The Invention Invention: how the invention of the sewing machine helped get us more inventions www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n... @samkesler.bsky.social @erikaberas.bsky.social

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If you've seen me in the past year I've probably talked your ear off about sewing machines. A while ago I learned that, besides being a major invention itself, it also kicked off a new era in antitrust that gave us the tech world we live in today. Listen: www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n...

Please listen to this story from my @npr.org colleague Adrian Florido about a fruit seller named Jesus

We're going on the road for a book tour in April! Author Alex Mayyasi will be joined by Planet Money hosts and special guests. Attendees can get swag, like a tour-exclusive tote bag (while supplies last/restrictions apply). Ticket and tour info: planetmoneybook.com

I went on PCHH to talk THE BONE TEMPLE which I enjoyed even though the “We were all busy that weekend please bring Kraven to the theatre a second time” t-shirt I wore to my screening didn’t quite land ... h/t to @idislikestephen.bsky.social and @ohitsbigron.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/01/16/n...

The CBS 60 Minutes CECOT segment showed up in Canada's Global TV app and then quickly disappeared. But a direct copy (not a screen recording) is now archived online: archive.org/details/60mi...

Money in Gaza is falling apart. Israel has been blocking the flow of physical cash into Gaza for almost two years. Now, two best friends – one in Gaza and one in Belgium – are finding ways to get money in – in order to get people food, milk, tents.

on this episode of @planetmoney.bsky.social, Sarah Gonzalez looks at the state of money in Gaza right now. how to get money into Gaza, how to get money out of a bank in Gaza, how cash works, and what there is to buy: www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

On @planetmoney.bsky.social - the story of two best friends - one in Gaza, one outside - trying to get past a cash blockade. Sarah Gonzalez explains how money works in Gaza. There are cash brokers, cash fixers, and one young woman just trying to get milk for her sister. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

I'm a new voice! airmedia.org/community/sp...

Spent a day at the Woodlands getting some photos taken so folks can know what I look like lately! Photos by Rachel Del Sordo who is everywhere but BlueSky!

everyone say happy birthday peggy!

I’m trying to figure out the right way to say this, because: Look, the CPB closing is devastating, and I don’t in any way want to blow even a wisp of smoke that it isn’t. But twice today, I’ve seen people express how sad they are that all of public television and radio is over. Not true! (1/3)

This is a great resource adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

New: I teamed up with @elenashao.bsky.social and nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

A must read about what it's like to experience famine in Gaza, and the gauntlet of death and humiliation that is required to get food aid from Israel and the United States, who replaced a perfectly functional aid system with one that routinely kills Palestinians. www.npr.org/2025/07/06/g...

In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday evening seeking to prohibit federal funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The order, which could be subject to legal challenge, called the broadcasters’ news coverage “biased and partisan.”

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

As part of its ongoing investigation of NPR and PBS, the Federal Communications Commission asked 13 public radio stations, including WBUR, to turn over information about their on-air sponsorships — known as “underwriting.”

This week’s episode ⬇️

Mahmoud Khalil was inside his university-owned apartment Saturday night when several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents entered and took him into custody.

I'm spending the next three months with the Life Kit podcast as part of NPR's producer rotation program. If you thought I was annoying when I worked at Code Switch or Planet Money, now I feel entitled to give unsolicited advice, too. My first production: www.npr.org/transcripts/...

My new reporting focus for a bit is on the restructuring of the federal government. Wanna talk securely about DOGE + changes in federal workforce/spending/policy? Is there important context about how government does/doesn't work well that I should know more about? Let's chat:

I was on Pop Culture Happy Hour with @ghweldon.bsky.social and @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social to discuss AMERICAN PRIMEVAL. And believe it or not, all the gushing about Dane DeHaan is ONLY A FRACTION of the original. Someday I will release the DeHaan cut. www.npr.org/2025/01/15/1...

I went to shake the realtor’s hand but he said he was a germaphobe. A brutal power move, considering this was a negotiation tactic on my part. I had sneezed in that hand earlier, and planned to weaken his immune system then lowball him. Clearly I’m dealing with an Alpha here.

A fun thing about listening to old This American Life’s is that they used to use NIN’s Ghosts IV as a music bed, the same sample Lil Nas X used for Old Town Road. (Along those same lines, the Serial theme song is an open source track anyone can use, so you too can sound like Serial!)

I produced both of this week’s Planet Moneys. First, ZIP Codes! Lots of fun tape from the Mr. ZIP era. I booked the owner of the only ‘floating ZIP code’ and spoke with the team behind Smokey Bear (who has his own ZIP code) but it got cut. Listen here: www.npr.org/2025/01/08/1...

My sibling said this sounds like a joke Elmo would make

Why would people in Greenwich set aside a time specifically to be mean?

I’ve been sitting on this caption for a year and the editor gave it back with no notes, he just said “let the kid cook” happy new year

I keep telling people my dog is so smart that, to her, a puzzle bowl is just a bowl

Having hot takes to share then remembering I have 3x the followers here than Twitter

i’ve been watching a couple of tiny desk concerts and i didn’t enjoy them at all. they should be answering emails instead. where are their computers

hey 👋 shot in the dark here, but could anyone out there just give me 50 million dollars or so? i should make a couple things clear. one is that i don't actually need it. the other is that i'm not interested in working for it. i just want it for free and for no specific reason. thanks!

Do novelists know that a smile can be something other than wan

Thanksgiving walk with Ms. Margaret (The wasp nest was empty, no Peggys were harmed)

Few people love music, *care* about music and the people who make it than @somevelvetblog.bsky.social He's one of my favorite human beings and I look forward to antagonizing him for at least two more years, including this KDesque headline. xpn.org/2024/11/22/b... 💙

Every ten years, a group of German farmers gather in the communal farm fields of the Osing for the Osingverlosung, a land lottery dating back centuries. All of the communal land is randomly reassigned to farmers, who commit to farming it for the next decade. https://buff.ly/4eBwCJW

This is the story behind one of the most valuable — and perhaps, most improbable — technologies humanity has ever created. It's a breakthrough called extreme ultraviolet lithography, and it’s how the most advanced microchips in the world are made. https://buff.ly/3O7C3Fm

My latest for @planetmoney.bsky.social - who owns the rainbow? We spoke with the son of the man who calls himself 'The King of Color,' and a British artist who fought to free the spectrum. Plus, I visited the dye shop in Queens that gives Disney World its color. www.npr.org/2024/07/19/1...

CC: @aishaharris.bsky.social www.standard.co.uk/culture/film...

I joined Glen Welson, @aishaharris.bsky.social, and @mcastimovies.bsky.social on @npr.org's Pop Culture Happy Hour to talk about KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON. We all loved it, with some small critiques. Check out the film and decide for yourself, and listen to our episode: www.npr.org/2023/10/20/1...

It's ironic that Timmy Chal starred in Call Me By Your Name considering how I and everyone I know absolutely REFUSE to use that man's full given name.

Paying for a membership at the climbing gym just so I can use their nail clippers

Just saw a guy walking down the street eating a bowl of cereal