podcasts Open Culture has a new directory of the "Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind" Mark Frauenfelder
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new york city A day in NY in the early 1980s through the eyes of musicians, artists, activists, filmmakers, and more Gareth Branwyn
music The 'Super Bad Transmittable Contagious Awful Virus' song, a parody of 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!' Xeni Jardin
republic of gilead Hallmark channel flips, then flops on hate group's pressure over lesbian kiss commercial Mark Frauenfelder
threatin Threatin, "fake" singer-songwriter you haven't thought about in about a year, now on tour Rob Beschizza
happy mutants Primary Sludge: "close fiction" from German utopian writer Sina Kamala Kaufmann Sina Kamala Kaufmann
happy mutants How an usher at (and would-be star of) Hamilton organizes the women's bathrooms during intermission Cory Doctorow
Cokie Roberts describes the "fondling fathers" and the pregnant women they left behind after negotiating the Missouri Compromise John Struan
