While we are at it, it is long past time for the House to adopt a prime minister’s questions-style weekly discussion on the floor with all the harrumphing and cheering and “ORDER, ORDER” it entails

Sen. Rand Paul after meeting with Trump’s trade rep: “It reminded me of a meeting on industrial policy in the Soviet Union, where you have to be nice to the czar because if you’re nice to the czar, they’ll bequeath upon you exceptions to the iron fist.” notus.org/trade-tariffs/…

This is a uniquely guys-being-dudes edition of common grace

Architect of the Capitol appreciation post, look at that nice beautiful lawn

“I have to tell you directly and personally that I regret voting for you for secretary of state.” Democrats fumed at Rubio during today’s Foreign Relations hearing: notus.org/foreign-policy…

y’all should have seen me describing the Sully episode of The Rehearsal season two to a member of Congress who is on the House aviation subcommittee just now

Investigation finds more than 100 companies — including LG, Tesla, Midea, KFC, McDonald’s — that appeared to receive Uyghur workers from the CCP’s labor transfer programs, or parts or goods produced by persecuted minorities: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

36 years ago.

The Aspen Institute has sent more than four dozen members of Congress—and usually their spouses—to a villa overlooking Italy’s Lake Como for free, where they discuss food insecurity, climate change, and AI. They sometimes enjoy gelato and boat rides, too. notus.org/congress/lawma…

I went to sleep at 💃7:30 PM💃 because I was not feeling well and now I’m awake at 🕺2:00 AM 🕺 and apparently 💃the House of Representatives is awake too💃

I talked to Republican lawmakers about deaths since USAID’s withdrawal from the world. Most brushed off the reports, and some insisted that people couldn’t be dying as a result. “I don’t believe that. No.” Read more: notus.org/foreign-policy…

Chatted with Thomas Massie about how his recess is going: notus.org/congress/thoma…

"At almost every turn, ChatGPT agreed with him. ... ChatGPT repeatedly assured Soelberg he was sane—and then went further, adding fuel to his paranoid beliefs." wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgp…

Quite a hot mic moment on CCTV in Beijing today as Putin and Xi, both 72 years old, are caught casually talking about living to 150 and maybe forever thanks to organ transplants. (As picked up by Bloomberg.)

I have loved Google Docs for many years and was fiercely loyal to it but now it keeps interrupting my writing to try to tell me to use some little AI to do the writing I came to Google Docs to do on my own, as a human being. sad that we as a society can't have nice things anymore