Happy Bastille Day, to those who celebrate!

This isn't one of our typical obscure cultural references.

This French holiday marks the day in 1789 that peasants, revolutionaries and mutinous soldiers stormed the Bastille, the Medieval-era central prison in Paris, a symbol of the crumbling monarchy. It was a harbinger of the revolution to come.

Since the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25, we are seeing revolutionary acts and unimaginable developments every day. These stories anchor our coverage today.

Unless you've been asleep for the past 24 hours, you're no doubt aware that the Washington Redskins announced yesterday that they are finally changing their name -- to what, and when, we don't yet know. That's a big deal in and of itself.

But lost in all the discussion of the cultural significance is this very inescapable fact: the team name is changing because majority owner Daniel M. Snyder feared for his bottom line. And speaking of his bottom line, Snyder has made no secret of his desire to move the team away from FedEx Field in Landover and back to Washington, D.C., and his willingness to abandon the Redskins name may grease the skids for the team's departure from Maryland sooner rather than later (their lease to play at FedEx Field expires in 2027).

In his astute piece, "5 Takeaways From the Redskins' Decision to Drop Their Name," Bruce DePuyt not only examines what's next for the team -- but just as important, what may be next for FedEx Field and environs if the club bolts in the next few years. It's a vast and depressingly underutilized parcel right off the Capital Beltway -- a giant parking lot with a massive spaceship in the middle.

“I think it would behoove the county to begin to think about, and begin to imagine, life without FedEx Field,” said Prince George's County Chamber of Commerce President David Harrington.

Meanwhile, some equally wrenching -- and potentially transformative -- discussions are taking place on Capitol Hill, where members of Maryland's congressional delegation are leading the fight to remove the bust of the late chief justice Roger B. Taney from outside the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol and replace it with a representation of another Marylander who served on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall.

Taney, you'll recall, wrote the majority opinion in the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which denied citizenship to Black Americans -- whether they were free or enslaved. His statue was removed from the State House grounds in Annapolis in 2017, following the white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville, Va.

"Justice Taney’s opinion in the Dred Scott Supreme Court case is one of the worst decisions to ever come out of the court, and the reckoning our nation has faced in the past few weeks further illustrates the need to take this action,” said U.S. Rep. Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democrat in the House.