Rallygoers in December. Photograph by Evy Mages
On January 6, Congress will receive the electoral college votes that certified Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. It’s another opportunity for President Trump and his supporters to spread disinformation about his loss and undermine US democracy, so of course there will be yet another march for Trump fans in DC that day.
On niche social media sites like Parler and Wimkin, there’s some effort afoot to brand this as a “Million Militia March,” though there’s buzz about a January 20 march with that name as well. A spokesperson for the National Park Service says no applications for a January 6 demonstration are yet in its system.
Photo of FBI building by Evy Mages
A new executive order from outgoing President Trump attempts to codify some of the real estate mogul’s feelings about architecture into federal law: With a few exceptions, it states, “the Federal Government has largely stopped building beautiful buildings.” Going forward, the US should make buildings that convey to “the general public the dignity, enterprise, vigor, and stability of America’s system of self-government,” it reads.
In Washington, DC, the order reads, “classical architecture shall be the preferred and default architecture for Federal public buildings absent exceptional factors necessitating another kind of architecture.” Indeed, the order calls for the administrator of the General Services Administration to notify the President of the United States if the government decides to build any structure that deviates from “traditional and classical architecture,” mentioning “Brutalist or Deconstructivist architecture
New York Times reports Executive Editor Martin Baron and foreign editor Douglas Jehl have written a note saying the
Washington Post will add new bureaus in Australia and Colombia and will add staff, including eight reporters and editors to its technology team.
The only weird thing about this note? Nobody in the Post newsroom has seen it.
Washingtonian‘s usual sources, and some of its unusual ones, haven’t received any such memo. As it turns out, that’s by design: The
Post gave
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Twitter Will Bring Back Verification in 2021
Come the new year, you ll get a shot at a blue check.
Twitter plans to relaunch verification in 2021, the company said in a blog post Thursday:
We are excited to relaunch public applications for verification in 2021 through a new, self-serve application process that will be available on the Account Settings page on the web and in-app. The process will include asking applicants to select a category for their verified status and confirming their identity via links and other supporting materials.
The company plans to unveil its public application form early next year. Accounts that are already verified will receive an email if their profiles are “incomplete” missing something like a verified email address, an image, or a display name the company says. Those scofflaw accounts will have till January 20 to sort themselves out.
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“Action!” isn’t a term you hear shouted that often at Washington National Cathedral, but everything’s different in 2020, right? The cathedral has been closed to the public since March and presents its services virtually. On a Thursday evening in December when
Washingtonian visited, a production crew was working on the cathedral’s annual Gospel Christmas service, which they were recording in pieces to be assembled later.
The cathedral is decorated in the areas that will be seen onscreen.
First up: the spoken liturgy. Eleven musicians are seated on a stage in the church’s crossing, with four priests seated in front of them: the Reverend Canon Jan Naylor Cope, the cathedral’s provost; the Very Reverend Randolph Marshall Hollerith, its dean; the Reverend Canon Dana Colley Corsello, its vicar; and the Reverend Canon Leonard L. Hamlin, Sr., its canon missioner.