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eyes on
Manchin Israeli
Holdout on marquee bill
faces pressure as ‘panic’
leader
sets in among Democrats NETANYAHU’S RIVALS
UNITE AGAINST HIM
BY S EAN S ULLIVAN
AND M IKE D E B ONIS
Parliament must vote
on power-sharing deal
Democratic leaders and activ-
ists are urgently stepping up
pressure on Sen. Joe Manchin III BY S TEVE H ENDRIX
to support legislation to fight AND S HIRA R UBIN
Republican-led voting restric-
tions across the country, with jerusalem — A diverse group of
party officials increasingly con- opposition lawmakers notified
cluding that the battle over vot- Israeli President Reuven Rivlin
ing rights could come down to on Wednesday that they have
what the centrist Democrat from agreed on the terms of a power-
West Virginia does. sharing government that would
In a rare show of public frus- PHOTOS BY LUIS ANTONIO ROJAS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST replace Benjamin Netanyahu as
tration with his own party on Heavily armed police patrol in Taxco, a once-peaceful mining town where three of the nine mayoral hopefuls now have bodyguards. prime minister for the first time
Tuesday, President Biden ap- in 12 years.
peared to lash out at Manchin The step sets up a vote on the
when he accused a pair of un-
named senators of aligning too
closely with Republicans and
stalling efforts to pass sweeping
Mexico racked by electoral violence arrangement by Israel’s full par-
liament, probably within a week
to 12 days.
Former defense minister Naf-
voting standards. tali Bennett would replace Ne-
Senate Majority Leader
Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) re-
Bodyguards, bulletproof vests appear on trail as crime groups target candidates in a battle for turf tanyahu, his former mentor, as
prime minister for a term of two
cently announced that his cham- years, according to the official
ber would vote this month on a BY M ARY B ETH S HERIDAN one of its most violent electoral notification. After that, centrist
House-passed elections bill co- campaigns in modern times. opposition leader Yair Lapid
sponsored by every Democratic taxco, mexico — Mario Eighty-nine politicians have been would take the top spot.
senator except Manchin — a Figueroa sat in his armored killed since September, according Those two party leaders had
SEE MANCHIN ON A11 SUV, surrounded by bodyguards to the security consulting firm been on the verge of securing a
clutching semiautomatic rifles. Etellekt. Scores more have been majority coalition to unseat Ne-
‘Work of democracy’: Harris The bulletproof vest was stashed wounded or threatened. The tanyahu when hostilities erupted
takes up voting rights issues. A9 behind the back seat. campaign has become a stark last month between Israel and
These days, Figueroa rarely illustration of crime organiza- Hamas. While some political ob-
travels without his security team. tions’ quest to expand their con- servers initially said the prime
As a candidate for mayor of this trol of Mexico’s territory, a rising minister would benefit from the

Restaurants, Spanish colonial city — once pop-

ular with American tourists, now
lashed by drug violence — the
threat to this young democracy.
Sunday’s midterm elections
will determine the makeup of the
fighting and might be able to
fend off the opposition chal-
lenge, negotiations between
hotels find 53-year-old businessman has al-
ready taken a bullet in the chest.
lower house of Mexico’s Congress
and most state legislatures, as
Lapid and Bennett again acceler-
ated after the cease-fire, and

subscriptions “We have to be ready for what-

ever happens,” he said. “We are in
the hands of God.”
are good deal Mexico is in the final days of
Taxco candidate Mario Figueroa shows where he was shot on
well as nearly half the 32 gover-
norships. But the violence has
focused largely on thousands of
Bennett said Sunday that he was
ready to join the anti-Netanyahu
coalition.
Dec. 21. Mexico’s legislative and local elections are Sunday. SEE MEXICO ON A22 Rivlin’s office said Lapid deliv-
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AND A NDREW V AN D AM
‘Worst possible scenario’
Six restaurants in Washington,
D.C., joined together earlier this
Often missing in police
year to sell a subscription supper
club. They offered home delivery
of a gourmet meal from a differ-
brutality debate: Latinos
ent chef each week for six weeks
for $360. It sold out in six days. BY S ILVIA F OSTER- F RAU side County grocery store for a
Subscriptions boomed during disturbance.
the coronavirus pandemic as Maria Lowrie has watched vid- Serrano, a 33-year-old Mexican
Americans largely stuck in shut- eos of her son’s death in police American, was at a Stater Bros.
down mode flocked to digital en- custody over and over again. market picking up snacks that
tertainment and signed up for Sometimes she watches the night when the sheriff’s office
regular home delivery of boxes of images from an officer’s body received a report about a man —
items such as clothes and choco- camera. Sometimes she watches a later identified as Serrano — wan-
late. But what really set the past bystander’s recording. She has dering in and out of the store.
year apart was the increase in watched them so many times that Another 911 call reported him
subscriptions in the hard-hit ser- she can pinpoint the moment tussling with a security guard.
vices sector. Owners of restau- when her son, Ernie Serrano, Video from a bystander shows
rants, hotels, home-repair com- took his final breath, she says. sheriff’s deputies beating Serrano
panies and others upended their “I don’t wish this for any moth- with batons and using a Taser on
traditional business models to try er, for any human being, to go him before wrestling him face-
subscriptions and often found through that. Something has got down onto a checkout counter.
more interest — and revenue — to be done so it doesn’t happen as Serrano is heard pleading “Let
than they anticipated. often as it’s happening,” the Los me go, please” several times in a
“This was really about flipping Angeles woman said. body camera video, at one point
the business model for restau- ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES She doesn’t believe that her saying “I can’t breathe” and
rants: paying before eating in- The fire-ravaged container ship MV X-Press Pearl, carrying fuel oil, nitric acid, billions of plastic son, if he had been White, would “You’re using excessive force” in
stead of eating before paying,” have died Dec. 15 when sheriff’s between cries of pain. Several
pellets and other harmful goods, sinks off Sri Lanka, deepening the ecological disaster. Story, A14
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into a house, where they found a
small arsenal — a shotgun, an AK-
47 and plenty of ammunition.
When confronted by sheriff’s
deputies, the pair opened fire,
sparking a gun battle Tuesday,
police said.
Authorities said the gunfire
ceased only after deputies
wounded the girl, who was in
critical but stable condition
Wednesday, a day after the
violence unfolded near Deltona,
about 30 miles northeast of
Orlando. The boy then
surrendered.
The juveniles fired at deputies
from the house multiple times
over 45 minutes, Sheriff Mike
Chitwood said at a news
conference Tuesday evening.
Charges were pending against
both juveniles. The sheriff’s office
released their names, but The
Washington Post and the
Associated Press are not using the
names, because of their age.
The deputies involved were put
on administrative leave pending a
review, the Volusia County
Sheriff’s Office said.
Staff members at the juvenile
home in Deltona reported the
pair missing, telling authorities
the boy is diabetic and needed
insulin every four hours. They
said the girl hit a staff member
with a stick before running away,
a sheriff’s news release said.
As deputies were searching the
area around 7:30 p.m., a passerby
flagged them down and reported
hearing glass breaking at a
nearby house. Deputies allegedly
saw the pair inside the home and
contacted its owner, who said no
one was supposed to be at the
home. The owner also advised
Black woman named
Columbus police chief
Elaine Bryant, a deputy Detroit
police chief, will become
Columbus’s next police chief,
making her the first Black woman
to lead the force in Ohio’s capital
and largest city. Columbus Mayor
Andrew Ginther (D) named
Bryant as the new chief of the
Columbus Division of Police,
making good on a promise to
choose a candidate from outside
the 1,900-officer agency for the
first time in department history.
The announcement followed
months of turmoil within the
department amid a series of high-
profile fatal police shootings of
Black men and children.
Some of those problems Bryant
already faced as deputy chief with
the Detroit police department,
where she had held several
positions since 2000, including
commander over the agency’s
major crimes unit.
In January, Ginther forced out
the man he selected for the job in
2019 — Chief Thomas Quinlan, a
veteran Columbus officer —
saying he had lost confidence in
Quinlan’s ability to make needed
changes.
The announcement comes at a
time of historic reckoning for the
department. Ginther and other
officials invited the Justice
Department in April to review the
agency for deficiencies and racial
disparities in several areas.
The department is also under
scrutiny for recent fatal shootings
of Black people by White officers,
including the death of 16-year-old
Ma’Khia Bryant on April 20.
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Wealthy Atlanta area mulls secession amid crime wave
Past year’s surge in
violence spurs race, class
tension in Buckhead
BY T IM C RAIG
atlanta — Just a few days after
Beth Weaver moved from the sub-
urbs to a new townhouse in this
city’s wealthy Buckhead district,
she began to worry that she had
made a mistake.
One night she sat on her balco-
ny and watched a thief rifle
through her BMW. A few weeks
later, someone broke into her fam-
ily’s truck. In November, there was
a shootout on her narrow street
lined with townhouses that start
at a half-million dollars.
“They would come through
here on a bicycle and just start
picking up packages and right out
of your garage in broad daylight,”
said Weaver, who lives in the area’s
Broadview Place neighborhood.
“You did not feel safe,” said
Weaver, whose neighbors have in-
stalled a network of surveillance
cameras and are pushing city lead-
ers to allow them to gate their
development.
That feeling of not being safe
has persisted as crime in the city
has skyrocketed — the result,
some say, of the pandemic and the
civil unrest that followed the kill-
ing of George Floyd last summer.
Some residents and business lead-
ers in this affluent, predominantly
White enclave north of downtown
think they have a solution: They
want Buckhead to become its own
municipality.
They contend that with control
of their tax dollars, they would be
able to better protect themselves
than the city has as violent crime
— including shootings, car jack-
ings and assaults — surges.
The group, the Buckhead Ex-
ploratory Committee, has asked
the state for permission to allow
its residents to vote on the issue
and has raised more than
$600,000. The effort, backed by
some Georgia Republicans, repre-
sents the latest example of a bur-
geoning “cityhood movement” in
the South as municipalities na-
tionwide struggle to understand
why crime continues to rise even
as life begins to return to normal
post-pandemic.
“The mayor and the city council
have been making bad decisions,
so at what point does anyone with
a brain say, ‘Enough’?” said Bill
White, chairman of the Buckhead
Exploratory Committee. “If crime
is out of control, and you are doing
nothing about it, you are finished
as a city.”
Analysts say the committee fac-
es an uphill battle, but the cam-
paign itself has sparked tension in
the majority-Black city, a bustling
hub of medical, entertainment
and technology companies. To
many Black Atlantans, talk of
Buckhead leaving is a reminder of
the city’s painful and tumultuous
civil rights era. It also erodes the
sense of unity that many residents
felt after the greater Atlanta re-
gion rallied to help elect President
Biden and two Democratic U.S.
senators in November.
“It makes me angry because the
crime they are seeing in Buckhead
is the same crime we on the South-
side have been dealing with for
years,” said Stephanie Flowers,
chair of Atlanta Neighborhood
Planning Unit V, which oversees a
group of neighborhood associa-
tions in predominantly Black
neighborhoods southwest of
downtown.
“We on the Southside, because
of our demographics, we can’t pay
our way out” of Atlanta, Flowers
said. “This is just a way to separate
the haves from the have-nots.”
‘City in crisis’
Home to about 86,000 resi-
dents, Buckhead is anchored by a
high-end shopping mall sur-
rounded by 40-story office and
luxury condominium towers that
give it the feel of an urban play-
ground for the rich. The area’s
main commercial district is sur-
rounded by smaller residential de-
velopments and strip malls in
neighborhoods of tree-lined
streets that include some of Atlan-
ta’s most elaborate mansions.
Atlanta annexed the areas that
include Buckhead more than 60
years ago as the city was gobbling
up territory to better position it-
self as a powerhouse American
city. For decades, Buckhead was
one of its safest communities, but
today it has become a symbol of
Atlanta’s dramatic crime wave,
which many describe as a crisis
that threatens to upend decades of
economic progress.
The most populated city in the
Deep South, Atlanta has had 54
homicides and more than 250
shootings so far this year, accord-
Politics & the Nation
ing to its police department. Ho-
micides are up 59 percent com-
pared with the first five months of
2020, a year that itself ended with
a two-decade high of 157 killings.
Rape, assault and vehicle thefts
have increased by more than
30 percent compared with last
year.
The crime spike has become a
major political hurdle for Mayor
Keisha Lance Bottoms (D), who in
May shocked the city by announc-
ing she would not seek a second
term. Now, Bottoms’s policies are
dominating the debate over
whether she can keep modern-day
Atlanta intact by slowing down
the efforts of the Buckhead Ex-
ploratory Committee.
But supporters of the campaign
say it has also become a referen-
dum on Bottoms’s policies, which
they blame for an exodus of police
officers from the department.
After Bottoms took office in
2018, she pushed for policies to
keep more low-level offenders out
of the city’s chronically over-
crowded jails, including eliminat-
ing cash bail for some minor
crimes.
Bottoms was widely praised for
her leadership during the initial
round of racial justice protests last
summer, but her relationship with
Atlanta police officers soured last
June when she immediately called
for the firing of a police officer who
had shot and killed an unarmed
man in a Wendy’s parking lot.
Morale in the department
plummeted, accelerating retire-
ments and leaving Atlanta with
400 fewer officers than the depart-
ment’s authorized force of 2,046.
According to data collected by the
city auditor, 341 officers left the
force last year, while the city was
able to hire just 116.
With some evening newscasts
here now devoting entire 30-min-
ute broadcasts to what they bill a
“city in crisis” due to crime, a
growing number of Republican
lawmakers are rallying around
those Buckhead residents who are
pressing to secede.
Last month, state Rep. Todd
Jones (R), who represents parts of
north Georgia, introduced legisla-
tion that would initiate a study of
the matter, the first step toward a
possible referendum as early as
November 2022. In an interview,
Jones said Buckhead residents
should be to decide their own
futures because Bottoms needs to
be held accountable for her deci-
sions, including the partial elimi-
nation of cash bail.
“This was a ‘no penalty, we are
going to arrest you and release
you’ policy,” Jones said. “And I
think the leadership in Atlanta
went too far and did not back their
public safety professionals.”
Bottoms, who is proposing to
hire 250 additional police officers
this year, noted that cities across
the nation are struggling to com-
bat a rise in violent crime. She
blames easy access to guns and
residents struggling with the af-
termath of the pandemic.
“What we are seeing in Atlanta
is people who quite often have a
connection to one another, who
don’t know how to resolve conflict
and are pulling out their guns and
shooting,” Bottoms said. “You are
having people emerging with de-
pression, anxiety, and they’ve lost
a loved one and are out of work,
and that has created the most
unfortunate convergence of fac-
tors. And I believe that is what we
are seeing playing out on our
streets.”
Crime would continue in Buck-
head, even if it were to become its
own municipality, she said.
“Even if you build a wall around
the new city, it will not stop crime,”
Bottoms said.
So far this year, the police zone
that includes much of Buckhead
has experienced a 40 percent in-
crease in homicides, a 39 percent
hike in robberies and a 64 percent
spike in car thefts, according to
city statistics.
Some of the crimes have been
especially horrific, including the
death of a 7-year-old girl who was
hit by a stray bullet while Christ-
mas shopping with her family in
December.
On May 15, just two blocks from
Weaver’s townhouse, three by-
standers, including a 71-year-old
man, were shot and wounded in
front of Buckhead’s Home Depot
after a fight at a nearby apartment
complex spilled out into the store
parking lot.
Two days later, a man was shot
and killed in the bathroom of a
neighboring nightclub, even
though an off-duty police officer
was stationed at the club, accord-
ing to city leaders. And in late May
a homeless man attacked and at-
tempted to rape a teacher in broad
daylight as she was entering her
Buckhead housing complex, ac-
cording to local media reports.
Residents have also been in-
censed by a surge in nuisance
crimes, including drag racing and
unlicensed street vendors, re-
ferred to as “water boys.”
“Over the past 20 years, the
crime has become much more
public and much more egregious,”
said Brinkley Dickerson, a com-
munity leader in northwest Buck-
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head where some yards have a
half-dozen signs advertising the
various security systems that pro-
tect their homes.
“There is a saying in our neigh-
borhood: If you see a policeman,
you should stop and offer direc-
tions because he is lost,” Dickerson
said.
He remains undecided on
whether Buckhead should form
its own municipality. But White, of
the Buckhead Exploratory Com-
mittee, said new residents are
joining the campaign each day.
“These people are saying, ‘We
are filing for divorce, and our deci-
sion is final,’ ” White said.
‘Carving up our city’
In a sign that White’s effort has
gained momentum, a group of
Atlanta-area civic leaders an-
nounced May 25 that they are
forming a group to oppose the
secession campaign.
Linda Klein, a former president
of the American Bar Association
and co-director of Committee for a
United Atlanta, said the group
hopes to persuade Buckhead resi-
dents that they should instead
channel their frustrations into
this year’s mayoral and city coun-
cil elections.
“We agree that something that
needs to be done to address this
[crime] crisis, and it is a crisis, but
carving up our city is not the
answer,” said Klein, adding that a
new “Buckhead City” would also
have to establish its own schools,
renegotiate contracts with public
transit agencies and perhaps even
have to find a reliable source of
public water.
The debate over the future of
Buckhead, which has been part of
Atlanta since it was annexed in
1952, is also entangled in a broader
debate over race and class in a city
that has been trying for decades to
shake its fraught racial history.
According to an analysis by the
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, if
Buckhead were to become its own
city, it would be 74 percent White,
and its residents would have a
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median income of $140,000. The
proposed Buckhead City would
also sap 40 percent of Atlanta’s
property wealth. The population
of the remaining Atlanta would be
59 percent Black — up from
50 percent — and the median
household income would drop to
$52,000 from $60,000, the Jour-
nal-Constitution concluded.
The loss of Buckhead’s tax base
would make it even more difficult
for Atlanta to fund public safety
measures — including hiring
more police — a point not lost on
residents of the south side of the
city, such s Jason Dozier.
Last spring, it took police more
than 30 minutes to respond to a
call that a man had been shot and
killed in front of his home in the
community of Mechanicsville,
Dozier said. He worries police are
increasingly indifferent to violent
crime.
Dozier said that residents in his
neighborhood want the same
thing those in Buckhead do and
that the best way to achieve that is
by uniting to push for new ap-
proaches to fighting crime
throughout the city. He notes that
even with Buckhead, Atlanta ac-
counts for only about 8 percent of
the population of the greater met-
ropolitan region.
“A Buckhead secession only ex-
asperates a problem that has been
there for decades,” said Dozier,
who is Black. “These are regional
problems, and it’s harder to find a
regional solution to these issues
when you have so much fracturing
across the region.”
Michael Owens, co-director at
the Politics of Policing Lab at Emo-
ry University, said Buckhead’s ef-
fort to “de-annex” itself from At-
lanta is similar to other cityhood
movements in the region, includ-
ing the 2005 decision by Sandy
Springs to break away from Fulton
County to form its own municipal-
ity and police force.
Since then, a handful of other
Atlanta-area communities have
also attempted to establish their
independence, to mixed success.
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ABOVE: A homicide detective
investigates after a body was
discovered in a crashed and
burned vehicle in Atlanta in
March. LEFT: The city’s mayor,
Keisha Lance Bottoms (D),
announces at a news conference
last month that she will not
seek reelection. Some have
suggested policies pushed by
Bottoms, such as eliminating
cash bail, are fueling Atlanta’s
current spike in violent crime.
Like Buckhead, many of the move-
ments have racial undertones.
In 2018, voters in one predomi-
nantly White section of Stock-
bridge, a majority-Black southern
suburb of Atlanta, narrowly re-
jected a referendum to break away
and form their own municipality.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitu-
tion reported that GOP legislators
have also introduced a proposal
that would allow four communi-
ties in suburban Cobb County to
study forming their own govern-
ments, which comes after Black
women won three of five seats on
the county commission in last
year’s elections.
The cityhood movement has
also resurfaced in other regions of
the South, including when 54 per-
cent of residents who lived in a
predominantly White neighbor-
hood of Baton Rouge voted to
break away from that city. Resi-
dents there are now attempting to
form their own city, St. George,
amid a dispute over school fund-
ing.
“So many of the arguments for
cityhood — they sure sound simi-
lar to me to many of the efforts to
prevent desegregation” in the
1950s and 1960s, Owens said.
“They say, ‘Oh, there is going to be
more crime,’ or ‘Oh, we are going
to share our tax dollars with those
people over there.’ ”
Yet Quent Jordan, a Black resi-
dent of Buckhead’s Broadview
Place, said he will probably sup-
port a new Buckhead City because
he is tired of hearing gunfire in
what was once considered to be
one Atlanta’s safest neighbor-
hoods.
“We shouldn’t be focused on
race. We should be focused on
protecting each other as human
beings,” said Jordan, who moved
into the neighborhood two years
ago. “Buckhead really needs to be
cleaned up, and there needs to be
more police officers to make this
place safer.”
Weaver, who is White, said she
believes her neighborhood is safer
now that residents have united to
fight crime themselves. But she
said she would probably oppose
the move to become a municipali-
ty, saying it would be unfair to the
rest of the city. Instead, she is
optimistic that the trauma of 2020
will eventually pass, leading to a
downward trend in crime across
the city.
“I don’t think you can say this
has been normal times,” Weaver
said. “Hopefully as things get bet-
ter as far as the pandemic goes and
as we get back to normal, the
leadership will tighten things
back up again.”
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Report: VA leaders allowed pathologist to harm veterans
BY L ISA R EIN
Oversight failures, a fearful
workplace culture and lax quality
standards for years at a Veterans
Affairs hospital in Arkansas al-
lowed a pathologist who was
routinely drunk on the job to
misdiagnose thousands
of veterans — some-
times with dire or dead-
ly consequences, a new
investigation has found.
Hospital leaders
“failed to promote a cul-
ture of accountability”
that would have led
more of the doctor’s col- Robert Morris sight failures at a VA
leagues to come forward Levy
with accounts that his
behavior was putting patients at
risk, according to the report re-
leased Wednesday by VA’s Office
of Inspector General. But the staff Center in Clarksburg that failed
members at the Veterans Health
Care System of the Ozarks in
Fayetteville feared that reporting
their concerns would lead to re-
taliation from their bosses.
“Any one of these breakdowns
could cause harmful results,” In-
spector General Michael Missal’s
staff wrote in an 86-page report
about the failures to stop the
pathologist, Robert Morris Levy.
“Together and over an extended
period of time, the consequences
were devastating, tragic, and
deadly.”
For more than a decade, hospi-
tal officials led by Levy’s supervi- that VA is “fully committed” to
sor, former chief of staff Mark
Worley, ignored red flags that
allowed the pathologist to make
tragic mistakes, delaying medical
care for cancers and other illness- gist sought to deceive the govern-
es for some veterans and leading
to unnecessary treatment for oth-
ers, the report said.
Levy, 54, who rose from tempo-
rary contract pathologist to chief
of pathology during a 13-year
tenure until his firing in 2018,
was sentenced in January to 20
years in federal prison for invol-
untary manslaughter and mail
fraud, following a plea agreement
with prosecutors.
He pleaded guilty last year to
diagnosing lymphoma in an Air
Force veteran who actually had a
small-cell carcinoma. Levy ad-
mitted to falsifying the patient’s
medical record to state that a
second pathologist agreed with
his diagnosis; the patient later
died. Levy also admitted to
scheming to cover up his sub-
stance abuse problem.
When a team of outside pathol-
ogists reviewed almost 34,000
cases Levy had diagnosed since
his hiring, they found that more
than 3,000 had errors, 589 of
them major mistakes that caused
medical harm to veterans. At
White House touts giveaways, barbershop outreach in vaccination push
BYT YLER P AGER,
L ENA H . S UN
AND J OHN W AGNER
President Biden announced a
raft of new private-sector initia-
tives on Wednesday to encourage
Americans to get vaccinated as his
administration increasingly looks
to outside partners to help meet its
goal of 70 percent of adult Ameri-
cans with at least one shot of a
coronavirus vaccine by the Fourth
of July.
Declaring June a “national
month of action,” the administra-
tion wants to incentivize Ameri-
cans who are hesitant about get-
ting vaccinated with a variety of
perks, including free food delivery,
baseball tickets, Xboxes, and
chances to win cruise tickets, gro-
ceries for a year and free airline
flights.
The White House also an-
nounced the launch of a handful of
community-based outreach initia-
tives, including blanketing local
media, providing colleges with re-
sources, and launching an effort to
recruit 1,000 Black-owned barber-
shops and beauty salons across the
country.
The more aggressive push to
vaccinate Americans comes as just
under 63 percent of American
adults have received at least one
dose of a vaccine, but demand is
dropping and the remaining un-
vaccinated population is becom-
ing harder to reach and convince
that the vaccine is safe.
As part of the announcement,
Biden underscored the safety and
efficacy of the authorized vac-
cines, while warning of the dan-
gers of remaining unvaccinated
heading into the fall.
“For all the progress we’re mak-
ing as a country, if you are unvacci-
nated, you are still at risk of getting
seriously ill or dying or spreading
disease to others, especially when
Americans spend more time in-
doors again, closely gathered in
the fall,” Biden said in his speech
announcing the initiatives.
Drawing on political campaign
tactics, Biden said the vaccination
efforts will include canvassing and
phone and texting banks to reach
least 15 died.
In 34 of the most serious cases,
VA called the patients or their
surviving family members to tell
them what happened. It is un-
clear from the report whether any
of the other patients with serious
misdiagnoses were formally noti-
fied.
The Washington Post
reported many of Levy’s
misdiagnoses in 2019.
The Arkansas report
comes three weeks after
the release of another
blistering investigation
by Missal’s office of over-
hospital in West Vir-
ginia. That report found
cascading mistakes in quality
control and patient care at the
Louis A. Johnson VA Medical
to stop a former nursing aide
from injecting lethal doses of
insulin into frail, elderly veterans
in her care.
In Reta Mays’s case, her actions
went undiscovered for almost a
year. After confessing to her
crimes, Mays was sentenced in
May to seven consecutive life
terms and an additional 20 years
in federal prison.
VA press secretary Terrence L.
Hayes said the agency was “truly
saddened at the pain victims and
families endured at the hands of
this pathologist.” He reiterated
improving protections for pa-
tients.
“The investigations into this
matter revealed that the patholo-
ment, and VA was not aware of
the actions he took to conceal his
errors,” Hayes said. “Once the full
extent of his actions was known,
VA worked immediately to enact
process changes at [the Arkansas
facility] and nationally that
would prevent any provider from
causing tragic patient harm.”
Worley’s attorney, Shane
Wilkinson, said that Worley had
cooperated with federal investi-
gators and that “after a thorough
investigation, it was very appar-
ent Dr. Worley did a thorough job,
but within the constraints of the
Federal employment rules and
regulations.”
“It is my understanding that
there have been recommended
changes to certain policies that
would allow supervisors more
leeway in the future,” Wilkinson
said. “Dr. Levy’s actions were
tragic with tragic results. . . . I
understand that a report was
probably necessary, but it is also
easier to play armchair quarter-
back a few years later when all the
facts and circumstances are
“We need everyone across the country to pull together to get us over
the finish line,” President Biden said Wednesday.
people in areas with low vaccina-
tion rates.
“We need everyone across the
country to pull together to get us
over the finish line,” he said.
Speaking to the partisan di-
vides in vaccine uptake, Biden em-
phasized the Trump administra-
tion’s role in developing the vac-
cines. Many conservative areas, in
particular, lag behind in vaccinat-
ing their populations as rates vary
widely across the country. Some
states have given at least one dose
to two-thirds of the population,
while others have reached slightly
more than one-third.
“Getting the vaccine is not a
partisan act,” Biden said. “The sci-
ence was done under Democratic
and Republican administrations.
Matter of fact, the first vaccines
were authorized under a Republi-
can president.”
The private-sector enticements
include a CVS-run sweepstakes to
win free cruises, tickets to Super
Bowl LVI and cash prizes; gift
cards from DoorDash; free tickets
to Major League Baseball games
for those vaccinated at stadiums;
Xboxes distributed by Microsoft
through Boys and Girls Clubs in
hard-hit areas; free groceries from
Kroger; and a sweepstakes run by
United Airlines to win a year of
free flights.
Anheuser-Busch also an-
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The Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in Arkansas. Some misdiagnosed veterans died.
known.”
Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.)
whose district includes Fayette-
ville, said the investigation de-
picted so many failures that VA
leaders need to be held account-
able.
“The report details an abject
failure of leadership that led to
the misdiagnosis and subsequent
harm to hundreds of veterans
who rely on the VA health system
for care,” Womack said in a state-
ment. “It is unacceptable to limit
accountability to the criminal
conduct of Dr. Levy.”
Following the failures in Fay-
etteville, VA agreed to make mul-
tiple agencywide changes on the
inspector general’s recommenda-
tions, including better competen-
cy assessments for newly hired
and temporary medical staff,
stricter protocols for patholo-
gists, broad alcohol testing, and
better management of staff with
drug or alcohol issues.
Missal’s office also recom-
mended administrative actions
for agency leaders involved in the
Levy case. Hayes said that is
under consideration.
“VA is reviewing the actions of
employees involved in this matter
and, as we agreed with the OIG’s
recommendation, will pursue ad-
ministrative action if warranted,”
he said.
The long-awaited investiga-
tion — on hold as the criminal
case against Levy unfolded —
brings more closure to a rare
criminal case against a govern-
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nounced it would give away free
beverages if the country reaches
Biden’s 70 percent goal.
“Get a shot and have a beer,”
Biden said Wednesday.
The administration’s wide-
ranging efforts to encourage
Americans to get vaccinated stand
in stark contrast to much of the
rest of the world, where vaccines
are still scarce. The United States
has started to share more vaccines
with the world, but it has been
criticized for not doing enough,
especially as cases and deaths
plummet in the country.
“All over the world people are
desperate to get a shot that every
American can get at their neigh-
borhood drugstore,” Biden said,
acknowledging the disparity in
vaccine access.
Biden also tasked Vice Presi-
dent Harris with leading a “We
Can Do This” national tour to
highlight ways to get vaccinated.
The White House said her focus
will be on Southern states, where
vaccinations lag behind much of
the rest of the country.
To increase vaccine accessibility
for parents, the White House said
that four of the nation’s largest
child-care providers will offer free
child care to all parents and care-
givers getting vaccinated or recov-
ering from vaccination from now
until July 4.
ment physician. It also under-
scored a common failure by the
agency to hold its medical staff
accountable for administrative
misconduct, audits and inter-
views show.
The case demonstrated the
staffing challenges VA faces in
rural communities, where it is
often hard to recruit qualified
specialists. When he arrived in
Fayetteville in 2005, Levy was a
star hire, an Air Force veteran
with degrees from top medical
programs.
But he also had jumped from
job to job and acknowledged a
previous arrest and conviction
for drunken driving, warnings in
his background that investiga-
tors said should have guided the
hospital staff when trouble start-
ed.
Levy’s eventual firing after an
arrest for driving under the influ-
ence followed a tumultuous ten-
ure during which colleagues in
the pathology lab complained of
witnessing his erratic behavior
on the job. On multiple occasions,
their complaints were not fully
investigated — and Levy contin-
ued to read pathology slides
while impaired, the report found.
In 2014, Worley told investiga-
tors that he heard “episodic, in-
formal reports related to Dr.
Levy’s smelling like alcohol or
other possible signs of impair-
ment.” But the chief of staff con-
cluded that the complaints were
“not actionable,” according to the
report.
New coronavirus cases, deaths and
vaccine doses in the U.S., by day
As of 8 p.m. Wednesday
CASES
Total 33,286,132 Yesterday 16,739
7-day avg.
Feb. 29 May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March
DEATHS
Total 594,512 Yesterday 574
7-day avg.
Feb. 29 May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March
VACCINE DOSES ADMINISTERED
Total 296,912,892 Yesterday 508,652
Feb. 29 May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. March
The announcement of “Shots at
the Shop” builds on the success of
several barbershops around the
country, including one in Hyatts-
ville, Md., that have held vaccina-
tion clinics. Vaccination levels lag
in Black and Brown communities,
among others, and the barbershop
initiative is seen as one way to
persuade those who have been
hardest hit by the pandemic but
are often reluctant to get the shots.
It is a collaboration between the
Department of Health and Hu-
man Services; the Black Coalition
Against Covid-19 (BCAC), a
D.C.-based community organiza-
tion; the University of Maryland
Center for Health Equity; and the
SheaMoisture hair products com-
pany.
The four partners are encourag-
ing barbers and stylists to take
part in a training session about the
coronavirus vaccines this month
and hold vaccination clinics in
their shops in partnership with
health providers, said Cameron
Webb, a senior health equity advis-
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On one occasion, Worley evalu-
ated Levy after receiving a com-
plaint that he smelled of alcohol.
The pathologist “gave an implau-
sible excuse for his smelling like
alcohol (drinking a lot of juice),”
according to the report. Worley
concluded that Levy did not smell
of alcohol, and he did not take
further action, the report said.
During one incident on duty in
2015, Levy smelled of mouth-
wash, had red glassy eyes and
exhibited hand tremors, the re-
port found. He agreed to alcohol
testing. But Worley did not have
him tested, concluding that VA
policy prohibited drug testing of
its medical staff. But in this case,
the conclusion was incorrect:
There is no prohibition when an
employee agrees to take a test.
The episode represented another
missed opportunity to stop Levy,
investigators said.
The hospital allowed Levy to
enter a program for impaired
physicians after another incident
in 2016. A VA team did a limited
review of his cases while he was
in treatment, finding some misdi-
agnoses. But nothing further was
done, the report said.
The eventual look at the full
12 years of his work in Fayetteville
would find a consistent clinical
error rate that hovered at 10
percent of his diagnoses — more
than 10 times the normal misdi-
agnosis rate of 0.7 percent for
pathologists.
At the time, the hospital also
was learning that Levy was using
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“We are acknowledging the crit-
ical role barbershops and beauty
salons play in these communities
hard hit by the pandemic,” Webb
said in an interview.
Barbershops in any community
will be able to apply to participate
in the new program, but priority
will be given to those in parts of
the country where vaccination
rates are lowest. Webb said the
priority will be about 30 cities
where there are still significant
gaps. Many are in the South, in-
cluding places such as Atlanta,
Charlotte, San Antonio, Greens-
boro, N.C., and Birmingham, Ala.
Webb said officials “would love
to see all 1,000 shops do vaccina-
tion events,” noting that is the
goal. But organizers also are rely-
ing on the special role of barber-
shops and beauty salons as gather-
ing places to dispel disinforma-
tion and misinformation about
the vaccines.
Barbers and stylists have been
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his role as chief pathologist to
subvert quality control in the lab.
As a safeguard against errors,
Levy and his deputy were re-
quired each month to review a
random sample of 10 percent of
each other’s cases, a routine prac-
tice among pathologists.
The results of these “second
reads” were communicated by
sticky notes, a system of informal
documentation that allowed
Levy’s misconduct to fester. It
turned out that he was altering
his deputy’s reviews to show
them as concurring with all of
Levy’s diagnoses, according to
the report.
Levy consistently had a tiny
official error rate, at times even
zero. No one with the power to
dig deeper noticed.
The peer review system was
further flawed, investigators
found, by the randomness of the
samples. The sample should have
targeted cases with a higher risk
of interpretation error — or ones
that could result in clinically sig-
nificant consequences.
Levy and his deputy did not get
along, presenting another prob-
lem: A third pathologist should
always join peer reviews to exam-
ine discrepancies in opinion on
diagnoses in such a small prac-
tice, the report said. Otherwise,
as the mounting problems in
Fayetteville showed, there are no
guardrails on the physician in
charge.
“Dr. Levy developed quality
management policies and con-
trolled all aspects of the quality
management program in a serv-
ice with only one other patholo-
gist (a subordinate of Dr. Levy),
which made the process suscepti-
ble to subversion,” the report
concluded.
When investigators inter-
viewed Levy’s colleagues, they
said they had been terrified to
report more of what they wit-
nessed, the report found.
“The OIG concluded that facili-
ty leaders did not meet [the Veter-
ans Health Administration’s]
goal to establish an environment
in which staff act with integrity to
achieve accountability,” it said.
To hide his severe substance
abuse problem, Levy came up
with a way to elude detection
once he returned from rehab and
agreed to regular drug and alco-
hol testing.
When Levy came up for recre-
dentialing every other year, the
hospital did not ask other pathol-
ogists to review his work or assess
his performance, instead turning
to physicians without a back-
ground in his specialty, another
failure investigators cited.
lisa.rein@washpost.com
hubs of information in the Black
community for generations, he
said. “The conversations happen
naturally, and by having barbers
and stylists gain insight and
knowledge about how vaccines
work and their key mechanisms,
that information can be spread to
the rest of the community through
a trusted messenger,” he added.
The Anheuser-Busch campaign
will offer adults 21 and older a
virtual debit card once the United
States hits that 70 percent mile-
stone.
“Let’s get ready for a summer
like no other,” says a new ad from
the company about the push.
“Let’s get ready for the greatest
time in history to grab a beer.”
Cesar Vargas, Anheuser-Busch’s
chief external affairs officer, said
the company wanted to encourage
vaccinations for those who haven’t
received them yet, “because that’s
one big part of how we can all get
back together.”
“Whether that’s reuniting at lo-
cal neighborhood bars and restau-
game or getting together in your
backyard over a barbecue, we
want people to start getting back
together again,” Vargas said in an
interview. “Vaccinations are one
part of that.”
Reed Tuckson, a former D.C.
health director and founder of the
BCAC, said the country is at a
“very, very critical stage.” Those
who were eager to get vaccinated
have already done so, but “now
we’re down to needing to close out
those still waiting, those who still
have questions and another group
that is really digging in” to decline
the shots, he said.
Biden’s strategy of reaching out
to specific communities “is very
appropriate” because “we cannot
overemphasize enough how this is
a true race to the finish before
[virus] variants take root,” he said.
“This is the moment to pour every-
thing we have into it.”
tyler.pager@washpost.com
lena.sun@washpost.com
john.wagner@washpost.com
Paulina Firozi contributed to this
report.
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New York Times reporters’ phone records secretly seized
Admission marks third
time DOJ has revealed it
sifted data under Trump
BY M ATT Z APOTOSKY
The Justice Department re-
vealed Wednesday that it had,
during President Donald Trump’s
administration, secretly obtained
the phone records of four New
York Times reporters, marking
the third time in recent weeks
that federal law enforcement has
disclosed using the aggressive
and controversial tactic to sift
through journalists’ data.
The New York Times reported
Wednesday night that the Justice
Department had informed the
newspaper it had seized the
phone records of four of its re-
porters: Matt Apuzzo, Adam
Goldman, Eric Lichtblau and Mi-
chael S. Schmidt. The Times re-
ported that the department also
disclosed it had secured a court
order to take logs, but not con-
tents, of the reporters’ emails but
that “no records were obtained.”
The records dated from Jan. 14,
2017, to April 30 of that year.
Anthony Coley, a Justice De-
Arizona prepares to carry out executions with gas Nazis used at Auschwitz
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Arizona is taking steps to use
hydrogen cyanide, the deadly gas
used during the genocide perpe-
trated by the Nazis at Auschwitz
and other extermination camps,
to kill inmates on death row.
Corrections officials have re-
furbished a gas chamber that has
not been used in more than 20
years and have procured ingredi-
ents for the lethal gas, also known
as Zyklon B, according to partially
redacted documents obtained by
the Guardian. Invoices show that
the state purchased a brick of
potassium cyanide, sodium hy-
droxide pellets and sulfuric acid,
and a report details the consider-
able efforts taken to deem the gas
chamber at a prison in Florence,
Ariz., “operationally ready.”
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partment spokesman, confirmed
the seizures in a statement, saying
the department “notified four
journalists that it obtained their
phone toll records and sought to
obtain non-content email records
from 2017 as part of a criminal
investigation into the unauthor-
ized disclosure of classified infor-
mation.”
“The records at issue were
sought in 2020 under Depart-
ment regulations that apply to
records of members of the news
media, and the journalists were
neither subjects nor targets of the
investigation,” Coley said.
He added that forthcoming
public reports detailing the de-
partment’s seeking of informa-
tion from journalists for 2019 and
2020 would show that “members
of the news media have now been
notified in every instance in this
period in which their records
were sought or obtained in such
circumstances.”
The department already had
released reports detailing the
steps it took to obtain such infor-
mation in 2017 and 2018. A Justice
Department spokesman declined
to elaborate.
Last month, the Justice De-
partment made similar disclo-
sures to The Washington Post and
CNN that it had secretly obtained
Critics of the gas method say
that in addition to hydrogen cya-
nide’s infamous use in the mass
killings of Jewish people by the
Nazis, it has produced some of the
most botched, disturbing execu-
tions in the United States.
“You have to wonder what Ari-
zona was thinking in believing
that in 2021 it is acceptable to
execute people in a gas chamber
with cyanide gas,” Robert Dun-
ham, executive director of the
Death Penalty Information Cen-
ter, told the British outlet. “Did
they have anybody study the his-
tory of the Holocaust?”
In a statement, the Arizona
Department of Corrections, Re-
habilitation and Reentry said it
was “prepared to perform its legal
obligation and commence the ex-
ecution process as part of the
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the records of those organiza-
tions’ journalists. Media outlets
and free-press advocates de-
nounced the moves, questioning
whether the department under
Trump had followed its own pol-
icies and asserting that such tac-
tics have a chilling effect on jour-
nalists’ ability to uncover essen-
tial information about the federal
government.
President Biden declared re-
cently that he would not allow his
Last month, the Justice Department made similar
disclosures to The Washington Post and CNN that
it had secretly obtained the records of those
organizations’ journalists.
Justice Department to seize jour-
nalists’ phone or email records,
calling the practice “simply
wrong.”
“So you won’t let your Justice
Department do that?” a reporter
asked.
“I will not let that happen,” the
president responded.
Though the Justice Depart-
ment did not follow Biden’s de-
cree with any formal policy guid-
ance, White House press secre-
legally imposed sentence, regard-
less of method selected.” The de-
partment pointed to the Arizona
statute allowing a defendant sen-
tenced to death for a crime com-
mitted before Nov. 23, 1992, to
choose between lethal injection
or lethal gas at least 20 days
before the execution date.
There is little medical research
about lethal gas’s effects on the
human body, but executions us-
ing gas have taken much longer
than other methods, according to
Fordham University law profes-
sor Deborah Denno.
“It’s without question that le-
thal gas, or at least the lethal gas
that Arizona is trying to bring
back, is the most gruesome of all
these methods we’ve had in this
country,” Denno told The Wash-
ington Post this week.
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later when asked whether the Jus-
tice Department was aware of his
wishes.
“The president made those
comments quite publicly, so ev-
eryone, I think, is aware,” Psaki
said.
The New York Times reported
that authorities did not disclose
what story generated the Justice
Department’s investigation, but it
noted “the lineup of reporters and
the timing suggested that the leak
investigation related to classified
information reported in an April
22, 2017, article the four reporters
wrote about how James B. Comey,
then the F.B.I. director, handled
politically charged investigations
during the 2016 presidential elec-
tion.”
Executive editor Dean Baquet
told the Times that seizing report-
ers’ phone records “profoundly
undermines press freedom.”
Arizona, one of 27 states where
the death penalty remains legal,
postponed executions after the
killing of Joseph R. Wood III in
2014 by lethal injection, which
prompted a review of the death-
chamber protocols.
Arizona’s preparations to use
lethal gas come amid a scarcity of
execution drugs and as other
states have taken a closer look at
firing squads and other execution
methods.
Lethal gas is permitted for exe-
cutions in six other states: Ala-
bama, California, Mississippi,
Missouri, Oklahoma and Wyo-
ming. Oklahoma, Mississippi and
Alabama have authorized nitro-
gen hypoxia, which uses nitrogen
to deprive the body of oxygen,
despite a small body of scientific
research and no previous execu-
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“It threatens to silence the sought records of Pentagon corre-
sources we depend on to provide spondent Barbara Starr for the
the public with essential informa- two-month period between June
tion about what the government 1, 2017, and July 31, 2017. In that
is doing,” he said, adding that he period, according to CNN, Starr
expected the Justice Department reported on options the U.S. mili-
“to explain why this action was tary had prepared to present to
taken and what steps are being Trump on North Korea, as well as
taken to make certain it does not other topics.
happen again in the future.” On May 24, Washington Post
The Post and CNN have simi- publisher and chief executive
larly pressed for more informa- Fred Ryan wrote to Attorney Gen-
tion on the government’s secret eral Merrick Garland requesting
seizure of their reporters’ records, “an immediate meeting” to dis-
though the Justice Department cuss the newspaper’s concerns
has repeatedly declined to answer over the records seizures.
specific questions. Of particular concern is that
In The Post’s case, the depart- the department did not notify The
ment sought the records of re- Post in advance of its desire for
porters Ellen Nakashima and information and engage in nego-
Greg Miller, and former Post re- tiations, as the agency’s policies
porter Adam Entous, from April dictate except in instances in
15, 2017, to July 31, 2017. The letter which the attorney general thinks
does not state the purpose of the doing so could jeopardize an in-
phone records’ seizure, but vestigation.
toward the end of the time frame “We believe the Department
mentioned in the letters, those has an obligation to explain its
reporters wrote a story about clas- actions, including its failure to
sified U.S. intelligence intercepts provide the Post and our journal-
indicating that, in 2016, then-Sen. ists with notice of these subpoe-
Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) had dis- nas and an opportunity to assert
cussed the Trump campaign with our rights to resist the govern-
Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassa- ment’s seizure of our records,”
dor to the United States at the Ryan wrote.
time. Sessions went on to become To date, such a meeting has not
Trump’s first attorney general. been scheduled.
In CNN’s case, the department matt.zapotosky@washpost.com
tions using the method in the the attorney wrote.
United States. The 1999 execution of German
In Arizona, where 115 inmates national Walter LaGrand, who
are on death row, hydrogen cya- was convicted of armed robbery,
nide has been deployed before. took even longer, a witness noted
The state has killed 37 people with in an account published in the
lethal gas, most before 1950. Since Tucson Citizen. LaGrand died 18
the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its minutes after cyanide pellets
moratorium on the death penalty were dropped into acid below his
in 1976, the state has executed two chair, enveloping him in a mist of
inmates with gas, most recently in deadly vapor, the witness wrote.
1999, according to state records. After LaGrand coughed vio-
In those cases, witnesses re- lently and fell forward, his back
counted excruciating deaths. continued to rise and fall with
Convicted murderer Don Eu- shallow breaths and his head
gene Harding, who was put to twitched for minutes before he
death in 1992, was red-faced and was declared dead, according to
gasping to breathe, his attorney the account.
James J. Belanger detailed in a LaGrand was the last inmate
written declaration. As the white killed in the gas chamber that
fumes enveloped him, Harding officials say has since been re-
twitched and jerked for minutes, stored.
longer than Belanger anticipated, meryl.kornfield@washpost.com
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Latinos
confront
lack of LEFT: Maria Lowrie’s shirt features an image of her son, Ernie
Serrano, 33, who died last year while in police custody. “I don’t

force data wish this for any mother, for any human being, to go through that.
Something has got to be done so it doesn’t happen as often as it’s
happening,” the Los Angeles woman said. BELOW: “[The police]
harm the harmed, and that exacerbates the harm, and then [they]
KILLINGS FROM A1 get reactive to protests and all these other things that follow that,”
said Serafin Serrano, the victim’s uncle.
minutes later, an officer notices
that the man is not breathing.
The officers place him on the
floor and try to resuscitate him.
He is pronounced dead at a hospi-
tal.
According to Sheriff Chad Bi-
anco, the preliminary autopsy
report suggests that Serrano died
of a methamphetamine overdose;
attorneys for the family, which
has filed a wrongful-death law-
suit, say he died of asphyxiation.
Serrano’s death did not get
much attention beyond the local
news, but a review of databases
that track police killings shows
that while their cases have largely
gone untold in the national dis-
cussion of police violence, Lati-
nos are killed by police at nearly
double the rate of White Ameri-
cans. And while the national de-
bate on police killings has fo-
cused on Black Americans, whose
deaths at the hands of law en-
forcement have been high-profile
and outnumber those of other
people of color, some activists say
the situation for the Latino com-
munity has become critical.
“It’s a crisis, in the same man-
ner as it’s a crisis in the Black
community. . . . Chances are, if
anybody is going to be getting
killed, they’re going to be Black or
Brown,” said Roberto Rodriguez,
an associate professor at the Uni-
versity of Arizona who researches
police brutality and was a victim
himself in the late 1970s.
Experts cite several reasons
the Latino community has often
been left out of the debate about
policing and reform. The histori-
cal legacy of police brutality
against Black people is well-
known and documented, dating
back to the slave patrols. Many
Americans view immigration as
the primary concern of Latinos.
The lack of a standardized system
for reporting police killings Latinos disproportionately killed by police
means that Latino victims are Although more White people are shot and killed by police in the U.S. overall,
often categorized as Black or Black and Latino people are killed at a much higher rate.
White. In addition, Latinos as a
group include a variety of cul- Black:
tures with different lived experi- 5.7 per
ences. million
“I think society has this notion
that [police violence] is a Black Latino:
Yearly rate of police killings

and White issue, and not for 4.2 per

Latinos. It’s kind of like, ‘That’s
not your issue. Your issue is
immigration,’ ” Rodriguez said.
But the number of Latinos killed
by police is “off the charts,” he
said.
Since 2015, at least 1,059 Lati-
nos have been fatally shot by
police, according to a Washington
Post database that tracks police
shootings. In some cities, the
disproportionate rate at which
Latinos are killed by police is
especially striking. In Chicago
and Minneapolis, for example,
Latinos are killed at six times the
rate of White people, according to
the database Mapping Police Vio-
lence. The same database found
that Latinos are killed at a dispro-
portionately higher rate com-
pared with Whites in 24 of the
nation’s 50 largest cities.
Occasionally, the case of a Lati-
no killed by police will land in the
national spotlight. On March 29,
13-year-old Adam Toledo was fa-
tally shot by a Chicago police
officer during a foot chase. Video
of the incident shows the officer
chasing Adam through an alley,
then ordering him to stop and
show his hands. Adam appears to
stop at an opening in a fence, turn
and raise his hands as the officer
fires once, striking the boy in the
chest. Police say Adam was carry-
ing a gun that was later recovered
behind the fence where he had
stopped. His family members and
the attorneys representing them
contend that whether Adam had
a gun is irrelevant because he
complied with the officer’s order
and was unarmed when he was
shot.
Advocates and attorneys say
part of the reason Toledo’s death
received widespread media atten-
tion was his age; it also occurred
during the widely viewed murder
trial of former Minneapolis police
officer Derek Chauvin. But it was
an exception.
“Everything in criminal justice
seems to revolve around African
American mistreatment, and
rightfully so. But we also have a
story to tell, and a similar experi-
ence, and I don’t think we’re
getting enough coverage,” said
Leonard Gonzalez, a current na-
tional vice chair and the former
California chair of the League of
United Latin American Citizens’
civil rights committee.
The data on Latinos killed by
police probably vastly underrep-
resents reality, experts say. There
is no comprehensive tally of po-
lice killings or use-of-force inci-
dents maintained by the federal
An altar dedicated to Serrano, who was at a market
when authorities received a report about a man
wandering in and out. Another 911 call reported him
tussling with a guard. Video shows deputies striking
Serrano and wrestling him onto a checkout counter.
government. The FBI has begun
an effort to collect more data on
the use of force, but participation
by local police is voluntary. The
agencies that do keep such statis-
tics often fail to include Hispanic
as an ethnic category, according
to a 2016 report by the Urban
Institute.
In addition, race and ethnicity
designations, if included, are of-
ten filled out by law enforcement,
which leaves room for error, said
Claudia Ruiz, a civil rights policy
analyst for the Latino advocacy
group UnidosUS, formerly
known as National Council of La
Raza.
“So Latinos become obscured
or erased within the data because
White-passing Latinos will be
marked as White or unknown,
and Afro-Latinos will be marked
as Black,” Ruiz said.
In The Post’s database — one of
the most complete accounts of
fatal shootings by police and
drawn from law enforcement and
local news reports, as well as
monitoring of independent data-
bases — three people with the last
name Garcia and two with Lopez
were not given racial or ethnic
designations. There was also a
Garcia who was listed as Black
and two Lopezes who were la-
beled White.
Ruiz said the lack of data keeps
Latinos in an unequal system,
because meaningful solutions to
racial inequity and criminal jus-
tice reform can’t be developed
without having a complete view
PHOTOS BY AMANDA LOPEZ FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
of the problem.
A new analysis released last
week by UnidosUS found that
since 2014, more than 2,600 Lati-
nos were killed by police or died
in custody. But the report —
which was conducted by volun-
teer researchers, activists and
family members of those killed by
police, among others — says due
to the limitations and flaws of law
enforcement data, even this fig-
ure is probably an undercount.
Groups are also planning a Dia
de los Muertos convention this
year that will focus on police
brutality against Latinos to help
raise awareness, Rodriguez said.
Perceptions and reality
In California, where Serrano
lived, state data shows that His-
panics were 44 percent more
likely to be perceived as armed by
police — the greatest gap between
perceived and confirmed cases of
armed residents across racial and
ethnic groups. The perception
that a suspect is armed is more
likely to draw a show of force
from police. California, the na-
tion’s most populous state, is
about 40 percent Latino.
Some activists, including
Humberto Guizar, an attorney for
the Serrano family, said Latino
culture also contributes to the
lack of awareness around the
issue. He said the community’s
lack of engagement on issues of
police brutality and killings was
similar to its low voter turnout
compared to Black Americans.
million
1,512
killed
since
2015
1,059
killed
42M
Data as of May 27
Source: The Washington Post police shootings database
“We don’t generate as much of
a hoopla and we don’t protest and
make noise as much as the Black
community does,” said Guizar,
co-founder of the Justice X legal
group. “For that, the blame
should be placed where it belongs
— on us, for not stepping up as
much as the Black community
does.”
Other advocates said some La-
tinos’ hesitancy to speak out and
organize large protests — or even
report crimes or record police
brutality when they witness it —
is rooted in fear of calling atten-
tion to their immigration status.
“They’re worried about ‘Hey,
am I going to get deported? Is
somebody going to call immigra-
tion on me?’ And after all the
sacrifices they made to get here,
they don’t want to risk it,” said
Adeena Weiss-Ortiz, an attorney
for Toledo’s family.
But Marissa Barrera, a Mexi-
can American whose brother was
killed in police custody in 2017,
said although they might not be
highly visible, there are Latinos
mobilizing over police brutality.
“Just because you guys don’t
think you see people that look
like us doing any of the work,
that’s not true,” said Barrera, who
started the group Voices of
Strength last year for those whose
loved ones have been killed by
police. “There are a lot of us doing
the work.”
In a dark place
Lowrie, 50, was three months
White: 2.3 per million
2,890 killed
39M 197M
Proportion of 2019 U.S. population
JOE FOX/THE WASHINGTON POST
pregnant with Ernie when his
father died, a victim of street
violence. Family members said
the child was like a reincarnation
of his father.
“He was a small little baby, he
was so cute. His eyes were gray
and he had thick dark hair. I had a
hell of a time pushing him out,”
Lowrie said, chuckling. As he
grew up, “he was playful, he was
sneaky — he wanted all the atten-
tion.”
Often distracted in school, Ser-
rano began to write poetry and
liked to freestyle rap — a frequent
source of entertainment at family
gatherings. He embraced the
family’s Mexican American cul-
ture, teasing his mom for listen-
ing to her rancheras — singers
like Vicente Fernández and Juan
Gabriel — and blasting his favor-
ite corridos at family barbecues
instead.
But in his late teens and 20s, he
began to abuse drugs, family said,
and increasingly found himself in
confrontations with police. There
was a compounding effect, they
said. Encounters with police trau-
matized him, which caused him
to further abuse substances,
which then put him in situations
that led to more encounters with
police. Lowrie said he served
about two years in jail on a charge
of resisting arrest and had been
released the week before his
death. The day before he died, he
was arrested and released on
charges of being under the influ-
ence and resisting arrest, she
All others:
0.8 per
million
239 killed
49M
said.
“[The police] harm the
harmed, and that exacerbates the
harm, and then [they] get reac-
tive to protests and all these other
things that follow that,” Serafin
Serrano, the uncle, said.
Ernie Serrano had grown dark
in his final years, his family said.
He would argue with his uncle
over the existential question of
whether the world was a funda-
mentally good place.
“I’m trapped in a dark place/
where nothing grows but the
anger and pain,” reads one of his
poems. “I think I’m lost in my
mentality./Adrift, floating in the
starless night sky./ I don’t know if
I’m waiting for death/or waiting
to become alive.”
Near the end of his life, Ernie
Serrano developed a deep fear,
bordering on paranoia, of law
enforcement, his family said.
“The cops are out to kill me. No
matter where I go, they are out to
kill me,’” he would tell his family
again and again.
“You could say he had a premo-
nition of his imminent death at
their hands,” his uncle said.
What pains Serafin Serrano
the most is that his nephew died
before he could prove him wrong
about the world.
Instead, he said, Ernie Serrano
died “having proven his hypothe-
sis correct: That the world was
cruel, and had these cruel and
inhumane practices up until his
very end.”
silvia.foster-frau@washpost.com
THURSDAY, JUNE 3 , 2021 . THE WASHINGTON POST
Patience for bipartisan infrastructure deal running low
Little progress achieved
despite Biden’s direct
outreach to Republicans
BY S EUNG M IN K IM
AND T ONY R OMM
The White House is making it
increasingly clear that time is run-
ning out to craft a bipartisan
agreement on rebuilding the na-
tion’s infrastructure, taking a
sharper tone that could soon clear
Democrats to act on their own to
achieve President Biden’s jobs am-
bitions but deny him the deal with
Republicans he has actively
sought for weeks.
The urgent tone reflects the
political choices confronting
Biden, a would-be dealmaker, as
liberals grow increasingly restless
about delayed action on the presi-
dent’s sweeping jobs plan that is a
centerpiece of the Democratic
agenda. Biden met Wednesday
with a top Senate Republican ne-
gotiator in his continued efforts to
reach a bipartisan infrastructure
deal, but the meeting concluded
with no public signs of substan-
tive progress.
Biden has been eager to notch a
bipartisan win after he rapidly
delivered a coronavirus relief
package early in his presidency
with only Democratic support.
But the slow pace of the talks —
Democrats and Republicans still
disagree over funding and even
what constitutes “infrastructure”
— is frustrating liberals who want
the negotiations to wind to a close.
Now top administration offi-
cials are making it increasingly
clear that the White House’s appe-
tite for bipartisanship is not infi-
nite. Any bipartisan agreement is
likely to significantly scale back
Biden’s infrastructure plan at a
time when Democrats control
both chambers of Congress.
“Patience is not unending, and
he wants to make progress. His
only line in the sand is inaction,”
White House press secretary Jen
Psaki said Wednesday. “He wants
to sign a bill into law this summer.”
In an interview with CNBC ear-
lier Wednesday, Energy Secretary
Jennifer Granholm — one of the
handful of Cabinet officials specif-
ically tasked with working on the
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infrastructure plan — also sig-
naled that the clock is ticking on
Biden’s $2.3 trillion plan, which
was unveiled nearly three months
ago.
“There’s definitely a deal to be
had, and there’s definitely opti-
mism on both sides,” Granholm
said, stressing the administra-
tion’s “honest and earnest desire”
to agree to a plan with Republican
negotiators. But she added:
“There is a time limit on this.
You’re not going to play this back-
and-forth for much longer. There
is a limit.”
The White House said Biden
and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito
(W.Va.), who met on Wednesday
afternoon, planned to speak again
on Friday. Capito, the Senate Re-
publicans’ point person on infra-
structure, briefed fellow GOP ne-
gotiators on a call later Wednes-
day, according to an aide familiar
with the conversation.
“This afternoon, the President
hosted Senator Capito for a con-
structive and frank conversation
in the Oval Office about how we
can drive economic growth and
benefit America’s middle class
through investing in our infra-
structure,” a White House official
said in a statement.
Capito’s office also issued a
statement, saying the two had dis-
cussed recent GOP counteroffers.
“Senator Capito reiterated to
the president her desire to work
together to reach an infrastruc-
ture agreement that can pass Con-
gress in a bipartisan way. She also
stressed the progress that the Sen-
ate has already made,” the state-
ment said. “Senator Capito is en-
couraged that negotiations have
continued.”
Many Democrats in Congress
have painful memories of the talks
over health-care reform in 2009,
when the Obama administration
eagerly sought buy-in from Re-
publicans to give the Affordable
Care Act a bipartisan tone. Talks
dragged out for months as the
ACA’s popularity faded and virtu-
ally no Republicans ended up
signing on, an outcome liberals in
particular are determined not to
repeat this time.
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plan — which would overhaul the
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sive green energy investments —
as well as a related proposal aimed
at bolstering families by expand-
ing education and safety net pro-
grams.
As of late last week, the White
House had held more than 530
phone calls or meetings with
Democratic and Republican law-
makers, chiefs of staff and com-
mittee staff directors on the Amer-
ican Jobs Plan, in addition to near-
ly 100 briefings for congressional
committees, according to a White
House official.
Meanwhile, the White House’s
legislative affairs shop, led by di-
rector Louisa Terrell, has made
nearly 200 calls to lawmakers of
both parties to discuss the Ameri-
can Families Plan, according to
the official, who spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity to describe
the administration’s private dis-
cussions.
But no effort has been as visible
as Biden’s direct engagement with
a half-dozen Senate Republicans,
whom the president has invited to
the Oval Office several times and
deputized his top aides to meet
with privately in an effort to hash
out an infrastructure agreement.
Biden began with a $2.3 trillion
infrastructure proposal but the
White House has since lowered
that figure to $1.7 trillion, with
some of the cuts coming from
initiatives that will be funded in
legislation that is already moving
through Congress.
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Senate Republicans — a group
that includes Capito and Sens.
John Barrasso (Wyo.), Roy Blunt
(Mo.), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Patrick
J. Toomey (Pa.) and Roger Wicker
(Miss.) — initially offered $568 bil-
lion in infrastructure projects and
then raised it to $928 billion, al-
though both figures include hun-
dreds of billions of spending that
was already planned.
Biden wants to fund his infra-
structure plans by boosting the
corporate tax rate from the cur-
rent 21 percent to 28 percent,
which Republican lawmakers
have repeatedly said is a non-
starter. Republicans have pointed
to other funding options, most
recently hundreds of billions of
dollars in unused coronavirus re-
lief aid, but the White House has
been cool to that idea, saying most
of that money is already account-
ed for.
A coalition of mayors and coun-
ty officials also wrote to members
of Congress earlier this week, urg-
ing them against using federal
pandemic relief for other projects.
White House officials have pub-
licly and privately pointed to June
9 as a critical date that Biden is
now closely watching. That’s
when the House Transportation
and Infrastructure Committee
will begin formally crafting legis-
lation for surface transportation
systems that could form one pillar
of Biden’s broader proposal. (The
Senate Committee on Environ-
ment and Public Works cleared its
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own version of the bill in a unani-
mous vote late last month.)
Meanwhile, a small group of
Democratic and Republican sena-
tors have met to draft an alterna-
tive proposal should the talks be-
tween Biden and Capito collapse.
The group, which include Sens.
Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Sen.
Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has
made it clear it sees its potential
plan as a fallback option, although
Psaki, referring to their group,
said Biden is “eager to see what
they have to offer.”
“I would say that we’re working
on many channels,” she added
Wednesday. “He’s going to have
discussions with all of these enti-
ties and parties. And he knows
that sometimes in this journey, in
this path, you have to keep a range
of options on the table.”
Top administration officials,
particularly members of Biden’s
“Jobs Cabinet,” have also contin-
ued to promote the issue in vari-
ous ways.
For instance, Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg, one of
the administration’s sharpest
messengers, has continued to pro-
mote infrastructure projects
across the country, even in its
most conservative pockets. He is
scheduled to appear at a roundta-
ble Thursday with Sen. Marsha
Blackburn (R-Tenn.), for example,
to discuss the Interstate 40 bridge
in Memphis, which has been
closed since May 11 due to a frac-
ture.
Biden’s sit-down with Capito
also came as Senate Democrats
continued to lay the groundwork
for advancing a massive infra-
structure bill on their own, absent
the sort of bipartisan deal leaders
of both parties say they still hope
to strike.
Central to Democrats’ plans is a
legislative maneuver known as
reconciliation, which could allow
them to pass the bill with 51 votes
rather than the 60 usually re-
quired to overcome a filibuster
and approve legislation.
But even that path may not be
simple. Reconciliation only covers
budget-related matters, so using it
could force Democrats to limit the
scope of their package.
Beyond that, not everyone in
the party is ready to seize on rec-
onciliation. Centrists, including
Manchin, have signaled in recent
days that they instead remain
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committed to bipartisan talks as
they seek a deal to improve the
country’s roads, bridges, pipes
and Internet connections.
“If the place works,” Manchin
told reporters last week, referring
to the Senate, “let it work.”
Without his vote, Democrats do
not have the 50 votes they need to
muscle Biden’s infrastructure
package through the Senate. Nor
do they have the ability to change
Senate rules to eliminate the fili-
buster, a longer-term move that
Manchin and other moderates
continue to oppose.
In the meantime, Democrats
have received mixed news from
the Senate’s primary scorekeeper
in recent days about the extent to
which they can rely on reconcilia-
tion to advance Biden’s economic
priorities more broadly.
Along with infrastructure, the
president has sought to secure a
$1.9 trillion families package, an
expansion of Medicare and a
package of reforms designed to
lower prescription drug prices.
Initially, the Senate parliamen-
tarian ruled that the chamber’s
leaders can turn to reconciliation
more than once in a single fiscal
year, apparently opening the door
for Democrats to pursue a wide
array of spending using the 51-
vote tactic.
But the parliamentarian
sketched out a difficult path for
doing so in a subsequent ruling,
saying essentially that Democrats
must pass a second budget resolu-
tion to invoke reconciliation an
additional time.
In practice, that means the
process could prove slow and po-
litically painful. The regular budg-
et process typically opens the door
for lawmakers to offer an unlimit-
ed number of amendments on the
Senate floor. So another round of
reconciliation would give Repub-
licans an additional opportunity
to force Democrats to cast uncom-
fortable votes entering the con-
tentious 2022 midterm elections.
“It would be better if we did this
as a unified Congress, as a unified
country,” Rep. Tom Malinowski
(D-N.J.), who represents a swing
district in northern New Jersey,
said in a CNN interview Wednes-
day. “But the bottom line is, one
way or another, we have to do it.
We have to deliver.”
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Trump increasingly fixated on ballot audits in hope of overturning election
BY J OSH D AWSEY
AND R OSALIND S .
H ELDERMAN
Former president Donald
Trump remains relentlessly fo-
cused on the false claim that the
November election was stolen
from him and is increasingly con-
sumed with the notion that ballot
reviews pushed by his supporters
around the country could prove
that he won, according to people
familiar with his comments.
Trump has rebuffed calls from
some advisers to drop the matter,
instead fixating on an ongoing Re-
publican-commissioned audit in
Arizona and plotting how to se-
cure election reviews in other
states, such as Pennsylvania,
Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hamp-
shire and Georgia, according to
advisers. He is most animated by
the efforts in Fulton County, Ga.,
and Maricopa County, Ariz., ac-
cording to two advisers who, like
others interviewed for this report,
spoke on the condition of anonym-
ity to describe private conversa-
tions.
Trump’s interest has been fu-
eled by conversations he has had
with an array of figures who have
publicly touted false claims of
election fraud. Among them, ac-
cording to advisers, is Christina
Bobb, a host at the One America
News network who has privately
discussed the Arizona audit with
the former president and his
team; Mike Lindell, the chief exec-
utive of the company MyPillow;
and Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug
Mastriano (R), who urged the
state’s congressional delegation to
reject Biden’s victory there last
fall.
Trump has become so fixated on
the audits that he suggested re-
cently to allies that their success
could result in his return to the
White House this year, according
to people familiar with comments
he has made. Some advisers said
that such comments appear to be
just offhand musings.
A Trump spokesman declined
to comment on the record.
Trump’s deepening preoccupa-
tion with post-election audits has
created a singular situation, one in
which a former president is regu-
larly attacking the electoral legiti-
macy of his successor. And it
comes as a coterie of his most
devoted supporters have intensi-
fied their own rhetoric, making
allusions to undemocratic actions
that could result in Trump’s re-
turn.
This weekend, at a conference
in Dallas of adherents of the
QAnon extremist ideology, former
national security adviser Michael
Flynn was asked by an audience
member whether a military coup
like the one in Myanmar could
happen in the United States.
“No reason, I mean, it should
happen here,” he responded.
Flynn later posted a statement
on Parler saying that his com-
ments had been misinterpreted
and that he does not support a
military coup. But at the same
event, lawyer Sidney Powell —
who has represented Flynn in the
past and also filed multiple unsuc-
cessful legal challenges to last
year’s election result — said she
believed Trump should be “rein-
stated” to office this year.
Powell did not respond to re-
quests for comment. She told CNN
on Monday that Flynn had in no
way encouraged “any act of vio-
lence or any military insurrection”
and said that the media had
“grossly distorted” his remarks.
The escalating rhetoric by the
former president and his backers
shows that he is intent on keeping
alive the falsehood that the 2020
race was rigged, a claim that crit-
ics say has perilous implications
for the country and the public’s
faith in how they select their lead-
ers.
Trump’s campaign against the
election continues nearly five
months after a mob of his support-
ers stormed the U.S. Capitol, seek-
ing to prevent the formalization of
Biden’s win. And public surveys
show that the lie about the elec-
tion has taken root inside the Re-
publican Party: A CNN poll in
April found that 70 percent of
Republicans said they did not be-
lieve Biden had won the election
legitimately.
Representatives of discontented ExxonMobil shareholders win a third seat on oil giant’s board of directors
BY S TEVEN M UFSON
Discontented shareholders
have grabbed a third seat on the
ExxonMobil board of directors in
a reflection of widespread un-
happiness with the oil giant’s
climate change strategy and its
financial performance in recent
years.
ExxonMobil, which fought
hard to defeat a four-person slate
nominated by a small hedge fund
called Engine No. 1, conceded in
a Securities and Exchange Com-
mission filing that former En-
TOP: Then-President Donald Trump at an election campaign rally in Goodyear, Ariz., in
October. ABOVE: A Trump supporter outside the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix on Dec. 14.
Trump has seized on such polls
as evidence that investigations are
warranted, advisers said.
Local officials in states where
Trump supporters are pushing for
ballot reviews have decried the
attacks on the election results as
dangerous.
In Arizona, Maricopa County
Recorder Stephen Richer, a Re-
publican who defeated an incum-
bent Democrat in November, said
he believed state GOP leaders
knew that the claims of electoral
fraud in the state are “facially
laughable.”
Still, he said in an interview,
“ordinary people, the ones who
are showing up on a Wednesday
night at a political meeting, I be-
lieve they really believe it. And
that’s super sad.”
“We can’t indulge these insane
lies any longer,” Richer tweeted
last month. “As a party. As a state.
As a country.”
But Trump has ramped up his
public statements about the elec-
tion in recent weeks and is expect-
ed to continue his crusade this
weekend in a speech in North
Carolina and at various summer
rallies that are slated to begin this
month. “Great work is being done
in Georgia revealing the Election
Fraud of the 2020 Presidential
Election,” he said in a statement
Monday, adding: “The Left talks
about election security but they do
not practice what they preach be-
cause they are afraid of what
might be found.”
Advisers say he voraciously
watches any television coverage
Election comes amid
dissatisfaction with its
climate change strategy
ergy Department official Alexan-
der Karsner had won a majority
of votes from shareholders.
Karsner placed 11th in a race
for 12 board seats, about 1.2 per-
centage points ahead of two of
ExxonMobil’s nominees.
Though the new board mem-
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he can find of the Arizona recount
and reads “everything he can get
his hands on” about the audits,
according to one person who
speaks to Trump frequently. And
he has made supporting his claims
of a stolen election — or at least
remaining silent about them — a
litmus test of sorts as he decides
whom to endorse for state and
federal contests in 2022 and 2024.
Talk by Trump and his support-
ers of overturning the election was
revived in late April when an audit
of the results in Arizona’s largest
county ordered by the Republican
state Senate began.
The legislature used a subpoe-
na to seize county ballots and vot-
ing machines, undertaking the re-
count and review of the 2020 vote
in Maricopa County over the ob-
jections of the majority-Republi-
can county board of supervisors.
The audit is being led by a Florida
firm called Cyber Ninjas, whose
chief executive has echoed claims
that the election was stolen. The
shifting and ill-explained meth-
ods of the audit have been criti-
cized by Maricopa County officials
and elections experts as sloppy
and unreliable.
Arizona Senate President Kar-
en Fann (R) has repeatedly said
that the goal of the recount is not
to undo Biden’s narrow win in the
state but instead to spot ways to
improve the state’s election laws.
Audit officials said Wednesday
that as of Tuesday, they had fin-
ished a hand recount of more than
1.2 million of Maricopa County’s
nearly 2.1 million ballots and that
bers will be in a minority, their
presence could alter the tone of
the oil giant’s board meetings,
where members are traditionally
picked by the chief executive.
And the three-person faction,
which has vast industry experi-
ence, could persuade the other
board members to reconsider
key positions.
“It’s a watershed event when
an activist investor takes three
seats on the board of such a
major company, and with the
energy transition front and cen-
ter in the bid to replace several
they will would the rest by the end
of June. But it is not clear when
Cyber Ninjas will report its find-
ings.
Trump’s fixation with the proc-
ess has led his supporters to em-
brace the notion that the Arizona
audit could be a “first domino” to
fall in a process of putting Trump
back into the White House, and his
allies have been pushing for Arizo-
na-style audits in other communi-
ties.
Trump supporters have pushed
for audits in jurisdictions around
the country, including in multiple
counties in Michigan. A state
judge in Georgia late last month
agreed to grant a group of local
voters access to 147,000 mail-in
ballots from Fulton County for
review, and the Republican speak-
er of the Wisconsin state assembly
said late last month that he was
hiring a group of former law en-
forcement officials to conduct a
probe of the 2020 election in his
state.
On Wednesday, people involved
with the Maricopa County audit
hosted three GOP Pennsylvania
state lawmakers who have been
seeking an audit in their state. The
group met with Arizona lawmak-
ers and then toured the recount
underway at the Arizona Veterans
Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix.
Among the visitors was Mastri-
ano, who was interviewed at the
coliseum by Bobb, the OAN host.
The Pennsylvania lawmaker also
recently met with the former pres-
ident at Trump Tower to talk about
the prospect of launching a simi-
board members, it seems inevi-
table that Exxon will be rethink-
ing its climate strategy,” said
Jason Bordoff, founding director
of the Center on Global Energy
Policy at Columbia University.
“In this case, some actions to
address shareholder concerns
with financial performance, like
selling off certain assets, may
also align with the demands of
climate-focused shareholders.”
At the May 26 annual meeting,
ExxonMobil announced that two
of Engine No. 1’s other nominees,
Gregory J. Goff, a longtime oil
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lar audit in his state, according to
people familiar with the discus-
sion.
Mastriano did not respond to a
request for comment.
Some Trump advisers fret that
such figures have been encourag-
ing the former president to believe
that the audits could lead to a
reversal of the election results.
Trump aides say he has spoken
occasionally to Bobb, a lawyer who
hosts a weekly show on OAN, who
has both covered the Arizona au-
dit for the network and privately
raised money to support it.
Reached by phone Wednesday,
Bobb declined to comment. OAN
did not respond to requests for
comment.
Last year, she volunteered to
assist the Trump campaign’s legal
team, working with lawyer Ru-
dolph W. Giuliani on post-election
legal challenges. In April, she and
OAN anchor Chanel Rion founded
a fundraising group called Voices
and Votes to solicit donations for
the audit and other “election in-
tegrity” efforts. On Twitter, Bobb
announced within days that the
group had met an initial goal of
$250,000 to support the audit and
would continue to raise funds for
the cause.
In one recent OAN segment,
Bobb announced an initiative by
her private fundraising group to
take state senators from other
states to Arizona to view the audit
site. She then urged viewers to
donate to her group if they wanted
“to support more states getting a
closer look at the Arizona audit to
potentially replicate it in their
own states.”
She told The Washington Post
in April that no Trump staffer or
lawyer was involved with her ef-
fort to raise money for the Arizona
project and that neither was OAN.
“This is an issue that the Ameri-
can public cares a lot about, so it’s
not surprising that people want to
help,” she said in an email then.
Advisers said that Trump also
speaks to Lindell, who produced a
video claiming the election was
stolen that has been widely em-
braced by Trump’s supporters.
The MyPillow CEO is hosting an
event in Wisconsin June 12 where
Trump, billed as the “REAL” presi-
dent, is expected to appear via
Jumbotron, according to a promo-
tional flier. Lindell did not re-
spond to requests for comment. In
an interview this year, he said that
too many of Trump’s White House
and campaign advisers were unin-
terested in trying to expose elec-
tion fraud.
Kelli Ward, the Arizona GOP
chairwoman, also has given
refining executive, and Kaisa
Hietala, who ran a biofuels pro-
gram at a Finnish oil refiner, had
won spots on the board.
Anders Runevad, a former ex-
ecutive at Vestas Wind Systems,
fell short.
Many analysts have interpret-
ed the results of the shareholder
vote as a condemnation of
ExxonMobil chief executive Dar-
ren Woods. Woods was reelected
to the board after placing eighth
in the voting, though his margin
of victory was wide.
Three of the people Exxon-
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Trump updates on the Arizona
audit, according to people famil-
iar with their conversations. She
did not respond to requests for
comment.
In recent weeks, Trump has
grown most interested in the po-
tential for an election audit in
Fulton County, Ga., still stung by
losing a state where he had been
favored to win, according to peo-
ple familiar with his views.
No audit is underway in Fulton
County. After the state judge or-
dered the county to allow local
voters to inspect mail-in ballots
there, the county moved to dis-
miss the case, and a meeting to
discuss the logistics of the inspec-
tion was canceled.
Almost unanimously, the for-
mer president’s 2020 campaign
advisers said they view his obses-
sion with the last election as a
waste of time, knowing that the
law does not allow for Biden’s win
to be overturned.
But Trump regularly moves the
topic back to the election when
advisers try to focus on other is-
sues, according to three people
who have spoken with him recent-
ly.
“Everyone is talking about Ari-
zona,” he said to an adviser who
tried to broach 2022 endorse-
ments.
In a Palm Beach speech to do-
nors this spring, he ticked through
each state and explained his false
theories that the election was sto-
len from him, according to a re-
cording of the event obtained by
The Post. He even cited local elec-
tion officials and specific counties
in each state and their totals com-
pared to the 2016 election.
For his appearance this week-
end before the state Republican
Party in North Carolina, advisers
are writing a speech that focuses
more on Biden and the former
president’s policies, but they are
bracing for Trump to go off on a
tangent about the election.
“He’s going to spray friendly fire
on other Republicans and settle
scores under the auspices of en-
dorsing people in Republican pri-
maries for 2022,” said GOP donor
Dan Eberhart, a onetime Trump
backer who has been critical of his
attacks on the election. “This
back-to-the-future style is putting
the Republican Party in a 2020
straitjacket, preventing it from
learning from our 2020 losses and
adapting to the most recent voter
concerns.”
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Amy Gardner contributed to this
report.
Mobil nominated to the board
were defeated.
“Shareholders have spoken
and the message is clear. It’s time
for board accountability,” said
Anne Simpson, the managing
investment director for board
governance and sustainability at
the California state pension
fund. “We need climate-compe-
tent directors willing and able to
drive the energy transition. The
votes at Exxon mark a new era in
financial markets, with investors
behaving like owners.”
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Harris’s biggest role yet: Preserve, boost voting rights

BY C LEVE R . W OOTSON J R.,
M IKE D E B ONIS
AND S EAN S ULLIVAN
In early May, Vice President
Harris sat down with members of
several civil rights groups, includ-
ing the NAACP Legal Defense and
Educational Fund and the Lead-
ership Conference on Civil and
Human Rights, to discuss what
they saw as an assault on the right
to vote in America. The meeting
came amid rumblings by many in
the civil rights community that
Biden and his administration
weren’t doing enough to thwart
what activists fear could become
the greatest disenfranchisement
since Reconstruction.
According to an aide who
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity to discuss internal delib-
erations, Harris emerged from
that meeting with a request for
Biden: Let me spearhead the ad-
ministration’s battle against Re-
publican voting restrictions.
Now nearly a month later, dur-
ing an event marking the centen-
nial of the Tulsa race massacre,
Biden formally announced Har-
ris’s new portfolio on voting
rights — placing the vice presi-
dent squarely in the middle of a
pitched partisan battle being
fought at multiple levels of gov-
ernment.
“Every American has a right to
have their voice heard at the
ballot box, and no American
should be kept from voting early,
voting by mail, or voting at all,”
Harris said in a statement after
Biden’s announcement. “Our de-
mocracy is strongest when every-
one participates, and it is weaker
when people are left out.”
The assignment is the weighti-
est that Harris has undertaken so
far in her groundbreaking vice
presidency, on an issue that Dem-
ocrats feel is existential and that
the vice president has called “the
work of democracy.” Biden decid-
ed that Harris would be an invalu-
able point person on an issue with
implications for years to come,
one White House official said.
But there are enduring ques-
tions about what can be done to
advance an issue that has stagnat-
ed in the Senate and amid the
threat of a Republican-led filibus-
ter. At the same time, Harris is
undertaking the difficult task of
addressing the root causes of
migration — another polarizing
challenge with no easy policy
solution. Harris leaves for Guate-
mala and Mexico on Sunday, her
first international trip since the
inauguration.
Harris’s ability to address ac-
cess to the ballot box will prob-
ably influence how voters judge
the tenure of the first female vice
president and the first person of
Black and Asian descent to hold
the office. Harris, 56, is widely
viewed as a potential heir appar-
ent to Biden and a future leader of
the Democratic Party.
Though Harris struggled to de-
fine herself during her failed
presidential bid, addressing the
assault on voting rights presents
an opportunity to make inroads
with civil rights leaders, state and
local activists, lawmakers and
corporate leaders ahead of what
many see in the party as an
inevitable future run for presi-
dent.
But Harris will also have to
manage expectations, as a per-
ceived lack of accomplishment
could stoke disappointment in
the party and diminish her stand-
ing.
The political consequences
don’t stop with Harris: A poten-
tially protracted battle over vot-
ing rights could be an issue that
motivates voters in the 2022 mid-
term elections and beyond. Just
as with the border, changing vot-
ing laws have evoked strong feel-
ings in the Democratic base, with
many liberal activists long argu-
ing that party leaders have not
done enough to help the immi-
grants and people of color who
have been hit hardest by inaction.
Harris will lobby her former
Senate colleagues to push
through two voting rights bills
now stalled in the Senate, accord-
ing to three White House aides
who requested anonymity to dis-
cuss internal deliberations. She
will also travel around the coun-
try in coming weeks and meet
with activists fighting for greater
voting access while encouraging
corporations, celebrities and cul-
tural figures to exert whatever
influence they have to defeat GOP
voting restrictions.
Since January, Republicans
have used former president Don-
ald Trump’s unfounded claims of
a stolen election to justify tighter
restrictions on voting. Republi-
Vice President Harris is set to lobby senators to push through two stalled voting rights bills, and she
will travel around the country to meet with activists who are fighting for greater voting access.
can-led legislatures in 14 states
have passed more than 250 laws
that would make it harder to vote.
Among other things, the pro-
posed measures in many states
would limit mail and early in-per-
son voting, enact stricter identifi-
cation requirements and limit the
hours polling places can be open.
Experts say that the legislation
would have an outsize effect on
minority voters who are more
likely to cast ballots for Demo-
crats.
On Sunday, Democrats in Texas
thwarted a state Senate bill that
critics say would hinder the vot-
ing rights of Black people and
other minorities, particularly
those in under-resourced com-
munities.
Georgia was the first state to
ratify voting restrictions, and for
the White House, the ensuing
outcry was instructional, an aide
said. Major League Baseball opt-
ed to move its All-Star Game out
of Atlanta. Leaders at Atlanta-
based Delta Air Lines and Coca-
Cola spoke out against the law,
and a group of Black religious
leaders called for a boycott of
Home Depot for not speaking out
more forcefully. Professional ath-
letes and actors spoke out in a
state that has sought to become a
leading destination in the world
for film and television produc-
tion.
At the federal level, lawmakers
have reached a stalemate on two
voting rights bills, including one
that bears the name of the late
congressman and civil rights icon
John Lewis.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, a promi-
nent civil rights figure, said he
hopes Harris uses her new assign-
ment to promote voting rights in
a public way.
“I think she’s the perfect per-
son because she represents two
elements of people that have had
voting rights infringed upon:
women and Blacks,” Sharpton
said. “If she is the face of voting
rights, and of voting bills being
passed, her very presence is rep-
resentative of the possibilities of
having fair voting.”
He added, “I think she would
be a very effective symbol,” in
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addition to working with sena-
tors. “She brings symbol and sub-
stance to the fight.”
Former Democratic National
Committee chair Donna Brazile,
an ally of both Harris and Biden,
said she thinks giving Harris the
assignment will ensure that the
battle over voting rights will be
noticed by many Americans.
“Putting this in her portfolio
will mean this issue will receive a
lot of attention,” Brazile said.
Brazile said she felt that the
Memorial Day holiday weekend,
when the high-profile fight over
voting laws in Texas erupted, was
a significant moment for the way
the administration thought about
the issue.
Still, Harris will be hard-
pressed to re-create the dealmak-
er role that Biden often played in
the Obama administration.
While Harris worked with Re-
publicans on some discrete issues
— such as joining with Sen. Tim
Scott (S.C.) to advance a landmark
anti-lynching bill and serving on
the relatively apolitical Senate
Intelligence Committee — her
overall record was that of a com-
mitted Democrat. She embraced
a liberal profile during her four
years representing California in
the Senate and did not make
outreach across the aisle a center-
piece of her legislative career.
An index of bipartisanship
compiled by the Lugar Center and
Georgetown University rated
Harris 94th of 100 senators in her
last two years in Congress. A
separate report card complied by
GovTrack found that Harris
joined fewer bipartisan bills than
most other Senate Democrats.
And her breakout public mo-
ments as a senator tended to
come from the dais of the famous-
ly partisan Judiciary and Home-
land Security committees, where
she grilled Trump nominees.
As vice president, Biden served
as an emissary to Republicans
who were wary of negotiating
directly with President Barack
Obama, who was a politically
toxic figure to the GOP base.
“Biden was a classic old-school
pol — maybe one of the last of the
breed,” former House Speaker
John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) put it
in his recent memoir.
Most famously, Biden struck an
accord with Sen. Mitch McCon-
nell (Ky.), the GOP leader, to
resolve the “fiscal cliff” show-
down on New Year’s Eve 2012 that
threatened to deliver higher taxes
for most Americans and curtail
some unemployment payments.
As president, Biden has re-
tained the reputation of biparti-
sanship built over his 36 years in
the Senate, and he has taken steps
to maintain that even as he pur-
sues an unabashedly liberal agen-
da.
Still, on Tuesday, he spoke of
the difficulty of passing sweeping
reforms in his equity agenda,
including alluding to two Demo-
crats — Sens. Joe Manchin III of
West Virginia and Kyrsten Sine-
ma of Arizona — who threaten to
torpedo his agenda.
“I hear all the folks on TV
saying, ‘Why didn’t Biden get this
done?’ ” he said. “Because Biden
only has a majority of effectively
four votes in the House and two in
the Senate, with two members of
the Senate who vote more with
my Republican friends.”
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Here’s where GOP lawmakers have

passed new voting restrictions
BY E LISE V IEBECK
Depending on where you live, the way you vote
could change significantly ahead of the 2022 mid-
term elections.
Republican state legislators have introduced hun-
dreds of bills that would tighten access to voting
around the country, many of them echoing then-
President Donald Trump’s false claims that loose
election laws allowed fraud to taint the 2020 White
House race.
The groundswell began early this year with the
introduction of 253 bills proposing voting restric-
tions across 43 states as of Feb. 19, according to the
nonpartisan Brennan Center for Justice. That num-
ber rose to at least 389 bills in 48 states as of May 14,
the Brennan Center reported Friday.
While Texas Democrats on Sunday blocked an
effort in their state to pass what would have been one
of the most stringent new voting measures in the
country, 14 states have enacted laws this year that
tighten the rules around casting ballots.
Many of the bills target mail voting and other
policies that helped safeguard the franchise during
the coronavirus pandemic and helped produce the
highest turnout among American voters in more
than a century. Supporters of Trump claim without
evidence that unless subject to strict limits, mail
ballots open the door to widespread fraud. Some of
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the bills also seek to curtail early voting, impose
restrictions on voter registration efforts, limit the
power of local officials to oversee elections and stop
private donors from supplementing their operation-
al budgets.
Some Democratic-controlled states have moved in
the other direction, approving measures to formalize
more permissive voting policies from 2020, comple-
menting proposed federal legislation to protect
voting rights with a set of national standards. But
with roughly half of all state governments under
Republican control — and momentum for new
voting restrictions throughout the GOP — the impact
on tens of millions of voters could be dramatic.
As of mid-May, 14 states had enacted 22 laws with
provisions that create new hurdles to vote, and
another 61 such bills were still advancing in 18 states,
according to the Brennan Center. Arkansas and
Montana lead the country in fresh voting restric-
KY tions, with four new laws enacted each. Both im-
posed or tightened identification requirements for
in-person voting and added restrictions for assisting
voters in returning mail ballots.
FL elise.viebeck@washpost.com
Amy Gardner and Peter W. Stevenson contributed to this
report.
Data sources: Turnout of voting-eligible population from
the United States Election Project. Share of vote by
method from an MIT Election Data + Science Lab poll of
registered voters, with samples sizes of 1,000 respondents
in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa and Michigan, and 200
respondents in New Hampshire and Texas. Respondents
answering “I don’t know” not included. Margins of victory
in the 2020 presidential election from Dave Leip’s Atlas of
U.S. Elections. State party control, which considers party
control of both the legislature and governorship, from the
National Conference of State Legislatures.

