Gina Kaufmann
@ginak.bsky.social
Journalist-reader-writer-watcher-worrier-joker
Editor @theworld.org
Formerly: Real Humans, Central Standard & Midwesternish @KCUR + freelance for Nieman Reports, PRX, Mass Humanities, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Boston Globe, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Editor @theworld.org
Formerly: Real Humans, Central Standard & Midwesternish @KCUR + freelance for Nieman Reports, PRX, Mass Humanities, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Boston Globe, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
“Writing is thinking”
100%
I often experience the payoff of writing that way. You work through the challenge of finding the words to arrive at a useful and soundly reasoned thought, clearly articulated.
100%
I often experience the payoff of writing that way. You work through the challenge of finding the words to arrive at a useful and soundly reasoned thought, clearly articulated.
This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
What people do not do, they often lose the ability to do. Which is sometimes fine! In my own life, I don’t have any great need to know how to do some of the math I once learned. But I don’t want to forget how to write.
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“Writing is thinking”
100%
I often experience the payoff of writing that way. You work through the challenge of finding the words to arrive at a useful and soundly reasoned thought, clearly articulated.
100%
I often experience the payoff of writing that way. You work through the challenge of finding the words to arrive at a useful and soundly reasoned thought, clearly articulated.
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Choosing a pro-man workplace over economic growth, but go off.
“A 2023 report by Goldman Sachs suggests that just cutting the current pay and employment gap between men and women by half could boost GDP levels across developed and emerging markets by…5% to 6%.”
www.forbes.com/sites/aishan...
“A 2023 report by Goldman Sachs suggests that just cutting the current pay and employment gap between men and women by half could boost GDP levels across developed and emerging markets by…5% to 6%.”
www.forbes.com/sites/aishan...
November 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Choosing a pro-man workplace over economic growth, but go off.
“A 2023 report by Goldman Sachs suggests that just cutting the current pay and employment gap between men and women by half could boost GDP levels across developed and emerging markets by…5% to 6%.”
www.forbes.com/sites/aishan...
“A 2023 report by Goldman Sachs suggests that just cutting the current pay and employment gap between men and women by half could boost GDP levels across developed and emerging markets by…5% to 6%.”
www.forbes.com/sites/aishan...
Reposted by Gina Kaufmann
In a prison on the outskirts of Milan, inmates are transforming discarded migrants boats into something unexpected: musical instruments. My report on @theworld.org And if you're a musician/orchestra interested in playing those instruments, they want to hear from you! theworld.org/stories/2025...
From shipwreck to symphony: Prisoners in Italy turn migrant boats into violins - The World from PRX
Every year, thousands of migrants risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea in fragile wooden boats, hoping to reach the shores of Europe. Many arrive on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where t...
theworld.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In a prison on the outskirts of Milan, inmates are transforming discarded migrants boats into something unexpected: musical instruments. My report on @theworld.org And if you're a musician/orchestra interested in playing those instruments, they want to hear from you! theworld.org/stories/2025...
Next time I defeat an opponent, I will wish that person only the best {pause} in private life.
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Next time I defeat an opponent, I will wish that person only the best {pause} in private life.
It’s getting dark at 4:30.
I’m not ready for this.
I’m not ready for this.
November 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
It’s getting dark at 4:30.
I’m not ready for this.
I’m not ready for this.
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📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
📽️ WATCH: The U.S. government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain citizens. So ProPublica did.
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
We found more than 170 incidents since the start of Trump’s second term. Americans have been kicked, dragged and held for days without access to lawyers.
➡️ Full story: propub.li/3LjuAVS
If you aren’t fully up to speed on what’s been happening in El Fasher, this is mandatory listening
theworld.org/segments/202...
theworld.org/segments/202...
November 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If you aren’t fully up to speed on what’s been happening in El Fasher, this is mandatory listening
theworld.org/segments/202...
theworld.org/segments/202...
