Gift link for the NYT story about Trump officials considering paying a wind company $1 billion not to build wind farms. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

The thing that makes traffic "creep" is too many cars. Either way, we also need to challenge the idea that just because you're in an automobile you deserve to go faster than 15 or 20 mph. The best cities around the world are implementing 20 mph speed limits or lower. NYC should too.

The gutting of transit in metro areas around the country is a disaster in progress. We are doing this while we are simultaneously conducting a war that makes car-based transportation systems even more financially burdensome for individual Americans. Why do we hate ourselves so much

Cooking your own food is the only way to save a meaningful amount of money, especially when you're starting out. Eat from your own pantry, shop in your own closet, entertain in your own home. My kid does all three, not religiously, but a lot. It's how he grew up. Now it's how he lives. So proud.

My life is made better every day, every single day by public transit. My heart breaks for people in Rhode Island who are dealing with cuts in bus service that save a fraction of a fraction of a percent in the state budget.

Meanwhile: >>The memecoin bearing Donald Trump’s name surged as much as 60% in the last 24 hours after its promoters advertised an exclusive gala at Mar-a-Lago featuring the president — though the White House hasn’t confirmed his attendance. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What does an audiobook mean to me as a deaf author? Check out the process by which we record the sound of sign language to put beneath the spoken narration. (click to open video and see full size/text)

Tell me what's up in one sentence: "Trump has made the bill a priority ahead of the midterm elections, arguing that Republicans need it to win — even as his party won the presidency and congressional majorities in 2024 without it." www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

News from Maine. www.pressherald.com/2026/03/12/p...

For the love of Russ Kick. www.adn.com/nation-world...

"What Bam Adebayo did last night was put up the most points in an NBA game on tape. In the NBA’s 80-year history, the highest-scoring performance that can actually be watched, or that anyone ever saw on video, came last night."

Thom Tillis is increasingly "sick of stupid" from the Trump administration: Just don't call him anti-Trump. My exit profile of a Republican power broker who got labeled as a RINO, and how he wants to take out Stephen Miller. #NCSen #NCPol www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

We have heard from migrants subjected to ICE flights that guards/federal agents lay out the WRAP on the tarmac as a threat: Do what we say on the flight or you're gonna get put in a straitjacket.

Yesterday I observed 15 shackled detainees being loaded on the ICE Air flight at MSP. In this clip, as the last one hobbles on, staff put away a full-body WRAP restraint, which had been laid out next to the airstairs. ICE Air & WRAP: www.ap.org/news-highlig... Data: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-...

If folks haven’t yet watched the Oscar-nominated documentary “The Alabama Solution,” it delves quite a bit into this, as well. It’s a deeply harrowing, moving film that I can’t recommend highly enough.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

"She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet." www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

There’s obviously a lot going on, but the fact that federal prosecutors tried to build a criminal case against Joe Biden — based on no evidence, because Trump barked unjust orders — is quite insane. The collapse of the case doesn’t negate the underlying abuse. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Reckon the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate will next work on health care in ICE custody?

This data center bill cleared the Kentucky House with literally no questions from lawmakers, took less than 5 minutes. Passed 90-8. #kyga26

Older folks are constantly complaining to me about how young people don't use maps. Of course, I tell them. What would a kid need a map for? We don't let them go anywhere. If you love maps, exploring and childhoods that are full of adventure, independence and curiosity, we must protect mobility.

Nicole Amor, 39, was an avid gardener who enjoyed making salsa from the peppers and tomatoes in her garden with her son, a senior in high school. She also enjoyed rollerblading and bicycling with her fourth-grade daughter. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...

Angola’s national dish, Muamba chicken stew, becomes a lifeline for new Mainers

I'll take it.

The Leavenworth Kansas city commission voted in favor of the permit, 4-1, on Tuesday. Good chance it goes through on second consideration, March 10. Also a good chance citizens will show up and voice their concerns.