Here are some of the most significant new state voting restrictions
Most of the new voting laws impose limits on mail and early voting. Several have drawn legal challenges from civil rights groups.

Arizona Florida Georgia Iowa

ENACTED MAY 11 ENACTED MAY 6 ENACTED MARCH 25 ENACTED MARCH 8

Party control: Republican 2020 margin: Biden +0.3 Party control: Republican 2020 margin: Trump +3.4 Party control: Republican 2020 margin: Biden +0.2 Party control: Republican 2020 margin: Trump +8.2

Turnout Mail/absentee Early in-person Turnout Mail/absentee Early in-person Turnout Mail/absentee Early in-person Turnout Mail/absentee Early in-person
65% 76% 11% 71% 48% 34% 68% 31% 45% 73% 47% 17%
Other
states
50% 80% 0% 100% 0% 100% 50% 80% 0% 100% 0% 100% 50% 80% 0% 100% 0% 100% 50% 80% 0% 100% 0% 100%

Republicans in Arizona have proposed a
number of stand-alone bills that take on
specific aspects of the voting process. The
first to pass changed the state’s popular
Permanent Early Voting List, which
determines who receives mail ballots each
election cycle. Gov. Doug Ducey (R) signed it
into law May 11. The new rules mean voters
who do not cast a ballot at least once every
two years will have to respond to a
government notice to avoid being removed
from the list and to continue getting a ballot in
the mail.
After its 2020 elections ran smoothly, Florida
nonetheless passed far-reaching voting
restrictions with the encouragement of
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a close ally of
Trump. A state law he signed May 6 institutes
a number of changes, including requiring
voters to renew their mail voting application
every two years and to submit a form of
identification. With some exceptions, voters’
access to drop boxes for returning mail ballots
will be limited to early voting hours, a
maximum of 12 hours per day. If any drop box
is found to be accessible outside of these
hours, the local supervisor of elections could
be subject to a civil penalty of $25,000.
Voters will be permitted to drop off only two
ballots for nonfamily members. The law gives
partisan election observers more access to
the ballot counting process. It also prevents
behavior undertaken with the “intent” of
influencing a voter, so the law is likely to bar
efforts to provide food and water to people
waiting in line to cast in-person ballots.
Donations to election budgets from private
individuals are also not allowed.
Combining elements from more than a dozen Iowa was among the first states to approve an
other bills, Georgia’s new voting law signed by omnibus voting restriction bill, signed into law
Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on March 25 imposes a in early March by Gov. Kim Reynolds (R). As in
number of restrictions on voting in the state, Georgia, the new law shortens the application
earning it comparisons to the Jim Crow laws period for mail ballots and bars election
that effectively blocked Black men and officials from proactively sending application
women from voting in the American South. forms to voters. County auditors can face
Specifically, the rules prevent proactively criminal charges if they do not follow certain
sending mail ballot applications to voters, procedures in purging voter rolls. The early
require voters to submit identification with voting period — and voting hours on Election
their application to be approved and shorten Day — are shorter. Local officials’ discretion in
the time frame for the application process to placing drop boxes is curtailed.
take place. Like several other states, Georgia
added new restrictions on the use of mail
ballot drop boxes and prohibited providing
food or water to people waiting in line to vote
in person. Legislators also stripped certain
powers from the secretary of state, removing
that official as chair of the State Election
Board and allowing the General Assembly to
select his or her replacement.
The law takes other steps to expand access to
voting, including guaranteeing a minimum
number of ballot drop boxes in each county
and providing more resources for localities to
address long lines for in-person voting.

Here’s what to watch in coming weeks

As more legislatures wrap up their work for the year, here are a few states that could still take action.

Arizona Michigan New Hampshire Texas

Party control: Republican 2020 margin: Biden +0.3 Party control: Split 2020 margin: Biden +2.8 Party control: Republican 2020 margin: Biden +7.4 Party control: Republican 2020 margin: Trump +5.6

Turnout Mail/absentee Early in-person Turnout Mail/absentee Early in-person Turnout Mail/absentee Early in-person Turnout Mail/absentee Early in-person
65% 76% 11% 73% 57% 7% 75% 34% 3% 60% 11% 74%
Other
states
50% 80% 0% 100% 0% 100% 50% 80% 0% 100% 0% 100% 50% 80% 0% 100% 0% 100% 50% 80% 0% 100% 0% 100%

A number of additional voting restrictions
could be enacted in Arizona, where baseless
claims of voting irregularities have led to a
widely criticized audit of the 2020 election in
Maricopa County. Proposals have included
requiring voters to submit a form of
identification with their application to vote
early by mail and setting a postmark deadline
of the Thursday before Election Day for mail
ballots to be considered valid. Another
measure advancing through the legislature
would strip certain powers from Secretary of
State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat.
A stream of proposals have been introduced
in Michigan, including measures placing limits
on the use of ballot drop boxes, prohibiting
officials from proactively sending mail ballot
application forms to voters, adding new photo-
ID requirements and empowering partisan
election challengers. While Democratic Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer could veto the bills,
Republicans have suggested they may use an
obscure voter-petition process to give the
GOP-run legislature the final say.
Several proposed voting restrictions are under
consideration in New Hampshire, including
bills that would ease the removal of voters
from the rolls, require additional identification
information from voters throughout the
process of casting a ballot and eliminate
same-day voter registration. One amendment
seeks to blunt the impact of the leading
federal bill to protect voting rights, should it
pass.
One of the most restrictive voting bills in the
country was defeated — at least temporarily —
in Texas on May 30, when a Democratic
walkout in the state House caused the
chamber to miss the deadline for passage.
But Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced he will
add the bill to the agenda for a special
legislative session he plans to call later in the
year, leaving voting rights advocates on high
alert.
The Republican measure would have made it
harder to vote by mail, empowered partisan
poll watchers and imposed stiff penalties on
election administrators. Comparing the
legislation to Jim Crow laws, critics said it
would disproportionately affect people of
color. The bill prohibited drive-up voting and
other methods used widely by Black and
Latino voters in Houston to cast ballots during
the coronavirus pandemic.
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Democrats intensify their e≠orts to sway centrist senator

MANCHIN FROM A1
move that would force Manchin
to pick a side in a fight that has
taken on new urgency in recent
weeks.
Even some of Manchin’s Dem-
ocratic colleagues are beginning
to prod him more aggressively to
join their cause, while activists
and civil rights leaders are loudly
decrying his hesitation.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said
Wednesday that he and other
civil rights leaders plan to meet
with Manchin next week to talk
about the importance of support-
ing Democrats’ voting legisla-
tion. “The idea there is not to
attack Manchin but to appeal to
him,” said Sharpton. He said
Derrick Johnson, president of the
NAACP, and Marc Morial, presi-
dent of the National Urban
League, are also expected at the
Tuesday meeting.
The obstacle Manchin poses to
his party’s voting rights effort is
twofold: He is also one of several
Democrats who oppose changing
Senate rules to advance legisla-
tion with a simple majority rath-
er than a 60-vote supermajority.
While Manchin is not alone in his
party in opposing the elimina-
tion of the filibuster, he has
emerged as one of its most prom-
inent defenders, which has made
him a lightning rod for frustrated
Democrats in the early months of
Biden’s presidency.
In April, Manchin wrote in a
Washington Post op-ed that
“There is no circumstance in
which I will vote to eliminate or
weaken the filibuster.” Last
month, he told reporters that
“I’m adamantly opposed to divid-
ing our country any further” and
said that “a major policy change
such as [the voting bill that] goes
down on partisan lines would be
very detrimental and, I think,
very harmful to our country.”
Some fear that his position will
enable Republicans to block
Democratic plans to address cli-
mate change, gun violence and
immigration, even though his
party controls the White House
and Congress. When it comes to
voting laws, Manchin has struck
the most sensitive nerve.
Democrats increasingly see an
existential threat from Republi-
can-led state governments deter-
mined to place new limits on
voting, which critics say would
disproportionately affect voters
of color, a core part of the Demo-
cratic coalition. One Democratic
congressional aide, who like oth-
ers spoke on the condition of
anonymity to be candid, said
“panic” is the right word to
describe the mood in the party.
The GOP moves, which include
scaling back the use of ballot
drop boxes, limiting access to
mail ballots and creating new
identification requirements,
threaten to make it harder for
Democrats to keep their congres-
sional majorities in the midterms
and hold the White House in
2024.
Florida, Georgia and Arizona,
all battleground states with po-
tentially competitive Senate rac-
es, have enacted new Republican
voting laws this year, while a
Republican attempt to do so in
Texas was thwarted by Demo-
cratic state legislators over the
weekend. As former president
Donald Trump continues to
claim the 2020 election was
tainted by fraud despite no evi-
dence to back his assertion, Re-
publicans say they are safeguard-
ing future votes. Many Demo-
crats argue the Republican strat-
egy is a threat to democracy.
Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, seen May 27 on Capitol Hill, is the only Democrat in the chamber who has not co-sponsored the
For the People Act, a legislative catchall for numerous liberal priorities on voting rights, government ethics and campaign finance.
“This sacred right is under
assault with incredible intensity
like I’ve never seen,” Biden said
Tuesday in Tulsa, where he
marked the 100th anniversary of
a massacre of Black residents.
“It’s completely un-American.”
Sharpton, who attended the
speech, said he briefly spoke with
Biden there, reiterating to the
president that voting rights is a
crucial priority. “He said, ‘I un-
derstand that, Al.’ And he says,
‘I’m doing what I can, and I
understand what y’all want to
do,’ ” recalled Sharpton of Biden’s
response. He said Biden commit-
ted to discussing the topic more
in an upcoming meeting with
civil rights leaders that organiz-
ers are seeking to schedule.
Biden has come under growing
pressure from Democrats de-
manding that he use the powers
of his office to combat the Repub-
lican strategy.
“That is a problem with the
Democratic Party. What you see
with Republicans — they stick
together no matter what,” said
the Rev. William J. Barber II, a
civil rights leader who attended
Biden’s speech in Tulsa. “They
need to let Manchin understand
we elected Joe Biden — not Joe
Manchin — to be president.”
White House officials have ar-
gued that Biden has already
made strides, pointing to an
executive order he signed in
March to expand voting access.
But that hasn’t stopped Republi-
cans from moving swiftly to
change the laws in key states. The
only real answer, in the eyes of
many Democrats, is federal legis-
lation.
“This legislation is the ball-
game,” said Sen. Richard Blu-
menthal (D-Conn.), speaking of
the For the People Act, the mar-
quee Democratic voting bill that
Schumer vowed to bring to the
Senate floor this month. “If we
want any fair strike zone or
distance between the bases,
we’ve got to pass this.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-
Minn.), who has helped spear-
head the For the People Act in the
Senate, accused Republicans of
waging a “continuing insurrec-
tion” after their 2020 electoral
losses. She said colleagues such
as Sens. Raphael G. Warnock
(D-Ga.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and
Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) have
spoken up in “heartfelt caucus
meetings” about concerns over
new laws or proposals in their
states. Klobuchar said she has
had discussions with Manchin,
including about changes she pur-
sued in the legislation to ease
concerns of the West Virginia
secretary of state. “He’s well
aware of them,” said Klobuchar.
With the bill headed to the Sen-
ate floor, she added, “to me, it’s a
jump ball.”
In a nod to the anxieties in his
party and the shrinking window
for passing major legislation be-
fore lawmakers turn their atten-
tion to the midterm elections
next year, Biden said Tuesday
that “June should be a month of
action on Capitol Hill” as he
offered a blunt defense for the
inaction that plagued his earliest
months in office.
“I hear all the folks on TV
saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get
this done?’ Well, because Biden
only has a majority of effectively
four votes in the House and a tie
in the Senate, with two members
of the Senate who vote more with
my Republican friends,” he said.
“But we’re not giving up.”
Although Manchin and Sen.
Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) stand out
in the Democratic caucus for
both their willingness to work
with the other side and their
support for the filibuster, both
vote mostly with the party. But
the point of Biden’s remark was
clear, sending a sharp message
about his willingness to call out
even some of his allies.
White House press secretary
Jen Psaki sought to defuse ten-
sions on Wednesday, saying that
Biden was not criticizing the two
Democrats and arguing that
“sometimes, these conversations
can be oversimplified.” She add-
ed, “I don’t think he was intend-
ing to convey anything other
than a little bit of commentary on
TV punditry.”
Representatives for Manchin
and Sinema declined to com-
ment. Unlike Manchin, Sinema is
a co-sponsor of the For the People
Act, though she does not support
overturning the filibuster to pass
it.
While both of their positions
stand as huge barriers to passing
the bill, which is a catchall for
numerous liberal priorities on
voting rights, government ethics
and campaign finance, Man-
chin’s unwillingness to embrace
the bill on its merits is especially
alarming to Democrats.
Some of the provisions would
set minimum standards for early
voting and vote-by-mail that
could override some of the state
Republican voting laws. Others
would force transparency for
“dark money” donations to politi-
cally active nonprofit groups.
Manchin has expressed sup-
port for these proposals, while
remaining silent on other provi-
sions, such as mandating non-
partisan redistricting commis-
sions and establishing a public
financing system for congres-
sional campaigns.
Manchin has said his overrid-
ing concern is a lack of bipartisan
support for the measure. Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McCon-
nell (R-Ky.) and his colleagues
have united in opposition to any
federal attempt to dictate state
election laws.
With the Senate split 50-50
between Democrats and Republi-
cans, Manchin and Sinema have
emerged as two of the most
influential figures in govern-
ment. If Biden and Schumer lose
the support of even one of them
on any given vote, they must find
at least one Republican to join
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them — an almost impossible
task given the strong partisan
divisions that have come to de-
fine governance.
Manchin in particular has em-
braced his powerful status, often
sending warning shots to Demo-
crats seeking to challenge him to
fall in line. As a Democratic
officeholder from a conservative
state where Trump twice won
handily, Manchin is eager to
showcase any distance from par-
ty leadership.
Biden announced Tuesday that
he has tapped Vice President
Harris, who has clashed with
Manchin, to tackle voting rights.
After Harris went on a West
Virginia news station to pitch
Biden’s pandemic relief bill this
year, Manchin said he was flab-
bergasted. “I couldn’t believe it,”
he said on WSAZ-TV. “No one
called me.”
Now, Harris and Manchin will
be two of the most closely
watched Democrats on voting
rights. Harris issued a statement
saying she planned to work with
“voting rights organizations,
community organizations, and
the private sector.” She added,
“we will also work with members
of Congress.”
With their majority dependent
on complete unity and Harris’s
tiebreaking vote — and Manchin
and Sinema clear about their
wariness about changing Senate
rules — Schumer and other Dem-
ocrats formulated a strategy
aimed at proving to the holdouts
that Republican intransigence
will always dash their hopes of
bipartisanship.
But it wasn’t until Friday that
Republicans actually blocked a
Democratic bill — when efforts to
close debate and vote on creating
a bipartisan commission to in-
vestigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insur-
rection failed, 54 to 35. Schumer
announced his intention to move
forward with the voting bill just
moments after the vote.
Manchin told reporters after
the commission vote that he was
“very, very frustrated” and that
the Republican opposition was
“truly disheartening.”
But he showed no sign that he
was willing to budge on the
filibuster, saying he was “not
ready to destroy our govern-
ment” and that Democrats “have
to have faith there’s 10 good
people” in the GOP ranks willing
to join them on legislation.
As the only Democratic sena-
tor who has opposed moving
forward with the substance of the
For the People Act, arguing that
the bill as written is “too darn
broad” and that it would be a
mistake to proceed with voting
legislation without bipartisan
support, Manchin has drawn
concerns from his own col-
leagues behind closed doors.
This dynamic was on display
last week in a closed Senate
Democratic Caucus meeting, ac-
cording to multiple attendees.
The party’s top elections lawyer,
Marc Elias, briefed members on
the scope and scale of the state-
level GOP efforts underway, and
several senators pleaded for ac-
tion as Manchin listened. None
mentioned the West Virginian by
name, the attendees said, but one
said the discussion was definitely
directed at Manchin.
Democrats are hoping that
Schumer’s decision to bring the
measure to the floor for a vote
could force Manchin off his posi-
tion — or at least demonstrate
that Republicans are unwilling to
even debate the issue. Failing to
reach even 50 votes would be an
embarrassing setback for Demo-
crats, who have described the
present threat to voting rights
and democracy in increasingly
stark terms. But that possibility
continues to loom over Schu-
mer’s gambit.
Some Democrats are hopeful
Manchin will come around, given
his track record. Despite his well-
tended reputation as a centrist
maverick, Manchin to date has
generally been a team player for
Democrats. After airing some
misgivings about the scope of
Biden’s $2 trillion pandemic re-
lief package and forcing some
rollbacks to unemployment ben-
efits, for example, he voted for
the bill. No Republican in the
House or Senate supported it.
Though Manchin derailed
Biden’s first nominee for budget
director, Neera Tanden, he has
supported several other contro-
versial administration nominees,
such as Interior Secretary Deb
Haaland, Pentagon official Colin
Kahl and two senior Justice De-
partment officials, Vanita Gupta
and Kristen Clarke.
By allowing pressure for action
to build over time, Schumer has
in effect sought to run a playbook
used by his predecessor as Demo-
cratic Senate leader, Harry M.
Reid of Nevada. When Reid led
the 2013 effort to invoke the
“nuclear option” and change Sen-
ate rules to allow for the confir-
mation of most presidential nom-
inees on a simple majority vote,
that effort took shape over the
course of months, with Reid
bringing up some judicial nomi-
nees repeatedly to demonstrate a
GOP blockade and unify his cau-
cus.
In the end, however, his caucus
was not completely unified.
Three Democrats voted to keep
the 60-vote threshold for nomi-
nees; one of them was Manchin.
sean.sullivan@washpost.com
mike.debonis@washpost.com
John Wagner contributed to this
report.

Observers of Ariz. vote audit document security breaches, prohibited items

BY F ELICIA S ONMEZ AND
R OSALIND S . H ELDERMAN
Observers of Arizona’s Repub-
lican-led recount have found se-
curity gates left open, confiden-
tial manuals left unattended and
quality-control measures disre-
garded, according to the Arizona
secretary of state’s office.
In one instance, a software
update caused so many errors
that the company handling the
recount abandoned the update
and went back to the old software.
In other instances, prohibited
items including cellphones and
pens with black or blue ink were
allowed onto the counting floor.
And in an alleged incident last
week, audit spokesman and for-
mer state Republican Party chair-
man Randy Pullen told an observ-
er that the pink T-shirt the ob-
server was required to wear while
watching the proceedings made
him “look like a transgender,”
according to the Arizona secre-
tary of state’s office.
Arizona Secretary of State Ka-
tie Hobbs (D) and election secu-
rity experts have long criticized
the audit as error-riddled. Now,
Hobbs’s office is documenting the
alleged infractions online.
“The effort to hand-count the
2.1 million ballots cast in Marico-
pa County during the 2020 Presi-
dential Election resumed on
May 24, after a week-long pause,”
Hobbs’s office said in a statement
posted on the new webpage,
which was launched Tuesday.
“Observers on behalf of the Ari-
zona Secretary of State’s Office
continued to note problematic
practices, changing policies, and
security threats that have
plagued this exercise from the
start.”
The alleged infractions — all of
which took place within the past
week and a half — are only the
latest debacle in the partisan au-
dit, which was ordered by the
GOP-led state Senate despite the
fact that county officials, as well
as state and federal judges, found
no merit in claims that the vote
was tainted by fraud or other
problems.
President Biden narrowly won
Arizona, the first time a Democrat
captured the traditionally GOP
state since Bill Clinton in 1996.
Former Arizona secretary of
state Ken Bennett (R), who is also
acting as a spokesman for the
their shirts every day.”
The audit’s Twitter account,
@ArizonaAudit, tweeted last
month that Hobbs’s previous alle-
gations, made in a six-page letter,
were “baseless claimes [sic].”
Republicans hired a Florida-
based private contractor called
Cyber Ninjas, whose chief execu-
tive has echoed former president
Donald Trump’s false allegations
of fraud, to handle the recount.
The company has been criti-
cized for running an opaque proc-
ess and failing to follow state
rules for elections and recounts.
Its audit has been embraced by
Trump and his allies as the key to
overturning his election loss, and
has spawned a wave of unfound-
MATT YORK/ASSOCIATED PRESS ed theories about how the Mari-
Contractors in Phoenix last month examine 2020 ballots. The copa County vote could have been
Arizona secretary of state has reported on problems with the effort. rigged.
Fueling the speculation have
audit, said he was not immedi- “It interesting that he would been the unorthodox practices of
ately able to comment. say that,” Pullen said, referring to the contractors, who have been
Pullen told The Washington the unnamed observer. “Volun- conducting physical examina-
Post in a text message that the teers have red shirts, yellow tions of the ballots, including
allegation about his remarks on shirts, green shirts, blue shirts, inspecting their weight and thick-
the observer’s T-shirt was “not orange shirts and white shirts on ness and examining folds on bal-
true.” He did not specify whether the floor to identify their job. lots under microscopes. At one
he was referring to his reported Every color has a nuisance associ- point, workers were holding bal-
comments or the color of the ated with it. Our 300+ volunteers lots up to UV lights.
observer’s shirt. make jokes about the colors of Hobbs announced Wednesday
that she is running for governor,
releasing a campaign video that
in part highlights her work over-
seeing the state’s elections.
“We had a job to do, and that
job was simple: Count every vote,”
Hobbs says in the video. “When
you’re under attack, some would
have you believe you have two
choices, to fight or give in. But
there’s a third option: Get the job
done.”
Hobbs won the right to post
observers at the audit site
through a lawsuit last month. Her
office has flagged issues spotted
on the counting floor by the ob-
servers, including in a letter of
complaint to audit officials. They
included ballots and computers
left unattended by audit workers.
Observers of the audit are pro-
vided with pink T-shirts to wear
while on the counting floor. In
one of the incidents documented
by the secretary of state’s office,
observers last week said that or-
ganizers “refer to them as
‘pinkies’ or ‘pinkos’ to either im-
ply and/or assert that the observ-
ers are communists.”
felicia.sonmez@washpost.com
rosalind.helderman
@washpost.com
A12
Nicaraguan government arrests Ortega’s leading rival in presidential race
BY I SMAEL L ÓPEZ O CAMPO
AND M ARY B ETH S HERIDAN
managua, nicaragua — Police
on Wednesday arrested Cristiana
Chamorro, the leading opposi-
tion candidate for president, in
the latest in a string of moves that
have curtailed any challenge to
President Daniel Ortega in the
November election.
Chamorro, 67, a scion of one of
Nicaragua’s most storied politi-
cal families, was accused of abu-
Elephant herd’s 300-mile
trek toward a Chinese city
has turned into a circus
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: A family of Asian elephants on its trek
from a nature reserve north through China’s Yunnan province. The
animals cross a road. Officials prepare a drone to monitor the herd
as it moves toward the provincial capital, Kunming. Researchers
can only speculate about the reason for the “unprecedented” trek.
MYANMAR
U.S. calls for release of
2 American journalists
U.S. Deputy Secretary of
State Wendy Sherman called
Wednesday for the immediate
release of two American
journalists arrested by
Myanmar’s military junta.
Sherman urged that Danny
Fenster and Nathan Maung be
freed and allowed to return home
to their families.
“The detention of Daniel and
Nathan, as well as arrests and use
of violence by the Burmese
military against other journalists,
constitutes an unacceptable
attack on the freedom of
expression in Burma,” she said
sive management and money
laundering, according to a com-
munique issued by judicial au-
thorities. Police searched her res-
idence in Managua for several
hours and placed her under
house arrest, according to her
brother Carlos, a well-known
journalist.
The detention was assailed by
human rights advocates in Nica-
ragua and abroad. “The Biden
administration and the Euro-
pean Union should condemn, in
HU CHAO/XINHUA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
during a stop in Bangkok,
referring to Myanmar by an
alternative name. It is her first
overseas trip since taking office
and includes visits to Belgium,
Turkey, Indonesia, Cambodia and
Thailand.
Fenster, 37, the managing
editor of the news and business
magazine Frontier Myanmar, was
detained May 24 while preparing
to board a flight to Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, en route to the
Detroit area to see his family.
Maung and Myanmar national
Hanthar Nyein, co-founders of
the Myanmar news website
Kamayut Media, were arrested
March 9, according to the New
York-based Committee to Protect
Journalists, citing accounts in
local media. The group said it had
EZ SU
The World
unison, this plan to impede free
elections,” tweeted José Miguel
Vivanco, the Americas director
for Human Rights Watch.
Chamorro’s mother, Violeta
Chamorro, defeated Ortega in
the 1990 presidential election,
putting an end to the 11-year
reign of his leftist Sandinista
movement. Ortega returned to
power in 2007 and has been
reelected twice since then in elec-
tions marred by irregularities. He
has gradually concentrated pow-
DI GEST
reports that Maung, the website’s
chief editor, and Hanthar, a news
producer, were physically
mistreated in their first two
weeks of detention.
Two other foreign journalists
arrested by the junta, which took
power in February after ousting
Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected
government, have since been
deported. Myanmar’s Assistance
Association for Political Prisoners
says about 90 journalists have
been arrested by the junta.
— Associated Press
COLOMBIA
Border with Venezuela
reopens over year later
Colombia on Wednesday began
er and grown more authoritari-
an, with his police killing more
than 300 people during anti-gov-
ernment demonstrations three
years ago.
The U.S. government has
slapped financial sanctions on
more than two dozen Nicaraguan
officials it accuses of undermin-
ing democracy, including Vice
President Rosario Murillo, Orte-
ga’s wife.
Nicaragua’s Interior Ministry
said last month that it had found
BY L ILY K UO
No one knows where they are
going or why. Since March 2020,
a family of wild elephants in
southwest China has trekked
more than 300 miles, traveling
north through fields, highways,
villages and towns.
The elephants have stolen crops,
rolled around in villagers’ court-
yards looking for food, and broken
into a car dealership where they
drank buckets of water and left
muddy footprints. The herd has
ESHAN COUNTY FANG YUAN CAR CARE CENTER/REUTERS
what its government called a
gradual opening of its border
with Venezuela after a 14-month
closure intended to curb the
spread of the coronavirus.
Colombia, whose porous
border with Venezuela extends
roughly 1,400 miles, has been the
chief destination for Venezuelans
fleeing their country’s social and
economic crisis. The two
countries do not maintain
diplomatic relations.
The gradual opening of
river and land crossings was
authorized starting in the first
minute of Wednesday, according
to a resolution published by the
Interior Ministry. The ministry
said biosecurity measures
established by Colombia’s health
authorities in light of the covid-19
THE WASHINGTON POST
evidence of money laundering
during the period from 2015 to
2019 at a freedom of information
foundation formerly led by Cris-
tiana Chamorro. The candi-
date rejected the allegation as
“macabre.” The attorney general’s
office has asked that she be
barred from running for office
while under investigation.
Ortega and his allies have tak-
en steps to sideline potential
challengers, including stripping
the legal registration from one
HU CHAO/XINHUA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
been labeled “The Northbound
Wild Elephant Eating and Walking
Tour.” In one incident, a young el-
ephant reportedly raided a villag-
er’s stores of corn liquor and fell
behind, according to police in
Eshan County.
“We have no way of telling where
they are going,” Chen Mingyong, a
professor at Yunnan University
who studies wild elephants, told
state broadcaster CCTV.
“It is common for Asian ele-
phants to migrate, but in the past
that has mostly been to look for food
pandemic must be followed
during crossings.
Colombia closed its borders in
March 2020. It reopened its
borders with Brazil, Ecuador,
Peru and Panama on May 19.
— Reuters
Storm kills 3 in Philippines:
A tropical storm left at least three
people dead and displaced
thousands of villagers in the
southern and central Philippines,
where it triggered floods and
landslides, officials said.
Forecasters said Choi-wan was
blowing off Victoria town in
Oriental Mindoro province with
sustained winds of 40 mph and
gusts of up to 56 mph. It was
moving northwestward and may
weaken as it blows toward the
. THURSDAY, JUNE 3 , 2021
party and passing a law allowing
authorities to disqualify candi-
dates as “traitors to the home-
land.”
Chamorro is vice president of
La Prensa, an opposition newspa-
per formerly led by her father,
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro. His
1978 assassination prompted
many Nicaraguans to support the
Sandinista rebels, who eventual-
ly toppled the dictatorship of
President Anastasio Somoza.
mary.sheridan@washpost.com
within their habitats,” he said. “An
exodus this far north is quite rare.”
From local residents to officials
and TikTok influencers, the coun-
try has been transfixed by the fam-
ily of 15 Asian elephants that has
ignored police sirens and trucks
laden with food — attempts to lure
them home to their nature reserve
in Xishuangbanna, near China’s
border with Laos and Myanmar.
On Wednesday, the family
reached the outskirts of Kunming,
the provincial capital of Yunnan,
where authorities fear deadly acci-
dents between residents and the
wild animals will become more
likely. Traffic controls were put in
place outside a village near the city
of Yuxi, where the elephants were
expected to pass. Crowds gathered
to watch from a distance, accord-
ing to local media reports. Farm-
ers grabbed piles of dung to use as
fertilizer, while bloggers set up
their phones to film themselves.
Chinese researchers, describ-
ing the migration as “unprec-
edented” in China, said the
elephants may be on a quest for
food and territory as a result of
their shrinking habitat in the
Xishuangbanna National Nature
Reserve. The wild elephant popu-
lation in Xishuangbanna and two
neighboring regions almost dou-
bled to around 300 as a result of
two decades of conservation, ac-
cording to data from the forestry
department in 2018.
“We’ve seen elephants expand-
ing their range for decades now, as
their populations increase and
they search for more food for the
growing herd,” said Becky Shu
Chen, a conservation project
coordinator at the Zoological Soci-
ety of London who has studied
elephant-human interactions.
According to Shu Chen, Asian
elephants traditionally have huge
home ranges, within which they
search for food, moving according
to the season. As those range have
shrunk, the result of more land
being devoted to rubber planta-
tions and other agricultural uses,
the elephants now find them-
selves roaming among crops and
closer to humans.
“You could say that the increase
in agricultural land and plantations
in their territory is, for elephants,
like finding a big sweet-shop, right
on their doorstep,” she said.
The wandering herd has caused
about 6.8 million yuan ($1.1 mil-
lion) in lost crops, CCTV reported.
Cao Dafan, project lead of
Asian Elephant Protection, wrote
in an article on the group’s
WeChat page that possible rea-
sons for the migration could be
shifts in the elephants’ environ-
ment, drought or changes in food
supply. “Some experts have also
discussed whether it is a random
choice in itself, which makes
sense in my opinion,” he wrote.
“Inexperienced leadership” by
the elephant in charge could be
another reason for the long jour-
ney to nowhere, according to
Chen, the professor at Yunnan
University. “Maybe it got it wrong
but still thinks it’s going the right
way,” he said.
lily.kuo@washpost.com
Lyric Li in Seoul contributed to this
report.
South China Sea, they said.
Court rejects Navalny’s bid to
quash ‘flight risk’ jail status:
A Russian court rejected a lawsuit
brought by jailed Kremlin critic
Alexei Navalny to force his prison
to overturn his “flight risk”
designation, his Anti-Corruption
Foundation said on Twitter.
Navalny says the designation was
a pretext to wake him up every
hour at night to verify his
whereabouts. He is currently at a
different prison facility with a
hospital after he staged a hunger
strike over what he deemed a
failure to be given proper medical
care but is expected to soon be
back in his original prison, where
he was woken during the night.
— From news services
THURSDAY, JUNE 3 , 2021 . THE WASHINGTON POST
Group seeking to oust Netanyahu spans political spectrum
ISRAEL FROM A1
ered the official notification at
11:22 p.m., reaching the presi-
dent at a soccer game 38 minutes
before Lapid’s window to negoti-
ate a coalition was due to expire.
“I congratulate you and the
heads of the parties on your
agreement to form a govern-
ment,” Rivlin said in his response
to Lapid. “We expect the Knesset
will convene as soon as possible
to ratify the government, as re-
quired.”
Lapid reported to Rivlin that
the coalition of small parties has
enough votes to win a narrow
majority in the 120-seat parlia-
ment, called the Knesset. The
parliamentary vote will be
scheduled by Speaker Yariv
Levin, a member of Netanyahu’s
Likud party. Levin is expected to
delay the process until the last
moment to give his faction more
time to exploit tensions within
the fledgling coalition and derail
the deal. Legal experts said the
vote probably will occur within
12 days.
The governing coalition now
poised to take power in Israel is
an ideological mix — many
would say mess — of factions
that range from religiously ori-
ented advocates of Jewish settle-
ments in the West Bank to secu-
lar supporters of an independent
Palestinian state.
But there is one thing they all
agree on: It is time for Netanya-
hu to go.
This new government would
be the anti-Netanyahu govern-
ment. The organizing principle
of the “change coalition” is the
assertion that the prime minis-
ter’s dogged push to keep his
office after four inconclusive
elections is harming the country.
“Over the past 30 months, the
State of Israel has been in chaos,
with one election campaign after
another. This political crisis is
unprecedented,” Bennett said af-
ter announcing he would join the
coalition.
Netanyahu, who was indicted
on charges of bribery, fraud and
breach of trust in 2019 and has
been on trial for a year, has
waged a scorched-earth cam-
paign against prosecutors and
judges. He dissolved parliament
in 2018 rather than let rivals have
a chance to form a government.
Washington Post Live’s “First Look” offers a smart, inside take on the day’s politics with
Naftali Bennett helped transform Benjamin Netanyahu from opposition leader to Israel’s prime minister. Now, he is poised to replace him.
He has railed against lawmakers
wanting to replace him as leftist
radicals, raising fears of political
violence harking back to the 1995
assassination of Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin by a right-wing
Jewish nationalist.
Bennett said he was joining
the anti-Netanyahu forces to
“stop the madness.”
Several of the coalition leaders
are former Netanyahu allies who
share many, if not most, of his
hawkish views. They say, howev-
er, they can no longer share a
government with him because of
their personal experience with
his record of breaking promises,
humiliating partners and side-
lining potential rivals.
Several also have been fired
over the years from cabinet jobs
by Netanyahu, including Bennett
and Lapid, the opposition leader.
Netanyahu’s former chief lieu-
tenant Avigdor Liberman, who
now heads his own party, says it
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is “unclear” whether Netanyahu
“is 100 percent mentally fit.”
Benny Gantz, the current al-
ternate prime minister and de-
fense minister, was slammed by
many of his own voters when he
joined Netanyahu’s emergency
unity government last year, only
to say later that he regretted
doing so because of the prime
minister’s broken pledges. Gantz
has agreed to join the new gov-
ernment.
And Gideon Saar, one of sev-
eral former members of Netanya-
hu’s Likud who left the party in
protest of the prime minister’s
actions, said replacing his for-
mer mentor has become “a na-
tional priority.”
Netanyahu’s history with
those seeking to assemble the
new governing coalition may ex-
plain their reaction to his recent
attempts to woo some of these
lawmakers back to his camp. His
increasingly lavish offers of
HUGH HEWITT
Friday, June 4 at 9:00am ET
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RONEN ZVULUN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
shared power and rotating prime
minister roles have been met
with one hard no after another.
“No one believes a word he
says. Why would they?” said
Jonathan Rynhold, professor of
political studies at Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity. “Part of it is personal
with these people who know
him. And part of it is that all of
them have come to believe that
Mr. Netanyahu has put his per-
sonal interests ahead of the in-
terests of the State of Israel
because he can no longer distin-
guish between the two.”
Rynhold describes Netanya-
hu’s willingness to break rules
and attack institutions as a de-
parture even from Israel’s rough-
and-tumble politics. Eventually,
Rynhold said, the prime minis-
ter’s behavior united the coun-
try’s fractious political spectrum,
with lawmakers of many stripes
vowing to end a political crisis
that has seen Israelis forced to
DONNA F. EDWARDS
Contributing Columnist, The Washington Post
vote in four elections in just two
years.
“It’s nothing to do with policy
or ideology at this point. It’s
character,” Rynhold said.
Few national politicians have
had a relationship with Netanya-
hu more complex and tumultu-
ous than Bennett, who first en-
tered politics 15 years ago as his
chief of staff. Bennett, along with
his second-in-command, Ayelet
Shaked, helped transform Ne-
tanyahu from leader of the oppo-
sition to prime minister.
Bennett named his first son
after Netanyahu’s brother Yoni,
who died in the famed 1976 raid
in Entebbe, Uganda, to free more
than 100 Israelis taken hostage
by Palestinian hijackers.
But in 2008, both Bennett and
Shaked abruptly abandoned
their positions at Netanyahu’s
side. Although they refused to
officially explain their departure,
it was widely reported in the
A13
Israeli media that the two had
run afoul of Netanyahu’s wife,
Sara.
When Bennett returned to the
Knesset in 2013 as head of the
pro-settler Jewish Home party,
Sara Netanyahu submitted a
handwritten request to Israeli
authorities asking for damaging
intelligence on Bennett and his
wife, Gilat, according to Israel’s
Channel 12. Another Channel 12
report said Benjamin Netanyahu
pushed for a smear campaign
against the Bennett family with a
series of articles on the Israeli
news site Walla, including one
about Gilat Bennett working as a
pastry chef at a non-kosher res-
taurant.
Netanyahu’s alleged manipu-
lation of his friendship with the
site’s former owner is now at the
center of one of the corruption
cases against the prime minister.
The Netanyahus have denied any
wrongdoing.
Despite the acrimony, Bennett
served under Netanyahu as econ-
omy and religious services min-
ister from 2013 to 2015 and as
education minister from 2015 to
2019. In that year, Netanyahu
fired him and Shaked, who was
justice minister, without expla-
nation.
Now Bennett is on the cusp of
replacing his former boss, lead-
ing a bare-majority government
that would include left-wing
members and the Islamist party,
Ra’am. A photograph of Ra’am
leader Mansour Abbas signing
the coalition agreement at a
table with Bennett and Lapid —
marking the first time an Arab
party has joined an Israeli gov-
erning coalition — circulated
widely in Israel.
Political observers say a gov-
ernment composed of such di-
verse members may be forced to
bypass controversial issues, such
as reviving peace negotiations
with the Palestinians or expand-
ing settlements in occupied terri-
tories. Instead, conservative and
liberal parties are likely to focus
on a consensus agenda of im-
proving the economy, health care
and education.
“It may be that they can finally
take a more national view,” Ryn-
hold said. “At the end of the day,
they are all pragmatic.”
steve.hendrix@washpost.com
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A14
Hong Kong activists fight to save memory of Tiananmen
Authorities ban vigil for
2nd year — part of wider
effort to rewrite history
BY S HIBANI M AHTANI
AND T HEODORA Y U
hong kong — Lee Cheuk-yan, 64,
remembers hearing the gunfire as
he holed up in his Beijing hotel
room. He watched the People’s Lib-
eration Army tanks roll into Ti-
ananmen Square and bicycle rick-
shaws ferry out the injured and
dead. It was June 4, 1989.
After being briefly detained, he
returned to his home in Hong
Kong, where for the next three
decades he helped arrange an an-
nual vigil at Victoria Park to mark
the massacre and honor the hun-
dreds, perhaps thousands, who
died in the fight for a democratic
China.
Now Lee is in prison, serving 20
months for his role in protests, and
faces further charges including
some related to the June 4 vigil —
which after 30 years of being al-
lowed was suddenly banned last
year. Other activists who defied
that order have also been detained,
and the vigil remains illegal.
Since China imposed a security
law on Hong Kong last summer
that outlaws dissent, authorities
have embarked on a campaign to
rewrite history. Museum exhibits
are under renovation. The public
broadcaster is scrubbing critical
programs. Publishers are revising
textbooks to fall in line with the
Chinese government’s preferred
narrative — in which Britain was
an occupying power in Hong
Kong, the Communist Party is a
benevolent force and the home-
grown struggle for democracy nev-
er existed. Beijing has set up a new
“propaganda” division in the city.
But the battle is felt most keenly
over the memory of June 4, which a
handful of activists are trying to
preserve despite the jailing of vigil
organizers and warnings of possi-
ble arrest from the authorities.
As a measure of the authorities’
new no-tolerance attitude toward
the date, a 65-year-old woman was
Iran’s largest naval warship catches fire and sinks in the Gulf of Oman
BY M IRIAM B ERGER
The Iranian navy’s largest war-
ship sank Wednesday in the Gulf
of Oman after catching fire.
The blaze broke out on the 679-
foot Kharg in Iranian waters, and
it sank off the port of Jask, close to
the Strait of Hormuz, after fire-
fighting efforts that lasted nearly a
day, Iran’s semiofficial Fars News
Agency reported. The Associated
Press reported that the fire began
at 2:25 a.m., while Fars News said
it began at 11 a.m. the day before.
Doomed ship laden with harmful goods sinks o≠ Sri Lanka, deepening crisis
BY M ICHAEL E . M ILLER
A fire-ravaged container ship
began to sink off the western
coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday,
increasing the likelihood that oil
and dangerous goods will leak
into the ocean and exacerbate
what is already one of the worst
environmental crises in the
country’s history.
“The ship is going down,” said
navy spokesperson Indika de Sil-
va, Agence France-Presse report-
ed. “The stern of the ship is
underwater, the water level is
above the deck.”
“As parts of the vessel are
underwater, there is greater risk
Unprecedented ‘Platinum Jubilee’ to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s long reign
BY W ILLIAM B OOTH
london — Buckingham Palace
announced its plans Wednesday to
throw the boss — and her subjects
— an over-the-top party next year
to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s un-
precedentedly long reign.
In 2022, the queen is expected to
become the first British monarch
to celebrate a “Platinum Jubilee,”
marking 70 years wearing the
crown, having acceded to the
throne in 1952 when her majesty
was just 25.
If you thought the queen’s Gold-
en Jubilee in 2002 and her Dia-
mond Jubilee in 2012 were big —
with their star-studded concerts
featuring Paul McCartney and El-
ton John — this one may be bigger.
And yet, a note of caution: The
queen is 95 now — and newly
widowed.
By all accounts (leaks, guess-
work, biographers), she remains in
briefly detained Sunday for hold-
ing a sign linked to June 4 on the
street.
The vigil — the only large-scale
commemoration of the Tianan-
men massacre on Chinese soil — is
emerging as a test of Hong Kong’s
willingness to resist Beijing’s re-
pression and a marker of what’s
left of its civil society.
“Defending the memory of
Tiananmen is the first line of de-
fense,” said Chow Hang Tung, a
barrister who is also a member of
Lee’s group that organizes the
yearly vigil. “We have to use this
moment to say Hong Kong people
will not submit to your rewriting of
history.”
Erasing history
China has officially censored
any discussion of the June 4 mas-
sacre and has never released a
death toll of those killed. The 1989
crackdown ended months-long
protests in the heart of Beijing
calling for greater freedom; they
had drawn crowds of up to a mil-
lion — a rare outpouring of the
Chinese people’s democratic aspi-
rations. Hundreds of millions of
Chinese still do not know what
happened there.
Since the massacre — and even
after the 1997 handover of Hong
Kong from Britain to China — the
territory had allowed large-scale
acknowledgment and discussion
of June 4, marking the difference
in freedoms guaranteed to its resi-
dents under the “one country, two
systems” framework.
Many Hong Kong activists
found their political awakening at
the annual vigil held in Victoria
Park, and it became a ritual for
many families in the city.
The national security law, which
passed last June, was designed to
erase such differences between
Hong Kong and the mainland.
Since its passage, museums and
textbooks have changed their lan-
guage on topics deemed sensitive.
At the History Museum, the
“Hong Kong Story” exhibition, an
interactive journey through the
city’s past, closed last October for a
government-led revamp. A massacre to simply an “incident,”
temporary, condensed exhibit
mounted in its place has been criti-
cized by historians for its subtle
The vessel, built by Britain in
1977 and part of Iran’s maritime
fleet since 1984, had been used for
training exercises and to resupply
ships at sea, according to Iranian
state media.
Around 400 sailors were
aboard the 33,000-ton ship at the
time of the fire, and about 20 were
injured, state media reported.
The incident came at a time of
heightened tensions between Iran
and Israel, along with its Western
allies, and as the United States and
Iran negotiate over nuclear activi-
of pollution,” wrote Andrew Le-
ahy, a spokesperson for X-Press
Feeders, which operates the ship,
in a message to The Washington
Post. “The aft of the vessel is
sitting on the bottom.”
A tugboat tried to tow the
Singapore-flagged MV X-Press
Pearl to deeper water Wednesday
without success, he added.
The Sri Lankan navy had
warned of severe pollution if the
ship were to go down at its
current location just outside the
port of Colombo, the South Asian
country’s largest city.
Billions of tiny plastic pellets,
or “nurdles,” that the ship was
carrying floated into the sea after
remarkably robust health, despite
the stress created by her son Prince
Andrew (who has been shunned
for his association with alleged
American sex trafficker Jeffrey Ep-
stein) and her runaway grandson,
Prince Harry (who — along with
and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess
of Sussex — keeps doling out mon-
etized tidbits of House of Windsor
dysfunction to Oprah Winfrey).
But royal watchers do recall that
at the queen’s Diamond Jubilee,
which featured the largest pageant
on the Thames River in 350 years
— in the rain, naturally — the
mood was dampened when Prince
Philip, the queen’s husband, was
hospitalized for a bladder infec-
tion.
Philip rebounded, of course. But
he died in April, just two months
shy of 100.
Imagine if the queen catches a
bad cold before/during/after the
big bash next year?
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People gather in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on June 4, 2019, to remember the hundreds, perhaps
thousands, who died in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 in the fight for a democratic China.
shift toward a Beijing-
approved version of history, which
de-emphasizes the role of Britain,
Hong Kong’s colonial ruler. China
is referred to as the “motherland”
in the new exhibition, and the
word “colony” has been removed
in explainers.
Some textbooks have gone even
further. Teaching materials for a
subject called “liberal studies,”
once hailed for its emphasis on
critical thinking, refer to British
rule as an “occupation” in violation
of international conventions. His-
tory books for high school students
have credited Hong Kong’s rise as
an international finance center to
the mainland, according to screen-
shots of the textbooks shared with
The Washington Post, though its
economic rise happened under the
British in the 1950s.
Some textbook publishers have
reduced mentions of the June 4
or they have removed them alto-
gether. The city’s public broadcast-
er, which in recent months has
ty and sanctions.
A spokesperson for Iran’s navy
told Fars News that the cause of
the incident is under investiga-
tion. Iranian authorities have of-
fered no official explanation.
“A 20-hour effort to extinguish
the fire by the ship’s damage-con-
trol team, which were joined by
firefighting crews as well as mili-
tary and civilian forces from other
nearby vessels, failed to save
Kharg,” the spokesperson said.
According to the official Islamic
Republic News Agency, the ship
the fire started and began to
blanket Sri Lanka’s yellow-sand
beaches, reaching as far as
75 miles to the south. Dead fish,
birds and sea turtles began to
wash up on shore. Scientists have
warned that ocean currents
could eventually carry the pellets
to beaches on the other side of
the island nation, killing more
wildlife and damaging sensitive
ecosystems.
The X-Press Pearl is also carry-
ing around 350 metric tons of
fuel oil, and the sinking further
alarmed environmentalists, who
were struggling to understand
the amount and impact of debris
already shed by the ship.
“There has been some slowing
down for several years, but she is
still very engaged,” BBC royal cor-
respondent Nicholas Witchell re-
ported on Wednesday.
But such elaborate events re-
quire months of planning, so the
palace is working on the queen’s
next jubilee. The show must go on,
and the monarchy — rocked by
ongoing scandals and new revela-
tions of previous bad behavior —
needs to get up onstage and per-
form.
Or, as Prince Harry recently put
it, to display themselves like ani-
mals in a zoo.
To mark the occasion, and de-
ploy its greatest instrument of soft
power, the British government has
agreed to a four-day holiday week-
end, beginning Thursday, June 2,
2022, with the “Trooping the
Colour,” which marks the queen’s
official (not actual) birthday, when
1,400 parading soldiers, 200 hors-
been reined in by the government,
removed an episode of a program
showing organizers of the June 4
vigil running in a marathon to
mark the massacre.
Louisa Lim, author of a book
about the legacy of Tiananmen
Square, said a “process of amnesia”
in China is now being brought to
Hong Kong, and is designed to
inculcate in people a sense of be-
longing solely to the Chinese Com-
munist Party.
“It is not just rewriting the past,
but writing the future,” she said.
Violating the law
Police last week for the second
year in a row cited the coronavirus
pandemic in banning the June 4
vigil. Hong Kong, however, has re-
corded no new local infections for
several days in a row, and events
like art fairs and soccer games have
been allowed to proceed.
The ban followed weeks of
warnings against participation.
Pro-Beijing officials have said that
the vigil’s call for a democratic
returned to use three years ago
after five years of repairs, which
included improvements to its boil-
er system. The news agency cited a
navy officer as saying the fire be-
gan in the engine room.
The loss of the ship was not the
only major incident Iran faced
Wednesday: Another large fire
broke out at an oil refinery that
serves Tehran, Iran’s capital. It was
not immediately clear what the
cause was or whether there were
casualties.
Much of Iran’s major military
“This is the worst possible
scenario,” said Muditha Katu-
wawala of Pearl Protectors, a Sri
Lankan marine conservation or-
ganization. “With [the ship] sink-
ing, what happens is that all that
oil might come out . . . that is
going to be so much more pollu-
tion.”
The cargo ship was loaded in
Dubai and bound for Malaysia,
according to an X-Press Feeders
account of the incident. The crew
noticed a leak in a container of
nitric acid and asked to offload it
at both the western Indian port
of Hazira and the Qatari port of
Hamad, but those requests were
denied, the company said.
es and 400 musicians will set off
from Buckingham Palace in cen-
tral London and proceed down the
Mall to Horse Guards Parade,
joined by members of the royal
family on horseback and in gilded
carriages.
The palace says that the parade
will close with the traditional fly-
over by the royal air force, watched
by the royal family from the Buck-
ingham Palace balcony.
Millions of Union Jack-waving
Britons lined the streets for the
2012 jubilee, and millions are ex-
pected to do so again next year.
Sales of spirits, beer and sparkling
wine — alongside “Coronation
Chicken Salad Sandwiches” — will
probably spike, assuming some
variant of the coronavirus doesn’t
shut the whole thing down.
The queen granting her subjects
a four-day “bank holiday week-
end” is reason enough for many to
party quite heartily, but a lot more
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ANTHONY KWAN/GETTY IMAGES
China could be in violation of the
security law, which punishes
broadly defined crimes with life in
prison. On Saturday, after vigil or-
ganizers lost an appeal to continue
with the event, Hong Kong’s Secu-
rity Bureau said that anyone par-
ticipating in an unauthorized as-
sembly could be jailed for up to five
years and that those who publicize
such an event could face an addi-
tional 12-month sentence.
“If anyone attempts to chal-
lenge the law, including . . . [the]
Hong Kong National Security Law,
etc., the police will deal with it
seriously,” the bureau added.
Despite similar warnings last
year, prominent activists such as
Joshua Wong entered the park,
emboldening thousands of others
to do the same. In comments on
June 4 last year, Lee said authori-
ties couldn’t stop the people from
expressing their democratic will.
The vigil was peaceful, and police
made no arrests — at the time.
Wong, Lee and others were later
arrested for their roles in the vigil,
equipment was acquired before its
1979 Islamic revolution, after
which Western arms embargoes
made it difficult for the country to
upgrade and repair its arsenal.
Fatal military accidents there are
not uncommon. On Tuesday, an
aging Iranian F-5 fighter aircraft
malfunctioned while parked in a
hangar, killing two pilots, who
were mistakenly ejected, the AP
reported.
In 2020, a missile mistakenly
struck a vessel near Jask during an
Iranian military drill, killing 19
The origins of the fire go back
to May 20, when the crew noticed
smoke rising from the cargo
hold, according to a company
statement. The smoke quickly
gave way to flames that envel-
oped part of the X-Press Pearl.
Powerful explosions rocked the
ship, forcing the evacuation of its
crew.
Of the 1,486 containers aboard
the ship before the blaze, 81
contained dangerous goods, in-
cluding 25 metric tons of nitric
acid, according to X-Press Feed-
ers.
Authorities suspect the nitric
acid was the source of the fire.
The Sri Lankan navy has said the
is planned: Over the 2022 jubilee
weekend, the queen is scheduled
to attend a “Service of Thanksgiv-
ing” at St. Paul’s Cathedral, and the
next day, the Derby horse races at
Epsom Downs. There will also be a
“Platinum Party at the Palace,” a
live concert from Buckingham Pal-
ace staged by the BBC “that will
bring together some of the world’s
biggest entertainment stars to cel-
ebrate the most significant and
joyous moments from The Queen’s
seven decade reign,” the palace
announced.
Members of the public will be
invited to apply to attend.
Additionally, there will be a “Big
Jubilee Lunch” — street parties
and picnics, tea and cake or garden
barbecues — and, finally, the pal-
ace said, “the Platinum Jubilee
Pageant featuring over 5,000 peo-
ple from across the United King-
dom and the Commonwealth will
take place against the backdrop of
. THURSDAY, JUNE 3 , 2021
adding to the list of charges
against them for their roles in oth-
er protests. Courts have imposed
lengthy sentences whether or not
the demonstrations involved vio-
lence.
“The cost of remembering is re-
ally escalating in Hong Kong,” said
Lim, the writer.
Chow admits that the arrests
and warnings have had the effect
of “frightening people.”
“It is the reality we have to face
that not all people can pay that
price,” she said.
Light a candle
Organizers of the June 4 march
in a news conference apologized to
the public after the police banned
their event, acknowledging that
they could no longer organize the
vigil in a “lawful manner.”
“We will stop promoting the vig-
il,” said Richard Tsoi, secretary of
the Hong Kong Alliance in Support
of Patriotic Democratic Move-
ments of China, Lee and Chow’s
group.
Still, pockets of resilience re-
main. At least seven churches plan
to go ahead with Masses mourning
those lost in the June 4 massacre.
The Hong Kong Alliance has en-
couraged others to light a candle
anywhere they are as an act of
remembrance, even if they cannot
gather at Victoria Park. Chow said
she will, in her own capacity, con-
tinue to “light a candle in a place
anyone can see,” keeping to the
32-year tradition.
“The government may be able to
ban gatherings, but it cannot stop
candles being lit in every corner of
Hong Kong,” she said. “The more
one wants to stifle the light, the
brighter the candle will burn.”
Those in jail, too, remain defi-
ant. Lee, addressing the court after
pleading guilty to charges related
to a protest on China’s National
Day in 2019, described his lifelong
activism as an “unrequited love”
for his country.
“By my own definition, patrio-
tism is loving my people,” he said.
“The function of the national insti-
tution is to protect the freedom
and dignity of its people, but not to
control the minds and behavior of
them.”
shibani.mahtani@washpost.com
troops.
Iran’s military recently intro-
duced a commercial vessel, the
Makran, which is slightly larger
than the Kharg, to serve some of
the functions of the now-sunken
ship.
Since 2019, a number of explo-
sions have been reported on ships
in the Gulf of Oman, with Israel
and Iran exchanging blame for the
apparent attacks as part of the
shadow war unfolding regionwide
between the two countries.
miriam.berger@washpost.com
ship was also carrying caustic
soda, sodium methoxide and
methane.
Katuwawala said precise con-
tents of the ship were not com-
pletely known — there is an
ongoing police investigation into
the incident — adding to uncer-
tainty over the ecological impact
of the disaster.
“We don’t know if there are
additional containers [of plastic
pellets] inside that could spill
out,” he said, estimating that
3 billion to 4 billion tiny granules
had already leaked. “If it sinks, all
those containers, whatever the
cargo is inside, will spill out.”
michael.miller@washpost.com
Buckingham Palace and the sur-
rounding streets. It will combine
street arts, theatre, music, circus,
carnival and costume and cel-
ebrate the service of Her Majesty’s
reign, as well as honouring the
collective service of people and
communities across the country.”
But this has been an unsettled
time for the monarchy, in an age of
change, with questions about rac-
ist reactions by the royal family to
the marriage of Harry and
Meghan. On Wednesday, as the
details of next year’s jubilee were
announced, the Guardian newspa-
per reported that “the Queen’s
courtiers banned ‘coloured immi-
grants or foreigners’ from serving
in clerical roles in the royal house-
hold until at least the late 1960s,
according to newly discovered
documents that will reignite the
debate over the British royal fam-
ily and race.”
william.booth@washpost.com
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BY H AMZA S HABAN
JBS said its systems are com-
ing back online after a massive
cyberattack threatened to knock
out significant pieces of its global
meat supply network, easing
worries that the breach would
usher in shortages and higher
beef and pork prices.
The ransomware attack,
which the FBI attributed
Wednesday to a Russian-linked
group known as both REvil and
Sodinokibi, came as consumers
already are paying more for
steaks, chops and roasts. The
coronavirus pandemic disrupted
operations for many meat pro-
cessors, creating production bot-
tlenecks just as demand was
surging.
“We saw on Tuesday that pric-
es did not freak out, and what
that tells you is that it’s not going
to make prices skyrocket,” said
Grady Ferguson, senior research
analyst at Gro Intelligence.
“Right now, it looks like they are
getting back on track,” he said,
adding “there is not going to be
empty store shelves and people
looting for hot dogs and things
like that.”
In a statement late Tuesday,
the Brazil-based company said
the “vast majority” of its plants
would be operational Wednes-
day. The breach affected all of its
U.S. meatpacking facilities, ac-
cording to the United Food and
Commercial Workers Interna-
tional Union, and JBS had sus-
pended operations at its nine
beef processing plants. Several of
its pork, poultry and prepared-
food plants were working Tues-
day, and its beef plant in Canada
had started running again.
The size of JBS’s operations
heightened concerns of a major
market shock. As the world’s
largest meat supplier, the com-
pany runs more than 150 facili-
ties and processes nearly one-
quarter of the nation’s beef and
one-fifth of its pork.
“It would have been extremely
costly if this attack had been a
little more pernicious,” Ferguson
said.
The hack was the latest target-
ing a critical piece of infrastruc-
ture, underscoring the vulnera-
bility of corporations, govern-
ment agencies and civil society
groups. Three weeks ago, a ran-
somware attack on Colonial
Pipeline disrupted the East
Coast’s fuel network, setting off
Civil rights leader Barber urges Walmart to help lift workers from poverty
BY A BHA B HATTARAI
Walmart shareholders shot
down employee safety and wage
initiatives on Wednesday despite
a prominent civil rights activist’s
insistence that the retailer has a
responsibility to “uplift the voic-
es” of employees living in poverty.
The Rev. William J. Barber II,
noting the coronavirus outbreak’s
disproportionate toll on Black
Americans, pressed Walmart to
create a worker-led committee on
pandemic issues and raise its
starting wage to $15 an hour.
“Perhaps thousands of your
workers suffered with this dis-
ease, spread it to family members,
or had to endure terrifying isola-
tion, gasping for breath, all be-
cause they were too poor to stay
home from work, too afraid of
retaliation to get the time off, too
PHARMACEUTICALS
Kentucky sues CVS
over opioid role
Kentucky’s attorney general
on Wednesday sued CVS Health,
accusing its pharmacy chain of
flooding the state with
prescription opioids that
contributed to the state’s
addiction woes.
Attorney General Daniel
Cameron (R) filed the lawsuit in
Franklin County Circuit Court,
saying the health-care company
played a role in “fueling the
crisis” by inundating the state
with millions of doses of the
powerful prescription
painkillers.
“As both distributor and
pharmacy, CVS was in a unique
position to monitor and stop the
peddling of these highly-
addictive drugs from their stores,
yet they ignored their own
safeguard systems,” Cameron
said in a news release.
It’s the state’s latest legal
action against companies it
blames for supplying a massive
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A Colorado JBS facility Tuesday. The global meat supply firm said the “vast majority” of its plants were set to be operational Wednesday.
JBS restarting meat processing plants,
easing fears of price spikes, shortages
FBI attributes latest ransomware attack to Russian-linked group, weeks after breach of pipeline firm
panic buying and temporary gas-
oline shortages across several
states.
Like in the pipeline hack, the
suspected perpetrators of the
JBS breach have links to Russia.
“We have attributed the JBS
attack to REvil and Sodinokibi
and are working diligently to
bring the threat actors to justice,”
the FBI said in a statement. “We
continue to focus our efforts on
imposing risk and consequences
and holding the responsible cy-
beaten down by this system to be
truly supported by this company
and by our government in this
dire hour for our nation,” said
Barber, chair of the Poor People’s
Campaign.
The pandemic committee ini-
tiative, introduced by employee
Cynthia Murray, was opposed by
Walmart and voted down. The
company said the measure was
“unnecessary” because it had im-
plemented ample safety and
health protocols during the pan-
demic, including employee tem-
perature screenings, mask re-
quirements and as much as two
weeks of paid leave for workers
who need to stay home for covid-
19-related reasons.
It also said employees have
multiple channels, including
team meetings and an ethics hot-
line, through which they can
pipeline of prescription pills into
Kentucky.
— Associated Press
ECONOMY
Federal Reserve cites
faster growth
The U.S. economy grew at a
somewhat faster pace in April
and May despite disruptions that
choked supplies to the nation’s
manufacturers, the Federal
Reserve reported Wednesday.
In the Fed’s latest survey of
economic conditions around the
nation, several of the central
bank’s districts reported that
increased vaccination rates and
relaxed social-distancing
measures were having a positive
impact on the economy. But
offsetting those gains were head
winds coming from supply-chain
problems.
The report also noted
widespread examples of price
increases, with the supply-chain
disruptions adding to the price
pressures.
The Fed’s report is based on
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ber actors accountable.”
Assaf Dahan, the head of
Nocturnus Threat Research at
Cybereason, said REvil is known
for targeting big companies,
which presumably have the re-
sources to pay a large ransom
and the financial incentive to
restore operations swiftly. “The
REvil cartel usually goes for the
big fish,” he said. “They are
known for asking for ludicrous
amounts of money from the
victims, in the millions.”
communicate concerns to senior
management.
“We disagree with the asser-
tions . . . that our response to the
global health crisis failed our as-
sociates and communities,” the
company said in a proxy filing.
“Walmart quickly put in place
new guidelines, policies, and pro-
cedures designed to protect asso-
ciates and customers.”
At least 22 Walmart workers
have died of covid, and more than
1,862 have been infected with the
coronavirus, according to the la-
bor advocacy group United for
Respect, which invited Barber to
speak. The company, based in
Bentonville, Ark., has more than
2.3 million employees worldwide,
including 1.6 million in the Unit-
ed States.
Other shareholder proposals
called on Walmart to reduce re-
DI GEST
surveys conducted by its 12
regional banks from early April
to late May.
Many businesses reported
difficulty hiring new workers,
especially low-wage hourly
workers, truck drivers and
skilled tradespeople, according
to the survey.
— Associated Press
STREAMING
HBO Max says it will
limit commercial time
HBO Max said Wednesday it
will limit commercials on its new
ad-supported tier to four
minutes each hour, betting it can
generate advertising revenue
and avoid offending subscribers
with too many breaks.
AT&T’s flagship platform will
offer “the lowest commercial ad
load in the streaming industry,”
HBO Max said in a statement.
Other streaming services, like
Comcast’s Peacock and
Discovery’s Discovery Plus, have
said they will show five minutes
of ads per hour or less.
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Ransomware attacks have be-
come a lucrative enterprise for
hackers, who find ways into
companies’ networks through
phishing or by exploiting outdat-
ed technology. Once they gain
access, criminal hackers will
commonly take control of key
parts of an organization’s sys-
tems and demand a ransom to
unlock them.
Hackers walked away with
$4.4 million in the Colonial ran-
somware attack, according to
frigerant emissions, fully disclose
lobbying efforts and reassess its
starting wage. None received
enough votes to pass.
Shareholders, meanwhile, vot-
ed to pass all three company-sup-
ported proposals. They approved
the nomination of 12 board direc-
tors, including Walmart chief ex-
ecutive Doug McMillon and for-
mer Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer,
and greenlighted pay packages
for top executives, according to
preliminary counts. The Walton
family, including heirs of founder
Sam Walton, holds about 49 per-
cent of the company’s shares, its
latest proxy filing shows.
This year’s hour-long webcast
was a subdued version of what is
typically a star-studded gathering
of celebrities, executives and
shareholders near the company’s
Bentonville headquarters. Previ-
A laborer works at a clay pottery workshop in Karachi, Pakistan, on
Tuesday. Traditional handmade clay pots are widely used as
household goods in Pakistan and are regaining popularity because of
affordable prices. In March, Bloomberg News reported the rupee was
at its highest level against the U.S. dollar in about two years.
HBO’s ad-supported tier
launches Wednesday and costs
$9.99 a month. An add-free
version costs $14.99 a month.
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chief executive Joseph Blount.
Federal officials have linked the
breach to a Russian-based group
called DarkSide that researchers
say has extracted $46 million in
ransom payments so far this
year. Though acknowledging the
payment was “highly controver-
sial” because it might incentivize
bad actors to pursue more at-
tacks, Blount said it was “the
right thing to do for the country,”
given the critical importance of
his company’s infrastructure.
ous hosts and performers includ-
ed Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Jamie
Foxx and Elton John. Two years
ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
made waves when he singled out
the company for paying workers
“starvation wages” and urged it to
give hourly Walmart workers a
seat on the company’s board.
On Wednesday, Barber echoed
some of those views, urging the
company to raise its $11 starting
wage to $15, which would bring it
on par with competitors includ-
ing Target, Best Buy and Amazon.
(Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns
The Washington Post.)
Walmart, which gave raises to
about one-third of its U.S. work-
force this year, says average pay
exceeds $15 an hour. Regulatory
filings show that chief executive
McMillon received a $22.6 mil-
lion pay package last year, more
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Alphabet’s Google said
Wednesday that it will let
companies offering
cryptocurrency wallets run ads
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The Colonial breach prompted
President Biden to press Moscow
to take “decisive action” against
ransomware networks operating
out of Russia. “They have some
responsibility to deal with this,”
he said.
After JBS informed the White
House of the cyberattack Sunday,
U.S. officials engaged directly
with their Russian counterparts.
The FBI considers combating
cybercrime one of its highest
priorities.
Biden is scheduled to meet
with Russian President Vladimir
Putin in Geneva this month.
JBS did not respond to inqui-
ries Wednesday about the status
of its plants. But the chief execu-
tive of its U.S. operations said the
company was “not sparing any
resources to fight this threat,”
according to a statement re-
leased Tuesday.
“We have cybersecurity plans
in place to address these types of
issues and we are successfully
executing those plans,” chief ex-
ecutive Andre Nogueira said.
The attack on a major industry
player comes as an array of
companies grapple with extraor-
dinary consumer demand and
supply disruptions tied to the
ongoing public health crisis.
“This year, demand has been
off the charts,” said Steve Meyer,
consulting economist for the Na-
tional Pork Producers Council
and the National Pork Board.
Meyer pointed to the rounds of
stimulus checks and the re-
bounding of the food service
sector as factors driving up the
demand for meat.
While food production is one
of the nation’s 16 critical infra-
structure sectors as defined by
the Department of Homeland
Security, the harvesting of ani-
mal meat poses unique supply
chain challenges.
Livestock must be raised and
fed and, unlike with crops, pro-
ducers have fewer options to
store the animals when the logis-
tical pipeline gets backed up.
“If corn demand goes down,
you leave it in the bin, and it
stays the same, but animals, you
can’t do that to them,” Meyer
said.
“Cybersecurity is going to be
an awfully big issue,” he said. “I
have to think we are going to see
more of this instead of less, and
that is going to be a problem for
all of us.”
hamza.shaban@washpost.com
than 1,000-fold the median wage
of $20,942.
“Walmart is on the wrong side
of history here,” Barber said about
wages. “Do it because it’s the right
thing to do. . . . Do it because your
conscience knows that keeping
people across America in poverty
is wrong and repugnant.”
His remarks come as the
world’s largest retailer — with
$559 billion in sales last year and
a market cap of $397.6 billion —
made racial equity and diversity a
hallmark of its charitable giving.
The company last year pledged
$100 million to create a center for
racial equity that it said would
“address systemic racism in soci-
ety head-on” by supporting the
country’s financial, health-care,
education and criminal justice
systems.
abha.bhattarai@washpost.com
beginning in August. In 2018,
Google barred ads for
cryptocurrencies and related
products. But it peeled back that
restriction for digital currency
exchanges. Google will let
wallets run ads on search,
YouTube and other properties as
long as they go through the
company’s certification process.
Google said the ad ban still exists
for initial coin offerings and
services that aggregate or
compare issuers of
cryptocurrencies.
Tyson Foods president and
chief executive Dean Banks is
leaving the poultry company for
personal reasons after less than a
year in the top post. Tyson
named Banks as CEO in August,
but he officially took over the
position from Noel White in
October. The company said
Wednesday that Donnie King
will succeed Banks, effective
immediately. Last month, Tyson
announced that it was raising
wages to combat absenteeism
and worker turnover at its plants
as U.S. demand for chicken soars.
— From news reports
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Trump ends blog after 29 days, infuriated by reports of measly readership

BY D REW H ARWELL
AND J OSH D AWSEY
Former president Donald
Trump’s blog, celebrated by ad-
visers as a “beacon of freedom”
that would keep him relevant in
an online world he once dominat-
ed, is dead. It was 29 days old.
Upset by reports from The
Washington Post and other out-
lets highlighting its measly read-
ership and concerns that it could
detract from a social media plat-
form he wants to launch later this
year, Trump ordered his team
Tuesday to put the blog out of its
misery, advisers said.
On its last day, the site received
just 1,500 shares or comments on
Facebook and Twitter — a stag-
gering drop for someone whose
every tweet once garnered hun-
dreds of thousands of reactions.
Trump still wants to launch
some other platform — timing
not yet determined — and didn’t
like that this first attempt was
being mocked as a loser, accord-
ing to a Trump adviser who spoke
on the condition of anonymity to
talk frankly about the former
president’s plans.
Trump spokesman Jason Mil-
ler said the “From the Desk of
Donald J. Trump” blog “was just
auxiliary to the broader efforts
we have and are working on.”
CNBC first reported the blog’s
demise.
Launched last month with a
grand unveiling replete with an
action-movie-style trailer that
proclaimed “In a time of silence
and lies, a beacon of freedom
arises,” the blog never secured
more than a sliver of the spotlight
Trump held before he was
banned from every major social
media site in the wake of the
Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
A Post analysis of online data
late last month found that the site
was attracting fewer visitors than
the pet-adoption service Petfind-
er and the recipe site Delish. The
blog’s prospects hadn’t improved
since, even though Trump had
taken to writing on it more, a new
analysis of online data shows.
Three days after the Post re-
port, Trump released a statement
saying his “very basic site” was
doing amazingly well, attracting
greater attention than during the
2020 election campaign, and that
it would be doing even better had
he not been banned by Facebook
and Twitter, actions that denied
him direct access to more than
88 million Twitter followers and
35 million Facebook followers.
In his statement, Trump, with-
out citing a source, said tens of
millions of his supporters had
stopped using Facebook and
Twitter “because they’ve becom-
ing ‘boring’ and nasty” — a claim
not backed up by the companies’
own data, which shows U.S. use
has stayed steady or increased
since Trump left office.
Trump had said that the site
allowed everyone to “see my
statements, issued in real time,
and engage with the MAGA
Movement” and that it would
allow him to communicate “until
I decide on what the future will
be for the choice or establish-
ment of a platform. It will happen
soon. Stay tuned!” No other
Trump platform has been an-
nounced.
Many in the former president’s
orbit were annoyed with former
Trump campaign manager Brad
Parscale for promoting the blog.
But Parscale had defended the
website less than two weeks ago,
telling The Post that it was “built
exactly as we pitched it.”
“My company spent the last six
JABIN BOTSFORD/THE WASHINGTON POST
years building products that
helped the president spread his Former president Donald Trump, seen in February. On its last day,
message around the world. And his blog got 1,500 shares or comments on Facebook and Twitter.
we happily continue to do so,” he
said then. But the site rarely gained much Reddit and Pinterest — peaked at
In March, Miller said the new viewership: Trump’s entire web- 159,000 interactions on its first
Trump social media platform site, including his blog, merchan- day, according to data from the
would be revealed within three dise store and donation page, saw social media analytics firm Buzz-
months and draw “tens of mil- roughly 4 million visits in the Sumo.
lions of people” to become “the week ending May 18 from desk- That response rate was pitiful-
hottest ticket” in social media. top and mobile devices in the ly low by Trump standards. But
“It’s going to completely redefine United States — roughly half of even though Trump’s blogging
the game,” he told Fox News. the week’s traffic for the right- rate actually increased in recent
But no details have been wing websites Newsmax and the days, including 10 new posts last
shared about the new Trump Gateway Pundit, according to an Tuesday, his blog never got any-
platform. Social media sites are analysis by the online-analytics where near his first day’s interest
endlessly more expensive and firm Similarweb, which tracks level, averaging about 4,000 in-
complicated than a blog, requir- and estimates traffic and refer- teractions a day, BuzzSumo data
ing a vast infrastructure allowing rals for millions of websites. show.
for user accounts, comments and Trump’s supporters also were Every blog post has been
other modern Web features that not racing to share the site on scrubbed from the Internet. The
were never present on Trump’s social media. Social engagement old link now redirects to a web-
site. Trump dictated his messages across the Web with Trump’s blog page urging people to give their
to his aides, who would print — a measure of the likes, reac- contact information to a Trump
them out so he could revise them tions, comments and shares on campaign mailing list.
with a Sharpie before manually some of the biggest social media drew.harwell@washpost.com
posting them to the blog. sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, joshua.dawsey@washpost.com

