In Ventura County, where Brittany was busted, there’s a Facebook group where drivers warn each other about DUI checkpoints.

Today's Hormuz news, basically: 'If you don't pay no tolls, we don't get no rolls' www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRSk...

The Planet Money book is out today. Please for the love of books, buy it. www.planetmoneybook.com Also, LOS ANGELES: come see me and some Planet Money friends live, next Thursday 4/16 on stage. Tix at the same link.

What if there were a place without traditional zoning regulations in the middle of a big city? (Picture kind of gives it away but it’s a good show, you should listen!)

dropped the kids at the nursery (school), picked the tomatoes from the nursery.

Little known fact: Us public radio people love listening to CBS. Their newscasts are great. This is sad.

The internet loves pictures of big stuff on bikes. Here's today's coöperation between an dirty old Riese & Müller cargo bike and a dirty old Ikea Poäng. Never have umlauts looked so hot. (Sponsor me @riesemuller.bsky.social)

I've done crazier

hall of fame for breaking news alert abuse

Mark Epstein convinced someone at WNYC to give him the wifi password during the 2012 blackout. This skeet is for a very niche audience.

Absolutely love this career trajectory. RIP to a legend. www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

On the most recent @planetmoney.bsky.social: what did US sanctions do to Iran's economy? How did they feed into the latest protests and crackdown in Iran? Sanctions are supposed to avert war, but how different from war are they? www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n... with @fountain.bsky.social

Live your life so that you never have to publish an op-ed in the campus newspaper about your connection with Jeffrey Epstein dukechronicle.com/article/my-c...

Seattle folks, come see me on the Planet Money Book tour.

Happy FSA regrets day, to those who celebrate.

Made a show about Chicago's infamous parking deal.

I've had the pleasure of working in #Ventura on many occasions. The city has adopted many progressive plans, codes, and street designs (and one of my favorite parking benefit districts). If you'd like to build on that legacy, here's your chance!

My little city of Ventura is hiring an Assistant Public Works Director/City Engineer. Would you please tell your smartest, most pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly civil engineer friend about it? Good pay, and it's a lovely place to live. cityofventura.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cityof...

@numble.bsky.social We miss numble!

Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social It's bad! paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...

Posing as urbanists! Incredible www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/20/b...

Now you can rest easy knowing that the mouse in your house has been killed... on the go!

Your favorite podcaster's favorite podcaster is back (baby!) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...

The one guy who majored in cuica, the Brazilian squeaky drum: I’ve made a huge mistake, I’ll never be able to make a dime doing this White Lotus music coordinator: hold up now

I have some wicked smart colleagues and you should follow them go.bsky.app/GNFwoSV

Sarah and I went to Altadena to try to figure out what happens next.

My big break in radio was a decade and a half ago when the 2011 Japan earthquake damaged the Santa Cruz Harbor and Wharf and they still hadn’t fully fixed it when it crashed into the ocean earlier today. Lol. Lmao, even.

New Hampshire DOT's name-a-plow contest is... terrific. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Gave Facebook Marketplace $2/day to put my furniture listing in front of more eyes and seems like they exclusively served it to scammers. Nice!

If you're a top .1% fan of an artist on Spotify you should probably just cancel your Spotify subscription and spend that money buying the artist's albums.

My dumb cousin won our 'Will bitcoin hit $100,000?' bet.

UnitedHealthcare CEO got assassinated at the same Hilton that is at the end of Michael Clayton 💫

Current status

Next @planetmoney.bsky.social project

Bluesky Me : Me :: Dwyane Wade Statue : Dwyane Wade

@teamsweeting.bsky.social no way!

Is this a place for dumb posts like, "Went to the zoo today'? Because I went to the zoo today

Just posted an all-caps "SCOOP:" on the other app, where I actually have followers. Here I'll post what I think of dinguses like me write "SCOOP:" (starts at 1:47) https://youtu.be/8fbyfDbi-MI?t=107

At @npr.org's The Indicator, we spoke to an economist a couple weeks ago who studied what happened to incomes among different grads in California after the court struck down affirmative action 25 years ago. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/08/1181149142/how-ending-affirmative-action-changed-california