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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Zohran is breaking peoples’ brains. Great. thebighunt.substack.com/p/zohran-mam...
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Zohran Mamdani is Breaking People’s Brains. Good.
And Trump just endorsed Cuomo over the actual Republican nominee.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Washpo ed board would endorse Neville Chamberlain if it could www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Bowser puts D.C. first by cooperating with Trump on public safety
The mayor is getting pilloried from her left for deftly handling a complicated political moment.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Bowser appeasement campaign getting results
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
DC residents will see this and say hell yeah www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Some of the absolute best Chinese food in the DMV. This is not a ranking! thebighunt.substack.com/p/goats-gott...
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GOATs Gotta Graze: Some of the Best Chinese Food in the DMV
A guest post by the Ward 3 Bugler on some of the best family style meals you can get in the area.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/08/2025
[looking at the gettysburg address] “that sign won’t stop me because i can’t read”
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
There’s so much more to this city than setting up pretextual checkpoints, harassing black and brown youth, threatening citizens for filming you, or tearing down pro-immigrant posters and replacing them with dildos in Mt. Pleasant. thebighunt.substack.com/p/a-dc-walki...
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A DC Walking Tour for Our Federal Occupiers
Step out of your humvee and take this self-guided walk through the city you're occupying.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Fuck this
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Last night was a movie (the first hour of Red Dawn)
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It would be neat to have a mayor who felt as passionately about home rule and freedom as she does a football stadium.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I’m the guy who has never sped 119 mph while drunk. These three dipshits are detrimental to making our country safe
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Ence Morse @ence.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
gasped the first time i read this kicker www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Tom Petek, 54, conceded in an interview that he was a little nervous about coming to Washington from his hometown of Medina, Ohio, which has a population just shy of 26,000 people. It’s his first trip to D.C. in more than four years, when he joined protests outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He remains a Trump supporter and has seen news reports about a rise in crime and a slew of homicides, he said. He joked that he and his wife would have to wear bulletproof vests when visiting historic sites.

But on Monday, their first full day in the city, Petek and his wife went to the National Archives, Arlington National Cemetery, the Smithsonian and the Washington Monument without incident. They planned to go on tours of the White House, the FBI building and the Capitol on Tuesday and remained unwary.

“You hear the news, and the stuff about the murder rates and things, and you think, ‘Man, you’ve got to dodge bullets when you’re at the sites,’ but it’s safe,” Petek said. “You feel safe. You feel welcome.”
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A former DC National Guardsman sounds off on the regime federalizing MPD and deploying the National Guard thebighunt.substack.com/p/what-can-w...
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What can we do now?
A former DC National Guardsman sounds off on Trump federalizing the MPD and deploying the National Guard.
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
no justice, mo grease
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
What sub was this? Hope it was subway. Even capo deli is too good to waste on these people
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The best organizer is a bad boss, and if there’s any silver lining, it’s the hope that the news today will spur democrats to nut the fuck up and make DC and Puerto Rico states the first chance they get.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
screenshot of a Facebook post by Sam Brody:

"What is happening in DC right now would not be happening if DC had been made a state any time Democrats held both the presidency and Congress in the last 30 years.

Adding states to the union is much easier to do than amending the constitution. It requires nothing more than an act of Congress, and only needs a simple majority to pass. The Obama Senate could have easily done it when they had 59 senators. But the party leaders thought, I dunno, it wouldn’t be sporting or something. Not fair to the Republicans to use power to do things. The pundits might call it “overreach,” oh no, not that. Biden could have tried to do it - everyone was already saying it was necessary democracy reform after Trump I - but he pre-gave up because Manchin and Sinema said they just had to respect the ancient and immortal filibuster, so what can you do? Best not to try. 

