Just learning about how Talc is tied to Asbestos
Saturday - #NPR darlings #TankAndTheBangas @ Brighton Music Hall, 50$+,
https://concerts.livenation.com/tank-and-the-bangas-the-heart-boston-massachusetts-04-12-2025/event/0100622ACD1D4669
#BostonMusic
#BostonWeekend 9/x
#NOAA faces disruptions as federal contracts lapse : #NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5356166/noaa-contracts-reviewed-one-by-one
#GOPShitShow #TheBiggestLoser
#Tariffs
#HouseGOP leaders prepare budget vote, daring dissenters to oppose Trump : #NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5357510/house-gop-budget-vote-trump
“Bitches Brew” makes the Library of Congress archive of influential recordings along with Tracy Chapman’s eponymous recording, the Chicago Transit Authority eponymous recording, and Elton’s “Goodby Yellow Brick Road” recording. And more.
Miles is a giant. He set the direction of jazz 5 times in his career with Kind of Blue, Birth of the Cool, and Bitches Brew at top of mind. “Brew” was so radical in ‘69. Today, mainstream fusion. Miles Runs the VooDoo Down … #NPR #music
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5352774/national-recording-registry-tracy-chapman-elton-john-hamilton-minecraft
#MusicWomenWednesday NPR just published this Tiny Desk Concert with Nubya Garcia, performing five songs from her latest album (Odyssey, released in 2024)
youtube link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh4u8Da0F7A
El Tiny Desk Concert de #BadBunny estuvo nítido.
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/07/g-s1-58060/bad-bunny-tiny-desk-concert
#npr after being bad on AI lets be bad in “AGI”.
Pro tip: if you have multiple definitions it means they are some conflicts and you should check that…
#JamesComer is a MORON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-TH-9AoQgY
#DOGE subcommittee hearing led by a moron #MajorieTaylorGreene, #Kentucky Rep Comer fucked up miserably to land a 'gotcha' line on #NPR CEO #KatherineMaher, offering a prefect contrast to Rep. GregCasar's humorous, concise and sensible testimony later in the hearing.
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, if NPR only gets 1 or 2 percent of its funding from the Federal Government, it would be in their best interest to walk away. That can be made up elsewhere and it would remove any talking points. In the long term they would be better off.
Some of the Taiwanese musicians at the Megaport Festival in Kaohsiung used the stage to send a political message
[They do this every year. For some indie bands in Taiwan music and politics are inseparable.]
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/05/nx-s1-5352444/musicians-protest-through-song-at-festival-in-taiwan
Caught just a few min of a compelling piece on #NPR about a reporter whose dad is consumed by wacko right wing conspiracy theories, but is otherwise seems sane and functional.
He was sure ten crazy things were going to happen last year, and bet his son they would. What happens when they (obv) didn't?
Found it's a #podcast called "Embedded" and you can check out. Listening now.
It's three episodes here called "Alternate Realities."
I'm a big #NPR fan. But I sure am disappointed in them continually airing a clip from a shrimp boat owner talking about how the tariffs will be good for them, so they "can continue serving America" like, what were you doing before?
And do you think folks will be able to afford your expensive ass DeepWaterHorizon-flavored shrimp when they are unemployed?
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/03/nx-s1-5350978/trump-administration-warns-schools-about-dei-programs
Trump Admin warns Schools about #DEI programmes
I've been telling #NPR for 20 years that they would be first up against the wall, that #appeasement of Republicans was in vain.