This story now features me talking about said travel guide on the radio

I spent a lot of time putting together NPR's first (that I know of) travel guide. Lot of interesting stuff in here worth checking out: www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

Thank you for donating to NPR: www.npr.org/donations/su...

I'm in the pro-"Wonderful Christmastime" camp: www.npr.org/2025/12/01/n...

The story of one man's long, harrowing journey. He traveled from Libya to Italy on a jet ski: www.npr.org/2025/11/24/n...

Quite the lede: "The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, an emblem of fascism and white supremacy inextricably linked to the murder of millions of Jews and that more than 400,000 U.S. troops died fighting against in World War II, as a hate symbol, according to a new policy..."

Quick news survey: NYT, WaPo, CNN, NPR, NBC, USAToday, ABC are all leading their websites with Trump-Epstein files story. Fox News:

"The purpose of this is to build up a massive surveillance apparatus that can be used for whatever kind of policing the people in power decide that they want to undertake,"said Emily Tucker of the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law. www.npr.org/2025/11/08/n...

A great explainer on the economics of what people can do with stolen artwork: www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a couple of unexpected pathogens may have helped hasten the soldiers' demise.

I wrote about problems in the world of coffee, again: www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

"The rescuers and I watched as these dolphins swam alongside the ship. Their leaps and games in the frothy water made our hearts soar. It reminded me that even in this sometimes cruel world, life and beauty persist." www.npr.org/series/g-s1-...

Today is NPR's first day ever without the support of public funding. Thanks to everyone who has donated to your local stations. It means the world. Today, the NPR shop also re-launched with a bunch of swag to help support us, too. I've always been partial to the 70s logo, myself. shopnpr.org

"The mission of NPR is to work in partnership with Member Stations to create a more informed public — one challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas and cultures."

For International Coffee Day, I wrote about stuff going on in the coffee world: www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

Prisoners can now do remote work in Maine: www.mainepublic.org/2025-08-29/i...

The ICE agent's partner "said he suffered a 'knee injury' and 'some lacerations to his hands,' according to police body camera footage obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. But the feds reported he was 'seriously injured' before he fatally shot Silverio Villegas González." www.wbez.org/immigration/...

“I hiked the Appalachian Trail. It fixed my brain.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Took a look at Kimmel's ouster in light of the longstanding Republican attacks on social media over jawboning, which, the Supreme Court has found, requires a direct causal line. The Kimmel case "is as direct a line as you could dream up," @alexabdo.bsky.social told me www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...

"The Commanders have committed $2.7 billion, while D.C. is investing about $1 billion. Bowser has called it the largest private investment in D.C.’s history." wtop.com/dc/2025/09/t...

I was on your radio dials today, talking about coffee and zarfs: www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

For NPR's Word of the Week, we're getting hot: During the Ottoman Empire, people used devices called "zarfs" to hold their coffee cups. Here's what to know about this word's history.

A cool interview about Austin punk: www.kut.org/texasstandar...

"At a hearing last week, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said Riley appeared to have been singled out by the police because he was a Black man carrying a satchel that looked heavy. 'It is without a doubt the most illegal search I've even seen in my life,' Faruqui said from the bench."

"A Fox News executive has called a prominent Trump appointee a 'reckless maniac.' ... A third condemned her for the 'tendency to find random conspiracy theories on weird internet sites.' And a Fox corporate board member called a public statement of hers 'insane.'" www.npr.org/2025/09/04/n...

Everyone’s going to be using the Club soon

"'Give Trump a third term, give him a Peace Prize, and let him run D.C. as long as he wants,' Rep. Andy Ogles, a Tennessee Republican, wrote Friday on social media." www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

"Friday, hours after the original sign had been torn down, neighbors in the community put up another anti-ICE message written onto bedsheet." www.wusa9.com/article/news...

"One strategy, when they get word of an arrest, is to file a habeas corpus petition asking a court to review the legality of the detention, before ICE can transport someone to the nearest overnight detention center, across the state line in Tacoma, Wash." www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

As if this week were not bizarre enough: Mount Pleasant residents tell me a group of federal agents gathered for a photo-op near a pro-immigrant banner, pictured below, then tore it down. In its place, they left a dildo. A neighbor's Ring camera captured the whole thing...

The unit was "accused of dissecting live prisoners, some without anesthesia, infecting them with diseases or conducting germ warfare against Chinese soldiers and civilians." www.npr.org/2025/08/14/n...

Photos from above Gaza: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

A reporter kept being offered more coffee and tea, a "gently relentless ritual of kindness — offered by people fortunate to survive the war with enough to sustain themselves, and by others left with virtually nothing." www.npr.org/2025/07/30/g...

"Tariffs don't help the coffee producer. They don't help the small- and medium-sized businesses across the country, and they don't help the consumer. Why are we doing it?" www.npr.org/2025/07/21/n...

A tool lets you pick which public radio stations most need donations: adoptastation.org

"People in the three counties Allegheny Mountain Radio covers voted for President Trump by a margin of nearly three to one last year. Cardwell says in an attempt to punish NPR, Trump is only hurting some of those who have supported him." www.npr.org/2025/07/20/n...

Louisville Public Media has now raised: $444,000. In a little more than one day. Dunno, I’m pretty speechless. And I guess I’ll still be employed here for awhile. Can’t thank everybody enough who donated!

I wrote about something (mostly) fun, history and nature! www.npr.org/2025/07/18/n...

Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media. This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)

We at Louisville Public Media just lost $376,000 due to Congress passing the rescission bill last night to claw back funds from public media across America. Today we’re asking those who value our work to help make up those funds in an emergency drive so we can maintain the staff/services we provide:

Well this is something: gothamist.com/news/former-...

“UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...

NEW: We've uncovered a new AI tactic being deployed on TikTok: A creator's verbatim words stolen and recited by an AI influencer. Experts told us this kind of trickery has overlap with the methods of state-backed influence operations. W/ @shannonbond.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

Not to brag but I just received an emailed invitation to an "exclusive virtual press conference" to unveil a "a completely new dishwasher platform."

"DOGE very much continues in Musk's absence. In some cases, including at the USDA, the team's access appears to have only deepened in recent months." www.npr.org/2025/07/10/n...

100 years since evolution went on trial: www.npr.org/2025/07/08/n...

I need to make my way to the Big Bend area at some point: www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...