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| |  Illustration by María Jesús Contreras for POLITICO | You’re one of two types of people: The kind of D.C. denizen who’s just looking up from their desk — go ahead, do it now — to see that their co-workers, along with Congress and much of the city, have already fled the swamp for summery getaways, leaving poor you behind. Or you’re on vacation yourself, and you’re the type of political junkie who’d read POLITICO Weekend from a beach chair. In which case, thank you. And also, might we suggest one of those apps that limits your screen time? If you’re in that first group, it’s time to take advantage of your boss being away and get out of town yourself. Luckily, we’ve put together a vacation guide to help you pick a destination that suits your ideological priors. In an age where everything is political, going on holiday is just another way to make a statement. So POLITICO Magazine has compiled a list of 17 hot spots for the kind of people who love hot takes. Whether you’re a Hill staffer on a budget or a higher-up looking to show off your wealth, a Dolly Parton-loving liberal or an NFT-loving bro-publican, we’ve got the perfect holiday planned for you. Cast off.
| | | |  | “It was also very sad driving through Washington, D.C., and seeing the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and the graffiti. This is not the place that I left. It’s a very sad thing to see it.” Can you guess who said this? Scroll to the bottom for the answer.**
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POLITICO illustration/Photos by AP, Getty Images | Is Joe Biden a Bad Dog Dad? … Once again, President Joe Biden has a German Shepherd that likes to bite people. This one is named Commander, and he’s left a Secret Service agent bruised and bleeding, bitten a uniformed officer who was then sent to the hospital and forced workers to defend themselves with steel carts and chairs. But most of the media coverage about Biden’s bad dog has focused more on the canine and less on the president — which is a fascinating insight into the politics of pets, writes Michael Schaffer in this week’s Capital City column. Shouldn’t we be asking about Biden’s responsibility to treat his workers safely? “If Commander had belonged to, say, Nancy Reagan, the Marie Antoinette narrative would have written itself,” he writes. “Look at that entitled elitist, smiling for the cameras while her dog terrorizes the help!”
| | | |  | You may have Trump indictment fatigue, but this week was the big one — a federal indictment charging Trump with a criminal plot to steal the 2020 election. If you don’t have the time (or wherewithal) to peruse the 45-page indictment, here are some pointers to get you through conversations this weekend. (From Ankush Khardori) - Fall back on what you remember from last year’s Jan. 6 committee hearings. The indictment largely retraces their work. - Mention one of the relatively few new pieces of information in the indictment. Most intriguing, perhaps, was the revelation that Mike Pence took “contemporaneous notes” of some of his conversations with Trump, including when he allegedly told Pence in early January 2021, “We won every state.” (They had not, in fact, won every state.) - If there’s just one line you need to know, it’s, “That’s why there’s an Insurrection Act.” The quote is attributed to “Co-Conspirator 4,” who appears to be former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, after he was warned by a White House lawyer that there would be “riots in every major city in the United States” if Trump refused to leave office. - Lament the sad state of lawyering — or at least Trump-lawyering — in our country. At least five of the six alleged co-conspirators are lawyers who worked for or with Trump, a historically perilous engagement if ever there was one. - Ask the question that is on the minds of lawyers: When will we see the alleged co-conspirators charged?
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Former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman speaks at the launch of the Forward Party in Texas at an event in Houston, September 24, 2022. | Michael Hardy | Andrew Yang Marches Forward — Toward Nowhere … Mary Anna Mancuso, the former press secretary of Andrew Yang’s new Forward Party, is blowing the lid on what she sees as a vanity project with “no platform laying out party principles and positions, no policies, no plan.” In this biting new piece, she writes that the party is driven by the same “tech industry ethos that considers disruption for disruption’s sake” that led to the giant dumpster fire as fraudster Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos debacle. In other words, it’s a party about nothing: “Call it the Seinfeld Party.”
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| |  Francis Chung/POLITICO; Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo | | Will This Indictment Matter? … Trump’s indictment on charges related to his attempts to overturn the 2020 election is the most striking in the trilogy so far. As we head into another presidential election with Trump as the GOP frontrunner, will this indictment be different than the others? That’s what we asked a panel of top political thinkers and observers. Some think it won’t matter, even if it should. Others think this might finally be the moment when Trump’s misdeeds come back to bite him. And many described this as a watershed moment — for the presidency, for the Department of Justice and for American democracy itself.
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| |  Justine Bateman, center, speaks outside Netflix during a Writers Guild rally as a strike by The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is announced on Thursday, July 13, 2023, in Los Angeles. | Mark J. Terrill/AP Photo | | | | Coming to a Theater Near You: AI? … This week, POLITICO launched a brand-new podcast called POLITICO Tech. Hosted by Steven Overly, POLITICO Tech is a daily download on the disruption tech brings to politics and policy, and it’s already scoring fascinating interviews. On Wednesday, Overly interviewed Ronnie Chatterji, a key player on microchips who’s leaving the White House, and yesterday he spoke to Republican Sen. Todd Young about how Congress should respond to the AI boom. Today, “Family Ties” star Justine Bateman is on the podcast. She’s been advising SAG-AFTRA on AI issues, which, she says, could be the end of movies and TV as we know them. “I do not think that I can stop it,” she tells Overly. “I don’t think that anything I’m writing about can stop what I see as the crushing of our industry from generative AI’s inclusion.”
| | | **Who Dissed answer: That would be former President Donald Trump, who made the comments following his arraignment in Washington this week on charges related to his efforts to change the outcome of the 2020 election. politicoweekend@email.politico.com | | | | Follow us | | | | |
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