I hate to be a narc, but this house sorta near me is a real nuisance! The tenants keep throwing illegal parties & I worry someone’s gonna wind up dead. The cops won’t crack down, so I was thinking of calling the landlords. Anyone know how to reach them?
Three sources tell
@jsidman
that Taylor never recovered from its owner's photo-op with Trump. “Our sales dropped 40 percent the next day,” says one. “And it persisted and never really got any better.”
The irony of all these scenes of citizens arming up, beauty queens with AKs, grandmas making Molotovs, action-movie caliber quotes (“I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition”)…It’s the fantasy scenario of a certain slice of American society—the slice most likely to be pro Putin.
An awful lot of people who cover Kevin McCarthy think he’s…not smart. Why don’t you read it in the coverage? Because stupid may be Washington’s last taboo.
SC National Guard claims a DC pizza place delivered a pizza with glass baked in to their hotel. It's a shocking claim. And there is absolutely nothing to back it up.
New, from
@TheAtlantic
: Trump skipped a visit to an American military cemetery in France after calling the dead "losers" for getting killed: Full story here:
Home news. After seven and a half wonderful years as editor of
@washingtonian
I'm joining
@POLITICOmag
. Among other adventures, I'll be putting on my anthropologist's pith helmet to create a new feature about Washington that I hope you'll all read.
Wow the White House statement about why they held a reckless event in the middle of my city that has led to a covid outbreak really seems like evidence that these people take their leadership responsibilities seriously.
There’s an effort afoot to oust a top Hill aide who’s on Putin’s enemies list. On paper, it’s office stuff. Some of the activists I talked to think something more sinister is going on.
An entire small-town police department in Kansas raided a newspaper's offices and its reporters' homes because the paper got a tip about a well-connected person's DUI
As a traveler, I'm both a proud American and a citizen of the world — and I've got a few thoughts on this coming election.
This election is deeper than partisanship. It's far more than Republican versus Democrat. In the future, big challenges like pandemics, refugees, and
Bizarre fun fact: The first newspaper article in LexisNexis that mentions Sarah Palin comes from 1996, and concerns a visit by Ivana Trump to the Anchorage J.C. Penney. Palin apparently took a day off work to see her.
In a fitting end to the Trump years in my particular neighborhood, a bunch of pizzagate conspiracy loons protested our local restaurant but left after the restaurant started playing loud music & allies came to dance in the street.
I’m coming home from Minneapolis with this most excellent plaque honoring my
@washingtonian
colleagues for making the best damn big city magazine in the country. So pumped for our team,
@merrillwilliams
, and the whole company.
#CRMAmpls
I work with a terrific team
@washingtonian
, and today they voted to be represented by
@washguild
. Even in a tough summer of debate, Delta, and anxiety, they kept making a great magazine. Now I’m looking forward to collaborating anew on ways to make the work even better.
"After decades of tumbling crime, many in Washington seem to forget the toxic effect that fear of violence can have on politics. A fearful electorate is more susceptible to demagoguery and terrible ideas and warped understanding of how a city works."
The recent golden age of DC growth/wealth has also been a pretty dreary age of DC architecture. The new DC public libraries seem to be an exception. What an odd change—private sector condo bldgs go up fast/generic, public sector considers creativity.
I'm as offended as the next DC native when it comes to the trampling of self-government, but I wonder sometime whether an appeal to basic good management is a more effective argument against federal meddling than the appeal to fairness has been.
Some people wait years to write a lede like this, in a story about how the local Next Day Blinds chain has been taken over by California chain called 3 Day Blinds: "If you were hoping for Next Day Blinds, you’ll now have to wait two extra days."
Today is the final
@kojoshow
on
@wamu885
. I sat down with Kojo
@Nnamdikid
for an exit interview of sorts—touching on how he wound up in DC, the future of local media, his thoughts on the region, more. Take a read (after you listen to the show at noon!).
I was trying to figure out why, out of all the terrible things we've seen this year, I feel so sad about a random CVS boarding up ahead of election day. I wrote this to try to work it out.
I worked with lots of geniuses
@wcp
, but there was no one whose judgment I trusted more than
@Darrow_M
. I lived in fear that he’d pan some story or idea or scheme of mine. A magnificent photographer of DC, but also a conscience for generations of writers & editors. This sucks!
