Wailin Wong
@wailinwong.bsky.social
Co-host at The Indicator from Planet Money and NPR. Likes waffles and news. Chicagoland. She/her
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Oooh I *love* THE NINE LIVES OF CHRISTMAS!
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Oooh I *love* THE NINE LIVES OF CHRISTMAS!
Going to see the local middle school production of Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical featuring the music of The Go-Gos
November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Going to see the local middle school production of Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical featuring the music of The Go-Gos
I saw my doc yesterday and she said, if 100 perimenopausal women came through the office today, you would hear 100 different symptoms 😩
August 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I saw my doc yesterday and she said, if 100 perimenopausal women came through the office today, you would hear 100 different symptoms 😩
I never learned any of this until much later in life either! I don't think it's covered in any depth in American public schools. I did this episode last year and it taught me more about that period than 12 years of history class as a kid: www.npr.org/2024/10/31/1...
The U.S. once banned Chinese immigrants — and it paid an economic price : The Indicator from Planet Money
In 1880, the Chinese were the biggest group of immigrants in the western U.S. But Sinophobic sentiments crystallized into racist policies and eventually the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The rational...
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August 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I never learned any of this until much later in life either! I don't think it's covered in any depth in American public schools. I did this episode last year and it taught me more about that period than 12 years of history class as a kid: www.npr.org/2024/10/31/1...
omg when I was re-watching that promo today, I had that thought! Glad others are on it lol
August 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
omg when I was re-watching that promo today, I had that thought! Glad others are on it lol
I would read the world's longest oral history of this WB promo!
August 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I would read the world's longest oral history of this WB promo!
This is perfection!!!
July 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
This is perfection!!!