Andrew Small

Not to give them ideas but Apple builds a “report a speed trap” tool into its CarPlay maps tool.

8-year old Dasha Ramirez was playing with her brother at Millennium Park when Border Patrol took them. They’re now awaiting deportation to Guatemala. “We never imagined our Sunday would end this way, mother Noemi Chavez said. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/29/i...

Opinion | They Don’t Want to Live in Lincoln’s America

wrote about the “national conservative” vision for america

A lot is covered in this critique of today's podcast culture, but I would also add (after talking about malls on 30+ shows) that chat shows with guest rely on someone else paying for the work that makes someone a good guest and that pay is increasingly hard to get! defector.com/the-future-o...

Really good example of this. All the rhetoric demonizing delivery workers and the failure of people to think holistically about the issue of road safety gets your right here, with ICE goons disappearing moped drivers.

The Atlantic has been excellent at opposing Trumpism and defending democratic values these last ten years.

But running this essay is terrible decision. Crime is irrelevant to Trump. He’s aimed at putting troops on American streets from the start, and he hates DC for its politics and demographics.

Crimes I Have Witnessed as a Resident of Washington, DC “President Donald Trump said on Monday he was deploying 800 National Guard troops to Washington and temporarily taking over the city’s police depar...

Off-leash golden doodle at Petworth Farmers Market
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cri...

How Doodles Became a Cutthroat Billion-Dollar Dog Industry Goldendoodles, labradoodles and bernedoodles are everywhere. Have we finally reached peak doodle?

As the owner of a cockapoo, this story hit it outta the (dog) park.
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Some days I just can't believe I get to take a rollercoaster to get to work.

They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.

R2D2 will now be known as D50

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

Sly Stone RIP

There are a lot of "GOATs." Then there's the real one. Rest in Power, Sly. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

I told you that the foreshadowing this season was lazy and forced.

In the ~12 years I've been riding Metro, I've never seen these floors. Is this what was under the carpets all these years?

These sound like good reasons! I just think it's funny to imagine having no idea how to direct lost tourists to buses (though I suppose they're more likely a metro or car trip anyways)

The workweek before July 4 is a hilarious time to change DC's entire bus network.

Trump Plans to Offload National Park Sites, But States Don’t Want Them The White House wants to trim the National Park Service budget by transferring some parks to state and tribal management. States say their resources are already tight.

“It takes about 350 parks to wipe out in order to get $900 million in budget savings.”
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Protected bike lanes have a near-magical ability to produce cyclists.

This new study of 28 US cities finds that census block groups w/protected bike lanes expanded bike commuting almost 2x faster than those w/standard bike lanes & >4x faster than those w/o new lanes.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

If you capitalize the 'P' in Dupont Circle, I don't trust you.

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How to Better Design Cities for Families The architecture of housing, transportation and public space could support children and caretakers, writes design critic Alexandra Lange in her Pulitzer Prize-winning series.

Bloomberg News has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for a collection of essays by contributor @langealexandra.bsky.social.

The series published in Bloomberg CityLab explores how urban design and architecture impact parents and kids 🧵

The "abundance" discourse has arrived in Woodley Park

initial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt

This was the first thing I thought of when I first heard they were trying to get into USIP. The location, beautiful building, and mini-campus. These guys are such creeps.

I was literally just thinking, has anyone checked on Darth lately

Also, most dog trainers would tell you that dog parks are terrible places for dogs because foster even worse behavior problems. (My dog can't do most dog parks because they're basically thunderdomes for inattentive owners)

It's time to redownload your allergy apps, DC.

$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...