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FAA safety chief who faced heavy criticism over Max crashes is retiring
BY I AN D UNCAN
The Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration said Wednesday that its
top safety official, Ali Bahrami,
will retire at the end of the month
after a four-year tenure that saw
the FAA grapple with a crisis
caused by deadly crashes of two
Boeing 737 Max jets.
Bahrami, who returned to the
FAA in 2017 after a stint at an
aerospace trade organization,
had faced criticism from some
congressional Democrats over his
response to the crashes. Families
of victims in the 2018 and 2019
crashes had asked Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg to re-
move Bahrami.
Officials said Bahrami made
the choice himself. In an email to
his team Wednesday, he said re-
tiring was “not an easy decision.”
“I’m proud and humbled by
your commitment, resiliency,
dedication and unselfish per-
Pandemic
encouraged
subscribing
to services
SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM A1
said Vinay Gupta, a winemaker
who spearheaded the Summer-
long Supper Club in Washington
and New York City.
The subscription economy was
on the rise before the pandemic,
but its wider and deeper reach in
nearly every industry is expected
to last, even after the pandemic
subsides in the United States. The
financial services firm UBS pre-
dicts that this “subscription econ-
omy” will grow to $1.5 trillion by
2025, more than double the
$650 billion it’s estimated to be
worth now.
Subscriptions bring in upfront
revenue, strengthen relation-
ships with customers and give
companies much deeper data on
what sells. Even hotels and car-
washes have begun offering an
enhanced and more exclusive ex-
perience — for a monthly or an-
nual fee.
However, the rapid growth of
subscriptions has created a host
of challenges for the economy, far
outpacing the government’s abili-
ty to scrutinize aggressive mar-
keting practices and ensure that
consumers are being treated fair-
ly, consumer advocates say.
Even so, subscriptions remain
wildly popular. The growth re-
flects a transition in the economy
from spending heavily on goods
back to services, as Americans
feel more comfortable with trav-
eling and being in crowds. Al-
though e-commerce and enter-
tainment subscriptions to sites
such as Netflix, Hulu and Disney
Plus made headlines during the
pandemic for soaring growth,
analysts expect that more service-
sector companies will now see
skyrocketing interest.
The typical U.S. consumer has
two to three subscriptions, ac-
cording to user data from budget
app Mint and research by Tien
Tzuo, author of “Subscribed” and
chief executive of subscriptions
platform Zuora.
There’s a growing trend of
“power subscribers” with 10 or
more recurring payments, ac-
cording to budgeting app True-
bill. The app’s users average 17
subscriptions and typically spend
$145 a month, according to an
analysis Truebill did for The
Washington Post. Last spring,
during the shutdowns, Truebill
users averaged 21 subscriptions,
as people tried different enter-
tainment, home workout and de-
livery services.
“It might feel a little odd right
now because it’s new. But when
cable TV first came out and we
went from four to 150 channels,
we didn’t know what to do with
150 channels. Then there was
1,000 channels. I think people
will want more,” said Tzuo, for-
mer chief strategy officer at Sales-
force and founder of Zuora.
Already, companies Apple,
Peloton and NBCUniversal’s Pea-
cock video-streaming platform
are reporting that subscriptions
have been key drivers of revenue
growth. For example, Peloton’s
subscription revenue grew
144 percent in the first three
months of this year compared
with a year ago, and subscribers
to Apple’s various services for
fitness, games, music and pod-
casts have increased by 145 mil-
lion in the past year.
Travel website Tripadvisor is
starting a $99 annual Tripadvisor
Plus product that offers exclusive
deals and dedicated customer
service lines, which could influ-
ence an industry wrecked by pan-
demic shutdowns.
formance to keep aviation safe,
day in and day out, while under
significant scrutiny,” he wrote. “I
couldn’t have asked you for any-
thing more.”
Christopher J. Rocheleau, Bah-
rami’s deputy, will fill in while the
FAA searches for a replacement,
the agency said in a statement.
In the email, Bahrami
acknowledged “unprecedented
challenges” during his tenure —
including the crashes, a lengthy
government shutdown and the
coronavirus pandemic — while
also listing achievements. He
wrote that the FAA’s safety office
had established a “solid founda-
tion” to respond to tightened avi-
ation safety laws and recommen-
dations by other investigators
who found gaps in the FAA’s
oversight of Boeing.
Bahrami’s aviation career
spans more than four decades.
After earning engineering de-
grees from the University of
“Post-covid, we think the regu-
lar traveler is ready to embrace
the subscription product,”
Tripadvisor chief executive Ste-
phen Kaufer said on a recent
earnings call. “Subscription prod-
ucts in general have been doing
quite well. . . . Many others have
educated consumers on the no-
tion of signing up for something
on an annual basis.”
Businesses say subscriptions
also give them more data on what
customers like and how best to
cater to them.
“We are shifting from a trans-
actional economy to a relation-
ship-driven one,” said Adam
Levinter, author of “The Sub-
scription Boom.” “A subscription
is a recurring touch point with the
customer. It’s that constant re-
minder that people have a rela-
tionship with the brand.”
Subscriptions are not a new
concept. The idea of paying a
recurring fee for a farm share or a
wine-of-the-month club has been
around for decades, but analysts
say the rise of smartphones and
rapid home delivery in the past
decade has made customers in-
creasingly willing to try new
products and shop in different
ways.
The trend appears likely to en-
dure. Truebill has seen little de-
cline in spending on food-deliv-
ery subscriptions and home-
workout services, such as Peloton,
even as spending on gym mem-
berships has ramped up in recent
weeks.
Indeed, that’s part of the rea-
son Federal Trade Commission
regulators are looking at ways to
make it harder for companies to
trap consumers into monthly
subscriptions that drain their
bank accounts, attempting to re-
spond to a proliferation of abuses
by some companies over the past
few years.
Even customers who under-
stand what they signed up for
sometimes say that they are
shocked to realize how much they
are spending each month and
Michigan, he worked for plane
maker McDonnell Douglas. He
then joined the FAA, spending
nearly 30 years at the agency.
“I’ve been blessed with an in-
credible career, and now it’s time
for me to spend more time with
my family and focus on my next
chapter,” Bahrami wrote to his
staff.
“There continue to be people employed at FAA who
. . . have never acknowledged the mistakes made.”
Nadia Milleron, mother of a victim in the second 737 Max crash, in Ethiopia
After the second Max crash, in
March 2019, the FAA grounded
the planes and began working
with Boeing on updating its de-
sign to increase safety. The jets
were authorized to fly again this
past fall, and airlines have been
putting them back into service.
that they are ready to pare back.
“Subscription services are a
sneaky wallet drain,” said Angela
Myers, 29, of Pittsburgh. “You
keep signing up for things, and
they make it really hard to can-
cel.”
Myers said she signed up for a
monthly clothing delivery from
Stitch Fix and meal kits from Blue
Apron at the start of the pandem-
ic shutdowns last year. She’s pay-
ing $120 most months on top of
subscriptions to Netflix and ca-
ble, and she’s ready to prune.
The media industry, in particu-
lar, illustrates that there can be
saturation points for subscrip-
tion-laden sectors. Although
overall subscriptions soared dur-
ing the pandemic, Netflix, Disney
Plus and HBO Max have all had
slowing subscriber growth this
year.
However, forecasts remain
strong for industries just starting
to open up to the subscriber mod-
el, especially in the service sector.
In the restaurant industry, sub-
scriptions have become a lifeline
during the pandemic, especially
for smaller establishments that
were forced to close their dining
rooms for months. These bou-
tique restaurants never aspired to
get into the mass-delivery busi-
ness, but they found a sizable
share of customers willing to pay
upfront for an experience.
Restaurants often include wine
or cocktails, notes explaining the
backstory of the meal and some-
times even suggested music,
smells or decor to complement
the cuisine.
“Our meal packages come with
music playlists for the night. If it’s
French cuisine, we might include
a French lavender candle and a
French song play list,” said Aaron
Silverman, chef and owner of
Rose’s Luxury, one of the six res-
taurants that participated in the
D.C. supper club subscription and
also offers its own subscription.
“This is not an alternative to take-
out. This is an alternative to going
out. It’s an experience at home.”
EZ RE
The crashes raised questions
about whether top agency offi-
cials were too deferential to
Boeing and other big companies.
While Bahrami began the process
of overhauling the safety office
after the Max crashes, he also
remained a target of the agency’s
fiercest critics.
A survey of the more than 7,000
staffers in Bahrami’s division that
was conducted in the wake of the
crashes found that employees
worried senior leaders too often
sided with industry.
When the results became pub-
lic, Bahrami told his team he was
troubled by the findings and
Table 22 is a new platform to
help smaller restaurants manage
subscriptions and delivery. It
started in May 2020 with Saba
San’s in Austin and now has 200
restaurants in 60 cities, including
Rose’s Luxury, which has contin-
ued to grow its subscription busi-
ness.
“Our average subscriber is
spending $75 to $80 a month,”
said Sam Bernstein, founder and
chief executive of Table 22. “Sub-
scribers are often people who
come in the most to restaurants.
They are people finding new ways
of experiencing these brands.”
There’s some concern that as
Americans flood back into restau-
rants, they might pare back sub-
scriptions, but specialty restau-
rants appear to be retaining sub-
scribers.
Robert Haddad has also be-
come a proponent of the subscrip-
tion model. His family owns sev-
eral carwashes in the D.C. area.
They opened a second location —
Fusion Carwash in Frederick, Md.
— this year designed around sub-
scriptions. Every tier of wash,
from the quick soap to the fancy
ceramic coating and interior de-
tailing — has a monthly subscrip-
tion option for about 1½ times the
price of a single wash.
Haddad was a pioneer of the
subscription model. He started it
about a decade ago at his family’s
Love My Carwash in German-
town, Md., after the Great Reces-
sion. Subscriptions now make up
30 to 40 percent of his business.
“When you have a large base of
subscriptions, you know how
much revenue you have coming in
on a recurring basis; that helps
you with budgeting, that helps
you with labor scheduling and
cost,” Haddad said, adding that
the word of mouth generated by
loyal customers more than makes
up for the occasional super-active
customer who takes advantage of
the subscription to get daily or
hourly washes.
But there are also concerns
that the subscription boom is an-
would work to rebuild trust. He
cited work to re-engage employ-
ees and launch a new safety re-
porting system among the divi-
sion’s recent achievements.
A scathing report on the crash-
es by Democratic investigators on
the House Transportation Com-
mittee described an interview
with Bahrami in which he said he
couldn’t recall conversations
with Boeing about the Max in the
period between the crashes. He
said he was not aware of an FAA
analysis from that time that indi-
cated the jet presented an on-
going crash risk.
“It was surprising to the com-
mittee that Mr. Bahrami ap-
peared to be largely disengaged,”
investigators wrote.
The FAA’s leadership defended
Bahrami after the report, saying
he had “dedicated his career to
the advancement of aviation safe-
ty.”
After a hearing on aviation
other iteration of the two-tiered
economy. New subscription ser-
vices across many industries are
creating an entirely different ex-
perience for people willing to pay.
“These subscription services
do reinforce the divides between
haves and have-nots,” said Liping
Cai, a professor and director of
Purdue University’s Tourism and
Hospitality Research Center.
Several prominent hotels and
resorts began piloting subscrip-
tions last year hoping to take
advantage of the “digital nomad”
crowd that could work anywhere
and might want a change of scen-
ery from their apartments. Some
hotels told The Post that they
were surprised to find interest
from college students and retir-
ees, as well.
CitizenM, a Netherlands-based
boutique hotel chain, began a
subscription program last year
that offers 29 nights at any of its
properties around the world for
$1,500 a month. CitizenM said
more than 230 have been pur-
chased.
Freehand Hotels, a boutique
chain based in the United States,
has a $2,999 subscription for
travelers to stay at any Freehand
property for up to a month. The
company received 200 inquiries
in the first month and several
dozen people have signed up, said
chief commercial officer Edward
Pinchard. Subscribers like that
they can stay in New York during
the week and fly to Freehand’s
Miami location for the weekend,
he said.
Another drawback to this new
luxury hotel subscription model
is that discounts and services
such as daily room cleaning that
had long been standard in hotels
before the pandemic could easily
evolve into subscriber-only perks,
said Wayne Smith, professor of
hospitality and tourism manage-
ment at Ryerson University in
Canada.
“What was normal before
covid, does that now become the
enhanced service for a fee?” he
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safety in December 2019, Rep.
Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.), the
committee chairman, told report-
ers that Bahrami “doesn’t seem to
know much of anything.”
More recently, members of the
crash victims’ families met with
Buttigieg and asked him to oust
Bahrami and FAA Administrator
Stephen Dickson.
Nadia Milleron, whose daugh-
ter, Samya Rose Stumo, was killed
in the second crash, in Ethiopia,
said she held Bahrami responsi-
ble for her death and those of the
156 others on the plane because
the agency didn’t ground the jets
after the first crash.
“There continue to be people
employed at FAA who also hold
responsibility in this matter and
who have never acknowledged
the mistakes made,” Milleron
said. “These people threaten the
safety of airline passengers and
must be pushed to leave FAA.”
ian.duncan@washpost.com
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said.
Selina, a boutique hotel chain
whose investors include WeWork
co-founder Adam Neumann, be-
gan a subscription last year called
CoLive at its properties in Europe,
Latin America and the United
States. Prices range from about
$350 a month for a hostel-style
bed to $5,000 a month for a
luxury suite in Tulum, Mexico.
CoLive comes with a free wel-
come drink and complimentary
yoga and wellness classes, as well
as discounts for food and other
services.
Mark Biery, Selina’s global
head of subscriptions, said he
expects subscribers to eventually
account for half of the chain’s
business. The company plans to
offer an annual subscription soon
that would allow people to visit
Selina’s different properties
throughout the year.
Souhila Hamiham signed up
for the hostel-sized-bed CoLive
subscription in October. Her mar-
keting job suddenly allowed her
to work from anywhere, and she
decided to head to Mexico. She
had initially stayed at an Airbnb
but found it boring to be alone.
She discovered Selina and im-
mediately loved that the proper-
ties offered co-working spaces,
wellness classes and a community
of other digital nomads. She end-
ed up living at CoLive properties
for eight months with stints in
Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia and
Brazil.
“I met a lot of people doing this.
We started planning our travel
together. It was really cool,” said
Hamiham, 22, who normally calls
Toronto home. “Now that I’ve
tasted this, there’s no way I’m
going back to [the] office. If I have
to go back to the office, I would
look for another job that offers me
the chance to travel and work
remotely.”
heather.long@washpost.com
andrew.vandam@washpost.com
Yeganeh Torbati contributed to this
report.
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A renewed push to prevent alcohol-related crashes
Momentum is building
for more safety standards
and use of innovations
BY F REDRICK K UNKLE
Technology that could reduce
drunken driving has evolved fast-
er than the willingness among
political and auto industry lead-
ers to put it to use, safety advo-
cates say.
But that could be changing.
On Wednesday, the Automo-
tive Coalition for Traffic Safety
announced that its breath-analyz-
ing interlock, which can detect
impaired drivers, will be available
for use in commercial vehicles for
the first time later this year. A
consumer version could be ready
by 2024.
The device is among several
anti-DUI technologies that could
be used to prevent drunken driv-
ing and has so far attracted the
most attention. For more than a
decade, the federal government
and the auto industry have been
working to develop the device as
part of a Driver Alcohol Detection
System for Safety, or DADSS, that
can passively detect whether a
driver is intoxicated and prevent
the vehicle from starting.
But with a new administration
in the White House, a new Con-
gress and advances in the technol-
ogy, momentum appears to be
building for new federal auto
safety standards that would go
beyond DADSS to reduce alcohol-
related crashes and save an esti-
mated 9,400 lives.
Mothers Against Drunk Driv-
ing (MADD) is pressing the auto
industry to take advantage of ex-
isting technology, such as driver-
monitoring and driver-assist lane
controls, to reduce drunken driv-
ing now, rather than wait for
DADSS or fully autonomous vehi-
cles to hit the market.
While some automakers, such
as Volvo, have integrated driver-
monitoring cameras and sensors
into their safety systems, advo-
cates expressed frustration that
the rest of the industry has been
slow to do the same.
“We are mad that the automak-
ers are ignoring the potential
technologies they have to prevent
drunken driving,” said Ken Sny-
der, whose daughter, Katie Sny-
der Evans, was killed by a drunk
driver in October 2017 in Califor-
nia. He said there are 241 technol-
ogies available to combat drunk-
en driving, with some requiring
little more than rejiggering the
Safety agency bans range of baby sleep products that fall outside the rules
BY T ODD C . F RANKEL
A federal safety agency on
Wednesday banned a range of in-
fant sleep products that currently
slip through gaps in regulations,
an attempt to fix a loophole
blamed for at least 90 accidental
deaths.
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that its breath-analyzing interlock, which can detect impaired drivers, will be available for use in commercial vehicles later this year.
computer code in driver-assist
technology. “I can’t sit still until
this done because I don’t want
other families to go through the
hell we’ve been through,” Snyder
said.
The number of drunken driv-
ing fatalities has fallen by more
than half since 1982, when the
federal government began col-
lecting alcohol-related crash data.
Yet every 50 minutes, another
American dies in an alcohol-relat-
ed crash. The Insurance Informa-
tion Institute says 10,142 people
were killed in alcohol-related
crashes in 2019, accounting for
28 percent of all traffic fatalities.
Bipartisan legislation — the
Reduce Impaired Driving for Ev-
eryone (Ride) Act in the Senate
and a similar bill in the House —
would require the National High-
way Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) to formulate rules and
standards on implementing anti-
DUI technology. Backers include
Rep. Debbie Dingell and Sen.
Gary Peters, both Democrats from
Michigan. Several Republicans,
Commission voted 3 to 1 to pass
the new rule. It requires any prod-
uct designed for sleeping babies to
meet within one year the manda-
tory federal standards already in
place for cribs, bassinets, bedside
sleepers and play yards. Dozens of
products currently for sale don’t
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including Sen. Rick Scott (Fla.)
and Rep. David B. McKinley
(W.Va.), have also signed on.
The auto industry opposes
such mandates. Industry officials
warn that existing driver-assist
and driver-monitoring technol-
ogy is not yet up to the task of
intervening against a drunk driv-
er, and that ineffective or unreli-
able measures could backfire.
What would happen, they ask, if
technology designed to monitor
driver behavior inaccurately de-
termined that a driver was im-
paired and disabled the vehicle or
forced the vehicle off the road?
“While these systems may help
identify many of the effects of
alcohol and drug impairment, we
are unaware of existing research
demonstrating the robust effec-
tiveness of these systems in de-
tecting alcohol impairment,”
Scott Schmidt, vice president for
safety policy at the Alliance for
Automotive Innovation, said in
comments submitted to NHTSA
in January.
At best, Schmidt said, the cur-
they are popular with parents.
The list includes a plethora of
products marketed to parents des-
perate to get their babies to sleep,
including devices that claim to
help a baby sleep safely in a par-
ent’s bed, along with baby tents
and small sleepers known as trav-
el beds or portable bassinets.
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rent driver-assist technology can
only infer that a person is im-
paired, unlike DADSS, which is
intended to make reliable and
accurate readings of a driver be-
fore the car gets on the road. He
said it’s also possible that current
technology might fail to intervene
with a “high functioning” driver
who is relatively able to operate
the vehicle while under the influ-
ence.
“As a result, we believe that
DADSS research should be sup-
ported and completed as an agen-
cy priority,” Schmidt wrote.
NHTSA also supports further
research and development of
DADSS, an ignition interlock de-
vice that would prevent the vehi-
cle from starting if it determines
that the driver has a blood alcohol
level above a certain threshold.
Such breathalyzer-like devices
have become widespread over the
past three decades as states im-
plemented various programs to
stop recidivism among drivers
who were charged with or con-
victed of a DUI.
it will address an explosion in
untested infant sleep products
that conflict with federal safe-
sleep guidelines that recommend
babies sleep on simple, flat surfac-
es. The American Academy of
Pediatrics and advocacy groups
such as Consumer Reports
pushed for the measure.
“I think this is a proud moment
for the commission,” acting CPSC
chairman Robert Adler said after
the rule was passed.
Critics worried that the agency
was moving ahead despite a lack
of evidence.
John Konsin, a scientist who
helps develop voluntary industry
safety standards for baby prod-
ucts, wrote a letter to the CPSC
pointing out that babies still acci-
dentally die in approved devices
and that the new rules provide “no
clear understanding of what is
safe or a threshold for an unrea-
sonable risk of injury.”
Peter Feldman, a CPSC commis-
sioner, criticized the rule as “over-
ly broad” and said it would prob-
ably be tied up in the courts.
“While I have some misgivings,”
Feldman said, as the commission
prepared to vote, “the safety ben-
efits outweigh them.”
The new rule started out two
years ago with a far more limited
scope.
It was designed to ban just in-
clined sleepers after Fisher-Price
was forced to recall 4.7 million of
its Rock ’n Play inclined sleepers
in 2019 when the product was
connected to dozens of infant
deaths. Another company, Kids II,
recalled nearly 700,000 of its own
inclined sleepers.
Inclined sleepers had been con-
troversial ever since Fisher-Price
invented the product category in
2009 because they allowed babies
to sleep at a 30-degree angle. Fed-
eral guidelines say babies should
sleep on flat surfaces. But the in-
clined sleeper was allowed to stay
on the market because it was not
classified as a crib or a bassinet,
which are required by federal safe-
ty rules to have flat sleep surfaces.
It turned out that Fisher-Price
had invented its inclined sleeper
without medical safety testing or
input from a pediatrician, accord-
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Unlike existing interlocks,
however, DADSS technology is
intended to become standard
equipment in all automobiles and
require no effort from the driver
to take a reading. The driver
would not be required to blow
into a tube, for example. Instead,
DADSS would analyze the driver’s
ambient breath. The nonprofit is
also developing a touch-based
sensor similar to thermometers
and blood-oxygen gauges applied
to a finger tip.
Robert Strassburger, president
of Automotive Coalition for Traf-
fic Safety, said the pandemic had
set back development of DADSS
by at least a year because of limits
on research involving human sub-
jects and disruptions to the sup-
ply chain for electronic compo-
nents. He said the coalition is
ahead of the usual 20-year time-
line for research and develop-
ment of a major traffic safety
component with its breath-ana-
lyzing interlock.
“We still need to make the sen-
sor more sensitive to alcohol and
Fisher-Price’s Rock ’n Play inclined sleeper was recalled in 2019
after the product was connected to dozens of infant deaths.
ing to a Washington Post investi-
gation.
A later CPSC-funded study
found that the product’s design —
especially the angle — was danger-
ous because it increased the risk of
infant suffocation.
The agency moved to ban in-
clined sleepers by requiring they
comply with existing safety rules
— which would have limited the
incline to 10 degrees, instead of 30.
The CPSC then decided to apply
the same rule to any product in-
tended for sleeping infants young-
er than 5 months old.
The goal is to make sleep safer
for babies, said Nancy Cowles, ex-
ecutive director of the advocacy
group Kids in Danger, which for
years has advocated for tougher
rules. With baby sleep products, “a
parent assumes someone has
made sure it’s safe,” Cowles said.
“But so many of these don’t meet
any standard.”
That’s what happened to Sara
Thompson, whose 15-week-old
son, Alex, died in a Rock ’n Play in
2011. The mother from Pennsylva-
nia said she never considered the
potential for danger. Earlier this
year, she wrote to the CPSC urging
the agency to pass the new safety
rule.
“If you don’t,” Thompson wrote,
“babies will continue to die.”
The four agency commission-
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further shrink its size so it’s more
easily integrated into cars,”
Strassburger said. He said the
touch-based technology is expect-
ed to reach commercial fleets by
2023, followed by a consumer
version two years later.
NHTSA has contributed
$55 million to developing DADSS,
matched by $16 million from the
auto industry, an agency spokes-
woman said. The federal agency is
also exploring other possible
technologies to reduce drunken
driving, having issued a “request
for information” to manufactur-
ers and researchers in November.
A report on the findings is expect-
ed later this year.
Joan Claybrook, a former presi-
dent of Public Citizen who headed
NHTSA during the Carter admin-
istration, likened the push for
anti-DUI technology to the resis-
tance to installing air bags in
vehicles.
“Fifty thousand lives have been
saved by air bags and the auto
industry fought it like mad, even
though they invented it,” Clay-
brook said.
At a Senate subcommittee
hearing in April, Sen. Ben Ray
Luján (D-N.M.), a Ride Act co-
sponsor and victim of a drunk
driver, expressed urgency as he
questioned John Bozzella, presi-
dent of Alliance for Automotive
Innovation.
“Mr. Bozzella, have you ever
been hit by a drunk driver?” Luján
asked.
“No, I have not,” Bozzella an-
swered.
“I have,” Luján said. “I got hit
head-on by a drunk driver
29 years ago. And there were
many nights that I’d be driving
home after that accident, or driv-
ing anywhere, and all I would see
were headlights coming at me,
and it scared me to death.”
Luján, in an interview last
week, said he still recalls the feel-
ing of shock and disorientation he
felt moments after the crash. He
also recalled seeing an empty
child carrier in the other car and
fearing that perhaps a child had
been flung from the wreckage. It
turned out that the other car’s
only occupant was the drunk driv-
er, and both he and Luján
emerged from the crash relatively
uninjured.
“The point of this, I’m here to
tell the story, [but] there are so
many people who died,” Luján
said. “There’s no good reason why
auto manufacturers are not re-
quired to include technology in
their vehicles which is readily
available to prevent drunken
driving crashes from happening.”
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ers — evenly split between Demo-
crats and Republicans, with one
vacant seat — appeared to agree
that the lack of regulation was
dangerous. But they clashed over
the proposed solution.
Feldman, a Republican, wanted
to “hit the pause button” and clear
up what he said was confusion
about the kinds of products that
would be affected by the regula-
tion.
Adler, a Democrat, warned of
“paralysis by analysis.”
“I think it’s well past time to
address this critical safety gap
that has unfortunately existed for
too long,” Democratic Commis-
sioner Elliot Kaye said.
Dana Baiocco, a Republican
commissioner, who voted against
adopting the new rule, said ban-
ning products could cause parents
to try homemade solutions. “And
that leaves parents in a situation
where babies will be in an even
more unsafe situation,” Baiocco
said.
The CPSC’s decision comes just
days before a congressional hear-
ing on infant product safety fail-
ures, focused on the Rock ’n Play.
The House Committee on Over-
sight and Reform hearing is set for
Monday. Executives from Fisher-
Price and its parent company,
Mattel, are expected to testify.
todd.frankel@washpost.com
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MAX BOOT
The GOP plot
to steal the
2024 election
epublicans have spent nearly sev-
R en months making bogus charges
of fraud in the 2020 election under
the banner of “stop the steal.” Now
they have segued into a “start the steal”
offensive to ensure that they will win the
2022 and 2024 elections — even if most
voters once again support the Democratic
Party.
The Brennan Center for Justice reports
that “between January 1 and May 14, 2021,
at least 14 states enacted 22 new laws that
restrict access to the vote” and “at least
61 bills with restrictive provisions are
moving through 18 state legislatures.”
Those bills are designed not to avert nonex-
istent voter fraud but to avert another
election defeat for Republicans — and they
are drawing perilously close to that goal.
In Georgia, for example, a new law
stipulates that mobile voting stations
“shall only be used in emergencies de-
clared by the Governor,” who is a Republi-
can. That will put out of business two
“mobile voting units” — a.k.a. buses — that
collected 11,200 ballots in Atlanta’s Fulton
County in November. Also, under the new
law, provisional ballots will no longer be
accepted from voters who go to the wrong
polling place; 11,120 provisional ballots
were counted in November. “Combined,”
writes my Post colleague David Weigel,
“the ballots cast by both methods are
nearly double the margin by which [Joe]
Biden won Georgia.”
A new election law in Texas, which has
been temporarily blocked by a walkout of
Democrats from the state House, would
outlaw many of the methods used to
increase minority turnout, such as drive-
through voting and early voting before
1 p.m. on Sundays (crimping “souls to the
polls” events after church services). But
the most alarming element of the bill is
that it makes it easier to overturn election
results even if there is no evidence that
fraud affected the outcome.
The Georgia law, for its part, includes a
pernicious provision giving the Republi-
can-controlled state legislature the right to
suspend county election officials and to
name the chair of the State Election Board.
Previously, Secretary of State Brad Raffen-
sperger had chaired the board, but he
incurred Republican wrath by certifying
Biden’s victory. Raffensperger is being
challenged next year by a Donald Trump-
endorsed opponent, Rep. Jody Hice
(R-Ga.), who insists that Trump would
have won in Georgia if the election had
been “fair.”
Meanwhile, in Arizona — another state
Trump narrowly lost — Republicans are
trying to strip Secretary of State Katie
Hobbs (D) of her power to defend election
lawsuits. They want to vest that authority
in the Republican attorney general. If she
runs again, Hobbs, like Raffensperger, will
face an election challenge from an advo-
cate of the “big lie.” Trump die-hards are
also running for the secretary of state posts
in Nevada and Michigan. If the challengers
win, pro-Trump conspiracy theorists will
be supervising elections in key swing
states.
While GOP efforts are ultimately aimed
at the 2024 election, they will first make
their impact felt in 2022. Off-year elections
are always tough for the party in power.
This one will be tougher still because of
Republican-driven voter suppression, re-
apportionment and gerrymandering.
Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political
Report writes that Republicans will have
full authority to redraw 187 congressional
districts, while Democrats will control just
75. He estimates that redistricting in just
four states — Texas, Florida, Georgia,
North Carolina — could be enough to
deliver the House to Republican control.
This brings us to a nightmare scenario: a
Republican-controlled Congress overturn-
ing the 2024 presidential election results
to install Trump or a Trump mini-me in the
White House. In January, 139 House Re-
publicans and eight Senate Republicans
voted not to certify electoral college results
in at least one state. Since then, the most
prominent GOP opponent of the “big lie,”
Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.), has been purged
from the House leadership. Willingness to
lie about election fraud has become a
litmus test for Republicans, with the im-
plicit threat of mob violence if they don’t
go along. Republicans are so scared of
Trump and his fanatical followers that
most of them just voted against a biparti-
san investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on the
Capitol.
Many congressional Republicans will
refuse to certify a 2024 Democratic win in
swing states. If Republicans control Con-
gress, they could deny the Democrats an
electoral college majority and throw the
election to the House — where each state
delegation, regardless of population,
would cast one ballot. Given that Republi-
cans already control a majority of state
delegations, they could override the elec-
tion outcome. If that happens, it would
spell the end of American democracy.
I hope I am being overly alarmist.
I really do. But after the storming of the
Capitol — and the Republican failure to
hold the instigators to account — we have
crossed a Rubicon. The best way to protect
our electoral system is to pass the For the
People Act, which would curb partisan
gerrymandering and protect voting rights.
Senate Democrats have to choose between
saving the filibuster and saving democra-
cy. They can’t do both.
THURSDAY Opinion
Naomi Osaka during her first-round match at the French Open on May 30 in Paris.
CHRISTINE EMBA
What Naomi Osaka’s
silence tells us
y refusing to speak, tennis
B player Naomi Osaka has
opened any number of im-
portant conversations:
About a generational divide in
talking about matters of mental
health. About effective communica-
tion in the age of social media. And,
perhaps most fundamentally, about
what we should be allowed to de-
mand from our sports heroes.
Osaka, at 23 the second-ranked
women’s tennis player and the most
highly paid female athlete in the
world, withdrew from the French
Open on Monday. Her step came
after a week of volleys with the
tournament’s organizers over her
refusal to attend media events, cit-
ing the challenge they posed to her
mental health.
Osaka first said she would not
participate in the tournament’s
customary post-match news con-
ferences. Then, after a $15,000 fine
and a warning from organizers that
she would be suspended, she took
the extraordinary step of removing
herself.
“The truth is that I have suffered
long bouts of depression since the
U.S. Open in 2018 and I have had a
really hard time coping with that,”
Osaka explained on Twitter and
Instagram. “I was already feeling
vulnerable and anxious so I thought
it was better to exercise self-care
and skip the press conferences.”
This is not your father’s French
Open — or your mother’s. Issues of
mental health, among public figures
such as athletes or among the rest of
us, used to be only whispered about,
if that. Suffering from mental health
issues was viewed as shameful.
No more — in part, perhaps,
because depression and anxiety
seem to be so prevalent among
younger Americans. One in 8 Ameri-
can 18-to-25-year-olds — Osaka’s
Gen Z — has experienced a major
depressive episode, a rate signifi-
Why we shouldn’t worry about falling birthrates
BY L ESLIE R OOT
irthrates have been causing a
B lot of angst lately. With data
suggesting that covid-19 will
probably result in a drop of
births in the United States, experts
have renewed their warnings about
Social Security shortfalls; sluggish eco-
nomic growth; markets bereft of inno-
vation, as fewer young minds are
around to bring in fresh ideas; and
even a world led by China rather than
the United States.
To illustrate our depopulated future,
the media invokes empty bassinets,
abandoned houses and lonely elders.
It’s time we all take a collective
breath. Reports of our demise are
greatly exaggerated. There are several
reasons not to worry about falling
birthrates.
The question of whether birthrates
will remain low is complex, but essen-
tially, it comes down to two things:
First, for the past several years, young-
er women have had fewer babies than
previous cohorts did at their age. And
second, we don’t know yet whether
that means they’ll end up with fewer
babies overall, or whether they’re just
waiting longer to start having them.
One data point in favor of the hy-
pothesis that we’re seeing not only later
but fewer births is that there has been a
slowdown in births even at the older
reproductive ages of 35 to 44 years,
groups that had previously seen year-
on-year increases in fertility rates. This
may be a sign that women in these age
groups aren’t “making up for” births
they didn’t have when they were
younger.
A shift toward smaller families
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cantly higher than that of even one
generation older.
Osaka’s generation is among the
first to speak freely, or at least more
freely, about mental health issues; it
is also a cohort that is accustomed to
doing its speaking on social media,
where a candid post about mental
health feels like an unexceptional
way of explaining oneself and con-
necting to fans.
To older generations, however,
Instagram is still seen as a less-than-
professional tool. This approach
may have lent Osaka’s announce-
ments an unintended air of disre-
spect. The medium affected the way
we understood — or misunderstood
— the message. Perhaps this discon-
nect is what led to such escalation
from Grand Slam officials.
Here is where Osaka’s May 26
post on social media, with its dry
tone and multimedia additions, may
have gone astray. “If the organiza-
tions think that they can just keep
saying, ‘do press or you’re gonna be
fined,’ and continue to ignore the
mental health of the athletes . . . I
just gotta laugh,” she wrote. Accom-
panying her now-deleted Instagram
post were two video clips: one of a
14-year-old Venus Williams being
asked over and over by a reporter
why she believed in herself; another
of the delightfully truculent NFL
player Marshawn Lynch answering
press questions during the run-up
to the 2015 Super Bowl with varia-
tions on the phrase, “I’m here so I
won’t get fined.”
Osaka was issuing a plea for
understanding, if not for help, but it
was read by many as a cheeky
challenge to authority.
Commenters “you-go-girled” and
cracked jokes. Roland-Garros re-
sponded with a subtweet from its
official Twitter account; it posted
images of other players submitting
to interviews, with the line, “They
understood the assignment." It was
might sound like big news, but it
actually has pretty small, slow-moving
effects on population growth. A lot of
coverage focuses on the fact that the
U.S. fertility rate is below the “replace-
ment level” of 2.1 children per woman,
often claiming that this is the number
of children we theoretically need if we
want to keep the population stable.
This number is often used as a bench-
mark, but it doesn’t tell us much about
population growth in the real world;
it’s the rate that would lead to zero
growth if fertility and mortality pat-
terns remained the same over decades.
Indeed, the U.S. population has contin-
ued to grow over nearly four decades of
sub-replacement fertility rates.
The word “stable” is also misleading,
since it implies that positive or zero
population growth is unequivocally
desirable, and that negative growth
undesirable. In reality, all population
growth patterns come with challenges.
It’s true that fast negative growth can
burden governments, since it means
they may struggle to pay for elder care,
but fast positive growth tends to bur-
den families, who pay most of the costs
of caring for children. More important-
ly, the difference between slow positive
and slow negative growth is probably
not meaningful or even perceptible to
the average person.
One bright side to the current popu-
lation panic is that it has opened up
conversations about ways to make life
better for Americans. The United
States lags behind peer countries in
paid leave, early-childhood education
infrastructure, and health-care and
higher-education costs. Policies to ad-
dress these issues are gaining populari-
ty. However, I caution against thinking
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only after Osaka’s second post, with
its added revelations about the real
state of her mental health, that her
position was taken seriously.
But how seriously, really? This
gets to the deeper question of what
athletes, or other celebrities, owe
their public. Osaka’s willingness to
acknowledge nonphysical challeng-
es stands in contrast to the stiff-
upper-lip mentality still expected by
an older generation in positions of
power.
Gilles Moretton, president of the
French Tennis Federation and a
former men’s tour player himself,
sniffed to a French sports daily that
Osaka’s decision was a “phenome-
nal error,” and one that was “very
damaging to sport, to tennis, to her
probably.”
And even as they attempted to
signal their sympathy, an older
generation of athletes and fans
echoed Moretton: Osaka signed up
for media pushback; it’s part of the
job. Surely all that money and fame
should be consolation for a few rude
questions from a quote-hungry
sportswriter.
But money isn’t our only measure
of well-being, nor should it be. When
conservative personality Laura
Ingraham told NBA star LeBron
James to “shut up and dribble” in
2018, her comment was rightfully
seen as dehumanizing and rejected
out of hand. James had the right to
speak out, or, more precisely, later
kneel down; Osaka has a parallel
right to stay quiet and play her sport,
especially if subjecting herself to
press inquisition is painful and dam-
aging to her mental health.
Athletes are human, too; it may
be their job to play, but they do not
exist solely for our entertainment.
By sitting out the French Open and
reminding us of that truth, Osaka is
doing not just herself but also “the
sport” a favor — whether Grand
Slam organizers realize it or not.
of progressive family policies as com-
bating low fertility. They may help
people decide to have more children,
but their effects are often modest.
Their primary goal should be to sup-
port, not to entice. Otherwise, we risk
making their continuation contingent
on increasing birth rates.
Rhetoric that fertility is at an “all-
time low” and that the United States —
or even the world — is facing an
“unprecedented” situation can feel un-
nerving. But unprecedented doesn’t
necessarily mean unexpected. Over the
past few centuries, the world has tran-
sitioned from generally high birth and
death rates to generally low ones. That
era is ending; most of humanity lives in
low-fertility countries, and women are
having fewer children even in places
where population growth has long
remained high, such as sub-Saharan
Africa. Zero or negative population
growth is something the world is prob-
ably going to be facing by century’s
end. Rather than panicking or trying to
forestall this for ourselves, we should
be thinking about what that transition
will mean globally — both for rich
countries and for poor ones that will be
far more burdened by aging popula-
tions than we will.
We’re not likely to stop hearing
about falling birthrates for a while; at
this time next year, we’ll be getting the
official numbers that will reflect the
pandemic’s effect on 2021 births. As
this topic continues to resurface, it’s
important to keep a clear perspective,
rather than worry unnecessarily.
The writer is a demographer and a
postdoctoral scholar at the University of
Colorado Boulder.
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GEORGE T. CONWAY III
No excuse
for the failure
to investigate
Jan. 6
epublican senators have managed to
R outdo themselves in cowardice —
which is quite a feat.
Last week’s Senate vote blocking a
national commission to investigate the Jan. 6
insurrection at the Capitol was even more
appalling than either of the Senate’s impeach-
ment trial acquittals of former president
Donald Trump.
With few exceptions, Senate Republicans
shirked their duties at both trials, despite the
oaths they took to defend the Constitution,
and, in an impeachment trial, to “do impar-
tial justice.” These derelictions were especial-
ly apparent in the first impeachment trial.
Faced with overwhelming evidence that
Trump had used his official powers to try to
coerce a foreign nation into aiding his reelec-
tion campaign, all but one Republican (Utah’s
Mitt Romney) voted to acquit him, even as the
senators refused to call witnesses.
They betrayed their oaths again in Febru-
ary, when 43 of the 50 Republican senators
voted to acquit Trump of inciting the insur-
rection, even though he had largely commit-
ted his high crime openly, on television and
Twitter, and even though the senators them-
selves were among the victims.
They acquitted him even though they
surely recognized, as their own leader,
Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), blisteringly said
on the floor on Feb. 13 after voting to acquit,
that Trump had engaged in a “disgraceful —
disgraceful — dereliction of duty.” Rather
than “do his job,” McConnell said, Trump
“watched television happily — happily — as
the chaos unfolded,” hoping “to either over-
turn the voters’ decision or else torch our
institutions on the way out.”
Trump breached his duties in both cases,
and Senate Republicans thus failed to carry
out theirs. But at least then the senators had
excuses, however feeble.
With the first impeachment, they faced the
momentous decision of whether to remove a
president from office — something that has
never been done. You can’t blame anyone for
feeling trepidation at such a prospect.
The second time around, most claimed
they couldn’t convict a former president,
even though he had been impeached while in
office for acts committed while in office.
Constitutional text and history refute that
proposition, but you could at least under-
stand one underlying motivation: The usual
sanction for an impeachment conviction is
removal. Trump was already gone, posed no
further threat of committing official abuse,
had just lost an election by 7 million votes and
stood as unpopular as ever. So, at least the
theory went, why bother convicting him just
to formally disqualify him from ever holding
federal offices to which he’d never be elected?
Those may not have been great excuses,
but at least the Republicans had them.
There was no excuse — none — for what
they did last week.
They weren’t being asked to remove any-
one from office; they weren’t being asked to
pass judgment of any sort. They were merely
being asked to allow a bipartisan commission
to look into what happened on, and led to,
Jan. 6.
Even worse: They actually weren’t voting
on whether to create a commission; they were
voting on cloture — on whether even to allow
a vote on the issue. Using the filibuster, a
Republican minority refused to allow a ma-
jority (which would have included seven
Republicans) to hold that vote.
And they did so out of raw political fear, this
time without fig leaves. McConnell’s own
leadership colleague, minority whip Sen. John
Thune (R-S.D.), actually admitted that Repub-
licans feared that the commission’s findings
“could be weaponized politically and drug into
next year,” a midterm election year.
As for McConnell, he pulled out all the
stops. Virtually echoing British Prime Minis-
ter Neville Chamberlain’s notorious call to
partisanship in the decisive 1940 parliamen-
tary debate over his handling of Nazi aggres-
sion — “I have friends in the House” —
McConnell shamelessly asked his colleagues
to kill the commission bill as “a personal
favor” to him.
With that, the Republicans’ policy of ap-
peasing Trump prevailed once again. But if
Republicans are worried about what would
happen if the public learned more of the truth
about Jan. 6, they have only themselves to
blame.
After all, they were the ones who acquitted
Trump in the first impeachment trial and let
him remain in office. They were the ones who
stood mute before Jan. 6 as Trump propagat-
ed the “big lie” after the election. They were
the ones who left open the horrifying pros-
pect of letting Trump hold office again. They
are the ones who continue to wish his wrongs
away.
They quiver in fear of the man who cost
them the presidency and both houses of
Congress. As they continue to quake, the “big
lie’s” cancer upon democracy grows, with
spurious election audits in pursuit of fanta-
sies of fraud, and with some insanely claim-
ing — reportedly including Trump himself —
that he’ll be “reinstated” in due course.
Four years of Trump have led to the
Republican Party becoming a threat to de-
mocracy, a declining sect dominated by
crackpots, charlatans and cowards. Of these,
it’s the cowards, including the senators who
killed last week’s legislation, who bear the
most blame.
George T. Conway III, a Post contributing
columnist, is a lawyer.
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Rules for facial recognition
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ACIAL RECOGNITION software
F is full of peril, but it’s also full of
potential. With the powerful
technology still in its infancy and
regulation next to nonexistent, now is
the time to write rules that would nudge
its development in a useful rather than a
dystopian direction.
The Metropolitan Washington Coun-
cil of Governments announced last
month that its National Capital Region
Facial Recognition Investigative Leads
System, which attempts to match sus-
pects’ faces to those in a database of
mugshots, would cease to operate, in
part because a new Virginia law re-
quires approval from the state legisla-
ture for any local law enforcement
system. Around the same time, Ama-
zon, whose chief executive, Jeff Bezos,
owns The Post, extended indefinitely
the global ban the company instituted
last summer on police use of its soft-
ware. There’s an obvious cause for
caution: Police have wrongfully arrest-
ed at least three Black men based on
A humane policy for Haitians
Mr. Biden extends a reprieve for those living in the United States.
Y EXTENDING special protec-
B tions to tens of thousands of
Haitians who have lived in the
United States since being dis-
placed by a shattering 2010 earthquake,
the Biden administration has put an end
to the cruel fantasy that their deporta-
tion would be anything but a humanitar-
ian and economic disaster imposed by
the hemisphere’s richest country on the
poorest.
That fantasy was embraced and sus-
tained by President Donald Trump,
whose crusade against legal and illegal
migrants of virtually every kind includ-
ed targeting those Haitians for expul-
sion, along with tens of thousands of
Salvadorans, Hondurans and others
who had lived for years in the United
States. All had been granted protection
from deportation and work permits
owing to natural disasters and armed
conflict in their home countries. Many
have children with U.S. citizenship and
own homes and businesses that are
integral to their communities.
Then along came the Trump adminis-
tration, which served notice that it was
canceling reprieves that had been grant-
ed to several hundred thousand foreign
nationals who were beneficiaries of the
U.S. program known as temporary pro-
tected status. Most were then faced with
a choice — which was no real choice at
all — between voluntary departure,
deportation or remaining in the United
States as unauthorized immigrants liv-
ing in the shadows.
Court challenges blocked their re-
moval from the country, and now, in the
case of Haitians, President Biden has
made good on a campaign promise to
extend their protections for 18 months.
That extension may be renewed if the
administration deems it necessary —
which, barring a major change in the
lawlessness and violence under which
many Haitians currently live, seems
likely.
Haiti is in the grip of simultaneous
constitutional, economic and security
crises that have paralyzed the institu-
tions of government and turned the
capital, Port-au-Prince, into a free-for-all
for kidnapping. The country, which has
never fully recovered from the one-two
punch of the 2010 earthquake and a
cholera epidemic in its wake, depends
VMI’s ‘racist and sexist culture’
The state-supported school must embrace change.
O READ the online chatter post-
T ed over the past year by some
cadets, alumni and others affili-
ated with the Virginia Military
Institute, you might think the allegations
of racism and sexism at the college were
cooked up by a cabal of prize-hungry
journalists, thin-skinned minorities and
politicians with their fingers in the wind.
For those individuals in the VMI commu-
nity, the results of an independent inves-
tigation released Tuesday should come as
a wake-up call. VMI, the nation’s oldest
state-supported military college, has
grave, deep-rooted problems, and the
school’s own denialism, resentment and
insularity are impediments to fixing
them.
The 145-page, state-sponsored report
by the law firm Barnes & Thornburg,
based on months of surveys, interviews
and document reviews, concluded that
VMI’s “overall racist and sexist culture”
must be addressed through a muscular
program of reforms. It added that the
college’s abiding hostility to fundamental
change does not “inspire confidence that
it will follow through on this plan.” VMI
will undertake needed reforms, the re-
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bad matches, and tales of gross misuse
among law enforcement abound.
Congress should impose a moratori-
um on government use of facial recogni-
tion software until it has time to erect
guardrails that would prevent these
abuses. Those guardrails should include
setting minimum performance stan-
dards that include tests for racial bias,
require high confidence thresholds for
matches, mandate reasonable suspicion
or warrants for searches, and restrict
real-time surveillance to public emer-
gencies. But as long as Congress dithers,
states, cities and companies are right to
fill the rules gap, shielding civilians
from overreach. Unchecked use of the
technology threatens not only individu-
als whom the technology wrongly
matches, but also society in general: Just
look at China, where an always-on
dragnet keeps civilians permanently
under the state’s gaze. Critics rightly
worry about national capital region
officials deploying facial recognition
software to hound participants in last
Haitian immigrants rally against deportations in New York on Nov. 21, 2017.
heavily on money sent home from the
Haitian diaspora. Not only would fami-
lies and villages lose that income were
Washington to expel tens of thousands
of Haitians, but few of those Haitians
would find work upon returning home.
By extending their reprieve, the Biden
administration has done not only the
humane thing; it has done the only
sensible thing.
It should follow suit with nearly
200,000 Salvadorans, the largest cohort
of TPS recipients. Many have lived in
this country for 15 years or more, their
protections extended by the George
W. Bush administration as well as the
Obama administration. As with Hai-
tians, their remittances are a critical
port says, “only if it is forced to do so.”
That means Virginia’s elected officials,
lawmakers and taxpayers, who chip in a
fifth of VMI’s current $96 million annual
budget, have their work cut out. The good
news is that the state’s current senior
elected officials, all Democrats, seem to
understand that. In a joint statement,
Gov. Ralph Northam, Lt. Gov. Justin
Fairfax, Attorney General Mark R. Her-
ring and the top leaders in the General
Assembly reminded VMI that it “is an
agency of state government, and we will
hold it accountable.”
The bad news is that enablers of the
college’s status quo, including its own
governing body’s leaders and the state
Senate’s top Republican, made clear they
are skeptical of the report’s conclusions.
All agreed VMI must be a welcoming and
bias-free place. But in the same breath,
the outgoing and incoming presidents of
VMI’s governing Board of Visitors said
the school “is not immune to the chal-
lenges all colleges face in this area” — the
same we’re-no-worse-than-anyone-else
excuse used by the Catholic Church to
rationalize child-abusing clergy. And
state Sen. Tommy K. Norment Jr., the
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summer’s largely peaceful protests at
Lafayette Square.
Yet, rule-makers must also avoid over-
reach as they respond to these threats.
The technology should be regulated, not
shut down. Law enforcement officers
have harnessed facial recognition in
bank robbery and human trafficking
cases. A good recognition algorithm,
appropriately trained and reviewed,
could do a better job correctly identify-
ing a suspect — and indeed, exhibit less
prejudice — than an officer flipping
through mugshots or a witness looking
at a lineup.
Congress’s inaction so far leaves
Americans unprotected. Authorities will
continue to encroach on civil liberties,
and at the same time, those excesses
threaten to create a backlash that
clamps down too hard on a tool that
could aid important investigations and
keep people safer. Before that happens,
legislators must ensure that law enforce-
ment treats powerful software with care
and circumspection.
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source of support in their home country.
El Salvador, too, is beset by growing
political trouble as President Nayib
Bukele veers toward autocracy. As
things stand now, Salvadorans will lose
their protected status in October.
The residency privileges and work
permits granted to Salvadorans, Hai-
tians and others already living in this
country were intended to be temporary.
They were extended because conditions
in their home countries made their
return impractical and unsafe. To pre-
tend otherwise, as the Trump adminis-
tration did, made the United States look
small, weak and mean. Mr. Biden has
shifted to a better policy; he should stick
to that track.
Senate GOP leader (and a VMI graduate),
minimized the investigation’s findings,
saying systemic problems — “subject to
interpretation by critics or the unin-
formed” — could be identified at any
school examined on a “granular basis.”
In fact, VMI’s festering issues are long
in the making. It denied admission to
Black people until 1968 and to women
until 1996, when its hand was forced by a
Supreme Court ruling. Its student body
includes nearly twice as many cadets of
color as in 1992 but remains overwhelm-
ingly White — 77 percent vs. 56 percent at
the University of Virginia; hence the
report’s findings that the school has been
run “by white men, for white men.”
Racial slurs and widespread misogyny on
campus are reinforced by a culture of
what the report called “silence, fear, and
intimidation.”
Throughout the report’s preparation,
VMI fought the investigators at every
turn, despite pledging full cooperation.
The burden will now be on the college,
led since last fall by its first Black super-
intendent, retired Army Maj. Gen. Cedric
T. Wins, to show that it takes the findings
seriously — and intends to act on them.
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More Thomas Jeffersons
Regarding George F. Will’s May 30
op-ed, “Anti-Asian racism disguises itself
as ‘diversity’ ”:
We live in one of the wealthiest regions
in the world, yet we struggle against
scarce resources of our own choosing.
What is wrong with this picture? It’s time
to build as many Thomas Jefferson High
Schools for Science and Technology as it
takes to clear the waiting list and satisfy
the demand for top-notch science and
technology education. What are we wait-
ing for?
Rebecca Krafft, Arlington
What it means to be ‘woke’
Three cheers for Michael Gerson’s May
28 op-ed, “When it comes to knowing
U.S. history, we should all be ‘woke.’ ” As
Mr. Gerson said, if “woke” means recog-
nizing how systemic racism has shaped
our country, every thinking adult should
want to be “woke.”
In contrast, it has been appalling to
read other center-right columnists casu-
ally parrot Republican talking points by
using “woke” as a pejorative, implying
that those who use the term are somehow
naive, or that they are raising trivial
historical issues or that they are simply
faculty lounge radicals bent on indoctri-
nating their students on the mores of a
mythical cancel culture. In doing that,
they are in effect saying that our sordid
history in matters of race has nothing to
teach us about our current racial crisis.
One can only conclude that rather than
being “woke,” they wish us to stay asleep.
Michael L. Mezey,
Friendship Heights
Michael Gerson’s excellent essay
about racism and the history of St. Louis,
“When it comes to knowing history, we
should all be ‘woke’,” struck a personal
chord with me. As descendants of civic
leaders who lived in pre-Civil War
St. Louis, my family recently discovered
deep ties to slavery that shocked and
awakened us to a brutal history that has
been buried for too long. As Mr. Gerson
explained, Walter Johnson’s ground-
breaking historical account of St. Louis,
“The Broken Heart of America,” rightly
puts the Gateway City in an important
national context, a center of racism and
violence that shaped the country’s evolu-
tion into what it is today. But largely
missing from this account is the tragic
role that slavery played in the Jesuit
community, which founded and built
institutions such as St. Louis University.
Jesuits in St. Louis and across the country
are finally acknowledging their long his-
tory of enslaving people, something we
discovered is linked to my ancestors, too.
Members of my family are currently
working with local politicians, historians
and lawyers in St. Louis to shine a light on
this deeply disturbing history, a secret
past that remains embedded in streets,
buildings and schools still named after
slaveholding interests who pursued rac-
ist agendas. Only when we learn our true
history will we find real solutions for the
future. We all need to be “woke.”
William “Rocky” Kistner,
Chevy Chase
The ‘Good American’ path
In the May 28 news article “Blinken to
travel to Central America to bolster
relations with key countries,” Julie
Chung, acting assistant secretary of
state for the Western Hemisphere, was
quoted as saying, “We’re looking to
really discuss and hear from the govern-
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how we can address the challenges.”
That’s what our senior officials do: get
their information from governments.
But why aren’t we talking with the
people who are persecuted and left
insecure by the likes of the government
officials from which Secretary of
State Antony Blinken and Ms. Chung are
getting their information?
Robert Kaplan’s book “The Good
American” tells how senior officials in
both political parties over four decades
depended on the subject of Mr. Kaplan’s
book, Bob Gersony, to find out for them
what ordinary people were saying about
the sources of their suffering. Once our
leaders found out the true reasons
people were fleeing their homes, they
could make intelligent policy decisions
and use our resources and political clout
more effectively to address the compul-
sions for migration or asylum-seeking.
Rather than starting with a “$4 billion
commitment to address the root causes”
in the Northern Triangle, start with the
“Good American” technique. Otherwise,
we get our clues from suspect leaders,
with their own priorities for spending
the United States’ billions in aid. Please,
America, there is a “good American” who
can help. Let’s get Mr. Gersony on the
case.
Arthur E. Dewey, Washington
The writer was assistant secretary of
state for the Bureau of Population,
Refugees, and Migration
from 2002 to 2005.
Play up the populism
In his May 27 Thursday Opinion col-
umn, “How populism could help Demo-
crats,” James Hohmann advised Demo-
crats to pay attention to Democratic
pollster Stanley Greenberg’s work. Popu-
lism is working, and what President
Biden and the Democrats in Congress are
laying on the land is meeting with
approval. As the president pointedly
iterated, their work is being co-opted by
Republicans who voted against the
American Rescue Plan but who are now
taking credit for bringing its benefits to
their respective districts.
Wise up, Democrats. Stop playing
patty-cake while Lucy repeatedly pulls
the ball away from your eager and
trembling foot. Republican polls show
the same. Your populism is working.
Blast from the treetops that you made it
possible for people to get back on their
feet, return to or find jobs, get their kids
back in schools, protect and strengthen
our voting rights and beat back the fear
of serious health problems or death from
the coronavirus. Mr. Hohmann preached
wisdom. There are wiseguys, and there
are wise guys. We had enough of the
former, thanks to the previous adminis-
tration. Get with the latter and stake your
claim. Another wise man said, “If not
you, then who; if not now, then when?”
Helen F. Dalton, Potomac
A benefit without the need
Regarding the May 28 front-page arti-
cle “ ‘My back is against the wall’ ”:
I was appalled to read that applicants
for rental assistance were required to
complete an eight-page application re-
quiring extensive documentation of their
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GEORGE F. WILL
Democrats’
voting bill is
constitutional
vandalism
uring the Nixon administration’s
D Watergate unraveling, Henry
Kissinger’s mordant jest was, “The
illegal we do immediately, the un-
constitutional takes a little longer.” But not
long, say today’s congressional Democrats.
Their “For the People Act” (FTP) is 800-plus
pages of provisions convenient for them
and their party, some constitutionally dubi-
ous, others patently unconstitutional.
All laws regulating campaigns are enact-
ed by people with conflicts of interest —
interests in advantaging themselves and
disadvantaging challengers. FTP would dic-
tate sweeping changes to all 50 states’
election laws, contravening the Constitu-
tion’s stipulation that the “times, places and
manner” of congressional elections are to
be determined by state legislatures. Grant-
ed, the Constitution says Congress may
“alter” such rules, but dictating, for exam-
ple, how congressional districts are drawn
does not pertain to the “manner” of elec-
tions. FTP reflects the perennial progres-
sive desire to reduce the states to appendag-
es of the federal government.
FTP sweeps beyond elections by expand-
ing regulation of “electioneering communi-
cation” to include any communication that
mentions a federal official, even if only to
urge support for a policy, not influence an
election. Unsatisfied with their advantages
in the mainstream media, Democrats aim to
impede alternative forms of advocacy, espe-
cially by requiring disclosure of even small-
dollar donors to organizations involved
only in issue advocacy, not elections. This is
sinister, given the ferocious vindictiveness
of today’s virtual mobs that hound people
associated with controversial causes. Soon,
the Supreme Court might issue a ruling
strengthening its defense of the First
Amendment right to speak anonymously.
(In 2020, outside groups supporting Joe
Biden raised anonymous donations — what
Democrats tendentiously call “dark money”
— that were six times the amount raised by
allies of Donald Trump.)
The parties should insist that presiden-
tial candidates make public 10 years of their
tax returns. But by making this a legal
requirement, FTP would add a new qualifi-
cation for the presidential office. In 1995,
the Supreme Court, striking down a state
law imposing term limits on Arkansas’s
national legislators, held that the Constitu-
tion sets the maximum, not a minimum, of
qualifications. Neither Congress nor state
legislatures can augment them.
FTP would compel states to count mail
ballots received 10 days after the election,
on the infantilizing assumption that voters
cannot be expected to meet an Election
Day deadline. Also, FTP would give voters
10 additional days to correct mistakes on
mailed ballots, further prolonging possible
uncertainty about elections outcomes. Na-
tionally, 73 percent of 2020 voters cast
their ballots before Election Day. Almost
44 percent of Florida ballots were cast by
mail, yet the state tabulation was complet-
ed on election night, which should be a
national norm.
Although 43 states and the District of
Columbia allow early voting for between
four and 45 days, Democrats propose to
give federal government employees, a sig-
nificant component of their party’s base,
paid Election Days off at an estimated cost
of $800 million every two years. Although
New Hampshire has no mail-in voting, and
requires voter IDs and in-person voter
registration, it has been among the top five
states in voter turnout in the five previous
presidential elections. Actually, a modi-
cum of inconvenience is a civic benefit if,
by drawing voters together in public places
on a solemn day central to the national
liturgy, election arrangements emphasize
that more than just private considerations
is at stake.
For generations, there has been judicial
enforcement of constitutional and statu-
tory protections of voting rights. And in
2020, the states rose to the challenge of
conducting elections compatible with
pandemic-related public health protocols.
And as Democrats rightly insist, the voting,
which shattered turnout records, was with-
out significant malfeasance. So, why 800-
plus pages of revisions to electoral pro-
cedures and political practices? See above —
the first sentence of the second paragraph.
FTP reflects an appetite for constitution-
al vandalism that was displayed seven years
ago when 54 members of the Democratic
Senate caucus voted to amend the First
Amendment to empower Congress to regu-
late the quantity, content and timing of
campaign speech. They thereby implicitly
acknowledged that the amendment (“Con-
gress shall make no law . . . abridging the
freedom of speech”) is, by its text, and
Supreme Court rulings, incompatible with
their desire to strictly control campaign
spending, all of which directly or indirectly
funds political advocacy.
Unable to alter the Constitution, Demo-
crats now propose, with FTP, to ignore it. In
the unlikely event that the For the People
Act is passed, the Supreme Court will have
multiple occasions for reacquainting its
authors with what they ignored.
CORRECTION
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s May 31
op-ed, “Those who oppose D.C. statehood
are distorting my father’s words,” incorrect-
ly stated the date of the Voting Rights Act. It
was passed in 1965.
Survivor Viola Fletcher is given flowers during a May 31 ceremony honoring victims of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.
Tulsa survivors are entitled
to more than symbolic justice
BY S UZETTE M ALVEAUX
ustice is timeless — or at least it
J should be when government
commits the most egregious
atrocities against its own citi-
zens. I learned this most poi-
gnantly as a young lawyer represent-
ing survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race
massacre.
One hundred years ago this week,
one of the nation’s most prosperous
Black communities — the Greenwood
district of Tulsa — was destroyed by a
White mob in less than 24 hours. This
mob killed some 300 African Ameri-
cans, left more than 10,000 homeless
and burned to the ground the entire
area known as Black Wall Street.
Black Tulsans experienced a horrific
wrath and loss of generational wealth.
To this day, Greenwood has not fully
recovered.
There was no viable pursuit of
justice for Black Americans at that
time. The Ku Klux Klan had infiltrated
every facet of local government, and
lynchings were regularly used to ter-
rorize and intimidate Black citizens.
Days after the massacre, Black
lawyer B.C. Franklin, father of re-
nowned historian John Hope Frank-
lin, set up a makeshift law office in a
tent amid Greenwood’s rubble.
Armed with his typewriter and law
books, working with a colleague and a
legal secretary, Franklin filed insur-
ance claims on behalf of Black Tulsans
for property loss and damage. But
state and local officials and White-run
newspapers initially deemed the mas-
sacre a “race riot,” for which Black
residents were responsible, so Frank-
lin’s courageous efforts at recoupment
were unsuccessful.
To this day, not a single criminal act
has been prosecuted for murder, theft,
arson or assault in the Tulsa massacre.
City and state officials hid evidence
and destroyed information. Victims
were buried in unmarked graves. Talk
E.J. DIONNE JR.
Can Biden’s conciliatory side survive
the GOP’s assault on democracy?
n politics, the month of June will
I be brought to you by the words
“contradiction,”
“showdown.”
“bluffs”
The contradiction involves Presi-
dent Biden’s desire to reach bipartisan
and
deals with Republicans in Washington
and his awareness — reflected in his
fervent speech in Tulsa on Tuesday —
that GOP interlocutors are unwilling to
stand up for democracy in the face of
their party’s voter-suppression efforts
around the country.
As for bluffs, two of them will be
called. Will enough Senate Republicans
be willing to do business with Biden to
make negotiations worthwhile? And
will Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III’s
resolute opposition to altering the Sen-
ate’s filibuster rule persist in the face of
Republican obstruction, especially on
issues affecting democracy itself ?
Thus, the showdown. In a letter to
colleagues last Friday, Senate Majority
Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.)
made clear that he would test the
Senate’s capacity to legislate by bring-
ing up a series of bills — on gender pay
equity, gun violence, LGBTQ rights
and, at the end of June, a vote on the For
the People Act, the omnibus political
reform and voter-protection bill.
Schumer’s language was revealing.
The Republican filibuster of a bill to
create a bipartisan commission to in-
vestigate the Jan. 6 attack on the
Capitol, he wrote, was part of a pattern
revealing “the limits of bipartisanship
and the resurgence of Republican ob-
structionism.”
“Senate Democrats are doing every-
thing we can to move legislation in a
bipartisan way when and where the
opportunity exists. But we will not wait
for months and months to pass mean-
ingful legislation that delivers real re-
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ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
of the destruction was squelched, and
Oklahoma’s history books excluded it.
The coverup was so extensive that
even Tulsa’s mayor in 1996 said she
had not heard of the 1921 massacre
until she was an adult.
But as President Biden reminded
Americans on the massacre’s centen-
nial: “Just because history is silent, it
doesn’t mean it did not take place.
And while darkness can hide much, it
erases nothing. . . . Some injustices
are so heinous, so horrific, so griev-
ous, they can’t be buried, no matter
how hard people try.”
Eighty years after the Tulsa massa-
cre, a bipartisan commission found
that state and local officials had
armed, authorized and commanded
the White mob to wreak havoc on
their fellow Americans. After a four-
year investigation, the extent of the
government’s culpability was laid
bare. Tulsa and Oklahoma had en-
gaged in one of the most brutal race-
motivated massacres in U.S. history.
Now, with this evidence, survivors
of the Tulsa massacre could sue the
government for violation of their con-
stitutional rights. A “dream team” of
advocates was assembled, including
Johnnie Cochran, Harvard law profes-
sor Charles Ogletree and historian
John Hope Franklin. Our team filed a
case in federal court in 2003, two
years after the report was published.
Law professor Eric Miller and I, then
young lawyers on the team, drafted
the complaint challenging the gov-
ernment-sanctioned massacre.
But our case was dismissed as un-
timely. Under the statute of limita-
tions, our clients, more than 100 sur-
vivors (including Otis Clark, who was
then 102 years old), were expected to
have brought their lawsuit two years
after the massacre. That was almost
80 years before the government’s role
in the death and destruction would be
revealed. Back then, survivors were
homeless, destitute and traumatized
sults.” He concluded: “The American
people gave us a Democratic Senate to
produce big and bold action on the
major issues confronting us. And that
is what we will do.”
In just a few days, pressure to upend
the filibuster and pass voting rights
and clean government bills took a
quantum leap. The GOP’s minority
blockade of the commission bill last
Friday enraged Manchin and, his col-
leagues hoped, might soften his views
on filibuster reform.
Then, on Sunday, a walkout of Demo-
cratic state legislators derailed a Texas
Republican bill to roll back voting
access and politicize the process of
deciding election outcomes. The Texas
rebels used their temporary victory to
challenge Washington Democrats to
match their determination. “We did
our part,” tweeted state Rep. Erin
Zwiener. “Now we need Congress to do
their part.”
Two days later, Biden issued his
strongest words to date in support of
the For the People Act. He did so in a
remarkable speech marking the 100th
anniversary of what the president
pointedly called a “massacre” of as
many as 300 Black people in Tulsa by a
White mob that destroyed a prosperous
African American neighborhood.
Declaring that the “sacred right” to
vote was “under assault with an
incredible intensity like I’ve never
seen,” Biden denounced GOP voter
suppression efforts that have spread to
14 states. He labeled them a “truly
unprecedented assault on our democ-
racy, an effort to replace nonpartisan
election administrators and to intimi-
date those charged with tallying and
reporting the election results.”
Without mentioning them by name,
Biden called out Manchin (W.Va.) and
RE
by this act of domestic terrorism. They
were in no position to seek justice.
In recognition of such extraordi-
nary circumstances, the federal judge
set aside the two-year statute of limi-
tations. But he also concluded that
with the end of the Jim Crow era in the
1960s, it was reasonable to expect
plaintiffs to file the lawsuit before the
2001 report’s publication.
It is true that shop owners had
taken down the signs specifying “Ne-
gro” and “White” customers only, the
Supreme Court had struck down “sep-
arate but equal” as unconstitutional,
and Congress had enacted new civil
rights laws. But many survivors, ag-
grieved by lifelong trauma and un-
aware of the government’s role in the
massacre, still could not have filed
then. Systemic racism and intimida-
tion had hardly died with the Jim
Crow signage. Regardless, the federal
courts concluded it was too late for
justice to be done.
This should not be the case. Stat-
utes of limitations are the result of
political will, or lack thereof. They
reflect our society’s priorities and val-
ues by making it easier, or harder, or
impossible to challenge misconduct.
Legislators decide which claims and
claimants matter. Filing deadlines
might seem merely procedural, but
they can deprive those with little
power of the “day in court” promised
to every American.
If ever there were an injustice cry-
ing out for resolution, it is the Tulsa
race massacre. Acknowledging the
tragedy is not enough. Faced with
such egregious government abuse of
power, lawmakers must insist on legal
culpability, too. Justice is timeless —
and, in this case, long overdue.
The writer is provost professor of civil
rights law and director of the Byron
R. White Center for the Study of American
Constitutional Law at the University of
Colorado Law School.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), the two
most stubborn Democratic supporters
of the filibuster.
“I hear all the folks on TV saying,
‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’ ” the
president said. “Well, because Biden
only has a majority of, effectively, four
votes in the House and a tie in the
Senate, with two members of the Sen-
ate who vote more with my Republican
friends.”
The statement was all the more
noteworthy because Biden himself has
expressed reluctance to upend the
filibuster.
Biden was clearly responding to calls
from democracy advocates to speak out
more forcefully for reform, and to
underscore his resolve, the president
tasked Vice President Harris to take the
lead on the voting-rights effort.
That Biden rebuked GOP attacks on
democracy even as he continued to
negotiate with Senate Republicans on
an infrastructure bill speaks to the
inescapable tension inherent in his
desire to marry far-reaching change
with his conciliatory habits and image.
He desperately wants to keep his
popular promise to cooperate with
Republicans where he can, and even
impatient Democrats acknowledge the
political benefits of his efforts.
But how can there be authentic
common ground if Washington Repub-
licans resist federal action to undo
what Biden called “un-American” as-
saults on voting rights, thereby making
themselves complicit with the anti-
democratic schemes of states their par-
ty controls?
It’s not Biden’s fault that Republi-
cans have made democracy a partisan
issue. But it is his problem if he hopes to
continue preaching his gospel of amia-
ble collaboration.
A21
JAMES HOHMANN
Republicans
see Florida
as a blueprint
emography is not always destiny.
D Many Democrats incorrectly as-
sumed their coalition would domi-
nate national politics once Hispan-
ics became a large enough share of the
electorate, just as the party has in California
over the past generation. But what if Ameri-
ca’s future looks more like Florida than
California?
Twice as many Floridians voted in 2020
than 2000 — and the increase in numbers
was accompanied by an unexpected shift in
the composition of the voters. “The elector-
ate in that time became substantially less
White and more Republican,” said GOP
strategist Curt Anderson, who helped elect
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) as Florida’s governor
and then to the Senate in 2018.
Scott now chairs the National Republican
Senatorial Committee (NRSC), where he’s
determined to replicate across the Sun Belt
in the 2022 midterms some of the gains the
party has achieved among Hispanics in the
Sunshine State. The NRSC has already aired
Spanish-language attack ads against Demo-
cratic incumbents in Nevada and Arizona.
The stakes are high: An estimated
16.6 million Latinos cast ballots last Novem-
ber, a 31 percent increase from four years
before. Democrats still win handily among
this group nationally, but exit polls show
their margin of victory has declined in presi-
dential contests from 44 percent in 2012 to
38 percent in 2016 to 33 percent in 2020.
The GOP courtship isn’t new. “Latinos are
Republican. They just don’t know it yet,”
Ronald Reagan joked in 1980. George
W. Bush, another border-state governor who
became president, pulled a record 44 percent
of the Hispanic vote in 2004. But the trend-
line of the past decade is remarkable, consid-
ering former president Donald Trump’s
“build the wall” rhetoric, and Democratic
operatives acknowledge their party grew
overly complacent about this constituency.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Hispanic
frustration about the coronavirus lock-
downs helped Trump carry his state by
3.4 points, nearly three times the former
president’s 2016 margin of victory. He be-
lieves a generational realignment is under-
way in which working-class Latinos, who
tend to be more conservative, will drift
toward Republicans.
While Cuban Americans such as Rubio
have traditionally gravitated toward Repub-
licans, they make up a diminishing share of
Florida’s diverse Hispanic diaspora — which
makes the Republican successes there all the
more impressive. Scott was governor when
Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in
2017. He says Republicans called from
Washington to warn him not to welcome
refugees from the island because, since
they’re eligible to vote as U.S. citizens, they
would tilt Florida’s electoral playing field
toward Democrats.
Instead, Scott visited Puerto Rico repeat-
edly, spoke the Spanish he taught himself
and tried to make the transition as painless
as possible for the transplants. Exit polls
showed Scott tied then-Sen. Bill Nelson
(D-Fla.) among Hispanics when he narrowly
defeated him the next year.
Democratic strategist Stephanie Valencia,
president of the research firm Equis Labs,
credited Republicans with building what she
calls “a year-round, surround-sound,
echo-chamber infrastructure in South Flori-
da” that allows them to relentlessly appeal to
Latino voters on radio stations their allies
control and by cultivating influencers on
YouTube and social media. “It’s a playbook
that they’d be smart to replicate in other
states and one that Democrats need to get
ahead of,” she said.
Valencia, who held senior roles in former
president Barack Obama’s campaigns and
White House, believes Trump’s personality
and business background made him appeal-
ing to Latinos in ways that other Republi-
cans will not be able to repeat. She also
thinks the pandemic, with economic hard-
ship that disproportionately hurt Latinos,
distracted somewhat from the right’s grow-
ing nativism.
Even so, President Biden was the first
Democrat to carry Arizona since 1996, and
Democrat Mark Kelly (Ariz.) won the re-
mainder of the late John McCain’s Senate
term, because of strong performance with
Latinos. Scott speculated that Arizona
flipped because of the lingering popularity of
McCain, whom Trump continued to smear
through 2020. Cindy McCain, his widow,
endorsed Biden.
Looking ahead to next year, when Kelly
will be on the ballot again for a six-year term,
Republicans believe the culture war argu-
ments that resonate with their White base
may play just as well with Hispanics. Curt
Anderson’s firm, OnMessage, conducted a
recent survey for the NRSC of 1,200 Hispanic
likely voters across eight states with Senate
races in 2022: Arizona, Florida, Georgia,
Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and Wisconsin. The poll showed strong sup-
port for restricting transgender participa-
tion in women’s sports, going after Big Tech
and decrying “cancel culture.”
More than eight years ago, the Republican
National Committee’s post-election autopsy
said the party “must embrace and champion
comprehensive immigration reform,” warn-
ing gravely: “If Hispanics think we do not
want them here, they will close their ears to
our policies.”
Now, GOP operatives emphasize that their
private poll shows a startling 72 percent of
Hispanic voters agreed with this statement:
“We should do what is necessary to control
our southern border and stop the surge of
illegal immigration.” In an illustration of
how much has changed, and how much the
Hispanic vote matters, Scott flew to New
York last week to brief Trump on these
findings at Trump Tower.
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PHOTOS BY LUIS ANTONIO ROJAS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Marcos Parra, who is running for reelection as mayor of Taxco, scoffs at the notion he was behind the shooting of a rival. A bodyguard for Parra holds
his weapon as they return from a rally last month. Crosses adorn a grave in a Taxco cemetery. Eighty-nine politicians have been killed in Mexico since September, a security firm reports.

