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As the White House runs this public informercial for a company that says it's donating sod to replace the grass the UFC/Trump birthday fight killed, I will note that, per a source, the administration has also looked into just dyeing dead WH grass green.
Flashback to 2019 when Jay Clayton, then SEC chair, posed with a financial-services lobbyist at Trump Bedminster
Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment.
WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds.
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WHOA. At least three passenger jets appear to have had rejected landings/go-rounds in ~30 minutes while that UFC light show was going a mile away.
@aaronparnas.bsky.social previously reported a commercial pilot filed an FAA safety report about being “nearly blinded” by a test run of the lights.
In 2012, 30 states allowed no-excuse mail-in voting. In 2016, 8 states saw more than a fourth of voters send in their ballots.
Taibbi has either gotten a lot dumber, or he just doesn't give a shit anymore.
Careful planning is Washington’s whole thing: symbolic sightlines; monuments that speak to one another; columns, rooflines and axes aligned just so. The whole city is supposed to be a work of civic art.
Trump’s projects test this 235-year-old idea: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This shows we don't have real democracy in DC. Legally, Trump can't federalize the District because he doesn't like an election result. But he try. He can interfere with self-governance more than he already has. And just his ability threaten this straight up tyranny semi-credibly is anti-democratic.
The president's announcement that the July 4th event in DC celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence will be a "TRUMP RALLY" completes the MAGA takeover of the country's birthday that started last year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202....
This is not at all surprising, but it's worth noting that Freedom 250 flacks are out there saying the group, which is organizing the July 4 event, is nonpartisan. Making the official July 4 event in Washington into a TRUMP rally doesn't seem nonpartisan.
A judge has ordered the Interior Department to stop the initiative under which they are literally ripping signs out of the ground at national parks, sometimes because they’re too “negative.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The city is unlike any in America for its accumulation of intricate details, a whole that is a work of civic art.
Trump transition staffer turned lobbyist claimed to enjoy the ‘best fellowship’ with Jay Clayton at Trump Bedminster; SEC spox says it was just a quick photo op
Q: Here in Washington DC, there's a Democratic primary for mayor. One of the two leading candidates is running a Zohran Mamdani campaign focusing on socialist policies. How would you feel if she wins?
TRUMP: Maybe we take back Washington and run it on a federal basis. We won't put up with it.
NEW statement from Trump on Jay Clayton’s nomination to be US attorney for SDNY
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BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelly blocks Interior Sec. Doug Burgum's “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” Order as "a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization" and orders DOI to "restore and reinstall" removed materials "forthwith."
ORDER: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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After UFC Freedom 250, Scotts Miracle-Gro will provide funding, turf products and technical expertise to restore the White House South Lawn.
