being a journalist is like being in school and writing a paper on a cool new topic every week and getting to chat with top experts in that field🥰and then you have random fun facts to tell your friends but they don't really care lol

what a great city

The landmark Supreme Court decision axing a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana has renewed a Republican challenge to Washington state’s new legislative districts while spurring some state Democrats to seek new congressional boundaries: seattletimes.com/seattle-new…

🚇 IT’S HERE. The D Line Extension is officially open — Beverly Hills to DTLA. And we’re celebrating in style. For 90 days, your Metro station comes with: Farmers markets, coffee carts and much more. Your commute just got a serious glow-up. 👇 thesource.metro.net/d-line-e…

🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️ I turned @allyjarmanning's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map. Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below)

the thing about the LAX Metro Connector bus is sometimes it’s right there and sometimes you think you might die at the terminal waiting 🫩

Perfect quote for a Los Angeles subway story, no notes latimes.com/california/story…

Tae-ro Lee, co-founder with wife Hee-sook Lee of iconic spicy tofu house BCD, dies at 88. His family will carry on the legacy, by Angela Osorio — @latimes latimes.com/food/story/2026-…

HOLD ONTO YOUR... NEST! 🦅 Strong winds battered SoCal on Saturday as the same low-pressure system brought heavy snow to the Rockies. The gusts were so intense, Shadow was nearly blown away! Holding on for dear life to protect the eggs, Shadow remains steadfast in the nest.

The last time we surveyed New Yorkers about their paychecks, the math was easy. Well, easier. In 2005, a blogger at Gawker made $30,000 and the CEO at Lehman Brothers more than $35 million. Back then, there was no “gig economy,” at least not as we know it today, and coffee shops from Bed-Stuy to the Upper East Side weren’t lousy with model–pickleballer–nanny–actor–producer–DJ–creative directors. Some 20 years later, amid a radically different economic environment in which the nature of work feels as if it’s about to change forever, we set out to conduct a similar experiment. We reached into our network of sources, blind-messaged LinkedIn profiles, put out a casting call on Instagram, even stopped strangers in Union Square. What we discovered, just before a jobs report earlier this month confirmed a dwindling labor market, is that salaries across most industries have not kept up with inflation in a city that has become exorbitantly expensive. Of course, there are plenty of people, especially at the very top, doing all right on their salary plus bonus and stock options. The aim of our latest investigation wasn’t simply an excuse to be nosy. The hope was to capture this moment and provide some sideways service to those wondering what else there might be to do. It’s not too late to try to become a tugboat engineer, is it? 60 New Yorkers share what they do and how much they make for our latest cover story: nymag.visitlink.me/8UWFXW

i’m still a little surprised by the amount of attention and unexpected paths my @WIRED piece has taken. for those who don’t know the context: this piece was published in January on WIRED and it's about Morning Star of Lingao, a crowd-sourced, essentially never-ending sci-fi story written collaboratively on the chinese internet. the premise is: 500 people time-travel back to the Ming dynasty to industrialize China. what’s been most humbling is seeing where the piece has travelled. A scholar friend at Yale just told me she assigned it as required reading in her “China in the World” course and is considering incorporating it into one of her public lectures. I’ve also been invited to write a follow-up for the European publication Le Grand Continent, which will publish the piece in French and Spanish (coming out in April). i also had the chance to talk about it on @KaiserKuo's podcast Sinica, and @kyleichan's podcast High Capacity (i'll post the links in reply). And perhaps most surreal of all, the piece has been translated and circulated widely in China, including among readers of Lingao. Ma Qianzu himself — whom i couldn’t reach while reporting the article — recently reached out to chat. I’m honestly just grateful the story resonated with people. link in reply.

If they sell enough shirts we could fund the next phase of the D Line extension 😀

DOG ON THE COURSE AT OLYMPIC SKIING. 🚨 The late entry closes strong at the cross country finish line!

NEW: We’re publishing a full list of the 373 federal judges who have ruled against ICE’s mass detention policy and the 28 who have endorsed it — as well as links to key rulings by each. Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy. politico.com/news/2026/02/12…

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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez. propublica.org/article/alex-…

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says. apnews.com/article/ice-arres…

lol -- the WSJ let Anthropic's AI run a vending machine in the newsroom as an experiment. "It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared." wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-cl…

DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump’s immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled -- by @NewsDudeAP @rjfoley @j_dingdingding @ClaireARush @christinetfern apnews.com/article/ice-immig…

starting a thread of members of congress’ spotify wrapped! 💥💥💥 (and i guess apple music and other streamers are okay too) ty to the members who have sent me their wrapped so far (and if a staffer wants to send me their boss’ wrapped, tysm) updating throughout the day🧵 1/?

“Zoom in: It's unclear at this time whether officers read the raccoon his Miranda rights, how much he owes in damages, and if he's facing any drunk-in-public or breaking-and-entering charges.”