Laurel Wamsley

If I were in DC, I’d be at Wonderland on a sunny day like this. I need to find the Berkeley or Oakland next best thing.

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.
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Spicing up the commute

It turns out the 8-hour workday is because after 8 hours your brain can no longer function doing work

It’s crazy out here. I have a good job and I think it’s lovely here in the Bay — and still! It feels crazy to try to buy a home here.

😩

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

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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."

Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity His conflicts of interests are insurmountable. He can take a heroic path to strengthen journalism.

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...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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

I appreciate that, thank you.

French lawmakers approve ban on social media for kids under 15 President Emmanuel Macron has requested that the legislation be fast-tracked and it will now be discussed by the Senate in the coming weeks.

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

Jesus

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San Jose could add financial perks to help speed up housing development San Jose is exploring the expansion of its multi-family incentive program and tax and fee reductions for some commercial-to-residential conversions downtown

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.
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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.