Dan Newman
@dannewman.bsky.social
DC-based design leader at Google (previously at NPR & Wolfram|Alpha). Dad, traveler, urbanist, F1 fan, theater nerd. he/him.
Also on Threads/Instagram (threads.net/@CreativeNewman) and Mastodon (mas.to/@creativenewman)
Also on Threads/Instagram (threads.net/@CreativeNewman) and Mastodon (mas.to/@creativenewman)
"We are retaining some features for premium users. Want rule of law? That’s premium. The right to run your company without government interference? That’s a paid feature now. An explanation from the Supreme Court as to why it just ruled against you? Maybe!"
Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America!
Want rule of law? That’s premium.
www.theatlantic.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"We are retaining some features for premium users. Want rule of law? That’s premium. The right to run your company without government interference? That’s a paid feature now. An explanation from the Supreme Court as to why it just ruled against you? Maybe!"
My 4th grader is being taught cursive for the first time this year… in *history* class. 💀
August 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
My 4th grader is being taught cursive for the first time this year… in *history* class. 💀
The reporting from @51st.news (@maustermuhle.bsky.social et. al) is some of the strongest, deepest coverage about the federal takeover of DC... if you're not subscribed, you're missing out:
This week in the D.C. takeover: Bowser plays nice
Also: The National Guard goes on trash duty, and Sandwich Guy gets a win.
51st.news
August 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The reporting from @51st.news (@maustermuhle.bsky.social et. al) is some of the strongest, deepest coverage about the federal takeover of DC... if you're not subscribed, you're missing out:
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Time to Grow The 51st
Help us hire Christina and Martin Full-Time!
givebutter.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Now through this weekend, I'll donate $1 to @51st.news for each:
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🟢🟡🔴 The DC Chamber of Commerce cites several council members' "consistently progressive voting records" as justification for giving them "red" ratings in their annual Performance Scorecard. Simply saying that "progressive"="bad for business" is... a choice.
DC Council Performance Scorecard – DC Chamber of Commerce
dcchamber.org
July 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
🟢🟡🔴 The DC Chamber of Commerce cites several council members' "consistently progressive voting records" as justification for giving them "red" ratings in their annual Performance Scorecard. Simply saying that "progressive"="bad for business" is... a choice.
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D.C. Council approves ranked-choice voting, rejects rollback of tipped wage law (for now)
There was plenty of action on two of D.C.'s ballot initiatives.
51st.news
July 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Ah, I miss Champaign. What a great feature in the NYT:
Chinese Students Flocked to Central Illinois. Their Food Followed.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Ah, I miss Champaign. What a great feature in the NYT:
Glad that the Hiraya space on H St isn't staying dark:
"...he plans to transform Hiraya’s downstairs cafe into a dual destination for wagyu smash burgers, loaded fries, and chopped cheese (Double Up) and bubble teas (Auntea Boba). Look for breakfast burritos and coffee drinks in the morning."
"...he plans to transform Hiraya’s downstairs cafe into a dual destination for wagyu smash burgers, loaded fries, and chopped cheese (Double Up) and bubble teas (Auntea Boba). Look for breakfast burritos and coffee drinks in the morning."
Ambitious Filipino Venture Exits H Street
Chef Paolo Dungca’s short-lived tasting room Kayu will reopen in Dupont as he looks for a new space for his all-day cafe Hiraya
dc.eater.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Glad that the Hiraya space on H St isn't staying dark:
"...he plans to transform Hiraya’s downstairs cafe into a dual destination for wagyu smash burgers, loaded fries, and chopped cheese (Double Up) and bubble teas (Auntea Boba). Look for breakfast burritos and coffee drinks in the morning."
"...he plans to transform Hiraya’s downstairs cafe into a dual destination for wagyu smash burgers, loaded fries, and chopped cheese (Double Up) and bubble teas (Auntea Boba). Look for breakfast burritos and coffee drinks in the morning."
“CarPlay Ultra… feels more like applying an iOS-styled WinAmp skin to the speedometer.”
Maybe my opinion will change if/when I see it IRL, but right, I totally share this first impression of the “new” CarPlay.
Maybe my opinion will change if/when I see it IRL, but right, I totally share this first impression of the “new” CarPlay.
To improve CarPlay Ultra, Apple needs to fix CarPlay – Six Colors
Six Colors by Jason Snell, Dan Moren and friends
sixcolors.com
May 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
“CarPlay Ultra… feels more like applying an iOS-styled WinAmp skin to the speedometer.”
Maybe my opinion will change if/when I see it IRL, but right, I totally share this first impression of the “new” CarPlay.
Maybe my opinion will change if/when I see it IRL, but right, I totally share this first impression of the “new” CarPlay.
This is an excellent explainer of why "just lower the rent" isn't always possible for filling vacancies in commercial real estate: postsuburban.substack.com/p/why-do-com...
Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?
Understanding “extend and pretend”
postsuburban.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is an excellent explainer of why "just lower the rent" isn't always possible for filling vacancies in commercial real estate: postsuburban.substack.com/p/why-do-com...