So now we have millions of US citizens with no representation at all under naked authoritarian rule by an unchecked federal law enforcement apparatus. And the pundits have all forgotten the word “overreach,” which only applies to Democrats when they win by much greater margins than this and have much larger and more representative majorities than this."
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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SKINNER: We’re closing down the X-files again. MULDER: Because I’m too close to truth! SKINNER: No, a DOGE guy named “Big Balls” got pounded into hamburger by a pack of rowdy teens, so the president is turning you into a traffic cop.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The real crime is groups of tourists walking five-wide and taking up the whole sidewalk.
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Councilmember Charles Allen @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Today's announcement will put untrained and unaccountable members of the military in an untenable position in our communities. It’s unnecessary, unwarranted, & a dangerous escalation of power in the Nation’s Capital simply because he can. (5/5)
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11/08/2025
Every story quoting Trump saying this is to "rescue our nation’s capital from crime" needs to note that violent crime in D.C. is down 26%, murders are down 12%, juvenile arrests are down 20%, and ask who will get hurt from a domestic military deployment and what this "crackdown" is really about
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
gotta make sure nobody is defrauding Strava
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Maybe all these extra police can catch the sexual predator at 16th and Penn.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
We dug through the Panama Playlists so you don’t have to. thebighunt.substack.com/p/the-panama...
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The Panama Playlists Awards
Guest writer NW Village Voice dug through the Panama Playlists so you don't have to.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The indisputable list of the best ice cream in DC thebighunt.substack.com/p/anyways-he...
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Anyways, here's the best ice cream places in DC
I wrote this last night after using my fingers to stir a negroni, since I didn't want to use my black plastic measuring spoons.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
All this military presence just in the event the DC Defenders win the UFL championship seems a little excessive to me
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
You don’t have to eat the breakfast combo at every diner you go to, but every diner should at least offer a combo of 2 pancakes, 2 eggs, and 2 pieces of meat. An investigation: thebighunt.substack.com/p/deuces-wild
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Deuces Wild
Fascism is rising faster than the price of eggs. So where can you get 2 eggs, 2 pancakes, and 2 pieces of meat for breakfast?
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I’ll say it. DC has better pizza per capita than anywhere on the eastern seaboard. New York included. thebighunt.substack.com/p/are-we-ful...
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Are We Fully Appreciating How Good DC's Pizza Scene Is?
DC's pizza scene is criminally underrated.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
It’s hard to argue against @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social’s points—that we won’t get the return promised for putting $1 billion into parking for a stadium that will sit empty most of the year—with anything more than the hope that a stadium can spur development. thebighunt.substack.com/p/fair-weath...
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Fair Weather Fans
If only somebody had put a roof over a different Kennedy...
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Should DC taxpayers pay $1 billion for parking at a new RFK stadium? Is it ethical to join the bandwagon for DC teams? These questions raised and more. thebighunt.substack.com/p/fair-weath...
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Fair Weather Fans
If only somebody had put a roof over a different Kennedy...
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In which we issue our style guide for whether it’s “DC” or “D.C.” thebighunt.substack.com/p/minetta-ta...
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Minetta Tavern Insists Upon Itself
A chip on my DC-restaurant shoulder the size of Manhattan
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Carrying $3,000 in cash? Must be a gang member. www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/p...
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s bag, including $3,000 in cash, is stolen from DC restaurant | CNN Politics
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fell victim to a thief while eating dinner at a downtown Washington, DC, restaurant Sunday night, the secretary confirmed Monday.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Our long national nightmare may finally come to a close.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
We are dealing with unsustainable levels of little free libraries in this city, especially ones that are right next to Big Free Libraries. open.substack.com/pub/thebighu...
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We Are Living in a Post-Little Free Library Era
Why are there so many free little libraries within a few blocks from... a Big Free Library?
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Cannot fathom the amount of coke Gram Parsons might have done at Clyde’s in Georgetown in the 70s georgetownmetropolitan.com/2023/09/06/w...
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When Gram Met Emmylou on M St.
For reasons I won’t bore you with, I’ve really gotten into the country rock musical genre recently, specifically the style of cosmic American music promoted by the legendary Gram Parson…
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Maybe the most perverse instance of unintended consequences is that, thanks to the pitch clock and shortened time between innings, there is only time for the Nats to play one verse snd chorus of A-ha’s “Take On Me” after the seventh inning stretch. In this essay I will …
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
It is a moral imperative to boo the presidents in the Nationals’ Presidents’ Race open.substack.com/pub/thebighu...
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We Can, Should, Must, and Will Boo the Presidents in the Nationals' Presidents' Race
It is morally imperative to boo every president—with the possible exception of Lincoln—in the Nationals' Presidents' Race.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The regime truly does ruin everything it touches @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
RIP to a real one, but Soko is a great replacement dc.eater.com/2025/4/7/244...
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Soko Butcher Shop Takes Over Historic Harvey’s in Union Market
Harvey’s by Soko will combine the 94-year-old history of quality meats with cult-favorite Takoma Park sandwiches
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The indisputable Mt. Rushmore of DC bars. Luckily this is 1000% correct. thebighunt.substack.com/p/the-mount-...
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The Mount Rushmore of DC Bars
The definitive list of the four best bars in the District
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Launch day! Hunt and gather than subscribe button: thebighunt.substack.com
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The Big Hunt | Substack
A D.C.-based culture newsletter. Space + Value = Place. Join the hunt. Click to read The Big Hunt, a Substack publication.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Maybe the real cherry blossom race is the race against global warming
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
My biggest regret from today is not taking a photo of a sign on a dog that read “even cats are smarter than DOGE” at the hands off march today. Will be better next time.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Free gelato at the new Dolcezza on H Street. In this economy??
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Mars is in a better place (further from the Kennedy center)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2025
Tweet from @dril with an edit. Original says:

“Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Candles $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying”

The edit is that the candles line is crossed out and replaced with “Tariffs: $6 trillion”
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Should be a last date bar bracket too. Dan’s Cafe and Dirty Water automatic one seeds.
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Solid State on H Street
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The Big Hunt @thebighunt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Kind of hurt that nobody has renamed any of my group chats “Houthi PC small group.” Do I just not matter to you?
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