#DC media group buys NY’s City & State, plans expansion

#DC media group buys NY’s City & State, plans expansion

“#DC media group buys NY’s City & State, plans expansion” A DC-based news agency for politicians and bureaucrats has acquired City & State, a media business covering New York state and local politics for elected officials and government workers. Terms of the acquisition by Government Executive Media Group were not disclosed. But the company behind…

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#Actually, DC mandarins deserve their hideous brutalist architecture

#Actually, DC mandarins deserve their hideous brutalist architecture

“#Actually, DC mandarins deserve their hideous brutalist architecture” In his 1981 diatribe against contemporary American architecture, “From Bauhaus to Our House,” Tom Wolfe noted that seemingly every American child “goes to a school in a building that looks like a duplicating-machine replacement-parts wholesale-distribution-center warehouse.” Anecdotally speaking, this still seems to be the case in East…

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#One person stabbed during massive Proud Boys brawl in DC

#One person stabbed during massive Proud Boys brawl in DC

“#One person stabbed during massive Proud Boys brawl in DC” Violence erupted in Washington, D.C. Saturday night as Proud Boys and Antifa clashed after a day of pro-Trump demonstrations, leaving one cop injured and at least four people stabbed — including in this dramatic, caught-on-video knife-fight. The video shows a lone African American counter-protester, dressed all…

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#D.C. detective killed by wife in murder-suicide

#D.C. detective killed by wife in murder-suicide

“#D.C. detective killed by wife in murder-suicide” A veteran Washington D.C. cop was shot dead by his wife, who then turned the gun on herself in a murder-suicide this week, authorities said. A family member discovered the body of Det. Timothy Eugene Francis and Christina Lynn Francis at their Maryland home on Friday after unsuccessfully…

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#Carter Page sues DOJ, FBI over ‘unlawful surveillance’

#Carter Page sues DOJ, FBI over ‘unlawful surveillance’

“#Carter Page sues DOJ, FBI over ‘unlawful surveillance’” Carter Page on Friday sued the Justice Department, the FBI and former FBI Director James Comey for $75 million, insisting he was unlawfully surveilled as part of the 2017 special counsel investigation into so-called Russian collusion. The 59-page lawsuit, filed Friday in Washington, DC, the federal court…

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#Stores across country board up fearing election-related chaos

#Stores across country board up fearing election-related chaos

“#Stores across country board up fearing election-related chaos” Businesses nationwide are fortifying themselves for Election Day riots. Shops in San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Washington DC, Atlantic City, Chicago, Boston, Indianapolis and Denver have already boarded up their storefronts ahead of Tuesday’s 2020 US presidential election. In recent days, many businesses in New York City boarded…

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#Journalists for censorship and other commentary

#Journalists for censorship and other commentary

“#Journalists for censorship and other commentary” Media critic: Journos for Censorship “In a barely literate tweet that not once, but twice misspelled the word ‘its’ as ‘it’s,’ ” snarks The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald, the New York Times Guild “denounced” one of its own colleagues, Bret Stephens, for his column criticizing the paper’s 1619 Project. In…

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