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.

Was delighted to hear your new job on my radio just now. Congrats, Eric!

When I talked my fourth-grade teacher into letting us watch the OJ verdict

"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...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

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...

I don’t think so, but I’ll try it sometime

the East Bay has emerged from Winter back into Sunhat

It was great! Still riding high this morning.

Thanks for gathering us.

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

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

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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

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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.

Goodbye from "Post Reports" - The Washington Post A heartfelt thanks to our listeners from "Post Reports" host Martine Powers, and the rest of the team who made this show happen.

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.

Washington Post Lays Off More Than 300 Journalists

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...

Trump, in an Escalation, Calls for Republicans to ‘Nationalize’ Elections

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

He sold me fresh fruit for years. I was there when immigration agents took him NPR's Adrian Florido has been buying fruit from the same fruit cart vendor in his LA neighborhood for years. On Tuesday, Adrian was there when federal immigration agents swooped in and arrested him.

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

Susan Collins says ICE surge in Maine has ended The Republican made the announcement in a news release, saying she had spoken to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Collins had previously asked Noem to pause the surge in Maine an...

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."