Pam Hicks

people are so extraordinary in what they can do

Here it is, if anyone is interested -
commentari.ai

My former colleague who is a genius at drafting regulations, now that he is out of DOJ has used AI to build a system for the public to draft comments on proposed regulations that is incredible. I never would have thought it possible based on what Google tries to make me use.

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

The greatest gift my parents gave me was to tell me the only thing they wanted for me as an adult was to be happy and actually mean it. Really internalized it and made so many better decisions in life because of it.

Re-upping from yesterday: If you're in DC-land today, it's the final day of a phenomenal exhibit at National Gallery, treasures of Aboriginal art. You won't regret it.

I used to think I preferred the Roger Moore movies because he was Bond when I first started watching them as a kid. Now I just think they are better. They are fun in the way these movies are meant to be.

Television pioneer Fred Rogers, gone 23 years ago today.

His acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award is always worth a watch.

#RIP 💔

I cannot wait to listen to this. As a fired fed who represents other fired feds, super excited for it.

Anytime anyone talks about the show The Pitt I get confused because I think they are talking about the 2009 DLC for Bethesda’s Fallout 3, called The Pitt.

DOGE cost the federal government 4 million years of institutional knowledge. These graphs tell the story. - The Boston Globe Amid Trump’s bureaucracy-slashing directives, the federal workforce shrunk by about 220,000 people in 2025.

“We don’t have a government that’s properly staffed,” she said. “All of these things [federal workers do] are really part of making life a little fairer, a little safer for the public. We’ve lost that.”

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/26/n...

What Elon Has Done Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.

Today, @mckay4senate.bsky.social urges us not to forget what Elon Musk do to USAID, something that is still likely to have the highest body count of the administration’s actions. McKay documents just what Elon has done in detail www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

the "WNBA doesn't make a profit" crowd is going to move the goalposts pretty fast here, mostly because their investment isn't in the facts as much as it is in making women feel small

People looking at polls and wondering why DC Dems don't stand up for immigrants when it is increasingly clear a significant portion of them just don't want to.

It’s the first time the US men’s and women’s hockey teams have won gold in the same Olympics 🥇🥇

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Forty-six years ago today: “DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?” 🇺🇸

Great read for anyone interested in the history of English:

Almost impossible to explain to younger folks what a miracle the miracle on ice was. The world and sports have just changed so much since then.

Former DOJ staff just launched Red Line for Civil Rights — a new project tracking how this administration has hollowed out and politicized civil rights enforcement.

This public accountability is essential when the administration has decimated the Civil Rights Division.

redlinecivilrights.org

Yes we absolutely can

Becoming a rabid “Enforce the AntiDeficiency Act” person.

We have been trained (esp. professional white folks) to think the main political action is voting and, as so many smarter people than me have said, that is the least of it. Hopefully one thing that comes from these dark times is people not only realizing it takes so much more but acting on it.

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

And Pete’s resume is a lot less impressive, honestly. Mayor of a small-ish Indiana city. That people didn’t talk about him that way in 2020 kind of gives away the game.

Demanding Support for Trump, Justice Dept. Struggles to Recruit Prosecutors

The intermingling of law enforcement and political goals has made the department, long a magnet for platinum legal talent, an unappealing landing spot, according to current and former officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.