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[National Water Center @nwsnwc]

Estimated rainfall amounts from #Helene across the southern Appalachians had an Annual Recurrence Interval greater than 1000-years over a wide area; meaning there is less than a 0.1% chance (annual exceedance probability) of that happening in any given year.

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

I've been waiting 29 years to tell this story about OJ and his days at USC. Now that he's dead (may he burn in hell) I have a story that I signed an NDA for that is no longer valid. I was a junior at USC working in Topping Student Center on campus in 1995. I was an administrative assistant to the President of Student Affairs that semester in the work/study program.

In early 1995, Robert Shapiro and Robert Kardashian (USC Alumni) walked up to my desk and said they had an appt with my boss. I was studying to be a criminal defense lawyer with a dual major in PoliSci and International Relations so I knew who they were. The meeting lasted about 30 mins.

After they left I looked at my boss like wtf was that all about!? He walked me outside and we sat by the old sprawling big tree outside Topping and my boss lit a cigarette for the first time in years and told me I had to sign an NDA because I could confirm OJ's lawyers were there for a meeting. Then he told me what the meeting was about.

Before OJ could graduate from USC, the university paid off two families of two blonde white girls that he had dated and battered. They had both gone to the LAPD to report it. One claimed he also sexually assaulted her in their relationship. The school had a vested interest in OJ going far in football and protected him at all costs. OJ had been in custody for 6 months and lawyers were in the discovery process for the trial and OJ's friend Robert Kardashian, who knew OJ from also being a student at USC, thought it would be best if those stories never saw the light of day. So a large check was written, given to my boss, and they left. I'll never forget holding that check.

Now, did you hear about this before now? Nope. That's how much power money enables.

After he was acquitted I changed my major to Philosophy/Psychology double major. I understood that I could harm society more than not if I pursued law. This is also why I abhor the Kardashians. They're rich thugs. Nothing more. #OJISDEAD

[Spencer Allan Brooks @SpencerSays]

DC animal shelter volunteers allege firings over whistleblowing on shelter conditions

More than two dozen volunteers say they have tried to bring awareness to the conditions inside HRA's shelters. They believe their activism got them fired. https://t.co/uVYd6NXzYO

[WeMakeWAMU is a union @WeMakeWAMU]

It is imperative that @SylviaBurwell, Seth Grossman, Erika Pulley-Hayes, and Michael Tribble #UnlockDCist. It’s a matter of democracy.

See our letter below. We encourage you to share:

[Randy Clarke @wmataGM]

We need independent quality journalism if we want an inclusive, fair, transparent, and better world. Journalism isn’t free and many reporters are under paid. If we want quality we need to pay for it, don’t expect it to be free or take it for granted.

[Council of DC @councilofdc]

This is a true loss to our community.

Well-informed residents are essential to democracy, and good government is harder to accomplish without rigorous public examination and discussion of what we do. The absence of @dcist will be heartfelt by all of us.

[Kayla Benjamin @KR_Benjamin]

Can’t put it better so I’ll just echo: this sucks. The DCist/WAMU team does just astonishingly great reporting day in and day out.

[Yvette M Alexander @CMYMA]

I love my dog, Milo and my heart goes out to everyone who lost their fur baby in the flooding today, but I’ve witnessed Council make more public statements and on the scene coverage for this than the daily shootings. I hear gun shots just about every single night in my neck of the woods!

[jessica @lunabee]

@BarredinDC Mexico

[jessica @lunabee]

Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I don’t but the algorithm does! #MyTwitterAnniversary

[Barred in DC @BarredinDC]

From the DMs.

Treatment of service charges like this isn’t unusual, and I don’t know rules on shift meals and the like at other spots but sharing with you for anyone else to provide context

[DC Fire and EMS Department @dcfireems]

After extinguishing the fierce flames on the roof deck of the Adams Mill Road fire, firefighters discovered this plaque commemorating their efforts during a 4 alarm blaze at the same building in 2007. #DCsBravest

[Rajesh Mirchandani @rajeshmirchand]

Kicking off Anti-Hunger Policy Conference with people with lived experience - the real experts. As it should be. #hungerpc23 ⁦@FeedingAmerica⁩ ⁦@fractweets⁩

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

The absolute level of cruelty of these people.

[jessica @lunabee]

@sophluna24 What no

[Emma Wiles @emmabwiles]

CVS is being sued for asking customers to donate to the American Diabetes Association when they check out. Those donations are in fact *not* sent to the ADA, but instead reimburse the CVS for a legally binding obligation of $10M that CVS promised earlier

https://t.co/t8IAiqyu43

[Dana Goldberg @DGComedy]

This is amazing parenting. 😍

[Ken Cheng @kenchengcomedy]

banks in 1929: well look at how many people want to visit our banks right now

[rocco @roccodaboi]

JUST IN CASE this site goes down, my name is Walter Hartwell White. I live at 308 Negra Arroya Lane, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104. To all law enforcement entities, this is not an admission of guilt. I am speaking to my family now. #RIPTwitter #GoodByeTwitter