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Michael Schaffer
@michaelschaffer
Co-host, @citycast_dc. Formerly: Editor of @washingtonian & @wcp. D.C. Native. Admirer of schemes.
Washington D.C.
Joined March 2009
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    Proud Boys jury selection is going about as expected.
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    I hate to be a narc, but this house sorta near me is a real nuisance! The tenants keep throwing illegal parties & I worry someone’s gonna wind up dead. The cops won’t crack down, so I was thinking of calling the landlords. Anyone know how to reach them?
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    Just me or does this read like Fugazi lyrics?
    One for the history books. (📷 Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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    Three sources tell @jsidman that Taylor never recovered from its owner's photo-op with Trump. “Our sales dropped 40 percent the next day,” says one. “And it persisted and never really got any better.”
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    We have found the elusive local angle for today's news
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    Really, Oxford University Press?
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    The irony of all these scenes of citizens arming up, beauty queens with AKs, grandmas making Molotovs, action-movie caliber quotes (“I don’t need a ride, I need ammunition”)…It’s the fantasy scenario of a certain slice of American society—the slice most likely to be pro Putin.
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    An awful lot of people who cover Kevin McCarthy think he’s…not smart. Why don’t you read it in the coverage? Because stupid may be Washington’s last taboo.
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    Someone enjoyed writing this hed
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    This is shockingly small play for one of the most jaw-dropping threats in the history of American democracy.
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    SC National Guard claims a DC pizza place delivered a pizza with glass baked in to their hotel. It's a shocking claim. And there is absolutely nothing to back it up.
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    New, from @TheAtlantic: Trump skipped a visit to an American military cemetery in France after calling the dead "losers" for getting killed: Full story here: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
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    Home news. After seven and a half wonderful years as editor of @washingtonian I'm joining @POLITICOmag. Among other adventures, I'll be putting on my anthropologist's pith helmet to create a new feature about Washington that I hope you'll all read.
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    There’s an effort afoot to oust a top Hill aide who’s on Putin’s enemies list. On paper, it’s office stuff. Some of the activists I talked to think something more sinister is going on.