Connie Ballmer gives largest gift by living donor in NPR’s history Ballmer, a former NPR board member, donated $80 million, NPR said. The donation comes months after Congress voted to strip federal dollars for public media.

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And for $20 million you can buy the naming rights to "wife of LA Clippers owner Steve Balmer"

No hesitation. Love it. ❤️❤️❤️

In a nutshell. 😊

Loved that show!

"They were so lucky I was looking"

Ummm no. Stopping in time for a child running onto the street is not heroic/lucky, it is your goddamn obligation as a driver. Cost of entry. Kids are allowed to be unpredictable, you are not.

Nope, just looks like it in the photo because of the reflection from the window on this beautiful day. 🙂

A black and white tuxedo cat, curled up on the couch, looking sideways because she raised her head when I put the camera near her. One eye looks blue while the other is green, but that’s just the reflection from the nearby window.

This is Stella. She wanted company this morning, so she jumped up for pets.
#Caturday She has now tired of company and moved to the other couch, for a better view of the window. 🙂

Painting of a flowing stylised plant in purple against a white background

Botanical inspired watercolours by contemporary artist Sally Ann Langley #WonensArt

This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇

You’re not wrong.
Seems rather odd.

The older I get, the more I understand why our parents were so nostalgic for their childhood years.

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

Pope Leo XIV: Jesus told us, blessed are the peacemakers. But woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.

"I owe more to Canadians than they'll ever know. In my baseball career, they were the first to make me feel my natural self."

-- Jackie Robinson

#JackieRobinsonDay

Heritage Minutes: Jackie Robinson YouTube video by Historica Canada

A "Canadian Heritage Moment" on Jackie Robinson...
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NEWS: A’ja Wilson has signed a three-year deal with the Las Vegas Aces starting at $1.4 million in 2026 and potentially reaching more than $4.7 million with maximum raises, a source told The Athletic.

It is the richest contract in WNBA history. She made $200,000 in the 2025 season.

Does anybody remember when teen pregnancy was a huge boogeyman of the right? They had all these purity dances and whatnot?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

This. ❤️
And the alt text! 😆

Campfire 6”x6” oil

But according to PP, Carney is poorly educated in economics. 🤣 That comment will haunt him. 🙄

Prime Minister Mark Carney has been named one of TIME Magazine's “Top 100 Most Influential People of 2026”

On this day, in 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.

"If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f**k alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records." - Kurt Cobain The Advocate, 1995

Mood, every single day.

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ

A+ headline.

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Came here to say the same thing! 😉

I keep hearing this, but we often get stretches of -35C (-31F) in winter in New Brunswick, Canada. We’ve had our heat pump for 16 years & it’s never stopped working. We don’t use an additional heat source on the floor with the heat pump. It was affordable & definitely not a top-of-the-line model.

The expressions! 😆

Love this. 🩷