~first in playbook~: after nearly three years at politico, today’s my first day at Apple News where i’ll be a politics editor through december. can’t wait to get started!

DC friends, my beloved dog is missing. One of my kids let her out yesterday into a completely fenced in backyard and somehow she is gone. This is Bella Marie. She is 5 years old, last seen at 13th and Ingraham St. NW. If you see a dog matching her description, pls let me know.

LA Fitness shooting in Prince George’s leaves man in critical condition
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For a long time, I assumed pitchers looked at the catcher’s glove when they threw. But when it comes to throwing breaking balls and off-speed pitches, their target isn’t always the glove.

What a pitcher’s eyes can tell you: washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/04…

Hello! I am back after a short break from work —and this platform.

And I have news: I recently joined MDTransportationDept!

I’m excited about this new role and the opportunity to continue the conversation about safe, sustainable and inclusive transportation.

Our mini-doc hit 100k views today!! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who has read, watched and reached out with kind words about this piece.

This is it for me at Sports Illustrated as I wasn’t offered to make the transition over to Minute Media. Wishing my colleagues all the best as I know they’ll continue to do great work.

And speaking of work… I’m open to writing and editing opportunities 📧 [email protected]

A rushed Jet Blue flight home, a call with Biden taken in a storage closet and racist vitriol online. A behind-the-scenes look at how rising Democratic star Wes Moore tackled the Baltimore bridge crisis.

From the incredible Erin Cox
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Talked with players, Dave Martinez and Mike Rizzo about the toll of being part of a rebuild:

HE is risen.
Indeed.

The last hours of Baltimore’s Key Bridge: Dark. Quiet. Then chaos & tragedy. Incredible reporting by ⁦Emily Davies⁩ ⁦Peter Hermann⁩ ⁦Jasmine Hilton⁩ ⁦Tom Jackman⁩ ⁦justin jouvenal⁩ ⁦William Wan⁩ & editing by ⁦Paul Duggan⁩ washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

Masterful reconstruction of the last hours of Baltimore’s Key Bridge from an amazing team Emily Davies Peter Hermann Tom Jackman Jasmine Hilton justin jouvenal William Wan and more: washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/…

As well as to the many, many The Washington Post reporters covering various aspects of this story (including this piece) and to the family members who have so graciously taken time to tell us about their loved ones who were on the bridge

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I’m on Post Reports discussing what we know about the Baltimore bridge collapse — and what it says about the lives and tragic deaths of immigrants in construction jobs.

Endless thanks to Elana Gordon Rennie Svirnovskiy maggie penman & Martine Powers

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In one year, Maritza Guzman has seen 12 workers die in Baltimore — most of them immigrants and one of them her husband.

The latest deaths, she said, underscore how immigrants are some of the most vulnerable, least-protected workers in the US. W/ Scott Dance shorturl.at/jrzRY

The six victims presumed dead in the Baltimore bridge collapse were fathers, husbands and hard workers; at least some of them had traveled to this country for a life they hoped would be prosperous and long. wapo.st/3xafMlk

Police radio traffic from Tuesday captures responders rushing to evacuate and hold traffic on the Baltimore Key Bridge after an officer announced a ship lost control of its steering.

Shortly after, someone shouts, “The whole bridge just fell down!” wapo.st/3PFayUK

Two MDTA Police officers working overtime stopped traffic from coming onto the Baltimore Key bridge — one stationed on each side — moments before it was struck and collapsed.

“They didn’t hesitate. They didn’t think about it. They just did it.”
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What we know about the six people presumed dead in the Key Bridge collapse, with Jasmine Hilton Teo Armus Tim Craig:

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Marvin Luna is waiting to hear about his father, Miguel, who was one of the construction workers working on the Baltimore Key Bridge, he said.

“We’re okay, right now because we don’t know yet, nothing about my dad. But we still wait.” w/Teo Armus
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