If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes. It's 'holistic review' and 'ban SAT' policy that allows the most wealthy and

We are devastated to report that the Trump administration is officially terminating our 50-year lease with the National Park Service to manage and renovate the three courses. The termination is effective immediately.  Read more: washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/12…

I am heartbroken. The amount of work that was done to get to the precipice of renovation of Rock Creek Park GC is unquantifiable. ⁦National Links Trust⁩ should be lauded for their efforts. Not this. This is a blow to the surrounding communities. Tragic. instagram.com/p/DS8AoKAlClV/…

Relatively minor given everything else, but this is outrageous. After decades of neglect, NLT took over the DC courses and put them on a great path. NLT was doing fantastic, hard work. All of it wiped away by a rash, ill-informed decision of people who will leave DMV in 3 years.

Hard to convey the minor miracle it was that a group with such deep golf course expertise and a national network of friends to help has been so invested in local municipal golf course management. Throwing them out makes no sense.

The Trump administration has officially moved to seize control of the municipal golf courses in Washington, D.C. and National Links Trust’s lease has been terminated, effective immediately. Full details for The Athletic: nytimes.com/athletic/69326…

At D.C.’s public courses, golfers tee off on Trump’s takeover plan washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/01…

Drop Site obtained harrowing footage of the latest killing which appears to be from the perspective of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk

We all know what we saw. Believe your eyes.

Clearer image shows that the firearm removed from the scuffle by an agent prior to the shooting in Minneapolis was almost definitely the victim’s Sig P320, meaning he was unarmed when shot by agents with Border Patrol and Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE).

37 yr old ICU nurse Alex Pretti murdered by ICE in broad daylight with zero justification for deadly force. I mean ZERO. This feels like a watershed moment in American history that should enact change, but won't. Very reminiscent of Sandy Hook when we all said "if that didn't get

By far the clearest of the videos and by far the most jarring.

MCPS a complete embarrassment...not an ounce of precipitation since Sunday.

More than a week after a winter storm, students should be back in school and neighborhood streets should be safely passable. These are the core government services that matter most. Montgomery County must do better. The Montgomery Council hearing on Tuesday can’t come soon enough.

Big news here. The government is being sued for its takeover of the National Links Trust golf courses in DC.

David Schleicher David Broockman Josh Kalla If Democrats want to stay relevant, and to deliver for the public, they cannot wait for unions to change. They need to break more often with their friends. nytimes.com/2026/02/23/opi…

This is a really astonishing claim: Students in Mississippi & Louisiana score higher on reading tests than students in California & New York despite spending way less money per pupil and having higher child poverty rates. Decided to double check the data because, if true, this

The National Links Trust saved three Washington D.C. golf courses from ruin. Then Donald Trump got involved. A story about power, whether people have any claim to the places they've spent their lives, and a president's war on public golf golfdigest.com/story/presiden…

Breaking WSJ: The Trump admin plans to abandon its defense of Trump's executive orders sanctioning several law firms. DOJ — as soon as today — is expected to drop its appeals of four trial-court rulings that struck down Trump's actions against Jenner & Block, WilmerHale,

A reminder of which firms put their tails between their legs. A lot of names that prided themselves on being tough litigators, at least until they had a single cent of their own money on the line.