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This should be the biggest news story in the world right now
Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue
Satellite images show most el-Fasher civilians likely still trapped
Latest images suggest that majority of 260,000 civilians still in captured city, as mass RSF killings continue
www.middleeasteye.net
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This should be the biggest news story in the world right now
Hearing a lot of Pink Floyd in public lately. Are we ok? “Did they get you to traaade… your heroes for ghosts?”
November 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hearing a lot of Pink Floyd in public lately. Are we ok? “Did they get you to traaade… your heroes for ghosts?”
If you’re buying books as gifts anyway, why not do it this way?
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2025 is different, so we're doing our #GivingTuesday differently this year. We'll be donating 10% of sales from 12-8PM on Tuesday, December 2nd to 5 local nonprofits working to support different aspects of our community. More info & to RSVP (which is not required, but certainly appreciated) 👇
Giving Tuesday at Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition
We know this year, for many different reasons, members of our community are having to make difficult decisions about where to spend their often increasingly limited money, wanting to support the causes that matter to them and the people in their lives that matter to them.
portersquarebooks.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you’re buying books as gifts anyway, why not do it this way?
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Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
n.pr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
If you have had positive experiences with an org that feeds people* in the Boston area (*while upholding their dignity and ideally not pushing a particular religious orientation), let me know. Looking for ways to support. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
If you have had positive experiences with an org that feeds people* in the Boston area (*while upholding their dignity and ideally not pushing a particular religious orientation), let me know. Looking for ways to support. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Less than 3% of physicians in America are Black women.
Every episode of this podcast is a candid conversation between 2 of them. They’re trying to inspire the next generation, but also trade tips on how to maintain strength in an industry that often erases them.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Every episode of this podcast is a candid conversation between 2 of them. They’re trying to inspire the next generation, but also trade tips on how to maintain strength in an industry that often erases them.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Dr. Thea James
Podcast Episode · Faces of Medicine · 10/21/2025 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Less than 3% of physicians in America are Black women.
Every episode of this podcast is a candid conversation between 2 of them. They’re trying to inspire the next generation, but also trade tips on how to maintain strength in an industry that often erases them.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Every episode of this podcast is a candid conversation between 2 of them. They’re trying to inspire the next generation, but also trade tips on how to maintain strength in an industry that often erases them.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
“Bophutatswana is far away. But we know it’s in South Africa no matter what they say”
Happy bday to the anti-apartheid protest album Sun City!
@marcowerman.bsky.social looks back with South African rocker Kenny Mathaba and Latin music great Ruben Blades
theworld.org/segments/202...
Happy bday to the anti-apartheid protest album Sun City!
@marcowerman.bsky.social looks back with South African rocker Kenny Mathaba and Latin music great Ruben Blades
theworld.org/segments/202...
'It did work': The anti-apartheid album that changed history - The World from PRX
Forty years ago this week, the album “Sun City” was released by a talented and diverse array of artists from the world of rock, hip-hop, soul, latin, funk, jazz, plus international artists from South ...
theworld.org
October 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“Bophutatswana is far away. But we know it’s in South Africa no matter what they say”
Happy bday to the anti-apartheid protest album Sun City!
@marcowerman.bsky.social looks back with South African rocker Kenny Mathaba and Latin music great Ruben Blades
theworld.org/segments/202...
Happy bday to the anti-apartheid protest album Sun City!
@marcowerman.bsky.social looks back with South African rocker Kenny Mathaba and Latin music great Ruben Blades
theworld.org/segments/202...
Autumn playground, New England: a timeline freshener
October 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Autumn playground, New England: a timeline freshener
Compelling conversation on the dangers of Artificial Superintelligence today on @theworld.org… definitely worth a listen. theworld.org/segments/202...
Nobel laureates sound the alarm over Artificial Superintelligence - The World from PRX
There’s no shortage of doomsday scenarios involving Artificial Intelligence. But the warnings boil down to this: AI is an existential threat to human life. Some have called the warnings alarmist. But ...
theworld.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Compelling conversation on the dangers of Artificial Superintelligence today on @theworld.org… definitely worth a listen. theworld.org/segments/202...
