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Sounds fishy

Wanting to be first is why she did this.

In fairness, she missed this. So the whole retirement thing seems small, in comparison.

I'm honestly baffled have my differences with her but this is so unprofessional

my mom is 85 and I'm pretty sure she'd double check her math

Feels important to note that she’s 82 years old and no doubt has imperfect hearing so doing this seems even more insane with that context.

I was listening to it live. I don’t think there were any editors involved. There was a three-way phone conversation with the office Studio and Nina Totenberg was live on the phone. She just blurted it out. There was no lead up to it nor any chance for any editor to review it.

I can't trust NPR enough at this point to believe anything until we see him NOT retire by the midterms. I hate it, but that's where I'm at.

Maybe the problem is she has been doing this for 50 years.

Dementia also affects friendly, chipper access journalists

Yeah, I dunno how one recovers from such a reckless mistake...

She should announce he own retirement

However, if this is the thing that makes him decide to not retire she has just done the world a huge favor. We want him alive and well and serving through January 2029.

Exactly. There are women in jail or dead because of his decisions. It's like apologizing to Ted Bundy for calling him Theodore.

She should have just said it was wishful thinking and walked away.

*apologizing for publishing that Taylor Swift has died* I'm sorry my dog coughed and I misheard

She ruined his big reveal that he hates the 14th Amendment more than anyone ever has hated anything.

50 years was at least 1 too many apparently.

yeah like maybe just say you made a mistake and don't make it worse

worst professional mistake... so far!

fuck Alito's feeling but she could also say "also I am retiring"

Not the announcement I want to hear about Alito

We are trusting that Alito didn't betray her with a final embarrassment before what will be his upcoming announcement? As compromised as @ninatotenberg.bsky.social is, and as far as @npr.org has fallen in their journalistic standards, this smells like something different than "oops".

Not as brutal as Alito's massacre of the Constitution.

I know what else I would like to say to Alito. I could probably even find a way to say most of it on air