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Retired Senior Producer at NPR for Weekend Edition, where I crafted music features and directed the show. I love to bike, play guitar, travel the world
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Trump has no constitutional authority to take us to war with Iran without authorization from Congress, and Congress has not authorized it.

Two headlines: NYT: “U.S. Enters War With Iran” WaPo: “U.S. warplanes strike nuclear sites in Iran”

Deconstruction is a growing approach to taking down homes that diverts waste from landfills, cuts carbon emissions and creates a circular economy for construction materials. (KUNC)

Rest well Louis Moholo-Moholo. Last surviving member of the Blue Notes & the only one who lived to see a free South Africa. The heartbeat behind so much defiantly beautiful music. youtu.be/CJlP7nX_qtY?...

Such a dark day. www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g...

'They are grabbing people.' L.A. and Orange County car wash workers targeted by federal immigration raids

Agree, amazing documentary. RIP Sly Stone

1965: Feds bypass governor to deploy National Guard to PROTECT protesters in Alabama 2025: Feds bypass governor to deploy National Guard to ARREST protesters in California

Fela Kuti's discography streaming for free on Bandcamp: 48 albums in total #Afrobeat #TonyAllen felakuti.bandcamp.com

Sometime around 1980, I remember seeing her at the University of Minnesota… she held a violin fitted with a playback head instead of strings, and she drew a bow fitted with a length of audio tape instead of horsehair across the violin, producing the sound “LUH..LUH..LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT”

RIP Alf Clausen, what a joy it was to produce this Liane Hansen interview for NPR’s Weekend Edition back in 2007. Simpsons fans take a listen! While Danny Elfman wrote the theme, Clausen wrote so many brilliant songs www.npr.org/2007/09/09/1...

“Are you okay, ma’am?” “I think I swallowed my router.” “Here, take my seat.”

David Bowie: African Night Flight - from his 1979 album, Lodger Co-written by Brian Eno; prepared piano and cricket menace by Eno www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq0M...

Sun Ra was born on May 22, 1914

@planetmoney.bsky.social Good show on the 145% tariffs, but where do I find that ship tracker you said was in the show notes? I listened on the NPR web page, no idea where to find the notes

Amazing. Audio peeps, listen to every piece on this page if you can. (And watch Art Silverman’s poetic video) transom.org/2025/requiem...

Public broadcasting officials from across the country plan to descend on Capitol Hill today in hopes of convincing lawmakers to preserve their federal funding despite pressure from President Trump and his allies.

Grateful for all the “followers” but how do you all deal with bots? How do you decide they’re actually bots and block them? On Instagram I can tell pretty immediately whether they’re bots and I remove them as followers but haven’t decided on a strategy here on Bluesky

“Why is Hot Cross Buns such a banger?” Hahaha Danny was that line your handiwork ?? Fun piece

Nature remains undefeated. What stunning little creatures.

I’m surprised there’s been so little attention to an environmental silver lining to tariffs, that it will force us all to BUY LESS STUFF

One for you cinephiles. #songthatcameuponmyshuffletoday youtu.be/tJzIFLhYH7I?...

Have you bought an Energy Star product? What do you think of it? Notice any differences from conventional versions? What do you know about the Energy Star program? I'd like to get a sense of what people think and know -- either below or directly via email: [email protected]

Καλημέρα

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Oh fuck yes

If you are a visual artist whose NEA grant was terminated today, I want to talk to you for ARTnews. You can contact me on Signal at karenkho.45. I can grant anonymity if necessary.

I’m off the news grid for a week, don’t bug me about anything

A Tesla Cybertruck had to be rescued from a river after its owner appeared to believe Elon Musk’s claim that the electric truck could “serve briefly as a boat”. “Cybertruck will be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat, so it can cross rivers, lakes and even seas that aren’t too choppy."

Boooo! Talk about enshitification, my 1st Generation Nest has been perfectly fine, but evil Google no longer supports it. I’ll really miss being able to control it remotely 9to5google.com/2025/04/25/n...

RIP David Thomas www.nme.com/news/music/p...

“each crosswalk signal can be logged into with a phone app and Bluetooth… what may have happened in this case is the signals used the default password from the manufacturer, which is usually simple and easy to guess.”

How in the hell is it that Hegseth is not trending

“The plaintiff… said the odometer on the 2020 Model Y he bought in December 2022 with 36,772 miles on the clock ran at least 15% fast, based on his other vehicles and driving history, and for a while said he drove 72 miles a day when at most he drove 20.” www.cnbc.com/2025/04/18/t...