Today on The Gist: In a Venti-ish long interview Michelle Eisen, a 15-year Starbucks barista and organizing member of Starbucks Workers United, explains how the first unionized store in Buffalo lit a national fuse—now more than 650 stores strong. She describes the frustration

She calls herself an “explanatory comic,” shaped by life on both sides of the map — Jewish in Kentucky, comic in New York. @areil_comedy’s debut special A Jewish Star explores identity, humor, and what really makes a joke hack. Get the full story with Ariel and host @pescami on

Today on The Gist: Historian and grandson of third secretary-general of the United Nations U Thant, Thant Myint-U, discusses Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World—how the UN once brokered real ceasefires (Cuban Missile Crisis, India-Pakistan 1965), why its

It's already the 22nd and no one's wished me a Happy Rocktober.

Man do I love USA Facts. (It's usually pink though. Are you getting away from that? )

The answer is. No worse. Thanks for the time waste

" there were 19,000 flights that were delayed between Saturday and Monday, with Sunday marking the high mark at nearly 8,000 delays..also 1,600 flight cancellations during that span "Ok. Might we benefit by knowing how that compares w the usual delays? ..

This can be taken a couple of ways.

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Today on The Gist: A group of Providence artists secretly built and lived in a hidden apartment inside the Providence Place Mall in the early 2000s. Director Jeremy Workman’s “Secret Mall Apartment” uses their 25 hours of archival footage to tell a larger story about art,

This just aired during the Toronto Blue Jays game. Very effective!

Same with Hibbing Mn.

Why would he want that? Worst amusement park ever.

Great moments in anchormaning. Only time will tell.

This was a crazy game between my two favorite teams. Tulane's offense was a non stop party of wild decadence. Army was a controlled infantry assault - first drive was 18 plays went 48 total yards took 12 minutes, yielded 0 pts. And this guy Rene is the best announcer in football

This is part of a $4 billion settlement. For context LA's yearly budget is $14billion. It's either educating current students, and paying for current fire fighting, or paying decades-old abuse victims, who are sympathetic. Now that the bill's literally come due, its deeply

Who’s to blame for the government shutdown and does anyone actually care? Also in the full episode: @ZeeToTheHill and @JonahDispatch join to ask was Trump’s recent hostage deal an actual win for the administration? Is the specter of Trump's autocratic tendencies saved by his

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There's really no such thing as broadcast TV. Its just broadcast NFL.

I'll argue forever that Israel's acts don't constitute genocide as actually defined by law The requirement that one reach the opposite conclusion is many things - but its certainly not the definition of journalism.