Kirk McDonald

Executive Producer, Washington Programming and Special Events Programming, CNN

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

News in @playbookdc https://t.co/EhEsJwPdlu

New show launches 11aET Sunday:

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

💖@DanaBashCNN

[CNN Communications @CNNPR]

CNN announces @TimCarterCNN as the new executive producer of CNN Newsroom with Jim Acosta. Congratulations, Tim! https://t.co/ByL5wVWy7N

[C on the scene @Conthescene]

Gorgeous low arc rainbow over Rock Creek Park in DC 🌈

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

My turn now.. 😂

[Howard Mortman @HowardMortman]

How to anger the press corps staking out Number 10 Downing Street in London for Biden - Sunak meeting?
Bring the Larry the cat @Number10cat back in.
Press: "Booooooo ...."

[CNN Politics @CNNPolitics]

Trump seemingly baffled by 'blizzards' during Dairy Queen campaign stop

[U.S. politicians doing normal shit @normalpols]

George W. Bush blows out his birthday candles. 6th July, 2006.

Happy birthday to George W. Bush! Born on this day in 1946.

[Michael Li 李之樸 @mcpli]

42 years ago today

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

For #pride, let us celebrate and remember Glenn Burke, a Black baseball player who was the first MLB player to come out as gay in the 1980s. Burke passed away from complications related to AIDS in 1995.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

This 2,000-year-old painting discovered in the ruins of Pompeii shows what may be a distant ancestor of modern pizza: a flat, round piece of dough with toppings. But it's not a pizza, the archaeologists who found it insisted on Tuesday. https://t.co/4dIRWkYzwQ

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Stonewall Uprising, New York City, began this week 1969:

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

World's most livable cities, 2023.

1. Vienna 🇦🇹
2. Copenhagen 🇩🇰
3. Melbourne 🇦🇺
4. Sydney 🇦🇺
5. Vancouver 🇨🇦
6. Zurich 🇨🇭
7. Calgary 🇨🇦
8. Geneva 🇨🇭
9. Toronto 🇨🇦
10. Osaka 🇯🇵 (tied)
10. Auckland 🇳🇿 (tied)

(Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit)

[Onclusive Forward Planner @OnclusivePlan]

Tomorrow: Summer Solstice (21 Jun)

[David Wright @DavidWright_7]

During an interview on @InsidePolitics today, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee backed Bass: "I absolutely do, because I know Barbara Lee's work." Said Lee would "make a great senator" if Feinstein steps down.

[Onclusive Forward Planner @OnclusivePlan]

100 days away: Fall Equinox, the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere (23 Sep)

[Inside Politics @InsidePolitics]

Inside Politics original and legendary journalist @JudyWoodruff welcomes @DanaBashCNN to the IP family. #InsidePolitics

[Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources @waDNR]

To avoid straining your eyes at work, use the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, go for a 20-minute hike and spend the next 20 years in the woods.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Twitter needs this.. 😊

[Wolf Blitzer @wolfblitzer]

Starting tomorrow (Monday) my good friend and @CNN colleague @DanaBashCNN starts anchoring our Inside Politics program Monday through Friday at 12noon Eastern. She’s a great journalist. This is exciting.