Carol Pogash

Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?

How Jack Kerouac, Janis Joplin & Dorothea Lange lived in SF v. today's housing challenges. Excellent onramp to SF's art and real estate.

So the U.S. military is forced to buy coal & watch the Melania movie —in some cases.

Trump Administration Live Updates: Minnesota Immigration Enforcement Surge Is Ending, Border Czar Says

At Long Last. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

What kind of human being would do this to an 84-year-old woman?

Savannah Guthrie makes it sound as though the latest kidnapper message said their mother had died ("We understand," Guthrie said, implying the kidnappers did not intend for Nancy to die.) Samantha said the family will pay for her return to "celebrate," suggesting a celebration of life.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

The hallmark (the “brand”) of the Washington Post has been accountability journalism. Thus, today’s staff decimation is Bezos’s greatest gift to Trump, so much more valuable than the Melania movie, inauguration money, etc. This disaster began, for real, with the Harris endorsement he killed.

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Minnesota sheriffs group, border czar Tom Homan negotiating blueprint for federal drawdown Documents obtained by the Star Tribune show how county jails would give access to ICE agents, a key demand Homan has made to decrease the number of federal immigration agents in Minnesota.

This could be a breakthrough. Listen to The NYT’s The Daily podcast for context. www.startribune.com/mn-sheriffs-....

Today’s San Francisco Chronicle, p 3:

YouTube video by Nate Reiter Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis - First Ave 260130

Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...

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

Anthem for Our Time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Opinion | The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act.

Ms. Noem and Mr. Bovino are lying in defiance of obvious truths
— NYT Editorial
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

Talking truck books with Charles, the librarian.

Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional

How does a toddler provide informed consent?
When choice trumps health of vulnerable population.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/h...

Greenland, Iceland, what's the difference

Stuck in the 1950s: Trump refers to "San Francisco communists."

Entering Castro territory. Trump rambling for an hour.

Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Trump used to ask, "Where’s my Roy Cohn?" We know the answer: Stephen Miller. JD Vance, Hegseth & Kristi Noem are struggling understudies.

Hessy Levinsons Taft, Jewish Baby on Cover of Nazi Magazine, Dies at 91

Incredible tale, well told.
Hessy Levinsons Taft, Jewish Baby on Cover of Nazi Magazine, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

Did Rubio & Trump expect the Venezuelan government & military to evaporate?

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?

Off to a good start

Opinion | The 2025 Politics Yearbook: Most Likely to Be Extreme and Chaotic

Best Class Secretary, Michelle Cottle.
The 2025 Politics Yearbook: Most Likely to Be Extreme and Chaotic

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

The truth about DOGE.

Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him

How the White House gets to unanimity: Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio, a Democrat, said on social media that she “was muted on the call and not allowed to speak or voice my opposition.”

While hiking in the Italian Alps, a nature photographer came upon a surface speckled with more than 2,000 dinosaur footprints that scientists are calling “remarkable.” nyti.ms/44zfQc8