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An important guide on my nightstand:
“Wallflower on the Orgy” by Nora Ephron. Earlier than Sally Albright labored on the information, so did her creator. “The picture of the journalist as wallflower on the orgy has been changed by the journalist because the lifetime of the celebration,” Ephron muses within the foreward of this assortment, which compiles among the iconic journal articles that outlined her pre-film trade profession. Amongst her chosen works: A takedown of trend journal Ladies’s Put on Each day that she was later sued for, a private essay detailing her expertise getting knowledgeable makeover, and a profile of former Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown, who apparently used to obtain free bins of Woolite as a result of she wrote the corporate’s president to inform him she loved washing her hair with it. (The latter article as soon as impressed me to electronic mail a selected Vermont-based ice cream producer about how a lot I like one in all their specific flavors, within the hopes that they might ship me some coupons—however they didn’t, so principally I simply wrote a paragraph about how good I feel chocolate tastes and launched it into the abyss.)
Right here’s some administration information you might need blocked out:
Nontransparency breeds contempt: Throughout a listening to yesterday, attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia requested US District Decide Paula Xinis to carry the Trump administration in contempt for its failure to cooperate together with her earlier order to “facilitate” the mistakenly deported Maryland man’s return. In the meantime, Justice Division attorneys argued that they’re complying, as a result of if Abrego Garcia occurred to indicate up at a port of entry, brokers would let him again into the US and take him into custody right here. Xinis dominated that administration officers have two weeks to produce the court docket with proof of their compliance—in the event that they don’t try this, she says Abrego Garcia’s attorneys “are free to hunt separate sanctions on an expedited foundation.” (NBC Information) Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen is, as he promised earlier this week, heading to El Salvador at this time in an effort to go to Abrego Garcia and test on his circumstances. (The Guardian)
Snoop DOGE: It seems that DOGE is accessing protected private information at yet one more federal company to help the administration’s mass deportation efforts. The Division of Housing and City Growth is engaged on a rule that might ban mixed-status households from public housing—DOGE is working to seek out out the place these immigrants stay, work, and examine. (Washington Put up) This, amid an ongoing authorized battle over DOGE’s entry to information programs on the Social Safety Administration; simply final week, representatives barged into Social Safety workplaces in Woodlawn, Maryland, to label greater than 6,000 immigrants as lifeless. (Washington Put up) At a listening to in Baltimore yesterday targeted on DOGE’s entry to Social Safety data, union leaders and different residents gathered outdoors the courthouse to protest: “This billionaire has no proper to entry my information or anybody else’s information. It’s unlawful, and [Judge Ellen Hollander] must know that we really feel that manner. That’s the regulation,” mentioned one retiree with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Staff. (CBS)
And DOGE cease there: Nearly each employees member on the Pentagon’s Protection Digital Service, which works on tech growth for the Division of Protection, will resign over the course of the following month, successfully shuttering the decade-old program. Departing workers say they’re leaving as a result of, though they anticipated to be included in DOGE’s efforts to automate and AI-ify Pentagon operations, they’ve solely been steamrolled to date. (Politico)
Take it or Leavitt: The White Home has launched a brand new media coverage that might block the Related Press and different wire providers from the Oval Workplace, Air Drive One, and different small areas that supply up-close-and-personal entry to the president. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt may have the final phrase on which retailers are allowed to hitch the press pool. This modification, conveniently, comes on the heels of a federal choose’s ruling that the White Home can’t ban the AP from press occasions simply because it wouldn’t rechristen the Gulf of Mexico in its protection. (AP)
Administration perambulation: The State Division is toying with the concept of closing as much as 10 of America’s embassies, plus 17 consulates. (NYT) A federal choose has blocked most of Trump’s sanctions in opposition to regulation agency Susman Godfrey, which officers went after final week—the administration by no means actually defined why they have been so mad at Susman Godfrey, however we do know the agency represented Dominion Voting Programs post-2020 election. (Washington Put up) 👊🇺🇸❌: Signalgate messages have been deleted from CIA Director John Ratcliffe‘s telephone. (NYT) Dan Caldwell, a detailed adviser to Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, has been positioned on go away amid the investigation. (NYT) In his first speech since leaving workplace, Joe Biden criticized Trump’s administration for treating the federal authorities like Silicon Valley: “They’re taking pictures first and aiming later,” he mentioned on the nationwide convention of Advocates, Counselors and Representatives for the Disabled in Chicago. (The Guardian) The IRS is on tempo to lose a few third of its employees this yr—greater than 20,000 workers simply hopped on Trump’s newest resignation supply. (NYT) Trump’s largest donors would stand to revenue if the administration snagged management of Greenland. (The Guardian) Two protestors at a Marjorie Taylor Greene city corridor close to Atlanta have been stun-gunned by police. (NYT)
One album it’s best to hear, by Rob Brunner:
Shaped in Arlington within the early ’80s, the nice indie rock band Unrest just lately put out a thirtieth anniversary reissue of its basic 1993 album, Excellent Enamel (sure, they’re a few years late). An expanded model is obtainable with a bunch of needed further materials, which I’ve been streaming endlessly ever because it got here out. Hopefully they’ll repress the already sold-out two-LP vinyl model?
Not too long ago on Washingtonian dot com:
Native information hyperlinks:
- DC Mayor Muriel Bowser introduced some spending cuts yesterday, given the Home’s failure to behave on passing our finances repair earlier than flouncing off for recess. The reductions embody a citywide freeze on hiring, pay raises, extra time, and non-personnel expenditures. Metropolis Administrator Kevin Donahue will current a plan outlining extra specifics on employee furloughs and facility closures (to not embody faculties, hospitals, or shelters) by April 25. (Axios D.C.) Will this gentle a fireplace underneath Congress’s you-know-what? We certain hope so.
- A federal choose has dismissed a firearm cost in opposition to 24-year-old Henrry Villatoro Santos, a Salvadoran immigrant residing in Virginia, so the Trump administration can perform plans to deport him. (Washington Put up)
- Rainbow Historical past Venture is inviting native LGBTQ+ neighborhood members and allies to hitch a reenactment of a 1965 homosexual rights protest on the sidewalk in entrance of the White Home this Thursday, April 17, at 4 PM. DC-area activist Paul Kuntzler, the final recognized surviving participant of the unique demonstration, will probably be there. (Washington Blade)
- Any further, the Kennedy Middle’s exterior lights will glow crimson, white, and blue at night time. (Kennedy Middle)
- Maryland has formally designated the Orange Crush its official state cocktail. Ocean Metropolis, you’ll all the time be well-known. (WTOP)
- Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has died at 79. (Washington Put up)
Wednesday’s occasion picks:
- Dance, drink, and collage at April’s NMWA Nights Earth Day celebration—convey empty lipstick containers, toothpaste tubes, and extra to recycle.
- Take pleasure in a Day of Play at RFK with volleyball, frisbee, and meals truck bites.
- R&B group Jagged Edge performs Warner Theatre tonight.
See extra picks from Briana Thomas, who writes our Issues to Do publication.
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