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Anthony Brennan III of Kensington pleaded guilty Wednesday to three counts of misdemeanor assault this past June, when he aggressively confronted teens who were putting up anti-racism fliers along the Capital Crescent Trail. The incident, captured on video, went viral. Brennan was arrested soon afterward; the
Washington Post reports some of his neighbors tipped off police, who used “recognition software” to match images from the video to Brennan’s drivers license photo.
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President Trump will appoint Andrew Giuliani to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the White House announced Wednesday, saying the position is a “Key Administration Post.” Giuliani, the son of former New York mayor and current Trump campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani, said on Twitter that he was humbled by the appointment.
It is my honor to serve on the board of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. At a time when religious freedom is increasingly threatened and anti-semitism is on the rise, we must always remember the atrocities of the Holocaust and teach our children that government should…[1/2] pic.twitter.com/6Yw8y00w3u
A snowball fight in Dupont Circle in 2015. Photograph by Coast-to-Coast/via iStock.
Flakes are falling around this snow-starved region Wednesday, which has all of Washington asking: When do we head to Dupont Circle and hurl icy missiles at strangers and, if at all possible, TV reporters?
Not so fast, Obi-Wan Ke-snowbi! The chances of a blanket of wintry white are too small yet to plan a proper snowball battle, says Michael Lipin, one of DC’s snowball-fight kingpins. “Sadly, it doesn’t look like we’ll get much accumulation in the District today, so we don’t have any plans right now,” he tells
Liberties shipped to subscribers this fall, a publicist for the project says, and it’s now available for purchase in bookstores and online. That means anyone interested in Wieseltier’s redemption project, but not ready to subscribe, can pick up his first “book for the coat pocket” six days before the official start of winter for $19. A subscription costs $45.
Wieseltier’s career went kerblooey during #MeToo, when women who worked with him at
The New Republic, where he ruled the “back of the book” for decades, went public with stories about how he “delighted in making young women sexually uncomfortable,” as Michelle Cottle wrote in the
All stories as told to
Washingtonian.
“They were trying to say come over here and fight us”
“You know where the bridge on 16th Street a few blocks up from Black Lives Matter Plaza? Our car was parked on the bridge. I was with four of my friends. We were wearing masks. I was wearing a black coat and black pants. Honestly, we didn’t think anything would happen; there’s five of us, not little-ass guys, either.”
The narrator and his friends, all friends who went to high school in DC, had gone downtown to see the counterprotest to the December 12 Trump rally. When they went to walk back to their car, they couldn’t go straight up 16th Street because of police lines, so they circumnavigated on side streets till they were back near their car, which was parked near Scott Circle.