kyley sitton

deputy director, social @washingtonpost 💡 arizona raised, dc based. @cronkite_asu forever.
"be grateful for this moment because this moment is your life."

[kyley sitton @kyleysitton]

Truth.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

(But mostly just thank you, to any young journalist staying in the fight. We need you.)

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

A new study has found that people who drink coffee on a daily basis — both caffeinated and decaffeinated — have a lower likelihood of developing liver ailments compared with non-coffee drinkers. https://t.co/vZi7pEy6GQ

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: Sen. Mitch McConnell said in a statement that his hospitalization was caused by a fall.

McConnell said he wasn’t healthy enough yet to return to the Senate and that he has also dealt with “a mild case of pneumonia” while hospitalized. https://t.co/yXe7vguiF8

[Adams Morgan News @AdamsMorganNews]

Garlic Girl Vintage included among Washington Post’s “5 best new vintage shops”’.
https://t.co/H1lNeS2CUo

[Jessica Sidman @jsidman]

Big news! The team behind Anju and Chiko is taking over food & beverage at the Line DC hotel and will eventually open their own restaurant on the ground floor.

https://t.co/ko5RSWNd34

[iza @wIwsfilm]

how being the office’s swiftie feels like this week

[Nostos @NostosLit]

- Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

[Spencer Allan Brooks @SpencerSays]

New from Alert DC: "The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will conduct routine live-fly exercises over the National Capital Region between June 30 and July 2 from midnight to 5:30 a.m. Expect low flying aircraft, loud noises. All NORAD exercises are carefully planned and closely controlled."

[Capital Weather @capitalweather]

PUNISHING heat wave Wednesday through July 4 in DC.

NWS now forecasting highs of 104 Thursday, 105 Friday and 102 on July 4 -- all record highs.

Heat indexes 5-8 degrees higher.

Forecast update: https://t.co/epWSoxksz8

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Breaking WaPo:

The Trump Justice Department took the extraordinary step of seeking to force reporters for The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal to testify before a federal grand jury — but withdrew the subpoenas after they were challenged by the news organizations. https://t.co/SIiM8y8koW

[Jim Brady @jimbrady]

I don't really do much social anymore beyond LinkedIn, but wanted to repost here what I wrote there:

"Thirty years ago today, someone pushed a button and launched https://t.co/tGz4GVU3jR into the world. I wasn't the guy who pushed the button, and I honestly remember almost nothing about the launch since we'd all been up for about 48 hours straight. But I remain incredibly proud of being on that launch team and helping put The Washington Post online. It was especially fitting since I -- like so many of my generation -- was lured into this business by "All the President's Men."

Those early days remain the most memorable of my career. We had only a vague idea of what we were doing, and the good news was that when we screwed up, no one seemed to care anyway.

Less than a month after launch, we had the tragic crash of TWA 800. The only people in the newsroom when the crash happened were the sports guys -- me and Gagan Nirula. And there was no remote publishing yet. Everyone had to drive into the office when news happened. So, for an hour, keeping the site updated relied on the judgment of the sports guys. This may very well have increased the speed of all senior editor cars headed to Arlington. But, as they always do, the sports guys did just fine.

In those days, we were working in raw HTML code -- the acronym CMS didn't yet exist. And we would sometimes accidentally delete a character from the code and the whole home page would just go blank. We'd spend 20 minutes trying to find our mistake, and no one from the print newsroom called and no one from the public complained. But we kept learning and kept churning and the audience eventually showed up and grew exponentially. And -- if I may say so myself -- over time, we created one hell of a great and innovative website.

It was very special to celebrate the anniversary of the launch with 150 former colleagues last weekend in Arlington. I worked with such incredible people at https://t.co/tGz4GVU3jR -- both in those early days and when I came back as executive editor in 2004 -- and that group has gone on to do amazing things all over the industry. There were a lot of memories shared last Saturday night and new ones created. (And it didn't hurt that the party ended with my Knicks winning an NBA title).

Anyway, below is the launch page from June 19, 1996. And before some young'un asks why there's only one photo on the page, read up on "33.6 baud." I've also always wondered how Kent Mercker feels about being the only person pictured on the launch page -- if he even knows. It wasn't his best night on the mound, but seems like it'd still be pretty cool to be the answer to that trivia question.

To all my former colleagues, happy 30th!"

[chris oldman © @AlsikkanTV]

RIP john adams you would have loved twitter

[pinky lemon @xpinkylemonx]

My mayor socialist
My brunch bottomless
My metro is glorious
Wizards are trying their best

[Ghosts of DC @GhostsofDC]

Three blocks from the Capitol dome sits a bar where Janet Reno ate burgers, Carville took Matalin on a first date, and the owner once got shot six times and went back to work. 79 years of the Tune Inn:

https://t.co/1Y11o3Y2Vs

[Gene Park @GenePark]

very cool to see my story lead the politics and government tag on our site this morning

https://t.co/Zmw6o1qmT1

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Today is World Otter Day.

[bill rice @ricebilldc]

The D.C. concierge who’s spent half a century catering to guests’ every whim https://t.co/1nO8wZju4E

[Anna Spiegel @AnnaSpiegs]

Exclusive: The iconic @smithsonian Castle reopens next Friday on the National Mall after years of renovation.

Go for an exhibit of historic American treasures, and a New England-style café dishing up lobster rolls and chowder.

Details here: https://t.co/FfrT5mHMPL

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The Library of Congress has selected Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’ to be added to the National Recording Registry for preservation.

The registry chooses recordings based on their “cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.”

[WTOP @WTOP]

The Washington Nationals will debut their new team dog, Natty, an 8-week-old golden retriever and Labrador retriever mix, this Friday at home against the Orioles.

https://t.co/L6hTRNpKeg

[Molly O'Toole @mollymotoole]

Congrats to all the journalists, authors, artists recognized @PulitzerPrizes today-& those who weren’t. Small newsrooms with few resources, those toiling at labors of love for years or laid off, editors, factcheckers, photogs. Your work contributed. Your work matters.Don’t stop.