This joke never gets old. Post by Barack Obama.

Adieu dinosaur bones [DC says goodbye to Fossil Hall until 2019] Uber’s defensive [because UberX can be deadly] Nationals conquer the Padres 4-0 [Natitude] Kids too frequently are [skipping school in DC] Old Post Office Tower closing [on Thursday] House of Cards will stay in Maryland after all [everything’s coming …

Are you going to the Challenge Festival May 9-17? You should. Get inspired, get things done.

Feeling vicious? Want to make some cuts to your Facebook friend list? Jimmy Walsh uncovered a surprisingly easy reason that can be viewed on Facebook to decide who gets cut: if that friend “Likes” Nickelback.

Johnny Isakson [aint a Belieber] Facebook acquired a virtual reality hardware firm [and those with pre-orders are pissed] There’s a cult operating off Rock Creek parkway [dead chickens found] Men in North Korea required to get Kim Jong-un haircuts [easy to choose a style] Football team management trying everything it …

Dribbble user R A D I O made this pretty incredible depiction of Facebook buying Whatsapp for $19b with a toe-tapping, sandal-clad Zuck Dawg making it rain.  

A brave cartographer mapped out the entire internet. Yes, Tumblr is in the Hipster sea, Anonymous has their own island, there’s a Stalking Straight (guess what that’s nearby) and Google has a land of indexes. You can’t out-geek this guy. Pretty amusing and worth close observation with above link. h/t …

We asked our friends around town what about DC they were thankful for this season. Here are their answers. I’m thankful for the bartenders at the Hamilton. –Katie Harbath, Facebook I am thankful for the fact that DC has a Costco now, a really big one. Except when Joe Biden shops there, since area traffic freaks …

One of Capitol Hill’s finest is leaving his job at the Speaker’s Office. Congratulations to Don Seymour on his new gig at Facebook.

We can get through this crisis together on Twitter and Facebook. And if you want to vent with some of our writers, follow them on Twitter too: Amos Snead, Co-founder – @AmosSnead Josh Shultz, Co-founder – @JoshShultz Morgan Gress, Editor – @MorganGress Ladies Who Lobby – @LadiesWhoLobby Brittany Horowitz – @BrittHorowitz Brian Johnson aka The Hungry Lobbyist – @HungryLobbyist Lia Seremetis – @HellaLia Marie …

Meet Katie Harbath. Meet Mindy Finn. Katie is an Associate Manager at Facebook and Mindy works for Twitter. Two of social media’s leading ladies, Harbath and Finn have been proven industry experts for years. They’re also a couple of the nicest people you’ll meet in DC. Before their work at Facebook and Twitter, Katie and Mindy worked together at the RNC. Afterwards, they went their separate ways, each to head up digital operations for top presidential contenders. Katie worked for Mayor Rudy Giuliani while Mindy headed to Team Romney. Years later, they’re still on different teams, but have enormous respect for each other. With Facebook and Twitter at full-force this election cycle, we figured we’d reunite the two for a social media showdown.

A huge pick-up by Facebook. [via Nat Journal] Greg Maurer, a longtime aide to House Speaker John Boehner, joins Facebook next month as director of public policy. Maurer will work his knowledge of the House with Chris Herndon, manager of public policy for the social network. “They will work alongside …

Yesterday Matt Lira, along with Steve Dwyer, pulled off the first ever Congressional Hackathon sponsored by  Facebook. Below is the video recapping the successful event. Note: FamousDC makes an appearance at the :39 second mark. h/t katieharbath

Capitol Hill is full of funny, bizarre and otherwise interesting moments that don’t happen anywhere else in this country –  moments happen at least once, if not multiple times a day. Most of us ignore them, because they’ve become so common, while others of us can’t believe they continue to …

Watch as the Young Guns meet with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who was kind enough to wear his nicest t-shirt.