10:30 - drop off dry cleaning

11:00 - Joe's thing

2:00 - swing by the post office

“Being American is more than a pride we inherit. It’s the past we step into and how we repair it,” Amanda Gorman #Inauguration

Really missing those days when the most dramatic thing to happen on #DCTwitter was Rusty the Red Panda escaping from the National Zoo

With this speech, Mitt Romney cements his legacy as a towering figure in modern American history.

'We gather due to a selfish man's injured pride. And the outrage of supporters who he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months - and stirred to action this very morning. What happened...was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States.'

Mitt Romney

This. The implications on America’s standing internationally are heartbreaking.👇👇👇👇

If today had been an episode of Scandal, people would have been like “nahhhh nice try shonda rhimes, way too unrealistic”

The pandas at National Zoo have better security

Petition to declare 1/20/21 the real start of the New Year so we can add coup d’etat on the U.S. Capitol into the dumpster fire that was 2020?

A great piece providing one of the best analysis of what motivated TR's president to convert Hagia Sofia back to a mosque & without any mention of the legacy & significance of the Lausanne Treaty adopted on the same day in 1923: eurasianet.org/perspectives-t…

Fiona Hill: 'China should be the skunk at everybody’s party. They don’t want to take responsibility for letting a localized virus become a global pandemic. And now with the US in a prostrate position, they can step in and take on a leader’s role.' bit.ly/39krlop

37 new positive cases in Washington DC brings total to 304 individuals. 4 Deaths. 23 of the 37 new cases younger than 40 yrs. 157 DC Police Department & 120 DC Fire and EMS quarantined. #coronavirus NBC4 Washington

Want to see the true potential impact of ignoring social distancing? Through a partnership with X-Mode Social, we analyzed secondary locations of anonymized mobile devices that were active at a single Ft. Lauderdale beach during spring break. This is where they went across the US:

1. A quick tweet storm on how cities & communities need to plan for safely reopening as well as for frontline health mobilization to beat the virus. Based on our report published by Brookings Metro yesterday.: brookings.edu/blog/the-avenu…

How 🇨🇳 is winning hearts & minds in Europe amid #Covid_19 crisis: a medical supplies cargo just arrived in Athens, wrapped with a quote from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (‘friendship is one soul dwelling in two bodies’). This is not without political consequences for the future

Incredibly troubling if Palestinian reports of #COVIDー19 in the Gaza Strip are true. Incredibly high population density & I can’t think of a hospital system less prepared for this right now: apnews.com/6781fae5863192…

My new piece in The Atlantic is out today:

The Chinese regime *is* to blame, and we shouldn't be coy about saying so. To say that this is racism is absurd. A regime is not a race

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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