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- “This is a handshake buried under the weight of its own meaninglessness, a black hole of metacommentary in a world where sense sloshes chaotically across a flat surface of signifiers unmoored from any attachment to truth or reason or even an orderly presentation of images.” [Vice]
- Dumpster lid attacks Metrobus (not a metaphor … at least not intentionally). [ARLnow]
- Chocolate shop deals with the fallout after a white nationalist moves in upstairs. [WBJ]
- Alexandrians kick up a successful fuss about a planned Taco Bell. [WBJ]
- Kramerbooks’ management team called it quits. [Post]
- Bon Appetit puts Bad Saint on its cover. [Washingtonian]
- Lt.Gov. Ralph Northam takes Va. legislators to task for “disingenuous” and “inaccurate” comments about IUDs and abortion. [Post]
- Mrs. Abe had to do without Melania. [CNN]
- And Trudeaumania has been overshadowed by Trumpster. [CBC]
- Love letters from historical figures. [Post]
- Environmentalists are fighting a plan to bury nearly 1 million tons of coal ash. [Post]
- ICYMI: An easy way to keep up with all of D.C.’s protests.
- This Day In DCist: Reporter goes to snowball fight, gets hit with snowball.
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