If you’re wondering how to cover autism, this is one excellent model — asking autistic parents about their autistic kids. wapo.st/4gNUxZc

When my copy of The Onion arrived yesterday, I laughed so hard at this article. Everyone should buy a subscription.

Yesterday in London, President Obama described the autism spectrum and why there has been a big jump in the number of people who know they're autistic. Worth seeing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Aggressive squirrel sending people to the ER was nowhere near my horoscope for today. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

A small gallery of ideal vehicles

Terrific debunking of the autism announcement by the (only apparently) tireless @ericmgarcia.bsky.social.

If you put a life-saving diagnosis behind a wall of stigma, fewer people will get the information they need. Lowering stigma is a big part of why we have the concept of a spectrum. It is a big part of why more people have an autism diagnosis today, because kind people tried to remove stigma.

Something nice for today.

POV: Riding along the CTfastrak busway in Hartford and West Hartford! BRT!! 😎🚌

Telling the world that autism is so terrible that we must do anything, anything at all, no matter how life-threatening, to avoid having people like me and my lovely family, friends and colleagues in it? What on this earth? /

Solid work by @usatoday.com — it is great to reporters seeking out and including autistic perspectives.

Heaven only knows how many autistic people it took to invent acetaminophen.

This Alaska story about ranked choice voting might be more important that it seems. Alaska Republicans lost a House seat in 2022 under ranked choice voting, and now they want to make it a federal civil rights matter. (They won the same seat in a 2024 rematch.) www.adn.com/politics/202...

"The request for such data 'is not normal and it's not lawful,' said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School who previously worked in the Civil Rights Division's Voting Rights Section." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Speechless. This is not one of those stories you can take in, really, in a single sitting. www.adn.com/nation-world...

I wrote about the way I drive now, which is slow, for the New York Times Mag: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/m...

The story about heroism and planting small sensors that I actually needed. Susana Hancock, thank you. www.pressherald.com?p=7492017&uu...

“If you build it, they will come” — this is a vicious circle when it comes to roads and traffic (induced demand means there’s little or no decrease in congestion) but a virtuous circle for public transportation (more users to support eg more frequent service or more extensive routes).

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

That is why transit is so good for cities! When cities expand and densify, which is what cities do, transit becomes safer, more convenient, and nicer. City-dwellers oppose more people when they rely on cars, because that means more traffic. Fundamentally, the car is not a proper urban vehicle.

Reupping from April, the whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board: "Berulis tracked sensitive data leaving the agency's NxGen case management system 'nucleus,' inside the NLRB system. Then, he saw a large spike in outbound traffic leaving the network itself." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Senator Mike "Rounds is trusting the Trump administration to move $9.4 million in funding from an undisclosed account to more than two dozen tribal radio stations" utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/08/28/r...

Terrific, terrifying, compassionate reporting from @paoramos.bsky.social on reverse migration.

Bloomberg column on the Fed: “Nonetheless, the attack on Cook represents a major escalation that could end very badly. Never before has a president tried to fire a Fed governor, and there’s much more at stake than one person’s job.” Gift link. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

1899 was the PEAK year in Black American patenting per capita. Like, still. That's how effective the reign of racial terror following the end of Reconstruction was.

Lisa Cook documented the devastation of the end of Reconstruction. This graph, from her paper "Violence and Economic Activity," shows the effects of Jim Crow on Black patenting and newspapers. As she said on Planet Money: "1899 was the peak year for African American patents per capita. It still is."

New pictures show the aftermath of the explosion at Smitty's Supply. Crews are still working to contain hotspots in the area. Here's the latest>>>https://www.wdsu.com/article/tangipahoa-parish-schools-update-roseland-closed/65881565

Roseland Elementary to close Monday because of explosion evacuation | Click on the image to read the full story https://www.wdsu.com/article/tangipahoa-parish-schools-update-roseland-closed/65881565?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot

If you read the news out of Alaska, you start to recognize this formulation: -Trump cuts something Alaska wanted. -Murkowski feels betrayed and wants the decision reversed. -Sullivan and Begich are out hunting crickets. www.adn.com/business-eco...

A fun part of the scavenger hunt is my group managed to reunite unexpectedly at Stop #3. I regret not bringing my neck fan, a water bottle, and a battery pack. Two members also got free buttons from Mamdani supporters.

Political phenomenon of the day playing out in New York. #Zcavengerhunt #scavengerhunt

Mississippi Gov. "Reeves once called his own capital city, Jackson, the 'murder capital of the world' just under two years ago." www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2...

Local, local, local, in the grand tabloid tradition. Sometimes I miss the old alt-weekly vibe, and then I realize, here it is. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/08/22/r...

The late disability justice co-founder and activist Stacey Park Milbern is the first woman in a wheelchair featured on U.S. currency and the first person whose wheelchair is actually shown.

you may know that the east-west streets in DC are alphabetical in each quadrant, but DID YOU KNOW that if you keep going out from the city center, there's a second alphabet (2-syllable names), a third (3-syllable) and a fourth (names of plants) -- oh, you did, OK, great

Local news has been useful, I think, like when the sandwich shop owner or teacher you know gets arrested. The local story from the (national) WaPo on details about the arrests this week was closely observed, both on what's happening and what's unusual. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Genuinely amazing human feat. www.runnersworld.com/news/a658001...

Every planner's goal should be a reduction in VMT, full stop. "While a greater number of bicycle commuters may not be a city's primary end goal, it could help lower fuel consumption, emissions, and transportation costs while producing better health outcomes and greater safety for bicyclists."

If you’ve ever known a teenager, especially a guy, you’ll know they’re often hungry. I learned not to ask my brother or my son, just to offer food. This would be misery: “He drinks water once a day. The food is insufficient.”

“A menu included in the documents indicated that the luncheon was to be held “in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.’”

If you wondered what the heck they were doing when they cut $500 million for MRNA vaccines, well… so did they. Crackerjack reporting from @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

The glories of Washington State, fouled by the decisions of Washington, D.C. www.seattletimes.com/life/outdoor...

I feel like Michigan kinda tried “elect a Santa,” but it has been a while. #iykyk www.al.com/news/2025/08...

Parenthetical of the day. Good to know Putin at least hasn’t said he wants Alaska along with a lot of Ukraine? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

Judge Henderson, joined by Judge Wilkins, does not mince words — even as she treads carefully. “[N]o Congress should be made to wait while the Executive intrudes on its plenary power over appropriations and disclosure thereof.”

Its the cars. Where can they go that they don't have to interact with drivers? I biked for pleasure for most of my life and gave it up when my kids could start because city biking in Houston is insanely dangerous and I don't want them to do it. Everything they want to go to is way too far to walk

The part - below - where it says the US-Japan trade deal wasn’t in writing was where I thought, ok I think I’ve read enough.

This week's #TidyTuesday looks at data from @ourworldindata.org on the Gini coefficient (a measure of income inequality) before and after tax 📊 #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

This story doesn't mention cars and communities that make walking, biking, and exploring difficult if not impossible for kids. My kids love screens as much as anyone else, but due to the design of where we live it's easy for them to meet friends outside, go to the store, or do whatever.