Gina Kaufmann
@ginak.bsky.social
Journalist-reader-writer-watcher-worrier-joker
Editor @theworld.org
Formerly: Real Humans, Central Standard & Midwesternish @KCUR + freelance for Nieman Reports, PRX, Mass Humanities, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Boston Globe, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Editor @theworld.org
Formerly: Real Humans, Central Standard & Midwesternish @KCUR + freelance for Nieman Reports, PRX, Mass Humanities, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Boston Globe, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
This is bonkers. Blueberry pie is a summer pie in the Midwest, and even then it’s a pie-maker’s pie. I’ve been to Midwestern thanksgivings across socioeconomic and cultural divides, never once saw blueberry pie. Thanksgiving = apple, pumpkin, pecan. Sometimes chocolate cream.
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is bonkers. Blueberry pie is a summer pie in the Midwest, and even then it’s a pie-maker’s pie. I’ve been to Midwestern thanksgivings across socioeconomic and cultural divides, never once saw blueberry pie. Thanksgiving = apple, pumpkin, pecan. Sometimes chocolate cream.
Just left this show and it was everything I didn’t even know I needed
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Just left this show and it was everything I didn’t even know I needed
Isn’t it? Listening to Blackbird now…
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Isn’t it? Listening to Blackbird now…
And every time AI interrupts me to offer to do it for me I feel genuine rage.
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
And every time AI interrupts me to offer to do it for me I feel genuine rage.
And a more recent update: theworld.org/episodes/202...
Civilians escape violence in Sudan's el-Fasher - The World from PRX
A few thousand people have arrived at the Tawila refugee camp in Sudan, after escaping harrowing violence in the RSF-controlled city of el-Fasher, many of them unaccompanied children. Also, Timor-Lest...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
And a more recent update: theworld.org/episodes/202...