Kate Cronquist

A group of uniformed troops walk along the National Mall, with the Washington Monument and the Capitol in the background. A headline reads: "Crime Festers in Republican States While Their Troops Patrol Washington." Photo by Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...

RIP to the NYT mini crossword, and with it, my will to face the day.

Metro I love you but Gallery Place-Chinatown needs some air 🥵

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

There has been a lot of focus on the District’s budget due to an effort in Congress to force the District of Columbia to cut 1 billion dollars in spending 6 months into the fiscal year. Budgets can be complicated, so to combat confusion I’d like to introduce “The District Budget, 101 pt 1”. 1/4

Local federal workers react to Trump's new work policies: 'People were sobbing in the halls’ Many of D.C.'s civil servants panic as they face job losses, hiring freezes, and return to office mandates.

In largely progressive DC, many civil servants fear for their professional livelihoods as the new Trump administration takes aim at the federal bureaucracy.

“You work on anything related to policy or regulation and you're now an at-will employee and we could be fired tomorrow.”

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Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.

a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

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The D.C. area will see home prices rise more than anywhere else in the mid-Atlantic in 2025, with the median sale increasing to $638,000, as return to office leads more people to relocate closer to urban centers, BrightMLS forecasts.

Just fixed my running toilet all on my own so basically I'm a plumber now. Is there a fed agency for which I should put my name forward?

Download the World in Data Our World in Data recently announced that they are providing APIs to access their data. Coincidentally, I am using one of their datasets in my workshop on time series analysis at PyData Global 2024…

Our World in Data now provides APIs to access their datasets programmatically. Here's a quick example that shows how to use them:
www.allendowney.com/blog/2024/11...
Thanks, @ourworldindata.org

Who Are These Federal Workers Trump Wants to Fire? www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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