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Good morning, Washington. On Tuesday, we wondered how Albert Haynesworth still had a job with the Redskins; today, he doesn’t. The Redskins have traded their biggest headache to the New England Patriots in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick. We had figured that the Redskins would simply dump Haynesworth, but kudos to them for actually finding someone willing to take on such a highly-paid reclamation project. See you in August, Albert!

Thomas Talk: Alan Suderman tries to find a precedent for Harry Thomas, Jr.’s legal defense fund and basically comes up empty, though he does note that Thomas is “hardly the first D.C. politician to venture into the world of murky accounts with few limits and less reporting.” Meanwhile, to get more reaction from the Mayor about the whole situation, Mike DeBonis dips into his recent archives to an interview he conducted with Mayor Vince Gray before the settlement. “He to me seems a bit withdrawn at this stage. I don’t hear from him as much as I did. But I picked up the phone a couple of times and called him, because he is a friend,” Gray told DeBonis. “And I’m sorry that this happened, but he is somebody that I’ve known for a very long time, and I just don’t want to dump him out the window.” Thomas also apparently told Gray that the drama apparently has given him the chance to clean out his basement; hey, maybe he’s got some cash stowed away in a shoebox down there or something.

You Gotta Have Faith: Yesterday, Mayor Gray announced the formation of a 26-member Interfaith Council, which will advise the executive office on matters of religion around the city. But as Ryan Kearney points out, there are more Scientologists on the panel (one) than there are Buddhists, Mormons, Hindus and Jehovah’s Witnesses combined (nada). “This council has the same number of representatives from Scientology — the one being Rev. Susan Lee Taylor, president of the Founding Church of Scientology, and a “Sea Org” member of the church — as it does Islam, the second-largest religion in the world,” writes Kearney. “Perhaps the mayor is hoping to impress these people?” Hey, maybe the Mayor just based his choices on the District’s property rolls.

Briefly Noted: Federal debt default could cause big problems for the District…Fight between women at Rhode Island Avenue Metro station leads to dual stabbing…Another proposal for Poplar Point shot down…Appeals court overturns murder conviction in 2004 shooting at Anacostia Metro station…Some cool ideas from And Now, Anacostia about what should be installed at corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Good Hope Road…We live to give.

This Day in DCist: Last year, we got our first look inside the fancy new Shaw library, and tried to take a few lessons from Ron Moten’s first Vince Gray diss track; in 2008, Dick Heller fired a second lawsuit at the District.