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Are things slowing down or speeding up?

It's so hard to tell these days.
July 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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May 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The poise & tact shown by NPR & PBS correspondents in covering the administration's ongoing efforts to destroy public media.

It's giving Al Gore presiding over electoral college certification.

www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...
Trump says he's ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can't
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS. They say he can't. PBS chief Paula Kerger calls it "blatantly unlawful".
www.npr.org
May 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#2073 goes hard. I thought I was here for Morvern Callar doing some 12 Monkeys stuff in dystopic landscape, then I'm whisked into an unsparing, found footage documentary of the modern era? Cannot shake it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDE9...
2073 - Official Trailer
YouTube video by NEON
www.youtube.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The segment on US doctors working abroad consistently encountering identical cases of children receiving direct sniper shots to the head & chest is peak This American Life.

www.thisamericanlife.org/859/chaos-gr...
Solving For Why - This American Life
American doctors returning from Gaza compare notes and start to see a pattern. (28 minutes)
www.thisamericanlife.org
April 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So talc & asbestos are linked minerals; all talc has asbestos & all asbestos contains talc? And people have rubbed this carcinogen on their babies' nether regions for a century? www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n... That the olfactory memory is triggered by the mere mention of talcum powder makes me cringe.
'No More Tears' author discusses Johnson & Johnson's questionable business practices
J&J recently lost a bid to settle lawsuits that claimed its talc powder products, including baby powder, caused cancer. Author Gardiner Harris says the company's defense "is beginning to crumble."
www.npr.org
April 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
All this tariff-chaos has put into focus how US manufactures next to nothing, along w/ cries that making shoes is impossible w/o cheap foreign labor. But I've crunched the numbers & looks like America could domestically produce quality sneakers. Just need to lose a few high-cost positions up top.
April 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
What's the bare minimum prerequisite for calling yourself a "filmmaker"?
April 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Giving up food in order to pay the higher, tariff-induced costs of coffee.
April 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New word of the day: "Fauxlibuster"
April 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Job listing caveat:

"This opportunity is likely for someone who lives outside the US in a lower living cost location or for someone who has other financial support."
March 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Everybody having "just the flu" all the time. The new normal.
March 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I'm so put off by US states that incessantly call themselves commonwealths. Time to let it go already.
March 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Today I learned that US Presidents are wholly exempt from conflict of interest violations (which doesn't seem right).

However, a "special government employee" with multiple government contracts & a car company is not.
March 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Can't think of a single Democratic politician that couldn't be improved by being AOC. Get the hell out of her way.
March 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Catching myself listening to podcasts while editing another podcast.
March 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
March 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Spend all your money, before it's all gone.
March 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
March 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
In the US we've done a good job of normalizing the abnormal for so long that there's very little of the unacceptable that we won't accept so long as we don't have to do anything different.
March 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The commision to transform Democrats into Republicans (to combat the Republicans who have become an authoritarian cult) has returned from their retreat (surrender) with some findings (that neolibs have always wanted). www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
Centrist Dem group rails against leftist identity politics and purity tests
Centrist Democrats produced a five-page document of takeaways at a retreat organized by Third Way.
www.politico.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:47 PM
March 3, 2025 at 4:28 AM