ICE stopped for now in Leavenworth, KS: >>A Kansas appeals court has ruled in favor of the city of Leavenworth in the ongoing battle over an ICE detention center at the old Leavenworth Penitentiary owned by CoreCivic. City leaders to vote on permit as soon as 3-10. www.kctv5.com/2026/02/27/k...

Great data here on the changing texture of historic neighborhoods like Greenwich Village in NYC. Where I live, in Brooklyn, I would say 80 percent of the permits posted on brownstones show an upward extension, a rear extension and a reduction in apartments -- typically three to one or four to one.

New episode up! We talked with planner @brenttoderian.bsky.social about how to build livable downtowns, what Vancouver does right, why developers should welcome regulation, and his brand-new venture to combat misinformation about cities, @urbantruth.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

DHS says everyone on the ICE flight stuck on the tarmac yesterday in the blizzard had meals, meds, bathrooms, etc., and dignity. What do you suppose they mean by dignity? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/23/m...

Sweet host on WNYC wrapped a report on driving conditions just with a charming report on walking: “Right now in New York, it is hard to see more than a block or two.” Not that you’d want to walk that far right now, necessarily, but you certainly could see well enough to do it.

“They erased his family by calling him an unaccompanied minor, and they did this even while they were being watched" www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

In New Hampshire, Gov. Ayotte is really taking heat on a proposed ICE warehouse in Merrimack. Local editorial: "opponents of the facility should keep the pressure on to have her intervene to kill the project." vnews.com/2026/02/20/a...

Minnesota, you are just plain amazing, in the best possible way. www.startribune.com/with-its-lat...

Eerily similar to stories Japanese-American kids packing for WWII camps. >>The fifth-grader needed to pack a suitcase and go with her dad to U.S. Border Patrol’s Spokane HQ....She put into a suitcase clothes, watercolors, drawing paper and two stuffed animals. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This week in Trump admin violations of court orders: New Jersey Colorado Minnesota First up, New Jersey, with dozens of violations: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Some of us out in these here states are actively thinking about and working on this challenge, including how to think about it. It’s our lane, so to speak.

Fall down two times, get up three. Fall down as one person, get up as another. #voiceofexperience www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olymp...

Who voted for "Pay more, get less"? Not the scientists. "It is spending more than we spent on WHO to create an institution that’s unlikely to survive and will certainly accomplish only a fraction of what we did by working together with the entire world.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Who voted for "$200 million in economic damage in January" and small businesses going bankrupt? www.startribune.com/el-sazon-ban...

Taken in Alaska: Sonia Espinoza Arriaga, with her 3 kids, ages 5 to 18. No criminal records, their lawyer says. "The woman had been wearing slippers when detained, and her feet had been cold all day, so Nations said she took off her socks and gave them to her." www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

In Kentucky, a lawmaker is pushing a bill to make voting harder for the .05% of voters who show EBT or Social Security cards for ID -- because there *could* be fraud someday, somehow. Of course, ending voting entirely would also reduce the potential for fraud.

A useful, long and growing list of company proposals for DHS/ICE camps. projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/foia-docum...

Updating the tracker and I came across this fascinating story of trans and/or non-binary trans life woven into the Catholic practices of Naples, Italy. For the photo alone I felt like I had to share it - but it's fascinating throughout. From @apnews.com apnews.com/article/ital...

Planned Parenthood’s no-show rate has gone up almost 10 percent since the federal government’s Minnesota operation began.

“I think the American people would agree that no one like Narciso Barranco, who raised three U.S. citizen Marines and has no criminal record deserved the treatment he received.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

Reckon anyone told ICE they were going to a state with its own medal count in the Winter Olympics? www.startribune.com/2026-winter-...

Just before Biden left office in January 2025, he honored Fannie Lou Hamer, who died in 1977, with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom. That medal now sits in a glass display case at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Hamer’s family donated the medal to the museum last October.