Erin Mansfield
@_erinmansfield
Government Accountability Reporter @USATODAYDC. Motherhood. Muckraking. Moxie. She/her/ella. [email protected].
Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout. This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this—11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them: wapo.st/3TU2fGw
Their selfies are being turned into sexually explicit content with AI. They want the world to know. usatoday.com/story/life/hea… via @usatoday
Hegseth sent classified info from battlefield commanders on Signal chat usatoday.com/story/news/pol… via @usatoday
Trump to sign order pushing cities and states to remove homeless people from streets usatoday.com/story/news/pol… via @usatoday
Trump's Epstein problem grows: Even his voters want more files released usatoday.com/story/news/pol… via @usatoday
This 2018 we pubbed w/@bradheath + @jguynn holds up--> We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Here's what we found usatoday.com/story/news/201… via @usatoday
Let's put it this way...we started this fight in 2018. So the "review" has been going on for at least six years.
Do we have any indicators as to how long the review of materials might take?
"U.S. employers collectively lose more than $2 billion each day due to . . . toxic workplace behavior. . . . Americans are exhausted by division, and it’s showing up at the office, in customer interactions, and on company balance sheets." thefulcrum.us/governance-leg…
*SPEAKER JOHNSON SAYS HE IS 'DISENCHANTED' WITH FED CHAIR POWELL @TheTerminal
My favorite fun fact that no one knows about this picture is that it was actually taken the night before and @kaitlancollins had to tell him it was going viral
Enjoying a Wolf Spritzer at El Presidente restaurant here in DC.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who starred as Theo on 'Cosby Show,' dies in drowning at 54: Reports usatoday.com/story/entertai… via @usatoday
Former USA TODAY editor David Mazzarella, who helped give paper its hard news edge, dies usatoday.com/story/news/nat… via @usatoday
You can take the man out of the real estate industry, but you can't take the real estate industry out of the man. Love this story by @SwapnaVenugopal. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Stephen Colbert's monologue about the Paramount settlement on Monday. youtube.com/watch?v=zzvx3L…
Democrats storm out over Republican vote to advance Trump court pick Emil Bove usatoday.com/story/news/pol… via @usatoday
Maurene Comey, daughter of ex-FBI director and prosecutor against Jeffrey Epstein, fired usatoday.com/story/news/pol… via @usatoday @AyshaBagchi
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaces his chief of staff usatoday.com/story/news/pol… via @usatoday
Fort Who? Republicans join House Dems to bar Hegseth's military base name changes usatoday.com/story/news/pol… via @usatoday
Gannett taps former People editor-in-chief as executive editor of entertainment usatoday.com/story/money/20… via @usatoday