{"id":2796,"date":"2026-04-30T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/grindr-yes-grindr-won-the-whcd-party-circuit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:00:00","slug":"grindr-yes-grindr-won-the-whcd-party-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/grindr-yes-grindr-won-the-whcd-party-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Grindr \u2014 yes, Grindr \u2014 won the WHCD party circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"General atmosphere during Grindr White House Correspondents' Dinner Weekend Party 2026 at LXIV DC on April 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images for Grindr Inc.\" data-portal-copyright=\"Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images for Grindr Inc.\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/04\/gettyimages-2273020723.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\tGeneral atmosphere during Grindr White House Correspondents&rsquo; Dinner Weekend Party 2026 at LXIV DC on April 24, 2026 in Washington, DC. | Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images for Grindr Inc.\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>Hello and welcome to <\/em>Regulator<em>, a <\/em>newsletter <em>for <\/em>Verge <em>subscribers about technology, politics, and technology learning how to politick. If you&rsquo;re not a subscriber but would like to support our work, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>please subscribe here<\/em><\/a><em>. I promise that your money will not go toward paying for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/918843\/trump-whcd-attack-white-house-ballroom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>a drone-proof ballroom<\/em><\/a><em> for <\/em>The Verge<em> staff, no matter how much fun we&rsquo;d have throwing parties there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Speaking of parties: <em>The Verge<\/em> normally wouldn&rsquo;t do a party report from the White House Correspondents&rsquo; Dinner week, also known as \u00ab\u00a0Nerd Prom,\u00a0\u00bb because it&rsquo;s a bit too much Washington insider circle-jerking for normal people to stomach. (This year was weirder than most, \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/920845\/grindr-whcd-party-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General atmosphere during Grindr White House Correspondents&rsquo; Dinner Weekend Party 2026 at LXIV DC on April 24, 2026 in Washington, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}