Beth Wegner

Michigan peeps! Elissa Slotkin is having a telephone townhall tomorrow, March 13 at 6:30pm. Register and participate. www.slotkin.senate.gov

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

Big Gretch 👏

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the head of the Office of Special Counsel, which oversees government whistleblower protections and enforces certain ethics laws.

Josie's winter weekend morning checklist:
-Be acknowledged and petted
-Eat treat (goo and meds)
-Bask in the warmth of the space heater
-Eat snow (indoors)
-Eat breakfast
-Cuddle with mom (ignore the tree, ok, life is hard)

#josiejustwantstobecozy #catmom #michiganwinter

Spot on.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million.

How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65

Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Hey all, we've gotten a *lot* of tips since this post. Keep 'em coming.

The deep-dive investigations we tend to do will often take longer to source, report, corroborate, fact-check and publish, but our reporters are hard at work following up on leads you’ve sent.

Thanks for your trust in us.

The Department of Justice should be renamed The Department of Just Us, with "Us" meaning wealthy white land owning men.

The "again" in MAGA always meant the era of Jim Crow and Antebellum America, and every move this fascist regime has made is devolving the USA to that era.

DEMOCRATS in Congress, take note!

📌 Reps. Judy Chu (D-CA) and Gwen Moore (D-WI) walked into Mike Johnson’s office unannounced and demanded answers on why Elon Musk’s people got access to a sensitive Treasury payment system.

More of this energy, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ,
@schumer.senate.gov

Selective outrage of the right.

Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders. Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle. In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces. Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps. This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025: Print - The New York Times TV - NBC News Radio - National Public Radio Online News - POLITICO In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets. Print - New York Post TV - One America News Network Radio - Breitbart News Network Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post)

To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously. The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps. Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon. (John Ullyot Acting

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

NFL Told Patriots to Take Down Bluesky Account The NFL recently told the Patriots to take down its Bluesky account, saying it wasn’t a league-approved social media platform.

frontofficesports.com/nfl-told-pat...

Yay! I'm excited the sibling shenanigans will continue 💕

Western media is normalizing what is happening; this is not normal. Your pride, your preference for privilege at the expense of others, your willful ignorance, your lack of empathy, your disregard for facts and science, is leading us ALL down a path that will be difficult to survive.

Christian Nationalism Isn’t Coming—It’s Here As Senate confirmation hearings start, the Trump administration is clear they plan to decimate the wall that separates religion and state—we cannot let that happen

My write up on Hegseth: He is a Christian nationalist who wants to Christianize the military, is a credibly accused sexual predator, likely has a drinking problem, cheated on all of his wives, screams "Kill All Muslims," has 0 experience, & will get people killed.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/christian-...

Congrats. You played yourself.

Josie the tortico cat is laying on a fizzy beanbag ottoman, meowing at the camera operator.

Today was my first "Work From Home" day in 3 months. Josie was SO excited 😊 #josiejustwantstobecozy