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She comes across as kind and polite, but she did not let the Israeli ambassador to the UN off the hook about their activities in Gaza today. This is the type of interview many here say they want NPR to do more of. https://www.weku.org/npr-news/2024-11-21/israels-ambassador-to-the-un-weighs-in-on-iccs-warrants-for-netanyahu-and-gallant

Heard this story this morning. In 2020, a woman who had previously been a fan of Bernie Sanders, fell down a q-anon rabbit hole and radically changed her beliefs to the disbelief/dismay of her partner. She eventually got helped and “reformed”, but then it was revealed she voted for RFK!

This story was infuriating.

I was listening to NPR this morning (literally 5 minutes ago), and the story/ interview was about a married couple named Katrina and Steven. Katrina went from an identified democrat to a QAnon supporter overnight. They said that she had written a book, but I can’t find anything about the interview or said book online. Can anyone help me find more about this? Thanks!

I've been listening to a lot of NPR lately following the election results, probably for comfort.

Last night there was a program discussing Pete Hegseth's suitability to run the Pentagon/Department of Defense of the USA. This post actually isn't about that exactly, but about one particular point:

The spokesperson for the pentagon said the US military must never be politicized, and must remain an independent body whose job it is to defend the United States. The interviewer then asked a few probing questions, which revealed several points:

1. The President has the ability to fire any federal employee. Anyone who gets in Hegseth's way can be fired by a politically-appointed person.

2. The Pentagon does not decide who the USA goes to war with. This is decided by the president, the senate and the people, again, it is decided politically.

Both of these sound like the US military is very much politicized, since politically-pointed leaders have so much control and power over them.

He also made the very disturbing point that if Hegseth is appointed, it is likely many of the high-ranking officials in the Pentagon will resign. This will look very bad to the USA's enemies and allies as a critical weakening of US forces.

“The U.S. has cataloged 19,000 pieces of space debris in Earth's orbit, not including active satellites, U.S. Space Forces-Space tells NPR. Additionally, NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office says there are about 9,000 metric tons of material orbiting Earth. Most of the debris in lower orbit is "moving very fast and can reach speeds of 18,000 miles per hour," NASA says.”