Just realized that if Biden wins, this dateline is going to be a regular summer feature of American journalism. WH briefings at Dolle's! Pool holding pen at Funland!
DC bans gatherings of more than 50 people, mandates mask-wearing outside the house, and requires visitors from states including Indiana to quarantine. MPD could have averted a crisis if they’d just sent a couple squad cars over to 1600 Penn to break up this illegal party.
I don't get her supposed dilemma. Story says she's a technocrat, not a hack. She's out of a job 1/20. Getting fired a month early can't be that big a deal. Personally, professionally, financially, & patriotically, what's the upside to aiding obstruction?
🎶🎶Well they stole ballots from the Chicken Man in Philly last night / and they voted absentee at his house, too/ Down at Four Seasons Landscaping they’re getting ready for a fight / Gonna see what them racket boys can do 🎶🎶
Giuliani and other Trumpworld figures have promoted the idea that a Philly mob boss stole the election for Biden, and is now ready to flip to Trump to ensure that he can go hunting in national parks.
The claim is total nonsense.
Story via
@arawnsley
.
People keep assuring me that this effort to overrule a free election is a clown show. But for the next 50 or so years, we’ll have to share a country knowing it includes hundreds of lawyers & thousands of enablers who once worked to thwart democracy.
Remember when Bush was the biggest polarizer we'd ever seen? That version of the ex-president popped back up last week. Which was jarring, because his role model as a POTUS who actually goes away had made him a nostalgic fave.
Ok, so I’m biased because I have an 8th grader who could be wearing an RBGHS sweatshirt next year if this happens, but it’s still a good idea! (Plus
@dcpublicschools
would make a killing on merch sales.)
@marycheh
@EleanorNorton
What if all of life was just a tiny speck of newspaper, inside a larger newspaper, inside an even larger newspaper, and on and on. It boggles the mind. The universe is so vast.
CSPAN has been walloped by cord cutting, which has slashed its revenue & audience. My column this week looked inside this venerable Beltway institution’s unlikely, poignant fight for eyeballs and relevance.
I wrote about political violence and what it means for working-stiff Washington. Plus reference to Pennsylvania Ave parking and a Fugazi show opposite the White House!
As a longtime DC 4th of July-watcher, I was curious why the inaugural fireworks seemed so much better. There's a geographic answer, and a DC-lockdown-related answer, among other things.
How desperate is Trump to avoid anti-abortion talk? His campaign now tells me Congress should respect DC’s rights instead of exercising their power to ban it in Washington. Given his rhetoric on other DC local-government issues, that’s jaw-dropping.
I wrote about the politics of the Congressional hearings on the Commanders — the one venue where Dan Snyder is structurally guaranteed to have allies (and has taken advantage of it)
I'm sorry to keep playing the local yokel here, but this man lives in Fairfax County and works in the District. Can local officials please intervene to force him to follow the law in order to keep our neighbors & coworkers safe?
I would have preferred The Final Days, but if the Washington Football Team was determined to go with a Woodward title for its new nickname, I guess The Commanders is okay.
I get that you have to make statements like this, but if your state is literally on a coast, maybe it's best to come up with another catch-all slam than "coastal elites." So many caricatures out there, Virginia! You can do better!
“Fanone’s book is also a story about class in Washington, documenting the chasm between the national-capital VIPs who run the government and the hometown-D.C. folks who serve the drinks and staff the preschools and, yes, patrol the streets.”
After years of targeting legal drugs & abortion rights, GOP meddling with DC focuses on…. “No turn on red” rules. (It’s actually a culture-war milestone.)
I wrote about this crazy case where a judge in India was able to order a story by US reporters taken offline — in America. It’s a scary precedent from a national-sovereignty point of view. I wonder what the America-firsters who hate the media will think?
This is a beautifully told story by my colleague
@lmullinsdc
, who learned about DC’s secret covid morgue and told the heart-tugging story of the volunteers and public servants who took care of the dead there. Please take a look.
In Beltway parlance,
#Thistown
has become code for what are essentially misdemeanor offenses. And we’re now in a time of felonies. How is the writer whose book became the hashtag supposed to feel? I found him in a sorta introspective mood.