From a press release:
“On Friday, May 4th, Health Care Voter is marking Star Wars Day and the one year anniversary of the date the Republican Health Care Repeal Bill passed the House with a Lightsaber Rally to Defend Health Care in Dupont Circle. The event will occur in coordination with activists across the country who will use #StarWarsDay and #HealthCareVoter to defend the ACA. (more…)
2036 G Street, NW, photo by Endrit
Thanks to Endrit for sending:
“Just saw what appears to be President Macron’s vehicle and security team park at Tonic on GW’s campus. Reportedly he’s having lunch there.”
Vive la liberté! What an honor to host @EmmanuelMacron and @repjohnlewis yesterday! 🇫🇷🇺🇸 #emmanuelmacron #repjohnlewis pic.twitter.com/r32g3JoJnd
— Tonic @ Quigley's (@tonicatquigleys) April 26, 2018
Photo by Kristin Furio
Kristin writes us:
“He walked along all four corners of G St & 21st and shook hands and spoke with GW students. He was accompanied by Rep. John Lewis.” (more…)
Photos courtesy Care2
Thanks to Carrie for sending from “Care2 (the company responsible). It’s part of our Sexual Assault Awareness Month efforts and general anti-Trump agenda. It was projected by Robin Bell.”
More projections after the jump. (more…)
Photo by Liz Trotter
“Dear PoPville,
I wanted to let you know that today The Wilderness Society erected a 10-foot-tall working Oil Rig on the National Mall in front of tourists, cherry blossoms, and Washington Monument in support of their Too Wild to Drill campaign.
As you know, energy companies already have claim to more land than they can use — of the 27 million acres currently under lease, more than half are sitting idle. Giving away some of our last remaining wild places for the oil industry’s short-term gain is unconscionable right now.
The demonstration, was meant to remind visitors that public lands belong to all of us, not just the extractive industry. We must come together to protect our wildest places for future generations, not allow drilling to permanently destroy them. “
Thanks to Susan for sending above from Pennsylvania Ave SE at 6th Street SE.
And Louis sends the shots below from Columbia Heights and Union Market.
“Any word on who is the artist?”
A reader sends the photo above and we had a discussion on PoPville’s twitter over the weekend:
@NelliesDC flew a #BlueLivesMatter flag yesterday and that is totally unacceptable.
— Paul~Lisbon (@PYLisbon) March 31, 2018
We messed up. There is no excuse. We will learn from this and try harder to make Nellie's the safe, welcoming space for all that we want it to be. You can read our full statement on Facebook here: https://t.co/Il6cFtYS7R
— Nellie's Sports Bar (@NelliesDC) March 31, 2018
This weekend, all of us at Nellie’s learned an extremely important lesson.
At the end of this week, a group of LGBT police officers were meeting at Nellie’s to gather in a welcoming space. This happened to fall just as we were taking down our Irish flag for St. Patrick’s Day, and we opted to welcome them with what we thought was just a flag representing the police.
Soon after the flag was hoisted, we learned from our customers and the community that this flag is also used to undermine the work of the Black Lives Matter movement, and we promptly removed it. We in no way meant to state that we are opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement, especially in the wake of Stephon Clark’s tragic death and the disturbing new facts coming to light in the Alton Sterling case.
We now understand that flying this flag — at this point in time, in particular — was at best tone deaf, and at worst offensive. We sincerely apologize to our customers and our neighbors for this egregious mistake, and want to assure you that this flag will never fly at Nellie’s again. What it represents to you is not what we want to represent, or what we want our bar to be.
We messed up. There is no excuse. We will learn from this and try harder to make Nellie’s the safe, welcoming space for all that we want it to be. Thank you for teaching us this important lesson. We want to make this better — so we will be sending a donation to No Justice No Pride, and recommitting ourselves to learning more every day.
They’ve issued a public apology regarding the issue. It’s been taken very seriously by some of their employees and the backlash isn’t just external. I don’t imagine staff was incorporated into the decision making process regarding this issue.
— Ben Ratkiewicz (@shoutthisatmass) April 1, 2018
I walked by on Sunday morning and the flag was indeed removed and there was a line around the block to get in:
9th and U Street, NW
Photo by PoPville flickr user Lorie Shaull
hahaha thanks to Rachel for sending this gem from Craigslist
“Seeking a lead attorney to represent client involved in an ongoing Federal investigation. Must be familiar with laws and procedures around discovery, executive privilege, international financing of licensed real estate, election law and the Logan Act. Working knowledge of social media, especially Twitter is a plus, as is a better than average knowledge of the adult film industry and a collection of Playboy magazines from 1985-2010. Must look the part – Gregory Peck or Tommy Lee Jones type. Prior appearances on Fox News a huge plus.
No fatties. (more…)
Photo by PoPville flickr user Ted Eytan
Photo by PoPville flickr user Tim Brown
Photo by Stacey Young
Many more photos after the jump. (more…)
2047 9th Street NW, behind 9:30 Club. Photo by PoPville flickr user Clif Burns
Also “$3 deferments on all draft beer.”
From CBS News:
“The 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star and director who says she had an affair with Donald Trump, will be broadcast on Sunday, March 25 at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
Daniels talks to Anderson Cooper about the relationship she says she had with Mr. Trump in 2006 and 2007, revealing details that bring her story up to the present. It is the first and only television interview in which she speaks about the alleged relationship.”
Photo by PoPville flickr user Nathan Stewart
The crowds were incredible but the closeups are just as powerful.
