Someone needs to remind him that Festivus starts on December 23.

I guess manners, decorum, good taste, gratitude, generosity and other things I learned about as a child no longer are prerequisites for our leaders. They just need to blurt out whatever their base desires and emotions are at the moment. What has happened to this country?

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

In case you needed even more motivation to vote in the Midterm elections... #AccountabilityIsComing

"a country she said she had never been to...." www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...

AIPAC is spending in my district. They are asking people to disbelieve what they saw with their own eyes. Politicians who cave to special interests on Gaza won't stand up against DC corruption or for working Americans. This is a moral test for anyone who wants to lead our party.

Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

Dictators need war to stay in power.

This is madness! The “no new wars” president is taking us to war with Venezuela. Bombing ships in the Caribbean, as an ongoing operation, without congressional authorization, crosses the line into an unconstitutional use of military force.

A top Republican in Indiana, whose daughter has Down Syndrome, just announced he will be voting to block Trump’s gerrymandering after Trump used the R-word to insult people yesterday.

✅ Billionaire wealth tax ✅ Living wage & worker share in profits ✅ 21st century Marshall Plan for America ✅ Ban PACs and SuperPacs ✅ Release the Epstein Files

A Thanksgiving Day Agenda: ✅ Medicare for All ✅ Ban Private Equity buying homes ✅ Free public college/1000 trade schools ✅ $10 day childcare ✅ Take on meatpackers & food corporations to lower grocery bills

Happy Thanksgiving, Illinois.

Most Americans who voted for Trump did not understand he would do this.

Sometimes we have to laugh to keep from crying. [Cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad]

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

Mark Kelly: "My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her constituents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others."

Like so many members of our military, serving this country changed my life. The Navy gave me opportunities I wouldn't dream of and taught me lessons I'll never forget. I'm grateful for everything our nation has given me, and I'll always do everything I can to give back to it.

It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.

absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed

A judge dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James, saying the prosecutor that President Trump handpicked was unlawfully appointed. trib.al/W6MJvZJ

The Pentagon says it's opening an investigation into Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly in the wake of a video of Democratic lawmakers urging servicemembers not to comply with 'illegal orders." n.pr/480zD6s

Vance asks for a "little bit of patience." Sound familiar? Hoover plunged the nation into Depression asking Americans "if you will have patience". Meanwhile, a taxi driver with cancer in Arizona has premiums go up from $44 to $2,600 a month.

You don’t have to cave to Donald Trump. You can make him cave to you. www.sacbee.com/opinion/arti...

Local police officers and sheriffs in Mobile, Alabama, are abducting a man from the waiting room of a car dealership mechanic shop on behalf of ICE/DHS. During the kidnapping, he is administered an unidentified sedative.

The America First people in charge of the US government don’t seem very America First to me.

“.. The meeting took place in Miami at the end of October and included special envoy Steve Witkoff, .. Jared Kushner and Dmitriev, who leads .. one of Russia's largest sovereign wealth funds.” @reuters.com #Ukraine www.reuters.com/world/europe...

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... “I woke up this morning, I’m in bed, my wife comes out of the bathroom – she’s got her phone. She goes, ‘Um, Trump tweeted you should be fired again.’ I was like, ‘Oh,’ and then I went downstairs and made bagels for the kids. Trump is a snowflake.”

This. This is precisely why I requested an independent investigation into the excessive use of force by Trump's agents in Chicago. Read some of this stuff Trump's agents are doing and how DHS is lying about it to mislead the public. It's harrowing.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

It’s an explicit propaganda network. In case someone needed any more evidence.

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging. Here’s my response:

The President of the United States calling for the execution of sitting Members of Congress is an impeachable and undeniably egregious offense that deserves bipartisan vocal opposition. President Trump must immediately rescind his comments and call for the deescalation of political violence.

The President of the United States is calling for sitting Members of Congress to be killed. Every death threat against them and their families will be on his hands. Regardless of your party, every American should loudly condemn this.

Against all odds, the survivors kept fighting. This victory is theirs.

@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social: "There is no guarantee that Donald Trump’s attorney general will carry out these legislative instructions in good faith. Pam Bondi could try to turn tight and reasonable exceptions into wide open loopholes." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-epstei...

The vote was 427-1. That's a margin typically reserved for post office namings, not what @isaacdovere.bsky.social writes is "perhaps the biggest defeat of Trump's second term" that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said "ripped MAGA apart." Here's the backstory of how Rep. Thomas Massie and I did it.

@lawrenceodonnelljr.bsky.social was gracious to say I made history with the Epstein Transparency Act passing. But the survivors made history. And Rep. Thomas Massie and I showed that Congress does not have to be a supplicant to Trump, but is a co-equal branch of government. Trump caved.

Happy discharge petition day to all who celebrate... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

“I don’t want the D.C. swamp playing any games. They need to pass this in the Senate and they should not amend it,” said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who appeared at a press conference Tuesday with survivors of Epstein’s abuses. https://to.pbs.org/48jmfKx

BREAKING: Texas Republicans' redistricting map has been shot down by a federal judge

The people of Chicago won Trump, Kristi Noem and ICE lost Not only did Greg Bovino and his agents leave the city in disgrace A judge ruled that they must release as many as 615 unjustly detained immigrants Plus-they must stop pressuring immigrants to voluntarily leave Never Stop Resisting

Page One: “.. Just 217 minutes elapsed between Mr. Trump’s command .. that she investigate prominent Democrats .. and Ms. Bondi’s announcement that she had referred the matter to the U.S. attorney ..” @glennthrush.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

NEW: The Tate brothers, who have been accused of sexual misconduct in three countries, had their devices seized by law enforcement when they arrived in the U.S. Days later, a White House official told DHS to return them.

“Quiet, Piggy” getting more pickup. @cnn.com @peoplemag.bsky.social @dailymirrornews.bsky.social

Forgotten Americans or the Epstein class? Whose side are you on? It is that simple. I believe many Republicans on Tuesday will stand with Rep. Thomas Massie, Rep. Majorie Tayloe Greene, & me and demand that the Epstein class go.

Glad to see Donald Trump's complete & total endorsement of my bill with Rep. Thomas Massie I believe that by standing for principle, Americans will have your back & the mightiest will see the way. This is how we start to heal the chasm in our nation. Release the Epstein files!