Thread: Want to think out loud about what I've seen and experienced since joining NPR a few years ago. I was hired during NPR's 'North Star' era when diversity was established as a priority. I'm an aging rural white man (58 years old). Never graduated college. Didn't see NYC...1/

NPR responds after editor says it has 'lost America's trust' : NPR npr.org/2024/04/09/124…

The Vatican has declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia.

“Biological sex and the sociocultural role of sex (gender) can be distinguished but not separated.'
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Ok, that was pretty dope! #Eclipse2024

Scenes from Eagle Pass, Texas on this #Eclipse2024 Day. People are cheering every time the clouds move and the sun comes out.

This is how the Eagle Pass ISD Student Activity Center looks like. Less people than I expected, but those here are optimistic this gray clouds will go away or break for the total eclipse.

Ghostbusting my way through this total eclipse and life 🎤📻👻

Sure, we love the sun. After all, its continued existence is essential for the survival of all life on Earth.

But don’t you sometimes just wish it would dramatically disappear for a few minutes, completely obscured by the moon?

Of course you do!

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Greetings from the parking lot of the Walmart in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Sigurd Sannan and Merethe Ranum cam (two on the right) came all the way from Norway to meet their friends Grace and Johan Nebb to watch the eclipse. This trip is part of Sigurd and Merethe’s honeymoon!

NPR’s practical guide for Monday’s magnificent celestial event in the age of smartphones and social media. #Eclipse2024 #DarkSideOfTheMoon . npr.org/sections/Solar…

Tomorrow NewsGuild-CWA members will be on ULP strikes at four newsrooms: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Long Beach Post, Austin American-Statesman and now the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. ⚡️⚡️⚡️Stand with the strikers!

Last night, divers found the body of Maynor Suazo Sandoval, one of the construction workers on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed.

Maynor was generous. He sponsored the youth soccer league in his town in Honduras and paid for people’s meds. npr.org/2024/03/29/124…

BREAKING: Mexico’s president says country will break diplomatic ties with Ecuador apnews.com/article/mexico…

SCOOPLET: Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson, who not long ago switched to the Republican party, has hired a staff writer at the Dallas Express, a right wing website funded by GOP megadonor Monty Bennett, who took a leadership course with the Christian Nationalist group Wall Builders.

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Guild members at the Austin American-@Statesman are on ULP (unfair labor practice) strike through Monday, April 8. Here’s why. 🧵

A U.S. Judge ruled that migrant children in makeshift camps along the border are subject to 'minimum standards' of care (sanitation/food/etc.) while in the custody of the Border Patrol. Reporting from Tyche Hendricks KQED NPR
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.WNYC 🎙's The Brian Lehrer Show and A Daily Politics Podcast is taking calls live. People are describing what they felt this AM. wnyc.org/radio/

BREAKING: An earthquake shakes the New York City area with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8, officials say. apnews.com/article/east-c…