Meet Paul Van Remortel. He’s the Senior Product Manager at Intermarkets, a Washington area-based digital media firm. This week, Paul and his team launched StandUnited.org, the first open and free petition platform that allows individuals and organizations to engage and mobilize supporters on center-right issues.

From Fishbowl to Washingtonian to Politico. Garrett Graff continues to make the rest of us look bad. Congratulations! “Garrett Graff will take over as editor of Politico Magazine. The former editor in chief of Washingtonian, … Garrett has stepped in as acting editor since Blake [Hounshell] and I took on …

Matt Dornic is a big deal now, and he was definitely a big deal in 2011, too, when he was in his third year of editorship at FishbowlDC. In short, he’s always been kind of a big deal. FBDC: What was the best part of being a Fishbowl editor? MD: …

#NATIONAL We are Charlie; Dartmouth students charged with cheating in their ethics class; OUTRAGE: we don’t have hoverboards but we’re making space cars; Pillars of creation HD version; Maybe the superbug won’t kill us all; They opened up the time capsule in Boston and found… a bunch of junk; #DISTRICT …

You read that headline right. CNN’s Ashley Codianni found the absolute best Vines of 2014 featuring politicians. If at least one of these videos doesn’t warm your heart as you watch on loop, you’re probably a D.C. grinch. Whether it’s competing in a guitar battle or doing a karate kick …

Because America.

#NATIONAL We miss Boardwalk Empire; North Korea = 1, Sony = 0;  Jay Cutler is not having a good week; Can you make this go Woodhouse? err… viral?; Got the club going up … on a Tuesday; North Korea is so ********{HACKED}********{REMOVE TEXT}******; #DISTRICT Bill Clinton still has A-game; Ask …

That feeling when your mom calls you and your pundit brother out on C-SPAN: “Oh God, it’s mom.” – Dallas Woodhouse   h/t C-SPAN

This post was originally written in 2014 to announce the birth of Famous father, Josh Shultz’s youngest daughter, Camden. Now we’re back to update the post thanks to the newest little update to the Shultz family. This time, a boy! Jackson Adam Shultz was born on Tuesday March 21, 2017 to Josh …

#NATIONAL If you have to ask what Serial is, you need this Vox post h/t Morgan Gress; The 12 days of bacon is everything; Sony’s leaked emails are really entertaining; Colbert is killing it with interviews lately; What’s in the box?!; It’s just $4; #DISTRICT Dear house staffer telling the …

Attire: Griswold black tie. Where: City Tavern Club. Who: Everyone worthwhile. See you there.  

#NATIONAL 22 people had to approve Mitt Romney’s tweets; Peter Pan didn’t do too hot; Nope nope nope; Japan’s new thing is drenching burgers in cheese fondue; what the guy next to you at the coffee shop is furiously typing; Yo bitch; Goodbye UAB football; NASA launched a new rocket, …

#NATIONAL #ThanksMichelleObama; Interstellar led to a real scientific discovery; we’re not #SayingThanks, Facebook; the Onion writers are increasingly brilliant characterizing Joe Biden; we will call anyone Ebola Nurse if we want to because this is America; Uber this week; more celebrities reading mean Tweets; Russia is creepin on your webcam; …

Obama to announce #immigration action in Vegas so as to make easier for everyone to write "doubles down" in their stories. — David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) November 19, 2014   Burn.

#NATIONAL We’re as ready for this weekend as Jack Black was ready to rip shots at Tune Inn; It’s never too early to research how to fry a turkey; 2026 World Cup being hosted somewhere hotter than Qatar; climate change = more lightning; nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got somethin’ …

#NATIONAL Japan beats Scotland for best whiskey title; Facebook wants to help fight ebola; Grover Norquist is the “winner” this year; the Berlin Wall, made out of balloons; don’t take daylight for granted; where you can’t shop on Thanksgiving day; how to fix Congress; another Toy Story? okay; definition of …

President Obama said he would enjoy having Kentucky bourbon with Senator McConnell.     Let’s hope the #BourbonSummit happens – and goes down smooth. Hope President Obama and Senator McConnell agree. #BourbonSummit pic.twitter.com/08n2OuJmSL — DISCUS (@DistilledSpirit) November 6, 2014