“Last year’s close call exposed a critical vulnerability, when we came within 30 minutes of exhausting our water supply on the eve of Independence Day —a near crisis that affected nearly a million residents and visitors,” We did what now?

100% true! On a bike, we're more equal as a family than in a car, where we, as parents, sit in the front seat and direct contact with our children in the back is much more superficial and functional. Cycling together creates memories; driving together doesn't!

Gotta say watching this Ken Burns doc on the Rev War and all the talk about troops being sent in during peacetime to occupy a city really hits hard…

Has anyone on bluesky had their kids sign up for Capitol Cycle summer camp? Any reviews? capitalcyclecamp.org/q-and-a

This is as good as 2015 Twitter.

Came home after my work meeting to a birthday dinner (menu written by Jack)

Waiting for the C51 at the bus stop and I swear I can hear a choir singing in the Cathedral. Very home alone moment.

Dcpl is in on the 6-7 trend

This thread is a full of a bunch of nerds 😂 ❤️

The dam is breaking. The world's leading public health news organization is now reporting US driver violence as a public health crisis. "American roads have become more dangerous than violent crimes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, and other major cities." t.co/BEcu5JJ457

Story of Jack’s life 😂

This is brilliant.

What happened to the 😃 or 😞 faces?!

Jack biked to donut run on the new MBT extension!

It doesn’t make any sense but we don’t care: Brian and I agree that no amount of money we could suddenly win would be able to replace the community of friend and family we’ve built in Shaw and could get us to leave. Proximity and closeness and community is more important to us than money.

JFC we are doomed.

Wow there’s one even worse than DCUM

THIS IS WHY WE NEED THE HUMANITIES IN SCHOOL

Brian has transported me many times! Including when I was pregnant!

All a husband wants is a cargo bike, guys.

#RECALL: Trek Bicycles with Coaster Brakes and Replacement Rear Wheels; The coaster brakes can fail to engage, resulting in the rider losing control, posing a crash hazard. Get free repair: www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

This week I wrote about the rise of the e-bike dad - this piece was originally going to run alongside the story I did in September about the bike boom in general, and we didn't have space in print, but here it is: www.economist.com/united-state...

Sometime I think about how I pass by 4 different school zones on my walk to work after dropping off Jack. And yet without fail every morning there’s some driver who tries not to have to stop for me in a crosswalk.

I should be doing work right now, but a House Hunters just started and the opening voiceover was: “When a couple has a 25-year age gap, it can lead to some confusion on the house hunt.” So work can wait for a half hour I guess.

Jack asked me today if a lot of women are national guards and I had to balance my answer between “women can be anything” and “but maybe let’s not be that.”

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

Bombshell news of the day. Nothing will top this headline today!

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

Jack helped fulfill a little girl’s angel tree requests and we had to drop off the items in Hyattsville. So he biked 18 miles RT to/from Bladensburg Park in 15mph wind gusts! His longest ride in one day yet.

You love to see it.

How long can I resist turning on the heat? lol

Looking at Nutcracker tickets and found this —- apparently people with cars get special privilege access to this lounge. What about all the people who take metro or bike there? It’s the center of downtown!

I dreamed that our school’s PTO was in a caucus room with the Democratic senators trying to figure out how to stop the 8. The PTO did not manage this.

NEW: Rad Power Bikes has told employees it will go out of business in January without new funding. The company said in a staff email that it had a "very promising" option to stay alive, but whatever that was, it fell apart. Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/r...

BRRR! 🧊 Chilliest day since mid-April. Tonight will be (relatively) frigid w/ wind chills falling below freezing by mid-late evening and eventually to 16-22 in pre-dawn. DC should hit freezing...one of earliest in the last 30 years. Details/forecast update at cwg.live.

To do this properly, you'd need to reduce speeds and increase sidewalk widths & ped crossings on Benning Road. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

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Jack is an exceptional cyclist for his age. I've been loosely tracking his significant bike trips and bikes as they progress over the years. Obviously a non-exhaustive list. Can't record every trip because there are thousands at this point. But these were the significant ones.

Payment options expanding for Metrobus riders in coming weeks

BIG: @dcattorneygeneral.bsky.social says that the former owner of the rent-controlled Marbury Plaza in Ward 8 will pay tenants and the city $41 million for years of problems with housing conditions. Almost $30 million of that will go to repay tenants for 75% of rent they paid from 2017 to 2024.

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4nHZmoM

New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.

Today Jack biked 13 miles and 680 ft of elevation.

Biked in and out of RCP

Jack biking himself to DCCX

DCCX!

I recently had to give someone Narcan on North Capitol St. -I had to ask two nearby stores for it - one had it, the other didn’t. -Administering it to someone unconscious felt like I was assaulting them, even though I was helping. It was an uncomfortable feeling. www.popville.com/2025/11/eyew...

Where is the hidden cat?