It is fun. After Trump making the city look like Beijing in 1989, we need this.

I love it!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/05/george-floyd-protests-live-updates/#link-OHYMY6MQU5DQLJBGGSTJSDTFN4

Bowser said the city did not call for the eviction of all Guard members, but instead objected to the use of a hotel the city used to house personnel responding to the coronavirus pandemic.

“Our message to the hotel is if they were going to use the rooms that we reserved, then they have to pay for them or refund us our money,” Bowser said. “That we understand would just be a matter of our Guard or the Army making those arrangements. Those out-of-state troops would be covered either by the Army or their home states, not by D.C. residents.”

Bowser said she had no objection to out-of-state troops staying in D.C. hotels but that they should not use rooms the city government paid for for other purposes. “We don’t have any issue with them being accommodated in D.C. hotels, but they have to be taken care of by the Department of the Army,” she said.

I just requested that Google take a new satellite image of 16th street section in front of the White House to see the bright yellow letters on the street from Google Maps/Earth. If anyone else wants to do the same, from their help page: You can request a Satellite Imagery update via Google Earth, which you can find here: https://earth.google.com/web/

Go to the menu (3 bars at the top left-hand side of the screen), then click on "Feedback".

Place the Map over the area you want updated, to get the screenshot, and make sure to use the text
“I would like to recommend an imagery refresh” in the feedback window.

Pentagon disarms guardsmen in Washington, D.C., in signal of de-escalation

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pentagon-disarms-guardsmen-in-washington-dc-in-signal-of-de-escalation/2020/06/05/324da91a-a733-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html

The Pentagon has told the District of Columbia National Guard and guardsmen from other states who have arrived in the nation’s capital as backup to not use firearms or ammunition, a sign of de-escalation in the federal response to protests in the city after the killing of George Floyd, according to officials familiar with the decision.

The Department of Defense, led by Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper, appears to have made the decision without consulting the White House, where President Trump has ordered a militarized show of force on the streets of Washington D.C. since demonstrations in the city were punctured by an episode of looting on Sunday. Trump specifically had encouraged the National Guard to be armed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So yesterday she was evil because of her relationship with developers and today she’s amazing because of yellow paint. Okay.

She's amazing because she changed the street name and kicked the national guards out of the hotels. She can and should do something about her police department.

As a DC resident I plan to hold her feet to the fire on this. It's definitely a boss move but she's going to have to back it up with some action.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So yesterday she was evil because of her relationship with developers and today she’s amazing because of yellow paint. Okay.

She's amazing because she changed the street name and kicked the national guards out of the hotels. She can and should do something about her police department.

It's easy to make symbols, its hard to make real change.

Symbols matter, and symbols pave the way for broader change. Feeling lots of love for Muriel Bowser for this.

Anonymous wrote:So yesterday she was evil because of her relationship with developers and today she’s amazing because of yellow paint. Okay.

She's amazing because she changed the street name and kicked the national guards out of the hotels. She can and should do something about her police department.

He didn't just threaten her. He threatened the people who are protesting, people from all over the region and country who want to exercise their freedom of assembly as codified in the US Constitution.

So yesterday she was evil because of her relationship with developers and today she’s amazing because of yellow paint. Okay.

Anonymous wrote:Hey what a surprise - another black woman gets under his orange skin

You left out the part where he threatens her. Please post it.

They should make another one- I am with stupid and an arrow pointing to the White House.

Anonymous wrote:So we're just going to skip over BLM telling the Mayor to take her street painting and shove it up her @ss?

That's predictable and actually helps her position.

Looks like it'll cause accidents.