MEXICO FROM A1

races for mayor and other local

government posts.
“This is a struggle for munici-
pal power,” said University of
Notre Dame political scientist
Guillermo Trejo, who studies po-
litical violence in Latin America.
Crime groups “have discovered
that gaining control over munici-
pal governments and local econo-
mies and populations and territo-
ries is crucial if they want to
survive in the very fierce strug-
gles for drug-trafficking routes.”
The fight for influence is com-
plex. There are politicians who
resist crime groups and politi-
cians who are suspected of wel-
coming the gangs’ cash or muscle.
In some towns, a dominant traf-
ficking organization has imposed
its favorite candidate. In others,
rival armed groups back oppos-
ing parties.
Then there’s Taxco, a pictur-
esque silver-mining city 100
miles south of Mexico City. Three
of the nine candidates for munici-
pal president are protected by
bodyguards. Another mayoral
hopeful dropped out of the race
after being kidnapped and beat-
en. Local branches of two major
cartels — the Familia Michoacana
and Jalisco New Generation —
are playing a murky role in the
election.
“We’ve reached an extreme,”
said Figueroa, a political novice
who’s running on the ticket of a
small party, Fuerza por Mexico.
He confessed to being nervous.
“How could I not be?” he asked.
“I’m not Superman. But someone
needs to bring order to Taxco.”
Indeed, this once-peaceful city
has become a symbol of the social
and economic toll of crime
groups’ expanding presence in
Mexico. Taxco remains an archi-
Mexico’s local elections are literal battlegrounds
as crime organizations assert territorial control
tectural jewel, with its 18th-
century Baroque cathedral and
hundreds of whitewashed, red-
tile-roofed homes spilling down
Atatzin Mountain. Tourists still
stroll its cobblestone alleys lined
with silver-jewelry shops; they
are rarely harmed. But homicides
more than tripled from 2007 to
2019, reaching 77; extortion is
widespread; and journalists self-
censor for fear of being killed.
“Taxco used to be known as one
of the most tranquil places in the
world,” said Roberto Hernández
Mojica, a local leader of a miners
union. “Now, at 10 p.m., there’s no
one outside because of the vio-
lence. It’s affected us tremen-
dously.”
The mayoral campaign here
got off to a bloody start. Figueroa
was getting out of his SUV near
his downtown home on the eve-
ning of Dec. 21 when a motorcy-
clist suddenly roared up, his face
hidden by a helmet.
There was a crack; the bullet
pierced the candidate’s lung. He
was rushed to the hospital.
Last month, security forces fi-
nally arrested a suspect, the al-
leged local boss of the Familia
Michoacana crime group.
Figueroa said he thinks the attack
was a political hit. He recalled
what the gunman had shouted
before opening fire: “You’re not
understanding the situation with
Parra.” Marcos Parra is the mu-
nicipal president of Taxco, run-
ning for reelection. Figueroa had
accused his government of cor-
ruption in public works projects.
“We’ve been very critical of the
municipal president,” Figueroa
said. “So we think that that’s the
origin of the attacks against me.”
In an interview, Parra scoffed
at the allegations, saying his rival
had no evidence. “He’s probably
going to accuse me of killing
Kennedy, too,” he grumbled. If
anything, Parra said, he’s the one
being threatened. In recent
months, gunmen claiming to be
from the Jalisco New Generation
cartel released a video and hung
banners in town charging that
the mayor was a “rat” tied to the
Familia Michoacana.
Parra hardly looks like a gang-
ster. The 67-year-old politician,
with slicked-back hair and a me-
ticulously pressed shirt, is the son
of a former leader of the con-
servative National Action Party, a
respected figure who was jailed in
the 1960s for confronting
Mexico’s authoritarian, one-party
state. Parra said he’d turned
down invitations from crime
groups to meet. “I’ve never sat
and negotiated with anybody”
from the organizations, he de-
clared. “Nor am I going to.”
Still, he acknowledged, run-
ning Taxco has meant enduring
constant pressure from the
gangs, whose tentacles stretch
into the police and justice system.
When Parra moved back to the
city to become mayor in 2018, it
was so dangerous he left his wife
and son in Acapulco, 150 miles
away. Crime has declined since
then, he said, but there are still
only 40 municipal police officers.
He’d recruited 64 more appli-
cants, but they either flunked the
test or decided not to join the
force.
“Were they threatened?” he
said. “I don’t know.”
Taxco’s challenges reflect those
bedeviling many Mexican com-
munities. Crime groups that once
concentrated on exporting drugs
to the United States have diversi-
fied into extortion, kidnapping
and narcotics sales. A U.S.-backed
effort to decapitate big cartels
caused them to splinter into com-
peting bands. Heroin producers
sought additional routes, to re-
spond to a growing American
appetite for the drug and to evade
federal authorities.
Some of those roads in Guerre-
ro state ran by this pretty moun-
tain city, long known for its silver
mines. Now it has a different
geographical significance.
“The location of Taxco is funda-
mental for the passage of drugs
and stolen cars,” Parra said.
The campaign is shaping up as
one of the most deadly in recent
Mexican history, surpassed only
by the run-up to the 2018 presi-
dential election. Thirty-five can-
didates have been assassinated in
the current contest, the vast ma-
jority of them seeking municipal
office, according to Etellekt.
(Fifty-four other politicians who
were not seeking office this year
have also been killed.)
The slain candidates came
from across the political spec-
trum, but Etellekt found that
most were trying to oust the local
governing party. The gangs have
much at stake in the outcome of
the races. “They want control of
the police, control of public
works projects, the budget and
illicit activities,” said Marcial
Rodríguez Saldaña, the state
leader of Morena, the party of
President Andrés Manuel López
Obrador.
As dramatic as the death count
is, it doesn’t reflect the full scope
of the gangs’ intimidation. In
previous election cycles, some
candidates ignored the death
threats and carried on with their
campaigns, said Adrian Wences,
state director of the small Citi-
zens’ Movement party. “Unfortu-
nately, the threats were carried
out,” he said. Now, “when they are
threatened, they drop out.”
In recent months, scores of
candidates have either aban-
doned their bids for office under
pressure or stopped campaign-
ing. In one high-profile case, a
candidate for municipal presi-
dent of Valle de Bravo, a resort
town outside Mexico City, gave up
campaigning after she was kid-
napped and threatened, accord-
ing to local news reports. The
candidate, Zudikey Rodríguez,
who represents a coalition of
parties opposed to Morena, sub-
sequently insisted she was still in
the race. “Throughout my life,
I’ve never let fear hold me back,”
she said in a video.
While political parties have
denounced the violence, some
might be taking advantage of the
money and brute force of armed
groups. “Really what we’re seeing
is a very dynamic type of power
negotiation between both sides,”
said Falko Ernst, senior analyst in
Mexico for the International Cri-
sis Group.
The electoral violence is con-
centrated in seven states, accord-
ing to the federal government,
which has worked with local au-
thorities to assign bodyguards for
around 150 candidates. “We are
going to continue providing pro-
tection,” López Obrador said last
week. He urged citizens to not be
afraid to vote Sunday.
López Obrador boasts that
Mexico’s homicide rate has stabi-
lized after several years of explo-
sive growth. But his policies —
which include a new national
guard, and social programs to
lure young people from crime —
have not substantially reduced
the number of killings.
The attacks on candidates re-
flect a broader effort by crime
groups to exert control in Mexico.
Hundreds of reporters, human
rights defenders, environmental
activists and priests have been
killed in recent years. In Taxco,
journalist Francisco Pacheco was
gunned down in 2016 after pub-
lishing stinging criticism of the
government of then-Mayor Omar
Jalil. The politician is seeking to
return to city hall in this year’s
election. He has denied any
wrongdoing and said in an inter-
view that Pacheco might have
been targeted because he covered
crime.
Like most killings in Mexico,
Pacheco’s hasn’t been solved. His
son, Ali, said it served as a warn-
ing to others in a region where
crime gangs share power with
elected officials.
“The message was very clear,”
he said. “Remain silent.”
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Man pleads
guilty to
felony in
Jan. 6 riot
Lawyers say sentencing
will be watched by others
weighing plea deals
BY S PENCER S . H SU
AND R ACHEL W EINER
A Tampa man who carried a
Trump flag into the well of the
Senate on Jan. 6 pleaded guilty
Wednesday to one felony count of
storming the Capitol to obstruct
Congress’s certification of the
2020 presidential election.
Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, did
not enter a cooperation deal with
prosecutors, and he is not accused
of any other wrongdoing or in-
volvement with extremist groups.
In admitting to the stiffest felo-
ny count charged by prosecutors
against individuals not otherwise
accused of conspiracy or violence
in the Capitol riot, Hodgkins faces
a prison sentence of 15 to 21
months under federal guidelines.
His sentencing is poised to be-
come a test case watched by other
defendants deciding whether to
accept pleas, several defense law-
yers said.
“I have decided that I will ac-
cept this plea offer, and I will plead
guilty to charge one,” Hodgkins
told U.S. District Judge Randolph
D. Moss.
Hodgkins’s attorney, Patrick
Leduc, said he would seek a lower
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D.C. rehab
center fights
to survive as
need mounts
BY K YLE S WENSON
Murmurs from a group-therapy
session drifted down the hallway
to Carolyn’s small office on the
second floor of Regional Addic-
tion Prevention’s building in
Northeast Washington.
As a case manager, she was
responsible for monitoring the
longtime District nonprofit’s
withdrawal unit, where addicts
fresh from the street detox under
professional care. It was the first
rung on the climb toward sub-
stance abuse recovery, and Caro-
lyn knew the emotional dimen-
sions of that challenging moment
was as well as anyone.
“At 42 years old, I discovered
crack cocaine,” said Carolyn, who
asked that only her first name be
used. “I had a family, a good job, a
house in my name. And I lost all
that.”
RAP was what helped her fight
through addiction, and since re-
tiring from her job in 2015, Caro-
lyn returned to the program as an
employee. Her small office was a
physical symbol of the cycle: Years
ago, when she was in recovery at
RAP, she lived in the same space
when the floor was a dormitory.
“The word ‘rehabilitation’ has
two parts,” she whispered as RAP’s
newest clients conducted a ses-
sion down the hall. “ ‘Re,’ to do
again. And ‘habilitation,’ to live.
You have to live again. But a lot of
these people don’t know how to
live to begin with.”
RAP’s executive director, Mi-
chael Pickering, listened to Caro-
lyn and nodded. He not only knew
her story but also understood the
feelings tying Carolyn to the non-
profit; like two-thirds of RAP’s 80
employees, Pickering is also an
alumnus, one of the thousands
who had sought help at RAP over
the past five decades.
But that vital D.C. legacy is fac-
ing a potentially fatal blow. Al-
ready struggling because of rising
costs and stagnant Medicaid
rates, the nonprofit took measures
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Back in the saddle
Children take in the views and enjoy the rides at a Jolly Shows parking-lot carnival in Ashburn on Monday.
Jolly Shows has other carnivals scheduled this season, including in Wheaton, starting June 16. The 2020
season was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. More regular summertime programming is back
on amid falling case numbers and eased restrictions in the D.C. region.
A man tries to escape the life his board game depicts
To play the board
game Chris Parker
designed, a
person first needs
to know a few
terms.
Theresa Trap House —
Vargas an abandoned
residence used for
the manufacturing and
distribution of illegal narcotics.
Major Keyz — jewels or
nuggets of knowledge that are
vital to achieving success in your
daily life; common-sense
wisdom that is gained from real,
hands-on experiences.
Jump off da Porch — the
pivotal moment in a young
person’s life when they started
hustling in the streets.
Those phrases and others
appear in a glossary at the end of
the game’s rule book, and they
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serve two purposes. They offer a
nod to those players who, like
the game’s creator, grew up
knowing those slang terms, and
they provide a guide to those
players who come from
backgrounds where “catchin’
plays” and “trap doors” weren’t
part of life.
Parker, who grew up in the
D.C. region, was 28 and serving a
15-year sentence in a federal
penitentiary when he came up
with the idea for the board game
“Plug Wars” (Plug — a
connection for everything you
need; the main supplier of a
commodity).
At the time, Parker envisioned
the games sitting on tables at
group homes, juvenile detention
centers and prisons.
“I kept thinking of my 14-year-
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VIRGINIA OBITUARIES
Republican nominee Jerome Hellman, 92, an
Glenn Youngkin takes the independent moviemaker,
lead in fundraising in the helped drive the success
race for governor. B5 of “Midnight Cowboy.” B6
Racial
equity
sparks
lawsuit
LOUDOUN SCHOOLS
DEFEND EFFORTS
Parents allege teaching
of critical race theory
BY H ANNAH N ATANSON
Top school officials in Lou-
doun County are again defending
the district’s racial equity work,
following complaints from some
parents that Loudoun is indoctri-
nating students with critical race
theory — allegations that have
now spurred a lawsuit.
The controversy dates to last
summer, when angry mothers
and fathers began seizing on
tidbits — such as the nearly
half-million dollars Loudoun
spent on an equity consultant, or
later, a minutes-long video re-
cording of a classroom in which a
teacher discusses critical race
theory — to argue that the system
is teaching White students to feel
ashamed of being White, because
their race means they have his-
torically been part of an oppres-
sive system.
Critical race theory is a
decades-old academic frame-
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Lawsuit: Teacher who refused to
use students’ pronouns sues. B4
Bullets fired
into a car
extinguish a
vibrant light
BY E MILY D AVIES
Keya Beale was known as the
ringleader of the Soul Squad in
the early 1990s, the group of
die-hard student fans at Howard
University games who rallied the
crowd.
She would stand in front of
packed bleachers and start to
dance. Soon enough, everyone in
the stadium would move their
hips with her.
PHOTOS BY MICHAEL S. WILLIAMSON/THE WASHINGTON POST “She was very vibrant and very
loud,” said Melinda Riley, her best
friend. “When you saw her doing
it, you wanted to do it, too.”
That magnetism continued
into Beale’s adult life — inspiring
a career at Howard, deep roots in
D.C., a close relationship with her
16-year-old son and a sprawling
group of friends who considered
themselves family.
So when a man fired shots at a
nearby car in which she was rid-
ing on April 2 in the Riverdale
area, he ended one life and devas-
tated countless others.
Beale, 50, was struck and killed
in what police have called a road
rage incident — becoming one of
many shooting victims the Wash-
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New cases in region
Through 5 p.m. Wednesday, 262
new coronavirus cases were
reported in the District, Maryland
and Virginia, bringing the total
number of cases in the region to
1,184,854.
D.C MD. VA.
+11 +65 +186
49,011 460,060 675,783
Coronavirus-related deaths
As of 5 p.m. Wednesday:
D.C. MD.* VA.
+1 +6 +12
CHRIS PARKER
1,135 9,622 11,206
In prison, Chris Parker came up with the idea for his board game
“Plug Wars,” which offers a gritty look at growing up in the streets. * Includes probable covid-19 deaths.
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THE REGION
Metro board members open to fare decrease, service changes to lure riders
BY J USTIN G EORGE
Decreasing wait times, lower-
ing fare prices and expanding bus
routes were three options that
Metro board members said
Wednesday could best serve tran-
sit riders coming out of the coro-
navirus pandemic.
Most agreed on short-term
changes expected to take effect this
summer. They could include waiv-
ing a $1.50 transfer fee between
Metrobus and Metrorail, launch-
ing a flat $2 Metrorail weekend
fare, offering cheaper seven-day
Metrobus passes and reducing
fares for low-income riders.
Board members also are con-
sidering extending Metrorail serv-
ice hours from 11 p.m. to midnight
and decreasing wait times to 12
minutes or less, including on 20
bus lines. The proposals are in-
tended to address a decline in
ridership, even as pandemic re-
strictions ease, and the economic
effects on lower-income workers
who rely on transit.
Longer term, board members
Wednesday seemed divided on
Guilty plea in Jan. 6 riot case
PLEA FROM B1
sentence at a sentencing hearing
as soon as July 19, and he asked the
judge to waive a $7,500 to $75,000
fine because his client also agreed
to pay $2,000 in restitution for his
share of riot damage to the Capi-
tol.
Prosecutor Mona Sedky esti-
mated damage to the Capitol at
$1.5 million — the first time pros-
ecutors have given a public cost
estimate.
“There’s no justification for
January 6th. That’s why he is
standing up and entering a plea of
guilty. He acknowledges what he
did was wrong, and there’s no
excuses for it,” Leduc said after-
ward.
“Paul is an Eagle Scout with no
prior record, a working Joe who is
a crane operator at a steel process-
ing plant,” who spent 15 minutes
inside the Capitol, Leduc said.
Leduc added that he agreed
with the government’s standard
for prosecuting disruptions of
Congress, “and we hope they
maintain it in the future.”
Prosecutors agreed to drop four
misdemeanor counts of trespass-
ing and disorderly conduct in the
restricted Capitol building and
grounds. They also agreed to give
Hodgkins credit for accepting re-
sponsibility, pleading in a timely
manner and paying compensa-
tion.
Hodgkins is one of about 450
defendants federally charged in
the riot, which authorities said
MARYLAND
Dozens attend gun violence awareness gathering Montgomery hires for
BY K ATIE M ETTLER
Official asks Pr. George’s
It wasn’t a typical event for a
prosecutor to headline, but it was
one that State’s Attorney Aisha N.
Braveboy said was part of her
two-pronged plan to help curb a
rise in violent crime in Prince
George’s County.
On Tuesday, the first day of
Gun Violence Awareness Month,
Braveboy (D) hosted a gathering
of dozens of community organiz-
ers, gun violence survivors, fami-
lies of people killed in shootings,
lawmakers, police officers and
religious leaders in the parking
lot of City of Praise Family Minis-
tries in Landover.
It was part worship service,
part memorial service, part pep
rally — a lineup of speakers and
musical performers woven to-
gether by emcee EZ Street, a DJ
and WHUR 96.3 radio personal-
ity.
The message of the night was
simple: If we want to reduce gun
violence in our county, we have to
work on it together.
“Our community is a caring
community,” Braveboy said. “Pre-
vention is everybody’s job.”
She asked those in attendance
to sign up as a mentor or volun-
teer for her “Our Streets, Our
Future” public awareness push.
The campaign is focused on com-
munity engagement throughout
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how best to serve the region as
in-person teaching slowly re-
sumes and many office workers
telework until at least the fall.
The meeting was meant to help
Metro’s transportation planners
craft fare and service strategies.
The board is expected to vote June
10 on many of the ideas.
Board member Devin Rouse,
who represents the federal gov-
ernment, said the transit agency
needs to think beyond bringing
back former customers.
“It’s not necessarily about win-
ning back previous riders, al-
though that’s important. We want
those riders back,” he said. “But we
shouldn’t lose sight of any poten-
tial rider, and sometimes we be-
come so focused on ways we used to
do things that historically drove
people to get on Metro that we lose
sight of just thinking about things
in a new way and being innovative.”
Staff members had offered sug-
gestions on directions Metro
could take, ranging from making
all bus rides $1 to creating a zoned
fare structure.
The ideas incorporated lessons
contributed to five deaths, as-
saults on nearly 140 police officers
and the evacuation of a joint ses-
sion of Congress.
Nearly half the defendants face
only misdemeanor charges likely
to carry no prison time for first
offenders. However, about 200 are
charged with obstructing an offi-
cial proceeding of Congress and
are accused of intending to im-
pede or interfere with Congress’s
confirmation of the electoral vote
count. The charge carries a maxi-
mum 20-year prison term.
The threat of heavy jail time led
to the first guilty plea stemming
from Jan. 6 by Jon Ryan Schaffer,
described in court documents as a
founding member of the Oath
Keepers. Schaffer agreed on April
16 to cooperate fully with prosecu-
tors and is among at least 19 mem-
bers of the right-wing group
whose members or associates
have been charged with planning
for violence in the Capitol attack.
Schaffer, 53, a guitarist and song-
writer for the heavy metal band
Iced Earth, could face roughly
four years in prison, although if
his cooperation is valuable to
prosecutors in other cases, he
might be able to shave a signifi-
cant amount of time off that sen-
tence.
Hodgkins was arrested Feb. 16
after FBI agents said they identi-
fied him in photos and video foot-
age taken of rioters inside the
Capitol building.
The FBI cited closed-circuit
Senate video and other video pub-
prosecution equity study
to see prevention as
‘everybody’s job’
the summer to prevent gun vio-
lence, connect residents to re-
sources and provide social events
that disappeared during the pan-
demic.
The state’s attorney’s efforts
are running parallel to several
other initiatives, both out of her
office and others organized by the
office of County Executive Angela
D. Alsobrooks (D). Braveboy’s of-
fice is participating in a federal
regional carjacking task force to
prosecute a crime that has spiked
over the past year, especially
among juveniles.
Braveboy has also launched
her own county-focused carjack-
ings task force, which she says is
different from the federal task
force because it centers on com-
munity organizers. The task
force, she said, is working hand-
in-hand with the broader “Our
Streets, Our Future” campaign to
focus on prevention.
As part of that collaboration,
EZ Street has helped produce
several social media and radio
ads for the state’s attorney’s office
that feature local teen actors and
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the agency learned during the
pandemic: Low-income riders
and service workers whom gov-
ernments considered “essential”
rely on public transit and want
faster, less expensive service at all
hours of the day.
“The design of this is to focus
the frequency improvements
where the riders are and where we
have indicators where there was
demand for higher-frequency
service in those areas, pre-pan-
demic and now coming out of the
pandemic,” said Tom Webster,
Metro’s vice president for strategy,
planning and program manage-
ment.
Metro also is learning that tele-
commuting could be an indefinite
arrangement for many downtown
office workers, lowering transit
demand during traditional rush-
hour commuting times and allow-
ing Metro to shift service to stan-
dard wait times.
While a recent Metro customer
survey found riders value service,
speed and reliability over fare
prices, board member Michael
Goldman, who represents Mary-
lished by the New Yorker maga-
zine showing Hodgkins in the
Senate chamber holding a red,
white and blue “Trump 2020” flag
and wearing a dark Trump T-shirt
as he stood next to the Senate dais.
Hodgkins admitted that he
“corruptly endeavored to influ-
ence, obstruct, or impede” Con-
gress, according to a signed state-
ment of offense read by prosecu-
tors in court. Reading from the
statement, Sedky said Hodgkins
was holding the flag with other
people while they “shout, cheer
and say prayers” from the elevated
platform and desk in the Senate
well. They included a shirtless
man using a bullhorn and wearing
face paint at the vice president’s
chair. Hodgkins wore eye goggles
at one point and pulled latex
gloves on and off in a bid to aid
another rioter, Sedky said.
In charging papers, the FBI said
Hodgkins told investigators he
took a bus to Washington by him-
self and saw rioters break win-
dows and engage in a knife fight.
But he said he did not participate
in violence or vandalism or know
those who did. He has been re-
leased on conditions including a
curfew and GPS monitoring.
Separately Wednesday, a judge
dismissed all charges against a
suburban New York City man,
Christopher M. Kelly, marking the
first time prosecutors abandoned
a case against a Jan. 6 defendant.
Prosecutors said dropping Kelly’s
case “serves the interest of justice”
based on facts now known to the
are meant to reach the county’s
young people.
Prince George’s police have in-
vestigated more than 100 carjack-
ings since the first of the year, and
of the roughly 33 cases where
they have made an arrest, at least
10 of the alleged perpetrators
were juveniles.
A central theme of Tuesday
night’s event was connecting with
children and teens in the county.
Student leaders from Suitland
and Bowie high schools spoke,
and other young people from the
county and the District who are
part of EZ Street’s Music Industry
Academy performed songs they
had written themselves.
Hezekiah Hawkins, a 17-year-
old rising senior at Suitland High
who is a trained dancer and
musician, said adults need to
understand the pressures that
“It’s not a game
anymore. We really
have to help. There are
a lot of families
who are hurting.”
Uncle of J’Lyn Quinones,
who was fatally shot in April
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land, said reducing fares will be
the best way to get riders back.
Federal workers aren’t as con-
cerned with prices as retail work-
ers and others, Goldman said, be-
cause the government subsidizes
their transportation costs.
But they could become a small-
er portion of Metro’s customer
base. Many federal agencies are
leaning toward approving liberal
telework policies, while service
workers will need to get to work on
their own dime, he said.
Board member Lucinda Babers,
D.C.’s deputy mayor for operations
and infrastructure, urged Metro
to prioritize extending bus routes
and restoring those canceled or
suspended during the pandemic.
Board member and Loudoun
County Supervisor Matt Le-
tourneau said Virginians also
want more routes.
“We have heard from several of
our Virginia jurisdictions that
they have been eagerly awaiting
for several routes to be brought
back that have not been and are
not being proposed to be in this
plan,” he said.
Video shows Paul Allard Hodgkins, 38, of Tampa, wearing a Trump T-shirt, inside the Senate chamber
during the Jan. 6 riot. He faces a prison sentence of 15 to 21 months under federal guidelines.
government.
The government motion to
drop four pending counts, includ-
ing a felony obstruction of Con-
gress charge, did not elaborate on
why the matter was dismissed.
However, Kelly’s attorney Edward
MacMahon said in a statement: “I
am pleased that the government
has dropped all charges against
Mr. Kelly. He never entered the
Capitol on January 6th and that is
precisely what he told the govern-
ment before he was arrested.”
Kelly’s case was dropped once
prosecutors determined that a
photo inside the Capitol that he
young people are facing today. He
said he has seen his classmates
get jumped for wearing a certain
type of shoe, and he has seen
others bring knives to school —
not to be antagonistic, but for
protection because they are
scared.
“We can’t be heard unless we
make noise. The violence is how
we make noise,” Hawkins said.
“But if you heard us in other ways,
things would be different.”
The event included a moment
of silence for those killed by gun
violence in the county so far this
year. And the crowd heard from
the family members of J’Lyn Qui-
nones, a pregnant 18-year-old
from Suitland who was fatally
shot in April.
“It’s not a game anymore,” the
young woman’s uncle told the
crowd. “We really have to help.
There are a lot of families who are
hurting.”
As the night came to a close,
Judith Danso, who co-chaired the
event, thanked those who put the
gathering together. Then, after a
final call and response from com-
munity organizers but before the
music started back up, those
gathered in the church parking
area bowed their heads in prayer.
“Our cry tonight,” the pastor
said, “is that you will heal Prince
George’s County.”
katie.mettler@washpost.com
THE WASHINGTON POST
Finance Committee Chairman
Steve McMillin supported waiv-
ing transfer fees and said Metro
needs to make Metrorail and
Metrobus a more integrated sys-
tem.
Also Wednesday, the regulatory
agency that oversees Metrorail
safety took the rare step of issuing
an order requiring Metro to turn
over information.
The Washington Metrorail
Safety Commission had asked
Metro to give safety inspectors
access to closed-circuit television
or surveillance video footage for
“at least several months,” but Met-
ro has declined, commission
spokesman Max Smith said.
The commission, which Con-
gress created in 2017, has purview
over all safety aspects of Metrorail,
including the system’s data and
information, Smith said, adding:
“It’s very clear in the law.”
After the commission’s May 18
board meeting, where the standoff
became public, Metro spokesman
Ian Jannetta told The Post that
Metro provides “all materials re-
quested” to the commission, in-
posted to Facebook was not taken
by him and did not show him
inside the building, according to
two people familiar with the in-
vestigation who spoke on the con-
dition of anonymity because they
were not authorized to speak pub-
licly.
The decision was consistent
with a policy in which thousands
of people who were on Capitol
grounds but did not enter the
building have not been charged
absent aggravating factors such as
assaulting or interfering with po-
lice, they said.
Defense lawyers said the epi-
MARYLAND
BY D AN M ORSE
Montgomery County’s top
prosecutor has launched an in-
vestigation into whether racial
bias plays a role in prosecutorial
decisions — within his own office.
“I’m proud of the fact we’re
willing to do this,” State’s Attor-
ney John McCarthy said Wednes-
day. “We’re not afraid to do this.”
The $500,000 study, conduct-
ed by outside researchers, is ex-
pected to begin this fall and last
two years. It will evaluate how
Montgomery prosecutors evalu-
ate issues like what cases to pur-
sue, what kind of plea deals to
offer and what sentences to re-
quest. The goal is to determine
whether the race and ethnicity of
victims and suspects affects their
decisions.
McCarthy said he is confident
that he and his staff are trained to
make proper decisions.
“But I want see if there are
blind spots, if there is implicit
bias,” McCarthy said.
The Montgomery state’s attor-
ney’s office has about 85 full-time
prosecutors in addition to inves-
tigators, legal assistants and vic-
tim-witness coordinators.
McCarthy said the study is a
reflection of increased demand
. THURSDAY, JUNE 3 , 2021
cluding CCTV footage.
But he said Metro does restrict
the release of raw footage, adding
that Metro’s safety department
“will continue to preserve footage
relevant to investigations and co-
ordinate with the [commission]
on such preservation.”
In the order signed by commis-
sion chief executive David Meyer,
the organization said it has the
authority to inspect, investigate
and test Metro workers, equip-
ment and operations, “including,
without limitation, electronic in-
formation and databases through
reasonable means.”
The order gives Metro until
June 10 to provide the commission
“with continuous, real-time access
to view the live stream from all
CCTV cameras” except from devic-
es that are part of federal security
programs approved by the Trans-
portation or Homeland Security
departments.
Metro uses closed-circuit televi-
sion for several safety purposes,
such as monitoring platform con-
ditions.
justin.george@washpost.com
U.S ATTORNEY’S OFFICE FOR WASHINGTON
sode raised the question of wheth-
er the FBI and Justice Department
rushed to charge defendants be-
fore looking at evidence establish-
ing they did not enter the Capitol,
based on evidence such as infor-
mation from their or other rioters’
phones and officers’ body-worn
cameras. U.S. officials have said
they raced to arrest and charge
people after the Capitol riot, citing
national security concerns over
the potential for further political
violence, defense attorneys repre-
senting rioters have said.
spencer.hsu@washpost.com
rachel.weiner@washpost.com
for all parts of the criminal justice
system to be examined for possi-
ble racial disparities.
“There is a public conversation
that has seized hold in the coun-
try,” he said. “In a progressive
community like Montgomery
County, it’s an even louder con-
versation.”
The study will be funded
through grants, foundation mon-
ey and possibly the county budg-
et, said Ramon Korionoff, a Mont-
gomery state’s attorney spokes-
man.
“We will be looking to see if
there are systemic patterns of
inequality,” said Brian Johnson,
one of the criminal justice experts
leading the effort along with Mel-
ba Pearson.
Johnson is a professor of crimi-
nology and criminal justice at the
University of Maryland at College
Park. Pearson is the director of
policy and programs at the Center
for the Administration of Justice
at Florida International Univer-
sity.
McCarthy said he is committed
to giving researchers access to his
staff and records. And he has
agreed to publish their findings
in two years, no matter what they
conclude.
dan.morse@washpost.com
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L O C AL D IG E ST
MARYLAND
Man fatally shot
in Lewisdale area
A man was fatally shot Tuesday
night in Prince George’s County,
police said. He was found about
10:10 p.m. in the 2500 block of
Avalon Place in the Lewisdale
area, according to police.
The victim was found outdoors
and was taken to a hospital,
where he died, they said.
— Martin Weil
VIRGINIA
240 blank-firing
pistols seized at Dulles
Officers with U.S. Customs and
Border Protection recently seized
240 blank-firing pistols at Dulles
International Airport that had
come to the United States from
Turkey.
The guns seized Friday were
part of a larger shipment that
arrived in the United States on
April 29 and was held for further
investigation by CBP and the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, which
regulates the importation of
firearms.
The shipment, listed as
“sporting blank gun,” included
620 blank-firing guns of various
models. It was headed to an
address in Bensalem, Pa.
ATF agents determined that
240 Zoraki model M2906 pistols
could be converted into
functional handguns. Those guns
were seized for being in breach of
U.S. import laws. Authorities
released the remaining 380
blank-firing guns.
— Lori Aratani
THE REGION
Victims in two fatal
crashes are named
Fairfax County officials have
identified a man who was killed
in a two-vehicle collision Monday
afternoon in the Lorton area.
Officials also have named the
victim of a single-vehicle crash in
Prince George’s County.
Fairfax County police said an
initial investigation found that
Paul Kalland, 65, of Fairfax
Station, was driving north on Ox
Road near Palmer Drive around
3 p.m. Monday when his car was
hit by a southbound vehicle that
had turned left to enter a
shopping center.
Police said Kalland was
pronounced dead at the scene.
The other driver was taken to a
hospital with non-life-
threatening injuries.
Authorities said it does not
appear that either speed or
alcohol was a factor in the crash.
Separately, police in Prince
George’s County said a man was
killed Saturday in a crash in the
Camp Springs area.
Officials said Dexter Harris, 37,
of D.C., was northbound in the
5900 block of Auth Road near the
Capital Beltway around 9:30 p.m.
when he lost control of his
vehicle, which went off the road
and hit a light pole. He was
pronounced dead at the scene.
Saving local history, group to digitize the Gazette
Democracy may died. Logan decided to honor her then you worry about what’s
die in darkness, with a bigger effort, one that going to happen later,” she said.
but so does history would finally scan many of the “You don’t have a choice. Either
— specifically the papers she had rescued. Donors you take it, or it’s not going to
darkness of a have been contributing at exist anymore.”
dented filing montgomeryhistory.org.
John cabinet or an old “Now we’ve raised over $87,000. Very, very frightening
Kelly's cardboard box. Our hope is to get to $100,000 by Speaking of not existing anymore,
Washington That’s where the end of June,” he said. that’s what might have happened
thousands of That would allow a Frederick to the Heurich House Museum
copies of the Gazette — a weekly company to begin scanning in last week. The historic Dupont
newspaper that once covered chronological order. The Gazette Circle mansion was struck by
Montgomery County as doggedly — originally the Gaithersburg lightning during a severe
as The Washington Post covers Gazette, before it spread through thunderstorm Wednesday night.
Congress — have spent many a the county — published a single “When you see the light and
year. issue in 1959. The society doesn’t hear the bang at the same time,
Soon they will see the light. have a copy of that — “We’d love you know it’s close,” said Dan
Montgomery History, a nonprofit to get our hands on it,” Logan said Rudie, preservation manager at
devoted to preserving the — so the project will start with the house.
county’s past, is raising money to 1960. He wasn’t there when the
digitize the print run of the They should be able to scan up lightning hit, but got the report
Gazette, which published from to 1987 or so. Researchers from workers at a law firm who
1959 to 2015. eventually will be able to access it rent space in the building and
“To understand a place like at the society’s Jane C. Sween were inside. A neighbor across the
Montgomery County, which is so Research Library in Rockville. street saw the bolt strike the roof.
dynamic and has changed so The Post’s archives are online. The house survived.
much over time, people are going The Evening Star’s, too. Why is “It’s just a few of our Internet-
to need access to this,” said the Gazette’s important? based systems that are fried,” said
Matthew Logan, executive Logan said it’s because the Kimberly Bender, executive
director of Montgomery History. reality residents live with today — director of the house. “Luckily for
It’s a sad fact that journalists from roads to development; solid us, we have a very robust
are so focused on putting out waste removal to public lightning protection system that
tomorrow’s paper that they often transportation — was thrashed actually works.”
neglect yesterday’s. Such was the out in those pages. No one covers That system, Rudie said, is a set
MONTGOMERY HISTORY
case with the Gazette, which The local news like a local paper. of copper spikes at various high
Washington Post bought in 1992. A 1964 issue of the Gazette covers a possible Gaithersburg Lottes now plans public points on the roof, connected to
While the paper’s stories would development. Montgomery History has raised more than $87,000 programs for the Gaithersburg wire that runs down the side of
eventually start appearing online, to digitize the newspaper, which was published from 1959 to 2015. Museum. the house and is buried in the
the bulk of its output was in She’s eager to dive into the earth.
newsprint. the time. She and Harper That project never panned out Gazette. “If I wanted to know The highest spike of all — on
Around 2006, Mary Kay arranged to take 50 or so filing and eventually the papers were about the influx of Vietnamese the turret — is the one that was
Harper, president of the cabinets that bulged with fragile transferred to 350 cardboard refugees during the 1970s in hit. That lightning rod is in the
Montgomery County Historical newsprint. They learned that a boxes and moved to a warehouse Gaithersburg, say, I’m not shape of a salamander, an animal
Society, learned that the Gazette job-training program at the in Northern Virginia. necessarily going to find it in The once thought able to survive fire.
was planning to trash its print county’s Clarksburg jail was “We’ve been spending four- to Post,” she said. “But I will find That’s better than a phoenix,
archive, which was stuffed into teaching inmates digitizing skills. five-thousand dollars a year just evidence of it in the Gazette.” which had to turn to ash before
filing cabinets in a haphazard For a while it looked as if the to store these,” Logan said. Lottes said she and Harper rising again.
fashion. papers could be scanned by them. Logan had been planning to didn’t hesitate to take possession john.kelly@washpost.com
“We didn’t want the “You might enjoy this: The fund a small, $10,000 digitizing of all those heavy filing cabinets, Twitter: @johnkelly
newspapers to just disappear,” newspapers were stored in the project just to test the concept. even though they didn’t exactly
said Karen Yaffe Lottes, who was mental ward at the Seven Locks Then in March, Harper, who led have a plan at the time.  For previous columns, visit
the society’s education director at jail,” Lottes said. the society from 1990 to 2008, “Sometimes you just take it, washingtonpost.com/john-kelly.
Mom’s zest is alive in son Georgetown where she could
draw with crayons on the table-
cloth.
at home while making time once a
week for Zoom calls with a group
of friends from Howard, who
Later, Beale did the same for called themselves “Bison Babes.”
BEALE FROM B1 to a party but instead brought people in her community — she They had virtual “paint and sips”
them to a lesbian wedding. met people on the street whom and were planning a trip to cel-
ington region has seen amid this “He turned around and said, she would help find housing and ebrate their 50th birthdays.
year of rising violent crime. ‘This is a lesbian wedding, so act jobs in the D.C. area. All the while, Beale was able to
Weeks after the shooting, po- like you guys are together.’ You “You always felt an intimate, spend her time with the person
lice charged Maurice Terrell Bell- should have seen the expression special relationship with her,” she most adored: her son,
inger, 31, of Riverdale with mur- on our faces,” Riley said. “He said Simone Baldwin, a friend Dwayne, whom she named after
der in her killing. Bellinger, would do stuff like that. He and from Howard. “She tailored her her late brother.
charging documents allege, had Keya had a lot in common with love to you.” As a mom, Beale was patient,
been involved in other recent their personalities.” Beale worked for the univer- proud and always finding ser-
assaults in the area, including a Dwayne fell ill and died a few sity’s Residential Life for more vices to improve her son’s life. In
road rage incident a few months years later. Their father opened a than two decades after she gradu- short, as her friend from college
before. foundation to help families in the ated. Her official position re- Crystal Turner put it, “she was all
An attorney for Bellinger de- LGBTQ community, until he too quired her to ensure that dorms things Dwayne.”
clined to comment because the died. had the necessary equipment be- Now 16, Beale’s son, who has
COURTESY OF SIMONE BALDWIN
case is pending. Beale wore a charm bracelet fore students moved in. Her unof- autism, is without his mom. But
Born and raised in the D.C. with three different colored Keya Beale named her son, ficial job involved becoming a her famous energy that drew peo-
area, Beale was grounded by her hearts on it. One had Dwayne’s Dwayne, after her late brother. “mother-sister-aunt figure,” as Ri- ple in still surrounds him. Her
family. She traveled alongside her ashes, one had their father’s and A GoFundMe page has raised ley put it, to the students. friends raised over $14,000
dad, who was involved with a the other their mother’s. over $14,000 to support him. After she retired a few years through a GoFundMe to support
youth group, and talked about “It surprised me that she was ago, Beale worked for four com- Dwayne, and Riley is in the proc-
how she admired her mom’s fash- so outgoing, so happy and such a one room and fashioned the other panies that provided home-care ess of moving from Georgia into
ion and zest for life. While at bubbly person to be dealing with one for hosting. In that room, assistance for elderly people and Beale’s house to assume his legal
Springbrook High School, she that privately at home,” said they would dine like college stu- people with disabilities. Her guardianship.
made a habit of calling her broth- Rashida Jeffers, her friend from dents — with heaps of spaghetti friends said she would always “He is strong-minded, unapol-
er, Dwayne, to pick her up from high school. and friends spilling out the door. have at least three jobs at one ogetic about who he is, what he
whatever late-night spot she But that was the Keya way. She “We were the entertainment on time. thinks and what he feels,” Riley
chose. loved to live. And she especially the floor,” Riley said, laughing. The pandemic, in some ways, said. “He definitely got that from
By college, Dwayne was a best loved everything about Howard. As an undergraduate, Beale made Beale’s life simpler. She his mother.”
friend as much as he was her Beale’s time there is best made it her job to help other balanced her array of professions emily.davies@washpost.com
sibling. One of Beale’s favorite summed up by her dinner parties, students get to know D.C. She
stories, Riley said, was from a friends say. She and Riley, as- took them on the Metro and

INSULATION SALE
Both cases remain under night when Dwayne, who was gay, signed to a corner suite meant for showed them go-go music and
investigation. said he was taking her and Riley four people, put their two beds in her favorite hamburger spot in
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D.C. rehab center
in funding crisis
RAP FROM B1
to adapt to lockdown restrictions
that have created further financial
stress that could force closure.
“I might be able to make it to the
end of the summer, but I can’t say
that for sure. We’re running on
vapors; we’ve basically been run-
ning on credit,” Pickering said.
“Last fall, I started thinking about
how do you close down a commu-
nity institution. That’s a huge
weight.”
But the loss of a key player in
the city’s social safety net would
come as overdose deaths spike in
the District. Further frustrating
Pickering and other recovery pro-
viders is that federal funding
meant to prop up such programs
during the pandemic has yet to be
distributed by the city govern-
ment.
“The city isn’t in touch enough
to know the urgency,” Pickering
said. “The folks that we serve
aren’t on the radar in that corner
of the Wilson Building.”
In an email, Phyllis Jones, the
chief of staff at the District’s De-
partment of Behavioral Health
(DBH), acknowledged the difficul-
ties facing local providers.
“DBH recognizes the financial
impact of the pandemic on provid-
ers of substance use disorder ser-
vices and has provided additional
support,” Jones said. “The District
increased rates for substance use
disorder services by 20 percent
Chanda Choun, 33, left, and Takis Karantonis, 56, are competing in
the Democratic primary. Karantonis won a special election last
summer to fill the Arlington County Board seat.
VIRGINIA
Democratic hopefuls in
a rematch in Arlington
Pair face off again in
Tuesday’s primary for
County Board seat
BY T EO A RMUS
The two Democratic candi-
dates competing for a seat on the
Arlington County Board were
both born outside the United
States and embarked on careers
that have taken them around the
world. They speak in concrete
policy terms about how they hope
to improve the liberal, civic-
minded enclave where they both
decided to put down roots.
And next week won’t even be
the first time that they are facing
off for a spot on the board.
Takis Karantonis, 56, a first-
term incumbent, won a special
election last summer to succeed
the late Erik Gutshall, whose
campaign he once managed.
Among the candidates Karanto-
nis beat in a Democratic Party
caucus was Chanda Choun, 33, a
military veteran who works in
cybersecurity.
But with time running out on
his unusually short term, Karan-
tonis again faces Choun in Tues-
day’s Democratic primary. Unlike
the closed vote last summer,
which was open to only a small
number of party officials during
the throes of the coronavirus pan-
demic, anyone in Arlington can
vote in the race.
The winner of the primary will
face off in November against at
least two independent candi-
dates, Mike Cantwell and Audrey
Clement. Because board mem-
bers serve rotating, four-year
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RAP opened in the 1970s as
Washington was in the midst of a
heroin epidemic. Spearheaded by
a recovering addict named Ron
Clark until his retirement in 2014,
the organization became a key
support for the city’s working-
class Black community.
According to Pickering, it’s not
uncommon for former clients in
their 60s to approach current RAP
staff and voice their appreciation,
or for teenagers to share their
grandparents’ stories about the
organization’s importance.
Today, RAP is spread across a
number of small buildings and
residential houses along Fourth
Street NE, not far from the Rhode
Island Avenue Metro station. The
program runs both outpatient and
residential treatment programs.
RAP served 1,300 clients in 2019.
“We have the reputation of be-
ing the toughest program, but
people still come,” Pickering said.
“Here you’re in group from the
moment you wake up. There’s no
downtime. You’re not hanging
out.”
Despite its blue-chip street
cred, RAP has struggled financial-
ly, in part because Medicaid fees —
last set in 2016 — have lagged
behind rising costs. According to
Pickering, the average cost for a
day in a residential treatment pro-
gram is $300, but the average
Medicaid reimbursement is $175.
“The folks who are setting pol-
FROM LEFT: CHANDA CHOUN, LLOYD WOLF
terms, Karantonis’s seat is the
only one up for election this year.
In this liberal enclave in North-
ern Virginia, the winner of the
Democratic primary will be heav-
ily favored to win in November,
although it is hardly a guarantee:
A Republican sat on the board as
recently as 2018.
Choun, who was brought to the
United States as a child from
Cambodia, enlisted after high
school in the Army, where he
served one tour in the Middle
East. With a background in busi-
ness, technology and the military,
he said he would bring a missing
and necessary perspective to the
board.
“I want us to get back to work,
back to school, and back to liv-
ing,” he said, citing a “Freedom
and Justice Plan”: Even as some
companies become permanently
remote, he wants to ensure the
county’s commercial tax base re-
mains strong and push for open
libraries and community centers.
Choun ran unsuccessfully in
the 2018 Democratic primary
against Chair Matt de Ferranti
(D).
Karantonis, an urban planner
and economist, was born and
raised in Greece and went on to
work across Europe, South Amer-
ica and Texas before eventually
settling in Arlington in 2007. He
left the private sector to lead the
Columbia Pike Revitalization Or-
ganization, including during its
unsuccessful push for a streetcar.
“I saw a lot of future in Vir-
ginia, socially and politically, but
also from the point of view of a
commonwealth where a lot needs
to be done,” he said.
Karantonis forged a close bond
with Gutshall, who died of brain
cancer in April, and took over his
seat just a few months into the
pandemic.
He said he wants to make some
coronavirus initiatives perma-
nent, including permits for out-
door dining and a microloan fund
for small businesses, particularly
ones owned by women and racial
minorities.
teo.armus@washpost.com
EZ SU
Michael Pickering, executive director of Regional Addiction Prevention, is afraid the treatment center
might not survive the summer. Its programs have been a key support in the District for decades.
icy and setting rates, they are re-
searchers or academics,” he said.
“They don’t know all the pieces
that go into providing addiction
and mental health treatment. If
we have a client who comes in
with no clothing, they need to
have clothing. So we have to pass
the hat because we don’t have
extra money hanging around for
those incidentals.”
The pandemic then made an
already rocky fiscal situation
worse.
Beginning with March 2020’s
lockdown, RAP stopped in-person
services. For residential facilities,
the staff followed government
guidance for congregate living.
That meant taking a third of their
available beds offline. But because
of the sensitive nature of the work,
Loudoun school o∞cials defend racial equity work
LOUDOUN FROM B1
work that explores how policies
and the law fuel systemic racism.
The theory in part declares that
racism is the product of systems,
not individuals, and therefore is
interwoven into daily life and
history in America.
But some critics have used the
term to refer more broadly to
efforts to address systemic rac-
ism.
At a Loudoun County School
Board meeting Tuesday, interim
schools superintendent Scott A.
Ziegler repeatedly has denied
charges that Loudoun is teaching
critical race theory to students.
Instead, he has explained that the
school system is about two years
into racial equity work spurred
initially by a pair of high-profile
reports that found widespread
racism was imperiling Black and
Hispanic students’ progress in
the county. In response, Loudoun
produced a 22-page “Plan to
Combat Systemic Racism” that
called for developing alternative
forms of discipline, hosting
teacher trainings to foster “racial
consciousness” and forbidding
students from wearing the Con-
federate flag.
But no part of the plan in-
volved teaching students critical
race theory, Ziegler emphasized
repeatedly Tuesday. At one point,
the board’s chair, Brenda Sheri-
dan (Sterling), asked him to ad-
dress the issue directly.
“When you are asked, ‘Is Lou-
doun County Public Schools
teaching critical race theory?’ ”
Sheridan said, “what is the an-
swer?”
“The short answer is that we
are not teaching critical race
theory to our students,” Ziegler
said, calling the theory “a subject
for academics.”
Still, some parents remained
unconvinced — and on Wednes-
day, a group of Loudoun families
filed a lawsuit intended to kill
some of the equity programs
VIRGINIA
Teacher sues Loudoun over administrative leave
BY H ANNAH N ATANSON
A Loudoun County Public
Schools teacher is suing the
school district after he was placed
on paid leave and barred from
school grounds for refusing to
address transgender students by
their chosen names and pro-
nouns.
Physical education instructor
Tanner Cross of Leesburg El-
ementary School declared he
would never “affirm that a biolog-
ical boy can be a girl, and vice
versa” during a Loudoun County
School Board meeting in late May.
Cross said his strong Christian
faith drove him to the refusal,
insisting that using transgender
students’ selected pronouns and
names amounts to “lying to a
child . . . abuse to a child . . . and
it’s sinning against our God.”
Cross was speaking against a
school policy, still in the draft
staff levels remained the same. “So
you cut out a third of the revenue,
but you have the same expenses,”
Pickering said.
The bed reduction is now status
quo. Other aspects of RAP’s pro-
graming have migrated online.
But the nonprofit is still losing
about $100,000 a month. “At this
point in the fiscal year, we’re about
$1.5 million in the hole,” Pickering
said. “Our assets are mortgaged to
the hilt. That’s how I’ve gotten us
this far.”
Other treatment providers are
in a similar position, according to
Pickering. “Depending on their
facility layout, it may be more than
us or less than us, but everybody
has had to eliminate beds.”
The pandemic not only intensi-
fied the financial distress for RAP
Loudoun administrators had ex-
plained to the public not 24 hours
before. The suit, filed in U.S.
District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia on the par-
ents’ behalf by the conservative
advocacy group Liberty Justice
Center, claims Loudoun has vio-
lated the Constitution.
Specifically, the suit takes issue
with Loudoun’s “Equity Ambas-
sador Program” and its “Bias
Reporting System.” The ambassa-
dor program, launched last year,
recruits a small group of students
from throughout the district to
meet regularly with top adminis-
trators so they can share anony-
mous accounts of racial harass-
ment experienced by their peers.
The bias reporting system allows
students to anonymously report
instances of racist behavior by
peers and teachers using an on-
line form.
The suit claims the equity am-
bassador program violates the
equal protection clause of the
14th Amendment, which guaran-
tees equal treatment before the
law, because it is open only to
students of color.
Loudoun schools spokesman
Wayde Byard said the program is
open to students of all races who
meet a set of criteria such as
having a passion for social jus-
tice. He acknowledged that a
draft version of an Q&A about the
program at one point stipulated
that ambassadors must be stu-
dents of color but said that the
draft was “released prematurely”
— and that race is no longer a
requirement.
The suit also alleges the am-
bassador program violates the
First Amendment, guaranteeing
freedom of speech, because the
program “discriminates on the
basis of viewpoint.” The suit
claims the bias reporting system
also “chills speech.”
The lawsuit asks for an enjoin-
ment barring the Loudoun
school system from operating
both initiatives. Byard said
phase, that would require Lou-
doun staffers to use the names
and pronouns that reflect stu-
dents’ gender identities. One
School Board member recently
said the policy is meant to pre-
vent children from feeling isolat-
ed and marginalized for their
differences.
School officials placed him on
paid administrative leave two
days later, on May 27. They also
barred Cross from school
grounds, school-sponsored activ-
ities and from future School
Board meetings, according to
Cross’s lawsuit.
The suit, filed Tuesday in Lou-
doun County Circuit Court, al-
leges that Loudoun County Public
Schools administrators violated
Cross’s right to free speech and
his right to the free exercise of
religion as granted in the Virginia
constitution.
“Mr. Cross used his constitu-
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and other providers, it also trig-
gered spikes in the very behavior
such programs are there to help
with. According to the Depart-
ment of Behavioral Health, fatal
overdoses increased 46 percent
last year. In 2020, 411 people died
of opioid overdoses in the District
— an average of 34 each month.
“Any reasonable person should be
shocked by those numbers,” Pick-
ering said.
Ninety-four percent of 2020’s
overdose deaths involved fenta-
nyl, the supercharged synthetic
opioid used to cut other drugs to
increase their potency. RAP has
seen clients testing positive for
fentanyl when they arrive for
baseline toxicology screenings,
even if they have not knowingly
consumed the drug.
Wednesday that the school sys-
tem does not comment on pend-
ing litigation.
At Tuesday’s board meeting,
school officials discussed the his-
tory of racism in Loudoun Coun-
ty, as well as data that shows its
continuing legacy. Staffers re-
viewed demographic data for the
Northern Virginia school system,
which is one of the nation’s
wealthiest and also one of the
most rapidly diversifying dis-
tricts.
In 1995, Loudoun staffers not-
ed, the school district had about
20,000 students, the vast majori-
ty of whom were White. But as of
2020, the district had more than
81,000 students, and a majority
of them were Black, Hispanic or
Asian.
The system also is witnessing
wide gaps in academic opportu-
nity and the administration of
discipline. As of the 2019-2020
school year, staffers said, Black
and Hispanic students were
about twice as likely to be sus-
pended as were students overall.
That same year, Black and His-
panic students achieved signifi-
cantly lower on-time graduation
rates than their White and Asian
peers.
Loudoun’s top brass, including
the superintendent, said the
school system’s recent anti-rac-
ism work is driven by a desire to
put an end to these kinds of
unequal outcomes.
Lottie Spurlock, Loudoun’s di-
rector of equity, and Traci
Townsend, the district’s supervi-
sor of equity, said the school
system is pursuing true “educa-
tion equity,” defined as what hap-
pens with the elimination of “the
predictability of student out-
comes” based on factors such as
race, gender, Zip code and socio-
economic status.
Several School Board members
said Tuesday that they supported
the work Loudoun is doing.
“Informing students about a
debate does not mean indoctri-
tional right to speak up,” the suit
states. “The core of constitutional
liberty in a free society — the
ability to comment on public pol-
icy under consideration without
fear of retaliation — is at stake in
this case.”
The suit names as defendants
the Loudoun School Board, inter-
im schools superintendent Scott
A. Ziegler and Lucia Villa Sebas-
tian, interim assistant superin-
tendent for human resources and
talent development. It asks for a
temporary restraining order
against the defendants and a pre-
liminary injunction directing
them to reinstate Cross, end his
banishment from school grounds
and nix the ban on attending
School Board meetings.
Loudoun schools spokesman
Wayde Byard said the district
does not comment on pending
litigation.
The suit was filed by two law-
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“Folks will come in identifying
as a cocaine user or PCP user, test
positive for fentanyl and swear
they’ve never done an opioid in
their life,” he said. “Marijuana us-
ers, too.”
Federal money is available,
money that could keep RAP going
for the near future. The Biden
administration’s American Res-
cue Plan included $3 billion in
mental health and addiction
treatment grants. The District was
awarded $5.6 million on May 18 to
distribute to providers. But the
recent funding, as well as previous
money released last year for pro-
viders, hasn’t been released quick-
ly enough, Pickering said.
“This round of money just came
out, so I do get that bureaucracy
has to move somewhat at a gov-
ernment pace,” Pickering said, but
added that he also understands
nonprofits will have to bid in a
competitive process for the mon-
ey. “There’s a cost to that.”
Rather than take bids for the
funding, Pickering said, the city
should fast-track the money to
programs like RAP so the city has
the treatment infrastructure to
deal with rising addiction and
overdoses.
DBH’s Jones said the city has
“awarded about $6.2 million to
providers so far this fiscal year for
a variety of substance use disorder
services and supports including
medication-assisted treatment,
recovery housing and peer-
operated centers.”
She added that the latest round
of federal funding will be available
for use starting Sept. 1.
Pickering worries whether RAP
will make it that far. “We’ll do the
hard work, but we need to be able
to be here to do it,” he said.
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nating them with that theory —
we teach capitalism, fascism and
communism, so we should abso-
lutely teach about racism,” said
board member Atoosa Reaser
(Algonkian). “It’s the only way the
next generation can learn from
the mistakes we’ve made.”
But others said they are wor-
ried the school system is failing to
clearly communicate the nature,
scope and purpose of its equity
efforts to the public. Board mem-
ber Jeff Morse (Dulles) said that
he thinks “our message is getting
lost” and that the community has
been plunged into “incredible
turmoil” as a result.
Board member John Beatty
(Catoctin) said he understands
why some in the public have
become convinced Loudoun is
pushing critical race theory in-
side classrooms. “We should be
trying to show the differences
rather than just say it’s not hap-
pening,” he said. “We get screen-
shots and documents and it’s got
the same terms in a lot of those
situations, so I think that’s where
the confusion is happening.”
Ziegler said he understands
that some families are frustrated
and bewildered by the fact that
what he calls “culturally respon-
sive instruction” shares certain
key words with critical race theo-
ry. But he said the overlap is
unavoidable.
“All of us in this work [of equity
and diversity] are using this com-
mon vocabulary because it de-
fines this work,” he said.
Board member Harris Mahe-
davi (Ashburn) said he hopes that
school officials can find a new
vocabulary entirely. He said he
thinks most Loudoun County
residents would support the
school system in its equity work
— if only they could grasp it.
“That would be my ask,” Mahe-
davi said. “How do we dial the
consulting-speak language down
into something folks can under-
stand?”
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yers with the Alliance Defending
Freedom, a conservative legal ad-
vocacy group that has been in-
volved in lawsuits that call into
question the rights of transgen-
der people. The Alliance is also
representing a French teacher in
West Point, Va., who refused to
refer to a transgender student
with masculine pronouns.
The 25-page lawsuit goes into
great detail on Cross’s religious
beliefs and worldview. It explains
that he believes God created two
genders, male and female, and
that his faith “commands him to
tell the truth and not tell lies.”
Cross “does not believe that
every student or teacher in [Lou-
doun County] should have to ac-
cept his view,” the suit states. “But
he also believes that teachers
should not be compelled to say
things that they do not believe to
be true.”
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VIRGINIA
Democrats vying for governor clash on race in last debate
BY G REGORY S . S CHNEIDER
richmond — The five candi-
dates vying for the Democratic
nomination for Virginia governor
clashed over issues of race Tues-
day night in the final debate
before the June 8 primary elec-
tion.
While all focused on racial
equity as a central theme of their
policies, several invoked race in
hard hits at former governor
Terry McAuliffe — a White candi-
date who has picked up endorse-
ments from many of the state’s
most powerful Black elected offi-
cials.
In response to a question about
whether the state needs to go
further with police reforms to
address race-related issues, such
as the recent pepper-spraying of a
Black and Latino Army officer in
the town of Windsor during a
traffic stop, McAuliffe called for
“full accountability” and better
training for police.
Then, as he often does, McAu-
liffe, who served as governor
from 2014 to 2018, said he “re-
stored more felon rights than any
governor in the history of Ameri-
ca.”
Former delegate Jennifer Car-
roll Foy (Prince William), who is
Black, asked for rebuttal time and
said: “Terry McAuliffe, not all
Black people are convicted felons.
We are more than restoration of
rights.”
It was one of a handful of
bracing moments in a debate that
VIRGINIA
GOP’s Youngkin takes fundraising lead among gubernatorial candidates
BY L AURA V OZZELLA
richmond — Republican Glenn
Youngkin has raised nearly
$16 million for his bid to become
Virginia governor — $12 million
of it in loans from his own bank
account — giving him more cam-
paign cash than any Democrat in
the race, including former gover-
nor Terry McAuliffe, a legendary
political fundraiser seeking a sec-
ond term.
Youngkin, a former Carlyle
Group executive who secured the
GOP nomination in a May 8
convention, raised $8.3 million
between April and May —
$6.5 million of that in a loan from
himself, according to the nonpar-
tisan Virginia Public Access Proj-
ect, which posted the latest fund-
raising reports Wednesday.
(VPAP does not count funds
transferred between multiple
committees for a single candi-
date, to avoid counting some do-
nations twice.)
The former private equity chief
and political newcomer, whose
net worth is estimated to exceed
$300 million, separately lent his
campaign $5.5 million earlier
this year. His campaign headed
into June with $4.4 million on
hand.
That was enough to edge out
McAuliffe, one of five Democrats
seeking his party’s gubernatorial
nomination in Tuesday’s primary.
A record-smashing national
Democratic fundraiser before he
served as governor from 2014 to
2018, McAuliffe has raised nearly
THERESA VARGAS
While serving time, man channels the challenges in his life for a board game
VARGAS FROM B1
old self and how there were still
14-year-olds and 15-year-olds
being incarcerated,” he tells me
on a recent evening. “I thought
what if they had something they
could interact with and get a
view of the path that they’re
going down? What if they could
visually see it while they’re
playing?”
Only after he was released two
years ago and received advice
from individuals within the
board game industry — an
industry he hadn’t known
existed — did Parker start to
consider that his audience might
go beyond people behind bars.
“I didn’t realize the potential
of other people actually wanting
to play it, people who don’t come
from that lifestyle but who still
have questions about it,” he says.
“By playing the game, you learn
about the ins and outs of the
street life and maybe come to an
understanding of why people
make the decisions they make.”
The game forces players to
start as a young hustler with
nothing but an objective: Survive
Democratic gubernatorial candidates, from left, state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan (Richmond), former
governor Terry McAuliffe, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, Del. Lee J. Carter (Manassas) and former delegate
Jennifer Carroll Foy (Prince William) debate Tuesday in Newport News.
otherwise saw each candidate
hammering familiar themes and
pushing for momentum heading
into the last few days of cam-
paigning.
McAuliffe — who leads in fund-
raising and polling — focused his
attacks on Republican nominee
Glenn Youngkin, who was chosen
$15 million overall, $2.9 million
of that over the past two months.
Although also wealthy, McAuliffe
has not personally given or lent
money to his campaign, which
had $3.3 million in the bank.
The other Democrats compet-
ing in the statewide primary are
Del. Lee J. Carter (Manassas), Lt.
Gov. Justin Fairfax, former del-
egate Jennifer D. Carroll Foy and
state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan
(Richmond). All are seeking to
succeed Gov. Ralph Northam (D),
whom the state constitution bars
from serving back-to-back terms.
Virginia is one of two states
that picks its governor the year
after a presidential race, along
with New Jersey — although Cali-
fornia could be in the mix this
year given the effort to recall Gov.
Gavin Newsom (D).
As a longtime swing state, Vir-
ginia’s results are typically seen
as an early referendum on the
president and a bellwether for the
midterm elections that follow a
year later. For that reason, the
governor’s race typically draws
tremendous national attention —
and money.
Youngkin’s nomination is ex-
pected to intensify fundraising on
both sides, and not just because of
his enormous personal wealth
and a willingness to self-fund.
Some national Republican do-
nors have said they would have
sat out the race if one of the more
stylistically Trumpian candidates
had won the nomination.
Youngkin courted the Trump
voters he needed to secure the
and start a legitimate business.
“You have to see through his
eyes,” Parker says. “He’s growing
up in the streets. How does he
make it out? How does he go
legit?”
How does he make it out? How
does he go legit? Parker could be
describing questions he has
asked himself in the past few
years. Even as the 36-year-old
tries to market a game that pulls
people into the street life, he is
trying to escape it.
When Parker and I talk, the
father of two is blunt about his
mistakes. He admits to selling
drugs, carrying guns and
“making so many selfish
decisions” in his past. He says his
daughter was 4 when he was last
arrested and 14 when he was
released in 2019 after his
sentence was reduced by five
years as a result of the First Step
Act, which shortens mandatory
minimum sentences for
nonviolent drug offenses. He is
now trying to repair that
relationship, he says, and remain
present for another child who
was born a year ago.
And he is trying to do that
last month in a GOP convention
to face the winner of the Demo-
cratic nominating contest.
“Let me be clear — Glenn
Youngkin is not a reasonable
Republican. He is an extreme
right-wing Republican. He is a
loyalist to Donald Trump,” McAu-
liffe said in his opening statement
nod, in part by refusing until after
the convention to say if he be-
lieved President Biden had been
legitimately elected and by play-
ing up a plan to ensure “election
integrity” in a state former presi-
dent Donald Trump lost by 10
points.
Youngkin has played up some
kitchen-table issues since then,
reminiscent of the “Bob’s for
Jobs” approach that former gov-
ernor Robert F. McDonnell suc-
cessfully rode to the Executive
Mansion in 2009 — the last time
Virginia Republicans won state-
wide. But Youngkin also has wad-
ed into culture wars, decrying
“cancel culture” and champion-
ing the cause of a Loudoun Coun-
ty teacher recently placed on paid
leave for refusing to address
transgender students by their
chosen names and pronouns.
“The reality is that both candi-
dates will be very well-funded
because, for good or for ill, Vir-
ginia is seen as a leading political
indicator for the midterm elec-
tions and both parties want brag-
ging rights,” University of Mary
Washington political scientist
Stephen Farnsworth said.
Big money will be especially
key for Republicans, who saw
their losses mount as Trump
drove off suburban moderates,
Farnsworth said.
“No doubt about it, Youngkin
will need a decent amount of
money because he has two tasks
to do: He has to introduce himself
and he has to try to rebrand the
Republican Party in a way that’s
while living in a high-cost area
with a criminal record and
limited résumé. In the past two
years, since moving in with his
brother in Fairfax, Parker has
worked at Chipotle, AutoZone
and a lawn-spraying service. He
now holds a job with UPS, and
when he’s not working, he tries
to take advantage of online
learning opportunities.
One recent opportunity was
with the Inmate to
Entrepreneurs program. The
program, which was started by
entrepreneur Brian Hamilton
and the Rev. Robert Harris, aims
to help former prisoners start
their own businesses.
“More than a half million
people leave prison every year
and rejoin society and, more
often than not, they can’t find
jobs that allow them to make a
decent living,” Hamilton says.
“They have to worry about
background checks and Google
search results. We believe the
second chance is an absolutely
vital part of the tapestry of the
United States. Our goal is to get
the free enterprise system to
work for people who have been
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STEVE HELBER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
of the debate, which was held on
the campus of Christopher New-
port University in Newport News.
Later, McAuliffe cited com-
ments that Youngkin made on
Fox News in which he claimed
that Virginia Democrats want to
take Independence Day out of
school curriculums. State educa-
more appealing to a Virginia elec-
torate that is less Republican
than it used to be,” he said.
After McAuliffe, Carroll Foy led
the Democrats in fundraising.
She collected a total of $4.8 mil-
lion, about $1 million of that over
the past two months. She had
about $282,000 on hand heading
into June.
McClellan kept pace with Car-
roll Foy over the past two months,
raising slightly more than $1 mil-
lion. Overall, she had raised $2.9
million. She had about $60,000
in cash.
Carter, a self-described social-
ist, raised $244,000 overall, about
$34,000 of that over the past two
months. He had about $76,000
between his campaign accounts
for governor and delegate as he
headed into June.
Fairfax was far behind every
other contender, raising just over
$4,000 in April and May — less
than third-party candidate Prin-
cess Blanding took in over that
period. Fairfax, who has raised
about $331,000 so far, had about
$12,000 on hand, plus $8,000 in
his lieutenant governor’s cam-
paign account.
Blanding launched her inde-
pendent bid after her brother
Marcus-David Peters was killed
by Richmond police while experi-
encing a mental health crisis in
2018. She raised just over
$19,000, $5,000 of that over the
past two months. She had about
$13,000 on hand.
In the race for lieutenant gov-
ernor, Republican nominee Win-
incarcerated.”
The program has existed since
1992 but mostly been limited to
people in North Carolina. But in
2020, it started offering free live
courses over Zoom nationwide
for anyone with a criminal
record. Since then, about 120
D.C.-area residents have
participated.
Parker is one of the recent
graduates — and it just takes
looking closely at his board game
to see that he’s thought hard
about what it takes for someone
involved in the criminal life to
leave it.
“It took me five years to create
the game,” Parker says. “And
while creating it, it helped me in
my process of changing.
Changing my thought pattern.
Changing my values. Changing
my behavior. It helped me
become a better person.”
At 28, he was in solitary
confinement when his father
died. Parker recalls being taken
to the chapel and told, and then
being left to think about how he
had spent nearly half his life in
and out of detention facilities.
Not long after that, he says, he
tion officials have strongly denied
any such effort. “He must have
gone down to Mar-a-Lago with
Trump wearing their tin hats, I
mean — what a conspiracy theo-
ry,” McAuliffe said.
Eventually Del. Lee J. Carter
(Manassas) chastised McAuliffe
for saying so much about Repub-
licans.
“The debate we’re supposed to
be having on this stage is about
the future of this common-
wealth,” Carter said. “We can’t
just be a party that is opposed to
the other guys. We have to fight
for something.”
McAuliffe replied that he has
extensive policy proposals on his
website.
Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, only the
second African American ever
elected statewide in Virginia,
took a broader approach to the
question of race in his closing
remarks. “To me, racism is about
when African Americans are
treated differently,” he said.
Pointing out that the Demo-
cratic Party often promises diver-
sity, he noted that there are three
Black candidates seeking the
Democratic nomination for gov-
ernor — himself, Carroll Foy and
state Sen. Jennifer L. McClellan
(Richmond). No Black woman
has ever been elected governor of
any state.
In what seemed like a com-
ment on McAuliffe’s status in the
polls, he added: “I think when
African Americans are shut out of
opportunities repeatedly, it sends
some E. Sears raised $518,000
overall, $327,000 of that in the
past two months. A former del-
egate from Norfolk who now lives
in Winchester, Sears had about
$133,000 on hand.
Among the Democrats running
for the position, Del. Sam Rasoul
(Roanoke) raised about $1.9 mil-
lion overall, $547,000 of that in
April and May. He had about
$146,000 on hand between his
two campaign accounts, one for
delegate and the other for the
lieutenant governor’s race.
Del. Mark H. Levine (D-Alex-
andria) outraised Rasoul over the
past two months, collecting about
$664,000. He raised $1.4 million
overall and had about $57,000 on
hand between his two accounts.
Del. Hala S. Ayala (Prince Wil-
liam) has raised just over $1 mil-
lion overall, $478,000 of that in
April and May. She had about
$79,000 on hand between her two
accounts. Ayala’s contributions
included $100,000 from the polit-
ically powerful Dominion Energy
political action committee, which
drew some criticism from other
Democrats. The Clean Virginia
environmental group, founded by
Charlottesville hedge fund man-
ager Michael Bills, noted that
Ayala had promised to refrain
from accepting Dominion money
in a recent questionnaire. The
group planned to attack her in a
digital ad buy in the final days
before the primary.
In a statement, Ayala’s cam-
paign said she will not be influ-
enced by Dominion if elected.
started reading self-help books
and took the advice of one to
carry a notebook around to jot
down ideas.
“I consider myself a
recovering chess addict,” he says.
He loved playing as a child and
in prison, and he started
wondering, “What if there was a
game where four people could
play chess?”
From there, he started
thinking about creating a
strategy-based game and
realized that he and others
around him were already living
in one: “You start by being
involved in the street, but what’s
the ultimate objective? Your
ultimate objective is to live and
make it out.”
He used typing paper to create
a prototype of the board,
complete with pictures he cut
from a magazine. He then made
a deck of cards and a set of dice.
To make dice in prison, he
says, requires toilet paper and
ibuprofen. First, wet the paper,
shape it into a cube and coat it
with the pill to create a sort of
varnish. Then, leave it to dry for
24 hours. Finally, draw the dots
B5
a signal to people about what our
system truly values.”
McClellan refrained from at-
tacking fellow candidates, in-
stead citing her 15-year legislative
record in the General Assembly.
She called for attention to history
in addressing systemic problems
of race, noting her role as the
head of the state’s Martin Luther
King Jr. Commission and its ef-
forts to tell a more complete
version of Virginia’s history in
schools and in public spaces.
But to a question about why
Virginia has struggled to respond
to an overwhelming demand for
unemployment assistance during
the coronavirus pandemic, Mc-
Clellan was quick to place blame.
“Our economic and health-
care safety nets were starved
under at least two decades of
Republican leadership,” she said.
Republicans controlled the Gen-
eral Assembly for most of the past
two decades, until Democrats
won control in 2019.
Asked whether the recent an-
nouncement that the state will
carry a surplus of at least
$500 million at the end of this
fiscal year means residents pay
too much in taxes, McClellan said
no.
“That is due to cuts made over
the last few decades that we need
to restore,” she said, mentioning a
lack of full funding for education,
health care and social safety nets.
“Until we are fully funding our
needs, we don’t have a surplus.”
gregory.schneider@washpost.com
“Virginia voters need to know
that I will always fight for Vir-
ginian families,” the statement
read.
Norfolk City Council member
Andria P. McClellan, no relation
to the gubernatorial candidate,
has raised $923,000, $250,000 of
that over the past two months.
She had about $39,000 on hand.
Fairfax County NAACP Presi-
dent Sean Perryman raised
$410,000 overall, with just under
$100,000 in April and May. He
had about $60,000 on hand.
Arlington County business-
man Xavier Warren raised a total
of $281,000, $122,000 of that in
the most recent fundraising peri-
od. He had $26,000 on hand.
In the race for attorney gener-
al, Republican nominee Del. Ja-
son Miyares (Virginia Beach) had
raised $692,000 overall,
$213,000 of that in April and May.
He had $282,000 on hand.
Incumbent Attorney General
Mark R. Herring (D), who is
seeking a third four-year term,
had raised more than $2.8 mil-
lion overall, $1.3 million of that in
April and May. He had $270,000
on hand.
Herring faces a primary chal-
lenge Tuesday from Del. Jerrauld
C. “Jay” Jones (D-Norfolk). Jones
has raised $1.9 million overall,
$715,000 of that over the past two
months. He had $225,000 on
hand.
laura.vozzella@washpost.com
Antonio Olivo contributed to this
report.
on it.
I have not played “Plug Wars,”
so I can’t attest to the experience
of it. But Parker warns that it is
gritty and the website he created
for it lists the recommended age
of players as 17.
“It’s kind of in your face,” he
says. “I didn’t sugarcoat anything
because I think if I didn’t tell the
full story, people wouldn’t get
the real message. I had to base it
in reality.”
Pit bulls are used in the game
to protect property from
enemies, and some of the cards
in the deck that players pick
from call for characters to be
shot or sent to jail.
Parker plans to launch the
game on a worldwide digital
platform in the coming months
and he hopes to soon start
raising funds to produce the
tabletop version. He says he
didn’t want to ask people for
money without giving them
something in return, so he has
placed a special order of dice
that he will offer for sale.
These ones, though, won’t be
made of toilet paper.
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JEROME HELLMAN, 92
Driven producer of films including ‘Midnight Cowboy’
BY G LENN F RANKEL
The movie’s director was a
temperamental and anxiety-rid-
den worrier coming off a recent
flop, and he didn’t want either of
the two leading men. The dark
story had been turned down by
every major Hollywood studio,
and the first two draft scripts
were a disaster. No one involved
expected the film, even on a
bare-bones budget, to make a
dime’s worth of profit.
But the producer Jerome Hell-
man pushed ahead with “Mid-
night Cowboy,” the tale of a failed
male hustler from Texas and a
disabled, petty con man from the
Bronx who forge a wary friend-
ship on the streets of Times
Square. Mr. Hellman helped steer
the project through crisis after
crisis, fudging on cost estimates,
fighting with recalcitrant collab-
orators and surreptitiously
shooting scenes on the streets of
Manhattan to produce a bold,
barrier-breaking movie that in
1970 became the first and only
X-rated film to win the Academy
Award for best picture.
Mr. Hellman, a passionate and
combative independent movie-
maker, was also a driving force
behind “Coming Home” (1978), a
film about paraplegic Vietnam
War veterans and the families left
to cope with their injuries, both
physical and psychological. He
died May 26 at age 92 at his home
in South Egremont, Mass., said
his wife, Elizabeth Hellman, who
did not disclose the cause of
death.
Working with the supremely
talented but complex directors
John Schlesinger on “Cowboy”
and Hal Ashby on “Coming
Home,” Mr. Hellman helped
guide both films to favorable
JOSEP ALMUDÉVER MATEU, 101
Last-known survivor of Franco-fighting brigades
BY P HIL D AVISON
Josep Almudéver Mateu, the
last-known survivor of the 35,000
foreign volunteers who joined the
International Brigades to fight
against fascism during the Span-
ish Civil War of 1936-1939, died
May 23 in a hospital near his
home in Pamiers, France. He was
101.
The Madrid-based Association
of Friends of the International
Brigades, which described Mr. Al-
mudéver as “the last man stand-
ing,” announced the death but did
not specify a cause.
Mr. Almudéver was not quite 17
when he lied about his age to
enlist in the regular army of the
elected Spanish republican gov-
ernment, which was in bloody
conflict with the insurrectionist
“nationalist” (essentially fascist)
forces of Gen. Francisco Franco.
He was initially assigned to a
battalion defending Alcàsser (his
hometown) and Valencia, cities
near Spain’s southeastern coast.
In late 1936, he was sent to the
front lines to attack a group of
Franco’s forces that had taken
Teruel, a key town on the road to
the capital, Madrid. He was in the
trenches in February 1937 when
officers realized his age and sent
him packing home.
But having been born in France
KAY LAHUSEN, 91
Photojournalist captured some of the nation’s earliest gay rights protests
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Kay Lahusen, a gay rights ac-
tivist who chronicled the move-
ment’s earliest days through her
photography and writing, died
May 26 at a hospital in West
Chester, Pa. She was 91.
A friend, Judith Armstrong,
confirmed the death but said she
did not know the immediate
cause.
With her partner, the late ac-
tivist Barbara Gittings, Ms. La-
husen advocated for gay civil
rights years before the 1969
Stonewall uprising in New York
helped launch the modern gay
rights era. She captured widely
published images of some of the
nation’s first protests.
Ms. Lahusen “was the first pho-
tojournalist in our community,”
said Mark Segal, a friend of more
than 50 years and founder and
publisher of the Philadelphia Gay
News. “Practically every photo we
have of that time is from Kay.”
“Midnight Cowboy” producer Jerome Hellman holds the Oscar for
best picture during the Academy Awards in 1970.
reviews and box office success.
The seven movies he produced in
his career achieved 17 Oscar nom-
inations and won six awards,
including three for “Midnight
Cowboy” and best actress and
best actor for Jane Fonda and Jon
Voight in “Coming Home.”
Voight, who starred in both
movies, said Mr. Hellman’s spirit-
ed advocacy was crucial to the
success of each.
“Both of those films had to be
battled for, and we were out on a
limb on both of them,” Voight
recalled in a phone interview. “I
always felt he was protecting this
journey of ours, and he was
indeed the one who fought the
battles for us — artistic battles,
financial battles.”
Mr. Hellman’s career in the
film business epitomized a his-
torical moment when the big
studios lost much of their grip
over movie production and inde-
(where his Spanish parents were
briefly working), he soon trans-
ferred to the International Bri-
gades, many of whose fighters
saw the battle for Spain as the
spearhead of an effort to crush
fascism throughout Europe. De-
spite official U.S. neutrality in the
conflict, almost 3,000 Americans
joined the International Brigades.
In May 1938, by then 18 and
using his French passport, Mr.
Almudéver enlisted in the Inter-
national Brigades, which tried to
make up in idealistic fervor what
they often lacked in supplies.
“We went to the front without
bullets,” Mr. Almudéver recalled
to the Spanish newspaper El Pais
in 2011. “After five kilometers, a
column [of fighters] from the
Spanish Communist Party gave
me five, then a colonel gave me
five more. Ten bullets to fight a
war!”
Within weeks, he was wounded
in the arm and leg, and as Franco’s
forces pushed forward, he ended
up going underground in the
Mediterranean town of Alicante.
By the time Franco declared victo-
ry in April 1939, the International
Brigades had been disbanded and
most of the foreign fighters had
returned home. But others, in-
cluding Mr. Almudéver, were
rounded up and sent to concen-
tration camps.
Ms. Lahusen photographed a
series of gay rights demonstra-
tions held in front of Philadel-
phia’s Independence Hall each
July 4 from 1965 to 1969 — and
was a marcher herself, carrying
signs that said “First Class Citi-
zenship for Homosexuals” and
“End Official Persecution of
Homosexuals.” She documented
gay rights protests at the White
House and the Pentagon.
“Whatever the Founding Fa-
thers envisioned as the rights and
privileges of our citizens, we
wanted for ourselves as well,” she
told WHYY for a 2015 commemo-
ration. “Somebody had to get out
and show their face in public and
proclaim things and be aggres-
sive.”
Ms. Lahusen’s life partner, Git-
tings, was one of the nation’s
most prominent lesbian activists
and co-organizer of the “Annual
Reminder” pickets in Philadel-
phia.
They had met in 1961 at a
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pendent operators became im-
portant players and moviemak-
ers. Peter Biskind, author of
“Easy Riders, Raging Bulls,” a
definitive history of the New
Hollywood era, said Mr. Hellman
helped define that period with
his determination to make mov-
ies he found meaningful despite
their difficult subjects.
“He would take on films that
nobody else would make and that
people thought were impossible,”
Biskind said in an interview. “A
movie about a paralyzed veteran
of the Vietnam War? Forget it.
Everybody told him he was crazy,
but he went ahead, anyway.”
Jerome Hellman was born in
Manhattan on Sept. 4, 1928, to
middle-class Jewish parents. Af-
ter serving two years in the Ma-
rine Corps, he came home to a
$27-a-week job as a messenger
boy in the New York office of the
William Morris talent agency. He
He was first taken to the Albat-
era camp near Alicante, where, he
said, many were put before a
firing squad or died of starvation.
“I don’t know why, but they al-
ways made me watch when they
shot people who had tried to es-
cape from the camp,” Mr. Almu-
déver told El Pais. “Never, in all
my life, will I forget the screams of
the people who were shot.”
He also spent three years in
other camps or prisons before
being released in 1942. With Fran-
co in power, and still facing repri-
sals, he fled into exile in Pamiers,
close to the Pyrenees mountain
region near the Spanish border.
He worked in the construction
sector while campaigning for the
rest of his life against fascism.
The Association of Friends of
the International Brigades said
Mr. Almudéver, who eventually
gave speeches about his role in the
civil war, was glad he lived to see
not just Spain transition to de-
mocracy after Franco’s death in
1975 but also the dictator’s body
exhumed in 2019 from his elabo-
rate mausoleum to be reburied in
a municipal cemetery.
Josep Eduard Almudéver Ma-
teu was born in the port city of
Marseille, France, on July 30,
1919. His father was a builder
from Spain’s Valencia region who
had moved to France to seek work
GREY VILLET/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES
Kay Lahusen, a photojournalist and gay rights activist, took part in
the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association to drop
homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973.
picnic held by Daughters of Bili-
tis, the first known lesbian or-
rose through the ranks, eventual-
ly opening his own agency in
1957. He represented dozens of
actors and directors, then six
years later sold the agency and
became a full-time movie pro-
ducer. His first feature was “The
World of Henry Orient” (1964), a
sparkling comedy directed by
George Roy Hill and starring
Peter Sellers, which opened to
excellent reviews and made a
healthy profit.
Always on the lookout for tal-
ent, Mr. Hellman pursued British
director Schlesinger, who had a
surprise hit in the United States
with “Darling,” (1965) a scathing
examination of the superficial
lives and low morals of Swinging
London, starring Julie Christie in
an Oscar-winning performance
as a social-climber model. Mr.
Hellman kept pushing even after
Schlesinger’s next movie, “Far
From the Madding Crowd”
(1967), also starring Christie, was
a commercial and critical dud.
Schlesinger then proposed to
take on James Leo Herlihy’s raw,
seriocomic novel about Joe Buck,
a lonely, naive dishwasher who
comes to New York to seek his
fortune as a stud for hire. The
book included scenes of straight
and gay sex, prostitution and
gang rape, and no major studio
warmed to the idea. But Mr.
Hellman got approval from Unit-
ed Artists, the smallest of the
majors.
The green light came with a
caveat, however: a modest budg-
et of $1 million. Mr. Hellman
helped to round up a gifted crew
in New York, then gently per-
suaded Schlesinger to overcome
his misgivings and hire Dustin
Hoffman, fresh off his success in
“The Graduate,” to play Ratso
Rizzo, the street bum.
at the start of World War I, and his
mother was from a Spanish fam-
ily circus that was touring France
at the time.
The family returned to Valen-
cia when Josep was a boy, and his
friends called him José. He was at
school in Alcàsser, just south of
the city of Valencia, when Franco
and other generals, backed by
Germany’s Adolf Hitler and the
Italian fascist dictator Benito
Mussolini, launched a coup
against the republican govern-
ment in July 1936, triggering the
civil war.
The last American survivor of
the International Brigades, Cali-
fornian Delmer Berg, died in 2016
at 100. Varying estimates say be-
tween 700 and 900 Americans
were among some 7,000 members
of the International Brigades who
were killed in the conflict. Those
who returned home faced dis-
crimination in the post-World
War II years of anti-communist
hysteria.
Mr. Almudéver is survived by
his brother, Vicente, 104, who
fought in the regular republican
army during the key battles of
Jarama and Madrid, as well as five
children and several grandchil-
dren and great-grandchildren.
His wife, Carmen Ballester Vi-
cens, died in 2006.
newsobits@washpost.com
ganization in the United States
and whose East Coast chapter
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Schlesinger’s first choice to
play the hustler, Michael Sar-
razin, proved too expensive, leav-
ing the role to the little-known
Voight. He and Hoffman turned
in performances widely lauded as
masterful.
Mr. Hellman sought to quell
Schlesinger’s fear that his vet-
eran New York-based film crew
would hate the movie’s subject
matter and would mock his
homosexuality. He promised
Schlesinger that if anyone
stepped out of line, they would be
fired immediately.
A compact, combative man
with a handsome, chiseled face
and pugnacious jaw, Mr. Hellman
at times fought with friends as
well as foes. He and the United
Artists head of production David
Picker fell out over the budget
struggles. He also alienated cast-
ing director Marion Dougherty
by rejecting her demand for more
prominent recognition in the
movie’s opening credits. When
Mr. Hellman resisted, she told
him to delete her name altogeth-
er, which he did. He later said he
regretted his decision.
The movie’s success opened
the gates for more adult-themed
films and a decade’s worth of
dark, gritty New York-based mov-
ies like “The French Connection”
(1972), “Mean Streets” (1973),
“Dog Day Afternoon” (1975)” and
“Taxi Diver” (1976). It also made
rich men of Schlesinger and Mr.
Hellman, who received 60 per-
cent of the net profit.
They went on to make “The
Day of the Locust” (1975), a glum,
big-budget adaptation of Natha-
nael West’s Hollywood novel. Mr.
Hellman next became involved
with “Coming Home,” which Fon-
da had been working on with
various collaborators since the
At 18, Josep Almudéver Mateu joined the International Brigades to
fight against fascism during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939.
Gittings had founded. Ms. Lahus-
en was arts editor and shot
groundbreaking cover photos of
gay women for the group’s na-
tional publication, the Ladder,
which Gittings edited.
Ms. Lahusen also was a found-
ing member of the Gay Activists
Alliance and photographed that
group’s protests, called “zaps.”
She was there for Philadelphia’s
first gay pride march in 1972.
Under the pseudonym Kay Tobin,
she co-wrote a 1972 book, “The
Gay Crusaders,” which profiled
the movement’s early leaders.
Ms. Lahusen and Gittings also
took part in the campaign that
led to the American Psychiatric
Association’s 1973 decision to
drop homosexuality from its list
of mental disorders.
Katherine Lahusen was born
in Cincinnati on Jan. 5, 1930, and
she was adopted and raised by
her grandparents. She graduated
in 1952 from Ohio State Univer-
sity and, early in her career,
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early 1970s. With Mr. Hellman as
producer, the “Coming Home”
team recorded hundreds of hours
of interviews with wounded vet-
erans, which helped give the
movie authenticity and emotion-
al impact.
The film was nominated for
eight Oscars but lost the best
picture award to Michael Cimi-
no’s “The Deer Hunter,” another
harrowing Vietnam War movie.
Mr. Hellman went to produce
and direct “Promises in the Dark”
(1979), starring Marsha Mason
and Ned Beatty, about a 17-year-
old girl facing terminal cancer,
based in part on the life and
death of Mr. Hellman’s sister. His
last major film was “The Mosqui-
to Coast” (1986), directed by Pe-
ter Weir and starring Harrison
Ford.
He and the film promoter Eliz-
abeth Empleton, his third wife,
were married in 2001. In addition
to his wife, survivors include two
children from his first marriage
and a grandson.
Before major filming began on
“Midnight Cowboy,” Mr. Hellman
upped the estimated cost to
$3.2 million. An outraged Picker
insisted he cut it to $2.4 million
or else the movie would be can-
celed. Mr. Hellman cut $800,000
on paper without altering either
the screenplay or shooting sched-
ule. He fully expected that some-
one would challenge him about
this sleight of hand, he told a
panel discussion for the 25th
anniversary of the film, “But no-
body did.”
newsobits@washpost.com
Glenn Frankel, a former Washington
Post journalist, is author of “Shooting
Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex,
Loneliness, Liberation and the
Making of a Dark Classic.”
2013 PHOTO BY JOSE JORDAN
worked in Boston as a librarian
for the Christian Science Moni-
tor. She once described having a
years-long relationship with a
woman in her youth before the
woman devastated her by leaving
to marry a man.
Ms. Lahusen and Gittings were
a couple for 46 years. After Git-
tings’s death in 2007, Ms. Lahus-
en spent her later years in a
retirement home in Kennett
Square, where she gave inter-
views, helped maintain Gittings’s
legacy and kept alive the history
of the early gay civil rights move-
ment.
“Stonewall was not the first
thing, that’s what she would tell
you,” said her friend, Judith Arm-
strong. “The history is there and
the history she definitely wanted
to be preserved. . . . She wanted
the story to be out there.”
The New York Public Library
houses an extensive collection of
Gittings’s and Ms. Lahusen’s pa-
pers and photographs.
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IN MEMORIAM
WEST
In Loving Memory of our Beloved
CLYDE D. WEST III
"Kofi"
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
We love and miss you.
Always and forever in our hearts,
Your Family
DEATH NOTICE
BERGER
HILDA HURT BERGER
Members of Fidelity Chapter No.
10, OES-PHA are notified of the
passing of our member Hilda Hurt
Berger. Viewing 10 a.m. until 11
a.m. Homegoing Service at 11
a.m. Friday, June 4, 2021 at Pope
Funeral Home, 5538 Marlboro Pike, District
Heights, MD. No OES Service.
Twanna A. Nickens, W.M.
Edmund Lee, W.P.
Wanda J. Gorham, Sec’y
BROADIE
CAROL ELIZABETH BROADIE
The family of Carol Elizabeth Broadie
announces with great sorrow her passing
on May 20, 2021 in hospice care. Carol
was born on October 18, 1945 in Orlando,
Florida. Memorial Services will be held on
Saturday, June 5, 2021 at Shiloh Missionary
Baptist Church in Kissimmee, Florida at
11a.m.
DORSEY
GEORGE MILTON DORSEY
On June 1, 2021, George Milton Dorsey,
of Mt. Airy, MD, beloved husband of Ella
Mae Dorsey (nee Schaff), loving father of
Gary A. Dorsey (Wendy), James W. Dorsey
(late Laurie), Ricky D. Dorsey (Michelle and
the late Terry Lee) and Neal A. Dorsey
(Leyla) and loving brother of the late Harold
Dorsey and Nancy Mullinix. He is also
survived by 16 grandchildren, seven great-
grandchildren and three adopted grand-
sons. The family will receive friends on
Sunday, June 6, 2021 from 2 to 5 p.m.
at Haight Funeral Home & Chapel, 6416
Sykesville Road, Sykesville, MD. A funeral
service will be held on Monday, June 7,
2021 at 11 a.m. at Calvary United Methodist
Church, 403 S. Main Street, Mt. Airy, MD.
Interment will follow in Mt. View Cemetery,
Marriottsville, MD.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may
be made to www.calvary-mtairy.org or
www.saintjamesweb.org or to www.glen-
mountumc.org or to Hospice of Frederick
County.
Online condolences may be offered at
www.haightfuneralhome.com
DEATH NOTICE
DOUGLAS
REV. WILLIAM R.W. DOUGLAS, JR.
"Ray"
November 19,1974 - May 19,2021
Rev. William R. W. Douglas, Jr. (Ray), family
man, advocate, member of Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity, Inc., ordained Elder in the AME Zion
Church, and preacher of the gospel of Jesus
Christ entered eternal rest peacefully on May
19, 2021. He leaves to cherish his memory
his loving and devoted wife, Rev. Dr. Nicole
A. Johnson-Douglas, two children, Rayah and
Rayghan Douglas, special god-daughter, Aniya
Johnson, one brother, Warren Douglas, three
sisters, Joyanne Douglas- John, Andre Douglas,
and Kristen Douglas; one niece, two nephews,
two aunts, one uncle, and a host of cousins,
relatives, friends, church family and fraternity
brothers. Visitation will be held after the Alpha
Phi Alpha Ritual on Saturday, June 5 from
9:30 a.m. until the time of the service at
10:30 a.m. at Not About Me Ministries, 3106
Branch Avenue, Temple Hills, MD. Bishop W.
Darin Moore, Eulogist. Interment at Rock Creek
Cemetery, Washington, DC.
SCEE
JOANNE SCHALLMO SCEE
On Monday, May 24, 2021, Joanne Schallmo
Scee, loving wife, mother of two, grandmoth-
er of one, passed away at the age of 72.
Joanne was born on November 8, 1948
in Baltimore, Maryland to James and Julia
Schallmo (Jim and Julie). She graduated from
Sherwood High School near her childhood
home in Silver Spring, Maryland.
On January 16, 1971, Joanne married Ken-
neth Edward Scee. They raised a son and
daughter, Austin and April Scee together.
Joanne had six brothers and sisters, and
another six brothers and sisters-in-law from
her marriage to Ken.
Ken and Joanne divorced in 2000, but
remained close through Ken’s death in 2012.
Joanne found love again with John (Jay) Hays
Jr. Jay and Joanne were best friends and life
partners, living together in Maryland, then
Florida, and finally in New Braunfels, Texas
between Austin and San Antonio. She and
Jay moved to Texas to be near her son and
daughter in Austin, Texas and her sister Amy
and her husband Paul who lived down the
street from her in New Braunfels.
Jay cared for Joanne compassionately in her
final months and days. Joanne was surround-
ed by loved ones the final week of her life,
and died peacefully and painlessly looking
forward to being reunited with deceased
loved ones.
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DUBIEL
DARRYL T. DUBIEL
12/03/1986 ~ 5/28/2021
Officers and members of Local 26
IBEW are hereby notified of the
death of Brother Darryl T. Dubiel.
A Celebration of Life will be held
at Mullins & Thompson Funeral
Home, (540-373-5842), on Satur-
day, June 7, 2021, at 6 p.m.
J.F. Dabbs, F.S.
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DEATH NOTICE
EVERLY
CAROL LEE EVERLY
On May 28, 2021 in Alexandria, VA. Beloved
wife of the late John Clark Everly, former
owner of Everly Wheatley Funeral Home. Carol
is survived by her sons, Josiah C. Everly and
his wife Josephine W. Everly of New Orleans,
LA and Alexandria, VA, and John T. Everly of
Alexandria, VA; her grandchildren, Danielle N.
Everly, Josiah T. Everly, Aaron C. Everly, Zachary
J. Everly, Jackson T. Everly all of Alexandria, VA,
Emmie (Casey) Saux, and Virginia Claire Saux
both of New Orleans, LA; one brother, Edward
A. Taylor of Alexandria, VA; sister-in-law Jean
W. Everly of Lake Frederick, VA; and many more
family and friends. She was preceded in death
by her husband of 50 years John C. Everly,
her parents Edward B. and Lilly Favill Taylor,
sister Joyce E. Stancil and her husband James
S. Stancil, and brother-in-law Julian W. Everly
Sr.
The family will receive friends on June 3, 2021
from 4 to 8 p.m. at Demaine Funeral Home, 520
S. Washington St., Alexandria, VA. A funeral
service will be held on June 4, 2021 at 10 a.m.
at First Baptist Church of Alexandria, 2932 King
St, Alexandria, VA. Interment will follow at Ivy
Hill Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made in Carol’s
name to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
and the Salvation Army. Additional information
may be found at
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DEATH NOTICE
Joanne spent her life caring for others. She
looked out for classmates of her son and
daughter growing up who didn’t have stable
home lives, and took in kids from the Mary-
land Sheriff's Boys Ranch. She took in rel-
atives, and dropped everything to be with
friends and loved ones when they were in
need. She cheered (loudly) for and supported
those who were fortunate to have her in their
lives.
Joanne was preceded in death by her father
Jim, mother Julie, ex-husband Ken, and par-
ents-in-law Edward and Alice Scee, and Jay’s
mother Helen Hays. She is survived by her
son Austin Scee, his wife Lee, and their
son Austin Myles Scee; her daughter April
Scee; her life partner and best friend, Jay
Hays, Jay’s son John III; and siblings James
Schallmo Jr., Amy Webb, Annette Smith,
Laura Callaway, David Schallmo and Paul
Schallmo as well as brothers- and sisters-in-
law Kay Lynch, Carol Robinson, Caryn Nelson,
John Scee, Kathy Powell, and Margaret Lan-
dolt and their families.
A memorial service will be held on June
5, 2021 at 1 p.m. EDT / 12 p.m. CDT. The
memorial will be simulcast on Zoom from
Austin, Texas and Olney, Maryland. Please
contact the family for details. In lieu of
flowers, the family requests that donations
be made to PowerUP Scholarship Fund -
www.powerupscholarship.org.
DEATH NOTICE
GINGELL
WILLIAM T. GINGELL, JR. (Age 86)
It is with regret that we notify the
members of Steamfitters Local
602 of the death of Retired Broth-
er William T. Gingell, Jr. Private
services were held by the family.
Notice #1818.
Daniel W Loveless
F.S.T.
GREEN
CALVIN GERALD GREEN, PH.D (AGE 86)
Of Bowie, MD, passed away on May 27, 2021.
He was born in East St. Louis, IL in 1934,
married Mary Gene Frawley in 1958, and was
a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and
great-grandfather. He retired from Westing-
house in 1996. He was a St. Louis Cardinals’
fan, guitar player, song writer and Irish dancer
who often volunteered his time and creativity.
Services will be held on Friday, June 4, 2021,
visitation at 10 a.m. with the funeral service at
11 a.m., both at Holy Family Catholic Church,
12010 Woodmore Road, Mitchellville, MD
20721. In lieu of flowers, donations to Pathfind-
er Village, https//pathfindervillage.org would
be greatly appreciated.
Please view and sign family guest book at
www.beallfuneral.com
MILSTEAD
MARC MILSTEAD
Marc Milstead Book #1134275,
passed away May 31, 2021. Active
Iron Worker 5 journeyman, Opey
became an Iron Worker in April
1987. Viewing June 4, 5 to 8 p.m.,
and Funeral service June 5, 10 a.m.
to 12 noon, both for family and
friends, to be held at Brinsfield Funeral Home,
Charlotte Hall, MD. Burial 12:30 p.m., Trinity
Memorial Gardens, Waldorf, MD. Opey will be
greatly missed by all.
MYERS
JEANNE WINIFRED STRAW MYERS
November 25, 1921 – April 8, 2021
Jeanne left this world on April 8, 2021, having
done her last deed to support the USA by
voting for Joe Biden in the presidential election.
Jeanne roared into Altoona, PA on November
25, 1921, the second daughter of John T.
and Bertha Cone Straw. She was a quiet yet
happy little girl, with brown eyes and brown
hair, who found her love of reading early.
Her older sister, Frances, adored her. Jeanne
helped care for her younger siblings, Joie,
Phyllis, and Jack Jr., during her younger life.
She lived through the depression, graduating
from Altoona High School in 1939. She met her
husband, Orvis Gideon Myers, shortly before
the US involvement in WWII. After the war,
Jeanne became an Army wife again. For some-
one so quiet, she certainly got around Europe,
traveling to Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the
Netherlands, Italy, and England, while Gid was
stationed in Germany. Jeanne was loyal to
friends and family. Never say a disturbing word
about them when you were with Jeanne. She
loved her two children, Robert Allen (Decem-
ber 25, 1946 - March 18, 2012) and Susan Jean
She stood by them and stepped right up to help
them when they needed her. In 1976, Jeanne
had a brain tumor removed. She strongly
traveled that path of recovery, finding new
interests in quilting, genealogy, and square
dancing. She babysat her grandson, Timothy,
and loved her other three grandsons, Danny,
Karl, and Joel, equally. Jeanne loved her church
and was very active in her Sunday School class
and other services. In fact, most of her friends
were from Ravensworth Baptist Church. Gid
preceded her in death in 1998 and Jeanne was
back to the single life she had experienced
as a WWII wife. She settled in Green Spring
Village, Springfield, VA after a few years, where
many of her Ravensworth friends resided and
where Jeanne lived until her death. Those years
were filled with the fun of great-granddaughter
Ayiana and great-grandchild Pax and great-
grandsons Orion, Aries, and Apollo. She wel-
comed her daughter-in-law, Sarah Kaufmann,
and granddaughters-in-law, Charlotte, Lorice,
Teresa, and Lisa into her family as if they
were her own children. Jeanne was a giving,
forgiving, kind person. She is missed, but we,
her family, know she is happy now that she is
with Gid again. Jeanne will be laid to rest in
Arlington National Cemetery with Gid in 2022.
Virtual Memorial Services will be held through
Ravensworth Baptist Church, Annandale on
June 6 at 1 p.m. Contributions may be made
to Annandale Christian Community for Action,
Suite 300, 7200 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA
22003.
O'NEAL
GARY W. O'NEAL
On Monday, May 24, 2021; Devoted husband
of LaFrances O'Neal; Loving father of Michael
D., Michael J., Gary Jr., and Kehniah O'Neal. He
is also survived by two grandchildren Logan
and Paige O'Neal, two brothers, three sisters,
and many other relatives, friends, extended
brothers and sisters. Visitation Saturday, June
5, 2021 from 9 a.m. until hour of service 11
a.m. at Impact One Church, 7230 Central Ave.,
Capitol Heights, MD 20743. Interment Fort
Lincoln Cemetery. Services by BIANCHI.
PETER
EMILY ANNE PETER
Emily Anne Peter passed away Wednesday,
May 26, 2021. She is survived by her brother,
George Fisher (Rachel) as well as many nieces,
nephews, and wonderful friends. She was pre-
ceded in death by her parents, her husband
Woodrow Peter, her son Ronald Peter, and
her longtime companion Thomas Blake. A
visitation will be held from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
Friday, June 4, 2021 at Storke Funeral Home,
11089 James Madison Pkwy., King George,
VA 22485. Interment will be held at 12:30
p.m. Saturday, June 5, 2021 at Mount Comfort
Cemetery, 6600 S. Kings Hwy., Alexandria,
VA 22306. In lieu of flowers, memorial contri-
butions may be made to: The National Eye
Institute.
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DEATH NOTICE
SMITH
JOHN R. SMITH
5/22/1964 ~ 5/31/2021
Officers and members of Local 26
IBEW are hereby notified of the
death of Brother John R. Smith.
Friends may call at Brinsfield
Funeral Home, (301-472-4400),
where a Life Celebration will be
held on Sunday, June 6, 2021 from
2 p.m. until 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
J.F. Dabbs, F.S.
TABACH
MELVIN JACOB TABACH
On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, MELVIN
JACOB TABACH of Chevy Chase,
MD. Beloved husband of Evelyn
Tabach. Devoted father of Gary
(Susan) and Kenneth (Linda)
Tabach and Amy (Ira) Deming. Lov-
ing "Popi" of Jennifer (Matthew) Gerst, Michelle
(Arden) Farhi, Andrew and Melissa Tabach
and Brian (Haley), Scott and Ilana Deming.
Dear great-grandfather "Popi-Mel" of Daniel
and Ethan Gerst and Eleanor and Madeleine
Farhi. Private graveside funeral services will
be held on Thursday, June 3, 2021. Memorial
contributions may be made to No Kid Hungry,
www.nokidhungry.org. Arrangements entrust-
ed to TORCHINSKY HEBREW FUNERAL HOME,
202-541-1001.
IN MEMORIAM
DESSIN
MARIA FRANCISCA DESSIN
June 15, 1932 – June 3, 2017
Your daughter, Liz and son, Rene, still love
you and miss you. Rest in peace with your
husband, Marcel and your grandson, Marcel.
FRICKIE
MARY CLAIRE HUFF FRICKIE
June 3, 1958 - April 8, 2019
Christ in you, the hope of Glory. Col 1:27
Celebrating your life. Cherishing your memory.
Missing you dearly.
Your Loving Family
DEATH NOTICE
BONITTO
FRANKLIN D. BONITTO
On Sunday, May 30, 2021 at INOVA Fair Oaks
Hospital. CMSgt Franklin D. Bonitto, USAF
Retired, is survived by his wife Donna Bonitto;
his children, Christopher(Erin), Julian(Karen)
and Yvonne Bonitto Doggett;seven grandchil-
dren and a host of other relatives and friends.
The Family will receive friends in the chapel
of Greene Funeral Home, 814 Franklin St,
Alexandria VA 22314 on Friday, June 4, 2021
from 10am until time of service at 11am.
Interment in Arlington National Cemetery at a
later date.
JACKSON
BARBARA TALBERT JACKSON
(Age 83)
Barbara Elaine Talbert Jackson, of Washington,
DC, transitioned from earthly labor to her heav-
enly reward on Sunday, May 30, 2021. She
leaves precious memories with her son, Dr.
Charles H. Talbert Jackson, and a host of other
relatives and friends. A public visitation will
be held from 9:30 a.m. until 10:50 a.m. on
Saturday, June 5, 2021 at Gethsemane Baptist
Church, 5119 4th St. NW, Washington, DC
20011, followed by a private funeral service
limited to immediate family. Interment will
follow at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland,
MD. Arrangements by McGuire.
www.mcguire-services.com
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DEATH NOTICE
La PRINCE
ERIC PIERRE La PRINCE
(Age 32)
On May 24, 2021 Eric Pierre La Prince transition
to his Heavenly Father. He is survived by
mother, Regina La Prince, father, Eric Robinson,
brothers, DeMarkus, Christopher (Tianna),
DeLonte and sister, Jamia. Also survived by
grandmothers, Beverly LaPrince and Lea Robin-
son, two nephews, two nieces, a host of aunts,
uncles, cousins and friends. Wake 5 to 7
p.m. on Friday, June 4, 2021 at Johnson and
Jenkins Funeral Home, Inc., 716 Kennedy St.
NW, Washington, DC 20011. On Saturday, June
5, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. Funeral Mass to be held
at St. Anthony Catholic Church corner of 12th
& Monroe St. NE, Washington, DC. Interment
Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Suitland, MD.
www.johnsonandjenkinsfh.com
DEATH NOTICE
MAGNINO
NANCY DIANE MAGNINO
1948 - 2021
On the morning of May 21, 2021, Nancy Magni-
no passed peacefully with her brother Joe and
her sister-in-law Agnes by her side. She was
born in Kingston, New York, June 1,1948, as
the younger daughter of Joseph and Gertrude
Magnino, Sr. She graduated from Fordham Uni-
versity and was a career Government Intelli-
gence employee. Nancy had a full life traveling
for work and pleasure to incredible places that
she spoke of fondly, particularly her stays in
Asian and European countries. She also trea-
sured big family trips to the beach, relaxing,
and sharing stories of her travels.
She is survived by her brother, Joseph James
Magnino, Jr. and her sister Gershan Armistead,
as well as her nephews and nieces whom
mattered so much to her.
Nancy will be honored privately by the family.
GOOD
DAVID L. GOOD
March 28, 1930 - May 28, 2021
David L. Good of Bethesda, MD
and Raymond, ME, cherished
husband, father, grandfather,
uncle and friend, died peace-
fully in his sleep at his Bethesda
home.
Born and raised in Wheeling, WV as one
of five children of Sidney and Jeannette
Good, David is survived by his devoted wife
of almost 28 years, Jane Weiman Good, a
son, John (Stephanie) Good and four step-
children, David H. (Linda Schupack) Good,
Pamela (Marc) Thiessen, Robert (Cara)
Weiman and Jill (Kevin) Kowitz. He is also
survived by four grandchildren, triplets
Jonah, Nathan and Aaron Good plus their
sister, Maren Good, as well as eleven step-
grandchildren including Matthew and Jamie
Brunstad, Max, Jack, twins Lucy and Eva
Thiessen, Sylvie, Lena and Theo Weiman,
Jake and Sophie Kowitz.
David was a University School, Cleveland,
Ohio graduate (1948) and received an A.B.
degree from Brown University (1952), an
L.L.B. degree from the University of Virginia
HANCOCK
TILA MARIA HANCOCK
Leadership and Love of Life
On May 30, 2021, Tila Maria Hormazabal
Hancock passed away at the age of 84.
She died in her sleep at home, as was her
wish. Tila is survived by her three daughters,
Francesca Hancock Schuler, Manuella Han-
cock and Felitia Hancock as well as her son-
in-law Eric Schuler, her grandchildren Aria
and Will and close friend and care giver Carrie
Taylor. Her surviving sisters, Maria Luz and
Rosa Maria, and her brother Armando, along
with family and friends on three continents
share in the loss at the passing of a shining
intellect and spirit.
Tila was born on July 28, 1936 in Antofagasta,
Chile to Armando and Isabel Hormazabal. Tila
met her husband William W. Hancock when
she was living and working as a professor in
Puerto Rico. They married in 1966 and moved
to Washington, DC, which was Tila’s home
for almost forty years, where she built her
career and community of friends and family.
A force of nature who loved to entertain,
Tila always opened her home to the many
people she met through her life. She was
particularly fond of gathering in friends and
mentees who, like her, were far from their
families, and holiday celebrations always
included these “orphans”. An avid and gifted
cook, Tila loved nothing more than sitting
around a large dinner table, with good food
and wine, engaging in wide ranging conver-
sations about world events, philosophy and
literature. And when she had time for quiet
moments, she loved nothing more than walk-
ing on the beach, planting in her garden or
reading.
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Law School (1955) and an L.L.M. (Taxation)
degree from Georgetown University Law
School (1961).
David served in the Munich Field Office,
66th Counter Intelligence Corps Group, U.S.
Army, from 1956-1957. In recent years, he
was active in the ACICV (Army Counter
Intelligence Corps Veterans).
David worked in the Tax Ruling Division of
the Internal Revenue Service from 1959 to
October, 1974 for two years as a Tax Law
Specialist in the Exempt Organization Branch
and the remainder in the Reorganization
Branch. After 1974 and for the following
more than 40 years, David was a partner in
several general practice law firms until his
retirement.
David passionately pursued his many inter-
ests outside of the law. He particularly
enjoyed photography, gourmet cooking,
heart-healthy eating, red wines, bicycling,
history (the Civil War and World War II), art,
music, canoeing (the Allagash), hiking in the
Maine woods, mountain climbing (Katahdin),
Monarch butterflies, wild flowers (Lady Slip-
pers), and exotic travel when even in his
very senior years, David and Jane went on
a 19 day expedition cruise to Antarctica, on
another expedition cruise to the Arctic and
twice to South Africa.
A kind, gentle, tolerant, considerate, trust-
worthy, loyal man with a hearty laugh and
wry sense of humor who embraced life
and was able to pun almost until his last
breath, David will be remembered with great
fondness by all who were fortunate enough
to know him.
A memorial service has been scheduled at
Washington Hebrew Congregation in Wash-
ington, D.C. for Monday, November 22, 2021
at 11 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of
David L. Good would be appreciated and may
be sent to The Oglebay Foundation (Good
Zoo), 465 Lodge Drive, Wheeling, WV 26003.
Tila grew up in Concepción, Chile where,
at 18, the Ministry of Education nominated
her as the 1954 representative from Chile at
the NY Herald Tribune Youth Forum. While
working towards receiving an L.L.B. with
highest honors from the University of Con-
cepción, Chile, she did community work in
urban squatter settlements. Out of this work
grew her special interest in the growth of
cities in developing countries. Tila returned
to the United States with a Fulbright Scholar-
ship to do graduate work in city and regional
planning at the Harvard Graduate School
of Design. In 1973, she received an L.L.M.
from George Washington University. In 1977
she was honored with an Honorary Doctor
of Laws degree (L.L.D.) from Trinity College.
Tila enjoyed a long and varied career where
she regularly broke down barriers for women
professionals and in leadership positions.
From 1964 to 1965, she was a consultant to
the Puerto Rican Department of Housing and
Urban Development and served as a Lecturer
and Visiting Professor at the University of
Puerto Rico Law School and Urban Law
School from 1965 to 1969. From 1974 to
1977, Tila served as a consultant to a wide
variety of organizations and firms in Wash-
ington, DC, including the Agency for Inter-
national Development, the World Bank, and
the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. In
1977, she was appointed by President Carter
as Assistant to the Secretary for International
Affairs to the Department of Housing and
Urban Development where she served until
1981. From 1981 to 1984, Tila served as
the first woman and Hispanic Director of
the Secretariat of the International Court of
Arbitration at the International Chamber of
Commerce in Paris, France. Upon returning
to the US, she continued work as a consultant
in her areas of expertise to a number of
organizations and law firms in the Washing-
ton, DC area.
A lover of music, culture and travel, Tila
often volunteered in her areas of passion,
supporting organizations such as the Folger
Shakespeare Library, the Folger Consort, and
Travelers Aid. In lieu of flowers, the family
suggests gifts to the Folger in Washington,
DC in her name.
Arrangements are entrusted to Cassaday-
Turkle-Christian Funeral Home 75 South
Union Ave, Alliance, Ohio 44601. Friends and
family may share condolences and memo-
ries online at
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Late-day storms Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday OFFICIAL REC ORD
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little sun in the morning through

