Good morning. Cloudy with rain chances today and a high around 46. A low near 31 overnight. The Wizards visit Atlanta tonight. You can find me on Bluesky, I’m @abeaujon.87 on Signal, and there’s a link to my email address below. This roundup is available as a morning email newsletter. Sign up he re. I can’t stop listening to: Miramar, “Incertidumbre.” This terrific bolero-focused Richmond group plays the Mansion at Strathmore tonight. Take Washingtonian Today with you! I keep ridiculously long playlists on Apple Music and on Spotify of this year’s music recommendations. Here are 2025’s songs (Apple, Spotify), too. Tell *us* where to go: Typically, we’re the ones giving readers travel recommendations. But this year, we’re asking you to share your opinions, too. Nominate your favorite place to stay in our travel survey, and you could win a $100 gift card—and your picks may end up in our May issue. Here’s some administration news you might have blocked out: State of the State of the Union: Capitol Police bodily removed Aliya Rahman from President Trump‘s State of the Union address Tuesday. Rahman, a US citizen whom federal immigration officers dragged from her car in Minneapolis, was a guest of US Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and stood in protest during Trump’s speech. (Democracy Now!) The Capitol Police say Rahman was warned to sit down. Omar says other people were standing and wants an investigation. (Washington Post) Trump and some Republicans are still criticizing Democrats who didn’t stand during another part of the speech. (Politico) Reeling Minnesota: Vice President JD Vance said the administration would pause federal Medicaid reimbursements to Minnesota amid the “war on fraud” Trump declared in the speech. Keith Ellison, the state’s attorney general, said Minnesota “will see them in court.” (AP) CMS Administrator Dr. Oz said, “we are very confident that people will not be hurt in Minnesota.” (NBC News) John Hurley, a top official at the Treasury Department, will step down, a sign that “some Trump allies in the federal government are uneasy with the extent of White House directives to deploy law enforcement tools against Minneapolis’s Somali community.” (Washington Post) Epstein, Epstein, Epstein: The Department of Justice will investigate why documents including notes from interviews FBI agents conducted with a woman who claimed Trump sexually assaulted her were excluded from its release of files on the deceased, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. (WSJ) Larry Summers will resign from his teaching position and other roles at Harvard after the release of emails between himself and Epstein that continued long after Epstein pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting prostitution from a minor. (Harvard Crimson) Former US Senator Bob Kerrey resigned from the board of the Nebraska energy startup Monolith after emails between him and Epstein surfaced. (NYT) A storage unit Epstein rented in Palm Beach, Florida, contained nude photos of women who may have been among his victims. (Telegraph) Administration perambulation: Casey Means, a “wellness influencer,” avoided answering questions about vaccines, “birth control, pesticides, vaccines and her finances” during a Congressional hearing yesterday about her nomination to be the US surgeon general. (NYT) A federal judge in Boston ruled that the administration’s policy of deporting people to third countries is unconstitutional. (Washington Post) FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the firing of agents who participated in a raid on Mar-a-Lago during an investigation into Trump’s retention of documents. (NBC News) Patel said yesterday that the FBI obtained his phone records and those of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles during the investigation. (Reuters) The FBI raided the home of Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. The feds did not comment on why. (AP) Nurul Amin Shah Alam was found dead Tuesday. Border Patrol agents left the blind refugee from Burma at a Tim Horton’s in Buffalo miles from his home after he was detained earlier this month and charged with possessing a weapon—a “curtain rod he used as a walking stick.” (Investigative Post) White House staffer Garrett Wade appears to run the “Johnny MAGA” account, which has a large following and regularly amplifies White House messaging. (Wired) USDA will sell its South Building in DC. (Federal News Network) DHS official Heather Honey said ICE agents won’t be at polling places this fall. (Politico) Far-right British thug and idiot magnet Tommy Robinson—whose name is actually Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and who has multiple criminal convictions for violent acts and who once tried to enter the US with a friend’s passport—met with Joe Rittenhouse, a senior adviser at the State Department, and US Representative Randy Fine of Florida in DC. (i Paper) Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos will visit the White House today amid its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery and Trump’s criticism of company board member Susan Rice. (Politico) I only vaguely understand what most of these words mean when combined, but it seems roundup-worthy. (NPR) Hidden Eats, by Ike Allen: Photo by Ike Allen. The new taco trailer Hijos del Maiz (“Children of the Corn”), wedged into a corner of a Rockville Pike Shell station, is barely big enough for two employees to work in. But it’s clear how big chef Saul Zelaya’s aspirations are. Zelaya’s team mills their own nixtamalized corn to make masa for tortillas, tostadas, and tetelas. The tetela, a Oaxacan-style antojito, is made by folding a tortilla thrice around a bean-and-cheese filling, forming a pouch that resembles a tricorn hat, and then griddling it. The tetela’s rich corn flavor doesn’t need much accompaniment, but it’s a great vehicle for the truck’s green salsa. (12151 Rockville Pike, Rockville) Recently on Washingtonian dot com: • Last fall, we published our investigation into conditions at the Psychiatric Institute of Washington. Since then, more former workers have come forward with new and disturbing allegations about abuse and neglect at DC’s only psychiatric hospital. Taken together, they paint a portrait of a facility even more dysfunctional than was previously understood. Local news links: • The Washington Post lost more than $100 million last year. “We’re not a paper of record” after massive layoffs in the newsroom, Executive Editor Matt Murray told staff yesterday. (WSJ) • Parts of the Potomac will be safe for recreation next week, DC Water officials said during a public meeting yesterday. (I might keep my kayak in dry dock a bit longer, tbh.) (WTOP) • Why are Pepco bills in DC so high lately? The utility says energy usage was up in January, but the utility’s “own data show that their D.C. customers actually used more energy in January 2025 than January 2026.” (The 51st) • A judge in DC Superior Court okayed reinstating fines against the ride-sharing company Empower and its honcho, Joshua Sear. (Washington Post) • Police in Maryland say Maurquise Emillo James murdered the philanthropist Robert Fuller Jr. at a senior living facility in Potomac earlier this month. (WTOP) • Federal immigration agents have arrested people at DC police stations, “renewing concerns from some advocates over the local force’s ongoing cooperation” with ICE. (Washington Post) • Trump has gotten personally involved with the possible renovation of Dulles Airport. One proposal from a company responding to the administration’s RFP calls for rebranding the airport’s “people movers” as “Direct Jet Transports”—or DJTs, which by incredible coincidence happen to be Trump’s initials. (Washington Post) • The National Park Service won’t allow the city of Alexandria to build a pump house, intended to ameliorate the city’s chronic flooding, in an Old Town park. (Alexandria Times) • Former Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority CEO Erik Johnson, who was fired after revelations that he was living in a property ARHA controlled, sued the agency’s board. (ALXnow) • Ekko Astral‘s label dropped the band after singer Jael Holzman sought a protective order against its former drummer Miri Tyler. (WCP) • Pepe Moncayo confirmed that Cranes, his once-buzzy Penn Quarter tapas spot, has closed. Moncayo’s Spanish restaurant Arrels will close next month. (EaterDC) • The Z Burger in Tenleytown has closed. (PoPville) • Liam and Charlotte were Virginia’s most popular baby names last year. Andrew didn’t even make the Top 15! I look forward to my growing irrelevance in other arenas of life. (ARLnow) Thursday’s event picks: • Jim Gaffigan begins a three-night stand at the Anthem. • The Capital Irish Film Festival kicks off. • The Sneaker Film Festival laces up at the Mount Pleasant Neighborhood Library. 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