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- Donald Trump once tried to start a rival baseball league, with a flagship D.C. team. You might be able to guess how this story ends. [Deadspin]
- The governor of West Virginia switched parties because he’s buds with Eric Trump.
[Washingtonian] - Mr. Chen’s Organic Chinese is coming to the old Nam Viet space in Cleveland Park.
[Popville] - This pop-up bookstore in Takoma Park exclusively features authors of color. [Washingtonian]
- Md. carjacking ends with a crash in D.C. and two people injured, one critically. [WJLA]
- On the lack of movies and TV shoes that film in D.C. [WAMU]
- The city is making these 11 intersections safer for pedestrians. [WTOP]
- The mayor is vacationing in Florida. [Post]
- “An aging hipster’s cry for help.” [Post]
- Judge overturns Montgomery County’s pesticide ban. [Post]
- Lobbyist somehow justifies reenactment of Seth Rich’s death to himself as Rich’s brother calls it “gross and disgusting.” [Washingtonian]
- On the high-level leaders leaving the Bowser administration. [LL]
- It’s almost back-to-school time. [NBC4]
- Pauly Shore is Stephen Miller. [Funny or Die]
- ICYMI: Anyone with a D.C. library card has access to thousands of movie titles online,
including 400 films from the Criterion Collection - ICYMI: Beer cocktails are a popular thing. Should they be?
- ICYMI: A memorial for ‘Cool Disco Dan’ is set for Aug. 19 at the 9:30 Club, and a permanent memorial is planned.
- This Day In DCist: Veterans descended on John McCain’s office and demanded he un-endorse Donald Trump.
Rachel Sadon