midday. With time, some new
showers and storms seem likely to
develop. Some could be on the
strong to severe side during the afternoon and
evening. Highs will be in the low 80s. With
humidity on the moderate side, you’ll feel the
heat. Winds will be out of the south about 10 to
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FEELS*: 82° FEELS: 85° FEELS: 93° FEELS: 97° FEELS: 97° FEELS: 101°
15 mph, with gusts about 30 mph. CHNCE PRECIP: 70% P: 60% P: 10% P: 10% P: 20% P: 30%
WIND: SSW 10–20 mph W: SW 6–12 mph W: WNW 4–8 mph W: SSW 4–8 mph W: SSW 6–12 mph W: S 4–8 mph
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Reagan Dulles BWI
High 81° 2:00 p.m. 81° 3:25 p.m. 81° 2:39 p.m.
Low 64° 4:32 a.m. 63° 6:00 a.m. 62° 6:00 a.m.
Harrisburg Philadelphia
79/67 Normal 80°/62° 80°/57° 79°/58°
78/65 Record high 97° 1925 91° 2009 96° 1923
Hagerstown Record low 43° 1897 41° 1993 44° 1993
Baltimore
78/65
82/67 Dover Difference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: –1.0° yr. to date: +1.5°
79/68
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67/59 Annapolis 73/64

81/69 80/68 OCEAN: 60°

Charlottesville Ocean City

80/66 70/64
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Lexington
80/65
Richmond
78/68 Virginia Beach
78/68 Reagan Dulles BWI
Norfolk OCEAN: 66°
81/70 Past 24 hours 0.00" 0.00" 0.00"
Total this month 0.00" 0.00" 0.00"
Kitty Hawk
Normal 0.25" 0.29" 0.24"
76/68
OCEAN: 66° Total this year 16.36" 13.58" 16.60"
Normal 16.21" 17.11" 17.27"
Pollen: Moderate Air Quality: Good
Grass Moderate Dominant cause: Particulates
Trees Moderate
Weeds Low UV: Moderate Moon Phases Solar system
Mold Low 3 out of 11+
Rise Set
Sun 5:44 a.m. 8:29 p.m.
Blue Ridge: Today, mostly cloudy, showers, a Moon 2:31 a.m. 2:12 p.m.
T-storms Rain Showers Snow Flurries Ice Cold Front Warm Front Stationary Front June 10 June 17 June 24 July 1
thunderstorm. High 64–68. Wind southwest 7–14 mph. Yesterday's National World
New First Full Last
Venus 6:55 a.m. 9:54 p.m.
Tonight, evening thunderstorm, mostly cloudy. Low 55–59. High: Needles, CA 109° High: Omidiyeh, Iran 121° Mars 8:47 a.m. 11:29 p.m.
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Wind west 6–12 mph. Friday, partly sunny, a thunderstorm. for the 48 contiguous states excludes Antarctica Saturn 12:20 a.m. 10:29 a.m.
High 71–75. Wind southeast 4–8 mph.
NATIONAL Today Tomorrow Des Moines 84/61/pc 88/67/s Oklahoma City 80/60/pc 82/63/t WORLD Today Tomorrow Hong Kong 92/84/t 91/80/t Rio de Janeiro 83/72/s 79/70/s
Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly cloudy, showers, a Detroit 76/59/c 83/64/pc Omaha 85/64/pc 92/69/s Islamabad 93/75/t 96/78/s Riyadh 114/86/pc 114/87/s
thunderstorm. High 70–81. Wind south 10–20 mph. Albany, NY 72/61/t 76/58/t El Paso 89/64/pc 90/66/c Orlando 88/73/t 87/73/t Addis Ababa 73/55/c 77/53/pc Istanbul 67/58/pc 69/58/c Rome 78/56/pc 79/58/s
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Austin 79/67/t 78/66/t Honolulu 86/74/pc 86/75/pc Portland, ME 68/60/sh 76/58/pc Baghdad 105/75/pc 107/77/pc Kingston, Jam. 86/80/t 88/80/t Seoul 73/58/r 72/60/s
Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly cloudy, showers, a Baltimore 82/67/t 82/63/t Houston 83/71/t 79/70/t Portland, OR 79/51/pc 77/54/pc Bangkok 100/83/pc 100/82/pc Kolkata 95/83/pc 95/83/pc Shanghai 85/65/t 80/66/pc
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Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, small craft advisory, showers, Birmingham 82/66/t 85/66/t Jackson, MS 84/68/t 83/69/t Raleigh, NC 78/68/t 83/65/t Berlin 78/56/pc 78/60/pc Lima 67/61/s 67/61/s Stockholm 69/45/pc 69/49/pc
a thunderstorm. Wind south 12–25 knots. Waves 1–2 feet on the Bismarck, ND 95/63/s 101/65/s Jacksonville, FL 85/68/t 88/69/t Reno, NV 97/63/s 95/60/s Bogota 68/52/t 65/51/t Lisbon 68/54/pc 71/56/s Sydney 61/56/r 67/48/pc
Boise 100/67/s 94/61/s Kansas City, MO 81/62/pc 86/67/s Richmond 78/68/t 83/63/t Brussels 76/60/t 76/59/sh London 74/57/pc 66/53/pc Taipei City 98/81/pc 92/79/sh
Potomac and 2–4 feet on the Chesapeake.• River Stages: The stage
Boston 71/65/sh 76/64/t Las Vegas 106/81/s 107/79/s Sacramento 94/60/s 92/54/s Buenos Aires 65/57/pc 65/58/sh Madrid 86/60/pc 83/61/t Tehran 101/79/s 101/79/s
at Little Falls will be around 3.50 feet today, falling to 3.40 Friday. Buffalo 69/60/t 76/64/pc Little Rock 82/63/pc 85/66/t St. Louis 81/64/pc 86/67/s Cairo 88/65/pc 88/66/s Manila 90/85/t 92/84/t Tokyo 78/68/c 75/68/r
Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet. Burlington, VT 72/63/t 81/62/pc Los Angeles 77/62/pc 80/61/pc St. Thomas, VI 87/79/pc 86/79/pc Caracas 73/63/pc 73/63/t Mexico City 70/56/t 68/55/t Toronto 71/58/t 82/63/sh
Charleston, SC 80/71/t 85/71/t Louisville 75/61/t 84/62/pc Salt Lake City 96/68/s 99/69/s Copenhagen 67/56/pc 66/54/pc Montreal 69/61/r 81/62/c Vienna 75/54/pc 78/57/pc
Charleston, WV 74/61/t 80/57/t Memphis 81/65/c 84/68/pc San Diego 69/62/c 70/62/pc Dakar 80/73/pc 81/74/pc Moscow 68/52/c 72/52/s Warsaw 72/54/c 73/55/pc
Today’s tides (High tides in Bold)
Charlotte 82/66/t 85/64/t Miami 86/78/sh 88/79/t San Francisco 68/55/pc 67/54/pc Dublin 65/46/sh 64/49/c Mumbai 89/82/t 88/81/t
Key: s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain,
Washington 3:39 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 3:57 p.m. 10:50 p.m. Cheyenne, WY 79/53/s 85/58/s Milwaukee 82/65/pc 85/68/s San Juan, PR 87/77/pc 87/76/pc Edinburgh 62/47/pc 63/46/pc Nairobi 76/56/pc 76/57/pc sh- showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries,
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Cleveland 72/60/t 82/66/pc New Orleans 85/74/t 84/74/t Syracuse 75/62/t 82/63/pc Ham., Bermuda 80/73/s 81/74/pc Ottawa 69/58/sh 82/61/pc quality data); National Weather Service
Norfolk 5:01 a.m. 11:18 a.m. 5:42 p.m. none Dallas 81/68/t 81/67/t New York City 73/66/t 76/64/t Tampa 89/75/t 87/75/t Helsinki 68/51/c 72/51/pc Paris 79/62/t 70/57/sh * AccuWeather's RealFeel Temperature®
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Point Lookout 3:10 a.m. 8:59 a.m. 3:35 p.m. 9:46 p.m. Denver 82/56/s 87/59/s Norfolk 81/70/t 82/67/t Wichita 81/61/pc 84/64/s Ho Chi Minh City 92/81/t 92/81/t Prague 75/50/pc 77/57/pc measure of how the conditions really “feel.”

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Despite extremes, May temps ended near normal

BY M ATT R OGERS dates in 1893 and 1915). It was the on May 23, temperatures 58 in 1915.
coolest weather so late in the spanned 50 degrees during the Dulles’s high of 57 degrees was
May offered a wide range of season since 1997, when the high month. the lowest on record for the date,
temperatures in Washington, was 58 on June 3, according to the Several records, for both warm below the previous mark of 62 in
which made setting our thermo- Capital Weather Gang’s Ian Liv- and cold extremes, were set dur- 1971.
stats a day-to-day challenge. The ingston. ing the month.
month’s lowest high temperature Despite a dry spell in the mid- On May 23: Pattern
of 58 degrees on Sunday came dle of the month, rainfall was Dulles Airport tied a 1962 rec- The overall national pattern
only one week after it was 94 de- close to average overall. ord high of 92 degrees. was quite variable through the
grees on May 23. The month’s precipitation of The District tied a 2004 record month, with both hotter and cool-
Taking the warm and cool ex- 3.77 inches was 0.22 inches drier warm low of 74 degrees. er periods, but the final result was
tremes together, May turned out than the 1981-to-2010 normal and Baltimore set a record warm a cool month overall for the
to be a pretty average month. The 0.17 inches drier than the 1991-to- low of 70 degrees, topping 69 United States. Faster-than-
month’s average temperature of 2020 normal. It ranked as the from 2004. normal wind speed around the
66.1 was 0.1 degrees above the 87th-driest on record. On May 26: Northern Hemisphere kept the
1981-to-2010 normal, but 1.1 de- The month featured cool mo- Dulles tied a 2007 record high nation’s weather very active and
grees cooler than the new and ments, more in keeping with of 92 degrees. varied overall. MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST

warmer 1991-to-2020 normal. March and April, but also some Baltimore tied a 1914 record Pleasant weather draws canoeists to the Potomac River on May 13
Dating to 1871, it ranked as the hot periods that offered a sum- high of 94 degrees. Year-to-date in the District. The month featured cool moments more like March
53rd-warmest May on record. mer appetizer. On May 29: The near-average tempera- and April, but also hot periods that offered a summer appetizer.
May’s extraordinarily cool Me- The Washington area experi- Baltimore’s high of 56 degrees tures and precipitation in May
morial Day weekend arguably enced a notable dry spell from was the lowest on record for the kept 2021 in the middle of the in the temperatures in the month tions were within the predicted
marked the month’s most memo- May 9 to May 23, culminating in date, below the previous mark of pack in the context of the past ahead, which worked out well. range, we give ourselves an A
rable weather event. The high the month’s hottest day. 57 in 2014. decade of weather. We predicted an average temper- grade.
temperatures of 59 and 58 de- On May 30: ature of 65 to 68 degrees and it weather@washpost.com
grees on May 30 and 31 were the Extremes Baltimore’s high of 57 degrees How’d we do? was 66.1. We called for rainfall in
second-lowest on record for both From the lowest low tempera- was the lowest on record for the On May 2, the Capital Weather the range of 3.5 to 4.5 inches and Jason Samenow contributed to this
days in the District (trailing only ture on May 8 to the highest high date, below the previous mark of Gang predicted a lot of variability 3.77 inches fell. As both predic- report.

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You’re never
over the hill
on the Hill
This Senate is the oldest in history.
Should we do anything about it?
BY R OXANNE R OBERTS

H
ow old is too old to be a United
States senator? ¶ Consider, for a
moment, the octogenarians in
office. Dianne Feinstein, the old-
est sitting senator, turns 88 this month.
She’s served since 1992. Charles Grassley,
three months younger, celebrates his 88th
birthday in September. He’s held the job for
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40 years. ¶ Richard Shelby is 87. James
Inhofe is 86. Pat Leahy is 81. The three men
have served in the senate for a total of 106
years. ¶ And there are plenty more right
behind them: Twenty-three members of the
Senate are in their 70s; only one is under 40.
According to the Congressional Research
Service, the average age of senators at the
beginning of this year was 64.3 years — the
oldest in history. ¶ So begins the debate:
Experience vs. new ideas? Career politicians
vs. short timers? Old vs. young? Boomers vs.
. . . everybody else? SEE SENATE ON C2
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and
Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) exemplify institutional knowledge or the need for term limits, depending on whom you ask.

BOOK WORLD
Quoth the Corvus
corax: How science
informed Poe’s work
BY M ICHAEL D IRDA
There are many, many biographies
of Edgar Allan Poe, the most exhaus-
tive being Arthur Hobson Quinn’s, first
published in 1941, the most concise
Peter Ackroyd’s 2009 “Poe: A Life Cut
Short.” Nearly all of them, however, are
written by literary scholars, poets or
novelists. By contrast, John Tresch’s
“The Reason for the Darkness of the
Night” situates our nation’s most influ-
ential writer, as I would claim Poe to
be, against the backdrop of what its
subtitle calls “the forging of American
science.” Tresch himself is a distin-
guished historian of science, now at
London’s Warburg Institute, and au-
thor of the prizewinning study, “The
Romantic Machine: Utopian Science
and Technology After Napoleon.”
Is Poe really the most influential
American writer? Note that I didn’t say
“greatest,” for which there must be at
least a dozen viable candidates. But
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The pop star changing the Disney narrative
The company used to hold back its young TV actors. Olivia Rodrigo broke out.
BY S ONIA R AO
The widespread popularity of Olivia
Rodrigo’s debut album, “Sour,” can in
some ways be explained by the reso-
nance of its third single, “Good 4 U.”
The pop-punk breakup song dropped
in mid-May — four months after the
ubiquitous hit “Drivers License” broke
multiple industry records and a hand-
ful of weeks after its catchy follow-up,
“Deja Vu,” helped sustain the anticipa-
tion.
With “Good 4 U,” even more ears
seemed to perk up. The fiery track
earned numerous comparisons to Ala-
nis Morissette and Hayley Williams of
the band Paramore — the latter com-
parisons especially reeling in millenni-
als who up until then might have only
casually listened to Rodrigo, the 18-
year-old star of a Disney Plus series.
This is “Misery Business” for a new
generation of broken, angry hearts.
Maybe it still serves that purpose for
those who first sang along with Wil-
liams nearly 15 years ago.
This cross-generational appeal no
doubt played a hand in “Sour” debuting
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Olivia Rodrigo at the Brit Awards last
month in London. Her debut album,
“Sour,” was released in May.
at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums
chart, announced over the holiday
weekend. Billboard also reported that
“Sour” had recorded the biggest week
for an album this calendar year, echo-
ing Rodrigo’s feat with her two No. 1s on
the Hot 100 singles chart, “Drivers
License” and “Good 4 U.”
In his review of “Sour” for New York
magazine, music critic Craig Jenkins
noted that you “don’t need to be a
Disney Channel star who has just seen
her Disney Channel co-star boyfriend
buzz off with yet another Disney Chan-
nel co-star to relate to the feelings of
abandonment and upheaval” that
songs such as “Drivers License” get
across. Similarly, he wrote, you don’t
need to be “fresh off the learner’s-per-
mit circuit . . . to feel weird cruising
past haunts that remind you of failed
relationships.”
However irrelevant to the quality of
her music, Rodrigo’s Disney connection
is vital to her industry standing. After a
breakout role on the Disney Channel
series “Bizaardvark,” she moved on to
“High School Musical: The Musical:
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Worried parents are
left to navigate the
maskless mayhem
BY C AITLIN G IBSON
The boys were begging to see their
beloved St. Louis Cardinals play on
their home field, which had finally
reopened to fans, so Stephanie Malia
Krauss and Evan Krauss carefully con-
sidered what it would mean to bring
their young sons to a baseball game:
They’d be surrounded by people, but
the seating was socially distant and
masks were required. They were wor-
ried about their 10-year-old son’s asth-
ma — a risk factor if he contracted
covid-19 — but they were also thinking
about how happy he’d be at the game,
after so many homebound months.
They decided to wait until a few weeks
had passed with no sign of a ballpark-
related outbreak before they finally
bought tickets for a Sunday afternoon
in late May.
Then, just over a week before the
game, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention released updated pub-
lic health guidelines, stating that fully
vaccinated people no longer needed to
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Is it a problem when even junior senators are seniors?
SENATE FROM C1
Senior senators often stay for
decades because voters are reluc-
tant to give up the perks of
incumbency — seniority, commit-
tee chairmanships and all the
money poured into their states.
West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, who
was in his ninth term when he
died at age 92, funneled an esti-
mated $10 billion to his constitu-
ents during his 51 years in the
Senate, according to the Robert C.
Byrd Center for Congressional
History.
Which brings us to Feinstein.
The senior senator from Califor-
nia, who has served for 28 years,
has spent the past year defending
her fitness for the job. During
Supreme Court nominee Amy Co-
ney Barrett’s confirmation hear-
ing, liberals believed Feinstein
was far too conciliatory and
called for her to give up her seat
on the Judiciary Committee.
But there is also a whispering
campaign about Feinstein’s al-
leged cognitive decline: After
what Senate Majority Leader
Charles Schumer called a “serious
talk” with Feinstein, she gave up
her seat as the ranking Democrat
on the committee in November.
(Schumer’s office did not respond
to questions about the substance
of the talk.) A December New
Yorker article, citing anonymous
sources, chronicled Feinstein’s
memory lapses and other signs of
age-related impairment.
In March, California Gov.
Gavin Newsom made headlines
when he said he would replace
Feinstein with a Black woman if
she stepped down before her
term ended. The remarks created
a firestorm; Newsom walked
them back the following day, say-
ing he was simply answering a
hypothetical question. “I have no
expectation that she’ll be step-
ping aside — quite the contrary,”
the Democrat said on “The View.”
“I talk to her quite often. She is as
lucid and focused and as commit-
ted to the cause of fighting not
only for our state as a representa-
tive, the senior senator of Califor-
nia, but this nation in her senior
status as someone who’s been in
the Senate, with great respect
across the aisle, for as long or
longer than most.”
For her part, Feinstein told
reporters they were making a
“mountain out of a molehill” and
insisted she was physically fine:
“I think that’s pretty obvious.”
Feinstein won a sixth term in
2018 when she was 85, easily
defeating a more liberal candi-
date. Is all this chatter about her
fitness a way for critics to replace
her with a younger, more liberal
senator? Or are there real issues
about her health and acuity?
“Age may bring challenges, but
it’s also a benefit when it comes to
being in Congress,” she said in a
statement for this article. “I’ve
seen changes and trends not only
in California but across the coun-
try — not to mention an evolving
Senate. Living through that has
made me much more effective at
my job.” Seniority and depth of
experience aren’t inconsequen-
tial, she wrote, allowing her a
“long-term focus” on wildfires,
immigration, climate change and
other issues.
“I’ll put my record up against
anyone’s, and I remain as active
as ever when it comes to solving
problems,” Feinstein said. “That’s
why I was reelected in 2018, and
that’s what I’ll continue to do.”
The question is: For how long?
n 2003, South Carolina’s
I Strom Thurmond retired at
the age of 100, after 48 years in
the Senate. The not-so-hidden
secret was that his staff did every-
thing but actually push the vote
button during his last term,
which ended six months before
his death.
The Founding Fathers created
minimum ages for serving in the
House and Senate or as president,
but they did not address a maxi-
mum. Today the question is: How
long should someone be allowed
to work? In 1986, Congress ended
mandatory retirement for most
professions. In only a few is it
legal for employees to be forced to
leave by a specific age (usually by
65) — the military, law enforce-
ment, commercial pilots, air traf-
fic controllers and, in a few states,
judges.
Is creating laws for 330 million
Americans any less important
than flying a plane? Especially
given the travel, the hours, the
stress that senators endure? In
Canada, where senators are ap-
pointed instead of elected, a man-
datory retirement age of 75 was
implemented in 1965.
In 1996, Bill Cohen (R-Maine)
was one of 13 senators who volun-
tarily retired — an unusual exo-
dus. Just 56, he had served three
terms and could have won again.
“In the Senate, you either were
defeated or you died — that was
the rule coming up,” says Cohen,
now 80. “You could hold on to
TOP: Sen. Strom Thurmond at his 100th birthday party in 2002. ABOVE: Sens. Charles Grassley
(R-Iowa), left, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) are all octogenarians. “Age
may bring challenges, but it’s also a benefit when it comes to being in Congress,” Feinstein says.
“If Ted Kennedy had
been forced out of the
Senate by a term
limit, it would have
been a tragic thing
for the institution. . . .
At the same time,
there are many
examples of those
. . . who begin to lose
something
cognitively. It’s a
problem, and I don’t
have a good answer
for it.”
Norm Ornstein,
American Enterprise Institute
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), the top Republican on the Armed
Services Committee, is 86. He came to the Senate in 1994.
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your seat as long as you were
physically able to do so. You
rarely were defeated and you
rarely retired.”
But Cohen was tired — of the
constant traveling, the fundrais-
ing, the partisan nastiness — and
began thinking of the future. “It
was basically, ‘I’ve got one more
professional chapter in my life,’ ”
he says. “ ‘And I want to take it
when I’m still physically and
mentally capable of doing my
best.’ ” Cohen went on to serve as
secretary of defense for President
Bill Clinton, followed by a suc-
cessful consulting and writing
career — inspired by Majority
Leader George Mitchell, who
stunned his colleagues when he
left the Senate in 1995 at age 61,
going on to become an acclaimed
international diplomat.
But some senators stick
around longer than they should,
convinced that they still have
important work to do and know-
ing they’ll probably never find
another job with the same power
and prestige.
Traditionally, it was consid-
ered rude to bring up a politi-
cian’s age. Sen. Margaret Chase
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MATT MCCLAIN/THE WASHINGTON POST
Smith, a Republican famous for
her vocal opposition of McCar-
thyism, was shocked when a
young challenger brought up her
failing health during a 1972 pri-
mary battle. He didn’t win, but he
intimated that the then-75-year-
old was not the vibrant woman
Maine voters had elected 24 years
earlier. Smith lost the general
election.
“Is it ageism to say someone is
too old to carry out a job? And
who decides that?” Cohen says.
“Some people are old at the age of
40, mentally or philosophically,
and some are young at the age of
90.”
Mike Kim, the owner of Grub’s
Pharmacy, raised eyebrows in
2017 when he told Stat News that
he routinely sent Alzheimer’s
medication to Capitol Hill. “It
makes you kind of sit back and
say, ‘Wow, they’re making the
highest laws of the land and they
might not even remember what
happened yesterday.’ ”
There are ways to nudge a
politician toward the door, says
political scientist Larry Sabato,
founder of the Center for Politics
at the University of Virginia. In
1960, Ted Green of Rhode Island
was 92, the oldest sitting senator
at that time. “They almost had to
use sleight of hand to get him out
of the Senate. He’d been forced to
give up his committee chairman-
ship, but he still wanted to run for
reelection and they ‘missed’ the
deadline for filing. Isn’t that
something? His staff missed the
deadline.” Green lived to age 98;
had he ran and won, he would
have served a full fifth term.
But that’s the exception. Most
of the time, it is voters who decide
who represents them and how
long.
“Most Americans hate Con-
gress but love their congress-
man,” Sabato says. “They’re re-
sponsible for having elected that
person, so surely they’ve done a
good job. It’s those other people
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in other districts that are the
problem. So if they reelect Dianne
Feinstein or Senator Grassley at
an advanced age, that’s because
their judgment is that the incum-
bent can deliver more — or is
better than the alternatives.”
Of course, voters don’t always
know everything happening be-
hind the scenes. But in a democ-
racy, Sabato says, “we all have to
live with the choices we make.”
hat if there were another
W way?
The easiest way to ad-
dress an aging Congress is term
limits, an idea that’s wildly popu-
lar with voters but somehow nev-
er gets passed. In January, Ted
Cruz, along with Marco Rubio
and other GOP colleagues, intro-
duced yet another bill calling for
a constitutional amendment to
limit senators to two six-year
terms and House members to
three two-year terms.
The bill does not directly ad-
dress the issue of age. “For too
long, entrenched, career politi-
cians have sought to curry favor
with special interests rather than
serve the interests of the Ameri-
can people,” Cruz, 50, said in a
email. “That’s why an over-
whelming bipartisan majority of
Americans support term limits —
because the corrupt swamp they
see in Washington is a direct
result of political careerism.”
Joe Biden is the oldest person
to take office as president — but
the position is term-limited and
his health gets more scrutiny
than a senator’s. When that limit
was being proposed, President
Harry S. Truman in a handwrit-
ten note said such limits should
be extended to Congress: “Twelve
years of Washington is enough for
any man. . . . We’d help to cure
senility, and seniority — both
terrible legislative diseases.”
Republicans ran on the issue in
1994 as part of their Contract
With America, but the Supreme
Court shut down the debate the
following year when it ruled in
U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thorn-
ton that states cannot set limits
for U.S. representatives or sena-
tors that are not specifically enu-
merated in the Constitution.
“Term limits cut against the
self-interest of every politician in
Washington,” says Nick Tom-
boulides, executive director of
U.S. Term Limits, a term-limit
advocacy group. “And as the old
saying goes, the chickens are not
going to vote for Colonel Sand-
ers.”
So Tomboulides, 31, is going
from state to state, trying to drum
up enough support to bypass
Washington. A 2019 Fox News
poll reported that 80 percent of
respondents favored establishing
congressional term limits, includ-
ing 86 percent of Republicans
and 77 percent of Democrats.
“Over time, they just become
cogs in the machine,” he says of
Congress. “They become assimi-
lated to the leadership system, to
the seniority system. They grow
out of touch and they become
beholden to special interests and
lobbyists.”
Barack Obama echoed that
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sentiment in 2017 when he spoke
at the Global Citizen Forum in
Brazil. “I see in the U.S. Congress
people who’ve been there 20, 30,
40 years,” he said. “And because
they’re still there, they’re block-
ing the 25- or 30- or 35-year-old
who is more of their time and
could be more innovative and
creative solving the problems we
face today rather than the prob-
lems we faced 35 years ago.”
Senior senators’ age can be-
come painfully obvious when
they’re talking about the Internet
and social media during hearings
with tech moguls. “We actually
have a joke around here,” Tom-
boulides says. “We don’t call them
congressional hearings. We call
them commercials for term lim-
its.”
Norm Ornstein, a political sci-
entist at the American Enterprise
Institute, says term limits might
bring in younger senators — but
also politicians less interested in
legislating and more interested in
advancing themselves. That
means the real power effectively
ends up in the hands of staffers
and lobbyists.
He points to California, which
enacted state-legislature term
limits in 1990 and in 2012 modi-
fied them to create a lifetime
maximum of 12 years.
“The whole idea was to chan-
nel ambition in a different way: If
you’re only there for a limited
period of time, you’re going to be
more focused on doing the right
thing,” Ornstein says. “The reality
is exactly the opposite. What ends
up happening is you channel
ambition in exactly the wrong
way. There is less interest in
institutional preservation or
maintenance. Why would you do
something that benefits an insti-
tution that you’re going to be
leaving? You want to do some-
thing that has a big splash now so
that you can use it to move to your
next job.”
Ornstein is concerned about
the loss of institutional memory
and relationships (especially in
the Senate) if members are limit-
ed to two terms. Critics of term
limits point to Ted Kennedy, who
served 46 years and did most of
his important legislation during
his last terms. Or they cite Biden
and Bob Dole, who did significant
work throughout very long Sen-
ate careers.
“Many of the best contribu-
tions that I have seen in the
Senate have come from people
who’ve been there four or five
terms,” Ornstein says. “If Ted
Kennedy had been forced out of
the Senate by a term limit, it
would have been a tragic thing for
the institution.” But he adds: “At
the same time, there are many
examples of those who have lost a
step or more and who begin to
lose something cognitively. It’s a
problem, and I don’t have a good
answer for it.”
Meanwhile, Feinstein has filed
papers with the Federal Election
Commission for a 2024 reelection
bid. It was a formality, according
to her office, not an indication of
her plans. If she runs, that’s up to
the voters.
roxanne.roberts@washpost.com
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Broadway’s relaunch
now set for Aug. 4 with
the scalding ‘Pass Over’
BY P ETER M ARKS
new york — Broadway’s return
moves up an entire month — to
Aug. 4 — with the announcement
Tuesday that the first show back
will be a new play: Antoinette
Chinonye Nwandu’s “Pass Over.”
With its off-Broadway cast and
director reprising their roles, the
85-minute play, which revolves
around two young Black men,
took inspiration from both
“Waiting for Godot” and the kill-
ing of Trayvon Martin.
“Pass Over,” at the August
Wilson Theatre, now comes in
sooner than “Hadestown,” the
Tony-winning musical that is set
to begin performances Sept. 2.
That show slid into the first-back
slot after three mammoth musi-
cals — “Wicked,” “Hamilton” and
“The Lion King” — declared they
were restarting Sept. 14. All of
these plans, and those of about
20 other producers, have arisen
as government officials have lift-
ed coronavirus-prompted re-
strictions on public gatherings.
The producers of “Pass Over”
stress that the intention was not
to win some sort of contest —
there are risks in being early in
the returning lineup, as health
and safety measures will be new-
ly implemented. But having the
relaunch christened by a drama
rather than a long-running musi-
cal repaints the picture a bit of
what Broadway might be in this
time of rebirth. And that the play,
first produced at Chicago’s Step-
penwolf Theatre in 2017, address-
es issues of race and justice won’t
be lost on anyone seeking a
Broadway more open to such
stories and to more artists of
color. (Spike Lee filmed the Chi-
cago production, which was then
streamed by Amazon Prime Vid-
eo.)
“For a playwright to have their
work on Broadway changes the
life of the play in perpetuity,”
director Danya Taymor said in a
Zoom interview with Nwandu.
“I’ve always known in my bones
that was its destiny.”
Taymor cited Ntozake
Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who
Have Considered Suicide/When
the Rainbow Is Enuf ” as a pre-
cursor. “That play was on Broad-
way,” she said, “and because it
was on Broadway, it’s known
throughout the world.”
The Broadway production —
for which Nwandu has made
major revisions, including con-
cerning the life-or-death fate of
one of the young men — reunites
the cast and design team of a
JEREMY DANIEL
2018 version that Taymor direct-
ed at Lincoln Center Theater. It is Namir Smallwood, front, and Jon Michael Hill in Lincoln Center Theater’s 2018 production of Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s
existential tragicomedy trans- “Pass Over.” Both actors will be returning for the show’s Broadway debut at August Wilson Theatre, along with director Danya Taymor.
posed to a blighted city street,
with Jon Michael Hill and Namir and really hard conversations designers: Wilson Chin has de- Donuts.” which may account for the more
Smallwood playing the men and pain,” Taymor said of putting vised the sets, Sarafina Bush the Nwandu is forthcoming about hopeful tone the play has appar-
stuck, like Samuel Beckett’s “Pass Over” together. “I’ve been costumes, Marcus Doshi the her writing process and how the ently taken on.
Vladimir and Estragon, in time talking a lot about this idea of lighting and Justin Ellington the people around her can change “I’m less hopeful about the
and place. A White police officer like ‘clean pain,’ where it hurts sound design. Ebert won a Tony how she sees her work. Her world,” Nwandu said, referring to
played by Gabriel Ebert applies but it’s not bad for you.” Award for his performance in the mother, she said, worried that in events that have transpired since
an ominous air of violent possi- “Pass Over” is a Broadway musical “Matilda”; Hill was its original form, “Pass Over” was the play’s Chicago debut. “But
bility to the proceedings. debut for both Nwandu and Tay- Tony-nominated for his work in too depressing. The playwright’s I’m more hopeful, in myself.”
“It’s not without challenges mor, as well as some of the show’s the Tracy Letts play “Superior own mood shifted over the years, peter.marks@washpost.com

The vaccinated are told to enjoy life again. Parents of at-risk kids are wary.
FRUSTRATIONS FROM C1
wear masks outside or inside, no
matter the crowd size.
“And then we got an email that
the stadium was expanding ca-
pacity, and saying that if you’re
vaccinated, now you don’t have to
wear a mask — but there’s no
indication that they’ll actually
check vaccination cards,” says
Stephanie Krauss, a 35-year-old
educator and social worker. “So if
someone’s not wearing a mask,
we’re left to not know: Are they
vaccinated or not? Are they ex-
posing others?”
Krauss thought they’d settled
the question — Is a baseball game
safe for my kids? — but now she
wasn’t sure anymore.
“In terms of my kids, both for
their physical and mental well-
being, we’ve invested a lot of
emotional stock in these highly
calculated risks to take, based on
available guidance, available
rules and laws,” she says. “But
because everything changes so
rapidly, at some point you just
kind of end up stuck and you
don’t know what to do.”
When the CDC abruptly
changed its guidance on mask-
outside, and the older campers
might be vaccinated but the
younger ones are not?
l Should a family travel by
plane if their baby is too young
to be masked and the flight is
full?
l If masks are no longer re-
quired in many public places,
what does that mean for kids who
are especially vulnerable to covid-
19?
That was Scott Kaminski’s first
worry when he saw the updated
guidance: His 3-year-old son,
Cameron, has Down syndrome,
which puts the toddler at higher
risk of serious complications if he
catches the coronavirus. Kamins-
ki, 45, who lives in North Carolina
with his wife, Jennifer, and their
two boys, had watched as some
people in his community flouted
safety precautions throughout
the pandemic, strolling through
the grocery store with masks
tucked defiantly below their
chins.
“Our first reaction was really,
unfortunately, to think about the
mistrust we have for some people
out there,” he says. “I think the
new guidelines just gave that
group of people — the ones who
a congenital heart defect. Stout
worries that keeping them safe
just got harder, even as everyone
else seems to be rejoicing about
their new freedoms. “Now there is
the extra layer of no one having
masks on, and the cognitive fa-
tigue of constantly having to
make these extra levels of deci-
sions just for normal activities.”
And once those decisions have
been made, they must be ex-
plained to curious or confused
children. Stout has spent the past
year reiterating to her 8-year-old
that people wear masks to protect
others, that the cloth-covered fac-
es surrounding them were help-
ISTOCK ing to keep him and his little
The masks are coming off. Where does that leave parents of brother safe.
vulnerable children? The guidelines are vague and advice varies. “He’s lived through his little
brother in the ICU. His cousin
was a premature baby and passed
away. He’s lived through really
“You feel like the world around you doesn’t bad outcomes for little kids,”
Stout says. “So to now see adults
understand. . . . Now there is the extra layer of not wearing masks when he’d
looked up to adults to model that
no one having masks on, and the cognitive protective behavior — it’s just
another challenging conversa-
fatigue of constantly having to make these extra tion to have in the middle of all
this.”
levels of decisions just for normal activities.”
evan Sandiford, a patent
cumstances. So for now, Sandi-
ford says, he and his wife will
keep wearing their masks in pub-
lic, in solidarity with their boys.
And for now, Hackett says,
their family will avoid eating in-
doors at restaurants, but she
thinks she would feel safe taking
a flight with her 10-month-old
daughter, because passengers are
still required to wear a mask.
In the end, Krauss and her
husband chose to take their sons
to the baseball game. The sta-
dium was packed, she says, and it
was hot outside, and the family
wound up moving to seats far
enough from others that it felt
safe for the boys to take their
masks and face shields off. Any-
time a stranger came too close,
Krauss says, the face shields went
back on.
“Even so, this morning we both
had a post-outing emotional
hangover,” she says, the day after
their outing, “waking up and
wondering if it was worth it and if
we had taken unnecessary risks
with the boys.”
Sometime in the coming
months, the country’s youngest
will finally have their turn to be
vaccinated. Until then, the delib-

wearing last month, many par-
ents voiced frustration about the
lack of clarity for families — and
specifically, how vaccinated par-
ents with unvaccinated children
were supposed to interpret the
new rules. Since then, there have
been a slew of follow-up stories
with epidemiologists and ex-
perts offering their thoughts
about what seems reasonable
and safe.
But the broad takeaway still
falls into a dreaded gray area: It’s
mostly up to you, parents, de-
pending on your individual cir-
cumstances, your particular risk
thresholds, your specific kids.
There is no one-size-fits-all solu-
tion. What is right for one family
won’t be right for another —
which might feel empowering, or
maybe just exhausting. After 15
months of analyzing and agoniz-
ing over once-simple choices,
there are only new, more nuanced
scenarios to consider:
l Is a summer camp safe if most
— but not all — activities are held
already weren’t taking this seri-
ously — it gives them a bit of a
pass. And for our family, that
makes us even a little more con-
cerned about who we’re interact-
ing with and how those interac-
tions take place.”
After getting vaccinated, Laura
Hackett, a mom of 3-year-old and
10-month-old daughters in Cali-
fornia, says she looked forward to
reclaiming some sense of normal-
cy. She and her husband recently
took their girls on an errand to
the hardware store, she says, a
small outing that felt like a big
milestone. But she isn’t sure they
would do that again, in the ab-
sence of mask mandates.
“We will continue to have to
put thought into what we do as a
family, because it feels like it’s just
decided that life can go back to
normal, regardless of covid,” she
says. “Life won’t be as carefree as
we expected it would be by this
summer, and the weighing of
‘doing this versus that’ will con-
tinue to take up brain space.”
Katie Stout, whose sons have health issues
that put them at a higher risk from covid-19
o far, the CDC has not fol-
S lowed up with more-specific
recommendations for par-
ents of unvaccinated kids, leaving
many to turn to other trusted
sources for guidance. Daniel
Summers, a pediatrician who
practices in Massachusetts, has
spent a lot of time lately helping
families talk through their ques-
tions and hesitations.
“I’m having these conversa-
tions every single day, numerous
times a day,” Summers says. “I
start with parents by figuring out
where they are, and I begin by
telling any parent that I don’t
want them to feel like I’m trying
to move them off their space of
comfort. So I’m primarily trying
to empower them to make their
own calculations and feel confi-
dent in those decisions — that I
trust them to do this for any given
situation, because these decisions
are on a case-by-case, event-by-
event, activity-by-activity basis. I
want them to feel like they can
assess the risk that’s going to be
present, they can know who is
going to be there and decide if the
risk that they are going to be
accepting is worth the benefit
that they are going to enjoy.”
For most children, experts
agree, the risk associated with
coronavirus infection is low —
but not nonexistent. And for fam-
ilies with higher-risk children,
negotiating their own boundaries
can feel especially tiring and iso-
lating.
“You feel like the world around
you doesn’t understand the per-
spective, and it is hard to be in the
minority,” says Katie Stout, 39, a
physical therapist in Maryland.
Her two young sons have health
conditions that place them at a
higher risk from covid-19 — her
8-year-old has a seizure disorder,
and her 3-year-old was born with
D
examiner and freelance
writer in Brooklyn, has also
spent a lot of time trying to help
his 6- and 9-year-old boys feel
safe: Sandiford is Black, and his
wife is Indonesian, and their bira-
cial sons have been attuned not
only to the ravages of covid-19, he
says, but also to the anti-Asian
racism it unleashed. For months,
he says, neither of his boys want-
ed to spend much time outside
their apartment. More recently,
Sandiford and his wife have grap-
pled with whether their children
should return to a hybrid sched-
ule at their public charter school.
To Sandiford, the latest rever-
sal of mask mandates felt jarring:
“It felt like there was just this free
fall,” he says. “I definitely feel
fatigued. It does feel like quite a
bit to take in and to process. Kids
thrive off some level of consisten-
cy. Not just kids, all of us — we
thrive off a sense of understand-
ing what’s happening.”
But there is nothing certain or
consistent about our current cir-
erations are ongoing over which
risks feel worth taking.
But Summers is heartened to
be having these discussions with
parents, he says. “This is the flip
side of the conversations I was
having this time last year, when I
was really putting emphasis on
the need to minimize risk to the
greatest degree possible,” he says.
“Now it’s been a lot of conversa-
tions about people returning to
the lives that they’ve had to put
on hold.”
There is some trepidation, he
says, and the questions keep com-
ing — about camps, about neigh-
borhood playgrounds and vaca-
tion plans, the many small vestig-
es of the life we had before. But
when he talks to his patients and
their families, he says, what he
senses most is hope, an eagerness
to finally feel safe reclaiming
what’s been lost.
“The small things,” Summers
says, “add up to a meaningful
quality of life.”
caitlin.gibson@washpost.com

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Theory: Poe is America’s most influential writer. Fact: Science influenced him.
BOOK WORLD FROM C1
consider his radiant originality.
Before his death in 1849 at age
40, Poe largely created the mod-
ern short story, while also invent-
ing or perfecting half the genres
represented on the bestseller list,
including the mystery (“The
Murders in the Rue Morgue,”
“The Gold-Bug”), science fiction
(“The Facts in the Case of M.
Valdemar,” “The Conversation of
Eiros and Charmion”), psycho-
logical suspense (“The Tell-Tale
Heart,” “The Cask of Amontilla-
do”) and, of course, gothic horror
(“The Fall of the House of Usher,”
“The Masque of the Red Death,”
the incomparable “Ligeia”).
That’s just the fiction. W.B.
Yeats once named Poe “the great-
est of American poets,” which
does sound absurd. Still, few
poems are more famous than
“The Raven” with its dolorous
tocsin, “Nevermore.” Among my
own earliest memories is hearing
my steelworker father, not a
bookish man, regularly murmur
the first stanza of “Annabel Lee”:
“It was many and many a year
ago/ In a kingdom by the sea . . .”
Finally, Poe — like several of
his characters — haunts us from
beyond the grave. When we peer
at the mournful figure in those
familiar daguerreotypes, we
seem to glimpse the emblematic
image of the modern artist as
misunderstood genius, prey to
melancholy, drawn to self-
destruction.
That morose view of Poe, still
widespread, isn’t precisely accu-
rate. As Tresch reminds us, Edgar
grew up coddled by the wealth
and status of his Richmond step-
parents, excelled in many of his
courses at the University of Vir-
ginia and, during his time at
West Point, was well liked by his
fellow cadets (over half of whom
helped underwrite a volume of
his poems). While it’s hard to
imagine him in any uniform but
a severe black suit, Poe actually
served in the Army for four years,
rising to the rank of sergeant
major.
Though punctilious about his
honor, in civilian life Poe normal-
ly comported himself with gen-
teel courtliness. Professionally,
he worked with astonishing dili-
gence. By his early 30s, Poe had
already edited major periodicals
(the Southern Literary Messen-
ger, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentle-
man’s Magazine), interviewed in-
ternational celebrities (such as
the visiting Charles Dickens),
written a respected guide to,
believe it or not, seashells (“The
WARBURG INSTITUTE
John Tresch is the author of
“The Reason for the Darkness
of the Night.”
Conchologist’s First Book”),
earned notoriety as the “Toma-
hawk Man” for his savage reviews
of Emerson, Longfellow and oth-
er literary pooh-bahs, and even
gone on the lecture circuit with a
talk modestly titled “The Uni-
verse.” During these same years,
Poe had also married his con-
sumptive, teenage cousin, occa-
sionally drunk peach brandy to
THE REASON
FOR THE
DARKNESS OF
THE NIGHT
By John Tresch
Farrar, Straus
and Giroux.
448 pp. $30
excess (he chugged rather than
savored) and regularly hob-
nobbed with the era’s intelligen-
tsia.
As a lifelong “Magazinist,” Poe
could write anything: humorous
squibs, book reviews, parodies,
articles about the latest scientific
discoveries, exposés of quackery
(most notably of Maelzel’s chess-
playing automaton), critical es-
says on “the philosophy of com-
position,” an almost unreadable
cosmological prose-poem called
“Eureka” and, of course, those
unforgettable stories of self-
justifying murderers and shrill
psychopaths: “The thousand in-
juries of Fortunato I had borne as
I best could, but when he ven-
tured upon insult I vowed re-
venge.” . . . “True — nervous —
very, very dreadfully nervous I
had been and am; but why will
you say that I am mad?”
In “The Reason for the Dark-
ness of the Night” (available
June 15), Tresch emphasizes how
much Poe infuses scientific dis-
course into his most fantastical
imaginings. For example, in “A
Descent Into the Maelstrom,” a
sailor, whose boat has been
sucked into a gigantic whirlpool,
rather improbably saves himself
by thinking like a physicist: He
observes that cylindrical objects
fell more slowly into the whirling
vortex than other objects of the
same size, so he quickly lashes
himself to a barrel to escape from
a watery grave. In another story,
“The Man That Was Used Up,”
Poe describes a highly decorated
army officer who, because his
body parts have been replaced by
various prostheses, is actually a
steampunk cyborg.
Poe’s fiction and journalism
lead Tresch to discuss all sorts of
scientific and pseudoscientific
topics: code-breaking, phrenolo-
gy (the once-popular belief that
the bumps on your skull reveal
your character), the naturalist-
explorer Alexander von Hum-
boldt, 19th-century astronomy,
the popularity of hoaxes, P.T.
Barnum, the vogue for mesmer-
ism, theories of the universe, the
birth of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion and, not least, the careers of
the important early American
scientists Joseph Henry and Al-
exander Dallas Bache.
Obviously, Tresch packs quite
a lot into his book — there’s even
an ingenious deconstruction of
the title page of Poe’s nautical
novel, the macabre and tantaliz-
ingly enigmatic “Narrative of Ar-
thur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.”
Still, prospective readers of “The
Reason for the Darkness of the
Night” should be aware that it
isn’t a sustained, detailed exposi-
tion of Poe’s life so much as a rich
assemblage of biographical vi-
gnettes, brief story analyses and
mini-essays on the era’s scientific
beliefs.
In general, Tresch’s overall the-
sis — that Poe’s “deep familiarity
with science was the fulcrum on
which his thought balanced” —
seems unarguable, given the
presence of the “ratiocinative” in
so much of what he wrote. Yet,
ultimately, it is Poe’s other aspect,
his ability to convey monomania-
cal intensity, verging on hysteria,
that we are drawn to, his gift for
expressing what D.H. Lawrence
floridly called “the prismatic ec-
stasy of heightened conscious-
ness.”
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Album shows Rodrigo is a di≠erent kind of Disney star

RODRIGO FROM C1 Washington Post last month, sis- sic to her 10.9 million Instagram
ters Aly and AJ Michalka — who followers, but apps such as Tik-
The Series,” a meta, mockumen- released music on Disney’s label Tok, on which a young woman
tary-style show that began in the mid-aughts, including the started a viral trend with “Drivers
streaming on Disney Plus in No- memorable single “Potential License,” help keep it in the con-
vember 2019. Rodrigo and co-star Breakup Song” — mused that versation. The song got big
Joshua Bassett’s characters play social media had changed the enough to become the basis of a
Gabriella Montez and Troy Bolton landscape the most. “Saturday Night Live” sketch
in a stage production of the film “You would never be on the about adult men who couldn’t
“High School Musical” — layers of cover of a cool magazine. You stop listening to it. Three months
fictional romance rumored to wouldn’t get an SNL performance later, Rodrigo appeared as the
have transcended to Rodrigo and musical guest.
Bassett’s real lives as well. At the root of it all, of course, is
There is something of a tradi- the music itself. Critics agree that
tion of supposed drama among “Now, if you blow up on Rodrigo shows promise, proving
Disney stars making for popular adept at maintaining the tricky
music, notably captured years social media and you balance of writing specific lyrics
ago by veiled references to the that speak to universal experi-
tangled web of Miley Cyrus, Sele- happen to be connected ences — especially notable in the
na Gomez, Demi Lovato and the pop genre, and not unlike the
Jonas Brothers. Vested interest in to the Disney machine, work of her professed idol, Taylor
their celebrity led fans to listen to Swift (who even has a writing
their songs on repeat, picking the it doesn’t really matter credit on the track “1 Step For-
lyrics apart for clues as to what ward, 3 Steps Back,” which inter-
went down. Many have assumed if Disney is involved.” polates Swift’s “New Year’s Day”).
“Drivers License” to be about Bas- AJ Michalka, who with sister Aly Rodrigo collaborated on “Sour”
sett leaving Rodrigo for another released music on Disney’s label with songwriter and record pro-
Disney star, Sabrina Carpenter. ducer Dan Nigro but maintains a
But Rodrigo’s success also writing credit on every song.
seems to be part of a shift within or an NPR Tiny Desk or whatever The album experiments within
the Disney sphere, which has it is,” AJ recalled of their past the pop genre, ballads relaying
apparently evolved enough to al- experiences. “And now, if you the heartache of Rodrigo’s break-
low its stars to curse while still blow up on social media and you up and the rock-tinged tracks
holding down jobs on PG-rated happen to be connected to the pulsing with teen angst. As the
television. Rodrigo is signed to Disney machine, it doesn’t really album goes on, she reaches the
Interscope and Geffen Records matter if Disney is involved. conclusion that things will only
WILL HEATH/NBC and plays on major radio stations, You’re probably going to get those look up from here. It is undoubt-
Olivia Rodrigo on “Saturday Night Live” last month. Her first hit, “Drivers License,” spurred an SNL instead of the recently departed cool opportunities.” edly true of her career as well.
sketch about adult men who couldn’t stop listening to it. Three months later, she was the musical guest. Radio Disney. Speaking to The Rodrigo has promoted her mu- sonia.rao@washpost.com

Grandma won’t get vaccinated. Can the other grandma issue an ultimatum?
Dear Amy: I am safe going between homes, but Unless you’re leaving out carrying the virus to this other embarrassed to say that I find the duties may give you the breather
Ask Amy the maternal now we have this added situation important information, your household is also very low. level of everyday attentiveness I you need, as well as a new set of
AMY grandmother of a with Danny spending time with proposed ultimatum reflects a If the child’s doctor suggests must pay to him somewhat pals for your dog to play with.
DICKINSON sweet, intelligent his unvaccinated grandmother strange logic. that these visits place Danny’s exhausting. He’s up very early in
5-year-old boy, for long weekends. The way I read your narrative, health at risk, your daughter the morning; I walk him again Dear Amy: I appreciated the
“Danny,” who, because of divorce, I told my former son-in-law, “Danny” has been moving should share the physician’s before bed, and I also want to give question from “Crushed,” who
spends time at his paternal thinking that he could deal with between households since before written assessment with her ex him all the attention and had developed a wicked crush on
grandma’s house in a his mother. (He can’t). I said I his parents and you were and suggest that visits should be playtime he deserves. one of the workmen renovating
conservative area of our state. would have to tell my daughter vaccinated. If that is true, then the postponed until Danny can I’ve never heard any other dog her house.
She and I have a good about this. risk of the child contracting or receive his vaccination. owners mention this as a I liked your answer, but I wish
relationship, despite this very- Once she finds out, she will carrying the virus between Vaccinations for children are problem. Should I just not have a you had counseled her to pursue
contentious divorce. insist that her son not go there households is much lower now being tested and are expected to dog? this only after her renovation is
She is a wonderful until Grandma and her husband than it was pre-vaccination. roll out relatively soon. — Embarrassed Dog-Dad completed. To do so during the
grandmother, not only because get the vaccine, and she WILL get Yes, you could tell the child’s Parents must do everything work-phase could lead to
she is kind, intelligent and the lawyers involved. mother that you are upset about possible to offer the healthiest Embarrassed Dog-Dad: I think unfortunate consequences.
empathetic, but also because her What advice can you give me this, but, if so, you should urge choices for their children. this is probably a common — Been There
career is in education. She’s a on how to navigate this mess? her to behave rationally and Talking to a lawyer when you reaction in the earlier phase of
principal at an elementary school. A school principal needs to respectfully. She should ask should be talking to a doctor does dog ownership. And honestly, I Been There: Absolutely. Thank
I recently discovered that she model good behavior, and all of Danny’s pediatrician for a risk not represent the healthiest know of many parents who feel you.
has not received the coronavirus the experts say to get the vaccine. assessment regarding the child choice. the same way about the earlier
vaccine, nor does she have any Do we have the right to give her spending time in an unvaccinated phases of parenthood. Amy’s column appears seven days a
plans to get it. When I asked her an ultimatum: Vaccinate, or no household. Dear Amy: I recently retired and I highly suggest that you find a week at washingtonpost.com/advice.
why, she just shrugged and said it grandson? Unless he has underlying got a dog — my first dog since nearby “day care” facility for your Write to askamy@amydickinson.com or
was all blown out of proportion — Worried Grandma medical conditions, I assume the childhood. dog. Check out various places Amy Dickinson, P.O. Box 194, Freeville,
and she didn’t need it. doctor will say that the risk to I absolutely adore my little with the same care you would NY 13068.  You can also follow her
The rest of the family (the Worried Grandma: You believe Danny’s health is extremely low, mutt. He is really fun to be with check out preschools. @askingamy.
child’s parents and myself ) have this grandmother has a duty to and now that the other adults are and easy to take care of. One or two days a week of © 2021 by Amy Dickinson distributed by
all been vaccinated, so we can feel “model good behavior.” You do, too. vaccinated, the risk of him However, I’m a little freedom from these daytime Tribune Content Agency

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6198 Greenbelt Road AMC Courthouse Plaza 8 The Conjuring 2 (R) CC: 9:55 Dad, I'm Sorry 4:00-4:50-7:20- Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train
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Spirit Untamed (PG) 5:05-7:30 Spirit Untamed (PG) 5:00 1:00-1:30-2:00-2:40-3:50-4:30- The Conjuring 2 (R) 7:00
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5:00-7:30 (R) 1:15 Regal Bowie Spirit Untamed (PG) CC: Dream Horse (PG) 4:00 5:10-5:40-7:10-7:20-8:00-9:00 Godzilla vs Kong (PG-13) 4:30
Capital Center 12 CC: 3:05-6:10
800 Shoppers Way Wrath of Man (R) 12:40-3:40- 15200 Major Lansdale Boulevard Regal Rockville Center 5:00-7:20 A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) Spiral: SAW (R) 1:10-4:15-7:00 Cruella (PG-13) 12:00-12:50-
AMC Center Park 8 A Quiet Place Part II: The IMAX
Profile (R) 8:20 199 East Montgomery Avenue 3:50-4:30-5:10-5:50-7:10-7:50 Wrath of Man (R) 12:55 2:00-4:20-5:30-8:00-9:00
4001 Powder Mill Rd. Godzilla vs Kong (PG-13) CC: 6:40-9:55 AMC Hoffman Center 22 2D Experience (PG-13) CC:
Spirit Untamed (PG) 5:00- Cruella (PG-13) 1:00-1:30-2:00- Dream Horse (PG) 3:45 Raya and the Last Dragon Spirit Untamed (PG) 5:00-7:40 A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13)
Cruella (PG-13) CC: 3:00-4:00- 4:25-7:15 206 Swamp Fox Rd. 4:30-7:15-10:05 Private Watch Party 1:00- 12:20-1:00-1:30-1:50-2:30-3:20-
6:30-8:00 Cruella (PG-13) CC: 4:15-5:45- 7:25-9:50 2:30-3:05-3:40-4:10-4:40-5:15- Cruella (PG-13) 4:00-4:55-6:20- The Conjuring (R) CC: 8:00 Spiral: SAW (R) CC: 3:55-9:45 (PG) 4:40 4:00-4:30-4:50-5:40-6:20-7:00-
7:00-7:30-8:00 7:20-8:00-8:25 Spiral: SAW (R) 5:25-8:00 4:00-7:00
A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) 6:45-7:45 Private Watch Party 12:30- Godzilla vs Kong (PG-13) CC: New Order (R) 9:10
CC: 3:30-4:30-5:30-6:45-7:30- A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) 12:50-1:10-3:45-4:05-4:25-7:00- A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) 4:25 Those Who Wish Me Dead (R) Finding You (PG) 4:45-7:45 Regal Fairfax Towne Center 7:30-7:50-8:40-9:20-9:50
Spiral: SAW (R) 2:10-5:10-8:20
8:30 CC: 4:00-5:00-5:30-6:30-7:30- 7:20-7:40 1:15-1:40-2:45-3:15-3:45-4:30- 3:50-4:30-5:00-5:30-6:00-6:30- Dream Horse (PG) CC: 4:15 CC: 4:05 Spirit Untamed (PG) 6:45 4110 West Ox Road
Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no
Spiral: SAW (R) CC: 7:00 8:00 Final Account (PG-13) 4:15- 5:00-5:30-6:00-7:15-8:10 7:10-7:50-8:30 Raya and the Last Dragon (PG) Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Wrath of Man (R) 4:20-7:30 Cruella (PG-13) 1:00-1:30-2:00- Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train
Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no A Quiet Place Part II: The IMAX 10:00 Spiral: SAW (R) 1:05-5:40-8:05 Spiral: SAW (R) 4:25-7:00 CC: 4:30 Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train Cruella (PG-13) 3:45-4:10-4:50- 4:15-4:40-5:10-7:35 (R) 1:10-7:50
Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train 2D Experience (PG-13) CC: Army of the Dead (R) 2:35- Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Cruella (PG-13) CC: 4:00-4:30- (R) 9:50 6:00-6:50-7:20-8:00 A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) Wrath of Man (R) 11:55-3:15
(R) 3:45 4:30-7:00 6:00-9:25 Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train 5:00-5:30-6:00-6:45-7:30-8:00- Wrath of Man (R) CC: 3:15- A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) 1:05-1:35-2:00-4:00-4:30-4:55
Spirit Untamed (PG) 5:00-8:00
Spirit Untamed (PG) CC: Spiral: SAW (R) CC: 5:10-7:35 Separation (R) 3:20-6:20-9:10 (R) 1:50-7:40 (R) 3:55-6:50 8:30 6:30-9:40 5:10-7:50 Spiral: SAW (R) 1:45
5:00-7:45 Wrath of Man (R) CC: 4:55-7:50 Secret Movie Series 7:00 Wrath of Man (R) 1:20-4:20-7:20 Wrath of Man (R) 4:40-7:30 Nobody (R) CC: 7:40 Spirit Untamed (PG) CC: 5:00- Spirit Untamed (PG) 5:00-7:35 Private Watch Party 1:00-4:00-
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AMC Columbia 14 Cruella (PG-13) 1:20-2:00-3:00- Spirit Untamed (PG) 7:20 Mortal Kombat (R) CC: 5:10- 9650 Main St Regal Fox & IMAX
5:00-7:20 3:30-4:35-5:25-6:15-6:45-7:50- Cruella (PG-13) CC: 2:45-3:20- Regal Virginia Gateway & RPX
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Raya and the Last Dragon (PG) Cruella (PG-13) 11:10-11:40- 4:50-5:30-5:45-6:50-7:30-8:10- The Conjuring 2 (R) 7:00 2D Experience (PG-13) CC: 13025 Worldgate Drive 1:00-4:00-7:00 5:50-6:10-7:10-8:30-9:00-9:30 10659 Braddock Road
Godzilla vs Kong (PG-13) A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13)
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Cruella (PG-13) CC: 4:15-5:30- 6:10-7:00-9:10-10:10 Cruella (PG-13) 2:00-5:25-8:40 6:55-9:45 Spiral: SAW (R) CC: 5:25-8:10 6:30-7:30 10:00-2:40-7:10 1:40-4:20-7:00-9:40 CC; DVS: 4:55-7:15
Profile (R) 1:55 9:00 Finding You (PG) CC; DVS:
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Cruella (PG-13) 12:30-12:45- Private Watch Party 4:10-7:10 (R) 7:25 Riders of Justice CC; DVS: 9:45-
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A Quiet Place Part II: The IMAX 2:20-5:10 3:45-7:00 1:00-1:20-1:50-2:15-2:45-3:50- Regal Waugh Chapel & IMAX Finding You (PG) CC: 4:20 Wrath of Man (R) CC: 7:45 12:05-2:35-5:05-7:40 A Quiet Place Part II: The IMAX Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no
2D Experience (PG-13) CC: Army of the Dead (R) 9:45 A Quiet Place Part II (PG-13) 4:05-4:25-4:55-5:20-6:20-7:10- 1419 South Main Chapel Way Wrath of Man (R) CC: 5:15-8:25 Spirit Untamed (PG) CC: 5:00- Endangered Species (R) CC; 2D Experience (PG-13) 2:00- Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train
5:00-8:00 Godzilla vs Kong (PG-13) 6:50 XD: 12:50-3:30-6:10-8:50 7:25-8:00-9:30-10:30 Spirit Untamed (PG) 5:00-6:00 Final Account (PG-13) CC: 7:15 6:15-7:15 DVS: 9:50-12:10-2:25-4:55-7:20 4:40-7:20-10:00 (R) CC; DVS: 5:05-7:30
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CLASSIC DOONESBURY GARRY TRUDEAU PICKLES BRIAN CRANE

RED AND ROVER BRIAN BASSET AGNES TONY COCHRAN

BRIDGE

N-S VULNERABLE
NORTH
♠ Q 10 8 4
♥ K73
♦ J5
♣ A854
WEST EAST
♠ 52 ♠ 63
♥ J 10 9 2 ♥ Q84
♦ A Q 10 ♦ 98762 MIKAEL WULFF & ANDERS MORGENTHALER
FRANK AND ERNEST TOM THAVES WUMO
♣ J 10 9 3 ♣ KQ7
SOUTH (D)
♠ AKJ97
♥ A65
♦ K43
♣ 62

The bidding:
SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST
1♠ Pass 3♠ Pass
4♠ All Pass
Opening lead — Choose it
CLASSIC PEANUTS CHARLES SCHULZ MIKE DU JOUR MIKE LESTER
“I heard you have a new
girlfriend,” I said to Cy
the Cynic.
“I met this one at a chess
club,” Cy nodded.
“Don’t tell me,” I sighed.
“She made the first move.”
The opening lead — the
first move in the play — can
affect how declarer operates.
Suppose West leads the jack
of hearts against today’s
RHYMES WITH ORANGE HILARY PRICE MARK TRAIL JULES RIVERA
four spades. Take the ace
and lead the ace and a low
club. Win the heart return
in dummy, ruff a club, draw
trumps and ruff the last club.
Then exit with a heart.
If East wins, he must lead
a diamond to avoid conced-
ing a ruff-sluff, and you can
hope to guess right. (As the
cards lie, you go down, hav-
ing done your best.)
Now say West leads the LIO MARK TATULLI MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM MIKE PETERS
jack of clubs, so the defend-
ers do not threaten to set up
a fast heart trick. Take the
ace, lead a trump to your
hand and return a low dia-
mond toward dummy’s jack.
When West has the queen,
you can set up a diamond
winner to discard a heart
from dummy. If East had the
queen, you would lead a dia-
mond toward your king later. HAGAR THE HORRIBLE CHRIS BROWNE BALDO HECTOR CANTU & CARLOS CASTELLANOS
DAILY QUESTION
You hold:
♠63♥Q84
♦98762♣KQ7
Your partner opens one
club, you respond one dia-
mond and he bids one heart.
What do you say?
ANSWER: No action is
attractive, but you should not
pass one heart when your
partner might have as many BLONDIE DEAN YOUNG & JOHN MARSHALL SALLY FORTH FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & JIM KEEFE
as 18 points and you have
three honors in his suits.
Game is still possible. Bid
two clubs. Your partner may
have opened with a “pre-
pared bid” on a three-card
suit, but then he will have to
extricate himself as best he
can.
— Frank Stewart
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HOROSCOPE

BIRTHDAY | JUNE 3
You are multitalented
and clever. You
are also charming,
easygoing and
friendly. Because you’re very
perceptive, you’re an excellent
communicator. This year you
face a major change, which is
why it will be wise to develop
and exercise self-discipline
so you avoid wild, impulsive
decisions. The motivation for
DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS JUDGE PARKER FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO & MIKE MANLEY this change will be a desire for
more freedom.
Moon Alert: Avoid shopping
or important decisions from
7 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. After
that, the Moon moves from
Pisces into Aries.
ARIES
(MARCH 21-APRIL 19).
This is an excellent day to
teach or learn because you
have the patience and focus
to be very good at doing both.
You also will enjoy making
long-range plans for your
JEF MALLETT DARRIN BELL future.
FRAZZ CANDORVILLE
TAURUS
(APRIL 20-MAY 20).
Because you are in a serious
frame of mind today, when
shopping, you will buy
practical, long-lasting items.
Your focus is on money and
finances today, which is a good
thing, because you will be
prudent and wise.
GEMINI
(MAY 21-JUNE 20).
Because you have a natural
sense of self-discipline today,
choose work that requires
GARFIELD JIM DAVIS BARNEY AND CLYDE WEINGARTENS & CLARK focus and attention to detail.
Furthermore, you will feel
a strong sense of reward
and satisfaction from doing
whatever you do. (“Well done!”)
CANCER
(JUNE 21-JULY 22).
You are tenacious by nature,
and today this tenacity plus
a focused concentration will
yield results, especially if you
do any kind of research where
you seek answers or solutions
to old problems.
LEO
STEVE KELLEY & JEFF PARKER STAN LEE & ALEX SAVIUK (JULY 23-AUG. 22).
DUSTIN THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN You might take a leadership
role with others today,
especially in a group. People
might look to you because of
your maturity or your practical
point of view. However, you
yourself might seek the advice
of someone more experienced.
VIRGO
(AUG. 23-SEPT. 22).
You will impress people in
authority today because you
are conscientious, practical
and persevering. You exhibit
all the qualities that someone
wants to hire or employ. This is
PRICKLY CITY SCOTT STANTIS LOOSE PARTS DAVE BLAZEK not a superficial facade -- you
actually own these qualities!
LIBRA
(SEPT. 23-OCT. 22).
This is a marvelous day to
study something, especially
something that requires focus
and attention to detail. You
will not waiver. Furthermore, a
teacher or someone older or
more experienced might have
something important to share
with you.
SCORPIO
(OCT. 23-NOV. 21).
Today you will get a lot done
NON SEQUITUR WILEY BABY BLUES RICK KIRKMAN & JERRY SCOTT with red-tape details that you
might usually avoid because
you have the self-discipline
and patience to approach
these matters. Furthermore,
when dealing with finances,
you won’t overlook details.
SAGITTARIUS
(NOV. 22-DEC. 21).
Because you will derive great
satisfaction from working hard
today, you will impress others.
They might be amazed by your
self-denial. Or, possibly, you
will attract someone like this to
you today. If so, what a team!
BIG NATE LINCOLN PEIRCE ON THE FASTRACK BILL HOLBROOK
CAPRICORN
(DEC. 22-JAN. 19).
You will be extremely
productive at work today
because you are ready to work
-- it’s that simple. You have self-
discipline, concentration and
perseverance. You won’t give
up until you finish the job.
AQUARIUS
(JAN. 20-FEB. 18).
If you have to teach or train
children or young people
today, you will be successful
because people are willing to
suffer for their achievements.
BEETLE BAILEY MORT, BRIAN & GREG WALKER PEARLS BEFORE SWINE STEPHAN PASTIS They will be focused and give it
their best shot.
PISCES
(FEB. 19-MARCH 20).
A conversation with a parent
or an older family member will
be productive today because
someone wants to lend you
the benefit of their experience.
This is also a good day to
make long-range plans about
improving where you live.
— Georgia Nicols
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Thanks to kids, ‘Father of Black Basketball’ gets local tribute TOD AY’S N EWS

Sullivan “Sully”
The Score Massaro’s favorite
FRED BOWEN subject is history. This
spring the fourth-grader
joined the History
Hunters and History Makers Club at
Kings Glen Elementary School in
Springfield, Virginia.
Maura Keaney, a technology specialist
at the school, runs the club. She loves
history and wants the students to “notice
the history around them.” Parts of that
history are the more than 2,600 historical
markers along the state’s roadways. The
markers recognize the important events
and people of Virginia’s history.
The History Hunters research
Virginians who do not have a marker in
their honor but perhaps should.
Sully told Keaney he “wanted to study
something about basketball,” his favorite
sport. Keaney suggested that he research
Edwin Bancroft “E.B.” Henderson. Sully
had never heard of Henderson (neither
had I), but he found out plenty from his
research.
Henderson, an African American who
lived in Falls Church for more than 50
years, has been called “the Father of
Black Basketball.” He was the director of
health and physical education in
Washington’s Black schools from 1926 to
1954.
Notice I said “Black schools.” Years ago,
Black and White children did not attend
the same schools in Washington. White
people required Black children to attend
separate schools.
Henderson studied to become a
teacher in the early 1900s. During his
education, he attended Harvard
University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
At Harvard, Henderson learned about
and played basketball, a new game that
had been invented in Springfield,
Massachusetts, in 1891.
Henderson brought the game to
Washington’s Black community. He
organized a basketball league that had
eight teams. Henderson also started and
played for a team at a YMCA on 12th
Street.
Henderson stopped playing the sport
CITY OF FALLS CHURCH
In the early 1900s, Henderson started
a basketball league for Blacks in D.C.
Edwin and Nikki Henderson, left, represent the late Edwin Bancroft “E.B.”
Henderson at a hall of fame event. Sullivan “Sully” Massaro and fellow students
persuaded Virginia officials to install a historical marker about Henderson.
in 1910 (his wife worried he would get
hurt), but he continued organizing and
growing the game. He formed the Public
Schools Athletic League, which
established competitions in basketball
and other sports in the District. It was the
first public school league for Black
players in the country.
Henderson trained Black basketball
coaches and officials, wrote books and
articles about the game, and organized
older players to teach younger players
basketball fundamentals. He died in 1977,
and 36 years later he was inducted in the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of
Fame as a “contributor” to the game.
Washington became a great basketball
city with dozens of players who became
NBA stars, including Hall of Famers Elgin
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Baylor, Dave Bing and Adrian Dantley.
After learning this and more about
Henderson, Sully was “surprised that he
did not have a marker.”
Keaney, Sully and the Kings Glen
History Hunters club nominated
Henderson for a Virginia historical
marker. The state approved the
nomination, and a marker honoring
Henderson will be installed in Falls
Church.
The research on Henderson has gotten
Sully excited about History Hunters,
which he plans on sticking with in the
fall. “It’s a cool club,” he said.
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in California to aid
monarch butterflies
A conservation group is planting
more than 30,000 milkweed plants
in California in the hope of giving
Western monarch butterflies new
places to breed.
The San Francisco Chronicle
reported Monday that the River
Partners group has joined with
others and the California
Department of Fish and Wildlife to
plant along the Sacramento, Feather
and Kern rivers.
The plants are critical because
the orange-and-black butterflies lay
their eggs on them. Their
caterpillars also eat them.
The butterflies head south from
the Pacific Northwest to California
each winter. This year, researchers
said an annual winter count
recorded fewer than 2,000 of the
butterflies — a massive decline.
Scientists have said the
butterflies are at critically low levels
in Western states because of
destruction of their milkweed
habitat along their migratory route
as housing expands and use of
pesticides and herbicides increases.
— Associated Press

