Welcome back to hashtag Sisters-in-law with Barb McQuaid, Joyce Fance, Kimberly Atkins Store, and me, Jill Wein Banks.

Kick off the new year with some hashtag sisters-in-law gear. Hoodies, which you really need now,

and t-shirts are available at politicon.com slash merch. You can find the link in our show notes.

We also have some exciting news. We're launching a companion podcast called Sisters Sidebar,

where we'll answer more of your questions than we do during our show, the ones that we couldn't get to in the main show.

Dive deeper into our opinions on the news and share more about our legal journeys.

It airs on Wednesdays, and the first episode is next week. Today's show. We'll be

discussing it's icy in Minnesota, Doge, and what's happening with Social Security Administration,

and the Lisa Cook arguments where Jerome Powell actually came and sat in the audience with her.

But before we get to those really important and

heavy topics, I want to talk more about Sister's Sidebar and let our listeners know what it is.

Barb, do you want to just give a brief outline of what it is? Yeah, you know, we always say this is our

favorite part of the show, and it really is. we get tons of great questions from our listeners about

things. You know, sometimes when you're a lawyer, you don't even think about these things,

and we try to answer three questions a week because that's about what time permits for our show.

But we always have questions and we say, gosh, I wish we could do more of these. We've often

talked about doing a questions only show. Well, now we will. We're going to do a

short questions only segment in the middle part of the week so that we can answer more of those

questions. And is there a way that people will know how to access that show? You can get it wherever you

get your pods. If you're subscribed to sisters-in-law, you will be subscribed to sister's sidebar.

But you want to make sure that your friends know about it too, just so that they can hear all of the things that we are saying.

But I do try from time to time when I can to answer questions on social media because I really enjoy it. So I'm

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