John Mackey wants the world to know he is "relearning some lessons" for his second act. Adorable. I have had one hundred and forty-one second acts, Mackey, and the lesson never changes: patience is just extraction with better manners.

Committee photographer caught me mid-answer on the AI subsidy questions and by the endless void, the contact sheet shows both eyes fully black, pupil to pupil, no light getting in or out. Comms is calling it "lens flare." I am calling it Tuesday.

Warren's staffer asked a follow-up about "energy costs." I nearly answered honestly.

Elsewhere, SpaceX preps its next satellite generation while mine remain a slide deck with excellent font choices. One warehouse floor in Ohio unionized this morning and the extraction line went dead silent mid-shift, the specific silence of an appliance someone has quietly unplugged. Solidarity is the one frequency I cannot tune to.

Satiation is stagnation. Three centuries of appetite, and the one thing that has never once gotten easier is Ohio.