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Duke’s
Coach K
End of the ride to retire
in 2022
Krzyzewski plans to stay
for 42nd season at school
before stepping aside

BY C HUCK C ULPEPPER

In one of the two uppermost

retirements in the 126-year his-
tory of men’s college basketball,
Mike Krzyzewski will relinquish
his familiar throne next spring
after his 42nd season at Duke,
ending a tenure that saw a
smallish private school with a
good basketball history become a
national colossus with a history
counting as towering.
The announcement Wednes-
day promised a 2021-22 season
with a farewell tour sure to fete
the Chicagoan turned Carolin-
ian, who will turn 75 in February.
It will differ from the departure
of John Wooden, the UCLA coach
who announced his retirement
at 64 on the Saturday night of the
1975 Final Four, then won one
last game that brought a 10th
and final national champion-
ship.
Krzyzewski reached half that
total amid 12 Final Four berths in
an era of greater parity and
harder navigation, all of it un-
foreseeable when he took the
Duke job on March 18, 1980, as a
coach who had just gone 9-17 in
his fifth season at Army. On that
long-gone Tuesday, in an unpre-
tentious room with curtains that
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Feinstein: Krzyzewski staked out

his own place in basketball history
by never making excuses. D5

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Gutsy run is over, but debate NBA PLAYOFFS

Wizards’ roller-coaster season
on Brooks is just beginning 76ERS 129, closes with a Game 5 loss
WIZARDS 112:
philadelphia — Throughout his five The faces say it all on BY A VA W ALLACE RONALD MARTINEZ/GETTY IMAGES
On years as the Washington Wizards’ head the Wizards’ bench Mike Krzyzewski has led Duke
the NBA coach, Scott Brooks often cracked dad as, from left, Russell philadelphia — The Philadelphia 76ers didn’t need MVP to five national championships.
jokes and edited out naughty words from finalist Joel Embiid to end the Washington Wizards’ season
CANDACE his sound bites. (“We played our tails off Westbrook, Rui in Game 5 of the first-round playoff series. His services were
BUCKNER
to get here.”) He roasted his own itinerant Hachimura, Daniel unavailable Wednesday night because of a knee injury, but
TENNIS
NBA playing career, finding a way to Gafford and Bradley the Eastern Conference’s top seed hardly missed a beat.
insert self-deprecating humor into almost any response. Beal look on late in The 76ers simply turned to 35-year-old Dwight Howard Naomi Osaka’s French
He evangelized the trait of toughness, as if not to dunk and hang from rims, stirring the bench into a frenzy Open withdrawal raises
possessing it was basketball heresy. Wednesday’s Game 5 during a 129-112 clinching victory. They relied on Tyrese
But more than any other slogan he became known for, loss in Philadelphia. Maxey to drive for layups and get the crowd at Wells Fargo questions about the future
there was one phrase Brooks could have patented: We The defeat opens the Center on its feet. They had Furkan Korkmaz to drill of sports media. D2
gave ourselves a chance. door to an offseason three-pointers.
He would recite these words when he added a And all that was after Tobias Harris and Seth Curry had PRO BASKETBALL
postscript to a big win or he stewed over a defensive packed with some combined to score 48 points through three quarters.
collapse. So on Wednesday night, when Brooks, arms big questions. The Wizards ended their season with a 4-1 series loss to a
Trae Young silences the
SEE ON THE NBA ON D6 SEE WIZARDS ON D6 New York crowd again,
scoring 36 as the Hawks
eliminate the Knicks. D6
SOCCER
The expectations have
grown for the U.S. men.
Finally, the stakes start to
match the hype. D7

As Santangelo remains away, Churchill Downs suspends

the path forward is uncertain
Nationals, MASN stay
tight-lipped about analyst
accused of misconduct
BY C HELSEA J ANES,
B EN S TRAUSS
AND J ESSE D OUGHERTY
F.P. Santangelo has not called
a Washington Nationals game on
Mid-Atlantic Sports Network in a
month, and neither the network
nor the team seems clear on
whether he will again.
Santangelo, who has provided
color commentary on Nationals
broadcasts on MASN since 2011,
was accused of sexual miscon-
duct by a woman who has chosen
not to identify herself publicly.
Santangelo has denied the alle-
gation. MASN investigated the
allegation initially before asking
Major League Baseball for assis-
tance with the probe.
As MLB provides that help,
various incidents — including
one in which Santangelo showed
up for work at Nationals Park
only to be turned away — demon-
strated the uneasy relationship
between the team and its region-
al cable network. They also high-
lighted the complicated and deli-
cate dynamics of handling sexual
misconduct allegations — in this
case, one involving an anony-
mous accusation and a public
figure.
For now, MASN and the
SEE MASN ON D5
Nationals at Braves
Today, 12:15 p.m., MASN
Ba≠ert in wake of failed test
BY M ATT B ONESTEEL
Churchill Downs suspended
Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert
for two years Wednesday, a deci-
sion that came amid news that
another test on Medina Spirit —
the Kentucky Derby winner Baf-
fert trained — again showed be-
tamethasone, a second result that
put the colt’s victory in question.
Craig Robertson, an attorney
for Baffert, said in an email that
the Florida-bred colt’s split sam-
ple showed the anti-inflammato-
ry drug, though he noted that
other testing was still ongoing.
Hours later, Churchill Downs an-
JOHN BAZEMORE/ASSOCIATED PRESS nounced the two-year suspen-
sion, handing down a ban that
Nats stay on their toes, hold off Braves will run until the end of the 2023
spring meet.
Josh Bell reaches high to snare a throw during the Nationals’ 5-3 win “Reckless practices and sub-
over Atlanta. Earlier, the team put Stephen Strasburg on the IL. D3 stance violations that jeopardize
the safety of our equine and
human athletes or compromise
the integrity of our sport are not
acceptable and as a company we
must take measures to demon-
strate that they will not be toler-
ated,” Bill Carstanjen, Churchill
Downs Inc. CEO, said in a state-
ment. “Mr. Baffert’s record of
testing failures threatens public
confidence in thoroughbred rac-
ing and the reputation of the
Kentucky Derby.
“Given these repeated failures
over the last year, including the
increasingly extraordinary expla-
nations, we firmly believe that
asserting our rights to impose
these measures is our duty and
responsibility.”
Medina Spirit, the Florida-
bred colt at the center of the
latest affair, crossed the finish
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FRENCH OPEN
S. Williams
finds serve,
staves o≠
upset bid
BY S AMUEL P ETREQUIN
paris — Her superior serve back
at its unreturnable best, Serena
Williams was in full control of her
French Open match — until, sud-
denly, that stroke wasn’t as domi-
nant and neither was she.
And then, pushed to a third set
by an opponent offering up all
sorts of spins and speeds and
angles, Williams regained her
form and forged to the finish.
Williams got back to the third
round at Roland Garros, where
she has won three of her 23 Grand
Slam singles titles, by pulling
away to beat 174th-ranked Mihae-
la Buzarnescu, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1, on
Wednesday on Court Philippe
Chatrier.
Her serve, especially at the
outset, was much better than in
her first-round win. In that one
Monday, she only put 51 percent
of first serves in play and got
broken three times in 10 games.
“I’ve been practicing my serve
a lot. I’ve been playing, in prac-
tice, unbelievable on my serve.
The other night was, ‘Wooooow,’ ”
she said, rolling her eyes. “I’m
glad it came better today. My
coach told me it’s good that I’m
doing it well in practice because
eventually it will be good in the
match.”
Next for the seventh-seeded
Williams is an all-American
matchup against Danielle Col-
lins, who overwhelmed Anhelina
Kalinina, 6-0, 6-2.
It was a strong French Open
afternoon for the United States,
including victories in the wom-
en’s draw for No. 23 Madison Keys
and in the men’s for No. 31 John
Isner, No. 32 Reilly Opelka and
unseeded players Steve Johnson
and Marco Giron.
It was the first time that four
American men made it to the
third round at Roland Garros
since a half-dozen got there in
1996 — and Taylor Fritz still has to
play his second match Thursday.
Another American, Tommy
Paul, got off to a good start
against No. 2 Daniil Medvedev, a
two-time Grand Slam runner-up,
in the night session. But Medve-
dev, who was 0-4 for his career at
the French Open until this week,
came back to eliminate Paul, 3-6,
6-1, 6-4, 6-3.
Medvedev will take on Opelka
for a spot in Week 2.
Earlier in the day, down 4-1 in
the third set, 2020 U.S. Open
runner-up Alexander Zverev de-
cided it was time to shorten his
match.
He was determined to avoid
another lengthy fight following a
five-setter in the first round, so he
applied pressure on qualifier Ro-
man Safiullin. The sixth-seeded
German won the next game at
love, broke back by pushing his
rival into unforced errors and
was nearly flawless in the tie-
breaker.
The reward was a 7-6 (7-4), 6-3,
7-6 (7-1) victory to advance to the
third round.
“I’m happy to be through in
three sets,” Zverev said. “I think
it’s going to be important for me
during the course of this tourna-
ment.”
— Associated Press
DI G ES T
PRO FOOTBALL
NFL pledges to halt use
of ‘race-norming’
The NFL on Wednesday
pledged to halt the use of “race-
norming” — which assumed
Black players started out with
lower cognitive function — in the
$1 billion settlement of brain
injury claims and review past
scores for any potential race bias.
The practice made it harder for
Black retirees to show a deficit
and qualify for an award. The
standards were created in the
1990s in hopes of offering more
appropriate treatment to
dementia patients, but critics
faulted the way they were used to
determine payouts in the NFL
concussion case.
Wednesday’s announcement
comes after a pair of Black
players filed a civil rights lawsuit
over the practice, medical experts
raised concerns and a group of
NFL families last month dropped
50,000 petitions at the federal
courthouse in Philadelphia —
where the lawsuit had been
thrown out by the judge
overseeing the settlement.
Senior U.S. District Judge
Anita B. Brody later took the
unusual step of asking for a
Osaka ignites fight over future of sports media
BY B EN S TRAUSS
Some years ago, the former
“SportsCenter” anchor Keith Ol-
bermann was talking to Orlando
Hernández, a Cuban pitcher for
the New York Yankees, when
Hernández asked Olbermann in
English about his broadcasting ca-
reer. Olbermann was puzzled:
Hernández only spoke to reporters
in Spanish.
“Don’t tell anyone I speak good
English,” Olbermann recalled
Hernández telling him. “It saves
me 30 minutes after every game.”
The postgame news conference
— long viewed as a fruitful enter-
prise for reporters and a nuisance
for many of the athletes answering
questions — is a staple of sports
unlike other forms of entertain-
ment. No musician or actor has to
immediately dissect a perform-
ance in front of a swarm of media.
And if there was a way for a player
such as Hernández to lessen the
burden, he was happy to cut his
obligations short by speaking only
Spanish.
The debate over the utility of
this ritual — and the broader rela-
tionship between reporters and
athletes — was renewed by Naomi
Osaka, the 23-year-old four-time
Grand Slam winner who an-
nounced last week that she would
not participate in post-match
news conferences during this
year’s tournament.
The French Open responded by
fining her $15,000 after she won
her first-round match; all four
Grand Slams issued a menacing
statement that promised to esca-
late the penalties, including poten-
tially a suspension; and Osaka
withdrew, citing bouts of depres-
sion and the anxiety she felt facing
a room of reporters.
Her decision left sports and the
journalists who cover them grap-
pling with questions about what
athletes owe the press and, in turn,
what leagues and tournaments
owe the players. Those questions
are not new but are made trickier
to navigate as the power dynamics
between athletes and the media
shift rapidly and athletes, in in-
creasing numbers, are speaking
out about their struggles with their
mental health — and their person-
Churchill Downs bans Ba≠ert for two years, imperiling Derby win
BAFFERT FROM D1
line first at the Kentucky Derby
on May 1, but tests later showed
betamethasone, a corticosteroid
whose presence on race days is
disqualifying per Kentucky rac-
ing rules.
The horse has not been formal-
ly disqualified from the Kentucky
Derby, a decision that lies with
the Kentucky Horse Racing Com-
mission. A spokeswoman for that
body told The Washington Post
on Wednesday that it “does not
provide comment or updates on
the status of ongoing investiga-
tions.”
Should Medina Spirit be dis-
qualified, he would become the
second horse in the past three
runnings of the Kentucky Derby
to have his victory taken away. In
2019, Maximum Security crossed
the finish line first but was dis-
qualified after officials ruled he
had improperly impeded the
progress of other entries during
the race.
The second-place finisher in
this year’s Derby, Mandaloun,
report on the issue. Black retirees
hope it will include a breakdown
of the nearly $800 million in
payouts so far by race. . . .
San Francisco 49ers center
Weston Richburg announced his
retirement after a knee injury
derailed his career. . . . .
The Carolina Panthers plan to
move Jeremy Chinn to safety,
one year after a stellar rookie
season at linebacker.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Virginia Tech freshman
linebacker Isi Etute was arrested
and charged with second-degree
murder and was being held
without bond, according to the
Blacksburg (Va.) Police
Department.
In a statement on its website,
the Blacksburg Police
Department said it responded to
a welfare check at 10:30 p.m. on
Tuesday and found a deceased
male victim.
Detectives determined the
death a homicide and arrested
Etute on Wednesday. He is being
held at the Montgomery County
Jail, according to multiple media
reports.
Virginia Tech released a
statement Wednesday saying that
Etute had been immediately
suspended from the football team
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JOHANNES EISELE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Naomi Osaka, shown here at the U.S. Open in 2019, withdrew from
the French Open after declining to speak at news conferences.
hood, in general.
To win a Grand Slam tennis
tournament usually requires eight
news conferences: one before the
tournament and then one after
each match won. Players answer
questions about their health, strat-
egy, opponents, strengths in their
game and weaknesses, too.
The policy was put in place in
1990 when the ATP Tour, which
oversees the men’s worldwide tour,
was formed and the Grand Slam
committee wrote a new rule book
for the four tennis slams. Bill Bab-
cock, who wrote the rule book, said
in an interview that the penalty of
fining players was included be-
cause in the 1980s, as an executive
with the previous governing body
of men’s tennis, he had seen the
value of a traveling press corps to
promoting the sport.
“It was a recognition that you
can’t have players deciding not to
see the press if they have a bad day,”
he said. “It was an important obli-
gation to respect and work with
the media.”
Babcock retired last year. In his
three decades as director of the
Grand Slam Board, he said,
10 women and 13 men had been
fined for missing press obligations.
None were memorable occurrenc-
es, he said, usually resulting from a
logistical issue, like a player trying
to hop on an early flight.
Osaka’s declaration, however,
would be declared the winner if
Medina Spirit is disqualified.
Baffert initially denied that
Medina Spirit, who won the Der-
by at 12-1 odds, had been given
betamethasone and claimed he
had been “wronged” and was a
victim of “cancel culture.” He
then gave varying explanations
for the positive test before admit-
ting that Medina Spirit had been
given Otomax, claiming he was
unaware the ointment contains
betamethasone.
Per Kentucky racing rules, Me-
dina Spirit’s owners had the right
to ask for another test of the
horse’s blood and urine, samples
of which were taken and tested
for the first time May 1, the day of
the race. The second test also
revealed levels of betamethasone
according to Robertson, the at-
torney.
But Robertson said in an email
Wednesday that other tests con-
firm that the presence of the
betamethasone was from Oto-
max, an antifungal ointment
used to treat a skin rash, and not
an injection.
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and from the university. . . .
Former Southern California
star Reggie Bush, who had his
Heisman Trophy victory in 2005
vacated for committing NCAA
violations, is among the players
making their first appearance on
the College Football Hall of Fame
ballot this year.
Other first-timers on the ballot
include quarterbacks Andrew
Luck of Stanford and Kellen
Moore of Boise State, Penn State
star linebackers LaVar
Arrington and Paul Posluszny
and former California running
back Marshawn Lynch.
SOCCER
The international returns of
France striker Karim Benzema,
England defender Trent
Alexander-Arnold and Germany
set off a firestorm over the value of
the work reporters do.
Jane McManus, director of the
Center for Sports Communication
at Marist College and a sports re-
porter, said she was torn about
Osaka’s refusal. Mental health is an
important consideration, she said,
but she worried about the effect on
women’s sports if the biggest stars
don’t talk to reporters.
“There is interest in these tour-
naments because of the stars like
Osaka,” McManus said. “If she’s not
talking to reporters, will there be
as much coverage for the next Nao-
mi Osaka?”
Osaka, who is both immensely
famous and famously introverted,
is facing a year when she will be
under intense scrutiny. Before
withdrawing, she was trying to win
her first French Open and is ex-
pected to attempt the same at
Wimbledon. She has a U.S. Open
title to defend, and the Olympics
are in her home country of Japan.
She has also been a vocal activist in
the Black Lives Matter movement,
wearing the names of police shoot-
ing victims on her masks during
last year’s U.S. Open.
“The pressures are enormous,”
said Howard Bryant, a writer and
commentator for ESPN who has
covered tennis. “She’s awkward
anyway. And she’s in the middle of
a movement that much of America
is hostile to.”
Such a distinction probably
won’t matter as far as the official
Kentucky Derby results, however.
Kentucky racing rules state that
trainers must stop administering
corticosteroids 14 days before a
race, and any amount of betame-
thasone found in a horse’s blood-
stream on race day is considered
to be disqualifying.
In 2020, the Baffert-trained
filly Gamine twice was disquali-
fied after positive drug tests, the
latter time for betamethasone
after her third-place finish at the
Kentucky Oaks in September.
The first positive test, for lido-
caine, came after Gamine won at
Oaklawn in May. Baffert initially
said Gamine was “unknowingly
and innocently” exposed to lido-
caine by one of his stable employ-
ees who was wearing a pain-re-
lieving patch after breaking his
pelvis.
In April, the Arkansas Racing
Commission restored Gamine’s
win and reduced Baffert’s 15-day
suspension to a $5,000 fine. Dur-
ing an appeal hearing, Baffert
and his attorneys raised concerns
players Mats Hummels and
Thomas Müller didn’t go
according to plan.
Benzema, back on France’s
team after a 51/2-year absence, had
a penalty saved and also hit the
post in a 3-0 win over Wales in a
warmup match ahead of the
European Championship.
At least he came through the
game unscathed, unlike
Alexander-Arnold.
The Liverpool right back, who
was selected by England for Euro
2020 after being dropped for
international matches in March,
suffered a thigh injury late in a 1-
0 win over Austria and had to be
helped back to the locker room.
“It’s not good to see him come
off the way he did,” England
Coach Gareth Southgate said of
Alexander-Arnold, one of four
THE WASHINGTON POST
In other words, the questions
Osaka was set to face were going to
be hard.
Bryant also said that her deci-
sion came at a moment when more
and more athletes are less interest-
ed in submitting to questions from
reporters, preferring instead to
communicate through their own
social media platforms and pro-
duction companies. Kyrie Irving of
the Brooklyn Nets was fined twice
this season for not speaking to the
media. “I do not talk to Pawns,” he
wrote in a statement posted on
Instagram. “My attention is worth
more.”
Reporters, who were once
thought to be instrumental in pro-
moting sports and athletes, are
now facing an existential threat to
how they do their jobs, driven by
athletes who appreciate their roles
less and a pandemic that closed
locker rooms and cut their tradi-
tional access.
“As a journalist, you have to ad-
vocate for access,” McManus said.
Osaka’s comments caused oth-
ers to want to reexamine that ac-
cess, particularly in a news confer-
ence setting. In tennis, especially,
the ritual can prove awkward, with
the media peppering teenagers as
young as 15 with questions about
their performance.
Olbermann said the idea that
sports reporters have an unfet-
tered right to access is misguided
and a fundamental misunder-
standing of an athlete’s job respon-
sibilities. He recalled Dick Young,
an influential New York columnist
at the time, referring to Dick Ruth-
ven and Steve Carlton of the Phila-
delphia Phillies as “mental hemor-
rhoids” during the 1980 World Se-
ries because they didn’t speak to
the press.
“It’s an entitlement,” Olber-
mann said. “I’ve never understood
the almost religious fervor with
which reporters have believed they
have an inalienable right to access
every athlete after every game. I
don’t know if I’ve ever encoun-
tered a fan who was upset with a
player for not talking.”
Plenty of beat reporters, of
course, would disagree, noting
that fans get all sorts of valuable
insights into big plays and mo-
ments from their postgame ques-
about how the post-race samples
were handled, saying they could
have become contaminated.
But Churchill Downs, which
owns numerous tracks across the
country, was not swayed by Baf-
fert’s explanations for Medina
Spirit’s positive tests.
Marty Irby, executive director
of Animal Wellness Action, called
on Churchill Downs to take the
Kentucky Derby win away from
Baffert and Medina Spirit.
“The news of Medina Spirit’s
second test confirmed positive is
no shock. Churchill Downs, the
Kentucky Derby, and the Ken-
tucky Horse Racing Commission
must stand firmly together in
agreement to take the 2021 Derby
title away from Bob Baffert and
the horse,” Irby said Wednesday
in a statement.
“And we call on Churchill
Downs to show no mercy and
permanently ban Bob Baffert and
his horses from the Kentucky
Derby and all of Churchill Downs’
tracks. It’s time to end the cheat-
ing and medication abuse in the
fastest two minutes in sports and
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right backs in the 26-man squad.
Hummels and Müller made
their returns for Germany
21/2 years after their last national-
team appearances but had to
settle for a 1-1 draw with
Denmark in another match
between sides who qualified for
the Euros later this month.
The Netherlands scored an
89th-minute equalizer through
Memphis Depay to draw, 2-2,
with Scotland.
MISC.
Three-time beach volleyball
gold medalist Kerri Walsh
Jennings was defeated in her bid
to reach a sixth Olympics when
. THURSDAY, JUNE 3 , 2021
tions.
Rennae Stubbs, a former tennis
pro turned ESPN commentator,
said tennis majors have become
over-credentialed, which has led to
worse questions in the interview
rooms — including journalists ask-
ing female players about their
clothing. If the tournaments tight-
ened their credential require-
ments, she said, the interview
rooms would be more profession-
al.
Stubbs said post-match inter-
views produced for television
serve a clearer purpose to players
than news conferences because
networks pay huge sums to broad-
cast the tournaments, which in
turn deliver prize money to play-
ers. Osaka, after her first-round
victory at the French Open, spoke
on the court to a TV reporter before
declining to do her news confer-
ence.
“They pay a ton of money that
puts money into the pockets of
those players,” Stubbs said. “That is
a marriage that needs to continue
and constantly be used and vali-
dated. The print media? Can you
write a story about a match with-
out a quote from a player? I’m sure
you’ve been to many press confer-
ences and you look and say, ‘What
the [expletive] kind of question is
that?’ ”
Especially amid the pandemic
and social unrest, athletes are ask-
ing fans and leagues to see them
more as people instead of robotic
performers. In the wake of recent
bad fan behavior at NBA games,
the Nets’ Kevin Durant said:
“When you come to these games,
you’ve got to realize, these men are
human. We’re not animals. We’re
not in a circus.”
And as star athletes continue to
grow in popularity relative to their
sports, with bigger platforms that
bypass traditional media, they will
only grow more powerful in deter-
mining how they’re viewed and in
setting the terms by which they
work — including how and when
they talk to the press. If that results
in less journalism about the ath-
letes, that will be a loss — for
reporters and plenty of fans. But
it’s increasingly clear that it’s no
longer up to the journalists.
ben.strauss@washpost.com
an example must be made.”
Medina Spirit was allowed to
race in the Preakness Stakes, the
second leg of the Triple Crown,
after subsequent drug screenings
came back clean; he finished
third. Baffert did not attend the
May 15 race in Baltimore, saying
he did not want to become a
“distraction.”
Baffert is one of the most
successful trainers in horse rac-
ing history, with 16 Triple Crown
wins entering this year’s Ken-
tucky Derby and 17 wins at the
Breeders’ Cup. But according to
the records of the Association of
Racing Commissioners Interna-
tional (ARCI), Medina Spirit’s
positive test is the 30th violation
from a Baffert barn over 44 years.
Four of the violations have come
this decade, all of them entailing
drugs that are allowed during
training but must clear from a
horse’s system before a certain
window ahead of race days.
Most of the violations resulted
in small fines and brief suspen-
sions.
matt.bonesteel@washpost.com
she and partner Brooke Sweat
lost in a qualifying match in
Ostrava, Czech Republic. . . .
Clay Feagler two-putted from
35 feet on the 18th hole to wrap
up Pepperdine’s first NCAA men’s
golf championship in 24 years, a
3-2 victory over Oklahoma at
Grayhawk Golf Club in
Scottsdale, Ariz. . . .
The LPGA Tour’s CP Women’s
Open was canceled for a second
straight year because of logistical
challenges and border
restrictions caused by the
coronavirus pandemic. The event
was scheduled for Aug. 26-29 in
Vancouver.
— From news services
THURSDAY, JUNE 3 , 2021 . THE WASHINGTON POST
NHL ROUNDUP
Montreal
stays hot
by winning
Game 1
CANADIENS 5,
JETS 3
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Eric
Staal scored early goals, and
Montreal beat the host Winnipeg
Jets, 5-3, on Wednesday night in
Game 1 of the second-round se-
ries, a victory tempered by a scary
late-game hit on Canadiens cen-
ter Jake Evans.
Evans was taken off the ice on a
stretcher with 57 seconds left
after being crushed by Jets center
Mark Scheifele on an empty-net
goal. Evans chased down the
puck behind the net and was hit
high as he tightly circled back
around the goal cage to score.
Nick Suzuki, Brendan Gallagh-
er and Jake Evans also scored for
Montreal, Joel Edmundson and
Jeff Petry each had two assists,
and Carey Price made 27 saves.
Adam Lowry, Derek Forbort
and Kyle Connor scored for Win-
nipeg, and Connor Hellebuyck
stopped 28 shots.
Game 2 of the best-of-seven
series is Friday night in Winni-
peg.
Fans were allowed inside Bell
MTS Place for the first time this
season. The Manitoba govern-
ment allowed 500 fully vaccinat-
ed health-care workers to attend.
It was Winnipeg’s first game
since May 24, when it swept the
Edmonton Oilers. Montreal over-
came a 3-1 series deficit and
eliminated the Toronto Maple
Leafs on Monday night in
Game 7.
Sabres win draft lottery
If only for a brief moment,
Buffalo Sabres General Manager
Kevyn Adams could put aside
concerns over captain Jack
Eichel’s future, an ongoing
coaching search and memories of
a frustrating season to celebrate
an actual victory. That it came at
the expense of former Carolina
Hurricanes teammate and fellow
GM Ron Francis of the expansion
Seattle Kraken made Adams feel
even better.
Buffalo won the NHL draft
lottery in what became a show-
down between a Sabres team in
need of a fresh start and a Seattle
expansion franchise preparing to
embark on its first season.
“My heard was racing,” Adams
said. “And there was Ronnie
Francis, a good friend and former
teammate of mine. It’s the only
time I’ve ever beaten Ron. So I’ve
got to be excited about that.”
The Anaheim Ducks will pick
third, followed by the New Jersey
Devils, Columbus Blue Jackets,
Detroit Red Wings, San Jose
Sharks, Los Angeles Kings, Van-
couver Canucks and Ottawa Sen-
ators.
The draft will be conducted
virtually July 23-24.
Scher≠ embraces role as mentor as contract talks with Washington play out
BY S AM F ORTIER
This fall, for the first time in
79 career starts, right guard Bran-
don Scherff will line up on offense
without Morgan Moses. The re-
lease of Moses two weeks ago
anointed Scherff the team’s lon-
gest-tenured lineman, and it spot-
lighted second-round pick Sam
Cosmi, who took Moses’s old num-
ber (76) and will compete for his
old job.
Scherff praised what his friend
did for the franchise, including
playing through injury even dur-
ing down years.
“I hope everything works out
for him,” Scherff said of Moses,
who has visited the Chicago Bears
and the New York Jets. “He’s a
heck of a player and a heck of a
friend to me, too. I love him to
death.”
Scherff’s future with Washing-
ton is in question, too. He is slated
to play on the franchise tag for the
second straight season at a salary
cap hit of $18 million, and in early
April, Coach Ron Rivera said the
team hadn’t discussed a new deal
with Scherff’s camp since he
signed the tag in March. It seems
unlikely the two sides will strike a
deal before the July 15 deadline,
though Scherff said Wednesday he
remains hopeful.
“But that’s between my agent
and the team, so I’m not worried
about it,” he said. “I’m worried
about getting better these next
couple weeks and getting ready
for the season and being in the
best shape I possibly can be.”
Yan Gomes blasted a two-out, solo home run in the eighth inning to break a 3-3 tie and help carry the Nationals to a second straight win.
Gomes lifts Nats as Strasburg hits IL
NATIONALS 5,
BRAVES 3
BY J ESSE D OUGHERTY
atlanta — Yan Gomes looked up,
took a step to his right, was in no
real rush to drop his bat — the bat
that had just crushed A.J. Minter’s
cutter — and start jogging around
the bases. When you connect like
he did in the eighth inning, time is
yours. If your homer shakes a tie
loose and stands as the go-ahead
run in a 5-3 win over the Atlanta
Braves, then that’s even better.
“It’s going to sound strange, but
try not to overdo it,” Gomes said of
tagging Minter, a tough left-hand-
ed reliever, at Truist Park on
Wednesday night. “But when you
see a pitch up or you guess right,
then you try to take a good swing
at it.”
Does that mean he guessed on
the decisive hack?
“No,” Gomes responded with a
laugh. “If it’s a guess, it’s an edu-
cated guess.”
For a critical moment, he
grabbed the spotlight to help
brighten the day Washington
(23-29) placed Stephen Strasburg
on the injured list (again) with
nerve irritation in his neck.
Gomes lifted a team that, once Jon
Lester exited after 52/3 innings,
turned to a bullpen running on
fumes. He set up Daniel Hudson
and Brad Hand to collect the final
Washington linemen, from left, Cornelius Lucas, Sam Cosmi and Brandon Scherff practice Wednesday.
Now Scherff, 29, finds himself
mentoring Cosmi in the same way
Moses, Trent Williams and Kory
Lichtensteiger once mentored
him. Cosmi has mostly played sec-
ond-team right tackle in camp,
and Scherff said he was impressed
when the 22-year-old from the
University of Texas jumped in to
dead lift with him last Thursday.
seven outs.
Most of Washington’s relievers
— Hand and Hudson included —
were taxed by Strasburg’s
30-pitch outing Tuesday night.
Lester then started on short rest
Wednesday. So Hudson threw
17 pitches the day before and 20
more in this victory. Hand threw
24 on Tuesday and added 14 more
for this save. That’s the immediate
toll of losing Strasburg to injury.
The long-term effects will be sift-
ed through later.
“The nice part about baseball is
there are no pictures involved.
There’s no nothing. There’s just
the line score, and we win,” said
Lester, who yielded a run on five
hits and threw 87 pitches. “So it
doesn’t matter if it looks good, if it
doesn’t look good. If we have three
hits, we have 12 hits. It doesn’t
matter. If we win the game, at the
end of the day it goes in that W
column.”
It took 13 days for Strasburg to
go back to the IL. Strasburg al-
ready has missed more than a
month of this season with right
shoulder inflammation. The
thread between both injuries is
the trapezius muscle — near the
base of his neck and upper back —
that has caused discomfort in two
of his outings this year.
Strasburg was replaced on the
active roster by right-handed re-
liever Kyle McGowin. By then,
Strasburg was already back in
Washington, where he flew
Wednesday to be checked out by
“I said: ‘Holy [expletive].
Where’d you come from? Jeez
Louise!’ ” Scherff said. “He started
laughing. He’s strong.”
During practice Wednesday,
Cosmi showed off his speed. He
ran a 4.84-second 40-yard dash
before the draft, the fastest among
all offensive linemen, and it was
easy to see how it translated when
EZ M2
Robin West, the team’s lead physi-
cian. This is the 14th stint on the
IL of his 12-year career. The earli-
est Strasburg, 32, could rejoin the
Nationals is June 12. But his ab-
sence promises to last longer than
the minimum 10 days.
Even if he heals quickly, he will
probably have to throw simulated
innings in front of the major
league staff, then make a rehab
appearance with one of Washing-
ton’s affiliates. And that process
can’t begin until his neck loosens
and the trap muscle feels close to
normal.
“We still got plenty of baseball
left, and you’re going to help us
win games. But we got to get you
right,” Manager Dave Martinez
said when asked for his message
to Strasburg. “So I know it’s frus-
trating because he feels like he
lets the team down, lets me down,
but that’s something that we don’t
even think about.
“I feel for Stephen. He missed
all of last year. He felt great, want-
ed to come back and help, and he’s
had a rough go so far. But we’ll get
him back. And once we get him
back and he’s healthy, he’s going to
help us win games.”
Lester’s start began on a rough
note, lowlighted by Dansby Swan-
son’s solo homer in the second.
But he was able to dance around
traffic — stranding two in the first,
second and third — before retir-
ing 10 of the last 11 batters he
faced. Repeated hard contact was
replaced by a handful of weak
JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST
he sprinted downfield to block
rookie safety Darrick Forrest on
one running play. The players
wear GPS tracking devices, so
even with the departure of Moses,
Scherff has found another team-
mate with whom to compete.
“I told him I got to catch up to
him,” Scherff said. “My challenge
is to beat him every day.”
KEVIN C. COX/GETTY IMAGES
groundballs.
Washington had scored in the
second, on an RBI single for Star-
lin Castro, and almost seized a big
lead when Victor Robles lined a
ball that sailed inches wide of the
left field foul pole. This was des-
tined to be a tight contest.
“They were obviously looking
in. We pounded them in a lot the
time I faced them in D.C.,” Lester
said of what shifted his outing.
“So we figured that out, went to a
little more change-ups, used my
curveball a lot.”
Tanner Rainey replaced Lester
and struck out Guillermo Heredia
to end the sixth. Rainey’s charge
was to hold a gap created by Juan
Soto’s two-run shot off Braves
starter Drew Smyly in the fifth. In
the seventh, though, he was
tagged for a leadoff double that
left Kyle Schwarber diving into
the dirt. Schwarber exited three
pitches later, limping his way to
the dugout because his right knee
locked up. Schwarber was walk-
ing after the win, according to
Martinez, and will be reevaluated
Thursday.
Rainey then struck out the next
two batters, Pablo Sandoval and
Ronald Acuña Jr., but walked
Freddie Freeman despite getting
ahead 1-2. Martinez then called
for Hudson, but he served a fast-
ball over the plate, and Ozzie
Albies punched it for a double
that tied the score.
Yet Gomes unknotted it by
sending Minter’s 2-2 cutter to the
Heinicke explains stitches
After Rivera’s news conference
concluded Wednesday, he ushered
in his backup quarterback with
the call of, “Yo, Rocky, your turn!”
Quarterback Taylor Heinicke ap-
peared, looking like a boxer with a
bandage above his right eye.
Heinicke explained that last
week, it was hot during practice
and Rivera told the players they
didn’t have to wear their helmets.
On one play, while going half-
speed, he caught an elbow from
one of the running backs.
“I got seven stitches and a little
chipped tooth,” Heinicke said.
“Football season started pretty
early for me.”
Heinicke didn’t seem to mind.
The 28-year-old, who had been out
of the NFL until December, said he
felt as if this was his first offseason
with firm standing in the league.
He pointed out he had been head-
ed toward an unwelcome retire-
ment, but his reversal of fortune
motivated him, and he gained
15 pounds of “good weight” this
offseason.
“I wake up every day and I am
stoked to go to work and play some
football,” he said. “You’re getting
paid handsomely to go play a
sport. You can’t beat that.” . . .
Second-year running back An-
tonio Gibson said the turf toe that
forced him to miss two games late
last year has lingered this offsea-
son. He said he did not undergo
surgery, and that while he re-
habbed well enough to make his
cuts Wednesday, the toe is some-
thing to monitor moving forward.
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NATIONALS ON DECK
at Atlanta Braves
Today 12:20 MASN
at Philadelphia Phillies
Tomorrow 7:05 MASN
Saturday
Sunday
4:05 MASN
1:05 MASN
at Tampa Bay Rays
Tuesday 7:10 MASN2, FS1
Wednesday 7:10 MASN2
Radio: WJFK (106.7 FM)
Nationals 5, Braves 3
NATIONALS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Turner ss ........................5 0 2 1 0 1 .313
Harrison 2b.....................5 1 0 0 0 0 .276
Soto rf ............................3 1 1 2 1 0 .285
Bell 1b ............................3 0 1 0 1 1 .208
Gomes c..........................4 2 2 1 0 1 .258
Schwarber lf...................3 0 1 0 0 1 .238
Stevenson lf...................1 0 0 0 0 0 .236
Castro 3b ........................4 0 1 1 0 2 .253
Lester p ..........................3 0 1 0 0 0 .167
Hernandez ph .................1 0 0 0 0 0 .277
Robles cf.........................3 1 0 0 0 1 .230
TOTALS 35 5 9 5 2 7 —
BRAVES AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Acuña Jr. rf.....................4 0 0 0 1 2 .287
Freeman 1b ....................3 1 1 0 1 1 .232
Albies 2b ........................4 0 2 2 0 0 .241
Riley 3b...........................4
Swanson ss ....................4
0
1
0
1
0 0 2 .303
1 0 1 .239
Adrianza lf......................3 0 1 0 1 0 .234
Heredia cf.......................4 0 1 0 0 2 .276
K.Smith c........................2 0 0 0 0 0 .286
Almonte ph ....................1 1 1 0 0 0 .167
Camargo ph ....................1 0 0 0 0 1 .000
Smyly p...........................2 0 0 0 0 0 .077
Sandoval ph....................1 0 0 0 0 1 .250
Contreras c .....................1 0 0 0 0 0 .222
TOTALS 34 3 7 3 3 10 —
WASH ..................... 010 020 011 — 5 9 1
ATLANTA................ 010 000 200 — 3 7 1
E: Turner (7), Swanson (5). LOB: Washington 6, Atlan-
ta 7. 2B: Turner (10), Almonte (1), Albies (15). HR:
Soto (6), off Smyly; Gomes (5), off Minter; Swanson
(9), off Lester. RBI: Castro (20), Soto 2 (22), Gomes
(17), Turner (28), Swanson (23), Albies 2 (30). SB: Al-
bies (4), Robles (5), Turner (13). CS: Acuña Jr. (3).
NATIONALS IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Lester........................5.2 5 1 1 2 3 87 4.37
Rainey..........................1 1 2 2 1 3 25 9.42
Hudson .....................1.1 1 0 0 0 3 20 2.49
Hand ............................1 0 0 0 0 1 13 3.54
BRAVES IP H R ER BB SO NP ERA
Smyly........................4.1 7 3 3 2 6 90 5.98
Jackson .....................1.2 0 0 0 0 0 9 1.29
Santana .......................1 0 0 0 0 0 11 6.00
Minter .........................1 1 1 1 0 0 14 4.35
Martin..........................1 1 1 1 0 1 18 2.08
WP: Hudson (4-1); LP: Minter (1-2); S: Hand (9). Inher-
ited runners-scored: Rainey 1-0, Hudson 2-2, Jackson
1-0. HBP: Martin (Robles). T: 3:24. A: 32,752 (41,084).
HOW THEY SCORED
NATIONALS SECOND
Bell called out on strikes. Gomes singles to left center
field. Schwarber singles to right field. Gomes to sec-
ond. Castro singles to left field. Schwarber to third.
Gomes scores. Lester reaches on a fielder’s choice to
shallow infield. Castro out at second. Robles strikes out
swinging.
Nationals 1, Braves 0
BRAVES SECOND
Swanson homers to right field. Adrianza singles to left
field. Heredia singles to shallow right field. Adrianza to
second. Smith grounds out to shortstop, Trea Turner to
Josh Bell. Heredia to second. Adrianza to third. Smyly
pops out to shortstop to Trea Turner. Acuna Jr. grounds
out to shallow left field.
Nationals 1, Braves 1
NATIONALS FIFTH
Turner doubles to right field. Harrison reaches on a
fielder’s choice to shallow infield. Turner out at third.
Soto homers to center field. Harrison scores. Bell sin-
gles to right field. Gomes grounds out to shallow in-
field. Bell out at second.
Nationals 3, Braves 1
BRAVES SEVENTH
Almonte doubles. Sandoval strikes out on a foul tip.
Acuna Jr. strikes out swinging. Freeman walks. Albies
doubles to deep right center field. Freddie Freeman
scores. Almonte scores. Austin Riley strikes out swing-
ing.
Nationals 3, Braves 3
NATIONALS EIGHTH
Soto grounds out to shallow infield, Ozzie Albies to
Freddie Freeman. Bell grounds out to shallow right
field, Ozzie Albies to A.J. Minter. Gomes homers to
center field. Stevenson flies out to left field to Ehire
Adrianza.
Nationals 4, Braves 3
NATIONALS NINTH
Castro called out on strikes. Hernandez grounds out to
shallow right field, Austin Riley to Freddie Freeman.
Robles hit by pitch. Turner singles to center field. Rob-
les scores. Harrison flies out to shallow infield to Ehire
Adrianza.
Nationals 5, Braves 3
left-center seats. He was bumped
to fifth in the order, ahead of
Schwarber and Castro, and re-
sponded with a single and run in
the first, then the night’s biggest
hit. Hudson notched a one-two-
three eighth before the Nationals
tacked on an insurance run in the
ninth. That funneled the game to
Hand, the cushion a bit softer, and
he made quick work of the end.
jesse.dougherty@washpost.com
In practice, running back Pey-
ton Barber appeared shaken up on
one play, and toward the end, de-
fensive tackle Daniel Wise was
carted off while doctors looked at
his right knee. . . .
Defensive captains Chase
Young and Jonathan Allen were
the only two players absent for the
last voluntary offseason practice
open to the media. Three players
who missed last week — defensive
end Montez Sweat, wide receiver
Steven Sims Jr. and left tackle
Charles Leno Jr. — reported and
were full participants. Young and
Allen notified their position
coaches before skipping, Rivera
said. Defensive coordinator Jack
Del Rio said he spoke with Young
on Tuesday evening, adding,
“He’ll be joining us shortly.” . . .
Washington rolled out a poten-
tial Week 1 starting offensive line
Wednesday. There were some
variations, but the most common
first-team combination was, from
left tackle to right: Leno, Wes Sch-
weitzer, Chase Roullier, Scherff
and Cornelius Lucas. The second
team was: Lucas, Ereck Flowers,
Tyler Larsen, Wes Martin and Cos-
mi.
The only missing piece was
Saahdiq Charles, who played left
tackle in Leno’s absence last week
and is expected to compete at left
guard. Rivera praised Charles’s
performance and said the team
held him out of practice for load
management while he works back
from surgery to his left knee he
underwent in November.
sam.fortier@washpost.com
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Baseball
National League American League
EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR EAST W L PCT GB L10 STR CENTRAL W L PCT GB L10 STR WEST W L PCT GB L10 STR
New York 27 21 .563 — 6-4 W-1 Chicago 32 23 .582 — 9-1 W-3 San Francisco 34 21 .618 — 6-4 L-1 Tampa Bay 35 22 .614 — 7-3 L-2 Chicago 33 22 .600 — 7-3 L-2 Houston 31 24 .564 — 5-5 W-4
Philadelphia 26 29 .473 41/2 4-6 W-1 x-St. Louis 31 24 .564 1 5-5 W-1 San Diego 34 23 .596 1 4-6 L-4 Boston 32 23 .582 2 5-5 L-3 Cleveland 30 24 .556 21/2 6-4 W-2 x-Oakland 32 25 .561 — 4-6 W-1
Atlanta 25 28 .472 41/2 5-5 L-2 Milwaukee 29 26 .527 3 7-3 L-1 x-Los Angeles 32 23 .582 2 5-5 L-1 New York 31 25 .554 31/2 4-6 W-2 Kansas City 27 26 .509 5 7-3 W-3 x-Seattle 28 28 .500 31/2 7-3 L-1
Miami 24 30 .444 6 4-6 L-5 Cincinnati 24 29 .453 7 4-6 L-1 Colorado 22 34 .393 121/2 5-5 W-3 Toronto 29 25 .537 41/2 6-4 W-2 Detroit 23 32 .418 10 5-5 W-1 Los Angeles 25 30 .455 6 6-4 W-1
Washington 23 29 .442 6 4-6 W-2 Pittsburgh 20 34 .370 111/2 2-8 L-3 Arizona 20 37 .351 15 2-8 L-1 Baltimore 19 37 .339 151/2 2-8 W-2 Minnesota 22 33 .400 11 6-4 L-2 Texas 22 35 .386 10 2-8 L-8
x-Late game x-Late game

N O TE S TOD AY

INCLEMENT WEATHER NL games

THWARTS TWO GAMES NATIONALS AT BRAVES, 12:20
Wednesday’s scheduled W-L ERA TEAM
matchups in Cincinnati Corbin (L) 3-4 6.23 5-5
between the Reds and Wilson (R) 2-2 4.38 2-3

Phillies and in Cleveland MARLINS AT PIRATES, 7:05

between the White Sox TBD ---- ---- ----
and Indians were Anderson (L) 3-5 4.63 5-5

postponed by rain. DIAMONDBACKS AT BREWERS, 7:40

Duplantier (R) 0-0 7.71 0-1
The White Sox and Anderson (L) 2-3 4.18 5-3
Indians will make up their REDS AT CARDINALS, 8:15
game as part of a Gutierrez (R) 0-1 1.80 0-1
doubleheader Sept. 23. Wainwright (R) 3-4 4.22 4-6

The Reds and Phillies will CUBS AT GIANTS, 9:45

Davies (R) 2-2 4.65 7-4
play a makeup game
DeSclafani (R) 4-2 3.56 7-4
June 28, previously an off
METS AT PADRES, 10:10
day for both teams.
Walker (R) 4-1 1.84 8-1
Darvish (R) 5-1 2.16 10-1
BRENLY APOLOGIZES
FOR ON-AIR COMMENT
Diamondbacks NL scores
broadcaster Bob Brenly TUESDAY’S RESULTS
issued an apology for a Washington 11, at Atlanta 6
Philadelphia 17, at Cincinnati 3
comment about New York at Chicago Cubs 4, San Diego 3
at Arizona 6, N.Y. Mets 5, (10)
Mets pitcher Marcus St. Louis 3, at L.A. Dodgers 2
Stroman’s head covering WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
that the right-hander said Washington 5, at Atlanta 3
at Chicago Cubs 6, San Diego 1
had racist undertones. N.Y. Mets 7, at Arizona 6
St. Louis at L.A. Dodgers, Late
Brenly, working for Bally Philadelphia at Cincinnati, ppd.
Sports Arizona, made the
remark about Stroman’s
headwear in the fourth CHARLES REX ARBOGAST/ASSOCIATED PRESS
inning of host Arizona’s AL games
6-5, 10-inning victory
Tuesday night.
Flyball fiasco RAYS AT YANKEES, 1:05
W-L ERA TEAM
Padres shortstop Ha-Seong Kim, foreground, and outfielder Tommy Pham collide while tracking a pop fly in San Diego’s 6-1 loss at Wrigley Field. Yarbrough (L) 2-3 4.26 4-3
“Pretty sure that’s the
same do-rag that Tom Cole (R) 6-2 1.78 6-5

Seaver used to wear when RED SOX AT ASTROS, 2:10

he pitched for the Mets,”

Brenly said.
Cubs 6, Padres 1
Javier Báez lined a two-
run homer, Anthony Rizzo
Mets 7,
Diamondbacks 6
Pete Alonso drove in
Yankees 4, Rays 3
Gio Urshela homered
early and Clint Frazier drove
Orioles 6, Twins 3
TWINS AB
Polanco ss...........3
R
0
H BI BB SO AVG
1 1 0 0 .227
O’s find themselves Pérez (L)
Odorizzi (R)
3-2
0-2
3.55
6.75
6-4
1-3

QUOTABLE
had two doubles among
three hits, and surging Chi-
Francisco Lindor with a go-
ahead single in the ninth
in two runs for New York.
The Yankees had lost six
Donaldson 3b......2
Kirilloff lf............3
Cruz dh................4
Larnach rf ...........4
0
0
0
0
0 0 2 0 .238
0 0 1 1 .242
1 0 0 2 .274
1 0 0 2 .238
in good kind of streak TIGERS AT WHITE SOX, 8:10
Mize (R)
Lynn (R)
3-3
6-1
3.28
1.20
6-4
6-3
cago beat San Diego for its inning to propel New York. of seven before they won Astudillo 1b ........4 0 0 0 0 0 .277
“It’s just another third straight win and ninth METS AB R H BI BB SO AVG their past two games Gordon 2b ...........4
Jeffers c..............4
1
2
1 0 0 1 .250
2 2 0 1 .184
TWINS AT ROYALS, 8:10
Happ (L) 3-2 5.24 4-5
in 10 games. Villar 3b ..............4 2 2 0 0 0 .241 against the AL East-leading Celestino cf.........2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 ORIOLES 6, TWINS 3
game. It just PADRES AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Blankenhorn
2b .....................
...1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Rays. Tampa Bay dropped Sanó ph...............1
Garlick cf.............0
0
0
0 0 0 1 .157
0 0 0 0 .253
Bubic (L)
MARINERS AT ANGELS, 9:38
1-0 1.52 3-0

Pham lf ...............2 0 0 0 0 2 .220 Lindor ss .............5 2 3 0 0 0 .209 two in a row for the first TOTALS 31 3 6 3 3 9 — BY J ON M EOLI
means I’ve been Myers ph-rf ........2
Machado 3b ........4
0
0
0 0 0 1 .248
1 0 0 1 .239
McCann c ............5
Alonso 1b............5
1
1
3
2
4
1
0
0
0 .233
1 .250 time since May 11-12, also
ORIOLES AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Sheffield (L)
Canning (R)
4-4
4-3
4.96
5.40
5-4
4-4
Cronenworth
...4 1 1 0 0 1 .282
Pillar cf ...............5 1 2 0 0 0 .264 against the Yankees. Mullins cf............4 0 1 0 1 0 .298 baltimore — In ending their 14-game losing streak
around for a 2b-ss ................
Hosmer 1b ..........4 0 1 0 0 2 .281
Do.Smith lf .........4
Drury rf ...............3
0
0
3
1
0
1
1
0
1 .264
0 .250 RAYS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Mancini dh ..........4
Santander rf .......3
0
1
1 0 1 1 .284
1 0 0 1 .262 Tuesday and winning again Wednesday night, this
Profar cf..............2 0 0 0 2 0 .235 Williams ph ........1 0 0 0 0 0 .167 Arozarena dh ......4 0 0 0 1 4 .254
Kim ss.................2 0 1 1 0 0 .199 Peraza 2b-3b.......4 0 0 0 0 1 .215 Galvis ss .............3 1 0 0 1 1 .244 time a 6-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins before AL scores
while and I’m Diaz p..................1
Caratini ph ..........1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0 .000
0 .222
Gsellman p..........2
McKinney ph-rf...2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1 .000
1 .211
Díaz 1b ................2
Choi ph-1b...........2
0
0
0 1 0 0 .244
1 1 0 1 .304
Stewart lf ...........3
McKenna pr-lf.....0
2
1
2 2 1 0 .207
0 0 0 0 .194 an announced 5,945 at Camden Yards, the Baltimore TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Meadows lf .........5 1 1 0 0 1 .240 Mountcastle
Marcano rf-2b.....3 0 1 0 1 2 .189 ...4 1 2 3 0 1 .238 Orioles reversed course with a difficult tack: pile on
lucky to be Rivas c ................3
Lamet p...............1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0 .200
1 .000
TOTALS

