in the stick mess

photo from when a pigeon came into someone's NYC apartment and laid an egg on the human bed. next to it is one stick that is supposed to be the nest

whenever one of my mom friends is being too hard on her parenting skills, I like to show them a pic of pigeon nests so they feel better about themselves

Nearly 150 Students Have Had Visas Revoked and Could Face Deportation Dozens of schools, including the University of California and Harvard, said the Trump administration ended the visas of their students in recent days. For many, the reasons are unclear.

Nearly 150 international students have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration. Many weren’t given a reason.

Elon Musk is worth $311 billion.¹
The average retired Social Security recipient gets $1,726 per month.²
So Musk's net worth is enough to pay a full year of Social Security for 15 million retirees.³
¹ www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/
² www.ssa.gov/oact/progdat...
³ www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%243...

Just got my 5 yo her measles and polio vaccinations.

Anne Marie Hochhalter, Paralyzed in Columbine Shooting, Dies at 43 Fiercely independent, she publicly discussed the long-term effects of gun violence and spoke of forgiveness.

Anne Marie Hochhalter, who spoke publicly about the long-lasting effects of gun violence after she was paralyzed in the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, was found dead on Sunday at her home. She was 43.

‘Hug your loved ones’: DC man mourns wife killed in Potomac crash moments after she texted him The husband of a victim of the Potomac crash said his wife texted him that she was about to land, but by the time he got to the airport to pick her up, his life had changed forever. “She said, ‘We’re ...

We lost Asra Hussain in the DC plane crash. She was a student in my incarceration & public health class at Columbia.

She was committed to protecting the dignity of people in the criminal justice system. She was a gem & we need her now more than ever.

RIP. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/h...

love this line: "doom-scrolling and rotting our lives away"

Four young women sit on logs in a woodsy section of a park on a winter day. Three of the women are holding books. A headline reads: "These Luddite Teens Still Don't Want Your Likes." Photo by Ye Fan for The New York Times.

Three years ago, the Luddite Club was started by a group of Brooklyn teenagers to fight social media’s grip on young people. The members used flip phones and promoted human connection. Now that the founders are in college, people want to know: Did they stay on the Luddite path? nyti.ms/4jCRS5p

The trouble with 'donating our dopamine' to our phones, not our friends "Smartphones make our alone time feel more crowded than it used to be," says journalist Derek Thompson. His article in The Atlantic is called "The Anti-Social Century."

"Smartphones make our alone time feel more crowded than it used to be, at the same time that our smartphones make crowds feel more lonely than they used to be." @dkthomp.bsky.social

It's good that there's a 25% tarriff on imported coffee now. This will incentivize people to purchase American coffee, grown in the New Jersey coffee forests

David Lynch spoke with Terry Gross in 1994 about how Philly inspired 'Eraserhead.'
The archival interview: tinyurl.com/4237563p

Here we go

President Jimmy Carter and Terry Gross in 1993.

What a treat to produce this interview with Susan Nyakundi, Therese Madden, and @mseavy-nesper.bsky.social. All week my five-year-old has been dancing around in a sleeping beauty costume to "Lunch". Lyrics remain unexplained. Hit Me Hard and Soft is beautiful, funny, sweet, and sly. Listen!

In an iconic Terry Gross fashion, she asked Billie Eilish about fans throwing bras and panties at her onstage. Hear what she says about that on Fresh Air Tuesday 12/17.

This Is the Cake We Baked - This American Life For some people, Donald Trump’s victory is a hopeful thing. For others, the opposite. This week, we talk to people who helped make it happen and some who are looking to what’s next.

www.thisamericanlife.org/846/this-is-... What a cake. Essential listening...

A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."