Dirty (Talking) Cop. City Cast’s Emma Uber scoops word about yet another scandal in a police force reeling from the revelations about falsified crime stats: As part of an investigation into those stats, higher-ups dug up a trove of text messages by Andre Wright, the department’s former second-in-command. It’s not pretty! There’s casual misogyny about colleagues, racial derision about interim Chief Jeffery Carroll, and a pretty ugly attitude towards the general public. Unlike the crime stats, which can be blamed on a desire to please, this feels like a snapshot of how a senior official really thought about people he was supposed to protect. Read the whole thing here; there’s also an excerpt below.

Amazon Bike Lane. Amazon and D.C.’s Department of Transportation are rolling out a pilot program under which packages will be delivered by electric quad-cycles, four-wheel cycles that use vastly less energy, block vastly less traffic, and are allowed in bike lanes. The cycles will operate on Capitol Hill and in Navy Yard, DDOT chief Sharon Kershbaum told WTOP.

Dulles Plans Leaked. A $22 billion Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority plan to remake IAD leaked to Edward Russell of the Airport Architecture substack. The plan would expand Eero Saarinen’s famous main terminal, link all concourses by train, and get rid of the goofy mobile lounges. Not-so-great expectations: Dulles “may soon look a lot like Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, just with better architecture,” Russell writes. Most notably, the plan has an impossible-sounding eight-year ETA.

Newspaper War Alert! The Star — the new name for NOTUS as of next month — parked its advertising truck outside the Washington Post’s K Street headquarters, which former Postie Marc Fisher mused looked like the start of a newspaper war. It’s not clear how big a battle either side could fight: With an announced Metro team of six, it remains smaller, for now, than even the post-layoffs version of the Post.

The Crucial Go-Go Vote. We’ve reached the stage of the mayoral race where go-go musicians endorse candidates: Anwan “Big G” Glover of Backyard Band announced his support for Kenyan McDuffie. I’m told there are more to come. If so, McDuffie can thank one of his best-known surrogates: Ron Moten, a cofounder of the Go-Go Museum who D.C. politics-watchers might better remember as the controversial Adrian Fenty ally who later ran for Council as a Republican.

Finally: The Washington Nationals introduced Natty, their new team dog. The golden retriever will debut at Friday night’s game versus the Orioles.

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City Cast’s Emma Uber got her hands on the trove of texts police authorities retrieved from their former second-in-command. Officials had searched Andre Wright’s work phone as part of their investigation into falsified crime data. But the alarming messages there — full of misogyny and vulgarity — have become a scandal of their own.

Here are some excerpts of messages between Wright and his wife, Inspector Natasha Wright, who worked for MPD's human resources department. Both were placed on administrative leave in March; they’re now among the 13 officials served termination papers in connection with the crime stats investigation. Warning: The texts are not family-friendly.

December 17, 2025, 1136 hours

Andre Wright: Sent a WUSA9 news article link titled, “Jeffery Carroll to be interim MPD chief, an internal promotion to replace Pamela Smith, sources say”

Natasha Wright: “Bitch!”, “I hate these people”

April 9, 2025, 0907 hours

Andre Wright: “This Big Tittie bitch can’t read.”

(9:00 is generally when the morning crime briefing call is, meaning both Wrights were on a call with fellow officers)

January 15, 2025, 1000 hours

Andre Wright: “Don’t forget to ask Kevin about that classification TPWR.”

Andre Wright, 25 minutes later: “Have you been practicing? Did you reclassify that Theft?”

The Wrights did not respond to multiple request for comments. The police confirmed they were on administrative leave but declined further comment. Emma’s full report is here.