Catherine Murton Stoehr

@Northcat
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non-Indigenous treaty historian and award winning, accidental journalist
doing the work & clocking out at 5
she / her
As a historian watching folks try so hard, in so many ways, to discredit a first person account of their experience is almost painful. We take first person accounts quite seriously, they are, quite literally, a gift.
#Spare
@TheConversationUS yes please!
@SethRudy how can something be so funny and so sad at the same time?
I am not attending #MLA23, but to honor it I will wait twenty minutes to buy a flavorless, untoasted plain bagel that I will eat while crying in a hotel bathroom.

Destroying the House ethics office.

Nothing like announcing that you’re against congressional ethics to reveal who you are.

Expect more corruption in their ranks.

One might even say that they’re trying to create a swamp…

Opinion | Republicans will regret trying to gut the House ethics office - The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/04/house-republicans-congressional-ethics-office/

Republicans want to gut the House ethics office. They will regret it.

Doing away with an ethics watchdog is shortsighted.

The Washington Post
Normally when new leadership takes over in Congress, they want to signal a commitment to ethics early on, but the GOP plans on doing the opposite, by gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics, even as they seat scandal-riddled members like George Santos https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/04/house-republicans-congressional-ethics-office/
Republicans want to gut the House ethics office. They will regret it.

Doing away with an ethics watchdog is shortsighted.

The Washington Post