I dislike how, when you’re an adult, time passes in such a way that it feels like you go to the dentist weekly

As a molecular biologist and biochemist, in early 2020 I followed virologists on twitter at the time, and I knew by early-to-mid January that Covid was going global. I did not anticipate how bad it would end up. Sigh.

The two other times I remember watching the media with the same confusion about why they weren’t treating the onrushing train as an onrushing train were the levee situation in NOLA post-Katrina and late February 2020

The Hormuz situation seems so so bad, like gonna-destabilize-half-the-globe-and-tank-the-economy bad, with no obvious resolution even plausible, and it’s still getting the “distant crisis mostly of interest to nerds that will work itself out” treatment in American press

Six days.

Q: Can you explain the computer log in issue? Your lawsuit contends you were not able to log in

PATEL: Survey -- how many of you people believe that's true?

Q: Did you communicate that you thought you were fired?

PATEL: It never happened. You are lying.

Q: The lawsuit says the opposite!

Hope John Roberts, who assured us that absolute immunity would prevent presidents from going after their predecessors, sees this

SARA EISEN: I think it was a bit of a trap to ask Kevin Warsh about the election denial, to get him to disagree w/ President Trump. You know no Fed Chair is going to weigh in on politics like that

WARREN: Look, I asked him a fact. We need a Fed Chair who can assert reality. Kevin Warsh can't do it

SARA EISEN: The president is just expressing what he wants in terms of monetary policy

ELIZABETH WARREN: I'm sorry. Is that real? You think it's not different to say 'here's how I read the numbers' and being the president and employing the DOJ to bring criminal charges against someone?

I was struck by how many words Patel used, none of which actually denied the question.

Elizabeth Warren: "You know what banking system Scott Bessent wants? The one we had right up until 1933 -- just deregulate the banks, and they crash. The alternative is to say we need better regulation over the private credit market."

Would love to play that one for the jury in the defamation case.

EISEN: I wonder if you ever worry that by trashing the president over Iran that it weakens our hand and negotiation position at a critical moment

ELIZABETH WARREN: 🤨 Donald Trump weakens Donald Trump's hand when he starts this war without ever consulting with the American people about it

Lutnick dodges Van Hollen's questions about Epstein: "I am here today to testify about the budget"

VAN HOLLEN: You said you disputed some of my facts. Do you dispute that Sheikh Tahnoon through his company invested $500m in World Liberty Financial just before the inauguration?

LUTNICK: I'm not aware of that


VAN HOLLEN: Seriously? It's been so widely reported

the job:

whoa this is unhinged

shocked not shocked anyone in trump land thought it was a good idea to put this guy in front of a microphone. wow.

VAN HOLLEN: What you've done is prove a windfall to very wealthy people who don't pay taxes

BESSENT: Why would I do that? What's your theory of the case?

VAN HOLLEN: Because this administration time after time has tiled the tax code in favor of very wealthy people

HASSAN: Did the president approve your decision to fire all 17 members of the CDC's vaccine committee in June 2025?

RFK Jr: Uhhhhh -- you mean did I talk to him directly? We talked to the White House DPC

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump MORNING GLORY: Will President Trump go full Sherman in the war on Iran?

Trump posts an article suggesting he "go full Sherman in the war on Iran"

WARREN: So those massive discounts--

RFK Jr: Massive. 600 percent

WARREN: 600 percent! They can pay hundreds of dollars on TrumpRx or they can get it for $12 as Costco

When you don’t know you’re being filmed:

Officer I have a different way of calculating blood alcohol percentage

They told me there would be no math. And they were right.

TINA SMITH: Secretary Kennedy, a trillion dollars in cuts according to the CBO, 7 million people losing their health insurance because of the Trump administration. That's not debatable

RFK Jr: There is nobody legally enrolled in Medicaid who is losing coverage

SMITH: That is just not true!

Remember, these are the guys trying to control university curriculum to eliminate wokeness...like math

Kash's kayfabe lawsuit His defamation claim makes a mockery of the law.

"Patel didn’t file this to win. He filed it to show Trump he’s not just a dilettante flying around on the FBI jet, but a loyal crony fighting back against the fake news ... come on, dude, we’ve all seen your little beer party with the hockey team. A sober, serious public servant you are not."

Trump math working it’s magic yet again:

Trump Rx: $200 for protonix

Costco: $16 for pantoprazole, the generic equivalent