Politico Health Care Summit banner, in the East Hall of Union Station (evident from the decorations on the wall above the banner).

Checking in at the @politico.com Health Care Summit this morning! Quite the line up; excited to be here.

Sexual misconduct by lawmakers is widespread — but often goes unreported New data from the nonprofit National Women’s Defense League, shared first with The 19th, comes on the heels of the resignations of two members of Congress.

Exclusive: new research from the National Women’s Defense League and shared first with The 19th, has tracked 30 allegations of workplace sexual misconduct against members of Congress made since 2006 — a number the report’s authors say is likely 3-4x higher in reality 19thnews.org/2026/04/sexu...

Two visitors quietly talking about the mounting we have for the First Folios on display.
Me: we custom make those, for each of our books
Visitor: I know! I made the metal part!

Or potentially Richard II? I remain devastated that I missed the Michael Urie version up in New York earlier this year.

Nothing like a king being deposed largely for seizing his cousin's inheritance because he needs to fund a colonizing war 🤷

As someone who thinks about Shakespeare virtually all the time, might I suggest people look at Measure for Measure if they want to do a play for these times?

ANGELO
Who will believe thee, Isabel?
My vouch against you, and my place i' the state,
Will so your accusation overweigh,

Inside Alligator Alcatraz, Wasserman Schultz finds men crammed in cages, smell of urine, inadequate food ‘Everything about this screams inhumane and unnecessary, and the cruelty is the point,’ U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said about the Alligator Alcatraz detention center in the Everglades.

Inside Alligator Alcatraz, Rep. Wasserman Schultz finds men crammed in cages, smell of urine, inadequate food. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/09/i...

One day. I will actually be self aware enough to see these things before I express the feeling.

So. I sent that skeet. And I turned around. And there was the mug.

I have a Shakespeare mug from the 1960s with my nail files in it. It is somewhere in my house. I am not sure where. Manifesting that I will find it.

I am not sure people understand the degree to which foreign grad students (and especially Chinese ones) are propping up our universities.

THE WASHINGTON SPIRIT HAVE SCORED A GOAL!

Gift Monday coming on and just immediately finding a good shot is perfect

Fwiw, we did Death Becomes Her (so good!), dinner at Chalong, Dog Day Afternoon (OMG), the orchid show at NYBG, and Titus Andronicus w/ Patrick Page (dark, but also excellent!).

Ok, I had decent expectations for Dog Day Afternoon and it has exceeded them all!

I've Never Seen Anything How could the Jedi Order vanish from public memory in less than a generation?

"Public forgetting, like public memorialization, can have a swift and easy outcome if the forces intent on causing the loss of memory have enough power and put enough effort into the project."

I mean there it is.

Washington Spirit, Denver Summit battle to draw: Analysis Thoughts on the big occasion, the Spirit's formation change, and Sandy MacIver bouncing back.

The latest at Green Line Soccer:

🥲 The long road taken to 63,004 fans at an NWSL game
📦 Why the move to a box midfield?
😤 MacIver recovers from rough week

Deep thoughts from a milestone game that was a lot of Football and very little Soccer:

63,000 people.

I started this NWSL journey in 2014 not knowing if moments like this were even possible. Today proved they are.

Women’s soccer didn’t just arrive. It showed up.

Rising Health Costs Push Some Middle-Aged Adults To Skip the Doc Until Medicare - KFF Health News Adults ages 50 through 64 faced some of the steepest increases in out-of-pocket costs for Obamacare plans after a set of federal subsidies expired at the end of December. Some say they are putting off...

Care gaps like this are just going to get worse and worse in the US.

Good!

Wrong coat weather continues. 😮‍💨

I can't believe I'm saying this and it's not a meme, but polls close at 7 in Illinois, so if you're in line to vote, STAY IN LINE. You can register TODAY with a piece of business mail and vote TODAY. Every vote counts.

It's a sunnier, nicer day out than we all thought it would be! Get out there!

Thirty minutes into the NWSL season and Washington Spirit outside back Gabby Carle has almost scored not once, not twice, but three times. As we all definitely predicted

Spirit supporters section holding tifo with Gigi the ghost wearing a Jason mask that says spirit of the league

happy Friday the 13th bitches

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

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

A clip from the moment Hillary Clinton found out Lauren Boebert took an unauthorized photo of her deposition: 'I'm done!'

JFC you guys — do better.

He literally shrugged and said “…that’s the way it is…”

Governor Spanberger: They're even making it more difficult to see a doctor. Rural health clinics in Virginia and across the country are already closing their doors, thanks to the so-called 'One Big, Beautiful Bill' championed by the president and Republicans in Congress.

Funerals suck, but the lounge at MCI was lovely and the staff were the absolute sweetest. Would recommend!