An excerpt from The Washington Post's interview with photographer Christopher Anderson: Question: "Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor?" Anderson: "I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, 'Should I smile or not smile?' and I said, 'How would you want to be portrayed?' We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, 'You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.' And I looked at him and I said, 'You know, you do, too.'"

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

Germany’s Chancellor Merz presented Trump the birth certificate of his German grandfather, Friedrich Trump.

It was a clever jab to remind Trump he’s a German immigrant.

"Meanwhile, in national news..."

dunno if this is gonna help the @whitesox.com at all but it's worth a shot

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Trump Informs Nation They Better Start Liking Those Little Canned Wieners WASHINGTON—Saying that Americans should anticipate certain lifestyle changes as a result of his newly announced tariffs, President Donald Trump informed the nation Thursday that they better start liki...

Trump Informs Nation They Better Start Liking Those Little Canned Wieners

Sen. Cory Booker's speech on the Senate floor went for 25 hours and 4 minutes.

His final words: "Let's get in good trouble, my friend. Madam President, I yield the floor."

Marine Le Pen has learned her lesson.

by Susan Collins

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Sen. @booker.senate.gov : “I rise with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able. Our constituents are asking us to acknowledge that this is a crisis. So I am going to stand here until I no longer can.”

So…lock them up?

Buttigieg: I know this in my experience, both in the cabinet and as an intelligence officer, you would have to go out of your way to take classified information and move it into an unclassified system

JUST IN: Democratic Rep. Al Green of Texas was removed from the House chamber for his protests during President Trump's speech. cnn.it/41tNrSi

One thing got missed in that disgusting embarrassing exchange between a respected President and two wannabe mafia thugs…Vance admitted Russia invaded Ukraine.

"You're gambling with World War 3": Trump and Zelensky get heated in Oval Office Zelensky is in town to sign a minerals deal, but the visit turned nasty fast.

BREAKING: Trump, Vance meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over minerals deal devolves into heated argument — "You're gambling with World War III," Trump said.

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

Informal Grievance Template for Adverse Personnel Actions There is a limited amount of time to oppose personnel actions. Time is short.

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF.

Now.

Print hard copies.

And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro Sues Trump Administration To Release Over $3 Billion in Federal Funds Read more here.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) sued President Donald Trump’s administration Thursday to get them to unfreeze over $3 billion of federal funding allocated to his state’s agencies over the next several years. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

HHS Secretary Dr. Leo Spacemen

AP Accuses White House of Violating First Amendment The Associated Press said the White House had blocked its journalists from attending press events because the news agency had not started using the term Gulf of America.

The Associated Press on Wednesday accused the White House of violating the First Amendment and called on the Trump administration to stop blocking its reporters from press events.

Trudeau: "There's not a snowball's chance in hell that Canada will ever be the 51st state"

The moment we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down one agency – we say it's ok to violate the law to shut down anything.

Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article) A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

It's been, one week since they did a coup

Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.

Holy shit! Democrats, if you’re looking for a fighter, you found one— @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social for DNC Vice Chair.

"I want to speak directly to Americans," says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "This is a choice that will harm Canadians...but will have real consequences for you."