Mentioned in passing in this article about Alero opening at The 202 in NoMa is that they're also, allegedly, taking over Kitchen Cray space on H Street. (Deep link for DCPL card holders: www-bizjournals-com.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/washington/n...) @popville.bsky.social
bizjournals.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Mentioned in passing in this article about Alero opening at The 202 in NoMa is that they're also, allegedly, taking over Kitchen Cray space on H Street. (Deep link for DCPL card holders: www-bizjournals-com.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/washington/n...) @popville.bsky.social
"But Instagram [has] effectively become three different Twitters: Instagram Stories for the people you know, the grid for people you used to know (and their weddings and babies), and Reels for probing the profoundly upsetting psychic void at the heart of our country." @garbageday.email is the best.
What is Instagram now?
Read to the end for a good chart
www.garbageday.email
May 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
"But Instagram [has] effectively become three different Twitters: Instagram Stories for the people you know, the grid for people you used to know (and their weddings and babies), and Reels for probing the profoundly upsetting psychic void at the heart of our country." @garbageday.email is the best.
My kiddo has been regularly asking to watch cat videos on Instagram lately. I think Instagram has noticed.
…Not mad at it.
…Not mad at it.
April 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
My kiddo has been regularly asking to watch cat videos on Instagram lately. I think Instagram has noticed.
…Not mad at it.
…Not mad at it.
Indigo has added a 15% service charge… but it replaces all expectation of tip (“additional tipping is not expected or encouraged”). If you’re going to do a service fee, this is the way to do it!
@popville.bsky.social
@popville.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Indigo has added a 15% service charge… but it replaces all expectation of tip (“additional tipping is not expected or encouraged”). If you’re going to do a service fee, this is the way to do it!
@popville.bsky.social
@popville.bsky.social
Ah, a scolding! Thank goodness, that'll do it.
(And if not, maybe the judge can issue a stern glare or a wag of the finger!)
(And if not, maybe the judge can issue a stern glare or a wag of the finger!)
April 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Ah, a scolding! Thank goodness, that'll do it.
(And if not, maybe the judge can issue a stern glare or a wag of the finger!)
(And if not, maybe the judge can issue a stern glare or a wag of the finger!)
DC advertisers, never change.
April 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
DC advertisers, never change.
What has the world come to when f'ing Rand Paul is the voice of reason?!?
Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"
April 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
What has the world come to when f'ing Rand Paul is the voice of reason?!?
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
Good lord.
Trump Reimagines the Kennedy Center: Elvis, ‘Cats’ and Babe Ruth (Gift Article)
A recording of President Trump’s private remarks at a Kennedy Center board meeting shows that he mused about bestowing honors on dead celebrities and people from outside the arts.
www.nytimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Good lord.
Loved this episode of @switchedonpop.bsky.social digging deep into the references and influences of the new Lady Gaga album:
Lady Gaga's Monster Return — Switched On Pop
A tour through Lady Gaga's inspiration, imitation, and self references on Mayhem’s Museum of Brutality
switchedonpop.com
March 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Loved this episode of @switchedonpop.bsky.social digging deep into the references and influences of the new Lady Gaga album:
I know the world’s expensive, and airports are even more so, but $8 for a single Auntie Anne’s pretzel is objectively nuts. 🥨
March 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I know the world’s expensive, and airports are even more so, but $8 for a single Auntie Anne’s pretzel is objectively nuts. 🥨
Oh, I'm so excited for this. LOVED Season 1.
PEOPLE OF BLUESKY! Ahhhhhh, it smells good here. Behold a trailer for season 2 of Poker Face! It’s gonna be a good one. May 8th on the almighty Peacock!
March 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Oh, I'm so excited for this. LOVED Season 1.
Enraging. Infuriating. If Senate Dems don't block this—and I doubt they will—this is going to fuck over the 700,000 of us who live in the nation's capital for no reason at all. It doesn't even save any federal dollars!
NEW in @51st.news: House Republicans just voted to defund D.C. police and schools. As part of a spending bill to avert a federal government shutdown, they could force D.C. to slash $1.1 billion out of its budget, and no one understands really why. 51st.news/house-republ...
Dollars and nonsense: House Republicans vote to defund D.C. police and schools
Congress could force D.C. to cut $1.1 billion out of its local budget, but no one really understands why.
51st.news
March 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Enraging. Infuriating. If Senate Dems don't block this—and I doubt they will—this is going to fuck over the 700,000 of us who live in the nation's capital for no reason at all. It doesn't even save any federal dollars!
Ah, this this this! Search in Settings is probably the most obnoxiously frustrating piece of iOS, mainly because it could easily be made so much better.
Searching for settings in all the wrong places
Search and ye shall not find To say that it has been controversial every time Apple rejiggers Settings on any of their platforms is putting it mildly. It is evident that whatever iOS does with Sett…
sixcolors.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Ah, this this this! Search in Settings is probably the most obnoxiously frustrating piece of iOS, mainly because it could easily be made so much better.