Alison Brody

Audio producer @wamu @drshow. My profile pic was drawn by my 8yo daughter. Wish I looked that good IRL. Reach me at [email protected].

[Alex Koma @AlexKomaDC]

Easy to forget during primary season, but the first DC budget vote is also tomorrow!

Mendo hopes to use about $450M to reverse Bowser's planned cuts to the pay equity fund, housing vouchers, healthcare programs and a lot more. A few details:

[Callum Williams @econcallum]

New, actually robust, paper finds that the rollout of the iPhone (proxied by AT&T 3G coverage) depressed birth rates in the US

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

Capital Weather Gang, the weather blog that has been a part of the Washington Post for almost 20 years, is becoming an independent site and rebranding as Capital Weather.

Per a note to WaPo staff today, the site will still contribute to WaPo during major weather events.

[DC Police Department @DCPoliceDept]

MPD announces the establishment of the U Street juvenile curfew zone beginning Thursday, May 28, at 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., Sunday, May 31, 2026.
Map of zone pictured below.

Read more: https://t.co/mrcrN5Pg98
More about curfew enforcement here: https://t.co/3PKrRxcq63

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

This is stunning.
Personal savings rate April 2025: 5.5%
Personal savings rate April 2026: 2.6%

That's a sharp plunge.
It underscores how squeezed Americans are right now with higher prices and incomes not keeping up.
Maybe you can explain some of this away by Baby Boomers retiring, but not all of it.

[Robert Faturechi @RobertFaturechi]

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr.

“The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved.

https://t.co/duvJ0cQ9bH

[Alison Brody @AlisonBrody]

Just transferred to working in the local newsroom at WAMU after 13 years working on national shows produced there. It's an interesting change of perspective and appreciate these insights.

https://t.co/kRqaxNK8B6

[Matthew Perrone @AP_FDAwriter]

SCOOP: Senior FDA tobacco officials tasked with enforcing vaping regulations were not consulted on the new guidelines and only learned of them the night before they were published: https://t.co/3EmUpMHNhL

[Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm]

i am absolutely obsessed with this steve kerr tidbit and need the more dedicated swifties to get on this ASAP

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

49-50, Senate fails to pass a measure to end Trump's war in Iran — but gets closer.

3 Rs vote YES: Paul, Collins, Murkowski.

Murkowski is a flip, having voted no previously.

1 Dem votes NO: Fetterman. (For the first time he's the deciding vote here.)

Ricketts missed the vote.

[ABC News @ABC]

An investigation is underway after two Army Apache helicopters were seen flying close to Kid Rock’s home in Nashville over the weekend.

[Matt Jones @KySportsRadio]

High Point student radio call of the game is what it is all about

[Abigail Hauslohner @ahauslohner]

Tehran’s 10 million residents now risk exposure to “highly dangerous and acidic” rain, in addition to fuel shortages, after Israeli bombing of 3 fuel depots unleashed clouds of noxious smoke over the city. By @Najmeh_Tehran via @FT https://t.co/qXSHM5i5WF

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Still more evidence that EdTech harmed American education: Across states, the year that the state imposed mandates requiring computers/tablets, that's the year that test scores stopped rising and in most cases started falling.

From Jared Cooney Horvath
https://t.co/TSH1bfp8lA

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

In the 13 months since Trump took office, the economy has created a net total of 198,000 jobs compared with 1.4 million created in the last 13 months of the Biden administration. https://t.co/DHGD6h2pmF

[Malachy Browne @malachybrowne]

Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. https://t.co/ZFIjTVPjBZ

[Lisa Desjardins @LisaDNews]

Wow. Breaking.

House Oversight Committee just voted to SUBPOENA AG Pam Bondi, 24-19.

5 Republicans joined w Democrats: Burchett, Boebert, Cloud, Mace and Perry.

[Geoff Bennett @GeoffRBennett]

BEIRUT (AP) — Death toll from strike that hit school in southern Iran has risen to 85 people, an official says on Iranian state TV.

[Jeremy Barr @jeremymbarr]

The timing of those Washington Post foreign staff cuts…

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: The number of people killed in the Israeli attack on an elementary girls’ school in Iran’s southern city of Minab has risen to 51, with 60 others injured, according the IRNA news agency.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/K4peXbVu8G