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Founder, Elevation Global Strategies | Host, @Elevation_Live 🎙️| Connecting global sports, culture, and strategic competition.
Washington, DC
Joined January 2009
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When Formula 1 returns to Austin, @Elevation_Live is bringing something new.
Introducing ELEVATION LIVE: AUSTIN — Oct. 22 at @STATION_Austin with @CapitalFactory, connecting motorsport, dual-use technology, critical capabilities & strategic capital.
At #FedSupernova? Find me.
Look at my butt. After almost 10 hrs, it was so good. The whole world smells like smoke.
Also, go Noles. The expectations are so low, but I’m proud of this team for playing hard and putting up 36 at Bama — a one score game late in the 4th. Alas, giving up 50 is… unacceptable.
I see a bunch of jabronis complaining about lightning delays for college football stadiums like they’re triggered by measles vaccines.
I was at the Tibetan Freedom Concert at RFK Stadium when lightning hit and almost killed some people. I love Beasties but damn. Love life more.
The Kennedy Center is an instrument of state power. JFK called the National Gallery our "greatest asset," but lamented Washington lacking a proper grand cultural center as other world capitals as a "great mistake." He envied the Soviet's "most successful propaganda effort."
Hear JFK's pitch to early wealthy donors on why the time was right for a national cultural center to reflect American values and impress foreign visitors, the spending justified, and the mission serious enough to invoke the race against the Soviet Union.
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This was not journalism then.
It's not journalism now.
#FreedomOfThePress
#FirstAmendment
Kevin Baron retweeted
.@msnownews statement on its journalists being denied access to the White House grounds:
Unsettled? National Defense Strategy? Seriously? I think we’re way past regular NDS order and business at the Pentagon. And any closed-door harrumphing by Congress counts for little at this point. Billions are being awarded w get in the game or get out the way speed.
Some senators from both parties say they were left deeply unsettled Thursday after the Pentagon's top policy adviser, Elbridge Colby, failed to provide an expected update on the Trump administration's National Defense Strategy at a classified briefing. to.pbs.org/4hdpuX8
I have silent home movies of toddler me running past the rope right up to the Abe Lincoln statue inside the Memorial. Some kids just like history.
🚨 NEW: A child just breached the perimeter of the White House
He was small enough to fit through the fence posts 😆
Secret Service picked him up and brought him back to his family “without incident”
It’ll be a great party story for the rest of his life
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This video and incident are from March 2025, not new, as shown by contemporary reports and the original eyewitness footage.
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This happens when the Pentagon's public affairs shop is either broken or blatantly spinning. I don't know why they keep resisting full public accounting of the human and material cost of this war. Honor service members, respect taxpayers.
H/t to the WaPo natsec team, yet again.
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
wapo.st/4xtFlaf
MS NOW, CNN, and POLITICO? I’ve done em all, worked for MS and Politico, and even emceed the CNN-Politico Grills. Am I banned too?
Trump just banned CNN, MS Now, and Politico? I’ve been on all three of their sets and stages. Yahtzee!
After banning the entire Pentagon press corps from the Pentagon, I’m only surprised it took this long.
Yo…
SCOOP: A shipment of F-35 parts, including a canopy, wound up in Hong Kong — sparking an investigation on Capitol Hill and raising the possibility that China could have access to key components of the highly-classified program.
with @marksatter
politico.com/news/2026/09/18…
“And all shall know the wonder of purple summer.”
Man. I’ve loved Duncan Sheik since his first pop album’s haunting harmonies, but anyone touched by the brave Spring Awakening musical knows.
“All they say
Is ‘Trust in What is Written’
Wars are made
And somehow that is wisdom.”
Breaking News: Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who traded pop stardom for Broadway as the composer of “Spring Awakening,” has died at 56. nyti.ms/4AkcIix
Whoever scheduled the hands around the Kennedy Center at 630pm has never been near the Kennedy Center at rush hour.
Ah, another back-to-school night at the high school. Meeting teachers, seeing parent-friends. I think this is my 16th consecutive year of these, across my 3 boys. Still think they should make it a bar crawl. After this, just one more to go...
Another race cancelled due to war.
"Ongoing regional developments mean that the WRC element of Rally Saudi Arabia will not proceed this year."
Elfyn Evans is set to become the WRC champion as the 2026 season will now end a round early 🇸🇦
autosport.com/wrc/news/wrc-c…
Kevin Baron retweeted
The Kennedy Center has been lauded as a living monument underscoring the importance of the arts to our nation. But for people in the D.C. area, it has also been the backdrop to so many personal and pivotal memories.
Share your memories using this form: wapo.st/3UXa7Lb
Meanwhile, another motorsport cancellation due to the conflict...
🇿🇦 24H DUBAI TO BE MOVED TO KYALAMI: Due to the continuing conflict in the Middle East, Creventic are set to move the Michelin 24H Dubai to the Kyalami Circuit in South Africa. The race is expected to be held on the same date, on January 9-10 2027.
📸 SRO | #24HSeries #24HDubai
