NPR receives $113 million in charitable gifts "My hope is that this commitment provides the stability and the spark NPR needs to innovate boldly and strengthen its national network," says Connie Ballmer, who gave $80 million of the $113 million.

NPR has received one of the largest charitable gifts in its history.

"I support NPR because an informed public is the bedrock of our society" philanthropist Connie Ballmer said.

She and her husband Steve, former Microsoft CEO, have given away more than $3 billion.

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Whispers: I never finished the first season

Me too, Joan Crawford, you fabulous woman. Happy birthday!

The gif is from The Damned Don't Cry (1950), a film noir loosely based on Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill and made excellent by Joan's fiery performance.

This is not new, there are right wing Christian nationalists protestors on the streets surrounding the ceremony every year. This is from Oscar night 2023

Whatever real journalism you like, please pay for it. The stuff you don't pay for is transforming into propaganda with incredible speed.

“Also, Warner Brothers doesn’t really need to be sold at all, man!”

Okay now you’ve lost me!

It’s so good to know that my people are here on Bluesky. And it’s not even baseball season yet!

“Also, he moved Ghislane Maxwell and got a puppy for her.”

Also there is a whole scene about how he and Sissy Spacek definitely Still Fuck

Agree that Costner in Bull Durham is hottest but I also find him very hot in JFK!

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

Desperately wanting to say what I really think about certain Oscar nominations but not wanting to do so on the open internet may compel me to finally join Cameo.

Ilya’s locker room pep talks and post game interviews have EXTREME Kiké vibes

I am a full grown adult and I learned about this literally yesterday

Do you think of Leo as a creepy old man? I guarantee Kate does not — he’s like 2 years old than her!

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at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Happy birthday!

I think it’s possible people have run into him in Brooklyn and said things like, “How you holding up?” And he has thought it was about something else entirely.

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The vast majority of the audience for AC were other journalists who all got galleys

Seems like one way to save about 800 million dollars would be for the board to can Zazlav

Have been talking to people all morning about the fact that none of us have heard or read anything persuasive about why WB needs to be sold other than to further personally enrich Zaz. Have you?

BEST ACTRESS: Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

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Madonna - Deeper And Deeper (Official Video) [HD] YouTube video by Madonna

R.I.P. Udo Kier, star of one of the greatest music videos ever made: youtu.be/sJV29ZQIUhs?...

He’s not wrong! Hahaha