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Crybaby meltdown at White House Correspondents’ Association dinner (The Washington Times)
It is said that Washington is Hollywood for ugly people. That is, of course, an insult to homely people everywhere.
But if Washington is the Hollywood of anything, then the insufferably tedious White House Correspondents’ Association dinner held every year is, truly, the Oscars of Washington.
Every spring, frumpy, ink-stained wretches squeeze themselves into ridiculously mismatched tuxedos and sequined gowns straining at the seams and — I am not kidding — walk across a plush red carpet to the snapping and flashing of cameras. [Read More]
Bolton presses key aides to Venezuela’s Maduro to abandon him (Reuters)
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday singled out three senior aides to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro who he said must make good on commitments they purportedly made to the opposition for a peaceful transition away from Maduro’s rule.
Speaking at the White House during a day of anti-government protests in Venezuela, Bolton named Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino, Supreme Court chief judge Maikel Moreno and presidential guard commander Ivan Rafael Hernandez Dala as having told the opposition that Maduro needed to give up power to opposition leader Juan Guaido. [Read More]
Blackface Photo Posted by Whitman Students Prompts Hate-Bias Investigation (Bethesda Beat)
County police have documented a picture posted to social media by two Walt Whitman High School students in blackface as a bias-related incident but do not plan to file criminal charges.
The students posted the photo and used the “N-word” on a “private social media account” but it was viewed by “many” in the school community, according to a message sent to families Monday afternoon by Robert Dodd, principal of the Bethesda school. [Read More]
