This actually happened.

A typical DC day: sitting at Tatte watching the National Guard stroll by

I’m back in DC this week. It feels like coming home.

"It's giving war crime" has entered the lexicon

When I’m trying to figure out how to bike to downtown Oakland and the route suggested is terrifying, I don’t know whether to blame Google Maps or the bike infrastructure. I guess I’ll do both!

The Economist practicing "the large print giveth and the small print taketh away."

Hard to work inside on a beautiful day. Hard to work outside without wanting to nap in a hammock.

This is genuinely wild: there is only one member of Congress who says he doesn’t believe in God. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

the East Bay has emerged from Winter back into Sunhat

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Spicing up the commute

Just sent my 3yo back to preschool after three days of my partner and I juggling childcare and our jobs at the same time. (What a relief to just have one job again!) The idea that parents did this for like a year+ during covid is unreal.

oh man, ice dancing — the costumes, the tears, the brutal heartbreak

Have your monthly premiums increased under the Affordable Care Act? Has this been affecting your cost of living? We want to hear from you: https://bit.ly/4qmoBOK

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

The team behind Post Reports is utterly brilliant, truly just magnificent. I've absolutely loved working with them, and I am so stunned and heartbroken to see this important, illuminating work go dark. Please listen to their farewell. Please hire them. www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

I love the Olympics

The hard thing about moving across the country is now several friends back in DC are having babies and I’m not there to squeeze them :(

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

So sad and mad about what’s happened to the Washington Post. As a friend of several Posties, a longtime reader of the paper, and as an American who needs to know what the hell is going on — this is bad, bad news. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Please listen to this story from my @npr.org colleague Adrian Florido about a fruit seller named Jesus

Legal asylum seeker, no criminal record, working two jobs, dragged out of smashed car and kidnapped by ICE as his US citizen newborn cries in a car seat in the freezing cold in Maine and his wife who barely speaks English pleads for help. WTAF

In a news release, Collins says Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told her that the surge of ICE agents that began recently is over and that the agency will continue "normal operations that have been ongoing for many years."

Jeff Bezos should be a hero and donate the Washington Post to a charity. Bezos would get a big charitable deduction; the rest of us would get a newspaper dedicated to the public interest. This post from Steven Waldman is from a year ago but it's still a great idea. www.cjr.org/opinion/wald...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

French lawmakers approved a bill banning social media for children under 15, paving the way for the measure to enter into force at the start of the next school year in September, as the idea of setting a minimum age for use of the platforms gains momentum across Europe. https://to.pbs.org/4rknpfD

"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says about the killings in Minnesota Via DonHarris4/X

Wow: San Jose had zero market-rate multifamily starts in 2024. And this is a generally pretty pro-housing administration. Cities like San Jose urgently need the state to fix condominium presale and defect law to get more projects pencilling. www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/26/s...

I'm having a bad day and I tried to put it in perspective with everything else going on. Now I am just a wreck.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Oh my god I would use this ferry so much. Let’s do it, @berkeleyca.gov ! I would bike to the marina, take the ferry, then bike to work. www.berkeleyside.org/2026/01/26/b...

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

My statement after speaking with President Trump this afternoon:

signs left at alex pretti’s memorial in minneapolis: “i love you so much / i’ll miss you forever” photo with a friend, “i would have done the same. RIP alex,” a stethoscope and “we’ll take it from here, alex” and a tshirt for the minnesota nurses association

Started reading 1000 Words by @jamiattenberg.bsky.social and I wrote more than 1000 words that same day. That shit works.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

God bless the people of Minneapolis.

This is Minneapolis. Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.

In "hot" rental markets like Atlanta, landlords have figured out they can charge hundreds of dollars per application, reject people with impunity, and keep the money—over and over again. It's perfectly legal, totally unregulated, and wildly lucrative.

Something that doesn't get nearly enough attention: nonrefundable application and "administrative" fees just to be considered for an apartment. I've heard from families who have spent hundreds—even thousands—of dollars on applications and are still without a home. This is legalized extortion.

dang, Waymo caught passing stopped school buses 20 times in Austin alone

Minnesota residents took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis to protest the federal government's immigration campaign in the state, after weeks of sustained resistance in their communities. Businesses across the region closed in solidarity.

Many smart and good answers here to the question I have been asking myself: how to be useful to Minnesota, from outside Minnesota naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...