The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of?

RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times

Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.

What are the odds it’ll turn out that The Atlantic editor was added because they assumed he was the Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet of the U.S. Navy or something?

Your move ♟️

Meanwhile. . . in Texas. Mixing elementary school children purposely with guns for a FUN Valentine dance.

WAY too much prayer going on. These political religious hacks! Talking about some kind of miracle that got this focker elected.

Zuck seems to be enjoying the ceremony.

I would love to see a few people just get up and walk out of this absurd, disgusting speech. Would that be wrong?

Senator Sheehy so absolutely disrespects my home state of Montana. SO embarrasing.

Senator Slotkin is a ROCK STAR!

Sounds to me like the republican senators all discussed their questions with Hegseth PRIOR to these hearings. They keep saying "we talked about this in my office." Contrast that with Senator Gillibrand being turned down for an opportunity to talk with him privately. Hmmm.

Why is nobody talking about how Shamsud-Din Jabbar came from a place with sick and cruel extremist beliefs inimical to American values, a place that poses a constant threat to our freedoms

My imagining of Tulsi Gabbard's meeting with Assad is that he told her she was so very smart, and so very pretty and that he never used chemical weapons and she blushed.

I was a bit stunned when I pulled up all the news this morning and there was barely a mention of the fall of Damascus and Assad's fleeing the country. WTF?!

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

It's kind of nice here at 2 am. The notifications are manageable and the house is quiet. I belong in bed, but it's nice to breathe and be grateful.