You need to fix this @cnn.com.

Still processing everything that's happened today. I've never been fired* before. So it's all new. Having my building access key canceled before I'd finished clearing out my desk was... weird.

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

When the universe casually drops a rainbow forcefield in your backyard like it’s no big deal.

Please, I beg you, no headlines that tell us what politicians "claim," with the facts in the article. Just say it's a lie.

Wow

I had my first radio show when I was 9 years old. My parents had a baby monitor for my baby sister, and I randomly discovered that you could hear it on an FM radio (at 94.1) (I spent a lot of time fiddling with radios as a kid).

Today's the day. The final broadcast of 'On The Record' at WYPR. It has been an indescribable honor to co-host this radio show. Thank you so much for listening! 💖

Teddy Grahams Breakfast Bears (1990-1992): Essentially a lower-sugar version of Teddy Grahams cookies (which had only debuted 2 years earlier) reformulated as a breakfast cereal. Nabisco promised that this cereal would stay crunchy in milk, and was bursting with "wholesome graham flavor." Here's a 🧵

no they didn’t, that isn’t true

I mean come the hell on… The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Another fun conversation from the penultimate episode of On The Record on WYPR: animal mummies at the Walters! This topic was so much fun to explore & share. The exhibit just opened, so I haven't seen it in person yet... but I'll be stopping by soon. Maybe I'll see you there!

On the radio today: two of my final interviews for On The Record. In this one, a look at an upcoming exhibit celebrating the legacy of Lumbee elders in Baltimore, through photographs and oral histories. I think it's also the first time I've interviewed another person named Ashley!

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I was today years old when I learned it wasn't "one winged dove".

This crab had seen some things.

Des Moines has you all beat

I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.

The Baltimorons was a damn delight, not least because name checks of Orioles Magic and Lamar deliver two of the biggest laughs The geography is an absolute disaster but it’s in the service of showing all your favorite landmarks so I’m not going to be a pedant about it

Jesus christ. It angers me deeply how not a single damn person in power who wants to at least pretend like they give a shit shout trans people will read even one damn book about the history of sex segregation in sports, cause you’d see how it’s all just sexist bs. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Saw The Baltimorons today, which was very sweet and funny, but let me tell you: when watching a movie filmed in your city, just ignore the driving scenes because none of the roads connect right and nothing in the movie will make geographical sense to you

...dear Dem politicians & pundits, 1) the sports debate was never a serious issue, it was merely a wedge to launder in anti-trans policies (see: juliaserano.medium.com/trans-people...), 2) they are now going after trans ppl's *rights to exist* – that's where the battle is now! take a side in that!

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

This is insane.

Never gonna watch The Summer I Turned Pretty, because the premise makes no sense. It wouldn't take a whole summer to turn Pretty, it would take like an hour tops. You bite Pretty and drain her blood to the point of death, then feed her your blood. Boom. DONE. Sick of TV shows that drag things out.

I've seen trans ppl promoting this piece several times today, but I haven't seen a single cis person linking or praising it. It's the same old thing, an article is written FOR cis ppl but ABOUT trans ppl and yet for some reason the cis folks to whom it's addressed seem to not notice the piece.

It's funny to think about how when podcasts started out, it was like "Hey cool, I'm going to be able to listen to new versions of This American Life forever" and instead failed comedians used them to ruin society

A gathering of radio hosts! Me, Ira Glass, and Sheilah Kast!

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The hike to where Dykes Creek meets Prettyboy Reservoir.

Don't stomp them! Or do, if you like killing things, but don't think you're doing a good deed! They're not going anywhere & stomping doesn't make any difference! www.wypr.org/show/on-the-...

“Don’t be evil” seems so long ago.

Trans news is often frustrating news. Side note, I'm all for bleets.

Ekiben's Maryland Softie bun: fried soft shell, jumbo lump crab cake, old bay, cheddar slice, and a drinkable Chesapeake remoulade. Employee Iki (very smart man) eats his with a pair of gloves.

So I'm going to Maine in a couple weeks! What do I need to see? Geological oddities, weird art, hiking ideas MOST WELCOME! Also, favorite diners?

So the radio show I co-host is apparently* coming to an end. It's been 4 weeks since I was informed. I'm not sure what stage of grief I'm in. "Obviously still denial because I can only say "apparently".

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

Is it even legal in two-party consent states (Maryland & a dozen or so others)? Probably not, but that's on you.

The power of vaccine deniers largely derives from the False Balance bias among journalists. And I will die on that hill. Same for climate deniers. The False Balance bias is deadly.

The case of the curséd corduroy

Congrats, WYPR! Yeah, Baltimore! www.wypr.org/administrati...

“They forgave the entire bill at the hospital.” One Marylander recently told Baltimore’s WYPR about how the nonprofit @dollarfor.bsky.social helped her apply for financial assistance at a local hospital—and how she first heard about it from An Arm and a Leg. www.wypr.org/show/on-the-...

[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1

I live in Maryland and was able to make an appointment to get the new/updated COVID vaccine at CVS. At least in Annapolis/Anne Arundel County, they have the new formula. All I did was answer "yes" to having preexisting conditions and no more questions were asked. Marylanders, please share around!

What rocks are Baltimore's buildings made out of? 🎶We built this city🎶... on sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks.

Will AI someday become as advanced as what we’ve imagined in sci-fi? Maybe. But not anytime soon, maybe not even in our lifetimes. Your AI girlfriend doesn’t love you get over it.

OH GREAT NOW THE SWAMP IS WOKE www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virg...

Today I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The courts & public outcry forced Trump to return him to MD, but Trump’s cronies keep lying about his case & are engaged in a malicious abuse of power to try to deport him to Uganda. As I told Kilmar, I won’t stop fighting for justice & due process for all:

When I prepared to interview Rosalia Scalia last spring, my producer sent me a pdf of her book. Not wanting to have my experience influenced, I didn't read any reviews or articles about the book until I'd read the last story. Turns out: my producer had mistakenly sent me a pdf of her previous book.