As someone just getting started here, I care about building a workplace where we can all be open, feel respected, and have real transparency around pay and promotions. I want to know that as I grow in this job, I’m doing so in a fair and supportive environment, and that’s why I’m unionizing.

It’s been so long since I tasted hopium

“The ideology of the party is still determined by leaders like Schumer, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Right now that ideology is – to be blunt – weak shit.”

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

Hot Take: Playing war games should be mandatory for people working in Congress. I've learned more about negotiating in a hostile environment from Twilight Imperium than anywhere else.

You'd think for how much they torture that kid in the hole I could get a decent cup of coffee in this town.

you’re living in it, baby