Oh my gosh. My friend has a cottage bakery business in which she provides weekly homemade deliveries (we get amazing sourdough). Tonight she brought us food for our meal train & she pulled up in this van they imported from Japan to use for delivering the bread around DC. AMAZING.

Tarot readings today Atlas Brew Works, Ivy City. Plus, there will be dogs as we're hosting a 'Sip & Sniff' (a new doggy daycare launch party). Beef Space BBQ is on site from 1-7pm. I'm pretty stoked for all this.

Collective Action for Safe Spaces (@safespacesdc) is recruiting new board members! CASS is such an influential and transformative organization with a truly holistic and abolitionist vision of community safety.

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Are you a musician, producer, roadie, bartender or otherwise working with the local music economy? Take the DC Music Census!

@thedcarts wants to know so they can contribute data-driven solutions that support our creative economy!

dcmusiccensus.org

Food $300
Data $150
Rent $800
Gift to Ted Leonsis $515 million
Utilities $200

Someone who is good at budgeting, please help me. My family is starving!

The nomination for a historic district in Chevy Chase is the most transparently bad faith historic application I've seen yet; and that's saying a lot.

In my latest for Greater Greater Washington, I break down the history of this nomination and the people behind it: ggwash.org/view/93212/che…

dms are OPEN

just retweeting this whole thread, which is jam-packed with back and forth CM-v-CM-v-Mayor maneuvering on all kinds of issues throughout the city

Sometimes your former employer lays off the entire social issues desk, claiming its work was minimally impactful. Then, sometimes, the work you did for it is cited in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court in a case that could criminalize homelessness lawyerscommittee.org/wp-content/upl…

DC tonight! Rain or shine, come hear the PA paperback afterword and ask me questions if you want. 7pm at East City bookshop, still some (free) seats available.

The DC Council just voted unanimously for the Healthy Homes Act, which will help DC families stabilize utility bills and breathe cleaner air by retrofitting 30,000 low- and middle-income homes with highly efficient electric equipment. One more vote to go!

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Some parents and child-care advocates worry cuts to the pay equity fund could lead to an exodus of early educators and higher day-care fees.

More from Lauren Lumpkin
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DC police are selling the guns used in DC crimes. We make 'shoot yourself in the foot' policy here, apparently
(via 730DC)

Cities should create public places that invite people to sit, schmooze, and eat.

William Whyte’s groundbreaking findings about vibrant urban spaces shouldn’t be controversial. But they are.

Me, in Bloomberg CityLab

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Forest bathing... in the Arboretum... on 4/20...

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🚨BIG STORY: The company whose ship destroyed the Key Bridge just invoked a special law to shield itself from financial liability.

The shield exists because Big Oil & the cargo giant that chartered the ship lobbied to preserve it after the Gulf oil spill levernews.com/big-oil-could-…

The 730DC newsletter is on point today.

If you haven’t watched 826DC's two-minute video for their fundraising ping-pong tournament, YOU ARE MISSING OUT! Funny kids, punny games, and a series of CHEATS you can buy? Sign up solo or as a team!

vimeo.com/314826370

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Saddened to hear about Vontae Davis' passing.

I had to pull this Washington Informer article out of the vault in honor of his work off the field.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Vontae, decades after we attended elementary and middle school together. washingtoninformer.com/vontae-davis-r…

sooo let's say there was indeed a worker-led local news outlet covering D.C. in a smart, community-driven way......what would you want it to be called? 👀