Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

Today I heard someone refer to the kids doing Elon’s dirty work in disrupting federal agencies as “muskrats” and I will no longer call them anything else.

Putting on spanx should be an Olympic sport.