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I am too tired to turn this into a thread or a substack post, but I've thought a lot about it!
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Take: Robin Williams, primarily through Hook and Mrs Doubtfire, was a major avatar of a More Involved Dad for Gen X/Millennial boys who are now far more involved parents than their dads were.
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So @scottdetrow @nprscottsimon @scotthensley & @HorsleyScott want to extend a heart congratulations to @ScottRolen27 for his elevation to the @baseballhall and making the name Scott cool for a day!
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This needs to be public radio's primary strategic goal right now.
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The top of this AM: "the massacre in California is different from the other massacre in California"
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This man playing piano and trumpet at the same time is my new hero. From just-taped Charlie Crockett Tiny Desk.
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DOJ officials spent 13 hours searching a sitting president’s home, and found six more docs marked classified.
Biden and his legal team fully cooperated.
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Back to school
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Please pray for the Montanaro family, and if you can, contribute.
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It’s my last day of parental leave. I am incredibly grateful to and that this has been the focal point of my life since late summer.
I’m also excited to get back to work with the team covering the Biden White House and everything else!
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Why are no D.C. movie theaters showing Turn Every Page?! We have to have the highest per-capita Caro book ownership in the U.S. here, right?
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Planning a New Years party? Put a potato on it.
Reupping our annual New Years tradition, which brings us great joy and closure every time we do it.
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A lot of people I know felt like 2021 was harder than 2020. That’s how I felt too.
With that in mind, I’d like to share a New Years Eve tradition my friends and I have carried out for several years now:
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Sitting here floored by the horrible news that Grant Wahl died today in Qatar. I have read his work for literally decades; just two months ago I had the pleasure of meeting him, and he was an absolute mensch. This is a tragic and devastating loss.
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This is devastating news. One of those reporters whose voice was so genuine - and whose love for journalism and for what he covered just oozed out of every story - that as a longtime reader it really feels like a personal loss.
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NPR can confirm the death of longtime soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl (@GrantWahl). He died today in Doha, Qatar while covering the Argentina-Netherlands World Cup quarterfinal. Story to come.
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The opening prayer from last night’s Father McKenna Center lessons and carols. Pretty good message regardless of your religious views!
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If the digital ship is going down today, I’ll end with a shout out to , the first real-life friend I made via Twitter. Back in the happy, quirky, community-minded early days.
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Michelle Obama shares her best advice on family and marriage in her new book, "The Light We Carry."
She tells parents to follow her mom Marian Robinson's philosophy on parenting: raise adults, not children. It teaches kids they can do a lot on their own.
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I’m just saying - if someone had given me a heads up, I would have come in and brought the baby to provide a BYO Simba for the opening number.
(Maybe this is why no one told me)
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Not quite yet! Soonish.
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I had also been thinking about how Democrats will now control the governor’s office for 20 of 24 years. Up until 2014 it had always flipped parties every 8 years like clockwork.
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Since 2017, there have been five elections for statewide major offices (gov/senate/president) in PA. Republicans are 0/5. Since 2011 republicans have never won Governor and only one senate election (Toomey 16). We should be clear eyed about the challenge in front of us.
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I am about halfway through this, and even as I pull my (remaining) hair out at the unrelenting needs and demands of my two little kids, it has me tearing up at the idea that one day soon those demands will slow and cease. A wonderful read.
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Writing a book is so satisfying, and so hard. One of the uncomplicated moments is when a crisp box arrives from New York, and you rip it open & think—it’s REAL! Excited to put this out in the world next April.
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Like the work is doing on the election?
Have I mentioned we are a nonprofit?
Help if you can (and you can!):
checkout.fundjournalism.org/memberform?org
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America! It’s big. It’s complicated. It usually doesn’t quite fit into your simple, sweeping and confident Narrative. Maybe “I don’t know - let’s wait and see!” is the answer we should embrace more often.
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We can also all try to get back to a world where talking to voters and being out in America - not endlessly taking and modeling and predicting and just repeating what everyone else is saying on social media - is the heart of political journalism.
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It will be natural to ask why some of the polls again didn’t have the results just exactly right — but maybe it’s better to acknowledge that “the general area” is the best they can do, to know data isn’t everything, and even to celebrate that human beings remain unpredictable.
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Just finished The Long Alliance by . One of the better Biden books out there - a lot of new info on 2020, and great context on Biden’s role during the Obama years.
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7 months ago, in the most intense reporting moment of my life, we met Ludmilla in Ukraine.
went back to follow up, and now tells more of her amazing story and her work to help heal her community.
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“The thing about George is that dozens, maybe hundreds of people could be giving these remarks right now, telling you how George changed their life, how George taught them about broadcasting, how George opened the door to what became their career and their vocation”
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For the first time in three years, the @wfuv's On the Record dinner was held in person at the Lincoln Center campus. Honorees included Mike Breen, the lead voice on @ESPNNBA and @ABC, and @NorahODonnell, anchor and managing editor of @CBSEveningNews.
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Such a great night!
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So much fun to celebrate @wfuv and see so many friends and former students! Congrats to Mike Breen and @georgebodarky and @NorahODonnell…whose mom went to @FordhamNYC. Who knew? And Bob Costas? Simply awesome!
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Fitting end to this Nats season!
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I was fast asleep, but, now they will meet Juan Soto, Josh Bell and Craig Stammen there. twitter.com/dougherty_jess…
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(Also is that guy who fell out of the stands ok???)
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Is Aaron Judge’s record more legitimate than what McGwire, Sosa, and Bonds did? Probably?
But the past two weeks have brought back a deep wave of emotions for me about how magical the ‘98 chase was to watch, and that still feels very real.
Amazing to see it happen again.
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NUMBER 62 TO SET THE NEW AMERICAN LEAGUE RECORD!
Just think of it: three Yankee right fielders!
THIS is Judgement Day! Case Closed!
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“A Hans Holbein painting of beagles asking questions during a press conference.” You’re welcome / I’m sorry.
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I am generating DALL-E images during a baby nap and would like to share: “an Edward Hopper painting of an Airedale eating a bowl of soup in New York City”
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Checking in from parental leave to say we just binge-watched For All Mankind, and it was a wild ride to see a show go from one of my favorite ever to a complete train wreck over the course of like a week.
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