In Washington, DC, where 37% of residents are white, 62% of donors to the last mayoral race were white. In Chicago, where 39% of residents are white, 94% of donors to Rahm Emanuel’s mayoral campaign were white.
Hillary Clinton Wins Final Democratic Primary in Washington D.C.
The good news: After 133 days, 21 hours and approximately 10,000 ill-advised thinkpieces, the Associated Press reports that primary season is finally over, my dudes.
Capitol Hill Staffers Are Using This Insider-Only Gossip App Like Horny Teens
Now that blogs are dead and everything is apps, even the great American political tradition of Capitol Hill staffers anonymously gossiping about each other (and the interns) has had to adjust: Enter Cloakroom—Yik Yak for Congress.
Journalist Who Lives Far From D.C. Decides to Move Even Farther
Oh, brother. In a post titled “Why I’m moving to the place I called “America’s worst place to live,” on the Washington Post WonkBlog, Christopher Ingraham writes about leaving the hellish Beltway area for a quiet, commute-less life in rural Minnesota. Good for him! Kind of.
Commuters Are Pissed That an Armed Woman's 10-Hour Standoff by the White House Ruined Their Morning
An armed person put a stretch of blocks near the White House on high alert Monday, after she barricaded herself in a building in the wee hours of the morning.
ISIS Reportedly Releases New Video Promising Attack on Washington, DC
A new video purportedly released Monday by ISIS extremists threatens an attack on Washington, DC and promises attacks on any other country participating in the ongoing airstrikes against Syria.
Shopkeepers Devise New Surveillance Program to Profile Black People
The Washington Post has a stomach-churning report on an app upper-crust types in one of D.C.’s wealthiest neighborhoods use for racial profiling. GroupMe is a messaging app, and while it is ostensibly being used in Georgetown to protect businesses from shoplifting, its regular use is, unsurprisingly, devoted to…
The White House Can't Win the Class War
I went to the White House this week, for the first and likely last time. Here is what I saw.
Trump's DC Hotel Is Being Built by Undocumented Immigrants He Despises
According to Donald Trump, idiot billionaire and face of YouTube’s popular Annoying Orange, Mexican immigrants who come to the U.S. illegally “have lots of problems” and they’re “bringing those problems to us.” He has publicly claimed that the only things undocumented immigrants have to offer the U.S. are drugs and…
Florida Mailman Arrested After Landing Gyrocopter on Capitol’s Lawn
A Florida mailman was arrested this afternoon after he landed his gyrocopter on a grassy area in front of the U.S. Capitol. The man, identified as Doug Hughes, reportedly wanted to draw attention to campaign finance reform, specifically the Supreme Court's 2010 decision to strike down limits on campaign…
D.C. Plunged Into Darkness by Equipment Failure at Maryland Facility
A widespread power outage in Washington D.C.—the White House, the State Department, the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department, and the Department of Energy are among the buildings that lost power—was apparently caused by an explosion at a southern Maryland electrical facility, according to the Washington Post.
Flight Passengers Tackle Man Rushing For Cockpit Screaming "Jihad"
A United Airlines flight bound for Denver was forced to return to Dulles International Airport Monday night after a passenger sprinting to the plane's cockpit allegedly yelling about jihad was subdued by a group of passengers.
Mystery Substance Discovered Inside 40-Year-Old Safe in D.C.
No need to panic, yet, but yesterday Washington D.C. firefighters discovered a mysterious, still-unidentified substance inside a just-opened 40-year-old safe. All that's known about the substance so far is that it "exhibited a chemical reaction to water," as the Washington Post put it.
Cops Mistakenly Tell Mother on Christmas They Shot and Killed Her Son
Washington, D.C. police were forced to apologize to Karen Robinson after erroneously identifying her son Raymond as having been shot and killed in a shootout with cops. Officers knocked on her door at 2 a.m. Christmas Day to deliver the bad news that wasn't hers.
Political Whores Form Brothel
The executive director of the Republican Governor's Association and the executive director of the Democratic Governor's Association announced today that they are getting together to sell their mutual political connections to the highest bidder.
Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry Dies at 78
Marion Barry—the four-time Washington D.C. mayor and current city council member—died early Sunday morning in a Southeast Washington hospital, The New York Times reports. He was 78.
Patient With Ebola-Like Symptoms Isolated in Washington D.C. Hospital
A person who recently traveled to Nigeria has been placed in isolation at a Washington D.C. hospital with Ebola-like symptoms, NBC Washington reports.
The DC Police Invent Crimes to Arrest "Likely" Criminals
In Washington, DC, undercover police are concocting elaborate fake robbery plots, and then arresting anyone they can convince to say they will join in. If you mixed the concepts of entrapment and Minority Report-style futurecrimes together, this is what would emerge.
TSA Agent Not Sure What This So-Called "District of Columbia" Is
The Transportation Security Administration says it's giving all agents in Orlando a refresher course on what a District of Columbia driver's license looks like, after one agent refused to recognize one of them as valid ID.
These Proudly Racist States Would Hate a Redskins Name Change
Even an unscientific ESPN poll tells an enduring truth sometimes. Apparently the only places where a majority of hypothetical Washington NFL fans really couldn't brook a hypothetical name change for the team are the deep South and Utah. Maybe that changes if we leave a link to the poll here.
