Alejandra Ramos Shares 6 Latino-Owned Brands To Add Flavor to Your Kitchen From chile-spiked snacks to vegetable-scented candles, these expertly curated products will be welcome additions to your home.

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Loved sharing these wonderful Latino-owned small business on @todayshow.com this morning!

All five of these are lazy and three of them are essentially fraudulent

Statement from Katherine Maher, President & CEO of NPR This vote is an unwarranted dismantling of beloved local civic institutions, and an act of Congress that disregards the public will. Two-thirds of Americans support federal funding for public media, and believe that it is a good value for taxpayer dollars. Americans listen to their local NPR stations daily, watch their favorite PBS shows loyally, raise their children on educational television, and listen to music stations that showcase the best of our home-grown music traditions. Public funding has enabled the flourishing of a uniquely American system of unparalleled cultural, informational, and educational programming, and ensured access to vital emergency alerting and reporting in times of crisis — all for about $1.60 per American, every year. Parents and children, senior citizens and students, tribal and rural communities — all will bear the harm of this vote. Locally owned and independent, public radio stations reach 99.7% of the American public, and employ thousands of people, including nearly 3,000 local journalists. They have deep roots in their communities, an unflagging dedication to public service, and a commitment to all listeners, regardless of background or belief. Supporters of defunding are fixated on NPR and PBS, but in reality the cuts will be felt where these services are needed most. Stations in places like West Virginia, and those serving tribal nations, receive more than 50% of their budget from federal funding. Public radio provides local programming that would otherwise be unavailable — coverage of town councils, statehouse affairs, local elections, and local music. Public radio is also a lifeline, connecting rural communities to the rest of the nation, and providing life-saving emergency broadcasting and weather alerts. Nearly 3-in-4 Americans say they rely on their public radio stations for alerts and news for their public safety.

NPR CEO statement on congress' decision to claw back $1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Season 4 of The Great American Recipe on @pbs.org premieres tonight! Excited to have Al Roker joining as a guest judge for episode 1!!

Cheeky little reminder as we head towards another "Prime Day" and as I see more authors continuing to push Amazon links.... STOP LINKING TO AMAZON!

Fascism requires the death of empathy first.

Before states banned abortion, one of the gravest outcomes of early miscarriage could easily be avoided: Doctors could offer a dilation and curettage procedure, which quickly empties the uterus and allows it to close, protecting against a life-threatening hemorrhage.

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco
#nokings

Trump’s revenge spree on Harvard echoes well beyond education | Jan-Werner Müller Attacks on the university make clear that the administration will wield its power against anyone who incurs its displeasure

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This is what AI is doing.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

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A brief respite from despair today: David Lynch’s family has created a worldwide group meditation at Noon PST for 10 minutes today, which would’ve been his 79th birthday.
ZOOM LINK
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(1/5) King’s words in their full context are damning of our status quo–not shallow affirmations of some “color blind” society. “First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the...

Top entertaining trends for 2025: Chaos cakes, sustainable maximalism and more Alejandra Ramos shares what she’s putting on her party table this year.

There’s never enough time on the air to share everything, so I love accompanying my segments with an article. Watch the segmemt & read more about the entertaining ideas I’m excited about this year: www.today.com/food/trends/...

CIA releases docs on Latino civil rights-era surveillance The documents confirm Latino civil rights pioneers' long-held suspicions about surveillance.

For the last year, I’ve been pushing the FBI + CIA to release files on their surveillance of the Latino civil rights movement.

This week, the CIA released documents with new info about their efforts to obstruct the work of organizations that fought for civil rights. 1/
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REDIKER Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea CAMBRIDOE THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA PETER LINEBAUGH and MARCUS REDIKER Ahab's ROLLING SEA Richard J. King SAID Reflections on Exile and Other Essays BLUM THE VIEW FROM THE MASTHEAD MOBY-DICK CHICAGO HARVARD CHAPEL HILL MELVILLE THIRD CRITICAL EDITION C. L. R. James MARINERS, RENEGADES & CASTAWAYS Dartmouth MELVILLE Pierre, Israel Potter The Confidence-Mon Tales @ Billy Buda HERMAN MELVILLE COMPLETE SHORTER FICTION EDWARD W. SAID CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM VINTAGE Melville Moby-Dick OXFORD

Here's a stack of some of the books I used to prepare myself to write the foreword.

Folks who only know Edward Said as an intellectual who wrote about Palestine are missing out on his incredible discussions of world literature, including an intro he wrote for an older edition of Moby-Dick.

been thinking about this a lot. journalism, books, music, and film industries, all severely damaged or destroyed by Big Tech “innovation”

I am here once again to complain about the enshitification of Google search. Maybe AI will kill us, maybe it’ll save us but meantime, it has taken one of mankind’s greatest accomplishments of last 40 years and ruined it.

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

There are lots of disheartening things happening, but seeing Starbucks and Amazon employees organizing and fighting so hard for fair treatment is really inspiring!!!

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:

“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

The Harlan Coben Collection Strange disappearances, dark secrets and intense mysteries unfold in this eclectic collection of crime thriller series based on Harlan Coben’s bestsellers.

Any of the Harlan Coben novel adaptions on Netflix, but especially Fool Me Once and The Stranger. www.netflix.com/browse/genre...

Here’s some Remedios Varo art to make your Thursday a little better. One of my favorite painters.

What words could possibly do justice to Nikki Giovanni?

Amazon might deliver 'convenience', but it can’t replicate the magic of stepping into a quiet bookstore on a rainy day, where the scent of old pages mingles with fresh coffee and every shelf holds the promise of a new adventure waiting to be discovered.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

A road sign that says DO NOT LET MOOSE

YOU FOOLS. YOU LET MOOSE.

A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.

I, too, read it as lard 🐷

I love you, love you, love you,
sad as you are, O world.

—Adelia Prado