Julia Ritchey
@juliaritchey.bsky.social
Audio scavenger at NPR's The Indicator from Planet Money. Focus on econ and eating whole grains. Savannah, Ga. Signal jritchey.44
Let's commiserate over job lock-in: indicator@npr.org or jritchey@npr.org if you have a good story.
NPR's Planet Money@planetmoney.bsky.social · 5d agoWe are looking to talk with folks who may want to leave their current job but are staying for the health insurance only. Does that sound like you or someone you know? Email your story to indicator@npr.org and we may reach out.
I was also happy this turned out to be the case. As someone who does not like war movies but does like in Monty Python when they all go "run away, run away" in abject terror ...
Ellie@ellienchanted.bsky.social · last wk.I love how THE ODYSSEY trailers made it look like Odysseus and his men were always leading a charge when in reality it’s just them going HOLY SHIT RUN for the movie’s entire runtime
We are given only a limited number of truly perfect summer days in our time on Earth. One of the more insidious cruelties of fossil fuel greed is how it slowly strips those days from us, more and more throughout our lifetimes, perhaps without us even realizing what we have lost.
Another stolen summer day
What are we still waiting to learn?
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This parasite story reminds me of the plot line from East of Eden when Adam bet on shipping the refrigerated boxcar of lettuce to NYC only for it to spoil and ruin him financially... though not gastrointestinally. 70% of U.S. lettuce comes from Salinas Valley!
One of the best accountability and solutions journalism stories I've seen in a minute. Charleston's Post & Courier mapped all the accountability deserts across the state where corruption is most ripe and offers some ways to fix it (based on North Carolina 💪). www.postandcourier.com/news/special...
TOWNFALL: Many South Carolina towns are broken — plagued by infighting, corruption and mismanagement. Here’s how to fix them.
A new Post and Courier report reveals how small towns have become dens of corruption or incompetence. Many lie in “accountability deserts,” our analysis shows.
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Are you working in the U.S. under a Temporary Protected Status that is about to expire? Do you employ workers with expiring TPS status? We'd like to hear from you for a potential story. Email: indicator@npr.org.
This game is like the Calvin peeing decal, but in place of Calvin is le manneken-pis, Brussels’ most famous baby duke statue, relieving himself on U.S. soil.
Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America
I’m not so much pivoting to video at work as falling down the stone well in E3 of Widow’s Bay.
It appears the Kevin O’Leary Utah data center fallout claimed three Utah GOP incumbents last night. I covered these guys during my time as a statehouse reporter in SLC, including some #metoo allegations, so this is pretty major for normally staid red-state politics. www.ksl.com/article/5153...
Stuart Adams, Trevor Lee, Dan McCay lose reelection bids in Utah Legislature
Multiple prominent Republicans in the Utah Legislature have lost their bids for reelection, including one of the most powerful politicians in the state.
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A brilliantly bad idea hatched by @wailinwong.bsky.social and me during a story edit: A chatbot named Pearl that dispenses advice trained only on things people’s grandmas told them growing up, even or especially if outlandish or untrue. Prompts are called Pearls of Wisdom.
[Toy Story 5 spoiler] Lilypad’s redemption arch palliates surveillance capitalism and the toys are complicit.
Memphis emcees 8Ball & MJG Tiny Desk just posted for NPR's Black Music Month! Watched this taping two weeks at in D.C. and the energy was electric. Southern rap at its finest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQXf...
8Ball & MJG: Tiny Desk Concert
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Congo wearing those 🔥 leopard print arrival fits destroyed my hope of securing a late ticket to see them in ATL. Tix were $169 May 10, now cheapest is like $460 since they landed. 😭
World Cup tips: This site lets you pick the countries you want to follow and synchs all the games to your phone calendar including knockouts. Through Peacock, you can watch the Telemundo casts of the matches without all the American commentary. mon-calendrier-coupe-du-monde-2026.vercel.app#builder
My Calendar — World Cup 2026
Build your FIFA World Cup 2026 calendar and subscribe — it updates itself as the bracket fills in.
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Will be in NYC next month and kindly ask the incredible playoffs vibes to continue through the summer, please and thanks.
"...Starbase bears less similarity to the enlightened wonderland depicted in [Star Trek] than it does to the autocratic company towns of the 19th and early 20th centuries." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk Is Colonizing Earth
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Elon Musk is a vewwy special boy who gets vewwwy special rules. The SpaceX IPO tomorrow is no exception: www.npr.org/2026/06/11/n...
The SpaceX IPO drama explained : The Indicator from Planet Money
What the SpaceX IPO, the largest ever, reveals about big tech, the NASDAQ and more big IPOs to come. Sure it will make Elon Musk a trillionaire, but what does this mean for your retirement account? Fa...
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Chalamet needs to summon shai-halud. Put everyone at this game out of their misery.
Why Saudis lost the will to LIV (laugh, love) from @wailinwong.bsky.social feat. golf guru Alan Shipnuck. www.npr.org/2026/05/28/n...
Saudi’s LIV Golf exit is just the start : The Indicator from Planet Money
Is Saudi Arabia no longer a golf state? The Saudi sovereign wealth fund poured billions into culture and sports in the last decade, none more high profile than LIV Golf, a rival to the PGA. So why is ...
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Tonight if you’re a New Yorker with children you need to set a good example and get arrested. Prove to your children that you stand for something, particularly New York basketball
Made a playlist of some highlights (old and new favs) from Kilby Block Party in Utah last weekend. Best music festival I’ve ever attended. open.spotify.com/playlist/3r5...
Kilby Highlights ‘26
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There are now businesses to certify your work as human-generated. @darianwoods.bsky.social profiles one and subjects The Indicator to the "H" test to prove we are not AI slop machines. lnk.to/q1KNPAjtWE
It's come to this: Human certification in the age of AI slop : The Indicator from Planet Money
Go to It's come to this: Human certification in the age of AI slop : The Indicator from Planet Money.
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Great marketing for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey* *The Odyssey takes place before the Peloponnesian War 🤓
East of Eden is my favorite book of all time and to get a remake from Kathy's POV played by Florence Pugh is a fever dream. I can even overlook the fact that Netflix is making it. youtu.be/fdBr5KyUilU?...
East of Eden | Official Teaser | Netflix
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Warsh Trading: When a new chair is installed but the interest rates stay the same.
CNBC@cnbc.com · 3mo agoThe Senate voted 54-45 to confirm Warsh. cnb.cx/4wqUObR
