The IHS is not the bureaucracy in DC or Atlanta. It’s the boots on the ground throughout Indian Country. The people on the Rez will continue to advocate, one-on-one, for the people. It won’t matter what RFK Jr says, IHS providers and nurses will do what is right.

That’s Shelly. I haven’t seen her in some time and I wonder how she got all the way over there.

Thank you, Dana. The fact that Bezos lets you publish this almost makes me willing to return to the WaPo. I miss it very much, but principles are a hard master. Keep up the good fight.

I imagine these closures are aimed at Democratic voters in a very petty revenge.

Apple Maps lets me do this, knowing it’s probably a useless but important protest. When I tried it on Google Maps, “Posting is closed. Some issues generate so many posts that conflict with Google’s standards that posting is closed.” So apparently we’re at least annoying them.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst/
Are full of passionate intensity.
W.B. Yeats