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I can’t cease listening to:
MJ Lenderman, “Wristwatch.” Few releases final yr prompted the joy I’ve seen round Lenderman’s album “Manning Fireworks.” This tune could clarify why. MJ Lenderman & the Wind will play 9:30 tonight and tomorrow with This Is Lorelei (which isn’t the DC indie band Lorelei).
Right here’s some administration information you may need blocked out:
Contemporary well being: Well being Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advised Congress, “I don’t suppose individuals needs to be taking medical recommendation from me.” (NBC Information) US Senator Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland requested Kennedy concerning the Protected to Sleep program, the SIDS prevention program Kennedy’s company stopped taking part in. When she requested him which workplace leads the marketing campaign, he guessed incorrectly a number of instances. It’s the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Nationwide Institute of Baby Well being and Human Improvement. (USA At the moment) Ben Cohen, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, was arrested whereas protesting the listening to. (Axios) There have been 300,000 fewer deaths from drug overdoses final yr than the yr earlier than. The administration has lower federal packages that fought the drug disaster. (NYT)
Intel inside: Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has moved manufacturing of the Presidential Every day Transient to ODNI from CIA. Some CIA personnel who work on the briefing “have been on the lookout for new assignments to keep away from transferring to Ms. Gabbard’s workplace,” sources advised the New York Occasions. (NYT) Gabbard’s purge of prime officers on the Nationwide Intelligence Council adopted the discharge of a report that contradicted President Trump‘s claims about gang membership amongst Venezuelan nationals with out due course of. (Washington Put up) “It’s clearly a sign to inform analysts all through the intelligence group,” former CIA director John Brennan stated. (NBC Information)
Immigration: A federal choose ordered the discharge of Georgetown College scholar Badar Khan Suri. (Politico) “What’s occurring will not be American,” Suri advised supporters exterior Dulles after he was freed. (Washington Put up) In the meantime, the administration introduced it could pursue smuggling prices in opposition to Kseniia Petrova, a researcher at Harvard it detained three months in the past. Her case “has no obvious foundation in any political activism.” (NYT) The US Supreme Court docket will contemplate the administration’s marketing campaign in opposition to birthright citizenship as we speak, which relies on an uncommon and as soon as obscure concept of constitutional regulation. (NYT) The components that led to Trump’s embrace of white South Africans. (NYT) Charl Kleinhaus, one of many South Africans the administration admitted as refugees to the US, has a historical past of antisemitic social media posts. (The Bulwark)
In the meantime: The administration seems to have made some sort of a cope with El Chapo‘s son Ovidio Guzman Lopez. (AP) Griselda López Pérez, Chapo’s ex-wife, was among the many relations who entered the US. (Fox Information)
Administration perambulation: US Lawyer Common Pam Bondi offered greater than $1 million in Trump Media shares earlier than the President unveiled his “Liberation Day” tariffs. (ProPublica) Paul Ingrassia, Rachel Cauley, and Kingsley Wilson are among the many Trump officers NPR reviews have “shut ties to antisemitic extremists.” (NPR) Trump blinked on tariffs as a result of aides warned him they’d harm his voters. (Washington Put up) A Trump household luxurious improvement in Serbia is on ice after an official admitted he’d solid a doc key to the mission. (NYT) After layoffs and voluntary separations thinned their ranks, Social Safety workers have been requested to work more durable by the administration. (HuffPost) Jamie Mannina, a former FBI agent, sued James O’Keefe, saying the right-wing provocateur deceptively edited footage of a “sting” operation wherein an undercover O’Keefe affiliate recorded Mannina criticizing Trump. (AP) O’Keefe says the go well with is an “assault in opposition to the First Modification.” (O’Keefe Media Group) In a uncommon occasion of this text creator’s private pursuits intersecting along with his work duties, Julie Robbins, the CEO of the utterly superior guitar pedal firm Earthquaker Units, testified earlier than Congress concerning the influence of tariffs on her enterprise. (Reddit, Ed Markey)
Hidden Eats, by Ike Allen
The informal Dominican lunch counter, with a steam desk filled with rice, beans, plantains, and stewed meats, is a staple within the New York space. However Punta Cana Tropical Grill, which opened in December on a loud stretch of Georgia Avenue close to the Beltway, is one in all only a few within the DMV. Its fashionable beach-y decor and the phrase “create-your-own bowls” make the place really feel a bit like a modern fast-casual chain. After all, there may be mofongo—a made-to-order pile of fried plantain mash topped with shrimp, hen, or maduros (candy plantains)—but additionally mofonguitos, the identical mash shaped into cupcake-sized shells that maintain meaty fillings. One of the best factor on supply right here could also be Punta Cana’s chicharron, small chunks of pork stomach fried into crystalline shells and topped with a squeeze of lime. You may strive it alongside tostones (flattened fried plantains) or rice. However on a current go to, one diner advised me she’s made a behavior of taking the leftover pork residence and serving it with steamed candy potatoes. Good concept! (9324 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring)
A wonderful manner to assist your neighbors, by Eric Wills
On any given day, a Silver Spring nonprofit known as A Wider Circle welcomes ten or 15 space households to its furnishings warehouse, the place these in want can pick free dressers, beds, mattresses, and different necessities for his or her residence. Final week, the group went a step additional, organizing its second annual Residence Reimagined occasion. Space architects, builders, inside decorators, and different members of the design group volunteered to furnish and adorn a house for a household in want.
