Heather R. Higgins

To those Senators clinging to the Senate rules and clutching their pearls at the very idea that the Byrd “rule” should never be examined, or the “interpretation” of the filibuster rules by some long since departed parliamentarian, I refer them to the wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1841: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.” @BasedMikeLee @SenEricSchmitt @SenRonJohnson @SenTedBuddNC @EIwatchdogs

The system is not broken. A broken system produces unpredictable outcomes. This system is remarkably consistent. Physician payment cuts every cycle. Site-neutral payment blocked every cycle. 340B reform stalled every cycle. The consistency is the signal. When a system produces the same outcome repeatedly, regardless of who is in charge, the outcome is the design. Two committees control every structural reform to hospital payment in America. The hospital industry has funded both committees, bipartisan, positional, for decades. The $275 billion in annual subsidies is not an accident. It is the output of a system working exactly as its incentives were designed to produce. The question is not why the system is broken. The question is who benefits from the design. We lay out the details here: buff.ly/ItgtkpI

This is Luna. At the age of 9, this Swedish girl was brutally raped by an Ethiopian immigrant, who attacked her while she was riding her bike home from school. Strangled with a shoelace and left for dead, she miraculously survived, but suffered severe and irreparable brain damage, forcing her into a wheelchair-bound life where she can no longer speak. These atrocities happen all over Europe. Girls are not only raped by criminals who should never have been let in, but they are sometimes left permanently disabled from the violence. Introducing assisted suicide into these conditions is nothing short of state incentivised murder. I pray Luna has the support system to stay strong

Any “doctor” who offers MAID is so far from the Hypocratic philosophy that no patient should trust them or go near them.

Ditto. @jchilders98 is the closest I’ve found to the outside the boxness that was a Scott hallmark

🚨 NEW: Senator @BasedMikeLee asks the Senate to reconvene immediately! "If you don't want to fight fires, don't become a firefighter." "If you don't want to take grueling votes at difficult hours and sometimes have to work longer than you want to, then maybe you shouldn't become a United States Senator." @SatAmericaFNC ⬇️

Bravo

Around 2 to 3 a.m. on March 27, 2026, while most Americans were asleep, while the country assumed its elected officials were either negotiating in good faith or standing firm on principle, the United States Senate quietly slipped a knife into the process. Five senators. That is all it took. You, John Thune, the Majority Leader (R) Eric Schmitt (R) Bernie Moreno (R) Mazie Hirono (D) Andy Kim (R) A skeleton crew. Designed for speed. For silence. For escape. And with that, by unanimous consent, by voice vote, with no roll call, no recorded accountability, no visible opposition, you passed a PARTIAL Department of Homeland Security funding bill. No ICE funding. No CBP funding. At 3 a.m., with five people in the room, the United States Senate passed a bill that stripped funding from the very agencies responsible for immigration enforcement. And you did it without forcing ANYONE to go on record. No names. No votes. No fingerprints. Just a quiet chorus of “aye” in a room so empty it practically echoed. And then you slinked back into the night. This is how power protects itself. With procedure. With timing. With the kind of technical maneuvering that sounds boring enough that most people will tune it out. But they should not tune this out. Not this time. Because buried inside this particular procedural maneuver is something far more revealing than any speech on the Senate floor. It is SURRENDER. I know what you’ll say... open.substack.com/pub/tonyseruga…

The root of this entire Democrat shutdown is a demand to reopen the border and to protect criminal illegal aliens.   Democrats prioritize murderous illegal aliens over American citizens. Look at their actions, their words, and their votes.

How did we get to be $39 trillion in debt? The zombie filibuster—coupled with a chronic unwillingness among senators to break through it by putting in the hard work—has contributed to it substantially. For decades, this dynamic has been giving Senate Democrats way too much power when it comes to spending bills—even when they’re in the minority. Spending bills in the Senate routinely get to 60 votes—regardless of who’s in the majority and who controls the House and the White House—with votes coming from (1) basically every Senate Democrat and (2) a much smaller group of Republicans (predominantly members of the Appropriations Committee), in many cases just a few more than whatever it takes to achieve cloture. As a result, disagreements on spending bills tend to be resolved by simply spending more—to give those voting for it what they need to vote for it. This is one of many reasons why I’ve been pushing so hard on the talking filibuster which, if fully utilized and given the time it needs to work, could help us pass the SAVE America Act. But the benefits wouldn’t end there, as they could help us avoid not only the kind of shutdown hell we’re now experiencing, but also rein in our debt and deficit—at least while Republicans are in charge. Share if you’d like to see the Senate use the talking filibuster—to fully fund DHS, to pass the SAVE America Act, to reduce spending, and otherwise!

I’m reliably told he routinely flys first class. Socialism works well for hypocrites.

Projection

And the Senate didn’t go into full recess. Had they gone into a full recess, Trump, Trump could have begun filling vital administration positions. Thune and Cornyn blocked this.

The Senate GOP has exactly two options if it wants to avoid drifting into irrelevance and a stunning loss in November: (1) Keep the filibuster and 60-vote cloture rule fully intact, but stand ready to overcome Senate Democrats’ unprecedented pattern of obstruction by aggressively enforcing the “talking filibuster”—a move that would require senators to work longer, harder hours and take fewer recesses, but lead to more thoughtful, careful deliberation in the legislative process, OR (2) Nuke the filibuster. I strongly prefer the first option. But we must choose either one or the other—because the status quo isn’t working and the resulting inertia isn’t just making it impossible to pursue a coherent agenda; it’s hurting the American people. What’s your preference?

@inyourlivinroom That was when I went through around 12:30 but airport seemed pretty steady state

@TheHRH Is this now?

Newark (EWR) has NO LINE at Clear and TSA Preckeck. And absolutely no line at regular TSA checkin. It looks like flying on Christmas Day – deserted airport. Maybe the news story should be how all their fear mongering reporting is going to gouge this quarters’ airlines’ results

Brava. They like the filibuster as it stands as it means that rather than have to debate - the key purpose of the senate - they get to AVOID doing their job. You would think with midterms coming up they might want to prove they deserve to keep their jobs. Apparently not.

Props to those who have said that big hospitals are the problem. In this case you are definitely right. Props to Cynthia Fischer at @PtRightsAdvoc You are making a difference! wsj.com/health/healthc…

Flynn effect = why IQs rise over time

An older but still stinging observation from Jordan Peterson: “People read the history of Nazi Germany and always think they’re Schindler — the one who would have saved Anne Frank. They never imagine themselves as the perpetrator. Look at what happened during the pandemic in Canada: 30% of my neighbors were thrilled to inform on the people around them. They would have worn those masks for the rest of their lives if it let them feel morally superior.” It’s a stark reminder that the line between “good person” and “collaborator” is thinner than we like to admit — especially when virtue-signaling or social pressure is involved. Have you ever caught yourself (or seen others) enjoying the moral high ground a little too much during a crisis? Or do you think most people truly would have stood against the crowd if the stakes were higher? Your thoughts 👇

🚨Mike Benz has begun working directly with the Trump administration on a new transparency drive exposing the NGOs and the taxpayer money that funded the Censorship Industrial Complex. @MikeBenzCyber "There is a censorship class in exile who are not out of jobs, they've simply gotten jobs in Europe with the EU."