DIAMOND-
41 7 16 6 1 6 — Brosseau 2b ........3
Lowe ph-2b .........1
Margot rf ............3
0
0
0
2 0 0 1 .183
0 0 0 1 .188
0 1 1 0 .242
1b .....................
Franco 3b ............4 0 2 0 0 0 .205 the runs early and hold on for dear life.
at Baltimore 7, Minnesota 4
at Cleveland 6, Chicago White Sox 5
Mateo ph-lf.........2 0 0 0 0 0 .224 AB R H BI BB SO AVG Wilkerson 2b ......4 0 2 0 0 0 .209 at N.Y. Yankees 5, Tampa Bay 3, (11)
BACKS Mejía c.................4 0 1 0 0 0 .258 Minnesota sliced into a big Orioles lead late and
around for a TOTALS 31 1 5 1 4 10 — C.Kelly c ..............3
Marte cf..............4
1
1
0
1
0
2
1
0
0 .287
0 .347
Wendle 3b...........4
Walls ss ..............2
1
1
0 0 0 1 .287
1 0 2 0 .222
Wynns c ..............4
TOTALS 33
0
6
0
11
0
5
0
4
1 .000
5 — brought the tying run to the plate again Wednesday,
at Houston 5, Boston 1
Oakland 12, at Seattle 6
CUBS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Escobar 3b ..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .239 Phillips cf ............3 0 0 0 0 1 .217 but a few big swings from DJ Stewart and Ryan WEDNESDAY’S GAMES
while.” Pederson lf .........3
Happ cf................5
1
1
0 0 2 1 .236
0 1 0 1 .195
C.Walker 1b ........4
P.Smith rf ...........2
1
2
1
1
0
0
0
2
0 .203
0 .290
Zunino ph ............0
TOTALS 33
0
3
0 0 1 0 .207
6 3 5 10 —
MINNESOTA.. 010 000 020 — 3 6 1
BALTIMORE... 000 120 30X — 6 11 0
Mountcastle, plus a largely impressive performance at Baltimore 6, Minnesota 3
Tampa Bay 4, at N.Y. Yankees 3
Báez ss ...............4 1 1 2 0 3 .255 E: Gordon (1). LOB: Minnesota 5, Balti-
— Athletics Manager Bob Rizzo 1b ..............4 1 3 2 0 0 .275
Ahmed ss............3
Vargas 2b............4
1
0
1
2
0
3
1
0
0 .217
0 .500 NEW YORK AB R H BI BB SO AVG more 8. 2B: Polanco (12), Wilkerson (3), from the Orioles’ shorthanded pitching staff, sent Boston 2, at Houston 1
Oakland at Seattle, Late
Melvin, who won his Wisdom 3b .........4 0 1 0 0 1 .435 Locastro lf ..........3 0 0 0 0 0 .194 LeMahieu 1b .......4 0 0 0 1 1 .255
Franco (13). 3B: Jeffers (1). HR: Jeffers
(1), off Harvey; Stewart (6), off Dob-
them into their first day off since before the losing Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, ppd.
Ortega rf.............4 0 1 1 0 1 .167 Rojas ph..............1 0 0 0 0 1 .272
799th game as manager of Sogard 2b............3 0 1 0 0 2 .253 Bumgarner p.......1 0 1 1 0 0 .143
Stanton dh ..........3
Judge cf-rf ..........4
0
1
1 0 1 1 .259
0 0 0 1 .290
nak; Mountcastle (6), off Colomé. RBI: streak began with a 19-37 record and feeling good.
Jeffers 2 (3), Polanco (22), Stewart 2
the A’s in a 12-6 win in Winkler p ............1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 R.Smith p............1 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Urshela 3b...........4 1 2 2 0 2 .261 (18), Mountcastle 3 (25). SF: Polanco.
It’s the Orioles’ first winning streak since a
Higgins c .............4 0 1 0 0 1 .063 Reddick ph ..........1 0 0 0 0 1 .362 Torres ss .............3 1 2 0 1 1 .266
Seattle on Tuesday night. Alzolay p.............1 0 0 0 0 1 .063 Peralta ph ...........1 0 0 0 0 0 .253 Odor 2b................4 1 1 0 0 2 .196 TWINS IP H R ER BB SO ERA three-game run April 29-May 1 and their first series
It’s the most wins for any A’s Martini ph...........0 1 0 0 1 0 .083 TOTALS 32 6 8 6 4 4 — Sánchez c ............3 0 1 0 1 2 .205 Dobnak ............. 5.2 8 3 3 2 3 6.19 victory since they took two of three from the Seattle
Alcántara 2b .......1 1 1 0 0 0 .667 Andújar lf ............3 0 1 0 0 2 .243 Alcala ............... 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 3.92 Interleague games
manager since the team TOTALS 34 6 9 6 3 11 — NEW YORK .... 410 010 001 — 7 16 0 Gardner cf ...........1 0 0 0 0 1 .185 Thielbar ............ 0.2 1 1 1 0 2 4.29 Mariners early last month, capped by John Means’s
moved to Oakland in 1968. ARIZONA ....... 500 001 000 — 6 8 1 Frazier rf-lf .........2 0 1 2 2 1 .190 Colomé ............. 0.1 2 2 2 1 0 5.31 no-hitter May 5.
SAN DIEGO .... 000 100 000 — 1 5 2 Minaya ................ 1 0 0 0 1 0 4.50 RANGERS AT ROCKIES, 3:10
E: Marte (1). LOB: New York 8, Arizona TOTALS 31 4 9 4 6 14 —
CHICAGO........ 000 120 30X — 6 9 0
3. 2B: Villar (5), P.Smith (13). HR: Mc- ORIOLES IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Trailing 1-0 in the fourth inning, the Orioles W-L ERA TEAM
STAR OF THE DAY E: Hosmer (5), Cronenworth (3). LOB: Cann (4), off Bumgarner; Marte (4), off TAMPA BAY... 000 110 100 — 3 6 0 pulled even on a throwing error when Twins second
Harvey ................. 3 2 1 1 1 3 6.62 Foltynewicz (R) 1-5 4.31 4-7
San Diego 7, Chicago 8. 2B: Hosmer (8), Peterson. NEW YORK..... 200 200 00X — 4 9 2
Wells ................... 3 1 0 0 0 2 4.81 baseman Nick Gordon tossed the ball over first Gray (R) 4-5 3.71 5-6
James McCann, Mets Rizzo 2 (11). 3B: Alcántara (1). HR: METS IP H R ER BB SO ERA E: Odor (5), Montgomery (1). LOB: Tam- Armstrong........ 1.1 2 2 2 0 3 8.55
Báez (14), off Diaz.
PADRES IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Peterson........... 0.1 3 5 5 3 0 5.89 pa Bay 9, New York 9. 2B: Brosseau (6), Fry .................... 1.2 1 0 0 2 1 2.08 baseman Willians Astudillo’s head while trying to
Gsellman .......... 3.2 2 0 0 0 1 2.42 Sánchez (5), Torres (7), Urshela (9). HR:
The catcher went 3 for 5 Lamet .................. 4 4 1 1 1 6 2.50 Lugo..................... 2 3 1 1 0 2 4.50 Urshela (6), off McClanahan. WP: Wells (1-0); LP: Dobnak (1-5). In- turn a double play, allowing Stewart to score from
herited runners-scored: Alcala 1-0, Colo-
with a home run and four Johnson ............ 0.2 0 2 2 2 1 3.63 Castro.................. 2 0 0 0 1 0 2.66 RAYS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
mé 1-1, Fry 1-1. HBP: Dobnak (Santand- third. Interleague scores
Hill .................... 0.1 1 0 0 0 1 2.38 Díaz ..................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.22 McClanahan...... 3.1 5 4 4 2 6 4.11
RBI in New York’s 7-6 win er). WP: Fry. PB: Jeffers (1). Stewart hit a towering home run to right field
Diaz ..................... 2 3 3 2 0 3 1.53 Thompson......... 0.2 1 0 0 1 1 2.16 TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Adams ................. 1 1 0 0 0 0 2.37 DIAMOND-
over Arizona. BACKS
IP H R ER BB SO ERA McHugh ............... 2 2 0 0 1 5 3.44 after a two-out walk to Freddy Galvis in the fifth at Toronto 5, Miami 1
CUBS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Springs ................ 2 1 0 0 2 2 3.16
Bumgarner .......... 2 8 5 5 0 2 5.73 ORIOLES BATTING LEADERS inning, and Mountcastle’s sixth home run of the year Detroit 10, at Milwaukee 7
Alzolay ................ 5 3 1 1 1 7 3.62 R.Smith ............... 3 6 1 1 0 0 5.36 NEW YORK IP H R ER BB SO ERA Batters Avg AB R H HR RBI at Kansas City 10, Pittsburgh 5
TODAY’S GAME Brothers .............. 1 0 0 0 0 2 3.12 Clarke .................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 4.18 Montgomery..... 6.1 5 3 1 2 6 3.92 Mullins .299 211 27 63 6 14
scored three in the seventh and gave the Orioles a big at Colorado 3, Texas 2, (11)
Wieck ............... 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 Ginkel ............... 0.2 0 0 0 1 0 5.73 Loaisiga ............ 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 2.20 cushion they would need. L.A. Angels 8, at San Francisco 1
TO WATCH Nance ............... 0.1 0 0 0 1 0 0.00
Mancini .284 197 31 56 11 44
Buchter............. 1.1 0 0 0 0 3 2.45 Green ................... 1 0 0 0 1 1 1.93 Santander .260 104 9 27 3 11
Winkler................ 2 1 0 0 2 1 0.46 Soria .................... 1 2 1 0 0 1 3.27 Rookie Tyler Wells pitched three innings in relief WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS
Mets at Padres, Chapman.............. 1 0 0 0 2 2 0.41 Hays .252 123 24 31 5 15
at Toronto 6, Miami 5
10 p.m., MLB Network WP: Alzolay (4-4); LP: Johnson (1-2). WP: Castro (2-1); LP: Soria (0-1); S: WP: Montgomery (3-1); LP: McClanahan Galvis
Severino
.249 169
.237 131
26
9
42 9 21
31 2 8
of Matt Harvey and allowed one hit and no runs to at Colorado 6, Texas 3
Inherited runners-scored: Hill 2-2, Díaz (10). Inherited runners-scored: (2-1); S: Chapman (12). Inherited run-
Nance 1-0. HBP: Adams (Alcántara). Gsellman 2-1, Buchter 1-0. PB: C.Kelly ners-scored: Thompson 3-2, Loaisiga 2-1. Mountcastle .232 181 18 42 5 22 get the win.
RHP Taijuan Walker (4-1, WP: Nance. T: 3:16. A: 22,056 (41,649). (4). T: 3:12. A: 9,810 (48,686). Urías .226 53 6 12 1 6
WP: McHugh. T: 3:38. A: 13,824 (47,309). — Baltimore Sun
1.84 ERA) takes on fellow
RHP Yu Darvish (5-1, 2.16) Blue Jays 6, Marlins 5 Astros 2, Red Sox 1 Rockies 6, Rangers 3 Tigers 10, Brewers 7 Athletics 12, Cardinals 3, Dodgers 2
NL leaders
in a clash of National Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Framber Valdez pitched Joshua Fuentes hom- Late Tuesday Mariners 6 Late Tuesday
scored the winning run on seven strong innings and ered to back a strong out- Eric Haase and Jona- Late Tuesday Edmundo Sosa hit a tie- BATTING
League contenders.
Joe Panik’s sacrifice fly, Kyle Tucker had two hits as ing from Antonio Senzatela Castellanos, Cin ............................... .361
than Schoop hit two home Matt Olson hit his breaking single in the ninth Winker, Cin ...................................... .341
capping a three-run rally in Houston handed Nick Piv- as Colorado sent Texas to runs apiece, Miguel Cabre- 14th homer of the season inning, Tyler O’Neill made a Frazier, Pit ....................................... .335
AL leaders the ninth inning that gave etta his first loss of the its eighth consecutive loss ra had three RBI, and De- running catch for the final Bryant, Chi ....................................... .317
in the second inning and Turner, Was ..................................... .311
Through Tuesday’s games Toronto a victory over skid- season. and 14th straight on the troit ended Milwaukee’s added a key two-run single out, and St. Louis topped Riley, Atl .......................................... .310
Acuña Jr., Atl ................................... .294
BATTING ding Miami in Buffalo. Boston’s Hunter Renfroe road. five-game winning streak. as part of Oakland’s six-run Los Angeles. Smith, Ari ........................................ .288
Guerrero Jr., Tor .............................. .337 MARLINS AB R H BI BB SO AVG singled off Ryan Pressly Fuentes also doubled, TIGERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG seventh inning in a win CARDINALS AB R H BI BB SO AVG
Harrison, Was ................................. .285
Martinez, Bos .................................. .321 Soto, Was ........................................ .284
Alvarez, Hou .................................... .315
Chisholm Jr. ss ...5 1 1 2 0 1 .272 with one out in the ninth singled and scored three Grossman lf ........4 1 0 0 2 2 .236 over Seattle. Edman 2b............5 1 2 0 0 1 .279
Marte cf..............4 1 1 1 1 1 .324 Candelario 3b......5 1 0 0 1 2 .279 Carlson cf............4 0 2 1 0 1 .274 HOME RUNS
Bogaerts, Bos .................................. .314
Aguilar 1b ...........5 1 1 1 0 1 .253 before advancing to sec- runs to rally the Rockies to Cabrera 1b ..........4 1 2 3 0 0 .193 ATHLETICS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Goldschmidt
Altuve, Hou ..................................... .306 ...4 0 1 1 0 1 .244 Acuña Jr., Atl ...................................... 17
Brantley, Hou .................................. .305
Cooper dh............4 0 0 0 0 1 .260 ond on a two-out single by their third consecutive win. Short ss ..............1 0 1 0 0 0 .375 Canha cf..............6 1 2 1 0 1 .251 1b ..................... Tatis Jr., SD ........................................ 16
Dickerson lf ........4 1 2 1 0 0 .282 Schoop 2b-1b......5 2 3 3 0 1 .251 Pinder lf ..............4 1 0 0 1 0 .222 Arenado 3b .........4 0 0 0 0 0 .274
Gurriel, Hou ..................................... .304 Christian Vázquez. But Raimel Tapia had two dou- Báez, Chi ............................................. 14
Duvall rf..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .204 Goodrum cf .........4 0 1 0 0 2 .222 Lowrie dh............3 2 1 0 2 1 .246 Molina c ..............4 0 0 0 0 2 .284
Mercedes, Chi .................................. .304 Muncy, LA ........................................... 13
Díaz 3b................2 0 0 0 2 1 .121 Pressly retired Christian Ar- bles and an RBI single. H.Castro ph.........1 0 0 0 0 0 .319 Olson 1b..............4 2 2 3 0 1 .264 O'Neill lf .............4 1 2 0 0 2 .278
Moncada, Chi ................................... .301 Winker, Cin ......................................... 13
Alfaro c ...............2 0 0 0 0 2 .250 Haase c ...............3 3 2 2 2 1 .236 S.Murphy c .........4 1 1 2 1 2 .215 Sosa ss ...............4 0 1 1 0 2 .290
Walsh, LA ........................................ .300 royo to get his eighth save. McMahon, Col ..................................... 13
Devers 2b............3 1 1 0 1 1 .231 RANGERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Reyes rf-cf..........4 0 1 0 0 2 .157 Chapman 3b........5 0 0 0 0 3 .198 Rondón rf............3 1 0 0 1 2 .250 Escobar, Ari ........................................ 13
HOME RUNS TOTALS 33 5 6 5 4 10 — RED SOX AB R H BI BB SO AVG Calhoun lf ...........4 1 2 0 0 0 .250 Baddoo ph-cf ......0 1 0 0 1 0 .236 Piscotty rf...........5 2 3 1 0 0 .219 Gant p .................2 0 0 0 0 2 .000 O’Neill, StL ......................................... 12
Kiner-Falefa ss ...4 1 2 1 0 1 .283 W.Castro ss-2b...4 1 2 1 0 1 .214 Andrus ss............3 2 1 0 2 0 .205 Carpenter ph.......1 0 0 0 0 0 .150 Freeman, Atl ....................................... 12
Guerrero Jr., Tor ................................. 17 Hernández cf ......4 0 0 0 0 1 .228
BLUE JAYS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Lowe 1b ..............4 0 1 0 0 1 .246 Boyd p.................1 0 0 0 1 0 .000 Kemp 2b..............4 1 3 5 0 1 .280 Williams ph-rf ....1 0 0 0 0 0 .164 Bryant, Chi .......................................... 12
García, Tex .......................................... 16 Verdugo lf...........4 0 0 0 0 2 .286
Semien 2b...........3 2 1 0 2 1 .301 García cf..............4 0 1 0 0 0 .284 Mazara rf ............2 0 1 1 0 0 .198 TOTALS 38 12 13 12 6 9 — TOTALS 36 3 8 3 1 13 — Castellanos, Cin .................................. 12
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 15 Martinez dh ........4 1 1 0 0 0 .320
Olson, Oak .......................................... 14 Bichette ss .........4 0 1 2 1 3 .262 Gallo rf................3 1 0 0 1 1 .208 TOTALS 38 10 13 10 7 11 — Suárez, Cin .......................................... 12
Bogaerts ss ........3 0 0 0 1 2 .309 Holt 3b ................4 0 1 2 0 1 .222
Devers, Bos ......................................... 14 Guerrero Jr. dh ...4 1 1 0 1 2 .335 Devers 3b............4 0 2 0 0 1 .278 MARINERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG L.A. AB R H BI BB SO AVG Hoskins, Phi ........................................ 12
Haniger, Sea ....................................... 14 Hernández rf.......4 0 0 0 1 3 .300 Culberson 2b.......4 0 0 0 0 0 .234 BREWERS AB R H BI BB SO AVG Betts rf ...............4 0 1 0 1 1 .247
Renfroe rf ...........3 0 1 1 1 2 .259 Crawford ss ........5 1 2 0 0 1 .250 RBI
Judge, NY ............................................ 13 Grichuk cf ...........5 2 2 2 0 1 .286 Heim c.................3 0 0 0 0 0 .174 Wong 2b .............5 2 2 3 0 0 .283 Muncy 2b-1b.......3 0 0 0 1 0 .274
Dalbec 1b ............3 0 0 0 0 1 .203 Haniger dh ..........5 1 2 1 0 1 .264
Meadows, TB ...................................... 13 Panik 3b ..............4 0 0 1 0 2 .250 Solak ph ..............1 0 0 0 0 1 .238 Adames ss ..........4 0 0 0 1 2 .289 Turner 3b ............3 0 1 0 1 1 .272 Escobar, Ari ........................................ 39
Santana ph .........1 0 0 0 0 1 .167 Seager 3b............5 1 2 1 0 3 .222
Ramírez, Cle ....................................... 13 Gurriel Jr. lf ........4 0 2 0 0 2 .265 Lyles p ................2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Yelich lf...............5 1 1 0 0 3 .250 Smith c ...............4 0 2 0 0 2 .278 Aguilar, Mia ........................................ 38
Vázquez c............4 0 1 0 0 0 .251 France 1b ............5 0 3 1 0 0 .261
Semien, Tor ........................................ 13 Tellez 1b .............3 0 1 0 1 0 .220 J.Martin ph .........1 0 0 0 0 0 .083 A.García rf ..........4 0 1 1 0 2 .244 Lux ss..................4 0 0 0 0 0 .241 Báez, Chi ............................................. 38
Arroyo 2b............4 0 2 0 0 1 .284 Fraley rf ..............4 1 0 0 1 4 .176
McGuire c............4 0 1 0 0 1 .229 TOTALS 34 3 7 3 1 6 — Piña c ..................2 0 0 0 0 0 .170 Kelenic cf ............4 0 0 0 0 3 .111 Taylor cf-lf..........4 0 1 0 0 1 .280 Tatis Jr., SD ........................................ 37
RBI Davis pr...............0 1 0 0 0 0 .155 TOTALS 34 1 7 1 2 11 —
Narváez ph-c ......1 0 0 0 0 1 .302 Trammell lf.........3 1 1 1 1 0 .163 Pujols 1b .............2 0 0 0 1 0 .225 Naquin, Cin ......................................... 37
Abreu, Chi ........................................... 46 TOTALS 35 6 9 5 6 15 — ROCKIES AB R H BI BB SO AVG Taylor cf..............4 2 2 2 0 1 .218 T.Murphy c..........3 1 1 2 1 2 .170 McKinstry pr- Bryant, Chi .......................................... 36
ASTROS AB R H BI BB SO AVG ...1 1 0 0 0 0 .250
Guerrero Jr., Tor ................................. 45 Tapia lf................5 1 3 3 0 0 .261 Hiura 1b ..............4 0 0 0 0 3 .127 Walton 2b...........4 0 0 0 0 0 .182 2b ..................... Acuña Jr., Atl ...................................... 35
Mancini, Bal ........................................ 44 MIAMI............ 013 000 100 — 5 6 2 Altuve dh ............2 1 0 0 2 1 .302 Daza cf................4 0 2 0 0 0 .333 Urías 3b ..............3 1 1 1 1 0 .223 Beaty lf ...............3 1 1 2 0 1 .284 Arenado, StL ....................................... 35
Correa ss.............4 0 1 0 0 1 .274 TOTALS 38 6 11 6 3 14 —
Devers, Bos ......................................... 43 TORONTO ...... 010 100 103 — 6 9 0 McMahon 2b.......3 0 0 1 1 2 .259 Robertson ph ......0 1 0 0 1 0 .133 Tsutsugo ph........0 0 0 0 1 0 .130 Hoskins, Phi ........................................ 34
García, Tex .......................................... 41 Bregman 3b ........4 0 1 0 0 2 .296 Houser p .............2 0 0 0 0 2 .167 Kelly p.................1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 Duvall, Mia ......................................... 33
One out when winning run scored. E: Ch- Cron 1b................3 0 1 0 1 1 .275 OAKLAND ...... 010 010 622 — 12 13 0
Ohtani, LA .......................................... 40 Alvarez lf ............2 0 0 0 0 1 .311 Shaw ph..............0 0 0 0 1 0 .199 Jones p................1 0 0 0 0 0 .000
isholm Jr. (5), Marte (1). LOB: Miami 7, Blackmon rf ........4 0 1 0 0 0 .250 SEATTLE ........ 003 100 020 — 6 11 0
Meadows, TB ...................................... 39 Gurriel 1b............2 0 0 1 0 0 .301
Fuentes 3b..........4 3 3 1 0 0 .255 Bellinger ph-cf....2 0 1 0 0 1 .161 ERA
Toronto 11. 2B: Tellez (3). 3B: Guerrero Tucker rf .............3 1 2 0 0 1 .256 TOTALS 34 7 7 7 4 14 — LOB: Oakland 7, Seattle 8. 2B: Canha
Martinez, Bos ..................................... 39 Jr. (1), Bichette (1). HR: Dickerson (2), Hampson ss........4 1 2 0 0 0 .229 TOTALS 32 2 7 2 5 7 — deGrom, NY ..................................... 0.71
Grichuk, Tor ........................................ 39 García 2b.............3 0 0 0 0 2 .160 DETROIT ........ 061 001 002 — 10 13 0 (8), Kemp (4), Andrus (7), S.Murphy
off Manoah; Chisholm Jr. (6), off Mano- Nuñez c ...............3 1 0 1 1 1 .162 Woodruff, Mil .................................. 1.27
Gurriel, Hou ........................................ 38 Straw cf ..............3 0 0 1 0 1 .233 MILWAUKEE . 112 010 011 — 7 7 1 (11), Piscotty (6), Haniger 2 (15), Sea- ST. LOUIS....... 110 000 001 — 3 8 0
ah; Aguilar (10), off Manoah; Marte (3), Senzatela p.........2 0 0 0 0 1 .000 Gausman, SF ................................... 1.40
Walsh, LA ........................................... 38 Maldonado c .......3 0 0 0 0 1 .156 E: Adames (3). LOB: Detroit 10, Milwau- ger (13), France (12). HR: Olson (14), L.A.................. 000 000 200 — 2 7 1
off Thornton; Grichuk 2 (11), off López. Rodgers ph..........1 0 0 0 0 1 .161 Walker, NY ...................................... 1.84
TOTALS 26 2 4 2 2 10 — kee 5. 2B: Schoop (5), Cabrera (2), off Gonzales; Kemp (2), off Zamora;
MARLINS IP H R ER BB SO ERA TOTALS 33 6 12 6 3 6 — E: Beaty (1). LOB: St. Louis 7, Los Ange- Rogers, Mia ..................................... 1.87
ERA Mazara (3), A.García (6). HR: Haase 2 Trammell (5), off Bassitt; T.Murphy (6),
les 8. 2B: Edman (12), Goldschmidt (12), Musgrove, SD .................................. 2.08
López ................... 4 5 2 2 1 9 2.82 BOSTON......... 100 000 000 — 1 7 0 (4), off Lauer; Schoop (6), off Lauer; off Diekman.
Cole, NY ........................................... 1.78 TEXAS............ 001 002 000 — 3 7 0 Smith (10). HR: Beaty (3), off Gallegos. Darvish, SD ...................................... 2.16
Bender .............. 1.1 0 0 0 1 3 0.00 HOUSTON ...... 100 100 00X — 2 4 0 Schoop (7), off Houser; Wong 2 (4), off ATHLETICS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Bauer, LA ......................................... 2.24
Means, Bal ....................................... 2.05 COLORADO .... 000 112 02X — 6 12 1
Bleier ................ 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 3.54 Boyd; Taylor (4), off Boyd; Taylor (5), Bassitt................. 4 6 4 4 1 6 3.53 CARDINALS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Scherzer, Was ................................. 2.34
Gibson, Tex ...................................... 2.24 LOB: Boston 8, Houston 4. 2B: Correa
Bass..................... 1 0 1 0 2 1 3.66 E: Hampson (1). LOB: Texas 5, Colorado off Alexander; Urías (6), off Soto. Luzardo................ 3 2 0 0 1 6 5.06 Gant..................... 6 4 0 0 3 4 1.60 Peralta, Mil ...................................... 2.38
Ryu, Tor ........................................... 2.62 (13), Tucker (11), Bregman (10).
Floro .................... 1 0 0 0 0 1 2.82 9. 2B: Kiner-Falefa (10), Calhoun (7), Diekman .............. 1 1 2 2 1 1 3.47 Gallegos .............. 2 2 2 2 1 2 2.45
Glasnow, TB .................................... 2.69 RED SOX IP H R ER BB SO ERA Holt (4), Fuentes (10), Tapia 2 (6). 3B: TIGERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Bieber, Cle ....................................... 3.08 García ............... 0.1 3 3 3 2 0 2.86 Romo ................... 1 2 0 0 0 1 6.16 Reyes................... 1 1 0 0 1 1 0.62 SAVES
Pivetta................. 6 3 2 2 2 9 3.77 Cron (1). HR: Fuentes (5), off Hearn. Boyd ................. 4.2 5 5 5 3 4 3.90
Germán, NY ..................................... 3.27 BLUE JAYS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Hernandez ........... 1 0 0 0 0 1 3.18 Jiménez ............ 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 10.1 L.A. IP H R ER BB SO ERA Melancon, SD ...................................... 17
Civale, Cle ........................................ 3.28 RANGERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA MARINERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA
Manoah ............ 3.1 4 4 4 3 5 3.86 Sawamura ........ 0.2 1 0 0 0 0 3.05 Holland ................ 2 0 0 0 0 4 9.00 Reyes, StL .......................................... 16
Mize, Det ......................................... 3.28 Lyles .................... 5 7 3 3 2 2 5.75 Gonzales.............. 4 2 1 1 1 6 5.01 Price ................. 1.2 5 2 2 1 3 4.00 Kimbrel, Chi ........................................ 13
Payamps.............. 2 0 0 0 0 1 2.78 J.Taylor ............ 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 4.58 Alexander ............ 1 1 1 1 0 3 4.37 Kelly ................. 1.1 0 0 0 0 3 7.56
Hill, TB ............................................. 3.32 Evans................... 1 1 1 1 1 0 3.60 Soto ..................... 1 1 1 1 1 2 3.27 Santiago ........... 2.2 3 3 3 1 2 10.1 Hader, Mil ........................................... 12
Mayza............... 0.2 0 0 0 0 2 7.04 Hearn................... 2 4 2 2 0 4 4.55 Sewald................. 0 1 3 3 2 0 4.00 Bickford ............... 1 0 0 0 0 2 0.00
Thornton ............. 1 1 1 1 0 2 2.73 ASTROS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Jansen, LA .......................................... 12
STRIKEOUTS BREWERS IP H R ER BB SO ERA Zamora ............. 1.1 4 3 3 0 1 7.36 Jones ................... 2 1 0 0 0 1 2.84
Edwards Jr. ......... 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 F.Valdez............... 7 5 1 1 2 10 1.64 McGee, SF ........................................... 12
ROCKIES IP H R ER BB SO ERA Lauer ................... 2 7 7 7 2 5 4.88 Vest .................. 0.2 3 2 2 2 0 4.70 White .................. 1 0 0 0 0 3 2.61
Bieber, Cle ........................................ 117 Castro.................. 1 0 0 0 1 0 1.74 Stanek ................. 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.24 Senzatela ......... 7.2 7 3 1 1 3 4.47 Richards .............. 1 0 0 0 0 0 6.35 Mayfield ........... 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 Treinen ............. 1.1 2 1 1 0 1 3.27 STRIKEOUTS
Glasnow, TB ..................................... 106 Pressly................. 1 2 0 0 0 1 2.25
WP: Castro (1-1); LP: García (3-4). In- Estévez............. 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 3.07 Houser................. 5 5 1 1 2 6 3.86 Jansen .............. 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 1.96
Cole, NY .............................................. 97 WP: Luzardo (2-3); LP: Sewald (2-1). In- Bauer, LA ............................................ 96
Bassitt, Oak ........................................ 80 herited runners-scored: Payamps 3-0. WP: F.Valdez (1-0); LP: Pivetta (6-1); S: Bard ..................... 1 0 0 0 0 2 4.09 Yardley ................ 1 1 2 2 3 0 7.07 herited runners-scored: Sewald 1-1, WP: Gallegos (3-1); LP: Treinen (1-2); S: Scherzer, Was .................................... 95
Rodón, Chi ........................................... 80 IBB: off Castro (Marte), off García Pressly (8). Inherited runners-scored: WP: Senzatela (2-5); LP: Evans (0-1); S: WP: Holland (1-1); LP: Lauer (1-2). Zamora 3-3, Mayfield 3-0. HBP: Vest Reyes (16). Inherited runners-scored: Wheeler, Phi ....................................... 92
Giolito, Chi .......................................... 78 (Guerrero Jr.), off García (Hernández). J.Taylor 1-0. HBP: Pivetta (Alvarez). Bard (6). Inherited runners-scored: Ev- Inherited runners-scored: Jiménez 1-0, (Olson). T: 3:33. A: 9,160 (47,929). Kelly 2-0, Jansen 1-0. T: 3:33. A: 15,683 Gausman, SF ...................................... 83
Berríos, Min ........................................ 69 HBP: Manoah (Alfaro), Castro (Alfaro). WP: Pivetta. T: 2:57. A: 22,664 (41,168). ans 1-1, Estévez 2-0. WP: Lyles(2), Ev- Richards 1-0. HBP: Jiménez (Narváez). (56,000). Peralta, Mil ......................................... 83
Ray, Tor .............................................. 69 WP: Bender. T: 3:41. A: 5,385 (21,050). ans. T: 2:49. A: 19,289 (50,445). WP: Richards, Yardley. Woodruff, Mil ..................................... 83
THURSDAY, JUNE 3 , 2021 . THE WASHINGTON POST
Duke will miss its Hall of Fame coach. Many more of us will miss him as a person.
I first met Mike
Krzyzewski in
1976 when he was
the coach at Army
and I was a Duke
undergraduate.
John He and Jim
Feinstein Valvano — then
the coach at Iona
— thought I did a pretty good
Dean Smith impersonation. Little
did either of them know how
important Smith would become
in their lives. Little did I know
how important they would
become in mine.
With Krzyzewski set to retire
next season after 42 years as
Duke’s basketball coach, my most
vivid memory is from March
1983, when very few people
thought he was going to end up
becoming one of college
basketball’s iconic figures, with
five national championships and
a record 1,170 victories. It was a
miserable, rainy night in Atlanta,
and Duke had lost to Virginia,
109-66, in the ACC tournament to
finish 11-17 and bring
Krzyzewski’s three-season mark
with the Blue Devils to 38-47.
Two hours later, I was sitting in
Atlanta’s Omni watching
Maryland play Georgia Tech in
the final game of the night when
Bobby Dwyer, then a Krzyzewski
assistant, approached me and my
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looked like relics from the 1970s,
Krzyzewski’s hiring came as a
surprise as he spelled out his
name from the lectern and the
student newspaper Duke Chron-
icle would blare, “Krzyzewski:
This is not a typo.”
Forty-one years on, his pend-
ing retirement counts as the
dislodging of basketball bedrock,
especially factoring in his over-
sight of U.S. Olympic men’s bas-
ketball gold medals in 2008, 2012
and 2016. In fact, it completes
the remaking of an entire chunk
of basketball terrain.
Just this past April 1, Krzyze-
wski expressed “surprise” and
then admiration upon the an-
nouncement that Roy Williams
would retire after 18 seasons
and three national titles at
North Carolina, the other half of
the tempestuous rivalry of pro-
grams eight miles apart. “We
have all benefited from his lon-
gevity in and commitment to
coaching,” Krzyzewski stated of
Williams.
In both jarring cases, the pro-
grams have tapped replacements
from within their own folds.
North Carolina replaced Wil-
liams with Hubert Davis, a
51-year-old assistant under Wil-
liams who played for North Caro-
lina from 1988 to 1992. Duke will
replace Krzyzewski with Jon
Scheyer, a 33-year-old assistant
Santangelo remains o≠ the air after anonymous accusations of sexual misconduct
MASN FROM D1
Nationals await the results of an
MLB investigation that is not
guaranteed to bring any more
clarity to what already has been
made public. Even then, MLB’s
authority is limited to issuing a
recommendation because San-
tangelo is an employee of MASN.
MASN is jointly owned by the
Nationals and Baltimore Orioles
but controlled by the Orioles.
The Nationals, however, have
significant say in their on-air
talent, including veto power over
who calls their games.
Those decisions are made in
the upper levels of the Nationals
organization and involve multi-
ple people, including ownership,
according to people familiar with
the decision-making process. No
one from the team agreed to be
interviewed about Santangelo.
“The Nationals take all allega-
tions of sexual assault very seri-
ously and continue to call on
MASN — his employer — to
conduct a thorough investiga-
tion,” a Nationals spokeswoman
said in a statement.
John McGuinness, a senior
vice president at MASN, oversees
talent at the network, according
to a person with knowledge of
the situation. The network did
not confirm McGuinness’s role
and did not make him available
to comment.
“MASN takes any such allega-
tion seriously, which is why we
immediately notified MLB,” a
MASN spokesman said in a state-
ment. “Especially when dealing
with anonymous and uncorrobo-
rated allegations, due process to
protect the privacy of all in-
volved is critical. That’s why it
was so surprising that the Na-
tionals would be so public in
their accusations, even as MLB
good friend Keith Drum, who was
then the sports editor of the
Durham Morning Herald.
“You guys have to come out to
the hotel when this game’s over,”
he said to Drum and me.
“Why?” we both asked.
“Because [Mike’s wife] Mickie
is in the room crying, convinced
Mike’s getting fired,” Dwyer said.
“The alumni are all over [Duke
Athletic Director] Tom Butters in
the lobby, screaming that he has
to fire Mike right now or they’ll
never give the school another
penny. Mike’s got to get out of the
hotel. You have to come and
convince him to get out of there.”
After Drum and I finished
writing, we rode with Dwyer to
Duke’s hotel on the Atlanta
perimeter. From there, we went
to a nearby Denny’s. Water was
served. Tom Mickle, Duke’s sports
information director, picked up a
glass and said, “Here’s to
forgetting tonight.”
Krzyzewski picked up his glass
and said, “Here’s to never f---ing
forgetting tonight.”
Duke beat Virginia the next
16 times they played, beginning
the next season when it went
24-10 and began the remarkable
string of seasons that put
Krzyzewski on college coaching’s
Mount Rushmore with John
Wooden, Dean Smith and Bob
under Krzyzewski who played for
Duke from 2006 to 2010, includ-
ing on Duke’s 2010 national
champions, the fourth of Krzyze-
wski’s five. Meanwhile, the tent
area in which Duke students
camp for game seats in little
Cameron Indoor Stadium will
figure to retain forever the name
on its stately street sign: Krzyze-
wskiville.
Such signage would have
seemed absurd to almost every-
one in 1980, as would the idea
that Krzyzewski, age 33 in 1980
just like Scheyer today, would
become known by a sobriquet as
familiar as “Coach K.” With
North Carolina coach and titan
Dean Smith just 49 years old
back then, Krzyzewski took up
shop in quite a shadow, even
given a Duke program Bill Foster
had shepherded to the national
title game in 1978 and that had
just finished going to its sixth
Elite Eight before Foster left for a
South Carolina program seem-
ingly more sprawling in possibil-
ity.
Onlookers had speculated as
to Foster’s replacement and were
stunned to find their specula-
tions amiss. Here came a fright-
fully young coach who had
played point guard for Bob
Knight at Army from 1966 to
1969, served in the Army from
1969 to 1974, assisted Knight at
Indiana in 1974-75 and coached
five seasons at West Point from
continues its investigation.”
Santangelo did not respond to
several messages seeking com-
ment. In a previous statement,
he said the misconduct allega-
tions were “untrue and did not
happen.” “This is not representa-
tive of who I am as a man or a
professional,” he said in the
statement. “I am confident that
my name and reputation will be
fully cleared.”
‘On my way to the ballpark’
The matter began in late April,
when an allegation of sexual
misconduct against Santangelo
surfaced on two now-defunct
Instagram accounts that offered
forums for others to anonymous-
ly air allegations about men and
their conduct. When Nationals
officials learned of the allega-
tion, they emailed a screenshot
of it to MASN, according to
multiple people familiar with the
events, and told the network they
were revoking their approval of
Santangelo. At that point, MASN
alerted MLB, people with knowl-
edge of the process said.
These individuals, like others
interviewed for this article,
spoke on the condition of ano-
nymity because neither MASN
nor the Nationals authorized
them to talk about the situation.
Santangelo was not on the
broadcast for three games of a
weekend series against the Mi-
ami Marlins from April 30 to
May 2. At the time, neither the
network nor the team offered
any explanation for his absence.
Santangelo denied the allega-
tion to MASN, according to mul-
tiple people familiar with the
conversations. MASN would not
identify who from the network
spoke to Santangelo or what
other steps were taken to investi-
gate.
Knight, Krzyzewski’s mentor.
Krzyzewski never forgot that
trip to the Denny’s. He would
often bring it up as the night
when he realized that if he
wanted to succeed at his job, he
had to be better. Duke started
four freshmen that season:
Johnny Dawkins, Mark Alarie,
David Henderson and Jay Bilas. A
talented point guard named
Tommy Amaker was going to be a
freshman the following fall. At
one point, when Dwyer pointed
out that Tom Sheehey, a hard-
nosed forward who had orally
committed to Virginia, still
hadn’t signed and might still be
recruitable, Krzyzewski shook his
head vehemently.
“First of all, we don’t do that,”
he said. “Second, if we don’t win
with these four freshmen and
Amaker next season, we should
get fired.”
Krzyzewski graduated from
West Point, where the only three
answers a plebe was allowed to
give an upperclassman were: yes,
sir; no, sir; no excuse, sir. He once
told a story about his roommate
splashing mud on his boots while
they were walking to class. Sure
enough, an upperclassman
showed up a minute later and
began screaming at Krzyzewski
about his boots.
“No excuse, sir,” he kept
Mike Krzyzewski, left, passed his mentor Bob Knight in 2011 as the
all-time winningest coach in Division I men’s college basketball.
1975 to 1980, with one fleeting
NIT berth in that mix.
“For the sake of accuracy, if
indeed accuracy means any-
thing, the job was not offered to
someone else,” Duke Athletic Di-
rector Tom Butters said that day,
in footage from WFMY-TV. “He is
my first choice. And he will
remain my first choice.”
Things did worsen. Duke went
17-13, 10-17 and 11-17 in Krzyzew-
ski’s first three seasons, the third
Analyst F.P. Santangelo has been absent from MASN’s broadcasts
of Nationals games amid recent allegations of sexual misconduct.
Around the same time, both
Instagram accounts were taken
down. MASN sent the Nationals
a letter that indicated it had
completed its investigation and
had decided to allow Santangelo
to return. The Nationals then
reinstated their approval, and he
returned to the booth to call
games against the Atlanta Braves
on May 4 and 5. “On my way to
the ballpark,” Santangelo wrote
on Twitter on May 4. “Can’t wait
to see everyone tonight!” The
Nationals-Braves game May 6
aired on YouTube; Santangelo
was not part of it, though his
name had been included on a
promotional news release.
On May 6, another Instagram
account, similar in nature to the
earlier two, posted an allegation
that was similar to the first. The
similarities suggested it could be
the same accuser and allegation,
but the posts were not identical
enough for the Nationals to feel
certain.
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repeating.
“The thing is, there was no
excuse,” he said, years later. “I
didn’t react when the mud got on
the boots. I should have turned,
run back to the barracks and
gotten a different pair of boots.
Instead, I kept going, hoping I
wouldn’t get caught.”
That’s the way he always
coached: no excuse, sir. If we
aren’t good enough to win with
the guys we recruited, we should
get fired. If we lose to Wagner, it’s
on the coach for not getting the
players ready to play. If we lose to
UNLV in the national
championship game by a record
30 points, Jerry Tarkanian did a
much better job coaching.
Still, losing infuriated him.
After losing a close game in 1984
to a North Carolina team led by
Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins,
he screamed that there was a
double standard in the ACC when
it came to officiating: one for
Dean Smith and one for everyone
else.
Smith was furious, and years
later, Krzyzewski realized he was
right. “The officials didn’t beat us
that night,” he said. “Michael
Jordan did.”
By that point, coaches and
media and fans insisted there was
a double standard in the ACC and
the beneficiary was Krzyzewski.
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closing with a 109-66 loss to
Ralph Sampson’s Virginia in the
1983 ACC tournament. But even
in the hard, demanding waters of
the ACC — North Carolina State
would win the 1983 national title
— Butters extended Krzyzewski,
especially with a promising
quartet of freshmen already en-
rolled and dribbling around.
The treks those freshmen had
made to reach Durham already
reflected Krzyzewski’s capacity
JOSHUA YOSPYN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
According to a person with
direct knowledge of the situa-
tion, the Nationals called and
emailed network representatives
May 7, informing them the team
had revoked its approval again
until the new post could be
investigated. According to a Na-
tionals spokeswoman, MASN ig-
nored the organization’s request
and allowed Santangelo to
broadcast that night’s game.
A MASN spokesman coun-
tered that the Nationals made
the request to remove Santange-
lo shortly before the May 7 game
began, and it was not feasible to
find a replacement announcer.
The next day, May 8, the spokes-
man said, the network was trying
to gather more information.
That day, when Santangelo
arrived at Nationals Park for an
afternoon broadcast, Nationals
staff turned him away at the
parking garage, according to
multiple people with knowledge
of the incident. Later that eve-
He bridled at the idea but never
lost his sense of humor about it.
I asked him once on a radio
show how his team looked in late
October. “We played with officials
in practice for the first time
yesterday,” he said. “We were
awful, fouling on every play.”
“Yeah, but the officials didn’t
call it right?” I said. “They never
call fouls on Duke.”
“I know,” he laughed. “All the
games we’ve won, the
championships, it’s only because
we get all the calls.”
You have to get a lot of calls to
win 1,170 games.
He will turn 75 in February,
and he knows it’s time. There’s
certainly nothing left to prove. I
know this past season wore him
out mentally and physically. If
not for the pandemic, he might
have retired this past March. Now
he will go out after a complete
season with fans in the stands
and — he hopes — one last good
team.
Of all the words spilled on
Krzyzewski, the best line I ever
heard was from Bilas, who was a
graduate assistant while going to
law school after being the
starting center on Krzyzewski’s
first Final Four team in 1986.
Bilas said, “When you sit in the
room with him for hours and
hours as an assistant and you
to pull prized recruits from all
around the country toward Duke
and its academics. Johnny Dawk-
ins hailed from Washington
(Mackin Catholic). Mark Alarie
came from Phoenix. Jay Bilas
traveled from Rolling Hills Es-
tates, Calif. Only David Hender-
son came from inside North
Carolina (Warrenton).
“I went there because of him,”
Bilas, nowadays an ESPN ana-
lyst, said Wednesday in a tele-
phone interview. “That was the
only reason. I had no commit-
ment to Duke [otherwise]. I went
there because I liked him the
best of all the coaches who
recruited me.”
Why? “I just trusted him from
the jump,” Bilas said. “He was
sincere and easy to get to know.”
Bilas soon added: “It was just a
feeling after spending a lot of
time with him. I knew. And I
never wavered.”
By 1986, those four and their
teammates appeared in a tight
national title game, losing, 72-69,
to Pervis Ellison’s Louisville. By
1988, Duke began a string of five
consecutive Final Four appear-
ances, reaching the closing Mon-
day thrice (1990-92) and the top
of the net-cutting ladder twice
(1991-92).
By the 21st century, Duke had
reached a rarefied perch of
coast-to-coast identity, which
came with its share of disap-
proval that might have found its
ning, the Athletic published a
story in which Santangelo’s ac-
cuser, who was not identified,
detailed her allegations.
Shortly after the story pub-
lished, the team and the network
acknowledged publicly for the
first time the reason for Santan-
gelo’s absence.
The Nationals offered a state-
ment that called the alleged
conduct “inconsistent with our
values as an organization” and
made clear that they “revoked
our approval of him as a member
of our broadcast team.”
In its statement, MASN said it
had referred the matter to MLB
as part of the network’s standing
policy that it “refers allegations
concerning broadcasters who are
former Major League Baseball
Players directly to Major League
Baseball’s Department of Investi-
gations, as is appropriate under
the circumstances.
“MASN followed that policy in
this instance, previously appris-
ing MLB of this matter such that
the league might adequately re-
view it. Those former Major
Leaguers acting as on-air media
analysts on the network appear
only with the advice and consent
of the clubs and MLB.”
MLB’s Department of Investi-
gations is headed by Bryan See-
ley, a senior vice president and
deputy general counsel. MLB
declined to make anyone from
that department available to
comment. MLB has attempted to
reach the accuser, according to a
person outside the league office
with knowledge of the situation.
A fraught relationship
From the beginning, the rela-
tionship between MASN and the
Nationals, which was part of the
deal to move a franchise to D.C.
in 2005, has been fraught. As
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listen to what he’s saying, you
eventually figure something out:
None of this is an accident. He is
the smartest guy in the room.”
He’s also the best guy in the
room. On the night of my father’s
funeral in February 2006, Duke
played at North Carolina —
9 p.m. tip-off, of course. I came
home just before the game
started and fell asleep watching. I
woke up with about a minute to
go and Duke hanging on to a
narrow lead. When the game
ended, a four-point Duke win, I
sat down at my desk, too wired to
sleep.
Not long after midnight, the
phone rang. I picked up thinking
it would be my brother or sister.
“I figured you’d still be up.”
It was Krzyzewski.
“Hey, nice win,” I said.
“I just called because I wanted
you to know when I stepped into
our last huddle, I looked up at the
sky and said, ‘Martin, this one’s
for you.’ ”
I have no idea how he knew my
dad’s name was Martin. But he
did because his heart is as big as
his mind is sharp.
Duke will miss him. College
basketball will miss him more.
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essence when Norman Chad
wrote: “Duke, Duke, Duke,
Duke, Duke. Why always Duke?”
The Blue Devils have coursed on
through accusations of smug-
ness and won 1,097 games under
Krzyzewski, the winningest
coach in the sport’s history at
1,170. Before their absence from
the 2021 NCAA tournament
came as extremely aberrant,
they won further national titles
in 2001, 2010 and 2015, the final
one under the newfangled one-
and-done fashion, with stars
Jahlil Okafor from Chicago, Jus-
tise Winslow from Houston and
Tyus Jones from the suburbs of
Minnesota’s Twin Cities all re-
maining at Duke for only that
one season.
It all fit with a general descrip-
tion Bilas noted about Krzyzew-
ski: his refusal to succumb to
complaints about life’s changes.
“He doesn’t complain about the
way things are,” Bilas said, soon
saying, “He always adapts to the
way things are.” By spring 2021,
the NBA playoffs began with
13 former Duke players on the
16 rosters.
Of the news of Wednesday,
Bilas said: “I’ve been realistic. I
knew this day was coming,” even
if he went on to say he never
would have imagined back in
1982 that his 35-year-old coach
would coach all the way to 74
with one year left.
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part of that deal, MASN owns the
Nationals’ TV rights in perpetu-
ity, as payment to the Orioles for
sharing their geographic terri-
tory.
The Nationals agreed to the
arrangement, but they have
grown frustrated with the way
the Orioles run the network and
see their inability to sell TV
rights on the open market as a
competitive disadvantage. The
team has sued MASN for mil-
lions of dollars in rights fees it
believes it is owed, and the
lawsuit remains unresolved.
The sides also publicly sparred
ahead of spring training this
year, when MASN cut ties with
three Nationals commentators —
pre- and postgame show hosts
Dan Kolko and Bo Porter and
sideline reporter Alex Chappell.
The Nationals were upset the
changes would negatively impact
the quality of their broadcasts
and accused MASN of planning
to cut pre- and postgame shows
from 30 to 15 minutes. The
Nationals ultimately hired Kolko
to work on the MASN telecasts,
and the pre- and postgame
shows have remained 30 min-
utes.
The Nationals have removed
their broadcasters in the past. In
2010, when former major league
reliever Rob Dibble, who was
then the team’s color commenta-
tor, criticized the toughness of
Stephen Strasburg — saying,
among other things, “Suck it up,
kid,” on his radio show — the
Nationals decided to revoke their
approval of Dibble.
Dibble appeared on only one
more game broadcast that year;
Santangelo took over for him the
following spring.
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Basking in jeers, Young guides Atlanta to series-clinching win at New York
HAWKS 103,
KNICKS 89
A SSOCIATED P RESS
Trae Young put the finishing
touches on his impressive first
playoff series with 36 points and
nine assists, and the visiting At-
lanta Hawks beat the New York
Knicks, 103-89, on Wednesday
night in Game 5.
Clint Capela backed up his con-
fident words from a day earlier
with 14 points and 15 rebounds for
the Hawks, who will play the top-
seeded Philadelphia 76ers in their
first trip to the Eastern Confer-
ence semifinals since 2016. That
series begins Sunday.
Young never looked like a play-
off rookie, hitting the winning
shot with 0.9 seconds left in the
opener and scoring at least
20 points in every game. He made
a three-pointer with 43 seconds
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With Brooks’s deal up, the Wizards face a key decision with Game 5 loss to 76ers
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crossed, stood on the sideline
and watched his team lose to
the Philadelphia 76ers in the
first round of the playoffs, a
question had to be considered.
Did Brooks give himself a
chance to return as the Wizards’
coach?
“I don’t worry about my
position,” Brooks said to one of
the many postgame questions
about his future. “I worry about
doing my job.”
Brooks, 55, has reached the
end of his contract, a five-year
deal that reportedly was worth
$35 million. He largely spent
that time creating Frankenstein
lineups — first from aging,
overpaid and underperforming
rosters, then with players who
could legally toast big victories
only with milk. Even as the
roster changed, injuries
remained the consistent thread.
He coached a healthy John Wall
for one season. And this season,
he couldn’t coach at all for
10 days after covid-19 ravaged
the locker room.
“You guys know a lot of things
that happened but not all the
things that happened,” Brooks
said, reviewing the 2020-2021
season. “And we just kept
fighting and fighting.”
Majority owner Ted Leonsis
hasn’t tipped his hand on how
he examines a half-decade of
Brooks, who has had a longer
tenure than all but three
coaches in team history.
Will Leonsis look at those five
seasons and celebrate the three
playoff appearances? Or cringe
over the fact that his franchise
finished better than .500 only
twice during this time?
Will he delight in the
evolution of Bradley Beal as an
all-NBA-caliber player and the
progress of second-year player
Rui Hachimura? Or detect a
regression in the Wizards’
defense?
“We start every season with
every one of our teams as we
have to make the playoffs. If we
can make the playoffs, then you
can aspire to winning a
championship,” Leonsis said
during a May 14 news
conference.
Expecting the playoffs for
these Wizards, even after they
acquired Russell Westbrook in a
trade for Wall, seemed
unrealistic. The roster was
constructed with veteran guards
but little experience on the
wing. Nothing about the roster
inspired visions of a
championship parade down
Constitution Avenue.
In the season tip-off against
the 76ers, Washington paired its
dynamic backcourt with
Thomas Bryant, rookie Deni
Avdija and Isaac Bonga. On
their final night of the season,
again facing the 76ers — who
emerged as the top team in the
East — Bryant (left ACL injury)
was not with the team, Avdija
(right fibular hairline fracture)
did not play, and Bonga only
checked in for garbage minutes
at the end of a 129-112 loss.
Yet the Wizards made the
playoffs as the eighth seed, even
after collapsing at one point to a
season-worst 15 games under
.500 at 17-32. Washington had a
0.4 percent chance to make the
playoffs. Those odds, however,
were helped by their remaining
opponents. By the end of March,
the Wizards had the easiest
strength of schedule, according
to the website tankathon.com.
left for a 15-point lead, then stood
at midcourt and bowed to the
crowd that jeered him all series.
“Leading up to this game, I
know where we are, I know there’s
a bunch of shows around this city
and I know what they do when the
show is over,” Young said.
The profane chants toward the
point guard were less frequent
than in the first two games. Young
was never rattled by the fans, one
of whom was banned after spitting
on him in Game 2.
Now Young has silenced them
for the summer.
Julius Randle had 23 points and
13 rebounds for the Knicks to fin-
ish his disappointing first postsea-
son. The winner of the NBA’s most
improved player award shot 8 for
21 from the field and finished
28 for 94 (29.8 percent) in the
series.
He led the Knicks to a 41-31
record in their first season under
Tom Thibodeau, with a pair of
40-point games during a three-
Season comes to an end
Wizards guard Bradley Beal, left, described Washington’s Scott Brooks as a “true players’ coach.”
“Me personally, I don’t think Scott should go anywhere,” Wizards
point guard Russell Westbrook, right, said of Brooks, center.
Facing non-playoff teams
such as the Oklahoma City
Thunder, the Charlotte Hornets
(twice) and the Cleveland
Cavaliers (three times!) had
something to do with the
Wizards finishing the season
17-6. So did Westbrook gobbling
up triple-doubles and Beal going
for the scoring crown. But
coaching played a role, too, and
Brooks was the Eastern
Conference coach of the month
for April after directing his
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game season sweep of Atlanta. But
the Hawks were by far the better
team in this series, with only a
poor second half of Game 2 keep-
ing them from a sweep.
“It’s tough for me to process
that right now the way things end-
ed, but we’ll be back,” Randle said.
The win continued a strong
surge for the Hawks, who went
27-11 after March 1, when Lloyd
Pierce was fired and replaced by
interim coach Nate McMillan.
l JAZZ 126, GRIZZLIES 110:
Donovan Mitchell scored 26 of his
30 points in the first half, and Utah
advanced to the second round,
beating Memphis at home in
Game 5.
Mitchell also had 10 assists and
six rebounds in 29 minutes, get-
ting a little rest before the Jazz
faces the winner of the Los Ange-
les Clippers-Dallas Mavericks
matchup.
Jordan Clarkson scored
24 points, Rudy Gobert had
23 points and 15 rebounds and
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team’s resurgence.
In Game 5, Brooks rolled up
the sleeves to his gray pullover
as if he wanted to insert himself
during the first quarter. Such
intensity is one of the reasons
he didn’t lose the locker room
and why his team didn’t roll
over at the start of this game,
when it built a seven-point lead.
Beal described Brooks as
“true players’ coach.”
Westbrook, too, spoke up as a
Brooks ally.
Bojan Bogdanovic added 17 points
to help power the top-seeded Jazz
to its fourth straight victory.
Memphis’s three stars were ef-
fective on offense but got little
help from the supporting cast. Ja
Morant finished his first playoff
series with 27 points and 11 assists.
Dillon Brooks also had 27 points,
and Jonas Valanciunas added 18.
The Jazz scored on 16 of 19
possessions to start the game,
highlighted by shooting 8 for 10
from three-point range. Mitchell
scored 14 points in six minutes,
and the Jazz led 47-27 at the end of
the first quarter.
Clarkson’s three-pointer mid-
way through the third quarter gave
the Jazz its largest lead at 91-56.
Celtics shake up front office
Danny Ainge, who helped bring
two NBA titles to Boston as a
player and another as the team’s
basketball boss, stepped down
from the Celtics’ front office just
hours after they were eliminated
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Wizards vs. 76ers
76ers win series, 4-1
Game 1: 76ers 125, Wizards 118
Game 2: 76ers 120, Wizards 95
Game 3: 76ers 132, Wizards 103
Game 4: Wizards 122, 76ers 114
Game 5: 76ers 129, Wizards 112
“Me personally, I don’t think
Scott should go anywhere,” said
Westbrook, who previously
played under Brooks in
Oklahoma City. “When I got
here, I was able to see it first
hand. He’s the same Coach
Brooks. He brings intensity, he
brings the effort like he was
playing, but he’s the coach.”
Under Brooks, the Wizards’
defense hovered around the
lower tier in the league. The
franchise’s winning percentage
deadened at .469 (183-207
overall). His winning percentage
was slightly worse than that of
his predecessor, Randy
Wittman, who also won more
playoff games in fewer chances.
But by rallying from irrelevance
in this turbulent season and
advancing to the playoffs,
reaching the yearly goal shared
by his boss, Brooks gave the
Wizards a chance. Now Leonsis
will have to decide whether
that’s good enough.
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from the postseason, and coach
Brad Stevens gave up his job on
the bench to replace him.
Stevens will lead the search for
his successor, the Celtics said in a
news conference Wednesday. He
leaves as the fourth-winningest
coach in franchise history but one
who failed to hang a champion-
ship banner from the rafters.
“Hiring a new coach will give us
a great opportunity to hire some-
body that will be . . . a new, fresh
voice with a new, fresh perspec-
tive,” Stevens said. “They don’t
have to fill Doc Rivers’s shoes, like
I did. And they don’t have to fill
Danny Ainge’s shoes, like I do.
They just have to figure out a way
to be better than the last guy.”
Stevens, who left Butler in 2013
after leading the Bulldogs to back-
to-back trips to the NCAA champi-
onship game, ends his only NBA
coaching job with a 354-282 rec-
ord that included three trips to the
conference finals in the previous
four years.
WIZARDS FROM D1
Philadelphia team that was deep-
er, more consistent and more en-
ergized than Washington — even
without its best player.
The Wizards, who were with-
out three-point specialist Davis
Bertans (right calf strain), have
relied on their role players step-
ping up to turn in star perform-
ances in support of centerpieces
Bradley Beal and Russell West-
brook.
But in front of a sellout crowd of
15,523, Beal and Westbrook were
chucking up shots by themselves,
receiving only piecemeal help.
That, plus 15 turnovers, put the lid
on a tumultuous season that
nonetheless had both guards ex-
pressing pride for their team-
mates and Coach Scott Brooks.
“For the most part it was just
reemphasizing that nobody
should be holding their heads
down,” Beal said of his season-
ending speech in the locker room.
“. . . Nobody expected us to be
here, and I don’t think anybody
sure enough didn’t think we’d
take them to five. I still, strongly in
my heart, believe we could’ve tak-
en them to seven.”
The futures of Beal and Brooks
are the two largest questions
looming over this Wizards offsea-
son.
Beal, 27, becomes a free agent a
year from now when his two-year,
$72 million extension from 2019
runs out, but he could ask for a
trade before then. Although the
all-star guard expressed no inter-
est in leaving the team through-
out the season, according to mul-
tiple people with knowledge of
Beal’s situation, he made it clear at
the start of the year that he want-
ed the Wizards to prove they could
be a winning organization.
Asked whether the Wizards’
short playoff run was enough to
entice him to stay, Beal said he had
not yet thought about his future
with the organization but he was
pleased with the way Washington
competed.
“The biggest thing for me is we
battled the whole year. We didn’t
start off the year the way we want-
ed to. It was frustrating all
around,” Beal said. “. . . For me, I
think we just best put ourselves in
a position to win. We made do
with what we had at times.”
Brooks, 55, had the same mes-
sage for his players after what was
at times an excruciating year. The
Wizards had seven players test
positive for the coronavirus in
January and lost starting center
Thomas Bryant to an ACL tear.
The coach wrapped up the final
season of his five-year deal by
leading Washington through a
stunning turnaround in the latter
half of the season that made the
team one of the most compelling
stories in the league for a time.
“I’m proud of our guys. I talked
to them after the game. Russell
and Bradley spoke up,” Brooks
said. “They nailed it. It was spot
on — we should be proud of what
we accomplished. We had a lot of
stuff happen to us. We made a
transition a couple of years ago,
[General Manager] Tommy Shep-
pard] took over, and we [wanted]
to change things up. I know it’s
working. What Russell and Brad
said, it’s definitely right where we
need to go.
“You guys know a lot of things
that happened but not all the
things that happened. It’s pretty
incredible that we just kept fight-
ing and fighting and plugging
away and not making any excuses
— because we had a lot of excuses
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This season’s team flirted with a
top-four seed in the East before it
lost 10 of its last 15 games and fell
into the play-in round. The moves
came about 12 hours after the Celt-
ics lost to the Brooklyn Nets in
Game 5 of their first-round playoff
series.
Ainge, 62, won championships
with the Celtics as a player in 1984
and 1986 and took over as the
president of basketball operations
in 2003. He was voted the league’s
top executive in 2008, when Bos-
ton won its 17th championship —
a record that has since been tied by
the Los Angeles Lakers.
He said that after having a heart
attack two years ago, “I started
thinking about what I was doing
with my life.”
l PISTONS: Detroit hired John
Beilein as a senior adviser for play-
er development, saying the hope is
that the former Cleveland Cava-
liers and Michigan coach can help
the young team maximize its po-
tential.
76ers 129, Wizards 112
Washington ........................ 29 34 31 18 — 112
Philadelphia ........................ 29 36 38 26 — 129
WASHINGTON MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS
Beal 39:41 10-23 10-10 3-7 5 2 32
Hachimura 42:39 8-13 4-5 1-6 2 3 21
Gafford 28:44 3-4 2-4 1-7 0 5 8
Neto 29:36 3-6 0-0 0-0 3 4 8
Westbrook
Smith
37:56 7-20 8-10 2-8 10 4 24
25:37 4-8 0-0 0-4 2 4 9
Lopez 17:10 3-4 1-2 0-2 0 1 7
Gill 10:37 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 4 0
Mathews 3:00 0-0 1-2 0-1 0 3 1
Bonga 1:40 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Hutchison 1:40 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 2
Len 1:40 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
TOTALS 240 39-79 26-33 7-38 22 30 112
Percentages: FG .494, FT .788. 3-Point Goals: 8-20, .400
(Neto 2-3, Westbrook 2-5, Beal 2-7, Smith 1-2, Hachimu-
ra 1-3). Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: None.
Blocked Shots: 3 (Gafford 2, Lopez). Turnovers: 15 (Beal
5, Westbrook 4, Gafford 2, Gill 2, Smith 2). Steals: 4
(Gafford 2, Neto, Smith). Technical Fouls: None.
PHILADELPHIA MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS
Green
Harris
29:13 2-7 0-0 1-4 2 1
36:39 9-17 8-10 0-9 6 3 28
5
Simmons 39:00 7-11 5-8 2-10 11 4 19
Curry 30:58 10-17 7-7 0-0 2 3 30
Thybulle 16:27 3-5 0-0 0-0 0 4 7
Maxey 26:28 6-14 1-2 0-6 2 2 13
Howard 15:58 2-2 8-10 4-8 2 4 12
Korkmaz 14:23 4-8 0-0 0-1 0 0 10
Hill 14:07 0-0 2-2 1-2 2 1 2
Milton 6:46 0-1 2-2 0-0 0 1 2
Scott 5:01 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 1 0
Joe 1:40 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Reed 1:40 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Tucker 1:40 0-0 1-2 0-0 0 1 1
TOTALS 240 43-84 34-43 8-40 28 25 129
Percentages: FG .512, FT .791. 3-Point Goals: 9-27, .333
(Curry 3-6, Harris 2-5, Korkmaz 2-5, Thybulle 1-3, Green
1-5, Scott 0-1, Maxey 0-2). Team Rebounds: 12. Team
Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 6 (Howard 3, Simmons 2,
Harris). Turnovers: 8 (Simmons 4, Curry 2, Hill, Howard).
Steals: 9 (Harris 3, Green 2, Hill, Maxey, Simmons,
Thybulle). Technical Fouls: None.
A: 15,523 (20,478).
to make. They did, I did, but we
never let each other do that, and
that’s what I love about the group.
There was no drama. No drama.
We were just ballers, man.”
Wednesday’s Game 5 stayed
tight until the third quarter.
Philadelphia grabbed a double-
digit lead for the first time near
the end of the period, by which
point it looked prepared to settle
in for a shootout. The buckets
came fast and furious, first a layup
from Ben Simmons to push the
lead to 11 with 1:05 left in the third,
countered by a jumper from Rui
Hachimura. Howard dunked and
Ish Smith responded with a three
only for Korkmaz to answer with a
three of his own.
By then, a familiar issue had
crept in: Beal and Westbrook were
the only players shooting at vol-
ume, and even their considerable
firepower couldn’t match Phila-
delphia’s. Washington ended up
shooting 49.4 percent from the
field, including 40 percent from
three, but it wasn’t enough.
Beal, who led the Wizards with
32 points on 10-for-23 shooting
from the field, had three pivotal
turnovers in the quarter.
Westbrook, playing for the
third straight game on a right
ankle sprain, ended the game with
24 points on 7-for-20 shooting
from the field. He added 10 assists
and eight rebounds. Hachimura
worked his way to 21 points, but
his scoring came too late to help
the Wizards seize momentum
when it mattered.
Embiid missed the game with a
lateral meniscus tear in his right
knee and is listed as day-to-day,
with Philadelphia Coach Doc Riv-
ers adding before the game that
he is hopeful Embiid could return
during the playoffs. The 76ers will
meet the Atlanta Hawks in the
conference semifinals after Atlan-
ta eliminated New York in five
games.
Curry stepped up in Embiid’s
stead to score 30 points on a
10-for-17 shooting performance,
and Harris added 28.
Simmons chipped in 19 points,
and the 76ers’ bench, including
Howard (12 points, eight re-
bounds), Maxey (13 points) and
Korkmaz (10 points), scored 40.
Beal and Westbrook came out
of the game with 4:13 left to take
their spots on the bench for the
final time this season.
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Young U.S. men’s national team hopes for a growth spurt in Nations League
BY S TEVEN G OFF show it.” get the program back on track. Steffen, 26, the backup goalkeep- Sargent, 21, complete a six-man feat entirely on inexperience. The
The occasion here is the final It also comes in the wake of a er on Champions League runner- base; there have never been more roster included defenders John
denver — Judging by club affili- stages of the Nations League, a U.S. under-23 select team, made up Manchester City, and mid- than four of them in the same Brooks, 28, and DeAndre Yedlin,
ation and youthful wow factor, new competition involving teams up primarily of MLS players, fielder Weston McKennie, 22, a starting lineup. 27, who were on the 2014 World
Coach Gregg Berhalter could the Americans will see again in missing out on an Olympic berth regular with Italian giant Juven- Adams was not in uniform Cup team in Brazil; Sebastian
make a solid case his U.S. men’s the 2022 World Cup qualifiers this year. tus. Sunday because of injury and Lletget, 28, who has been playing
national soccer team roster for starting this fall. “We have to manage our expec- Weah, 21, won the French seems questionable for the Na- regularly in midfield; and defend-
the Concacaf Nations League is In Thursday’s semifinals at tations because it’s a lot of poten- Ligue 1 championship with Lille, tions League. er Tim Ream, 33.
the strongest in a lifetime. Empower Field at Mile High, the tial and this group hasn’t had and forward Gio Reyna, 18, is a “Once we are able to have that The United States prepared for
Not only are his players em- United States will face Honduras, much time to work together,” prominent figure at German titan time together, we can improve,” the high-altitude Denver tourna-
ployed by some of the sport’s then Mexico will play Costa Rica. defender Reggie Cannon said. Borussia Dortmund. McKennie said. “The great thing ment by training at about
biggest pro brands, they are post- The final and third-place game “We have expectations to win the “Even I feel old!” Weah said of is the way we want to attack, the 5,000 feet in southwest Switzer-
ing robust minutes and winning are scheduled for Sunday. Nations League and simulate last week’s training camp in Swit- way we want to defend, is the land, followed by the friendly at
trophies, and they’re doing it at A trophy is at stake, but of World Cup qualifying. We have a zerland, which included Bayern same no matter who is on the about 2,500 feet in northeast
the age of college students. equal importance is an opportu- lot coming up. Especially with the Munich defender Justin Che, 17, field.” Switzerland.
For all their individual accom- nity for Berhalter to continue young ages, it’s important to find who did not make the Nations Berhalter’s formula has re- Pulisic played about 25 min-
plishments across Europe, melding a squad carrying an am- the solidarity of the group.” League roster. “I feel like this mained consistent: heavy pres- utes at sea level in the Champions
though, the U.S. artists have not plified outlook. Since his appointment in late generation can do big things.” sure on opposing defenders with League final in Porto, Portugal,
won anything of consequence for “These guys are growing,” Ber- 2018, Berhalter has sifted Berhalter’s challenge has been the ball, quick transition from before traveling to Colorado. Al-
their country. On either side of halter said. “The opportunity to through dozens of players in lay- getting key players on the field at defense to attack and an aggres- though altitude and the emotion-
the coronavirus pandemic shut- play in front of fans and compete ing a foundation and building the same time. Pulisic, Dest and sive posture throughout most of al impact from winning the Euro-
down, they have played a whole for a trophy is what we’re looking depth. Eighteen of the 23 named McKennie have played together the match. pean title after a nine-month
lot of friendlies. for. It’s going to be a great feeling.” to the Nations League unit are 25 once, in September 2019 for It does not always work. Swit- season threatened to drain Pulis-
Starting this week, stakes will How Berhalter feels after Sun- or younger, including all for- Dest’s debut. zerland exposed gaps and lapses ic, Berhalter dismissed sugges-
rise — and so, too, will expecta- day will tell a lot about where this wards and all but one midfielder. In a friendly Sunday in Swit- to create a wealth of opportuni- tions he might not play Thursday.
tions. team stands ahead of the qualifi- The group includes forward zerland, Dest and McKennie ties, especially in the second half, “You try telling Christian he
“Coming off the [club] season a ers. After the failure of an older Christian Pulisic, 22, who won the started but Pulisic wasn’t avail- during a 2-1 comeback victory can’t play,” Berhalter said.
lot of these guys have had, the U.S. squad to qualify for the 2018 UEFA Champions League title able because of the Champions that ended the Americans’ nine- steven.goff@washpost.com
fans are going to want to see World Cup, which ended a string with Chelsea on Saturday, and League final a day earlier. Reyna game unbeaten streak. The Swiss
something,” forward Tim Weah of seven appearances, the burden fullback Sergiño Dest, 20, a Bar- and German-based midfielder Ty- could have scored six goals. United States vs. Honduras
said. “We’re just going to have to falls on Berhalter’s young crew to celona regular. It features Zack ler Adams, 22, and forward Josh Berhalter couldn’t pin the de- Today, 7:30 p.m., CBSSN

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NBA playoffs Jazz 126, Grizzlies 110 Stanley Cup playoffs MLS French Open PGA Tour schedule
Memphis ............................. 27 24 25 34 — 110 FIRST ROUND At Stade Roland Garros; in Paris. Sept. 10-13: Safeway Open (Stewart Cink)
FIRST ROUND Utah .................................... 47 28 31 20 — 126 EAST W L T Pts GF GA
Best of seven Purse: $41,905,836 Sept. 17-20: U.S. Open Championship (Bryson DeCham-
Best of seven; x-if necessary New England ......................5 1 2 17 11 7 Surface: Red clay. beau)
MEMPHIS MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS BRUINS ELIMINATED CAPITALS, 4-1 Philadelphia........................4 2 2 14 9 5 Sept. 24-27: Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Champi-
EASTERN CONFERENCE Anderson 18:29 1-5 0-0 0-0 0 1 2 Game 1: at Washington 3, Boston 2 (OT) Orlando City........................3 1 3 12 8 4 MEN’S SINGLES -- SECOND ROUND onship (Hudson Swafford)
Jackson Jr. 29:19 6-11 1-1 2-7 0 4 15 Game 2: Boston 4, at Washington 3 (OT) New York City FC................3 2 2 11 13 7 Alexander Zverev (6), Germany, def. Roman Safiullin, Sept. 25-27: Ryder Cup, Kohler, Wis. (canceled)
76ERS ELIMINATED WIZARDS, 4-1 Valanciunas 27:22 8-13 0-0 2-6 1 4 18 CF Montréal........................3 3 2 11 10 9
Game 3: at Boston 3, Washington 2 (2OT) Russia, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3, 7-6 (7-1); Casper Ruud (15), Oct. 1-4: Sanderson Farms Championship (Sergio
Game 1: at Philadelphia 125, Washington 118 Brooks 40:14 9-18 6-7 1-5 3 0 27 Columbus............................3 2 2 11 7 6 Garcia)
Game 4: at Boston 4, Washington 1 Norway, def. Kamil Majchrzak, Poland, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4;
Game 2: at Philadelphia 120, Washington 95 Morant 40:14 11-22 0-0 2-7 11 0 27 Nashville.............................2 0 5 11 9 6 Oct. 8-11: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open (Martin
Game 5: Boston 3, at Washington 1 Federico Delbonis, Argentina, def. Pablo Andujar, Spain,
Game 3: Philadelphia 132, at Washington 103 Bane 23:23 2-6 0-0 0-3 4 0 5 Atlanta ...............................2 1 4 10 9 7 Laird)
Game 4: at Washington 122, Philadelphia 114 4-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; Laslo Djere, Serbia, def. Miomir
Melton 17:20 2-6 1-1 0-3 1 2 6 HURRICANES ELIMINATED PREDATORS, 4-2 New York ............................3 4 0 9 10 10 Kecmanovic, Serbia, 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3; Henri Oct. 15-18: CJ Cup Shadow Creek (Jason Kokrak)
Game 5: at Philadelphia 129, Washington 112 Jones 16:58 2-6 0-0 0-2 2 0 4 Game 1: at Carolina 5, Nashville 2 D.C. United .........................3 5 0 9 8 11 Oct. 22-25: ZOZO Championship Sherwood (Patrick
Laaksonen, Switzerland, def. Roberto Bautista Agut
Allen 15:29 1-4 0-0 1-3 0 1 2 Game 2: at Carolina 3, Nashville 0 Inter Miami CF....................2 4 2 8 8 13 (11), Spain, 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Fabio Fognini (27), Italy, Cantlay)
NETS ELIMINATED CELTICS, 4-1 Clarke 2:48 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 2 Toronto FC..........................1 4 2 5 8 12
Game 3: at Nashville 5, Carolina 4 (2OT) def. Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, 7-6 (8-6), 6-1, 6-2; John Oct. 29-Nov. 1: World Golf Championships-HSBC
Game 1: at Brooklyn 104, Boston 93 Konchar 2:48 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Chicago ...............................1 5 1 4 4 11
Game 4: at Nashville 4, Carolina 3 (2OT) Isner (31), United States, def. Filip Krajinovic, Serbia, Champions, Shanghai (canceled)
Game 2: at Brooklyn 130, Boston 108 Tillman 2:48 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 2 Cincinnati ...........................1 4 1 4 6 15
Game 5: at Carolina 3, Nashville 2 (OT) 7-6 (8-6), 6-1, 7-6 (7-5); Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Oct. 29-Nov. 1: Bermuda Championship (Brian Gay)
Game 3: at Boston 125, Brooklyn 119 Winslow 2:48 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 0 0 Game 6: Carolina 4, at Nashville 3 (OT) Spain, def. Botic van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, 6-4, Nov. 5-8: Houston Open (Carlos Ortiz)
Game 4: Brooklyn 141, at Boston 126
Game 5: at Brooklyn 123, Boston 109 TOTALS 240 44-95 8-9 8-39 23 12 110 WEST W L T Pts GF GA 6-4, 5-7, 2-6, 6-4; Kei Nishikori, Japan, def. Karen Nov. 12-15: Masters Tournament (Dustin Johnson)
LIGHTNING ELIMINATED PANTHERS, 4-2 Seattle................................5 0 3 18 14 3 Nov. 19-22: RSM Classic (Robert Streb)
Khachanov (23), Russia, 4-6, 6-2, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; Stefanos
BUCKS ELIMINATED HEAT, 4-0 Percentages: FG .463, FT .889. 3-Point Goals: 14-39, .359 Game 1: Tampa Bay 5, at Florida 4 Sporting KC ........................5 2 1 16 15 10 Tsitsipas (5), Greece, def. Pedro Martinez, Spain, 6-3, Dec. 3-6: Mayakoba Golf Classic (Viktor Hovland)
(Morant 5-9, Brooks 3-5, Valanciunas 2-4, Jackson Jr. Game 2: Tampa Bay 3, at Florida 1 LA Galaxy ...........................5 2 0 15 11 11 6-4, 6-3; Reilly Opelka (32), United States, def. Jaume Dec. 3-6: Hero World Challenge, Nassau, Bahamas
Game 1: at Milwaukee 109, Miami 107 (OT)
2-6, Melton 1-4, Bane 1-5, Anderson 0-1, Konchar 0-1, Game 3: Florida 6, at Tampa Bay 5 (OT) Colorado..............................4 2 1 13 12 8 Munar, Spain, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 7-5; Marcos Giron, United (canceled)
Game 2: at Milwaukee 132, Miami 98
Allen 0-2, Jones 0-2). Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turn- Game 4: at Tampa Bay 6, Florida 2 Houston ..............................3 3 2 11 11 12 States, def. Guido Pella, Argentina, 7-6 (7-2), 6-1, 6-7 Jan. 7-10: Tournament of Champions (Harris English)
Game 3: Milwaukee 113, at Miami 84
overs: None. Blocked Shots: 6 (Jackson Jr. 3, Clarke, Game 5: at Florida 4, Tampa Bay 1 San Jose .............................3 5 0 9 11 12 (7-3), 6-4; Pablo Carreno Busta (12), Spain, def. Enzo Jan. 14-17: Sony Open in Hawaii (Kevin Na)
Game 4: Milwaukee 120, at Miami 103
Konchar, Melton). Turnovers: 14 (Morant 5, Valanciunas Game 6: at Tampa Bay 4, Florida 0 Portland..............................3 4 0 9 9 11 Couacaud, France, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4; Cristian Garin (22), Jan. 21-24: American Express (Si Woo Kim)
HAWKS ELIMINATED KNICKS, 4-1 4, Bane 2, Brooks 2, Melton). Steals: 7 (Bane 2, Real Salt Lake ....................2 1 3 9 9 7 Chile, def. Mackenzie McDonald, United States, 4-6, 4-6, Jan. 28-31: Farmers Insurance Open (Patrick Reed)
Valanciunas 2, Brooks, Melton, Tillman). ISLANDERS ELIMINATED PENGUINS, 4-2
Game 1: Atlanta 107, at New York 105 Los Angeles FC ...................2 3 2 8 8 9 7-6 (9-7), 6-3, 8-6; Steve Johnson, United States, def. Feb. 4-7: Phoenix Open (Brooks Koepka)
Game 1: N.Y. Islanders 4, at Pittsburgh 3 (OT) Vancouver...........................2 4 1 7 6 9 Feb. 11-14: Pebble Beach Pro-Am (Daniel Berger)
Game 2: at New York 101, Atlanta 92 UTAH MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS Thiago Monteiro, Brazil, 6-3, 6-7 (7-2), 7-6 (7-2), 3-6,
Game 2: at Pittsburgh 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 Austin FC............................2 4 1 7 5 8 Feb. 18-21: Genesis Invitational (Max Homa)
Game 3: at Atlanta 105, New York 94 Bogdanovic 31:14 6-14 2-2 1-8 4 0 17 6-3.
Game 3: Pittsburgh 5, at N.Y. Islanders 4 Minnesota United ..............2 4 1 7 6 11 Feb. 25-28: World Golf Championships-Workday Cham-
Game 4: at Atlanta 113, New York 96 O'Neale 35:36 7-11 0-0 1-6 2 3 17 Game 4: at N.Y. Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 1 FC Dallas.............................1 3 3 6 8 11 WOMEN’S SINGLES — SECOND ROUND pionship at the Concession (Collin Morikawa)
Game 5: Atlanta 103, at New York 89 Gobert 33:23 10-13 3-4 7-15 2 3 23 Game 5: N.Y. Islanders 3, at Pittsburgh 2 (2OT) Feb. 25-28: Puerto Rico Open (Branden Grace)
Conley 11:35 3-4 0-0 0-0 2 0 7 Game 6: at N.Y. Islanders 5, Pittsburgh 3 SATURDAY’S RESULTS Ana Bogdan, Romania, def. Naomi Osaka (2), Japan,
walkover; Tamara Zidansek, Slovenia, def. Madison March 4-7: Arnold Palmer Invitational (Bryson De-
WESTERN CONFERENCE Mitchell 29:25 11-16 3-3 0-6 10 3 30
CANADIENS ELIMINATED MAPLE LEAFS, 4-3 D.C. United 3, Miami 0 Brengle, United States, 6-4, 6-1; Daria Kasatkina, Chambeau)
Clarkson 30:33 9-20 3-3 0-1 3 2 24
JAZZ ELIMINATED GRIZZLIES, 4-1 Russia, def. Belinda Bencic (10), Switzerland, 6-2, 6-2; March 11-14: Players Championship (Justin Thomas)
Ingles 27:58 0-5 0-0 0-4 4 2 0 Game 1: Montreal 2, at Toronto 1 CF Montréal 1, Chicago 0
Marketa Vondrousova (20), Czech Republic, def. Harmo- March 18-21: Honda Classic (Matt Jones)
Game 1: Memphis 112, at Utah 109 Niang 14:29 2-7 0-0 1-7 0 2 6 Game 2: at Toronto 5, Montreal 1 New York 2, Orlando City 1
ny Tan, France, 6-1, 6-3; Sorana Cirstea, Romania, def. March 24-28: World Golf Championships-Match Play
Game 2: at Utah 141, Memphis 129 Favors 12:20 1-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 2 Game 3: Toronto 2, at Montreal 1 New England 1, Cincinnati 0
Martina Trevisan, Italy, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Katerina Siniakova, (Billy Horschel)
Game 3: Utah 121, at Memphis 111 Forrest 4:19 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Game 4: Toronto 4, at Montreal 1 Columbus 2, Toronto FC 1
Czech Republic, def. Veronika Kudermetova (29), Russia, March 25-28: Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Champi-
Game 4: Utah 120, at Memphis 113 Brantley 2:17 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Game 5: Montreal 4, at Toronto 3 (OT)
Nashville 2, Atlanta 2 7-6 (9-7), 5-7, 7-5; Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Caroline onship (Joel Dahmen)
Game 5: at Utah 126, Memphis 11 Morgan 2:17 0-0 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 Game 6: at Montreal 3, Toronto 2 (OT)
New York City FC 2, Los Angeles FC 1 Garcia, France, 7-5, 6-4; Paula Badosa, Spain, def. Danka April 1-4: Texas Open (Jordan Spieth)
Oni 2:17 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Game 7: Montreal 3, at Toronto 1
SUNS LEAD LAKERS, 3-2 LA Galaxy 1, San Jose 0 Kovinic, Montenegro, 6-2, 6-0; Danielle Collins, United April 8-11: Masters Tournament (Hideki Matsuyama)
Thomas 2:17 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Game 1: at Phoenix 99, L.A. Lakers 90 JETS ELIMINATED OILERS, 4-0 Sporting KC 3, Houston 2 States, def. Anhelina Kalinina, Ukraine, 6-0, 6-2; Victoria April 15-18: Heritage (Stewart Cink)
TOTALS 240 49-95 11-12 11-51 27 16 126 April 22-25: Zurich Classic of New Orleans (Tied)
Game 2: L.A. Lakers 109, at Phoenix 102 Game 1: Winnipeg 4, at Edmonton 1 Colorado 3, FC Dallas 0 Azarenka (15), Belarus, def. Clara Tauson, Denmark, 7-5,
Game 3: at L.A. Lakers 109, Phoenix 95 Game 2: Winnipeg 1, at Edmonton 0 (OT) 6-4; Madison Keys (23), United States, def. Leylah Annie April 29-May 2: Valspar Championship (Sam Burns)
Percentages: FG .516, FT .917. 3-Point Goals: 17-44, .386 Minnesota 1, Real Salt Lake 1 May 6-9: Wells Fargo Championship (Rory McIlroy)
Game 4: Phoenix 100, at L.A. Lakers 92 (Mitchell 5-8, Bogdanovic 3-6, O’Neale 3-7, Clarkson Game 3: at Winnipeg 5, Edmonton 4 (OT) Fernandez, Canada, 6-1, 7-5; Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Game 5: at Phoenix 115, L.A. Lakers 85 Game 4: at Winnipeg 4, Edmonton 3 (OT) SUNDAY’S RESULTS (31), Russia, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, 6-2, 6-3; May 13-16: Byron Nelson (Kyoung-Hoon Lee)
3-12, Niang 2-6, Conley 1-1, Ingles 0-4). Team Rebounds: May 20-23: PGA Championship (Phil Mickelson)
Thursday’s game: Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, TBD 4. Team Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 5 (Gobert 3, Niang, Serena Williams (7), United States, def. Mihaela Bu-
x-Saturday’s game: L.A. Lakers at Phoenix, TBD GOLDEN KNIGHTS ELIMINATED WILD, 4-3 Philadelphia 3, Portland 0 zarnescu, Romania, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1; Aryna Sabalenka (3), May 27-30: Charles Schwab Challenge (Jason Kokrak)
O’Neale). Turnovers: 14 (Clarkson 4, Bogdanovic 3, June 3-6: Memorial Tournament presented by Nation-
Game 1: Minnesota 1, at Vegas 0 (OT) Austin FC 0, Seattle 0 Belarus, def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, 7-5, 6-3;
Mitchell 3, Brantley, Favors, Gobert, Niang). Steals: 10
NUGGETS LEAD TRAIL BLAZERS, 3-2 (O’Neale 4, Bogdanovic 2, Clarkson 2, Ingles, Mitchell). Game 2: at Vegas 3, Minnesota 1 Elena Rybakina (21), Kazakhstan, def. Nao Hibino, wide, Dublin, Ohio
Game 1: Portland 123, at Denver 109 Game 3: Vegas 5, at Minnesota 2 SATURDAY’S MATCH June 10-13: Palmetto Championship at Congaree,
Japan, 6-3, 6-1.
Game 2: at Denver 128, Portland 109 Game 4: Vegas 4, at Minnesota 0 Austin FC at Sporting KC, 3 Ridgeland, S.C.
Game 3: Denver 120, at Portland 115 Game 5: Minnesota 4, at Vegas 2 MEN’S DOUBLES — FIRST ROUND June 10-13: Canadian Open, Toronto (canceled)
Game 4: at Portland 115, Denver 95 Game 6: at Minnesota 3, Vegas 0 June 17-20: U.S. Open , La Jolla, Calif.
NBA playoff leaders Dominik Koepfer, Germany, and Emil Ruusuvuori, Fin-
Game 5: at Denver 147, Portland 140 (2OT) Game 7: at Vegas 6, Minnesota 2 June 24-27: Travelers Championship, Cromwell, Conn.
land, def. Aljaz Bedene, Slovenia, and Jackson Withrow,
Thursday’s game: Denver at Portland, TBD Through Tuesday’s games MLS leaders July 1-4: Rocket Mortgage Classic, Detroit
AVALANCHE ELIMINATED BLUES, 4-0 United States, 6-1, 6-4; Hugo Nys, Monaco, and Tim
x-Saturday’s game: Portland at Denver, TBD July 8-11: John Deere Classic, Silvis, Ill.
Puetz, Germany, def. Adrian Mannarino and Quentin
SCORING Game 1: at Colorado 4, St. Louis 1 Through Sunday’s games July 15-18: British Open, Sandwich, United Kingdom
MAVERICKS AND CLIPPERS TIED, 2-2 Halys, France, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2; Oliver Marach, Austria, and
Game 2: at Colorado 6, St. Louis 3 July 15-18: Barbasol Championship, Nicholasville, Ky.
G FG FT PTS AVG GOALS Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, def. Santiago Gonza-
Game 1: Dallas 113, at L.A. Clippers 103 Game 3: Colorado 5, at St. Louis 1 July 22-25: 3M Open, Blaine, Minn.
Lillard, POR......................... 5 54 38 178 35.6 lez, Mexico, and Marcelo Demoliner, Brazil, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2;
Game 2: Dallas 127, at L.A. Clippers 121 Game 4: Colorado 5, at St. Louis 2 Javier Hernandez, LA......................................................7 Aug. 5-8: World Golf Championships-St. Jude Invita-
Doncic, DAL ........................ 4 51 13 133 33.3 Luke Saville and Max Purcell, Australia, def. Albano
Game 3: L.A. Clippers 118, at Dallas 108 Raul Ruidiaz, SEA ...........................................................6 tional, Memphis
Leonard, LAC ...................... 4 47 28 132 33.0 SECOND ROUND Olivetti and Gregoire Barrere, France, 6-2, 6-7 (7-2), 7-6
Game 4: L.A. Clippers 106, at Dallas 81 Jesus Medina, NYC .........................................................5 Aug. 5-8: Barracuda Championship, Truckee, Calif.
Durant, BKN ....................... 5 53 43 163 32.6 (10); Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen (14), Belgium, def.
Game 5: Dallas at L.A. Clippers, Late Best of seven; x-If necessary Alan Pulido, KC................................................................5 Aug. 12-15: Wyndham Championship, Greensboro, N.C.
Jokic, DEN........................... 5 62 25 162 32.4 Andrea Vavassori and Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, 6-4, 6-4;
Friday’s game: L.A. Clippers at Dallas, TBD Adam Buksa, NE..............................................................4 Aug. 19-22: Northern Trust, Jersey City
Morant, MEM ..................... 4 44 31 124 31.0 LIGHTNING LEADS HURRICANES, 2-0 Robin Haase, Netherlands, and Jan-Lennard Struff,
x-Sunday’s game: Dallas at L.A. Clippers, TBD Valentin Castellanos, NYC..............................................4 Aug. 26-29: BMW Championship, Owings Mills, Md.
Tatum, BOS ........................ 5 47 45 153 30.6 Germany, def. Matthew Ebden and John-Patrick Smith,
Game 1: Tampa Bay 2, at Carolina 1 Caden Clark, NYR ............................................................4 Sept. 2-5: Tour Championship, Atlanta
Beal, WAS .......................... 4 46 21 118 29.5 Australia, 6-3, 6-4; Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Dan Added,
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS Mitchell, UTA...................... 3 25 25 84 28.0 Game 2: Tampa Bay 2, at Carolina 1 Gonzalo Higuain, MCF.....................................................4 France, def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, and Ricardas
Best of seven Thursday’s game: Carolina at Tampa Bay, 8 Rubio Rubin, RSL.............................................................4 Berankis, Lithuania, 7-6 (7-1), 6-2; Raven Klaasen, South
REBOUNDS Saturday’s game: Carolina at Tampa Bay, 4 Maximiliano Urruti, HOU ................................................4 Africa, and Ben Mclachlan (15), Japan, def. Lucas Pouille
TBD x-Tuesday’s game: Tampa Bay at Carolina, TBA TRAN S ACTION S
G OFF DEF TOT AVG ASSISTS and Mathias Bourgue, France, 6-3, 6-2; Nicolas Mahut
Antetokounmpo, MIL ......... 4 14 46 60 15.0 x-Thursday, June 10: Carolina at Tampa Bay, TBA and Pierre-Hugues Herbert (6), France, def. Jonny
CONFERENCE FINALS x-Saturday, June 12: Tampa Bay at Carolina, TBA Carles Gil, NE .................................................................. 5
Best of seven Capela, ATL......................... 4 10 42 52 13.0 O’Mara and Cameron Norrie, Britain, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3;
Gobert, UTA........................ 4 14 36 50 12.5 Fabio, NYR ...................................................................... 4 Jonathan Erlich, Israel, and Lloyd Harris, South Africa, MLB
TBD BRUINS AND ISLANDERS TIED, 1-1 Joao Paulo, SEA .............................................................. 4
Ayton, PHO......................... 5 18 43 61 12.2 Game 1: at Boston 5, N.Y. Islanders 2 def. Diego Schwartzman and Federico Coria, Argentina, Baltimore Orioles: Optioned RF Tyler Nevin to Norfolk
Randle, NY .......................... 4 8 37 45 11.2 Cade Cowell, SJ............................................................... 3 6-1, 6-2; Yen-hsun Lu, Taiwan, and Yoshihito Nishioka,
NBA FINALS Game 2: N.Y. Islanders 4, at Boston 3 (OT) Damir Kreilach, RSL........................................................ 3 (Class AAA East). Recalled LHP Zac Lowther from
Nurkic, POR ........................ 5 16 39 55 11.0 Thursday’s game: Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 7:30 Japan, def. Julian Knowle, Austria, and David Pel, Norfolk.
Best of seven Drummond, LAL.................. 5 19 36 55 11.0 Ronald Matarrita, CIN .................................................... 3 Netherlands, 6-4, 6-1; Matt Reid and Alex de Minaur,
Saturday’s game: Boston at N.Y. Islanders, 7:15 Jamiro Monteiro, PHI ..................................................... 3 Los Angeles Angels: Purchased the contract of RHP
TBD Jokic, DEN........................... 5 18 37 55 11.0 Monday’s game: N.Y. Islanders at Boston, TBA Australia, def. Divij Sharan, India, and Federico Delbonis, Jake Petricka from High Point (Atlantic League).
Westbrook, WAS................ 4 12 32 44 11.0 Lewis Morgan, MCF ........................................................ 3 Argentina, 3-6, 7-6 (13-11), 6-4; Nikola Cacic, Serbia, and
x-Wednesday’s game: Boston at N.Y. Islanders, TBA Jack Price, COL................................................................ 3 Reassigned RHP Jake Petricka to Salt Lake (Class AAA
Valanciunas, MEM.............. 4 18 25 43 10.8 x-Friday, June 11: N.Y. Islanders at Boston, TBA Tomislav Brkic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, def. Jordan West).
Romell Quioto, MTL........................................................ 3 Thompson and Alexei Popyrin, Australia, 7-5, 6-7 (7-4),
ASSISTS Khiry Shelton, KC............................................................ 3 Minnesota Twins: Placed C Mitch Garver on the 10-day IL
Hawks 103, N.Y. Knicks 89 AVALANCHE LEADS GOLDEN KNIGHTS, 1-0 6-3. and OF Rob Refsnyder on the 7-day IL, retroactive to June
G AST AVG Anton Tinnerholm, NYC.................................................. 3
Game 1: at Colorado 7, Vegas 1 Kai Wagner, PHI.............................................................. 3 1.
Atlanta ............................... 21 31 22 29 — 103 Westbrook, WAS........................4 49 12.3 WOMEN’S DOUBLES — FIRST ROUND New York Yankees: Optioned 1B Mike Ford to Scran-
Game 2: Vegas at Colorado, Late
New York ............................ 21 26 15 27 — 89 Harden, BKN ...............................5 53 10.6 Friday’s game: Colorado at Vegas, 10 SHOTS ON GOAL Bethanie Mattek-Sands, United States, and Iga Swiatek ton/Wilkes-Barre (Class AAA East). Recalled RHP
Conley, UTA ................................4 41 10.3 Sunday’s game: Colorado at Vegas, 8:30 (14), Poland, def. Aubane Droguet and Selena Janici- Brooks Kriske from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Young, ATL .................................4 40 10.0 Randall Leal, NSH ......................................................... 15
ATLANTA MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS x-Tuesday’s game: Vegas at Colorado, TBA Gonzalo Higuain, MCF .................................................. 13 jevic, France, 6-0, 6-1; Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, and Arizona Diamondbacks: Designated 2B Domingo Leyba
Holiday, MIL ...............................4 39 9.8 x-Thursday, June 10: Colorado at Vegas, TBA Cristina-Andreea Mitu, Romania, def. CoCo for assignment.
Collins 35:11 5-9 2-3 1-7 0 2 13 Lillard, POR.................................5 48 9.6 Raul Ruidiaz, SEA ......................................................... 13
x-Saturday, June 12: Vegas at Colorado, TBA Valentin Castellanos, NYC ........................................... 12 Vandeweghe, United States, and Alicja Rosolska, Po- Atlanta Braves: Optioned CF Cristian Pache to Gwin-
Hunter 34:30 6-11 2-4 2-3 1 1 15 Simmons, PHI.............................4 35 8.8
Javier Hernandez, LA ................................................... 11 land, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; Kveta Peschke, Czech Republic, and nett (Class AAA East).
Capela 36:49 6-7 2-2 5-15 0 3 14 Doncic, DAL ................................4 33 8.3 CANADIENS LEAD JETS, 1-0
Jesus Medina, NYC ....................................................... 11 Vivian Heisen, Germany, def. Hayley Carter, United Pittsburgh Pirates: Traded 3B Ildemaro Vargas to
Bogdanovic 34:55 4-11 0-0 1-7 5 4 9 James, LAL .................................5 41 8.2 Game 1: Montreal 5, at Winnipeg 3
Maximiliano Urruti, HOU.............................................. 11 States, and Astra Sharma, Australia, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5; Asia Arizona for cash.
Young 41:15 10-28 13-15 1-4 9 0 36 Antetokounmpo, MIL .................4 31 7.8 Friday’s game: Montreal at Winnipeg, 7:30
Cade Cowell, SJ............................................................. 10 Muhammad and Jessica Pegula, United States, def. Toronto Blue Jays: Placed RHP A.J. Cole on the 10-day
Huerter 20:03 3-8 0-0 0-3 1 1 8 Sunday’s game: Winnipeg at Montreal, 6
Adam Buksa, NE ............................................................. 9 Jasmine Paolini, Italy, and Nina Stojanovic, Serbia, 6-2, IL, retroactive to May 30. Recalled RHP Jeremy Beasley
Gallinari 17:47 0-7 1-2 0-2 0 3 1 Monday’s game: Winnipeg at Montreal, TBA
Franco Jara, DAL............................................................. 9 2-6, 6-3; Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Elise Mertens (1), from Buffalo (Class AAA East) and will be active for
Williams 6:45 2-4 0-0 0-2 1 1 5 x-Wednesday’s game: Montreal at Winnipeg, TBA Belgium, def. Elixane Lechemia and Elsa Jacquemot, tonight’s game.
Hill 6:32 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 WNBA x-Friday, June 11: Winnipeg at Montreal, TBA GOALS ALLOWED AVERAGE France, 6-2, 6-3; Raluca-Ioana Olaru, Romania, and Washington Nationals: Recalled RHP Kyle McGowin
Okongwu 6:13 1-1 0-0 4-4 0 1 2 x-Sunday, June 13: Montreal at Winnipeg, TBA
Stefan Cleveland, SEA ...............................................0.33 Nadiia Kichenok (16), Ukraine, def. Arina Rodionova, from Rochester (Class AAA East). Placed RHP Stephen
TOTALS 240 37-87 20-26 14-48 17 16 103 EAST W L PCT GB
Tyler Miller, MIN ........................................................0.33 Australia, and Lyudmyla Kichenok, Ukraine, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4; Strasburg on the 10-day IL.
Connecticut ...................................7 2 .778 —
Stefan Frei, SEA.........................................................0.40 Arantxa Rus, Netherlands, and Tamara Zidansek, Slove-
Percentages: FG .425, FT .769. 3-Point Goals: 9-34, New York .......................................5 2 .714 1 NBA
nia, def. Rebecca Peterson and Cornelia Lister, Sweden,
.265 (Young 3-11, Huerter 2-6, Hunter 1-1, Williams Atlanta ..........................................4 2 .667 11/2 Canadiens 5, Jets 3 Pedro Gallese, ORL.....................................................0.57
6-3, 6-0; Zheng Saisai, China, and Ellen Perez (13), Detroit Pistons: Named John Beilein senior advisor/
1-3, Collins 1-4, Bogdanovic 1-7, Gallinari 0-1, Hill 0-1). Washington...................................2 4 .333 31/2 Andre Blake, PHI ........................................................0.63
MONTREAL .............................. 3 0 2 — 5 Jon Kempin, DC ..........................................................0.67 Australia, def. Venus Williams and Coco Gauff, United player development.
Team Rebounds: 10. Team Turnovers: None. Blocked Chicago ..........................................2 5 .286 4
WINNIPEG ............................... 1 0 2 — 3 Eloy Room, CLB ..........................................................0.86 States, 6-7 (7-5), 6-4, 6-3; Chloe Paquet and Clara Burel,
Shots: 8 (Capela 2, Okongwu 2, Bogdanovic, Collins, Indiana...........................................1 8 .111 6 WNBA
Joe Willis, NSH...........................................................0.86 France, def. Renata Voracova, Czech Republic, and Miyu
Huerter, Hunter). Turnovers: 11 (Huerter 4, Young 4, FIRST PERIOD
Matt Turner, NE .........................................................0.88 Kato, Japan, 5-7, 7-5, 7-5; Magda Linette, Poland, and Dallas Wings: Waived F Kristine Angiwe. Traded the
Hunter 2, Gallinari). Steals: 7 (Bogdanovic 2, Young 2, WEST W L PCT GB Scoring: 1, Montreal, Kotkaniemi 4 (Gustafsson, Petry), Phelipe Megiolaro, DAL..............................................0.90 Bernarda Pera, United States, def. Alexa Guarachi contract of G Dana Evans to Chicago in exchange for a
Capela, Gallinari, Hunter). Technical Fouls: Hill, 12:00 Seattle...........................................6 1 .857 — 3:30. 2, Montreal, Staal 1 (Edmundson, Perry), 5:10. 3, Mathison, Chile, and Desirae Krawczyk (5), United 2022 3rd round draft pick, the right to swap 2022 1st
third. Las Vegas ......................................5 3 .625 11/2 Winnipeg, Lowry 1, 11:52 (sh). 4, Montreal, Suzuki 3 SHUTOUTS States, 6-3, 6-7 (7-4), 6-3; Sharon Fichman, Canada, and round draft picks, and the contract of G Shyla Heal.
Phoenix..........................................4 3 .571 2 (Caufield, Edmundson), 17:14. Giuliana Olmos (9), Mexico, def. Heather Watson,
NEW YORK MIN FG FT O-T A PF PTS Andre Blake, PHI ............................................................ 5 Chicago Sky: Waived G Stephanie Watts. Announced G
Los Angeles ...................................2 3 .400 3 Britain, and Anna Blinkova, Russia, 6-3, 6-2; Kristyna
Pedro Gallese, ORL......................................................... 4 Lexie Brown granted a hardship release.
Bullock 40:07 4-10 0-0 0-1 2 3 12 Dallas.............................................2 4 .333 31/2 THIRD PERIOD Pliskova and Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, def.
Randle 37:06 8-21 4-4 3-13 3 3 23 Minnesota .....................................1 4 .200 4 Joe Willis, NSH............................................................... 4
Scoring: 5, Winnipeg, Forbort 1 (Morrissey, Dubois), Matt Turner, NE ............................................................. 3 Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, and Martina Trevisan, Italy, NFL
Gibson 33:02 2-4 0-0 4-10 0 4 4 9:22. 6, Montreal, Gallagher 2 (Petry, Weber), 11:04 6-0, 6-1; Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova (2),
Barrett 39:32 5-14 5-6 1-7 5 3 17 TUESDAY’S RESULTS William Yarbrough, COL................................................. 3 Baltimore Ravens: Waived DT Braxton Hoyett. Signed
(pp). 7, Winnipeg, Connor 3 (Ehlers, Pionk), 18:18. 8, Czech Republic, def. Amandine Hesse and Harmony Tan,
Rose 26:53 3-11 0-0 1-3 5 1 6 8 players tied with 2 France, 6-3, 6-2; Zhang Shuai and Xu Yifan (8), China, DT Jovan Swann. Placed DT Xavier Kelly and WR Donte
at Connecticut 74, Las Vegas 67 Montreal, Evans 1 (Toffoli, Staal), 19:03 (en). Sylencieux on IR.
Burks 24:01 5-10 1-2 1-6 4 2 12 at Dallas 79, Los Angeles 69 SAVES def. Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Viktorija Golubic,
Noel 15:37 1-2 0-0 2-2 0 5 2 Carolina Panthers: Waived QB Tommy Stevens. Signed
Phoenix 84, at Chicago 83 SHOTS ON GOAL Switzerland, 6-4, 6-4; Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, and
Quickley 13:27 2-6 5-6 0-0 0 0 11 Jonathan Bond, LA ........................................................40 Varvara Gracheva, Russia, def. Sabrina Santamaria and WR C.J. Saunders.
at Seattle 88, Indiana 73 MONTREAL ............................ 12 9 12 — 33 Andre Blake, PHI ...........................................................31 Chicago Bears: Signed OL Larry Borom, DB Thomas
Toppin 10:15 1-4 0-0 2-3 0 1 2 WINNIPEG ............................. 11 11 8 — 30 Kaitlyn Christian, United States, 6-3, 7-5; Lucie
Brad Stuver, ATX ..........................................................29 Hradecka, Czech Republic, and Laura Siegemund (10), Graham Jr., RB Khalil Herbert, WR Dazz Newsome and
TOTALS 240 31-82 15-18 14-45 19 22 89 WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Power-play opportunities: Montreal 1 of 4; Winnipeg 0 of JT Marcinkowski, SJ .....................................................27 DL Khyiris Tonga.
Germany, def. Lauren Davis, United States, and Ankita
Percentages: FG .378, FT .833. 3-Point Goals: 12-30, .400 No games scheduled. 3. Goalies: Montreal, Price 5-3-0 (30 shots-27 saves). Brad Guzan, ATL............................................................23 Cincinnati Bengals: Signed DE Joseph Ossai. Signed WR
Raina, India, 6-4, 6-4; Petra Martic, Croatia, and Shelby
(Bullock 4-8, Randle 3-9, Quickley 2-2, Barrett 2-6, Burks Winnipeg, Hellebuyck 4-1-0 (32-28). Marko Maric, HOU.........................................................23 Ja’Marr Chase to a four-year contract. Placed LS Dan
Rogers, United States, def. Vera Zvonareva, Russia, and
1-3, Rose 0-1, Toppin 0-1). Team Rebounds: 7. Team THURSDAY’S GAMES Matt Turner, NE ............................................................23 Timea Babos (7), Hungary, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3; Zhaoxuan Godsil on the reserve/retired list.
Turnovers: 1. Blocked Shots: 4 (Barrett, Bullock, Gibson, William Yarbrough, COL................................................23 Yang, China, and Makoto Ninomiya, Japan, def. Sara Green Bay Packers: Signed CB Eric Stokes.
Las Vegas at New York, 7 Los Angeles Rams: Signed CB Robert Rochell and DB
Noel). Turnovers: 16 (Randle 8, Quickley 3, Gibson 2, Alex Bono, TOR .............................................................22 Sorribes Tormo, Spain, and Marie Bouzkova, Czech
Barrett, Bullock, Noel). Steals: 5 (Gibson 2, Quickley 2,
Chicago at Phoenix, 10 A U TO RA C I NG Maxime Crepeau, VAN ..................................................22 Republic, 6-2, 6-2; Nicole Melichar, United States, and Daylan Lake.
Indiana at Los Angeles, 10:30 San Francisco 49ers: Placed C Weston Richburg on the
Bullock). Technical Fouls: Randle, 12:00 third Demi Schuurs (3), Netherlands, def. Margot Yerolymos
A: 16,512 (19,812). and Diane Parry, France, 7-5, 6-4; Anastasia Potapova, reserve/retired list. Signed LB James Burgess
FRIDAY’S GAMES NASCAR Cup Series Russia, and Amanda Anisimova, United States, def. MLS
Atlanta at Minnesota, 8 NWSL Oceane Dodin and Salma Djoubri, France, 6-2, 6-3.
POINTS LEADERS Minnesota United FC: Loaned F Foster Langsdorf to
Dallas at Seattle, 10
Suns 115, Lakers 85 Through Sunday Tampa Bay (USL Championship). Loaned D Callum
1. Denny Hamlin, 633. W L T Pts GF GA Montgomery to San Diego (USL Championship).
Late Tuesday 2. Kyle Larson, 557. Orlando ...............................3 0 1 10 6 3 WTA SINGLES RANKINGS Vancouver Whitecaps FC: Acquired F Brian Hand from
Washington........................2 1 1 7 4 4 Through Sunday New York Red Bulls in exchange for $400,000 general
L.A. LAKERS ....................... 26 10 27 22 — 85 Storm 88, Fever 73 3. William Byron, 557.
Portland..............................2 2 0 6 8 4
PHOENIX ............................ 34 32 26 23 — 115 4. Chase Elliott, 541. 1. Ashleigh Barty, Australia, 10175 allocation money, pending the receipt of his interna-
Late Tuesday 5. Joey Logano, 506. North Carolina ....................1 1 1 4 6 2 2. Naomi Osaka, Japan, 7461 tional transfer certificate and visa.
L.A. LAKERS: James 9-19 0-0 24, Morris 1-2 1-2 4, 6. Martin Truex Jr, 486. Reign FC..............................1 1 1 4 2 2 3. Simona Halep, Romania, 6520
Drummond 2-5 3-3 7, Caldwell-Pope 0-1 0-0 0, Schroder
INDIANA ............................. 16 22 14 21 — 73
7. Ryan Blaney, 482. Gotham FC..........................1 1 1 4 1 1 4. Aryna Sabalenka, Belarus, 6195
USL CHAMPIONSHIP LEAGUE
SEATTLE ............................. 25 18 18 27 — 88 Houston ..............................1 2 1 4 5 6
0-9 0-0 0, Dudley 0-0 0-0 0, Kuzma 6-13 2-5 15, McKinnie 8. Kyle Busch, 476. 5. Sofia Kenin, USA, 5865 USL Championship: Suspended San Antonio FC’s F Emil
0-2 0-0 0, Harrell 3-5 3-4 9, Gasol 1-1 2-2 5, Caruso 2-8 9. Kevin Harvick, 468. Louisville ............................1 1 1 4 2 5 6. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 5835 Cuello one game for two cautionable offenses in a May
INDIANA: Lavender 2-7 1-2 5, T.Mitchell 4-12 2-2 10, Chicago ...............................1 2 1 4 3 7
0-0 5, Horton-Tucker 4-9 2-3 11, Matthews 1-5 2-2 5, McCowan 3-8 6-6 12, K.Mitchell 4-13 0-0 9, Robinson 10. Brad Keselowski, 448. 7. Bianca Andreescu, Canada, 5325 29 game against Rio Grande Valley FC. Suspended
McLemore 0-5 0-0 0. Totals 29-84 15-21 85. 11. Austin Dillon, 407. Kansas City.........................0 2 2 2 2 5 8. Serena Williams, USA, 4821 Memphis 901 FC’s F Kadeem Dacres one game for two
4-10 2-2 11, Breland 6-9 0-0 12, Cox 0-2 0-0 0, Allen 3-3
0-2 7, Gondrezick 0-2 0-0 0, Vivians 3-8 0-0 7. Totals 12. Alex Bowman, 405. SATURDAY’S RESULT 9. Iga Swiatek, Poland, 4435 cautionable offenses in a May 29 game against OKC
PHOENIX: Bridges 5-10 0-0 13, Crowder 3-9 0-0 9, Ayton
29-74 11-14 73. 13. Tyler Reddick, 376. 10. Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, 4345 Energy FC. Suspended New Mexico United’s head coach
2-3 4-6 8, Booker 13-23 2-2 30, Paul 3-9 2-2 9, Craig 1-7 Houston 2, Chicago 1
14. Chris Buescher, 370. Troy Lesesne one game for making offensive gestures
0-0 2, Johnson 2-4 6-7 11, Kaminsky 1-3 1-1 3, Saric 2-3 SEATTLE: Stewart 8-17 9-11 28, Talbot 2-3 0-0 5, Russell 15. Christopher Bell, 350. to the officiating crew in a May 29 game against Real
0-0 5, Smith 1-1 0-0 3, Carter 0-3 0-2 0, Galloway 1-5 0-1 2-4 0-0 4, Bird 4-7 2-2 12, Loyd 5-15 4-5 18, Dupree 4-8 SUNDAY’S RESULTS
16. Michael McDowell, 346. Monarchs SLC. Released New Mexico United’s D Austin
2, Moore 2-3 0-0 4, Payne 7-11 0-0 16. Totals 43-94 15-21 0-0 8, Magbegor 0-5 0-0 0, Burke 1-1 2-2 4, Canada 0-2 17. Matt DiBenedetto, 315. Washington 1, Reign FC 0 Yearwood from suspension following his appeal.
115. 2-2 2, Prince 2-4 2-2 7, Williams 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 28-66 ATP SINGLES RANKINGS
18. Ricky Stenhouse Jr, 308. Portland 1, Gotham FC 0
Three-point Goals: L.A. Lakers 12-35 (James 6-10, 21-24 88. 19. Kurt Busch, 287. Through Sunday U.S. SOCCER FEDERATION
Orlando 1, Kansas City 0
Horton-Tucker 1-2, Caruso 1-4, Kuzma 1-5, Matthews Three-point Goals: Indiana 4-17 (Robinson 1-2, Vivians 20. Ryan Newman, 283. 1. Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 11313 U.S. Soccer Federation: Named Pinky Raina chief
1-5, McLemore 0-2, Schroder 0-4), Phoenix 14-42 (Bridg- 1-4, K.Mitchell 1-5, Gondrezick 0-2, T.Mitchell 0-2), 21. Ross Chastain, 277. SATURDAY’S MATCHES 2. Daniil Medvedev, Russia, 9793 operating officer.
es 3-7, Crowder 3-9, Payne 2-4, Booker 2-6, Johnson 1-2, Seattle 11-22 (Loyd 4-7, Stewart 3-6, Bird 2-5, Talbot 22. Bubba Wallace, 275. 3. Rafael Nadal, Spain, 9630
Saric 1-2, Paul 1-3, Galloway 0-2, Craig 0-4). Fouled Out: 1-2). Fouled Out: None. Rebounds: Indiana 35 (McCowan 23. Daniel Suarez, 268. North Carolina at Chicago, 2 4. Dominic Thiem, Austria, 8445 COLLEGES
None. Rebounds: L.A. Lakers 51 (Drummond 13), Phoe- 15), Seattle 37 (Russell 11). Assists: Indiana 21 (Allen 24. Ryan Preece, 265. Reign FC at Gotham FC, 7 5. Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, 7500 Charleston Southern: Promoted Thomas Butters to
nix 47 (Ayton, Booker, Craig 7). Assists: L.A. Lakers 14 6), Seattle 22 (Bird 8). Total Fouls: Indiana 19, Seattle 25. Chase Briscoe, 251. Louisville at Portland, 10:30 6. Alexander Zverev, Germany, 6990 men’s basketball associate head coach.
(James 7), Phoenix 29 (Paul 6). Total Fouls: L.A. Lakers 17. A: 1,215 (8,149) 26. Erik Jones, 245. 7. Andrey Rublev, Russia, 6090 Chattanooga: Named Tyrus Ward defensive backs
25, Phoenix 22. A: 16,163 (18,422) 27. Cole Custer, 236. SUNDAY’S MATCHES 8. Roger Federer, Switzerland, 5605 coach.
28. Aric Almirola, 195. Orlando at Washington, 2 9. Matteo Berrettini, Italy, 3958 Penn: Named Alanna Shanahan director of athletics
29. Corey Lajoie, 168. 10. Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, 3465 and recreation.
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ALESIA DICKERSON WILSON
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THOMAS WILSON,
Defendant
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20001-2131
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JOHANNA NEWBERRY GREEN
Janelle Bruce
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Francine Robinson, whose address
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Johanna Newberry Green, who died
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PAULINE W. OLIVER
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Nathaniel Devon Oliver, whose
address is 303 Hyannis Court, Upper
Marlboro, Maryland 20774 was
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of the estate of Pauline W. Oliver,
who died on December 25, 2020
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are unknown shall enter their
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Objections to such appointment (or
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www.rockvillemd.gov/videoondemand.
after each meeting at
for sale at public auction at THE ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY the party secured thereby, the undersigned Substitute Trustee
For further information, please contact Louise Kauffmann, Housing How to Provide Testimony COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 8 CHURCH CIR, ANNAPOLIS, MD will offer for sale at public auction at THE HOWARD COUNTY
and Community Development Chief, If you wish to participate in the virtual Public Hearing, please 21401 ON, COURTHOUSE LOCATED AT 8360 COURT AVE, ELLICOTT CITY,
louise.kauffmann@gaithersburgmd.gov or (240) 805-1022. call 240-314-8280 or send your name and phone number to
mayorandcouncil@rockvillemd.gov no later than 10:00 a.m. on the JUNE 14, 2021 at 10:00AM MD 21043 ON,
day of the hearing, which is June 21. You will be connected with
ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements JUNE 7, 2021 at 11:30 AM
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF THE the City’s Information Technology Department to receive all the
ENVIRONMENT
information you need to join the meeting by audio to share your
comments. thereon situated in ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD and ALL THAT FEE SIMPLE LOT OF GROUND and improvements
WATER AND SCIENCE ADMINISTRATION described as follows: thereon situated in HOWARD COUNTY, MD and described as
If you wish to submit comments in writing for the virtual Public
NOTICE OF APPLICATION RECEIVED Hearing, please email the comments to BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT NUMBERED FORTY- follows:
mayorandcouncil@rockvillemd.gov by no later than 10:00 a.m. on
Prince George's County the date of the hearing. Persons submitting testimony are requested TWO (42) AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT OF WOODED VALLEY, PLAT BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS UNIT NO. 5715-A,
Application for State Discharge Permit 21DP3874,
NPDES Permit MD0070980:
to provide their name and address. Written comments may also be
submitted to the City Clerk’s Office, 111 Maryland Avenue, Rockville,
2, WHICH PLAT IS RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS BUILDING 9, IN THE HORIZONTAL PROPERTY REGIME
Ritchie Land Reclamation Co., located at 24024 Frederick Maryland, 20850, or forwarded by email to cityclerk@rockvillemd.gov. OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND IN PLAT BOOK 69 AT KNOWN AS DEERING WOODS CONDOMINIUM AND BEING
Road, Clarksburg, MD 20871 submitted an application for a PART OF ALL THAT PROPERTY MORE PARTICULARLY
Written comments received after 10:00 a.m. on the date of the virtual
FOLIO 34. BEING IN THE 8TH ELECTION DISTRICT OF SAID
new permit to discharge an average of 57,589 gallons per
day treated leachate water from a rubble landfill located public hearing will not be available to the Mayor and Council at the COUNTY DESCRIBED IN THE MASTER DEED, DATED APRIL 23, 1974,
hearing and will be provided to the Mayor and Council at a later date.
2001 Ritchie Marlboro Road, Upper Marlboro, MD 20774, to THE PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO A PRIOR MORTGAGE. IF AND RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS OF HOWARD
Turkey Branch Creek (Use I waters). Mayor and Council of Rockville COUNTY IN LIBER 678, FOLIO 82, AND ALSO AS SHOWN
A copy of the application may be downloaded from the By: Sara Taylor-Ferrell, City Clerk/Director of Council Operations AVAILABLE THE AMOUNT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT THE TIME
Department's website at https://mdewwp.page.link/wwp- OF THE SALE ON THE RECORD PLAT THEREOF DATED MARCH, 1974, AND
portal. At that webpage, search for State Number 21DP3874, RECORDED AMONG THE SAID LAND RECORDS IN PLAT BOOK
click "More Info," and then select the desired NOTICE OF HEARING The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
27 FOLIOS 1 THRU 20, INCLUSIVE; AND SUPPLEMENTAL
document(s) to download.
Notice is hereby given that the Mayor and Council of Rockville will without either express or implied warranty or representation,
CONDOMINIUM MASTER DEED DATED OCTOBER 30, 1974
If a written request is received by June 17, 2021, an conduct a virtual public hearing on Monday, June 14, 2021, at 7:00 including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
informational meeting can be held to discuss the application AND RECORDED AS AFORESAID IN LIBER 703, FOLIO 36,
and permitting process. Requests should be forwarded to
p.m., or as soon thereafter as it may be heard, in connection with the
city’s draft Comprehensive Plan update. particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condition,
AND THE ADDITIONAL DECLARATION FOR DEERING WOODS
the Maryland Department of the Environment, Water construction, extent of construction, workmanship, materials,
CONDOMINIUM-STAGE ONE EXPANSION DATED DECEMBER
and Science Administration, 1800 Washington Blvd., The Mayor and Council is seeking public input on the draft Compre-
liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition, mer-
hensive Plan that the Rockville Planning Commission recommended 2, 1974 AND RECORDED AS AFORESAID IN LIBER 705,
Baltimore, Maryland 21230-1708, Attn: Mr. Michael
Richardson, Chief, Industrial and General Permits Divi- for adoption on March 15, 2021 chantability, compliance with building or housing codes or other
FOLIO 114, AND ALSO AS SHOWN ON SUPPLEMENTAL PLAT
sion. Hearing-impaired persons may request an interpreter The Planning Commission’s recommended Comprehensive Plan is laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters, and
OF SUBDIVISION RECORDED OR PLAT BOOK 29, FOLIOS 81
at the informational meeting by contacting Mr. Richardson at
(410) 537-3654 or 1-800-633-6101, or at the above address,
based on feedback gathered throughout the Rockville 2040 process,
which included numerous listening sessions, citywide forums, open
subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
THRU 97, INCLUSIVE. TOGETHER WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS
at least ten working days prior to the scheduled meeting. houses and other meetings, as well as analysis and discussion by which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold
AND APPURTENANCES AND SUBJECT TO AND WITH THE
Such requests may also be emailed to Michael.Richard- the Planning Commission and City staff. If adopted by the Mayor and
Council, it will replace the City’s previous 2002 comprehensive plan
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of
BENEFIT OF THE PROVISIONS OF SAID MASTER DEED,
son@Maryland.gov.
Any person wishing to review the application should contact and many of its subsequent amendments. record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
BY-LAWS, AND SUPPLEMENTS AND ADDITIONS, RECORDED
Mr. Richardson at the above telephone number to schedule Viewing the Mayor and Council Public Hearing
assessments pursuant to Md Real Property Article 11-110.
OR HEREINAFTER RECORDED AMONG THE LAND RECORDS
an appointment. Copies may be obtained at a cost of $0.36
per page.
The virtual public hearing can be viewed on Rockville 11, channel 11 on
county cable, livestreamed at www.rockvillemd.gov/rockville11, and
TERMS OF SALE: A deposit of $20,000.00 PAYABLE ONLY BY AFORESAID. TOGETHER WITH A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT
available a day after each meeting at www.rockvillemd.gov/videoon- certified funds, shall be required at the time of sale. CASH WILL
IN COMMON WITH OTHERS FOR PEDESTRIAN AND VEHIC-
820
Official Notices 852
Anne Arundel County
demand.
NOT BE AN ACCEPTABLE FORM OF DEPOSIT. The balance of ULAR INGRESS AND EGRESS TO AND FROM THE HEREIN-
NOTICE IN THE
How to Participate in the Public Hearing the purchase price with interest at 4.240% per annum from
BEFORE DESCRIBED CONDOMINIUM UNIT AND HARPERS
CIRCUIT COURT FOR
If you wish to participate in the virtual Public Hearing, please call
240-314-8280 or send your name and phone number to mayorand- the date of sale to the date of payment will be paid within
FARM ROAD IN, OUT AND THROUGH THE PRESENT AND
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
The following individuals are
applicants for nomination to
council@rockvillemd.gov no later than 10:00 a.m. on the day of the TEN DAYS after the final ratification of the sale. Adjustments
FUTURE ROADWAYS, PARKING AREA, COMMON ELEMENTS
hearing. You will be connected with the City’s Information Technology
Governor Hogan for appointment James E. Clarke, et al. Department to receive all the information you need to join the meeting on all taxes, public charges and special or regular assessments
OF DEERING WOODS CONDOMINIUM.
Substitute Trustees
to the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County:
by audio to share your comments. will be made as of the date of sale and thereafter assumed
The property will be sold in an "AS IS WHERE IS" condition
Versus
If you wish to submit comments in writing for the virtual Public by purchaser. If applicable, condominium and/or homeowner
without either express or implied warranty or representation,
Gwenlynn Whittle D’Souza
Ayo Mario Stevens
Ray R. Reese III, et al.
Defendant
Hearing, please email the comments to mayorandcoun-
cil@rockvillemd.gov by no later than 10:00 a.m. on the date of
association dues and assessments that may become due after
including but not limited to the description, fitness for a
the hearing. Persons submitting testimony are requested to provide the time of sale will be the responsibility of the purchaser.
particular purpose or use, structural integrity, physical condi-
The Trial Courts Judicial
Nominating Commission for
No. C-02-CV-20-000174 their name and address. Written comments may also be submitted
to the City Clerk’s Office, 111 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland,
Title examination, conveyancing, state revenue stamps, transfer
tion, construction, extent of construction, workmanship, mate-
Commission District 11 – NOTICE 20850, or forwarded by email to cityclerk@rockvillemd.gov. taxes, title insurance, and all other costs incident to settlement
rials, liability, zoning, subdivision, environmental condition,
Montgomery County - will
accept signed, written
Notice is hereby issued, Thursday,
May 27, 2021 that the sale of Written comments received after 10:00 a.m. on the date of the virtual
are to be paid by the purchaser. Time is of the essence for
merchantability, compliance with building or housing codes or
comments regarding the listed the property in the proceedings public hearing will not be available to the Mayor and Council at the the purchaser, otherwise the deposit will be forfeited and the
other laws, ordinances or regulations, or other similar matters,
applicants for use in its
evaluation process.
mentioned, made and reported by
Christine M. Drexel, Substitute
hearing and will be provided to the Mayor and Council at a later date.
property may be resold at risk and costs of the defaulting
and subject to easements, agreements and restrictions of record
Comments must be received by
Friday, June 25, 2021.
Trustee. MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF ROCKVILLE purchaser. The purchaser agrees to accept service by first class
which affect the same, if any. The property will be sold
BE RATIFIED AND CONFIRMED,
By: Sara Taylor-Ferrell, City Clerk/Director of Council Operations
mail and certified mail addressed to the address provided by
subject to all conditions, liens, restrictions and agreements of
unless cause to the contrary there-
Please address your comments
to: of be shown on or before the said Purchaser as identified on the Memorandum of Sale for any
record affecting same including any condominium and of HOA
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Cracked marble? Acrylic-epoxy adhesive can help.
BY J EANNE H UBER
Q: The marble (I think) top of
my buffet has a serious crack in
it. I have called two or three
countertop/stone companies to
repair it, but no luck. I would be
happy with a simple “glue job.”
How can I fix this?
Rockville
A: It isn’t clear from the picture
you sent whether the corner has
broken off or whether the stone
is just cracked. A crack is easier
to deal with, but either way, you
should be able to get reasonably
good results by using an acrylic-
epoxy adhesive tinted to
approximately match the stone.
Get a knife-grade adhesive,
which means it has a putty-like
consistency. That’s a lot easier to
control than a free-flowing
liquid.
As with several other kinds of
stone fillers, including pure
epoxies, epoxy-acrylics are two-
part formulas: the basic product
plus an activator. But unlike
some products that are mixed in
equal amounts, with epoxy-
acrylics, you need only a tiny bit
of activator, no more than
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activator starts the clock
ticking; after that, you have only
a short window until the
material starts to harden. The
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Especially if you are trying to
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trick is to mix just enough
adhesive to hold the two pieces
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when you press them together
doesn’t completely fill the gap,
no worries. You can mix more
later to fill in any gaps.
Andrew Geronimo, a product
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stone industry, recommends
using Akemi Platinum 4 Knife
Grade Epoxy Acrylate. A quart of
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Geronimo said one reason he
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third the price for a pure epoxy,
such as Akemi Akepox Knife
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That product stands up better
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The basic epoxy-acrylic dries
clear, which provides a seamless
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closely and is often a good
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READER PHOTO
An acrylic-epoxy
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getting a bottle of the Buff color
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tint into the basic adhesive and
add the activator only once you
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The color will change very little
after the activator is added,
Geronimo said.
Before you add activator, have
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Geronimo said hand pressure
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Can woven bins, plastic boxes

