me: should we bundle the kids up and go to franklin street? 7-year-old: no.

my children have surrounded themselves with a circle of tar heels paraphernalia.

I once worked on a big analytics project for a different newsroom and we worked very, very hard to not have takeaways come from raw data - because it would have made us a viral-only outlet. www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/buil...

Highly recommend Point Salad. Excellent fun game - works for 7 and up.

somehow five 8-year-olds are all watching me play nintendo and I am killing it.

Date night: opening ceremonies, Thai food, and a roaming ukulele player.

Planning a family vacation to Omaha - aside from the zoo and the massive park, anything else to see? We love everything.

just passed a bus that had a tiny flashing sign that said “beat dook”

When I was in 8th grade I decided to become a journalist and I had a wonderful US history teacher who gave me this book as a gift at the end of the year.

playing chopped against my 8-year-old. dessert round begins now.

spouse has started ukulele lessons and practice this week is roam around home while playing ukulele.

the blogblog helped increase voter participation in a local election cycle by 30%. maybe a model to replicate!

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

Lego is hiring a TikTok lead in Denmark www.lego.com/en-us/career...

Today, the Washington Post laid off more than 300 people. If you think this is abt Jeff Bezos's concern that the paper losing money, you're wrong. So wrong that you should be disqualified from expressing opinions in public. Billionaires *like* losses. They *need* losses.

When I was in 8th grade I decided to become a journalist and I had a wonderful US history teacher who gave me this book as a gift at the end of the year.

propublica.org/tips 👋

going out to dinner to celebrate school taking place tomorrow.

In this weekend’s @propublica.org Dispatches, @peterdicampo.bsky.social and I wrote about our experiences in Minnesota in the days surrounding the killing of Alex Pretti. www.propublica.org/article/minn...

it is day 7 of not having full school days (one teacher workday, one snow day, three remote learning days, two 2-hour delays) today my children are doing their assignments in a giant fort that they’ve built from bedsheets and pillows and various furniture items.

hello! it brings me great joy to do ridiculous projects and this is my jazz car.

i have special interests

ok the school district automated message saying another remote learning day tomorrow, then noting it’s groundhog day, then repeating the message made me laugh.

A remote learning day has somehow doubled the number of children in my home.

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

paid each of my children 7 dollars to shovel our driveway. they started negotiations at 5 and we said ask for more, so they asked for 7.

this is who runs this account (and has been my avatar on social media since 2002 😂😂)

Does anyone know if there’s any way to tweak the Kindle so it works better one handed for left handed people? I ideally want all of the swiping on the left.

A coworker suggested the game Donut County which we are enjoying on this cold and snowy morning.

I was supposed to go to Philly today to celebrate Danny Miller but got snowed in. Sending all my love to the Fresh Air crew, past and present, in Philly. whyy.org/articles/fre...

I wrote this 20 years ago!! www.thedp.com/article/2005...

All news is local!

ok cool ok ok what?

NEW: Our photojournalists @cengizyar.com and @peterdicampo.bsky.social were on the ground in Minneapolis, covering what they saw in the days before and after the shooting of Alex Pretti. Read their accounts below:

Two years ago my neighbor was diagnosed with leukemia and the entire neighborhood organized platelet donations because he needed them. I gave every other week for a year. Tonight I got an email from his wife celebrating his two year anniversary - he’s cancer free. Nice to get some great news.

it’s been a year of a week and I am reading a book at tandem in downtown carrboro.

sad but lovely to connect and reconnect with so many philly people (circa 2000-2015) this week.

summary of this week 😵‍💫 teacher workday school closed remote learning day 2 hour delay 2 hour delay

you need to be in bed in five minutes or you will lose five minutes of Nintendo time this weekend.

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I am the only person in my household who has not started music lessons recently. We have two drummers and one bass ukulele player.

A lot of people will be (rightfully) pointing to @dhm.bsky.social’s work in @defector.com. But he had developed his voice way before that - from even before Philadelphia Will Do. This is a piece in 34th Street from 2003 www.34st.com/article/2003...

Horrible news. Worked with DMac at our college newspaper and then would see him around Philly regularly. A good guy and an excellent writer.

I wrote this 20 years ago!! www.thedp.com/article/2005...

these are great!

big question of tonight: will my children go to school in person tomorrow?

1/ NEW: @propublica.org has obtained a search warrant that the FBI is executing for records related to the contested 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., which has not yet been widely shared. It’s an extraordinary document. Link: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

“In everyone’s aversion to not be controlled by LLMs, I think the good guys are collateral damage.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...