The designers met with their shoppers (who had utilized to be part of this system), assessed their wants, after which sketched out designs utilizing furnishings and different furnishings nearly solely equipped by a Wider Circle. Final Thursday was set up day, when the furnishings was delivered and the volunteers assembled and unveiled their designs. In complete, they overhauled about 35 properties within the better DC area.
“It’s crucial to get individuals below a roof, however lots of instances that’s the place the thought stops,” says Lara Gagrica, this system’s director. The price of furnishings and different residence furnishings can add up. And by ensuring kids have entry to a mattress, say, a Wider Circle can assist foster a ”sense of stability and belonging,” Gagrica says.
Catherine Fowlkes, one of many principals of the DC structure agency Fowlkes Studio, has lengthy volunteered along with her household on the group and took part within the Residence Reimagined occasion this yr. She designed an condo in Northeast DC for a mom and her two boys. “It’s so great,” she says of this system, “however there’s additionally stress, since you’re like, Oh my gosh, I would like these youngsters to really feel so particular.”
Gagrica hopes to construct on the momentum of this yr’s occasion and rework about 50 properties subsequent yr. For extra details about easy methods to donate gadgets, click on right here.
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• 5 new galleries will open at Air & House in July.
Native information hyperlinks:
Ed searching: Former interim US Lawyer for DC Ed Martin stated the DC Workplace of Disciplinary Counsel was investigating him over an ethics criticism. (Reuters) Martin, who will head DOJ’s “Weaponization Working Group” after Republicans balked at his nomination for the everlasting job, requested a DC choose to self-discipline Hamilton “Phil” Fox, the lawyer investigating the criticism. (NBC Information) In an interview with former DC resident Tucker Carlson, Martin claimed that 650,000 of DC’s residents dwell in poverty. That quantity, if true, would signify 90 p.c of the District’s inhabitants. (Martin Austermuhle) Martin’s alternative as interim US Lawyer for DC, Fox Information host Jeanine Pirro, began yesterday. Her appointment as interim US Lawyer for DC will not be authorized, and if it’s efficiently challenged, “any prison convictions her workplace wins throughout her tenure is perhaps thrown out.” (Washington Put up)
• Authorities in Virginia stated they discovered the physique of a 12-year-old boy who was swept away by floodwaters Tuesday. (Washington Put up)
• A hotline between Nationwide Airport and the Protection Division hasn’t labored because the month when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. (Washington Put up)
• Maryland’s credit standing has gone down; Moody’s, which additionally not too long ago downgraded DC’s score, says the state is at nice danger as a result of federal cuts. (Maryland Issues) Maryland officers known as the transfer a “Trump downgrade.” (Washington Put up)
• An enormous banner displaying Trump’s face went up on the USDA. (Washingtonian Issues)
• An enormous “trans quilt” will go on show on the Mall on Might 17. (WCP)
• The Bitcoin agency Technique desires to put a 940-square-foot signal atop its Tysons HQ. (WBJ)
• The subsequent nice Alexandria controversy: Ought to Episcopal Excessive Faculty, which might be a coaching floor for the World Cup subsequent yr, be permitted to put in extra gentle poles on its athletic fields than neighbors anticipated? (Alexandria Occasions)
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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.
