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Good morning. Showers and thunderstorms at this time, with a excessive round 75. Rain continues tonight with a low round 62. The Nationals host the Guardians at this time. The NHL introduced the schedule for the second spherical of the Stanley Cup playoffs over the weekend. The Capitals’ subsequent sequence, towards Carolina, will start Tuesday. The Mystics will play their residence opener Wednesday. You’ll be able to discover me on Bluesky, I’m @abeaujon.87 on Sign, and there’s a hyperlink to my e mail tackle under.
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I can’t cease listening to:
Music on my telephone and my pc, which is why I’m intrigued by the opera “The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,” which opened Friday, performs the Kennedy Heart tonight, and runs by means of Might 10. Watch the trailer right here.
Right here’s some administration information you may need blocked out:
Antics roadshow: President Trump had a enjoyable weekend.
• On Sunday evening he declared that Hollywood is dying and that he would impose tariffs on motion pictures made exterior the US, which led to the Wall Road Journal soberly declaring that “It’s unclear how such a tariff would work as a result of motion pictures aren’t bodily items.” (WSJ) Home field workplace is up this 12 months. (Selection) He additionally mentioned he would reopen Alcatraz, “to accommodate America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.” Alcatraz closed in 1963. (AP) The constructing is “completely inoperable.” (San Francisco Chronicle) What impressed this concept? Maybe Trump’s latest animus towards judges, however a station in Palm Seaside does seem to have broadcast “Escape From Alcatraz” over the weekend.
• NBC Information aired an interview with Trump Sunday. Right here’s the transcript. (NBC Information) Requested if he was required as President to uphold the Structure, he replied, “I don’t know.” (Politico) He didn’t rule out army motion to take Greenland. (CBS Information) He once more introduced up the concept American youngsters didn’t want so many dolls, and added that maybe they want fewer pencils. (Acyn)
• Trump shared an AI-generated picture of himself as pope over the weekend. Catholic leaders aren’t particularly thrilled about it. (Washington Submit) The White Home additionally posted a photograph of a buff Trump holding a light-weight saber on Might 4. The sunshine saber is pink, which Star Wars followers identified is the colour of villains’ weapons. (Axios)
In the meantime, within the actuality the remainder of us should trudge by means of: Keep in mind that Sign clone that Mike Waltz was photographed utilizing? It received hacked. (404 Media)
• The administration knowledgeable many arts organizations it will terminate their NEA grants. (Washington Submit) The cuts will have an effect on theater applications like Central Park Summer time Stage, arts facilities, and literary orgs. NEA’s funding “quantities to 0.003% of the overall federal finances.” (NPR) Trump proposed eliminating the NEA on Friday. (NYT)
• The administration is more likely to announce a commerce deal this week. (WSJ)
• The White Home has made deep cuts to applications that research the well being of LGBTQ individuals. (NYT) “Greater than a dozen data-gathering applications that monitor deaths and illness seem to have been eradicated within the twister of layoffs and proposed finances cuts rolled out within the Trump administration’s first 100 days.” (AP) Scholar mortgage collections restart at this time. (NBC Information) Trump’s skinny finances proposal would shift NASA’s mission to “an virtually singular deal with getting astronauts to” the moon and to Mars. (NYT)
Administration perambulation: The CIA fired Terry Adirim, its chief physician, after a far-right “provocateur” mentioned she was “the ‘architect’ of the Pentagon’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate.” (NYT) The DOJ reached a settlement settlement with the household of slain Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt. (NBC Information) A choose dominated that Trump’s govt order that focused the regulation agency Perkins Coie was unconstitutional. (NYT)
One of the best factor I ate just lately, by Ann Limpert
Vietnamese expat Yeanie Bach already runs a trio of well-liked banh mi outlets within the Boston space. In mid-April, she made her manner all the way down to the Eden Heart, Falls Church’s warren of Vietnamese eating places, cafes, and outlets, to open Banh Mi Oi. The plant-filled place is slim and comfortable, and Bach’s menu is sort of brief. Right here, she serves simply six banh mi and some espresso and tea drinks. The sandwiches are constructed on recent, ethereal bread with shatteringly crunchy crusts, and layered with pickled veggies and ultra-fresh jalapeños and cilantro. I liked each the “signature”—full of chilly cuts and slathered with pate—and the model with sweetly marinated grilled rooster. (6795 Wilson Blvd., Falls Church.)
Not too long ago on Washingtonian dot com:
• Eleanor Holmes Norton delivered a garbled speech at an Enviornment Stage occasion.
• Kata, “an Asian-fusion restaurant and cocktail bar that goals to double as a ‘sensory escape,’” has opened in Penn Quarter.
• “Each of our fryers are solely full of beef tallow”: Butterworth’s chef/proprietor Bart Hutchins dishes on his MAGA clientele.
• Concepts for celebrating Mom’s Day, which is this coming Sunday.
Native information hyperlinks:
• Two planes scotched landings at Nationwide Airport Thursday after “an Military Black Hawk helicopter took a ‘scenic route’ close to the flight path and circled the Pentagon.” (Washington Submit)
• The 2027 NFL draft can be held on the Nationwide Mall. Trump plans to announce the information at this time. (Axios) The transfer “brings one of many NFL’s signature occasions to the nation’s capital and represents one other vote of confidence by the league within the Washington Commanders.” (Washington Submit)
Commonwealth nook: Winsome Earle-Sears, the GOP’s nominee for governor in Virginia, “took the bizarre step final 12 months of together with a notice of non-public objection to a invoice she was constitutionally required to signal”—a invoice that prohibited denying marriage licenses to individuals based mostly on their intercourse, gender, or race. (Virginia Scope) Governor Glenn Youngkin signed a invoice that will restrict Virginia teenagers to 1 hour of social media per day. (WUSA9) Youngkin additionally vetoed a invoice that will make it tougher to open information facilities in Northern Virginia. (NBC4 Washington) Amazon’s information middle biz purchased practically 100 acres in Leesburg. (WBJ)
• Katie Ledecky broke the ladies’s 800-meter freestyle file, which was set in 2016 by Katie Ledecky. (The Athletic)
• Two youngsters had been killed in a automobile crash close to the Pentagon on Saturday evening. (ARLnow)
• Three corrections officers at a Virginia jail had been stabbed Friday. (WTOP)
• Police say an Superior Towing driver towed a automobile with a six-year-old baby inside. (ABC7) Flashback: “Arlington Towing Firm in Britt McHenry Video Has a Lengthy Historical past of Complaints.” (Washingtonian)
• The Q Road Barbies celebrated Star Wars Day. (PoPville)
• You’ll be able to order a Stumpy bobblehead. (NBC4 Washington)
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Pleased birthday, Uncle Dave!
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Andrew Beaujon joined Washingtonian in late 2014. He was beforehand with the Poynter Institute, TBD.com, and Washington Metropolis Paper. He lives in Del Ray.
