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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

As some of you might know, I live in Washington, D.C., our nation's capital.

And when I'm not making this podcast, I also co-host a podcast about local D.C. News called

CityCast, D.C. So this has been a pretty difficult week for the country, but especially a difficult time for

my city because Trump announced his administration is taking over D.C.'s police force and

deploying the National Guard. So I wanted to talk a little bit about what that means for D.C.

from the perspective of someone who lives here. There are obviously implications for the whole

country from something like

this. Trump himself has even said that this is just the beginning and he wants to do similar

power grabs in cities across the country, but I really want to talk about it from my perspective

as somebody who lives in D.C. and is experiencing the impacts of these recent changes. There are

definitely some tech and media

implications for the kinds of issues that we cover on the show, which I'll definitely get into,

but mostly this just feels like an attack on my hometown, so it's pretty personal for me. By the way,

if you hear sirens or helicopters while I'm recording, that's just my new reality now, so not much I can do about it, but I'll do my best. So this feels personal because, you know, D.C. is my home. I've lived in other places. I've lived in San Francisco and Brooklyn and a few other places, but D.C. is really where I'm from. My late mother, God rest her soul, did her medical residency here at

Children's Hospital in D.C. I taught English classes to undergraduates at Howard University. I've

made lifelong friends here. I've worked a hundred different jobs here. I fell in love here. Had my

heartbroken here. D.C. is where I have lived the longest and is where I will always return to because

it's my home. My situation is a little bit

unusual because D.C. has a reputation as a transient city, the kind of place where people move

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