April Alvarez
@411bee.bsky.social
Writer and audio creator. Episode 1 is up! THE SUITCASE, a podcast on the life and mystery of Ely Green, biracial author of Too Black, Too White.
www.thesuitcasepodcast.com
Now on Apple and Spotify!
#everydaydogwalks 📍Sewaneeverse
www.thesuitcasepodcast.com
Now on Apple and Spotify!
#everydaydogwalks 📍Sewaneeverse
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April Alvarez
@411bee.bsky.social
· Mar 1
WELCOME TO A NEW PODCAST, THE SUITCASE: DISCOVERING ELY GREEN
“Unemployed! In Greenland?” Greatest holiday movie lol
November 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
“Unemployed! In Greenland?” Greatest holiday movie lol
Why is Larry Summers employed?
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Why is Larry Summers employed?
Southern Nights, Northern Lights
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Southern Nights, Northern Lights
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This week’s cover story: Examining Tennessee’s relationship with CoreCivic, one of the country’s largest for-profit private prison companies.
Core Issues: Examining Tennessee’s Relationship With CoreCivic
A look at one of the country’s largest for-profit private prison companies — and the politics, money and institutions that have contributed to its power
www.nashvillescene.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This week’s cover story: Examining Tennessee’s relationship with CoreCivic, one of the country’s largest for-profit private prison companies.
I loved many things about working at Nat Geo. I learned my favorite business saying there: When the elephants are running through the forest, stand behind a tree. 🌳🐘
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I loved many things about working at Nat Geo. I learned my favorite business saying there: When the elephants are running through the forest, stand behind a tree. 🌳🐘
I remembered the time the editor of a national magazine turned down my request to attend a conference but 2 days later said I had nice legs in front of a photographer in an elevator. 1993.
Dunno but I can tell you that, upon reading this headline, I suddenly remembered, for the first time in years, my first faculty meeting as a new biology professor in a department of men when I was asked to make coffee every morning. 😐
I’m lying. I think about that all the fucking time. It was 1990.
I’m lying. I think about that all the fucking time. It was 1990.
I wonder how all the women reporters and editors at the Times feel about this headline.
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I remembered the time the editor of a national magazine turned down my request to attend a conference but 2 days later said I had nice legs in front of a photographer in an elevator. 1993.
I love risotto in the fall.
November 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I love risotto in the fall.
Episode 1 on Apple and Spotify! The Suitcase: Discovering Ely Green about the biracial author, soldier, boxer and bootlegger available now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Episode 1 on Apple and Spotify! The Suitcase: Discovering Ely Green about the biracial author, soldier, boxer and bootlegger available now. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Maybe don’t spend all your money on inauguration party bribes and fancy coffees.
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Maybe don’t spend all your money on inauguration party bribes and fancy coffees.
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And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.
Paris, Texas contains the seed of the plot of every movie made for the next 40 years.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Paris, Texas contains the seed of the plot of every movie made for the next 40 years.
Hearing Trio and also the bar formerly known as Fox and Hounds is closing in DC. End of an era. Breaks my little hungover French toast eating happy hour heart.
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Hearing Trio and also the bar formerly known as Fox and Hounds is closing in DC. End of an era. Breaks my little hungover French toast eating happy hour heart.
Heartbreaking. Better solutions are out there: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
12 Hours in the Smoke
Across the country, wildfire fighters work for weeks at a time in poisonous smoke. The government says they are protected. We tested the air at one fire to find out why they are still dying.
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Heartbreaking. Better solutions are out there: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Walter frigging Moseley out here banging out amazing episodes of The Lowdown that’s what
October 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Walter frigging Moseley out here banging out amazing episodes of The Lowdown that’s what
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Student journalists in Appalachia! 🚨 PAID writing opportunity before end of the semester: 100 Days in Appalachia is assembling a series of dispatches on the biggest issues facing campuses. Pieces are short, not as heavy a lift reporting-wise. Email rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com & I'll share info.
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Student journalists in Appalachia! 🚨 PAID writing opportunity before end of the semester: 100 Days in Appalachia is assembling a series of dispatches on the biggest issues facing campuses. Pieces are short, not as heavy a lift reporting-wise. Email rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com & I'll share info.
>700,000 Tennesseans used SNAP benefits last fiscal year.
October 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
>700,000 Tennesseans used SNAP benefits last fiscal year.
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JUST RELEASED: our 2nd primer on how communities can respond to data center proposals—and what questions are helpful to ask.
The first one focused on questions about water. (See below.) This one focuses on questions about the electricity and the grid.
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
The first one focused on questions about water. (See below.) This one focuses on questions about the electricity and the grid.
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
JUST RELEASED: our 2nd primer on how communities can respond to data center proposals—and what questions are helpful to ask.
The first one focused on questions about water. (See below.) This one focuses on questions about the electricity and the grid.
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
The first one focused on questions about water. (See below.) This one focuses on questions about the electricity and the grid.
www.sehn.org/sehn/2025/10...
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
About to lose healthcare access in our little university town, and at the next closest town which is like 20 miles away. Can’t wait to drive 55 miles to get my fucking finger stitched up next time I misjudge the distance to an avocado.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
About to lose healthcare access in our little university town, and at the next closest town which is like 20 miles away. Can’t wait to drive 55 miles to get my fucking finger stitched up next time I misjudge the distance to an avocado.
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🧪 NEW STUDY: Parkinson’s disease is linked to exposure to a common solvent, trichloroethylene, formerly used as a dry cleaning fluid and as an anesthetic gas, and to degrease metal parts and which now contaminates up to 50% of US drinking water sources. 1/2
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
Ambient Trichloroethylene Exposure and Parkinson Disease Risk in Medicare Beneficiaries | Neurology
Background and ObjectivesTrichloroethylene (TCE) is an important environmental contaminant in the United States
due to widespread use industrially. Epidemiologic studies suggest that occupational
expo...
www.neurology.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🧪 NEW STUDY: Parkinson’s disease is linked to exposure to a common solvent, trichloroethylene, formerly used as a dry cleaning fluid and as an anesthetic gas, and to degrease metal parts and which now contaminates up to 50% of US drinking water sources. 1/2
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
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Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank
Thinking of my NG colleagues and the DC teachers and students who perished on 9/11 on Flight 77.
September 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Thinking of my NG colleagues and the DC teachers and students who perished on 9/11 on Flight 77.
We’re letting our firefighters die. We can figure this out and do better.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We’re letting our firefighters die. We can figure this out and do better.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/u...
Will spend entire evening selecting generationally appropriate celebratory meme, good night
August 30, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Will spend entire evening selecting generationally appropriate celebratory meme, good night
My old neighborhood. Breaks my heart.
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
August 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
My old neighborhood. Breaks my heart.