Gina Kaufmann

Good insights here, h/t @pubradiosly.bsky.social english.elpais.com/technology/2...

Double spacing again, and it feels so right 😍

The assignment I've been looking forward to all semester: Marxist analysis of Stuart Little. As a lifelong fan of children's literature (I have read it for my own enjoyment at every age) raised by a socialist, this is my time to shine. Hold my beer.

A notable theme in latest round of “fan mail” after this is seemingly older white men arguing that being sexually abused makes you “crazy” and therefore unfit to lead. It's not that they don’t believe she wasn't abused, it's that they do. 19thnews.org/2026/10/amy-...

My son's preK-5 public school is very international, with more than 30 languages spoken by students. Every year, the school hosts an international potluck. It's one of my favorite nights of the entire year. It's tonight and I just realized it's our last one. Bakin' a cake, feelin' kinda sad.

It's six months since Viktor Orbán was defeated in Hungary, so how different is life today for those living there? Listen here to my report and reflections from across Hungary for @theworld.org theworld.org/segments/202...

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

MIT students walking out to demand the regulation of AI gives me hope.

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Today, I have applied the thinking of Joseph Campbell and Jacques Derrida to E.B. White's Stuart Little. The number of life events that cumulatively produce this outcome would astonish you.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Very cool event last night that made me feel lucky to be living here www.instagram.com/floorlordsbo...

Just read a truly fascinating study on how vaccine-confident versus vaccine-hesitant moms of newborns interact with health information. The findings honestly make sense, but I would not have predicted them. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I thought I had at least passing familiarity with conspiracy theories until the man sitting next to me at the Lebanon, OH Skyline told me “space ain’t real.” “What do you think is between us and the moon?” an employee asked. The man seemed to think about this for a moment. “The moon…is with us.”

Reading American Hagwon and can't put it down, which might be a problem b/c it's more than 600 pages long. But so damn engrossing. I am deeply invested in multiple generations of multiple fictional families spread across 3 continents. cardinal-publishing.com/titles/min-j...

yikes and more yikes

If more of them talked like that, more of them would.

For anyone in a newsroom covering elections this November, the next session sounds useful and important... "risk assessment and best practices for safety" pen.org/event/managi...

Getting ready to go to Kansas City in October and, uh... what?

If you're looking for an experienced national journalist, I have 23 years at NPR under my belt. That includes time as an editor and planning coverage for a dispersed team of staff and freelance reporters.

Went canoeing on a pond in Massachusetts surrounded by trees with leaves changing color, and dotted with lillypads ALSO CHANGING COLOR!!! The water was so still that it perfectly reflected the big white fluffy clouds in the sky. Like drifting into a painting.

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

"Reporting unvarnished facts, uplifting democracy and condemning corruption is not partisan." www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2026-electio...

Americans need to understand the stakes of the upcoming elections. Too many news orgs rely on “horse race coverage”, “sanewashing”, “false equivalence”, “euphemism” and other inadequacies. Endorse our pro-democracy election coverage guidelines. www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/2026-electio...

"It's trying to render individual cartoonists obsolete because we cost money and take time." Thorough and illuminating reporting on ChatGPT pilfering the work (and signatures!!!) of New Yorker cartoonists.

I studied structuralist linguistics in college but a quarter century later a single chapter on the topic kinda hurts my brain. Thank god for the Magnetic Fields. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6SGC...

NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...

Surely there's a company other than Amazon that sells kids' watches... but I admittedly have a lot of requirements. Digital, not smart, ideally no plastic (but if I have to cave on something, I guess this is it), and yeah... not on Amazon. Help.

Hannukah Barbie sold out already. I'm sorry, I can't help it, love her 😅

Just going to leave this here... and call it a night.

Fun story by @pubradiosly.bsky.social about Turkish psychedelic funk in Kansas City. One of the things I miss most about Kansas City is the music scene, everyone is up for a challenge and a good time. There's so much creative energy. Thanks for the sonic visit home. theworld.org/segments/202...

This just in: I stopped re-reading 1984. I’m just gonna read the news instead. However, I will say, re-reading just a little reminded me how important the centralization of economic power in govt hands was to that particular dystopia. There is also a lot of dust!!! Like seriously, so much dust.