Raise your hand if you’re reading this at the Nats game. Look around. Now go high five those other people raising their hands. They are awesome.
#THENATIONALS Nats fans -Tag/tweet us your pics at @FamousDC / @Famous_DC! We’ll pick the best and give away an hour worth of a free open bar for you and a guest at our next Happy Hour. Make sure you’re on the list hereThe Nationals: Can’t stop won’t stop; Raise your hand if you’re reading this at Blue Jacket wearing a Nats cap; What a 3:07 playoff game means; If you can’t get Nats tickets at least you can drink;
#NATIONAL Almost no one wants to host the 2022 winter Olympics; “Whoops” – JP Morgan; Goodbye blackout rule; the haters’ guide to baseball playoffs; 16-year old male hospitalized after receiving thousands of high-fives; Amazing color photos of Russia before the Revolution; Ben Bernanke got turned down for mortgage refinance; we finally know how to use Wikipedia correctly thanks to this manual; What it would take to turn NYC into a megacity; the secret history of Mormon heavy metal; some new music for your fall; celebrities are suing Google for their leaked nudes so they deleted tens of thousands of pics; Floyd Mayweather argues with woman who doesn’t know who he is; Football player benches himself on his fantasy team h/t Brad Dayspring;
#DISTRICT That one time the President was afraid to use light switches in the White House; you can’t FOIA the Capitol Police; ball blessing for the Nationals; they found the missing DC bartender; what DC police body cameras look like; diversity drain on the Hill; “Isn’t it a bitch, that vice president thing?”; Ted Kennedy winning congressional pups contest; Targeted Victory got to open Nasdaq; Kelly Collis got dissed by a dead president; Congress is down to 7%; shocking – Jeff Bezos is pissing WaPo employees off; we’re definitely the snobbiest city of all;
#HAPPY Congrats to Frank and Molly Hollowell!; Happy birthday tomorrow to Ida Rosenthal; congratulations to the Prossers on bringing baby into the world (though we’ll always call her Buckels 2); Congratulations to the drafters of HR 9.26.14;
#MEDIAMOVES thanks to @StoryPartners: Congrats to Ali Watkins, who joins Huffington Post as a political reporter following an all-star performance as an intern for McClatchy. Zach Goldfarb starts a new stint at The Washington Post as policy editor on the financial desk. Sandy Johnson was named the new president and COO of the National Press Foundation. Former White House aide and actor Kal Penn joins Fusion as a special correspondent where he will launch “Midterm Mayhem: The Ultimate Political Smackdown.” Jeff Simon moves from WaPo over to CNN Politics Digital. DC’s Mark Drapeau “Dr. D” literally moves to NYC to start a new gig at Sub Rosa. MasterCard makes a big hire: Nichole Francis joins the team as director of U.S. Federal Affairs.
#BYE Enjoy the weekend, rain and all, since we’re not that far off from a brutal winter.
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