lol well if it turns out that the EXCELLENT breakfast is now the same quality as what the VERY GOOD breakfast was before, and the VERY GOOD breakfast is actually a CRUMMY BREAKFAST, that's a skimpflation story!
What if a very good breakfast is included, but an EXCELLENT breakfast requires an upcharge
panic buying those Bonilla a la Vista potato chips before the U.S. cuts off all trade with Spain (I hear they're really good!)
@wailinwong.bsky.social @planetmoney.bsky.social @npr.org featured @aaronrosenthal.bsky.social's & my estimate of DHS causing $106 million in lost wages for MSP metro workers as her Indicator of the week.
Thanks for doing such a great job communicating the results.
www.npr.org/2026/02/27/n...
Between this news and RFK Jr telling us we should be eating more liver, it's a real banner day for the Hannibal Lecter Diet
I still have dreams about not being able to open the combination lock on my middle school gym locker 😩
DHS' Tricia McLaughlin told NPR's Indicator last week "new ICE recruits receive 56 days of training and 28 days of on-the-job training. No training was removed." Then she said they dropped Spanish language proficiency in the same statement and contradicted Lyons' own testimony too. All baloney.
Incredible! 🥇
If pressed, I think I would skate to Tom Wilkinson's monologue from Michael Clayton
Now we've got MORE talking—dialogue from Ghost the musical during this Georgian skater's routine! Awkward
Lara Naki Gutmann is skating to a medley that includes Hans Zimmer's score for Inception. I hope at the end of her free skate she starts spinning and doesn't stop
What is the most uptempo song that would be great for a figure skating routine WITHOUT encouraging spectators to clap on beats one and three, or clapping at all? This is what I would be obsessed with if I were a figure skater
Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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Tax Morale—a great term! Going to keep that in mind for future episodes!
We did an episode about this a few years ago! Interestingly, I noticed that TurboTax has been running an anime-style ad for their "free" edition during the Olympics. The ad seems very Tax Heaven 3000-coded!
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Her signing to her son "Mommy won" 😭 😭 😭
Oh Kim, I'm so sorry to hear this. Thinking of you and your colleagues ❤️
Solidarity with our friends and colleagues at @postguild.bsky.social.
I heard a William Grant Still piece on WMFT recently! Another great Black American composer. Relatedly, my teen just discovered WMFT and was amazed. "You mean, you just turn on the radio and this is playing?"
had the great privilege of joining @bmluse.bsky.social and @wailinwong.bsky.social on today's episode of It's Been a Minute, talking through why the job market really does still suck despite topline (emphasis on topline) economic numbers looking sanguine as ever www.npr.org/2026/01/26/n...
"And the marquee entry on his résumé is his eight years, from 2011 to 2019, as mayor of Chicago, a city that eats politicians alive. He made mistakes and enemies. They’ll come back to haunt him."
Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald”
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Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.
in no way the most important thing but it is incredibly jarring how many times people have opened up their devices in the last year to see autoplay videos of people being killed
If you're in Chicago, come see me with Alex Mayyasi and Adriana Robertson on April 23!
Can confirm,currently at work, putting together some banger episodes on Greenland’s critical minerals and Big Beef for later this week. Subscribe to NPR’s The Indicator wherever you get your podcasts. www.npr.org/podcasts/510...
This is a great cathartic rage listen for those of us who lived through this drama
Oooh I *love* THE NINE LIVES OF CHRISTMAS!
Going to see the local middle school production of Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical featuring the music of The Go-Gos
My middle schooler this morning: "I don't want to go to school. I don't care that education is a privilege."
Me: "Who said that?"
Her: "MALALA!" [storms out the door]
