Can democrats do better to communicate to the public that they’re going to do more than just call this bill “ugly”

But what did it get done? They still passed the bill, all the same.

Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum on the last time they watched Jurassic Park 😂

Does the United States have a #tariff strategy? Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Dr. Kurt Campbell sat down with me on The Burn Bag to try to explain

Cutting diplomats is penny wise but pound foolish. My old boss, SECDEF Bob Gates, used to point out that DOD has more people in military bands than the number of foreign service officers. They punch above their weight and deserve better than this. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

This is literally superpower suicide. These are some of the most talented public servants doing critical work. Champagne corks are popping in Beijing and Moscow after they already emptied the wine cellars celebrating the end of USAID.

Half of Michigan’s congressional delegation seems to be on my perennially delayed Detroit to DC flight and I’m really trying hard to not pitch a bad sequel to Planes Trains and Automobiles with them

Getting an entry level job before the release of ChatGPT in 2022 was like taking the last chopper out of Vietnam Few realize this yet

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Today, Los Angeles and the Bay Area will see 130 flights in both directions, equivalent to a plane departing every 6.5 minutes for 18 hours a day. Hard to argue it's not a perfect candidate for fast trains.

At the gas station near my high school in La Jolla where I would usually grab a Coke Zero before waiting for my bus

What is this new trend of flying with the window shades down on DAYTIME flights? You’ve got sweeping views of the most intricate planet known to man and you’d rather sit in a dimly LED-lit tube?! No wonder people are depressed & dysregulated.

Ugh they got me 😭

The Naked Gun was a perfect movie. Don’t miss the credits.

In our latest episode, ex-CIA analyst Gina Bennett unpacks how post-9/11 #security policy focused on physical threats—while overlooking the role of #democracy, ideals, and #citizenship in building true resilience. Spotify: bit.ly/45mhk9k Apple: bit.ly/4fhdz9D

Why is China’s Yunnan province always hosting ASEAN nations? What connects Liaoning, on China’s northeast coast, to Russia and Japan? I took a look at how China’s equivalent of subnational diplomacy (地方外事工作) works in NBR’s new #Borderlands series. A short 🧵

Where’s the actual garden

Not me skipping my ten-year high school reunion in San Diego to see one of @johncena’s very last matches.

It is appalling how little coverage the shootings at the CDC received. A government agency was attacked with over 180 rounds of gunfire and David Rose, a responding police officer, was killed in the line of duty. Vaccine disinformation and hostility against science have

Al Gore trying out the West Wing Oval Office, 2002.