I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
23 y.o. killed crossing the street in a crosswalk with a walk signal by a driver turning left. 5:34 p.m. on a Monday in downtown Richmond. Absolutely devastating and infuriating.
WABA relaying something I also heard this past week (and that, if it happened two weeks ago, I would have tried to report out for the Post): USDOT wants to remove a chunk of the 15th Street NW bike lane where it crosses the National Mall waba.org/2026/02/13/f...
Many are rightly noting that clicks alone is a terrible way to make coverage decisions. But it’s also just not true these cuts reflect reader interest. Some of the Post’s most popular writers were cut. The most read stories this week were written, edited and designed by people who lost their jobs.
And this is before the ride of e-bikes although maybe they would be looked at separately
Will Lewis’s exit is long overdue. His legacy will be the attempted destruction of a great American journalism institution. But it's not too late to save The Post. Jeff Bezos must immediately rescind these layoffs or sell the paper to someone willing to invest in its future.
I find it difficult to celebrate almost anyone losing their job. Almost.
A protester holds a sign that reads “stand with the Post”
Protesters stand outside of the headquarters
Protesters stand outside of the headquarters of the Post
Protesters are listening to a speaker
Scenes outside of the Washington Post headquarters right now:
Oh thank you! I did not realize tha
Same!
Thanks, David. If anyone wants to hire me I would love to keep doing it!
Seems like this will be my last story for the Washington Post. A handful of my colleagues will still be covering local news in the DMV and I know they’ll do great work, but they and this region deserve so much better.
A thorough investigation into grift at a group paid by the D.C. government to violence interruption -- the kind of local accountability reporting we may not be able to do much longer www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
D.C. area has just emerged from its longest uninterrupted stretch of freezing weather in more than 35 years.
Even as temps thaw a bit today, another punishing blast of cold is poised to arrive by the weekend.
Read the full story: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
Buried at the end of this, citing sources, is the FHA is "gathering information on [DC]’s bike lanes and whether they took space away from cars and caused congestion."
Ugh. #bikedc
Trump administration limiting use of federal funds for speed cameras, calling them "unfair revenue schemes.” www.washingtonpost.com/transportati...
How is this a scoop? He says this all the time
This is where my bus got stuck yesterday
If DC plowed the bike lanes this wouldn’t have happened!
Well, I guess that explains why the snow detour is up Sherman... 😹
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I bailed but he eventually got free
Metro the past two days has been great. Unfortunately I decided to take the bus home and now my D44 is stuck in a snow bank at 11th and Florida. We are rocking back and forth and the lights are flickering.
Metro the past two days has been great. Unfortunately I decided to take the bus home and now my D44 is stuck in a snow bank at 11th and Florida. We are rocking back and forth and the lights are flickering.
Randy Clarke says Metro has moved close to a million people on rail + bus since the storm started, including 60K during it on Sunday: "When everything else can't move, we still move people." (Also: "This is arguably the heaviest and hardest snow I've ever felt in my life and I grew up in Canada.")
Streets and sidewalks mostly cleared downtown. Exception is of course National Park land (Samuel Gompers Memorial) which has not been touched
Update:
🚇 Rail resumes weekday service at 5 a.m. with trains every 6–12 mins
🚌 Bus resumes weekday service — all 126 routes operating (61 regular service, 65 on snow detours)
🚐 Metro Access operating all scheduled trips
Check wmata.com/snow before traveling.
A family trying to get their stroller across ice mounds after DPW had shoveled the intersection.
Yesterday, a van of 4-5 DPW employees showed up here on E St SE. They got out and started shoveling the alley entrance, which was great. However, this is how they left the intersection and the access to the sidewalks. I really wish I better understood the city’s strategy with snow.
An administrative judge reversed the termination of an MPD officer for an off-duty DUI in his cruiser with the emergency lights activated -- in part because other officers had engaged in similar conduct and were just suspended washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7781...
Homendy says, as a safety agency, NTSB does not allow emails to staff between 7 pm and 7 am. The actual fight is over the phrase "expectation bias" versus "complacency."
We're near the scheduled end of the NTSB hearing on their findings on the DCA crash, and until now everyone seemed to be on the same page -- but now there's a bitter argument between Chair Jennifer Homendy and board members over last-minute tweaks to the report.
