Endorsement Watch. City Cast Scooplet: Wendell Felder is the first sitting D.C. Councilmember to endorse Kenyan McDuffie for mayor. Felder’s Ward 7 is full of Black middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, which both campaigns see as decisive. The announcementtouts public safety and economic development, keeping with McDuffie’s messaging. Meanwhile, three colleagues — progressives Robert White, Brianne Nadeau, and Charles Allen — have already endorsed McDuffie’s main rival, Janeese Lewis George.

Cooked-Book Report Surfaces. The Washington Post’s Jenny Gathright got her hands on the internal police report on crime-data manipulation. It’s ugly stuff: serious crimes repeatedly reclassified as lesser offenses, thereby making D.C. look safer — and keeping police commanders safe from mercurial former Chief Pamela Smith, who the report harshly criticizes. Notably, though, it never says she ordered any reclassifications. Gathright’s scoop is doubly bad for the department. Beyond the PR headache, it also enraged powerful U.S. Rep. James Comer, who had subpoenaed the report and was none too pleased to see it in the Post first.

Federal Fire Sale. City and business leaders think Uncle Sam is selling off D.C. real estate with no real plan, reports Bisnow’s Emily Wishingrad — and squandering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape the city. The administration seems to like it because it could save $50 billion in repairs. Killer quote from an unlikely source: “Getting these buildings off their books as quickly as possible in order to save on maintenance costs seems to be what’s driving a lot of their decisions,” says Shalom Baranes, the veteran D.C. architect currently leading the White House ballroom design. "Doesn’t look so good in the long term, if you ask me.”

Golf, Clubbed. The Trump administration struck a deal Friday with the nonprofit that manages D.C.’s public golf courses: The nonprofit will continue to run the Rock Creek and Langston courses, but East Potomac will become "a top-tier 18-hole championship golf course," according to a joint statement. The statement says that all three will be “affordable and accessible,” which honors the 1897 law that’s central to the ongoing litigation over the plan. Still, it’s highly unlikely that a championship-caliber course could ever charge muni-golf prices. (Elite course designer Tom Fazio was also on the joint statement.)

Red Panda, RIP. Red panda Chris-Anne died unexpectedly at the National Zoo at age six. The zoo is bringing in pathologists to investigate. Meanwhile, zoo officials tell City Cast’s Kaela Cote-Stemmermann that they will be a single-red-panda operation from here on out: “We currently have one red panda, a female named Asa, at our Asia Trail exhibit. At this time, our animal care team does not plan to bring in another companion for her."

Finally: Martin’s Tavern, the venerable Georgetown restaurant where JFK proposed to Jackie, appeared in the cold open for Saturday Night Live — as a MAGA hangout. The sketch depicts Pete Hegseth, Brett Kavanaugh, and Kash Patel drinking hard at the bar. Also, the SNL version of the tavern serves something called a “Washington red skin,” which is a shot of Campari in an empty potato skin.

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