Tani Levitt

I'm thrilled to say this is my first story for @washingtonian.com. I've joined the magazine as an Assistant Research Editor and it's great to be byline official

The chief economist of Apollo, the asset management firm w/almost $900 million of assets: "Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech." www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

The family of a well-known local youth baseball coach is heartbroken after their loved one was detained by ICE and now faces the risk of deportation.

this is why UCF is so interested in Space. they want to put timeshares on the moon.

Seriously, there's no need for more study of the economics of sports venues. The evidence shows they clearly don't promote economic development and we know exactly why. The spending is just a reallocation of existing wealth. bsky.app/profile/jcbr...

Do people not know what a study is? Paying someone to tell you what you want to hear as counterbalance to 50 years of actual research isn't a "study." Why is it so hard to use words correctly?

Gonna be on-site reporting tonight. SpeshFX things with Washingtonian

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

The Browns, Bengals, Guardians, Reds, Blue Jackets, Cavaliers, Crew, and FC Cincinnati. The owners of every single pro sports team in Ohio have all donated to Vivek Ramaswamy. And not a single one has spoken up about his recent ad. www.foiaball.com/p/ohio-sport...

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

Skyline do I need to know what the H3 podcast is?

What are we doing gete

Wild times at UMD Athletics. Seems an SID called the police on a pair of student journalists

A year after being called out for using the antisemitic term “Shylock” and claiming he didn’t know it was problematic, Trump has used it again. This is not an accident. Normalizing antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories is deeply dangerous. www.forbes.com/sites/siladi...

🧵 Elon Musk has donated a staggering $369M to influence the 2026 elections, making him the largest individual political donor in modern US history. And yet, he continues to invoke George Soros as a shadowy force secretly manipulating elections and the world as we know it. Let’s take a closer look.

The club added that “allegations of antisemitism are totally baseless.” k forward.com/news/857126/...

I respect Wemby for waging war against gambling and making sure everyone loses their parlay with this performance.

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Broke: Abolish ICE Woke: Abolish MBA www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

Who the hell was gonna say that Corey Dickerson is the rays 1b coach? This is unacceptable. He can still dh I know it

We’re ten years into this world and still I couldn’t believe my ears when the DOJ lawyers said that we shouldn’t believe the words the President plainly wrote. They’ll tell us what those words ~actually~ mean

WS Champion Mark Bellhorn to you

The sixth-worst McDonald’s in America is nestled between a Chase Bank and a Wawa in a forlorn parking lot off of I-95, ten miles south of Quantico in the exurbs of Stafford County, Virginia. Have you been there?

91 posts and not an end in sight. Pray for this man's thumbs

What we really shouldn’t be doing is turning this into a “Jalen Hurts is so tough” story

At 10am Judge Ana Reyes will begin an evidentiary hearing in the golf course case at 10am. I'll try to live-blog from the US Courthouse media room for @lawfaremedia.org . This is a case to stop Trump from converting a historic public golf course, open to all, to a Trump style championship course.

I'm not sure which is more ambitious, launching a print magazine in 2026 or suing the Trump admin as a private citizen. Alex Dickson is doing both. See why and how in my latest ⬇️ washingtonian.com/2026/10/16/h...

This map removes cherry trees, bike lanes, the mini golf course and two 9-hole courses from the park. You can meet the golfer suing to stop this in my latest: washingtonian.com/2026/10/16/h...

washington dc is not trump’s personal property and must be given statehood to prevent this kind of abuse in the future

Hard to avoid the conclusion that this sort of blatant antisemitism simply attracts far less media attention than Hasan Piker, whatever one thinks of him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm not sure which is more ambitious, launching a print magazine in 2026 or suing the Trump admin as a private citizen. Alex Dickson is doing both. See why and how in my latest ⬇️ washingtonian.com/2026/10/16/h...

The Capital Beatbox Battle is coming to Columbia Heights next weekend as DC's first beatboxing competition.

A Scaramucci is ten days (july 21-31). Zacharia was appointed on Oct 9 and lasted till October 16. So a Zacharia is seven days, or 7/10ths of a Scaramucci.

and now the owners can't complain about payroll disparity, right right

Also good luck to mlb as they try to force a lockout under the “small market teams have no chance” narrative on the heels of the Brewers, Guardians or Rays winning the World Series. Whoopsies!

Outstanding stuff: “Zacharia’s online resume shows a gap extending from 2013 to late 2023. For part of that time, she worked as an affiliate of Beachbody, a fitness company that ran a multilevel marketing operation she describes to WIRED as ‘sort of a pyramid scheme.’” www.wired.com/story/white-...

I always trip up on "contributes nothing to society." You gotta be really warped to think that way, right. Like people ARE society. People ARE society!!!!

You’ve seen stutter step penalties but how about this stutter walk penalty in the Caribbean Cup semifinal?

There’s obviously no chance Bill Simmons knows ZOG is a slur but I really fucking wish someone would tell him

THE EMOTION FROM SHOHEI 🗣️

113 for 428 in game ffs

Ohtani bombs are back, it's 4-0 Dodgers

As if you couldn't love Mikel Merino anymore. 😍https://www.theplayerstribune.com/mikel-merino-epl-soccer-arsenal-spain

What is the likelihood that beatbox comes to DC a month after I join Washingtonian? Hilarious coincidence here, of course I previewed the Capital Beatbox Battle

Could natural gas be part of powering the Commanders’ new RFK stadium? The prospect is alarming lawmakers and environmentalists, as it would run afoul of D.C. law. @alexkoma.bsky.social dug into the energy plans for the massive project: 51st.news/commanders-r...

New: The Commanders and the city have pledged the new RFK stadium will be "the most sustainable" football facility in the country...but early plans to have natural gas included as part of the project are raising alarms. It'd violate a key climate law if it moves ahead: 51st.news/commanders-r...

“I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.” -- Nicole Noren, 24-year ESPN veteran and winner of Emmy, Murrow, and Peabody awards. Her grandfather, father and one of my brothers "were pretty much destroyed by sports gambling addiction." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...