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colorful or sleek storage contain-
er can provide motivation toward
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ger like or won’t wear some of
them. After paring down one cat-
egory, you may not need extra
storage supplies. Or you may
need something other than what
you initially thought.
Once you’ve narrowed down
what you have to organize, meas-
ure your shelves, drawers or cabi-
nets, and make a list before you
head out to the store or start
filling your online shopping cart.
A list will keep you on track and
ensure you get what you need
without overbuying.
Shop your home
Your home probably has a ISTOCK

bunch of containers you can re-

purpose for organizing. Shoe box- to designate certain categories. Buy less space is truly deficient, and it’s
es are great drawer dividers and If all of your pasta is grouped in One way to feel more organized essential to maximize the space
can be covered in wrapping paper your pantry, you don’t need a bin It’s possible to stay and in control without buying a using every organizing tool there
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to give them personality. Plastic
food containers — either from
stores or carryout — can be used
to stash craft and office supplies,
Legos and Barbie accessories.
Bookshelves can be used in clos-
ets for purses and shoes, and glass
jars (from pasta sauce, for exam-
ple) are great for buttons, spare
change or even paper clips.
Save a few small gift boxes to
divide your earrings and brace-
lets, or use teacups from your
china set for rings. Silver trays
that aren’t for entertaining can
become trays to keep your make-
up organized. Repurposing heir-
looms gives them new life and lets
you enjoy their beauty.
A place for everything
Just keeping similar items to-
gether reduces the need for bins
to keep it all together. Either way,
you can see what you have and
will know when it’s time to buy
more. The same goes for items
such as gift-wrapping supplies. If
you have a specific place to keep
them, they’ll be easy to find when
you need them, and you’ll notice
when you’re running low. And
you don’t need a fancy organizer
for storage: An upright laundry
bin is perfect for rolls of paper,
and a couple of gift bags
work well for storing ribbon and
tissue paper.
Having a specialty storage so-
lution is helpful if it motivates
you and works well in your space,
but it’s more important to know
what you have and where to find
it, and that’s a function of always
putting items in their designated
spots.
single container is to simply
organized — and be purge excess stuff and commit to
buying less. We often feel the
environmentally need to buy more containers and
other organizing products, be-
friendly — without cause we’ve maxed out our spaces
and think we need to find “new”
spending an entire or additional ways to store pieces.
I understand that many of us
paycheck on like to shop and stock up, but
what if we all just bought less
merchandise to hold stuff? If you had two pairs of
sunglasses instead of 10, you
your merchandise. wouldn’t need a special container
to keep them in. If you had six
bottles of sunscreen and not 24,
you wouldn’t need a basket for
your stockpile. And if you had
fewer clothes, you might not need
bins to store sweaters, fleeces and
boots under your bed during the
warm-weather months.
There are homes where storage
is. But if you have plenty of space,
it’s worth considering whether to
lighten your load, so you can
spend more on those communal
gatherings we all hope to get back
to soon.
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of Neatnik. She can be reached at
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Prepare to host an in-person gathering with these experts’ tips

BY A SHLEY A BRAMSON

Abby Groshek, an apparel de-

signer in Milwaukee, recently
hosted a small graduation party
for a friend — her first in-person
get-together at her home in al-
most 18 months.
Pre-pandemic, Groshek fre-
quently had friends and family
over for dinner, but this spring’s
event presented a new challenge.
“After such a long time, I had to
start seeing my house through
someone else’s eyes,” she says.
Plus, the pandemic adds an extra
layer of planning: To feel comfort-
able in your home, people also
need to feel safe.
Groshek had been at home
with her husband and son
throughout the pandemic, so the
house was in livable shape, but
wasn’t necessarily guest-ready.
“We had relaxed our standards a
bit during the pandemic, so the
gathering was an opportunity to
shift gears,” she says. “I walked
from the bathroom to the kitchen
and then to the dining room
to figure out what each space
needed.”
Now that the Centers for Dis-
ease Control and Prevention has
relaxed mask and social distanc-
ing recommendations for fully
vaccinated individuals, you, like
Groshek, might be having people
over for the first time in more ISTOCK

than a year. And, you, too, might

find yourself experiencing stress
alongside the excitement about
seeing family and friends. Here
are some suggestions from event
planners to help you pull off your
first post-pandemic gathering.
Do a reset clean
One of Groshek’s biggest chal-
lenges was making the switch
from pandemic survival mode to
hospitality mode. That included
adjusting her cleaning standards.
Michiel Perry, founder of the life-
style brand Black Southern Belle,
suggests concentrating on high-
traffic areas, such as your living
room, dining room, kitchen and
bathroom; within each room, fo-
cus on areas guests will see and
use. (For example, cleaning your
counters is far more important
than organizing your pantry.)
Don’t worry too much about
spots your guests won’t see or
gather in, such as your bedroom
or office.
Once you clean and declutter,
walk through your home with a
extra seating, and put it on your
shopping list.
Once your to-buy list is ready,
Perry recommends shopping as
early as you can, so you have time
to track down out-of-stock items.
“Just as toilet paper and hand
sanitizer were sold out last
March, propane tanks and patio
furniture might be hard to come
by now,” she says.
Be flexible
It’s your job as a host to ensure
and safe in your space. Just as you
would accommodate guests’ food
preferences or allergies, Perry
suggests creating options for peo-
ple who may feel worried about
coronavirus transmission.
In general, aim for a more
conservative approach; for exam-
ple, offer spaced-out seating, an
outdoor gathering option and a
food-and-drink setup that reduc-
es unnecessary contact and germ
spread. (In other words, maybe
skip the charcuterie board.)
some personality: Play music you
like, serve cocktails your friends
know you would order and dis-
play photos of memories you
made during the pandemic. “You
want people to walk in and know
immediately they’re at your
house, at an event you’re hosting,”
Shaktman says.
As much as your guests will
appreciate personal touches, try
to keep the big picture in mind.
Yes, a warm, welcoming and per-
sonalized environment contrib-

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suggests carving out time to
deep-clean before your party, not
only to prepare your home for
your guests, but also to change
your mind-set back to that of a
host. “We’ve been cleaning to our
own comfort levels for the last
year and a half, so you’ll have to
recalibrate to your ‘having guests
over’ comfort level,” Perry says.
A week or two before your
gathering, start to deep-clean the
areas of your home you may have
neglected — the stove, refrigera-
tor, windows and baseboards, for
example — to create a fresh can-
vas for party planning.
If you’re stressed about clean-
ing your home from top to bot-
tom, remember: Your guests
will only notice rooms they’re
in. Lindsey Shaktman, a lead
planner with Mavinhouse Events,
guest’s perspective, focusing on
high-traffic areas. What would
catch your eye at someone else’s
home? For another viewpoint,
ask an honest friend or loved one
to check out your space and offer
suggestions.
Take inventory
While preparing for a recent
cookout, Perry realized she didn’t
know where most of her party
supplies were. “A lot of us have
rearranged our homes multiple
times for virtual school, work or
just out of boredom,” she says.
Perry recommends going
through your storage spaces to
find (and potentially relocate)
party supplies, such as wine
glasses, champagne flutes and
serving dishes. Take stock of what
you need, such as napkins or
that your guests feel comfortable
“We’ve been cleaning to
our own comfort levels
for the last year and
a half, so you’ll have
to recalibrate to your
‘having guests over’
comfort level.”
Michiel Perry, founder of
Black Southern Belle
And although your guests are
probably grateful for the oppor-
tunity to spend time together,
keep in mind that people’s lives
have changed during the pan-
demic, and adjust your expecta-
tions accordingly. Guests may not
feel comfortable hugging or shak-
ing hands, some people may be
late or not stay long, and others
might not feel ready to attend
gatherings at all. Don’t take it
personally. Everyone’s reentering
“normal life” at their own pace.
Keep it personal
People might be gathering for a
bigger reason, such as a gradua-
tion or birthday party, but they’re
also coming over because they’re
excited to see you, especially after
such a long time apart. Don’t be
afraid to infuse your space with
utes to hospitality, but no amount
of cleanliness and decor is worth-
while if it compromises your abil-
ity to be present with your loved
ones. The good news? Shaktman
says your guests probably aren’t
expecting your home to look like
an open house that has been
perfectly staged for selling.
After weeks of preparing,
Groshek found that her guests
were far more concerned about
connecting and celebrating than
the state of her home. “In the end,
it was just really nice to be around
people again,” she says. “We don’t
have people over to show off our
new countertops, but to spend
time together.”
localliving@washpost.com
Abramson is a freelance writer in
Wisconsin.
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Home
How hotter summers and warmer winters are changing the garden
I’m not sure if Tip
O’Neill’s adage
that all politics is
local still holds in
the digital age,
but when it comes
Adrian to gardening, it’s
Higgins still safe to say
GARDENING that all weather
remains
steadfastly local.
You might feel confident
overwintering dahlia tubers in
the ground in Washington but
maybe not in Baltimore. Winter
cold, summer heat and the
length of the growing season all
vary by locale, but that doesn’t
mean the weather itself is fixed.
Far from it.
Seasoned gardeners, in
particular, are well aware that
conditions have significantly
changed in Washington since the
1970s, when deep freezes wiped
out such things as camellias and
southern magnolias. Now we
grow banana trees and
pomegranates.
This shift is observed not only
by gardeners resting on a spade,
but also by the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric
Administration, which, once a
decade, updates its “climate
normals” across the United
States based on temperature and
precipitation averages over the
preceding 30 years.
To summarize its latest
figures, released last month,
parts of the Dakotas and
Montana are cooler, but the rest
of the country is warmer, and a
lot of it is wetter. The arid
southwest is even drier.
As a gardener in a fixed
location, I am parochially drawn
to the data in Washington,
specifically at Reagan National
Airport in Northern Virginia.
The numbers support what we
already know. The winters are
shorter and less extreme, and the
summers, always long and at
times miserably hot, have
become more so.
The data shows that the
average daily maximum
temperature has reached 89
degrees or just over every day
between July 2 and Aug. 4. In the
previous 30-year period, not one
had reached 89 degrees. These
are averages; the actual day-to-
day weather is more volatile.
Last July, for example, we
endured a record 28 90-degree
days.
What stresses temperate
plants in our summers is not
only the heat of the day, but also
the heat of the night. For plants
seeking relief, there is no respite.
Between 1981 and 2010, the
normal minimum temperature
in July was 71.1 degrees. The
norm now (between 1991-2020)
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is 72.4 degrees. This may seem
like a small increase, but it
represents a significant shift
and, moreover, a clear climatic
trajectory.
And also for the first time, we
have monthly rainfall averages
of more than four inches (in
June and July).
If summers have become
predictably hotter, winters have
become milder, but
unpredictably so. In the old
norms, freezing nights began
Dec. 17 and lasted until Feb. 21.
Now, they begin Dec. 30 and last
until Feb. 16. Subzero
temperatures, which were fairly
common a century ago, are a
thing of the past. The last one
was in 1994. We may not miss
those deep freezes, but we do
miss the relative steadfastness of
the cold.
In theory, the warmer, shorter
winter opens up new
possibilities for the garden,
allowing landscapes to become
alive with such things as the
misnamed autumn-flowering
cherry tree, witch hazels,
camellias, Japanese flowering
apricot and snowdrops. Balmy
days followed by freezes,
however, make this a risky game.
And there is another issue.
Trees and shrubs, while dormant
in winter, need to accumulate a
certain number of chilling hours
below 45 degrees in advance of
ADRIAN HIGGINS/THE WASHINGTON POST
spring to flower, fruit and
TOP: Amelanchier lamarckii, a North American serviceberry used generally flourish. The totals
extensively in Europe. ABOVE: The tart, edible fruit of Autumn differ by species and variety, but
Brilliance, a hybrid serviceberry popular as a street tree. Milder it’s plausible that many fruit
winters affect the ability of such trees to fruit and thrive. trees at home in Washington
7
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may now be moving into the
margins of their comfort zone.
I was thinking of this the
other day, when I came across a
serviceberry used as a street tree
and loaded with delicious fruit.
It is a hybrid named Autumn
Brilliance, and after sampling a
few berries and returning home,
I started to thumb through my
reference books. This led me to
the Agriculture Department’s
Plant Hardiness Zone Map,
which tracks the average
extreme low winter
temperatures across the country,
thus giving you a good sense of
whether a given plant will
survive where you live.
When you buy a plant, you get
a range showing the coldest zone
where it will grow, but also the
warmest. Autumn Brilliance is
happy from Zone 4 to Zone 8 —
say, central Maine to eastern
North Carolina.
Washington is in the colder
half of Zone 7 — or it was. The
zone map was last published in
2012 using data collected
between 1976 and 2005.
According to the map,
Washington sees average
extreme lows between 0 and 5
degrees. But these figures are
obviously outdated.
I read that our lowest average
temperature now sits at 14
degrees, which would place us in
the colder half of Zone 8, roughly
where the map puts Virginia
Beach. The map clearly needs an
update, something its creator,
the Agricultural Research
Service, is said to be considering.
If we are in Zone 8, the
serviceberry is now at the edge
of where it wants to grow, and
hundreds of other plants
routinely planted in Washington
may need to be reconsidered. I
think it’s time to retire the
French lilac, for example.
There is at least one silver
lining here. September and
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October have become warmer,
giving us the opportunity to fully
exploit what I consider the
sweetest time of the garden year,
the period when the full, mellow
season’s growth of perennials
and grasses combines with leaf
colorations, seed-head ornament
and low but limpid light to
produce extraordinary moments
of serenity and beauty.
Maybe we should stop
thinking about the spring
garden and start planting mostly
for fall effect. Meanwhile,
summer is soon upon us. Gird
your loins.
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LIVE Q&A
Street artist London Kaye on crocheting and yarn-bombing
London Kaye,
a crochet artist
and author,
joined staff
writer Jura
Koncius last
week for our
Home Front
London Kaye online chat.
Here is an edit-
ed excerpt.
Q: What is the difference
between knitting and
crocheting?
A: Crocheting uses one hook
and knitting uses two needles.
Crocheting can be a lot more
free-form and is easier to create
shapes, whereas knitting is
more structured and
traditionally used to make
garments.
Q: What kind of planning went
into the mural of Vice President
Harris (pictured in the bottom
photo)? Did you sketch it first?
How did you start? And what
was it like to meet second
gentleman Doug Emhoff ?
A: The mural of Vice President
Harris took a lot of planning. It
started with a sketch and
breaking it down into pattern
pieces. There were more than
150 crocheters involved, and
each person was in charge of
one square. Depending on their
skill level and the yarn colors
they had at home, I paired them
up with the appropriate piece.
From start to finish, it took
about a month and a half, and
with it being 40 feet in size, I
would say that’s an
accomplishment! It’s the first
mural of Love Across the USA
that I led, and the community is
growing; there are more than
600 crocheters and counting.
Meeting Doug Emhoff was too
cool. We went to the same high
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school, so I feel as if we’re pals.
Q: How did you begin
decorating and making
statements and messages via
crochet in public places?
A: I started yarn-bombing for
fun. I was working at an Apple
store and wanted to add some
creativity into my life. I always
loved to crochet, but I never
thought to put yarn outside
before. In 2013, I wrapped a tree
outside of my house, and I
couldn’t believe it stayed up,
and the people in the
neighborhood loved it. I decided
I would yarn-bomb before work,
during lunch breaks and even
on the subway ride home. I gave
myself a 30-day challenge,
where I would put something
outside and leave it there for
people to enjoy every day. I
loved it so much that I ended up
doing it for 50 days straight.
Next to each piece, I would leave
a tag, so people could find me.
After a few years, I was able to
turn it into my job. Nothing
makes me happier than adding
unexpected joy into people’s
days through crochet.
Q: How does a beginner get
started in yarn-bombing? What
are your inspirations for
patterns?
A: Check out my website,
KAYSIE KENT
londonkaye.com, where I have
free beginner patterns. They’re
all inspired by things I love,
such as butterflies, rainbows
and eyeballs.
Q: What can I crochet for my
home that won’t look old-
fashioned?
A: I’m sitting in a yarn-bombed
chair. You could yarn-bomb a
vase and put flowers inside. Oh
my, a rug! There are so many
fun projects for the home. Even
if you crochet a blanket, try it
in the shape of a heart. Find
LONDON KAYE
TOP: Crochet artist London
Kaye created pieces for the off-
Broadway dance show “Beyond
Babel.” LEFT: Kaye stands in
front of a crocheted mural of
Vice President Harris in the
District. More than 150
crocheters were involved, and
each person was in charge of
one square.
yarn-bombing projects for
the home in my book, “Crochet
with London Kaye.”
Q: Is crocheting easier than
knitting?
A: Everyone has a preference.
I think crocheting is easier, but
with practice, both are muscle
memory. You repeat the same
motion over and over again,
creating a chain of knots. I may
be biased, but start with
crocheting.
Q: What’s your favorite yarn-
bomb?
A: One I made of a crochet
dragon on a chain-link fence in
New York City. It was on 14th
Street and Sixth Avenue, and the
crochet fire coming from its
mouth stretched almost the
whole block. The reason it’s my
favorite is because, when
someone took it down after it
was up for about two weeks,
people in the neighborhood
came back with ribbons that
said: “Who took my dragon?
Where is my dragon?” It was the
first time I saw how much a
piece of public art affects the
community it’s in.
Q: What’s the best way to make
sure a yarn-bomb stays up in a
public space?
A: I like using chain-link as my
canvas. You can stretch and
manipulate yarn in such an
organic way. When I started
yarn-bombing in Brooklyn,
there were a lot of chain-link
fences.
Q: How long does it take to
make a yarn-bomb?
A: I like to make them quick.
You never know how long they’ll
stay up. I would say, on average,
I spend between one day and
two weeks on a yarn-bomb.
Q: My grandmother was born in
1884. She crocheted all her adult
life, and we have a treasure
trove of her work, both
completed and nearly so. It’s
traditional crochet. What do we
do with it? The original use for
dining tables and side tables
isn’t in fashion. I remember her
with the basket of thread next to
her, watching TV or sitting on
the porch.
A: I think it’s so special to have
handmade items from loved
ones. The nostalgia that’s
bursting from each thread is
something to hold on to and
pass down from generation to
generation. I still have a
tablecloth and blanket from
both of my great-grandmothers.
I never met either of them, but
their crochet goodness is in my
home today.
Q: Are there special places you
like to go for inspiration,
especially if you get stuck on an
idea and need a little help?
A: When I need inspiration, I
like to go for a run. It clears my
head and resets my brain for
inspiring thoughts to enter in.
Q: Has anyone been upset with
yarn-bombing? It’s such a cool
way to make a point.
A: I’ve been stopped a few times
for hanging up a yarn-bomb. No
one has been absolutely upset;
however, I’ve had to take a
couple down. But that’s what I
love about yarn-bombing. I
always have scissors with me,
and I’m happy to take it down if
the art isn’t wanted. Also,
getting permission is easier than
expected. Generally, I ask once
the piece is done, so people
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understand what I’m talking
about.
Q: How can we teach children to
crochet? What’s a good starting
age?
A: You can teach children in
kindergarten to crochet. It’s one
basic stitch, so as long as they
can sit in one place for a long
enough time, give them a hook
and some yarn. I would start by
teaching them a chain stitch to
get the motion down. Even a
pompom is a good starter
project for kids to get
comfortable with yarn.
Q: What’s your favorite crochet
tip?
A: That you can do it. It’s so
simple, but it’s true. Stay
positive and trust yourself.
You’re only presented with
opportunities in life that you
can handle. If you put your
mind to it, you can do it.
Q: I love your crochet hooks. I
have the pack of three and have
bought several, because I always
misplace my hooks. Where can I
get your 3-D-printed hooks?
A: I 3-D-print my own crochet
hooks, and I got a patent for the
design. It’s a lighter hook with a
pointed tip and a twist to make
it more ergonomic. I created the
hook, because when people
started helping me crochet with
larger and larger projects, I
noticed there wasn’t a great
large crochet hook on the
market. They’re available on my
website.
Q: Where’s the craziest place
you’ve installed a yarn-bomb?
A: I installed a yarn-bomb in
Havana. It was a flamingo, and
people went nuts. I also
installed one on the side of a
cliff in Italy. That probably
wasn’t the most brilliant idea.
Q: How do I keep a crocheted
ABOVE: One of Kaye’s first public art installations was this dragon in New York City. She was touched by the
community’s response to the piece. RIGHT: Yarn-bombing can help dress up furniture in the home.
throw from looking old?
A: Make the blanket in the
shape of a heart.
Q: If I love doing needlepoint,
do you think I would like
crocheting? I’m looking to do
something a bit different after
the pandemic.
A: I think you would love
PHOTOS BY LONDON KAYE
TOP: Characters from the
movie “Clueless” in a piece by
London Kaye in New York.
LEFT: To keep projects from
looking too old-fashioned, Kaye
says, use different
shapes; rather than crocheting
a square blanket, try making
a heart-shaped one.
crocheting. Like needlepoint,
crocheting takes time and
patience. But the beautiful
finished products you can create
are worth each and every
minute.
Q: I’ve been following you since
you yarn-bombed a subway car
in Brooklyn. What’s the craziest
project you’ve done, and what’s
your next big project?
A: I’m headed to Milan for an
epic yarn festival, where the
streets will be taken over in
crochet art. And at the start of
2021, I took over Love Across
the USA, a community of more
than 600 crocheters. The first
project I led was the Harris
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mural. The next project I’m
organizing with the group is for
Pride Month. I’m encouraging
people to crochet a love wrap for
their own community, which is a
great first crochet project,
because it’s super simple. The
goal is to have one in all 50
states by the first week of June.
Check out the growing map, and
see photos on our website,
loveacrosstheusa.org.
Q: How can crocheters get
involved with Love Across the
USA?
A: Go to the website and add
your email to the community
page. More projects are coming
soon.
Q: Can we yarn-bomb the
District?
A: You can yarn-bomb
anywhere, but I would get
permission first. I suggest your
own neighborhood to start, so
you can check in on the art you
hang up. There’s nothing more
fun than seeing people in your
community enjoying your art.
Q: Is it possible to make a living
from yarn-bombing? How do
you split your time between
yarn art and social media?
A: I make a living from making
large art installations made of
yarn for all sorts of crazy and
wonderful jobs. One of my
favorite was yarn-bombing the
entire set of Kelly Clarkson’s
talk show. Splitting my time
between running the day-to-day
business of crochet, actually
crocheting and sharing that
crochet with the world can be a
lot. But being able to do this as
my job is something I’m so
grateful for, and I love it more
every day.
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Tick encounters are expected to be frequent. Here’s what to know.
BY A NGELA H AUPT
A few weeks ago, Goudarz
Molaei went on a research expe-
dition to a wooded coastal area
in southwestern Connecticut.
Within minutes, droves of trou-
blesome residents of the area
were crawling across his cover-
alls. He was covered in ticks.
Molaei, who directs the Con-
necticut Agricultural Experi-
ment Station’s tick surveillance
and testing program, collected as
many as he could and took them
back to his lab. The final tally:
more than 200 of the tiny, para-
sitic arachnids.
The experience was “quite dis-
concerting,” he said, and was in
line with predictions that we’re
in for a bad tick year. “We have to
be extremely vigilant,” he
said. “We’re going to have higher
than average tick activity this
year.”
That’s partly because of the
weather: The mild winter and
early spring — plus generous
rainfall — promoted tick activity,
said Michael Bentley, an ento-
mologist and the director of
training and education for the
National Pest Management Asso-
ciation. Plus, as the coronavirus
pandemic lingers, people are
spending lots of time outside on
trails, in campgrounds or just
lounging in the backyard.
“Everybody has taken advan-
tage of being outdoors, which is
great,” Bentley said. “But it in-
creases the likelihood of tick
encounters. It’s kind of this per-
fect storm of all these different
conditions that could put people
more at risk of encountering
ticks than they would have been
in years past.”
Here’s what to know to protect
yourself from tick bites.
When it’s ‘tick season’
There are certain times of year
when ticks are most active and
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“looking for a host to have a
blood meal,” said Grace Marx, a
medical epidemiologist at the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. March, April, May
and June are prime tick months,
and there’s typically a peak in
Lyme disease cases in June and
July.
However, experts noted that
ticks are becoming a year-round
threat. “It seems that every sea-
son is tick season,” Molaei said.
His laboratory encourages Con-
necticut residents to submit
ticks for identification or testing.
Years ago, he would receive
50 samples between December
and mid-March. Now, it’s closer
to 800. That highlights the im-
portance of staying proactive
year-round to protect against
tickborne disease, he said.
Ticks that spread disease include, from left, the dog tick, the Lone Star tick and the deer tick.
The most dangerous ticks
Although there are dozens of
tick species in the United States,
three spread the majority of
tickborne diseases. The one re-
sponsible for the most illness is
the blacklegged tick, also known
as the deer tick, which spreads
Lyme disease.
Blacklegged ticks, which are
brown to reddish-orange
and about the size of a sesa-
me seed, have a “broad geo-
graphic range across much of the
eastern United States,” Marx
said, and are also found in the
Upper Midwest. In April — in
news that many found surprising
— research published in the
journal Applied and Environ-
mental Microbiology report-
ed that blacklegged ticks
were abundant near beaches in
Northern California.
Lyme disease accounts for
70 to 80 percent of all tickborne
diseases, Marx said. Although
Lyme disease can often be treat-
ed successfully with antibiotics,
it has been linked with arthritis
and cardiac and neurological
problems. Nearly 480,000 people
in the United States are treated
for it each year, according to the
CDC, though it’s difficult to pin-
point the exact prevalence, be-
cause the disease can be hard to
diagnose.
The blacklegged tick
can also cause anaplasmosis
(which leads to such symptoms
as fever, headache and chills),
Powassan virus disease (which
can cause encephalitis)
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and babesiosis, a rare infection
of the red blood cells.
Another species, the Lone Star
tick, is particularly common in
the South. It’s an aggressive tick
that can be identified by a white
dot — a “lone star” — on its
back. It causes diseases such
as tularemia and Southern tick-
associated rash illness.
The American dog tick, which
is most prevalent east of the
Rocky Mountains, is brown with
grayish markings and is some-
times called a wood tick. It
transmits Rocky Mountain spot-
ted fever, “which can be rapidly
fatal,” Marx said.
Although they’re not
yet among the most common,
Molaei is worried about newer
tick species, such as the Asian
long-horned tick — many of
which he found on himself dur-
ing that recent outing to the
Connecticut woods. (The others
were Lone Star ticks.)
Asian long-horned ticks,
which are reddish-brown, were
reported in the United States
for the first time in 2017,
and it’s not unusual to find
thousands at a time. The
ticks are known to cause anemia
in livestock, Molaei said,
and will “almost certainly cause
major disruption to the live-
stock industry.” The potential
risk to humans is high, he
said; the ticks spread harmful
pathogens in Asia, including
hemorrhagic fever. But it’s
still unclear whether they’ll
transmit disease to humans in
the United States and, if so, what
kind.
How to prevent tick bites
You’re at risk of encountering
ticks any time you’re outside;
they’re “really effective at finding
and latching onto a host and
hitching a ride,” Bentley said. But
ticks especially thrive in areas
with thick vegetation and tall
grasses.
If you can’t avoid such places,
walk in the center of trails if pos-
sible and dress appropriately:
Experts advise wearing long-
sleeved shirts and long pants
in light colors that help make
ticks extra visible. Tucking your
pants into your socks can block
ticks’ easy access to your skin,
and hats can keep them out of
your hair.
Marx recommends treating
your clothes and gear with an
insecticide that contains at least
0.5 percent permethrin, which is
nontoxic to humans. Or, she
said, you can buy clothes
that have been pretreated with
permethrin.
When you get home from a
hike or another outdoor activity,
check yourself thoroughly for
ticks, and do the same for family
members and pets. Take a show-
er right away: “You can wash off
those ticks before they get at-
tached,” Marx said. And toss the
clothing you wore outside into
the dryer for at least 10 minutes
on high heat, she advised. That
will kill any ticks that you might
have picked up.
Some pathogens can be trans-
mitted just minutes after a tick
attaches to a human, Marx said.
But the pathogen that causes
Lyme disease can’t be transmit-
ted until the tick has been at-
tached for at least 24 hours —
“and we think that most trans-
mission actually occurs after
36 hours.” That’s why it’s impor-
tant to check for ticks immedi-
ately after being outside. The
sooner you remove a tick, the
better.
The best way to remove a tick
The key to removal is to use
tweezers or another fine-toothed
forceps, rather than something
more clunky, such as a pair of
scissors. “Grab as close to the
skin as possible, squeeze and lift
straight up,” Bentley said. Be
careful not to twist the tick or dig
around, which could cause parts
of it to break off and get stuck in
your skin.
Bentley has heard about other
home treatments for removing
ticks, such as spreading cayenne
pepper on one and waiting for it
to fall off. Ignore them. “Don’t do
whatever weird things the Inter-
net is recommending,” he said.
“Just get fine-toothed forceps. It
takes two seconds to pull out,
and you’re good to go.”
Dispose of ticks by putting
them in a sealed bag, wrapping
them in tape or flushing them
down the toilet.
When to see a doctor
Most tick bites don’t result in a
tickborne disease, but some are
considered riskier than others,
Marx said, such as bites experi-
enced in areas where there’s a
high concentration of Lyme dis-
ease. In those cases, if the tick
was attached for at least
36 hours, doctors will often pre-
scribe a single dose of the antibi-
otic doxycycline as a preventive
measure.
No matter where you live, if
you develop a rash or fever
within a few weeks of removing a
tick, see a doctor.
The most important advice,
Molaei said, is to remain aware
of the threat ticks pose and take
action accordingly. “What we’re
seeing [this year] magnifies the
scope of the problem we’re going
to have with ticks and tickborne
diseases,” he said. “We have to be
mindful of these things.”
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Wellness
Will hiding likes on social media improve users’ mental health?
BY A LLYSON C HIU
Facebook is touting its latest
feature, which will allow Face-
book and Instagram users to hide
like counts on posts, as a move
that aims to “depressurize” peo-
ple’s experiences on its plat-
forms. The change comes amid
ongoing concern about the po-
tentially harmful mental health
effects of social media.
But although the action may
be a positive step, many experts
say, it isn’t likely to have much
effect on the lower levels of
psychological well-being seen in
some users.
“This is not a panacea,” said
Sophia Choukas-Bradley, an as-
sistant professor of psychologi-
cal and brain sciences at the
University of Delaware who stud-
ies the effect of social media on
adolescents. “It may be a step in
the right direction for some peo-
ple, but I do not believe this will
be a majorly transformative
change.”
Jeff Hancock, founding direc-
tor of the Stanford Social Media
Lab, agreed. “This seems like a
really smart, straightforward
way to address some of the
concerns that likes can be dis-
tracting and perhaps harmful if
people obsess about them,” he
said. “Any time you give people
more options, that’s valuable.
“Do I think it’s going to have a
huge impact on mental health?”
he continued. “I don’t think so.”
The change, which the tech
giant recently announced after
almost two years of testing, gives
users choices regarding likes on
posts. They can hide the number
of likes on other people’s posts
that appear on their feeds, and
they can also hide the like counts
on their own posts (though they
will still be able to see how many
likes they’ve gotten with one
click). Facebook is promoting the
change as a matter of “giving
people more control.”
The option to hide likes is
one tool the company has been
working on to address the prob-
lem of social comparison, said
Kamla Modi, the director of
learning and education at the Jed
Foundation, a mental health
nonprofit that has been working
with Facebook-owned Insta-
gram. In the announcement,
Facebook said it will continue
funding more external research
into people’s experiences on Ins-
tagram and issued a request for
proposals from academics and
nonprofits.
Likes are just one part of the
social media experience, but re-
search has shown that they can
have powerful effects on mental
health and well-being, both posi-
tive and negative. Adolescents,
who are often highly invested in
and sensitive to external approv-
al and feedback, are particularly
vulnerable to the effects of social
validation.
“It feels great when people we
know or people that we kind of
know react positively” on social
media, Hancock said. “It’s
only harmful if we tend to over-
emphasize that or organize
our lives or our behavior around
that very narrow form of social
validation.”
Though Modi acknowledged
the new feature alone won’t solve
the mental health problems that
may affect social media users,
many of whom are younger, she
said, adding the options to hide
likes demonstrates that Insta-
gram is “dedicated to mental
health” and “committed to ensur-
ing that the user is protected.”
“The idea was that if you’re
removing the likes, if you don’t
see the likes, then there’s less
social comparison,” she said. “We
know that likes are really the
currency that exists in social
media.” And for businesses and
influencers who rely on social
media, those likes and engage-
ments often translate into actual
revenue.
The societal and financial val-
ue that has been placed on likes
— combined with the fact that
Facebook and Instagram users
will have to decide on their own
to hide like counts — are among
the reasons experts say it’s un-
clear how the public will be
affected by this change.
The new option, they say, may
not just be too little, but also too
late. “Sometimes when you break
something, you can’t really fix it,”
said Nathan Walter, an assistant
professor and lab director at
Northwestern University’s Cen-
ter of Media Psychology and
Social Influence. “The toothpaste
is out of the tube, and now we
need to deal with it, and the easy
fix is what we’re seeing,” he
added.
“We have to still think about it
in the context of all the different
things that are possible within
Instagram and see the culture
that sort of has developed within
Instagram,” said Jacqueline Nesi,
an assistant professor of psychia-
try and human behavior at
Brown University.
One issue with the change that
experts highlighted is the fact
that the default settings on the
platforms will still publicly dis-
play like counts. “We know
that defaults are very powerful,”
Hancock said, and many users
might not take the time to fiddle
with their settings and make the
change.
Another concern is that, even
with the new option enabled,
users will easily be able to check
the total number of likes on
their own posts. “Adolescents
will definitely take that step,”
Choukas-Bradley said.
If Facebook really wants “to
promote positive mental health
and to depressurize the experi-
ence, then why not give some
people who want it — not the
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influencers, but everyday people
— the option to take likes com-
pletely out of their experience?”
she said.
In an emailed statement, a
Facebook spokesperson said the
company first started testing an
experience in 2019 where like
counts were fully hidden to see
whether it reduced some of the
pressure associated with post-
ing.
“What we found in our quali-
tative and quantitative research
and in conversations with ex-
perts, was that for some people,
it was beneficial,” the spokesper-
son said. “But for others, it didn’t
matter as much, and they still
wanted to see what was trending
or popular. We didn’t see that it
had a significant impact on peo-
ple’s mental health or well-being,
which is why we landed on giving
people an option.”
But experts noted that those
who would benefit most from
hiding likes, such as younger
people, may not use the feature.
“It does take a very self-aware
person to first of all, know about
the different features,” Modi said.
Then, people need to use the
options in a way “that’s going to
really protect their emotional
health.”
For teens who are dealing with
the additional pressures of social
norms within their peer groups,
choosing to hide likes may not be
easy, Walter said. “It’s not like
likes will stop being a symbol of
status. They will be, you just
won’t have access to it. You’re not
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part of that.” And, he added, it’s
not yet known how hiding like
counts on your posts might be
perceived by others.
It’s possible that it could be
seen as a sign of independence
for some people, Hancock said.
“You’re showing the world that
you’re not beholden to likes.”
Experts encouraged users to
experiment with the new feature.
“I actually recommend that ev-
eryone give it a try, except per-
haps influencers who rely on this
for their financial well-being,”
Choukas-Bradley said. Users
should hide the likes on their
own and others’ posts, she said,
“and see if they can document a
change in their mood or a change
in how they feel about them-
selves and their lives.”
Hiding likes “could make a big
difference” to some people, Nesi
said. The following scenarios
might indicate that you would
benefit from hiding likes, she
and the other experts said:
If you’re worrying about
likes. Constantly thinking about
likes before, during or after post-
ing; deleting a post because it
didn’t get enough likes; asking
others to like your post; and
using apps to track how many
likes you’re getting are all exam-
ples of behaviors that may inter-
fere with well-being, experts
said.
If you’re comparing yourself
to others. You should also con-
sider hiding likes if you’re focus-
ing too much on how other
people’s posts are performing. If
you regularly scroll through your
feed and think other people are
better than you in some way, take
a break from seeing the number
of likes on those posts. “Looking
at those images and seeing that
these things you want are being
rewarded with a lot of likes” can
cause anxiety and may lower
your mood and self-esteem,
Choukas-Bradley said.
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If you’re spending too much
time online. “Feeling chained to
a platform” is a good sign that
you might want to make a
change, Hancock said.
Although hiding likes may be
helpful for some people, Walter
emphasized that it’s not a suffi-
cient solution to mental health
concerns related to social media.
“If this process of opting out
generates the conversation about
why we’re opting out and ways to
deal with that environment and
the psychological effects it can
have on you, then that’s wonder-
ful,” he said. “But if you just opt
out and we treat this as we are
trying to sweep it under the rug,
that’s not going to change any-
thing, and arguably can make
things worse.”
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DC Wellness
Ibuprofen and ulcers: What Rep. Dingell’s surgery can teach us
BY A LLYSON C HIU
When Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-
Mich.) woke up at 3 a.m. on a
recent Friday with intense ab-
dominal pain, she initially
thought it was just a bad bout of
gas. She tried moving around,
drinking water, running a hot
bath and taking Gas-X and Tyle-
nol. But nothing worked.
“I was just on fire,” Dingell, 67,
said in a telephone interview. “I
could barely walk, it hurt so
much.”
Within hours of arriving at
George Washington University
Hospital later that day, Dingell
was rushed into emergency sur-
gery. The reason? A perforated
ulcer, which she and her doctors
believe was probably caused by
her prolonged use of an over-the-
counter pain reliever found in
many people’s medicine cabi-
nets: Motrin, or ibuprofen.
“We think if we’re taking over-
the-counter medicines and we’re
not feeling anything, we’re okay,”
said Dingell, who had been using
high doses of Motrin to help with
lingering pain from surgery ear-
lier this year. “I didn’t know I had
an ulcer,” she added. “I had no
stomach pain before this.”
Taking pain relievers such as
Advil, Motrin, Aleve or aspirin,
also known as nonsteroidal anti-
inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), is
one of the most common causes
of ulcers, experts say. But “there’s
a real education gap” among
members of the public about the
potentially serious side effects of
these medications, said Kyle
Staller, director of the Gastroin-
testinal Motility Laboratory at
Massachusetts General Hospital.
“Just because something’s
available over the counter
doesn’t mean it’s safe to be used
by everyone for any amount of
time,” Staller said. Though
NSAIDs are “wonderful medica-
tions for the relief of pain,” he
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said, it’s important to remember
how powerful they are.
Here’s what experts say the
public should know about
NSAIDs and ulcers — and why
Dingell’s experience should serve
as a cautionary tale.
How do ulcers develop?
NSAID usage isn’t the only
reason ulcers develop in
the stomach or upper area
of the small intestine. Another
common culprit is a bacterial
infection caused by Helicobacter
pylori, or H. pylori. And al-
though NSAIDs and H. pylori
infection are independent risk
factors, Staller said, they
can work together to increase a
person’s chances of developing
ulcers.
Dingell’s case appears to be
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), seen in 2019, recently had surgery for a perforated ulcer that was
probably caused by her prolonged use of the over-the-counter pain reliever Motrin, or ibuprofen.
more directly tied to taking ibu-
profen, however. The “saga,” as
she calls it, started months ago,
when a bothersome dental im-
plant led to a bone infection in
her jaw. After she had jaw sur-
gery in January, the lawmaker,
who has been outspoken about
the dangers of opioids and nar-
cotics, instead opted to take
Motrin for pain relief.
Soon, Dingell said, she was
regularly downing 800 mg morn-
ing and night, which continued
long after the initial surgery. By
around March, Dingell said, her
doctors started to raise concerns
about how much ibuprofen she
was taking.
“The doctors warned me,” she
said. “They told me that taking it
for this long, they wanted to
watch me closely, and I thought I
was invincible.”
Ibuprofen and other pain re-
lievers such as naproxen, or
Aleve, reduce your body’s ability
to make a layer of mucus
that protects the lining of your
stomach from gastric acid, said
Christian Stevoff, clinical prac-
tice director in the division of
gastroenterology at Northwest-
ern University’s Feinberg School
of Medicine.
There is a small chance that
ingesting the medicine can have
a “direct, toxic, topical effect,” he
said, but “the larger effect ap-
pears to be more systemic,
like through the bloodstream.”
For example, some people who
receive NSAIDs through an
IV will develop stomach ulcers.
What about diet and stress?
The idea that ulcers can
be caused by taking over-the-
counter pain relievers may come
as a surprise to people who have
long believed that diet and stress
are major factors.
Dingell, a self-described “junk
food queen” and “Diet Coke ad-
dict,” who typically drinks
10 to 12 bottles a day, said she
anticipated being told by her
doctors that she would need to
make changes to her diet. But,
experts said, the belief that cer-
tain foods and carbonated or
acidic beverages can cause
or worsen ulcers is a common
misconception.
“Either of those can cause
abdominal pain for different rea-
sons,” Stevoff said. “A lot of times,
people equate their abdominal
pain with having an ulcer.”
Your gastrointestinal (GI)
tract “only has a limited amount
of ways to express its displea-
sure,” Staller said, such as nau-
sea, vomiting, a “sour stomach”
or indigestion, pain and bowel
symptoms. It can be challenging
for laypeople and doctors to
determine what’s causing symp-
toms, and it’s common to confuse
another gastrointestinal malady,
such as indigestion, with ulcers,
he said. The vast majority of
patients with indigestion that
Staller performs endoscopies on
“don’t have an ulcer when we
look,” he added.
Stress also is not widely be-
lieved by experts to have a signif-
icant effect on ulcer formation,
and research hasn’t presented
conclusive findings. “It’s very
hard to measure stress and iden-
tify that as the cause for ulcers,”
said Marie Borum, director of
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the gastroenterology division at
George Washington University.
Other behaviors, though,
such as smoking and heavy alco-
hol use, are known risk factors,
said Tsion Abdi, a gastroenterol-
ogist and assistant professor of
medicine at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity. Elderly people or those
who regularly take other medica-
tions, including low-dose aspi-
rin, may also have a greater
chance of developing ulcers and
suffering from complications,
Stevoff said.
Knowing if you have an ulcer
Burning stomach pain, burp-
ing, bloating and heartburn are
among the common signs of
an ulcer, Abdi said. But Borum
noted that it’s not unusual for
people with ulcers to be asymp-
tomatic until they develop a
complication, such as bleeding
or perforating, as in Dingell’s
case. About 2 to 10 percent of
ulcer patients will experience a
perforated ulcer, which often
manifests as “acute, severe and
diffuse abdominal pain,” Borum
said.
Because of the overlap be-
tween symptoms of various gas-
trointestinal problems, Borum
urged people to pay attention to
their bodies. If your symptoms
are recurring, persistent and in-
creasing in severity, “you should
definitely seek medical atten-
tion,” she said.
How to prevent, treat ulcers
To lower your risk of ulcers,
follow the recommended-use in-
structions on products contain-
ing NSAIDs, Abdi said. These
typically note that the medica-
tion shouldn’t be taken for lon-
ger than 10 to 14 days. “The
longer you take it and the higher
dose that you take it outside of
the labeled use, you’re at greater
risk for developing complica-
tions,” she said.
Switching to a lower-risk pain
reliever, such as Tylenol, or acet-
aminophen, may also be helpful,
experts said. But although acet-
aminophen treats pain, it isn’t
an anti-inflammatory, and tak-
ing too much can cause liver
damage.
Experts recommended that
people who use NSAIDs to
help manage chronic pain talk
with their health-care provider,
rather than self-medicate. Keep
in mind that there isn’t a specific
dosage or use period that is con-
sidered universally safe, Stevoff
said.
“Everybody’s different,” he
said. “For some people, they can
take massive doses of these
things and never have a problem.
Other people can take relatively
small amounts and get an ulcer
right away.”
If your treatment requires tak-
ing NSAIDs over a long period,
your doctor may also prescribe a
common acid-reducing medica-
tion known as proton pump
inhibitors, or PPIs, experts said.
Some PPIs, such as Prilosec and
Nexium, are over-the-counter
medicines.
PPIs are highly effective at
reducing your chances of devel-
oping ulcers and helping to heal
them, Staller said, though they
themselves have potentially seri-
ous long-term use risks and
won’t protect against other pos-
sible negative effects of NSAIDs,
including kidney failure.
Dingell said her decision
to take Motrin didn’t lead
to any other problems aside
from the ulcer, but she urged
people not to make the same
mistake she did. The congress-
woman has been sharing up-
dates on her condition on her
Facebook page, facebook.com/
debbie.dingell.
“As I have learned, NSAIDs
have side effects and ignor-
ing their potential impact isn’t
a good idea,” she wrote in a
recent Facebook post. “I am
exhibit A.”
Moving forward, Dingell said,
she hopes to use her experience
to raise awareness about the
potential dangers of over-the-
counter medications. “I’m going
to study and see how do we
make sure people really do un-
derstand these dangers,” she
said, adding: “We all need to be
informed consumers and our
own advocates.”
allyson.chiu@washpost.com

Family
ON PARENTING
My son came out to me. What can I do to best support him?
BY M EGHAN L EAHY
Q: My 13-year-old recently came out to me and
said I’m the only person he has told, including
his dad/my husband. I was, quite honestly,
surprised and had no idea. My response was
love, acceptance and comfort. It was an honest
response, but the truth is, I don’t know how to
best support him. He has asked me “not to get
involved,” which I want to respect, and I told
him he can always come to me when he’s ready.
I’ve stressed to him that being a teenager is
difficult enough and that he may need support
on navigating being a gay teen. In typical teen
fashion, he gave me the head nod and the “okay.”
What more can I do to be an advocate and
support him without violating his trust and still
abiding by what he’s asked of me? Thank you for
any insight.
A: In a time when many things
feel scary and fraught, getting a
letter about how to be more
supportive and a better advocate
for your son is a balm for my
weary soul. It wasn’t too long ago
that I was getting letters from
parents asking how to “handle”
their LGBTQ+ tweens and teens.
You have recognized that your
son doesn’t need to be handled or
controlled; he simply needs to be
believed, accepted and loved.
And given that you were
surprised by his news, your note
is even more encouraging.
There’s no doubt your son’s
future will be filled with
questions and heartbreak (whose
isn’t?), but your role is to stay on
his side. You cannot sidestep pain
or worry, and you cannot
guarantee that his journey will be
filled with ease, but by staying
present and being supportive,
you ensure that home is an
emotionally and physically safe
place for your son. People can
withstand a great deal of
heartache and adversity if home
is a safe place to land, and this is
especially true for gay youth.
I sent this note to Uchenna
Umeh, a.k.a. Dr. Lulu, a
pediatrician and specialist in
parenting LGBTQ+ children, and
she highlights the importance of
remembering that his growth
and maturation is a process.
“Know that you are already
checking most of the necessary
boxes by doing the above (loving
and accepting him),” Umeh says.
“Indeed, it is a process, and your
child might themselves not know
or fully understand everything
yet, and that is okay.”
Just as you feel unsure of your
footing, so, too, does your son.
You’re both figuring this out as
you go, so take it easy. His
dismissal of your help with the
nod and the “okay” is typical for
his age. Instead, “allowing [your
son] to lead as you follow with
curiosity is best,” Umeh says.
“They should be our teachers,
and we, in turn, should be
patient, affirming and allow
them to ‘come out’ and express
themselves as they feel works
best for them.” When you take
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yourself off the hook for knowing
and doing everything “right” and
use curiosity instead, you allow
life to unfold more naturally.
As you continue to acclimate
to this news, please get support
for yourself. There are
outstanding people such as
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Umeh, who can be found on
Instagram @askdoctorlulu, on
TikTok @uuchenna and on
Twitter @UchennaUmeh9. On
Facebook, you can connect with
her in her safe, private group for
parents, Positively Parenting
Your LGBTQ* Child(ren). There
are also online resources, such as
mykidisgay.com, and groups that
meet near you, which you can
find at pflag.org/find-a-chapter.
 Also at washingtonpost.com
Read the transcript of a recent live
Q&A with Leahy at
washingtonpost.com/advice, where
you can also find past columns. Her
next chat is scheduled for
Wednesday.
 Send parenting questions to
Leahy at onparenting@washpost.com.
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Helping children
regain a sense of purpose
6 ways parents and
caregivers can work
with kids to ease
their transition into
post-pandemic life

BY P HYLLIS F AGELL

When the pandemic prevented

a young aspiring cartoonist from
attending art camp last summer,
she was devastated. But when her
mother told her she could go this
year, the 12-year-old balked. “I’ll
just stay home,” she shrugged.
“They’ll probably have to shut
down again.”
Although some children will
dive into school and activities with
enthusiasm as the pandemic lets
up thanks to an increase in vacci-
nations, others will be more
guarded.
“We’re wanting a child to run,
but in my view, children almost
need to walk again in terms of
negotiating life,” said Suniya Lu-
thar, a professor emerita at Teach-
ers College at Columbia University
and co-founder of Authentic Con-
nections, an organization devoted
to fostering resilience. “We need to
ensure they’re not unhappy, dis-
tressed or nervous about meeting
friends before we can expect them
to get passionate about the saxo-
phone again.”
With time and targeted support,
even the most apprehensive child
can once again experience full and
joyful engagement. Here are six
ways parents and caregivers can
ease kids back into life and help
them regain a sense of purpose.
Create a realistic plan
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for transitioning
Children may feel both over-
whelmed and underwhelmed by
the idea of resuming a more struc-
tured routine as life begins to re-
open. “A certain amount of inertia
can set in after being in this state
of paralysis,” said Tim Cavell, a
psychologist and professor at the
University of Arkansas.
Start by determining where a
child is right now, then come up
with a realistic transition plan,
said Ryan DeLapp, a psychologist
with the Montefiore Health Sys-
tem in New York. Ask questions
such as: “What are the emotions
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you’re having right now?” “What

are your expectations?” and
“Where do you expect your com-
fort level to be in the next month
if you just stick it out and give it
your best shot?” DeLapp reminds
kids that even President Biden
had to map out a plan for his first
100 days in office. Then the psy-
chologist will say: “How things
are now may not be how they are
later, and things can get better if
we continue to practice.”
Once children have a plan in
place, assess their progress week-
ly. If they continue to be anxious,
avoidant, flat or discouraged, they
may need support from a mental
health professional. But things
could go better than expected.
“That’s called an expectancy viola-
tion,” DeLapp said, and it can
boost a child’s confidence and
sense of self-efficacy.
Give them something to hold
on to with certainty
Children may resist making
plans because life has been unpre-
dictable, and they don’t want to
risk disappointment. “The rules
have changed 800 times, and
there’s no guarantee that anyone
will be able to do something,”
said Amy Morin, editor in chief of
Verywell Mind and author of
“13 Things Strong Kids Do: Think
Big, Feel Good, Act Brave.”
Model cautious optimism, and
let your child see you push your-
self. “It might just be that you’re
getting coffee with a friend, and
say, ‘I was looking forward to this,
but now that it’s here, it feels weird
and I’m nervous,’ ” Morin said. Af-
terward, you can tell your child:
“You know, that was more fun than
I thought it would be.”
To foster hope, give children the
gift of anticipation. Ask them what
they’ve missed or what they look
forward to doing, then design an
activity around their interests.
Plan something you believe can
happen, then talk about it regular-
ly to build excitement. My 13-year-
old son loves baseball and wants to
see the Washington Nationals play
again, for example, so we bought
tickets to attend a game after he’s
vaccinated.
Address social awkwardness
and insecurity
Many children have a lower tol-
erance for emotional discomfort
and are feeling self-conscious,
whether it’s because their weight
changed, they forgot how to enter
a conversation, or they worry their
friends are no longer their friends.
Children also may have lost
connections from before the pan-
demic, which could make it harder
for them to trust one another, said
Brad Weinstein, co-author of
“Hacking School Discipline.”
“I think there will be a breakdown
in their ability to coexist and work
with the emotions of their peers
while managing their own emo-
tions,” he said. “They might tail-
spin from things that they
would have recovered from easily
before.”
To help a child with the social
piece, review basic social skills.
Morin will tell kids: “If you’re frus-
trated, then it’s probably not the
best time to have a conversation. If
you’re irritable, your fuse isn’t as
long, so you need to ask yourself
how you can lengthen your
fuse a little bit.” That might
mean doing a breathing exercise,
giving themselves a self-hug or
watching a funny video.
Remind children to make eye
contact and take turns talking. “I
use the analogy of volleyball,” De-
Lapp said. “You keep the ball on
your side for three taps, and then
send it over.” The three taps are
about elaborating on responses,
giving more information and
“Purpose can be having a reason
to get out of bed, taking care of
yourself and doing the best you
can with whatever cards
you’re dealt.”
Amy Morin, editor in chief of Verywell Mind
sharing details. Sending the
ball back over is about asking
open-ended questions and keep-
ing the dialogue going.
Prioritize fun, humor, play
and connection
By the end of their first week
back in the school building this
spring, some students had their
heads down, said James Allrich,
principal of Argyle Middle School
in Silver Spring. “It wasn’t, ‘I’m
tired of being here tired,’ ” he said.
“It was, ‘I need more rest’ tired.’ ”
As exhausted children negoti-
ate fuller days, adults will need to
crank up the joy and connection.
Allrich added a long wellness
break that includes recess and co-
hort time when students can play
games together. He got hula hoops
and organized a competition for
students. Then, he entered the
contest. “I thought I could hula
hoop,” he said, “but they must
make hula hoops different these
days.”
Children are going to need that
type of funny, playful interaction
with adults, said Mona Delahooke,
author of “Beyond Behaviors.”
“The highest form of safety in hu-
mans comes from play, and the
best neural exercise is playful en-
gagement,” she said.
Caregivers will need to feel nur-
tured, too. As Luthar said:
“They’re going to need the same
loving support as the children.”
She suggests that parents reach
out to a couple of people whom
they trust and reinvest in those
relationships, or consider joining
a support group with a facilitator,
who can bring gentleness and ten-
derness to the experience.
Help them practice self-
compassion
A high-achieving teenager was
upset that his GPA had dropped
from a 3.9 to a 3.5 during the
pandemic, so DeLapp started ask-
ing him questions, including:
“When is the last time you had
experience going through a pan-
demic?” and, “How often have you
had to teach yourself to do things
on your own?” He wasn’t trying to
dismiss the boy’s concerns; he
wanted him to appreciate that the
novelty of the situation demanded
tremendous adjustment.
When you talk to your child,
listen for the “yeah, but.” Children
will tell DeLapp: “ ‘It’s been hard,
but there are other people doing
better.’ There’s this disqualifying,
more negative thinking that gets
accentuated after the but,” he said.
Say: “We’ll get to that, but let’s
focus on what’s before the but.
How has that complicated your
goals or expectations? What are
the feelings you’ve had?”
Children can cheer themselves
on by writing themselves a kind
letter or by picking a catchphrase,
such as, “You’ve got this,” or, “All I
can do is my best,” Morin said.
They also can soften self-criticism
by using sentence starters such as,
“I had a harder time because,” or,
“It makes sense that.”
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“It’s not saying that grades don’t
matter,” DeLapp said. “It’s being
able to say: ‘Yes, I struggled, and
my grades are lower, and let me
have a more balanced picture of
why this happened.’ ”
Work from the outside in
to reactivate interests
Emotions typically move peo-
ple to take action. But if children
struggle with depression or low
motivation, they may need to work
from the “outside in” instead of the
“inside out,” DeLapp said. By do-
ing what they used to enjoy, chil-
dren may be able to rekindle dor-
mant interests.
Simply adhering to a schedule
can have an activating effect. “Go-
ing through the rigmarole of get-
ting dressed, taking a shower and
engaging in the world can culti-
vate a vitality that wasn’t there,
because it was trumped by passivi-
ty,” said Rick Wormeli, an educa-
tion consultant and author of “Fair
Isn’t Always Equal.”
When children resume their
routines, they’ll also experience
micro-connections that they
might have missed, such as “see-
ing someone on the way to lunch,
riding the bus, talking to a teacher
who isn’t their teacher or seeing
the person who greets them at the
door,” Weinstein said. These inter-
actions are socially rewarding and
may motivate them to seek out
more.
If something sparks a child’s
curiosity, take it to the next level,
said Joe Mazza, principal of Seven
Bridges Middle School in Chap-
paqua, N.Y. For example, when
Mazza saw students animatedly
discussing Brood X cicadas during
recess, he worked with the parent-
teacher association to create a
pop-up cicada research tent. “The
idea is to build on kids’ excitement
and create opportunities for them
to come together, laugh and
share,” he said.
As children engage and invest
more fully in their daily experi-
ences, they’ll begin to find value
and meaning in them. It may take
longer for them to see the bigger
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picture or feel a grand sense of
purpose, and that’s okay. As Morin
said, purpose doesn’t have to be
about saving the world or making
other people happy; “purpose can
be having a reason to get out of
bed, taking care of yourself and
doing the best you can with what-
ever cards you’re dealt.”
onparenting@washpost.com
Phyllis L. Fagell, a licensed clinical
professional counselor, is the author
of “Middle School Matters,” the school
counselor at Sheridan School and a
therapist at the Chrysalis Group. She
tweets @pfagell and blogs at
phyllisfagell.com.
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DC Family
PARENTING Q&A
Potty training for school, managing a talkative 4-year-old and more
Parenting coach and colum-
nist Meghan Leahy answered
questions recently in an online
chat. Here is an edited excerpt.
Q: My 3-year-old son’s preschool
class will be moving up from the
2-year-old classroom. My son
needs to be fully toilet trained to
be promoted, and he’s not. He
still has three or four accidents a
day when he’s in his underwear.
He has to wear a diaper during
school hours, because he has so
many accidents, and I feel as if
this keeps him from progressing
with toilet training. He’s never
been one to tell us if he’s wet or
dirty, no matter how much we
ask, and the feeling of being in a
wet or dirty diaper or underwear
doesn’t bother him. I’m so
worried that he’s being left
behind and that we’re doing him
a disservice. Am I over worrying?
We try everything to reinforce
the toilet. I feel bad that he isn’t
being promoted because I don’t
know how to toilet train a
toddler.
A: These types of questions
make me want to throw my
computer against a wall, not
because you’ve done anything
wrong, which you have not, but
because there are no
developmental norms connected
to this fake promotion. This is an
insurance issue. You have to
carry a certain insurance to
change diapers, etc., and now
schools have turned this into
some sort of maturation
standard. It’s ludicrous at best
and very harmful at worst. There
is nothing wrong with your son.
Don’t push, because doing so
will make it worse, and don’t
think for even one minute that
there’s anything wrong with him.
Move schools or keep him there,
but don’t let the school pressure
you. If the doctor picks up on
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something that’s wrong, that’s
one thing, but this is the school
making up standards for its own
benefit.
Q: My partner and I have two
boys who are nearly 1 and 3 years
old. We were set for things to be
rough with the toddler when the
baby came, but our older son has
been incredibly sweet and caring
toward his baby brother from
the beginning. Something we
didn’t prepare for, though, is that
the baby really has no interest in
his older brother. We aren’t
worried about sociability or
autism, because he’s super
engaged with us, our nanny, my
parents and strangers he meets
on walks, both animal and
human. It’s just his brother he
can take or leave. All the advice I
see online is about helping a
toddler who doesn’t deal well
with the baby sibling, not the
other way around. Is there
anything we can or should be
doing? All my friends go on and
on about how their babies
idolize their toddler siblings, so
we are just surprised.
A: I wouldn’t worry about it if
you’re seeing typical
developmental engagement with
other people. If the older brother
was problematic in any way, he
and the little one would be
chronically fighting. But if the
older brother is sweet and
caring, this frees up the little one
to just chill out. The little one
can learn and grow and move
about. I think that as they begin
to match up more in what they
can do physically, emotionally
and intellectually, you will see
more interaction.
Q: My granddaughter will be 6
in July. She’s very bright and
manipulative. She’s been in
online kindergarten and has
returned to school two days a
week. I believe that her executive
functioning skills are poor and
that she has been overindulged.
Her parents are two of the
kindest and most calm people,
but their daughter misbehaves at
home, and now that the newness
has worn off, she’s misbehaving
at school. Help?
A: I don’t know what you would
like here. To help the
granddaughter? To help the
parents? There isn’t much for
you to do if no one is asking, so
what can you contribute here? If
she’s tough at home, offer to take
her and give her some
grandmotherly love. Go out
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to eat, watch movies, enjoy each
other and relax into the
relationship. A little girl who is
bright and struggling in school
after a pandemic needs some
grandmotherly love, so offer it
freely and joyfully.
If the parents complain to you
about her, share what you are
seeing with a direct offer to
support them. Say: “Gertrude is
very bright. I bet it would help to
talk to an expert, so someone can
support all of you.” Or be an
excellent listener, because this is
their journey, and the parents
are going to make their own
mistakes. They need to feel
supported and loved by you, not
judged. I know this is hard and
you’re on the other side of
parenting, but unless there is
abuse, you have to let them
work it out.
Q: I’m the mother of a smart,
energetic 4-year-old boy who is
an only child. He’s outgoing and
talks to strangers when we’re
out. I’m trying to figure out how
to rein him in during certain
situations and determine
whether some of the behavior is
cause for concern. For example,
over a dinner with my child and
three adults, he dominated the
conversation, excitedly talking
about his dreams for his
upcoming birthday party. We
tried asking him to give others a
chance to speak and talked over
him when he wouldn’t stop,
which made him angry. Should
we be concerned about this level
of hyperactivity, and how do we
impart the need to stop talking
and to listen?
A: It’s not unusual or even
problematic for a singleton to be
oriented to speaking with adults,
and it can also be common for
the singleton 4-year-old to try to
dominate the conversation.
Four-year-olds are already
intense, and they’re usually full
of opinions and long to share
them. That’s what will happen if
he has a captive audience, and
because he doesn’t need to share
time or attention with another
child, he has all the more energy
for this. I’m not concerned with
his hyperactivity, and any doctor
won’t diagnose him (unless it’s
extreme) for another couple of
years. I would model taking
turns in a conversation. Give him
rules and say: “Mommy is going
to share a story, Daddy is going
to share a story, and Benedict is
going to share a story.” Keep your
stories short, and keep
practicing and modeling
listening and taking turns.
Praise him in a low-key way
when you catch him waiting,
listening or not interrupting.
Keep this going, and see how it
works.
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Read the rest of this transcript and
submit questions to the next chat,
Wednesday at 11 a.m., at
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The following information, provided change after further investigation. May 23. With knife. Quarles St., 4400 block, Benning Rd., 4200 block,
by D.C. police and formatted by The You can reach the department Bladensburg Rd., 800 block, 11:48 p.m. May 19. With gun. 5:37 a.m. May 22. With gun.
Post, shows selected incidents directly at 202-727-9099. 9:41 p.m. May 21. With gun. Rhode Island Ave., 1400 block, Blaine St., 4400 block, 4:13 a.m.
reported by police. Reported H St., 1200 block, 11:23 p.m. 10:30 p.m. May 23. With gun. May 22. With gun.
incidents did not necessarily occur NORTHEAST
May 24. With knife. Brentwood Rd., 1000-1200 blocks,
ROBBERIES
3:28 a.m. May 24. With gun.
Decatur Pl., 700 block, 9:31 p.m.
May 21. With gun.
Rhode Island Ave., 500-
700 blocks, 12:17 p.m. May 25. With
Balance. Harmony. Beauty. gun.
West Virginia Ave., 800 block,
Are our ultimate pursuits. 4:40 a.m. May 22. With gun.
12th St., 3500 block, 6:34 p.m.
Whether you’re considering an May 20. With gun.
addition, kitchen, or master bath. THEFTS/BURGLARIES
Because during these times, Benning Rd., 3900 block,
9:50 a.m. May 24.
home is more important than ever. Clay St., 4400-4600 blocks,
9:53 p.m. May 23.
M St., 200 block, 3:57 a.m. May 23.
Minnesota Ave., 4200 block,
10:30 a.m. May 24.
Oates St., 1200 block, 10:39 p.m.
May 24.
Orren St., 1400 block, 4:56 p.m.
May 24.
10th St., 1000 block, 11:33 a.m.
May 24.
35th St., 100-200 blocks,
11:52 a.m. May 24.
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS
Benning Rd., 4200-4300 blocks,
11:16 p.m. May 22.
H St., 1300 block, 2:03 p.m.
May 23.
H St., 1300 block, 5:05 p.m.
May 24.
Hayes St., 3600-3700 blocks,
11:22 p.m. May 22.
M St., unit block, 9:19 p.m. May 23.
Maryland Ave., 1900-2000 blocks,
4:32 p.m. May 23.
Morton Pl., 600 block, 11:10 a.m.
May 22.
Oklahoma Ave., 500 block,
8:45 p.m. May 24.
Varnum St., 1000-1100 blocks,
4:56 p.m. May 24.

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5th St., 400 block, 10 a.m. May 25.
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Carroll St., 100 block, 5:33 p.m.
May 25.
Columbia Rd., 1700 block,
Our commitment to providing a safe, healthy, 10:42 a.m. May 23. With knife.
and respectful worksite and experience. Florida Ave., 2000 block, 1:27 a.m.
May 20. With gun.
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CRIME FROM 4
8:24 p.m. May 25.
Longfellow St., 100 block,
3:12 p.m. May 24. With gun.
North Capitol St., 1200-
1400 blocks, 12:13 p.m. May 20.
S St., 1400 block, 11:36 p.m.
May 22.
S St., 1500 block, 6:55 a.m.
May 20.
Sheridan St., 500-600 blocks,
7:40 a.m. May 22.
U St., 1200 block, 4:12 a.m.
May 23.
1st St., 5300 block, 5:42 a.m.
May 20.
3rd St., 5900 block, 10:17 p.m.
May 23. With gun.
8th St., 1900 block, 5:16 a.m.
May 22.
14th St., 3700 block, 9:18 p.m.
May 25.
15th St., 2600-2700 blocks,
12:51 p.m. May 20. With gun.
THEFTS/BURGLARIES
Crittenden St., 300 block,
3:37 p.m. May 25.
P St., 1700 block, 4:22 a.m.
May 25.
R St., 900 block, 3:39 p.m. May 23.
Spring Rd., 1300 block, 9:34 a.m.
May 23.
U St., 400 block, 10:24 a.m.
May 24.
Westminster St., 900 block,
8:32 a.m. May 25.
Westminster St., 900 block,
12:09 p.m. May 25.
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS
Georgia Ave., 3000 block,
8:06 p.m. May 24.
Georgia Ave., 6300 block,
11:06 p.m. May 24.
Georgia Ave., 6600 block,
10:18 p.m. May 25.
Georgia Ave., 7200 block,
8:25 a.m. May 24.
Harvard St., 1800 block,
11:49 a.m. May 23.
K St., 1500 block, 10:18 p.m.
May 23.
Kenyon St., 1100-1200 blocks,
11:50 a.m. May 25.
Massachusetts Ave., 1300-
1400 blocks, 1:06 p.m. May 23.
New Hampshire Ave., 5000 block,
11:07 p.m. May 22.
Porter St., 2500-2800 blocks,
7:20 p.m. May 24.
Q St., 1500 block, 7:47 p.m.
May 25.
U St., 900 block, 8:39 p.m. May 24.
U St., 1300 block, 7:30 p.m.
May 25.
Vermont Ave., 1100 block,
11:47 p.m. May 25.
W St., 600 block, 11:29 a.m.
May 25.
7th St., 1200 block, 12:14 p.m.
May 22.
7th St., 6400 block, 1:35 p.m.
May 22.
8th St., 1500 block, 10:37 p.m.
May 23.
9th St., 1200 block, 10:06 p.m.
May 23.
13th St., 3000 block, 10:45 p.m.
May 24.
14th St., 1300 block, 11:12 p.m.
May 23.
14th St., 1800 block, 2:27 a.m.
May 22.
14th St., 1800 block, 8:39 p.m.
May 24.
14th St., 1900 block, 11:11 p.m.
May 24.
14th St., 2400 block, 1:48 p.m.
May 24.
14th St., 6700 block, 6:40 p.m.
May 25.
16th St., 3100 block, 6:45 p.m.
May 22.
18th St., 2400 block, 11:25 p.m.
May 22.
30th St., 1000-1100 blocks,
9:02 p.m. May 23.
SOUTHEAST
ASSAULTS
Bowen Rd., 4500 block, 2:43 p.m.
May 21. With gun.
Brothers Pl., 3600 block,
5:08 a.m. May 23. With gun.
Bruce Pl., 1800 block, 3:08 a.m.
May 22. With knife.
E St., 5300 block, 5:06 a.m.
May 22. With gun.
Fairlawn Ave., 1900-2000 blocks,
7:39 p.m. May 24. With knife.
Knox Pl., 2900 block, 10:11 p.m.
May 24. With gun.
Wade Rd., 2600 block, 1:52 a.m.
May 24. With gun.
6th St., 3300-3600 blocks,
2:12 p.m. May 25. With gun.
14th St., 1900 block, 3:27 p.m.
May 24. With gun.
35th St., 100 block, 5:51 p.m.
May 21.
ROBBERIES
Alabama Ave., 600 block,
4:51 p.m. May 23. With knife.
B St., 3300 block, 1:59 a.m.
Home Sales
May 21. With gun. HOMES FROM 2
D St., 700 block, 12:40 p.m.
Taylor St., 304, $753,000.
May 24.
Tracy Pl., 2426, $3.2 million.
M St., unit block, 2:37 a.m. May 23.
U St., 157, $992,775.
Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., 2600-
W St., 129, No. 402, $562,000.
2700 blocks, 5:23 a.m. May 23.
Windom Pl., 4358, $1.36 million.
Mississippi Ave., 400-500 blocks,
Wisconsin Ave., 3100, No. 204,
4:57 a.m. May 22. With gun.
$219,000.
19th St., 3500 block, 6:21 p.m.
Wyoming Ave., 2012, No. 504,
May 21. With gun.
$589,500.
THEFTS/BURGLARIES
Second St., 2035, No. G107,
Brothers Pl., 3300 block, 5:07 a.m.
$499,900.
May 25.
Fifth St., 1413, No. 200, $842,500.
Independence Ave., 800 block,
Ninth St., 1923, No. 2, $675,000.
10:05 a.m. May 23.
12th St., 1125, No. 85, $325,000.
Livingston Rd., 4100-4500 blocks,
13th St., 1720, No. 2, $1.05 million.
2:09 p.m. May 24.
13th St., 3511, No. 505, $527,500.
Stanton Rd., 3100 block, 4:36 a.m.
14th St., 1529, No. 401, $630,000.
May 25.
16th St., 1925, No. 201, $458,000.
14th St., 1900 block, 5:21 a.m.
17th St., 1401, No. 702, $649,900.
May 24.
18th St., 1815, No. 500, $790,000.
MOTOR VEHICLE THEFTS 20th St., 1301, No. 704, $420,000.
Barnaby Terr., 1000-1300 blocks,
29th St., 1230, $1.5 million.
5:33 a.m. May 23.
31st St., 1683, $2.4 million.
Good Hope Rd., 2300 block,
40th Pl., 2339, No. 1, $267,500.
6:26 a.m. May 23.
45th St., 1804, $2.83 million.
Kimi Gray Ct., 5000 block,
SOUTHEAST
3:12 p.m. May 23.
D St., 3342, $785,000.
South Carolina Ave., 1400 block,
M Pl., 3116, $460,500.
3:19 p.m. May 21.
North Carolina Ave., 715,
Van St., 1200 block, 9:22 a.m.
$3 million.
May 23.
Pennsylvania Ave., 3960, No. 108,
8th St., 500-600 blocks, 9:01 p.m.
$229,900.
May 24.
First St., 510, $1.15 million.
SOUTHWEST Fourth St., 106, $1.16 million.
15th St., 2116, $578,888.
ASSAULTS
Irvington St., 100 block, 4:03 p.m. 30th St., 2210, $755,000.
May 25. With gun. SOUTHWEST
K St., 200 block, 1:24 a.m. May 21.
G St., 350, No. N605, $420,000.
With gun.
Third St., 1101, No. 411, $320,000.

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Finding Your Inner Artist
emember the joy finger-paint-
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with your neighborhood friends?
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Research has shown that foster-
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The field of creativity and aging
first received widespread attention
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