This is a great read.

Paramount to Pay Trump $16 Million to Settle ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit

This may sound old fashioned, but again it’s worth saying. 60 Minutes did nothing wrong. This is a payoff for merger approval.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b...

Speaking of performative.

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

This means I now have negative 4 security clearances

Thank you for sharing. Given the state of everything, it is uplifting to see him say - nope, I am still going to do it even though everything is against me. Also, Pepe is queen for life.

I grew up outside Wooster. It’s great to see activism there! That’s not what I experienced growing up.

This is why current Senate leadership is not tenable. This is not a new lesson. It is just a lesson they refuse to learn.

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

Old enough to remember the fits when Obama White House sent out a tweet on net neutrality when the FCC did the 2015 reclassification.

Dear metro riders of DC. If the car is packed take OFF your backpack before you get on.

If we change the name from Trump to Biden or Obama, imagine the leadership’s response.

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What? For people who pin their failures on diversity, corporate America’s DEI retreat removes a barrier—or maybe an excuse.

this confirms something i have long suspected, which is that certain people are told that their professional and academic failures are because of “affirmative action” or “DEI” as a way to avoid difficult conversations about their mediocrity www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

About 3 ish in Hill East and the plow trucks have been thru twice already.

Heads High, Eyes Forward This is how we say goodbye

He’s coming home.

connieschultz.substack.com/p/heads-high...

As a born and raised Ohioan turned (now former) staffer, he made me cry with his speech. The Senate and Ohio will have a Sherrod sized hole in it come January 3rd.