This boy still has baby formula breath.

A DOGE official in his 20s testified today that he canceled federal research grants based on personal judgment. No peer review. No subject matter expertise. No formal process. Just him. And books he had read. He flagged a grant studying HIV in prisons during the Reagan and Clinton era — decades of academic research — as “one of the craziest” because it mentioned LGBTQ in the description.

He flagged a grant examining the military service experiences of Black, Native American, female, and immigrant veterans as crazy.

His qualification for making these calls: “A person can have enough judgment from reading books.” He was then asked if he regretted cutting programs that may have led to people dying. “No.” Did DOGE reduce the deficit?

“No.” A person in their 20s. Reading books. Canceling peer-reviewed academic research. Deciding what knowledge the American government is allowed to fund. No experience. No regret. No results. Under oath.

Another example of nickel and dimeing the working poor, formerly the middle class. Then we get to pay an extra 15% on anything imported from Europe, 50% more on anything from Brazil, an overall 10% more on all imports in Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

It’s cool though. We have less access to affordable healthcare, no help for working families, medical research is paused, they just eliminated the department that deals with human trafficking at the DOJ, electricity is estimated to increase in cost 200% in some areas with the termination of renewables while simultaneously poisoning the land and air with outdated, dirty forms of energy, the House of Representatives gets to have an extended recess in order to hide disgusting crimes the president did shielding them from the American people, and of course the most wealthy people in the country, on the planet even, will pay significantly less in their tax contributions into the country which produced their wealth, in the nations largest transfer of money, taking from the poor to give to the rich, while at the same time adding over $3 trillion to the national debt, so overall… Everything is great!

We are, it seems, less likely to tolerate high confidence in women than we are in men. This bias creates a lose-lose situation for women. Since women are seen as less confident than men and since we see confidence as pivotal to leadership, we demand extra displays of confidence in women to consider them worthy of leadership positions. However, when a woman does seem as confident as, or more confident than, men, we are put off by her because high confidence does not fit our gender stereotypes