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Holocaust Museum Alters Content To Align with Trump Admin

The Holocaust Museum has been quietly changing its content since Trump returned to office to avoid drawing his ire, reports Politico. Specifically, the museum preemptively pulled a web page on “Teaching Materials on Nazism and Jim Crow,” and cancelled a politically charged workshop. [Politico]

Local ICE Arrests Reach 20K

ICE arrests in the DMV are approaching 20,000 since the beginning of Trump's second term, compared to 3,800 during the last year of the Biden administration. Over half of people arrested had no prior criminal record. Arrests have fallen sharply in D.C. since December but remain high in Virginia and Maryland. [Washington Post 🔒]

Cat Cafe Reopens, Now Unionized

Crumbs & Whiskers reopened last month in Georgetown after becoming the nation's first unionized cat cafe. But, it’s not over yet. Employees say some issues are still unresolved, claiming that management is limiting union member’s hours and dissuading them from moving forward with bargaining. [WTOP]

How 56,000 Lost Jobs Could Change DC Forever

The DMV lost 56,000 jobs in 2025, the worst of any major Metro area. Tracy Haddon Low of the Brookings Institution is on the podcast today to walk us through our state of municipal health and how Trump’s vision could permanently change D.C. [Brookings/City Cast DC 🎧]

While people today consider Adams Morgan — belovedly nicknamed AdMo — a Northwest neighborhood stalwart, it actually didn’t get its full name all that long ago.

The area, which evolved from an upper-middle class neighborhood in the 18th and 19th centuries, was simply referred to by its cross streets, 18th and Columbia Street NW.

It wasn’t until the 1950s — in the wake of the Brown v. Board of education ruling — that people began using Adams Morgan to describe the area adjacent to the much older Dupont and Kalorama neighborhoods. This is because the area had two segregated elementary schools; the all-white John Quincy Adams School, and all-Black Thomas P. Morgan School.

In preparation for the school integration, Florence Cornell, the principal of Adams, and Bernice Brown, the principal of Morgan, partnered to create the Adams-Morgan Better Neighborhood Conference. The conference's work was crucial to making the schools’ desegregation quick and peaceful.

Other organizing groups in the area started using Adams-Morgan to describe their neighborhood groups and the name stuck. The hyphen was eventually dropped around 2000, making it the Adams Morgan we know and love today.