Local hardware store appreciation post.
This one in KC is not very big but somehow has everything? And the people are super nice and helpful. Also, it has hardware-store-smell www.waldokc.org/businesses/e...
This one in KC is not very big but somehow has everything? And the people are super nice and helpful. Also, it has hardware-store-smell www.waldokc.org/businesses/e...
Euston's Waldo Hardware - Waldo KC
Neighborhood Hardware is the extension of a real-life, good old-fashioned hardware store. We have been operating in the Kansas City area since 1971. Originally founded by Ken Euston, the stores are cu...
www.waldokc.org
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Local hardware store appreciation post.
This one in KC is not very big but somehow has everything? And the people are super nice and helpful. Also, it has hardware-store-smell www.waldokc.org/businesses/e...
This one in KC is not very big but somehow has everything? And the people are super nice and helpful. Also, it has hardware-store-smell www.waldokc.org/businesses/e...
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Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and human activity have degraded the traditional habitats for some elephants in India, pushing them and humans into increasingly narrower spaces. Now, some people are seeking better ways to adapt to the changes.
Communities in southern India search for solutions for growing encounters with elephants - The World from PRX
Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and human activity have degraded the traditional habitats for some elephants in India, pushing them and humans into increasingly narrower spaces. Now, s...
theworld.org
October 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and human activity have degraded the traditional habitats for some elephants in India, pushing them and humans into increasingly narrower spaces. Now, some people are seeking better ways to adapt to the changes.
It’s hard to be a human right now, but being an elephant doesn’t sound like such a picnic, either theworld.org/stories/2025...
Migrating elephants are causing more encounters with humans in populated areas of southern India - The World from PRX
For the first time, elephants can be seen in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, as they are pushed out of their natural habitats for varying reasons. This has led to more human-elephant enco...
theworld.org
October 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s hard to be a human right now, but being an elephant doesn’t sound like such a picnic, either theworld.org/stories/2025...
“It’s really about asserting our democratic values” www.kcur.org/politics-ele...
No Kings protests across Missouri help gather signatures to overturn gerrymandered map
Volunteers at protests across the state focused on collecting signatures for a 2026 ballot measure that would overturn Missouri's recent redistricting plan. The new map was drawn by Republican lawmake...
www.kcur.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
“It’s really about asserting our democratic values” www.kcur.org/politics-ele...
Something I love: covering stories with roots in events that happened when I was old enough to have a vague awareness, but too young to really get it. Backfilling that knowledge is deeply satisfying. Like finally fixing something that's been broken so long you'd gotten used to the inconvenience.
October 20, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Something I love: covering stories with roots in events that happened when I was old enough to have a vague awareness, but too young to really get it. Backfilling that knowledge is deeply satisfying. Like finally fixing something that's been broken so long you'd gotten used to the inconvenience.
A leader of the WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM movement on its meaning, these years later: “The most important thing to come out of this movement was that it showed how influential women can be inside Iran, it became an example.” theworld.org/stories/2025...
From Turkey to France: Iranian women’s rights activist continues her work despite ongoing threats from Iranian regime - The World from PRX
Iranian activists and dissidents who live abroad are often trailed and harassed by government agents from Iran. One woman shares her story about being followed, detained and having her life threatened...
theworld.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
A leader of the WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM movement on its meaning, these years later: “The most important thing to come out of this movement was that it showed how influential women can be inside Iran, it became an example.” theworld.org/stories/2025...
This story by my friend Esther will leave you gutted, but you should read it anyway www.switchyardmag.com/issue-5/100-...
One Hundred Days of Darkness — Switchyard
By Esther Honig
www.switchyardmag.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This story by my friend Esther will leave you gutted, but you should read it anyway www.switchyardmag.com/issue-5/100-...
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Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.