Reading archive 2024-02-20

Why you should consider bunnies as your next pet: ‘It’s like having a vegan cat’

Campaign to recall D.C. Council member Charles Allen launches ground game

National Republicans Are Pumping Money Into the Push to Recall Charles Allen, Once Again Using D.C. Crime to Score Political Points: GOP staffers and lobbyists have provided nearly half of the recall campaign’s big fundraising haul in Ward 6.

VERIFY: Did DC 'Defund the Police?': DC Council claimed millions in budget cuts for 2021. But the numbers show the impact to policing may not be much. - "But when you break it down dollar for dollar, the $568 million operating budget recommended by that oversight committee was actually more than MPD’s approved operating budget the previous year, which was $559 million.

"So did DC Police's budget actually go up? Not really. 

"When DC Police’s budget went to a final vote in front of the full DC Council, the council ended up shifting management of a $23 million school security contract from DC Police to DC Public Schools. That shift did in fact leave MPD’s final approved budget number less than the year before, at $545 million."

U St. neighbors agree it’s ugly. But turn it into a high-rise? No thanks.

Bullet-riddled body found in Spain was Russian defector, Ukraine says

‘Troubled’ is a mystifying book about elite hypocrisy: Rob Henderson’s memoir argues that the upper classes support social justice causes to improve their own status at the expense of those below them - "He argues that the ostensible radicalism of his peers was actually hypocrisy born from self-interest: that privileged undergraduates want the less fortunate to be opioid-addicted obese single parents so that they can get ahead and become even wealthier by comparison."

How much dairy milk do children and adults really need?

‘World’s most harmful’ cybercriminal group disrupted in 11-nation operation

Oklahoma non-binary high schooler dies after physical altercation: The school district has been previously targeted by the far-right anti-LGBTQ+ extremist Libs of TikTok’s creator Chaya Raichik

Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They’re Coming Back.

New legislation would redefine fetuses as Kansas children

Trump allies prepare to infuse ‘Christian nationalism’ in second administration: Spearheading the effort is Russell Vought, president of The Center for Renewing America, part of a conservative consortium preparing for Trump’s return to power. - "'There’s been a tectonic shift in how the leadership of the religious right operates,' said Matthew Taylor, a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies, who grew up evangelical. 'These folks aren’t as interested in democracy or working through democratic systems as in the old religious right because their theology is one of Christian warfare.'"

D.C. officials identify police officers who shot man in Southeast D.C.

Virginia labor unions come out against plan for new Caps, Wizards arena