National enterprise reporter @ABC. Love to play my banjo. Native Washingtonian. Email Beatrice.e.peterson@abc.com

Joined May 2009
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.@BenCohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s, launched the Department of Pentagon Excess, or D.O.P.E. To make his point, he hoisted an electric chainsaw on the steps of the Capitol and carved into a mock Pentagon as $1,882 bills spilled to the ground. A thread 🧵
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I did a cartwheel the other day and almost took myself out 😆😆😆👏🏾🤭
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🚨📢 America, we have an announcement: @ChrisStapleton and the @SmashingPumpkin will perform at America's Block Party concert benefiting Giving 4th at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on July 4th, hosted by @IAMQUEENLATIFAH. Tickets are $17.76 and go on sale June 16 at america250.org/LA 🇺🇸
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Lastly… 1:20AM fireworks in downtown Washington DC! 🎆

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In a half century of living here, I believe this is the first time I've seen fireworks at 1:20 a.m. #fireworks
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it gotta be crazy to wake up & see all yo patnas dead & wrapped in plastic 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Crab gets packaged alive and breaks out whilst at the store
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this vid is acc sending me bad wtf
Why aren't Football teams trying this technique to score easier goals.. Are they stupid?
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WHAT AN IMAGE 📸 @somogettynews
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And it begins!! Abe and I can’t be at the @WhiteHouse tonight, but we’re watching from home and cheering on these incredible athletes, especially our friends, @MikeChandlerMMA, @NoBickal and @Justin_Gaethje! Kudos to @realDonaldTrump and @danawhite for putting on this truly epic @ufc event. Let’s goooo!!
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Sometimes the best stories start with a simple question. In this case: Why is it so hard to find a quality American-made American flag? That question led three friends to invest $5,000, start a @AllegianceFlag and eventually land a contract supplying flags to the White House.
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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is quite green this morning. For @Bloomberg photos. gettyimages.com/search/2/ima…
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UFC Freedom 250 is facing a chaotic weather setup on the White House South Lawn, with a 60% chance of thunderstorms, heavy downpours, and wind gusts up to 34 mph threatening to delay the outdoor fights. On top of the storm risk, brutal D.C. humidity is driving a triple-digit heat index alongside massive swarms of mosquitos and gnats that fighters will have to battle inside the cage. While the venue’s massive 92-foot overhang will keep the octagon dry, a single lightning strike within eight miles will trigger an automatic 30-minute freeze on the entire event.
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This is what it sounded like when the Knicks won their first championship in 53 years

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Knicks fan launched a banana into the crowd and it came back to him 👀

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This guy’s writing poetry about biscuits and gravy. And it’s beautiful.
USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen. I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify. In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather. "Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully. "Honey, that's what it looks like." The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it." I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it. I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South. It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent. "Well?" the waitress asked. "I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed." "Everybody does, hon." Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it. Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating. I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden. It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.
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Over the past several weeks, Secret Service police officers, special agents, and support teams screened and secured materials needed to build the #UFC arena on the South Grounds of the White House. From the first wrench and hammer to the finished arena, they made it happen.
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Fact check: Mother Viola Fletcher died in November 2025 at age 111. Lessie Benningfield Randle (“Mother Randle”) is still alive and, at 111, is believed to be the last living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
Viola Fletcher, the last living witness of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has passed away at 111. Her legacy of strength and survival will never be forgotten. 🕊️🙏🏾
Community note
Viola Ford Fletcher pasted away November 24, 2025. This post is misleading and likely created for engagement. pbs.org/newshour/natio…
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This is actually lowkey crazy 😭
USA hosting FIFA World Cup is lucky for New York Knicks!
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Kids ain’t scared of anything but going to sleep
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kids are just mini crackheads😭
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Fireworks Notification On Sunday, 6/14/26, as part of UFC Freedom 250, there will be short bursts of fireworks prior to each bout. At the conclusion of the event on the South Lawn and the Ellipse of the White House, there will be a 6 minute finale near the National Mall.
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