Polio in Every Pot; Smallpox in Every Garage
William Kristol and Andrew Egger, The Bulwark
Last night, Howard Lutnick, the co-chair of Trump’s transition team, was interviewed on CNN. Host Kaitlan Collins asked him about RFK Jr.’s explosive claim, made on a video call with supporters this week, that Donald Trump had promised him “control” over America’s public-health agencies.

Hold My Beer, California
Texas Enters the AI Policy Chat
Dean W. Ball, Hyperdimensional
This bill is part of a broader, multi-state effort to regulate AI, spearheaded by a group called the Future of Privacy Forum. The plan is to use, in essence, civil rights law to create sweeping regulatory powers for state bureaucracies.

Winning Modern Wars through Adaptation
Adaptation is THE critical contemporary and future capability for nations and their military organisations to win in war.
Mick Ryan, Futura Doctrina

Republicans are serious about cutting people’s health care
Donald Trump’s election could allow the GOP to gut Medicaid and protections for preexisting conditions.
Dylan Scott

Elon Musk, who sometimes appears to be campaigning to be shadow president of the United States, has pledged to cut $2 trillion from the federal government’s $6.8 trillion budget. He has acknowledged that the cuts would result in “temporary” hardship, but insisted they would be to the long-term benefit of the country.