Andrew Pericak
@andrewpericak.com
GIS professional but also environmental policy. Plus crosswords, music theory, and the District of Columbia. Words and views my own; he/his.
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Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
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UPDATE:
Due to impassable road conditions, bus service will be suspended starting today, Jan. 25 at 9:30 p.m. and will resume with limited service on Jan. 26 at 6:00 a.m. Metro Access will provide essential trips only.
Learn more: wmata.com/about/news/M...
Due to impassable road conditions, bus service will be suspended starting today, Jan. 25 at 9:30 p.m. and will resume with limited service on Jan. 26 at 6:00 a.m. Metro Access will provide essential trips only.
Learn more: wmata.com/about/news/M...
January 26, 2026 at 1:05 AM
UPDATE:
Due to impassable road conditions, bus service will be suspended starting today, Jan. 25 at 9:30 p.m. and will resume with limited service on Jan. 26 at 6:00 a.m. Metro Access will provide essential trips only.
Learn more: wmata.com/about/news/M...
Due to impassable road conditions, bus service will be suspended starting today, Jan. 25 at 9:30 p.m. and will resume with limited service on Jan. 26 at 6:00 a.m. Metro Access will provide essential trips only.
Learn more: wmata.com/about/news/M...
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People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
January 24, 2026 at 5:49 PM
People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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anybody else in dc just get shaken awake by two military helicopters flying extremely low at 5:30am
January 24, 2026 at 10:34 AM
anybody else in dc just get shaken awake by two military helicopters flying extremely low at 5:30am
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bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
January 22, 2026 at 3:51 AM
bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers
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a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 AM
a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project
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A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 12:50 AM
A 5-year-old preschool student was taken with his father by federal immigration agents shortly after arriving home from school, Columbia Heights school leaders said Jan. 21.
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I'm not a young man. I've been watching the weather for 50+ years. This may be the most significant winter storm I've seen.
January 20, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I'm not a young man. I've been watching the weather for 50+ years. This may be the most significant winter storm I've seen.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Very grateful for her contributions to a profound technology spanning many uses.
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This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
January 18, 2026 at 7:43 PM
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
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Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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The streateries disappear on 18th street -- a series of photos taken about 5 weeks apart. Where there was once room for 20 or so people to eat, now there's room for just a single car to park.
January 9, 2026 at 9:56 PM
The streateries disappear on 18th street -- a series of photos taken about 5 weeks apart. Where there was once room for 20 or so people to eat, now there's room for just a single car to park.
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Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”
January 7, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Kinda sucks how one day you’ll post stuff like “does the Grinch use the toilet?” and then the next it has to be “I reject those who worship death”
When I lived in Nashville I sadly didn’t have great bike infrastructure near me, but now living in DC where there are protected bike lanes everywhere, I always feel such joy and connection with the city by getting to most of my destinations by bike
Blasting music on the way to work on this bike is one of life’s great joys. Everyone should get to live a couple of miles from their destinations with relatively safe bike routes if they choose.
January 8, 2026 at 2:40 PM
When I lived in Nashville I sadly didn’t have great bike infrastructure near me, but now living in DC where there are protected bike lanes everywhere, I always feel such joy and connection with the city by getting to most of my destinations by bike
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An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.
January 7, 2026 at 9:25 PM
An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.
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Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters
January 7, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters
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masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
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they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
January 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.
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I feel like letting every president of my lifetime get away with Unlimited War Crimes was a serious mistake
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
I feel like letting every president of my lifetime get away with Unlimited War Crimes was a serious mistake
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If you let him get away with this, he’ll do it with Iran and whatever other neocon bugaboos have been lingering around conservative media since Obama first started running. Maybe Greenland but less intense because white. One of them will invariably respond in the mainland U.S. Stop him before then.
January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM
If you let him get away with this, he’ll do it with Iran and whatever other neocon bugaboos have been lingering around conservative media since Obama first started running. Maybe Greenland but less intense because white. One of them will invariably respond in the mainland U.S. Stop him before then.
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What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
January 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM
What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things
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I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris.
In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
January 3, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris.
In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).