Slush Fund Sued. Former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and former MPD Officer Daniel Hodges filed suit over Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund.” “The Fund will directly finance the violent operations of rioters, paramilitaries, and their supporters who threatened Plaintiffs’ lives that day, and continue to do so,” says their complaint. Prediction: Having a pair of cops atop the lawsuit is going to help its cause. The fallout from the insurrection reminded people about how so much of the risk was borne by the regular folks who feed, staff, and protect the big shots. (Dunn may not actually be an ordinary Joe for long: He’s running for Congress in suburban Maryland.)

Peace Out, Chancellor. DC Public Schools leader Lewis Ferebee is leaving to run a national education nonprofit. Amazing stat: Ferebee, who only started in 2019, is the system’s longest-serving chancellor. Political reality: This means the next mayor will get to make an enormous hire. Lewis George and McDuffie have stark differences on school issues, with Lewis George a skeptic of the reform policies of recent schools chiefs like Ferebee.

The Autobiography of Malcolm X Park. City Cast’s Emma Uber launched her new newsletter with a look at how those gorgeous fountains at Meridian Hill Park finally got restored — and the politics around who should get credit. New detail: There is still a lot of work ahead for the park, whose neighbors have chided the National Park Service as an absentee landlord. Officials tell Emma that they’re turning to new grass, benches and lights next.

The House’s Money. A key house committee okayed measures to spend $100 million to “make D.C. safe and beautiful,” steering $70 million to long-sought Union Station improvements. A different bill would direct $134 million to the National Park Service to grow the U.S. Park Police. That expansion — accompanied by aggro recruitment ads that feature the Guns n' Roses song “Welcome to the Jungle” — has made a lot of locals worry about a Trump-run alternative police department.

MPD Complaints Rise. Complaints against D.C. police rose sharply after the federal law enforcement surge, according to the Washington Post. The report seems to confirm predictions that working with other departments — full of officers without community ties or urban-policy training — would damage MPD efforts to boost trust. Worse, it may be all we ever know about the surge, since many of the federal forces aren’t obliged to share citizen complaints.

Arch Logic. Trump officials say they don't need Congressional authorization to build the "Arc de Trump," despite federal law that seems to say otherwise, the Post's Dan Diamond reports. In legal filings, they say Congress' 1925 vote okaying the Memorial Bridge will suffice, since the original plan included a pair of columns on the Virginia side.

Finally: The Virginia estate of Daniel Snyder, the former Commanders owner and regional villain, is back on the market after failing to sell for the original $60 million ask. The new real estate agent tells the Washington Business Journal that they’re marketing the place as a “D.C. power address” whose riverfront locale should be seen "not as a backdrop but as a highway connecting the most influential corridors in the country." Perhaps buyers would be into buying a nearby bridge, too.

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