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@LoufactsIGB 🛑 PLZ HOLD OFF YOUR DONATIONS 🛑 I am Kiah’s boyfriend and have spoken directly w/ Kiah’s family. This particular GoFundMe was started without their consent. Kiah’s sibling, Aisha, is working on ending this fundraiser and plans to start a new one that the family will control.

R.I.P to this Black American civil rights attorney Kiah Duggins who passed away last night in the plane crash in DC. “What brought me to this work is personal. I’m a descendent of enslaved people who have been exploited economically and criminally for hundreds of years.” She talks about how the same day she took her LSAT to become a lawyer, her uncle got detained and passed which sparked a fire. @dr_kiya_xoxo (a chemist who went to high school with the Kiah) and I reached out to her family to make sure we can do the gofund me. Y’all donate or retweet. gofundme.com/f/honoring-kia…

I was kinda hoping that the way FRED charts are created resembles a seen out of Minority Report. nytimes.com/2024/12/06/bus…

Ya know when you're on a plane and it just keeps circling the airport instead of landing? Feels like an apt metaphor for the economy this week. Talked on the show with @juliaonjobs and @M_C_Klein on what to make of it. npr.org/2024/08/05/119…

1/ it's an awful day at WNYC, my work home for 20 yrs lots of talent cut esp at WNYC Studios, which is (was) the place to develop new podcasts and talent

Finally You Feeling This? is out It's a fiction podcast about connecting with one another. My incredible team and I hope you enjoy it. Also, I'm launching a company. It's called @overtonesfm. Just trying to make good shit. >>podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you…<<

Great story that adds complexity to the overall narrative that the labor market is tight.

How will SCOTUS's decision today affect students, schools, the economy? For clues, you can look at California's 25-old-ban on affirmative action. npr.org/2023/06/08/118…

This is alarming on so many levels. So much respect for the brave @laurenchooljian nytimes.com/2023/06/06/bus…

A group of incredibly talented Gimlet staffers were laid off today - producers, reporters, editors, engineers, and more. If you have any work for them or need help making a podcast or audio project, please reach out and let me connect you with the right person!

🎙️(tap tap is this thing on?) it's true. today is my last day at @NPR as a full-time employee. i was affected by the layoffs. i was cut from @NPRCodeSwitch, since Jan I've been on @planetmoney team in an acting prod. role. now: a thread of the stuff at NPR i am proud of 🧵

Thanks for taking the time to write this. You likely meant to say “irrelevant,” but “irreverent” comes across as a compliment. Have a great weekend.

Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Please RT this thread. It’s an important one. Some news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically cut the org's workforce. I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting. But this time, alone.

After months of declining follower counts, some state-affiliated media outlets on Twitter started to gain more followers, all around the same date. Here's the sudden shift of an account from Russia's RT, beginning a period of follower growth March 28 and onwards:

@AbukarAdan17 WELL DONE I'M HERE FOR IT!!!

@ManyAdrians What's going on? I heard through the grapevines inner city blues make[s] me wanna holler how sweet it is. Ain't that peculiar? Okay... I'll see myself out lol

My neighbor pumping Marvin Gaye on the stereo while doing yard work is giving me life today.

Let's Get It On ... in court. A case involving one of the most famous Marvin Gaye jams of all time goes to trial today. @TheIndicator, we break down how these musical disputes get decided and why the outcome should matter to music lovers everywhere. npr.org/2023/04/20/117…

John Lansing, NPR CEO, at the ⁦@MorningEdition⁩ meeting. NPR says it will de-emphasize Twitter. Aside from the misleading label, NPR says Twitter isn’t used by most Americans; drives little traffic to NPR; and “no longer has the public service relevance that it once had.”