The threat to “blow up” Oman, a U.S. ally and key intermediary in talks with Iran, is just one more sign of why this war has gone off the rails. They are in constant panic mode, making mistake after mistake.

The reason the war doesn’t end and prices don’t come down and people are losing health insurance and the measles is spreading is that all the White House does is corruption 24/7.

Packed crowd last night in New York City last night for a discussion of my new book, Crisis of the Common Good, with Katie Couric and Jackson McNally Books. Buy it here: crisisofthecommongood.com

Publication day! Starting the day at Good Morning America and The View on ABC. Click here to grab your own copy: crisisofthecommongood.com

No matter what deal they do, the war has effectively given control of the Strait to Iran. What a masterclass in incompetence by Trump and his team.

An ad that argues private equity has too much power is taken down off the air by a private equity funded company that owns the team, the TV station that airs the team’s games, and the newspaper that covers the team. Platner couldn’t have written the script better himself.

We live in a country now where the president uses his power to censor media figures who criticize him and then brags about it.

Noah Wyle stopped by my office this week and we talked about how for profit medicine is putting money ahead of patients and workers - and how we need to do more to support health care workers when they see corners being cut and want to speak up.

Trump is a symptom of our unspooling. Our economy robs work of dignity. Our technology isolates us. Our culture values consumption over citizenship. That's what Crisis of the Common Good is about: America's spiritual crisis. Pre-order it here: crisisofthecommongood.com

The separation from reality in the Republican Party today - vaccines are poison; Iran can be conquered; January 6th was staged by Democrats - should really really worry people. These folks just aren’t fit to govern anymore.

Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

BREAKING: Votes on the Republican ICE/ballroom funding bill are CANCELLED. Thune sending everyone home for 10 days. Why? Republicans don’t want to vote against an amendment to stop Trump’s new $1.7B slush fund. The problem? That amendment doesn’t go away for them in 10 days.

Look who was on the hill today talking about supporting health care workers! And who asked me to sign my book for him and his mother!

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

A gallon of gas now costs $5 in Connecticut. Diesel is $6. This is ruining people who live paycheck to paycheck, small businesses, farmers and the trucking industry. And there is only person who has caused prices to be this high: DONALD TRUMP.

My new book, Crisis of the Common Good, comes out next week, May 26th. It's a story about America's crisis of connection and meaning, and how it led to Trump. Click this link to join us at events along the tour, starting in Connecticut, New York, and DC. crisisofthecommongood.com

This is outright theft. Trump is stealing $1.7 BILLION of your money to set up a totally unprecedented, first-in-American-history political slush fund that he can use to dole out cash to win loyalty and favors for him and his family.

This week I introduced the Let Kids Play Act with @deluzio.house.gov to get private equity out of youth sports. It's simple - kids sports should be about kids and what's best for them, not jacking up costs to make money for investors.

Trump did this. Everyone knew that a war with Iran would cause a global price crisis and he did it anyway, because as he told us yesterday, "I don't think about Americans' financial situation". It's not complicated.

America's chief Middle East negotiator - Jared Kushner - is almost completely dependent on Middle East government investment in his chief business. It's probably the biggest conflict of interest in American diplomatic history and we should be talking about this way more.

Introducing major Senate-House legislation later today to fix this. Stay tuned.

Chris's joining forces today to introduce major legislation.

Chris's joining forces today to introduce major legislation.

Hey everyone. My book, Crisis of the Common Good, comes out in 2 weeks. It's about the spiritual crisis in America today - our lack of connection, meaning and purpose - and how Trump is really a symptom of our national unspooling. Pre-order it here: crisisofthecommongood.com

This is how an out of touch billionaire president thinks.

a. uh $200 million is still A LOT of taxpayer money for parties! b. “other Secret Service priorities”….like the ballroom!

This whole Administration is just one big grift. Everyone is encouraged to use their position to extort money from the corporations the Administration regulates. The result is simple: Trump officials profit. Corporations get favors. Regular people get screwed.

I will be on @cnn.com with @kaitlancollins.bsky.social in a few minutes to talk about the ongoing, spiraling disaster of the Iran War.

Good morning. Gas is over $6 a gallon in many places. Farms are going bankrupt. Billions are being wasted on a war that’s making us weaker. And this week, Republicans will spend their time trying to get taxpayers to fund Trump’s parties.

Hegseth in March: “Never before has a modern, capable military, which Iran used to have, been so quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective.” They lied through their teeth. Just straight up fabricated shit.

Get ready. As the Iran War spirals out of control, Trump is going to get more desperate. The new attacks on ABC for airing criticism of Trump is a sign of what’s the come. We cannot shrug it off as “Trump being Trump”. He’s trying to build a censorship state - plain and simple.

“Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who is coordinating with populist House members, told Semafor that Democrats’ platform can’t ‘just be about an economic message’ because voters who see both parties as compromised think Democrats are ‘never going to get it done.’”

Every week, we force a vote on the Senate floor to end the war in Iran. While there are signs Republicans are starting to break, so far we can't get to 50. But we will keep trying. Because the Iran war cost crisis is getting devastating for American families.

Great news. I proudly introduced this bill with Sen. Josh Hawley. Chatbots are pushing kids to suicide and self harm. They are designed to be both addictive and a replacement for human friendship. And we should treat them as a poison for young children.

Just landed in Detroit to campaign for @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social McMorrow and stopped at a gas station. $6 A GALLON. Trump’s war is ruining our economy - in Connecticut, Michigan and all over the country.

Our current economy is rigged. It just is. A new report shows that 88 of the largest companies in America, including: Amazon Citigroup Haliburton Kohl's Palantir PayPal PG&E Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Disney paid ZERO corporate income tax last year.

This clip is extraordinary - and a perfect example of the gaslighting this Administration does. McMahon is proposing to cut funding to enforce civil rights by 35%. IT'S IN HER BUDGET IN BLACK AND WHITE. And she came before Congress and denied it. Up is down. Down is up.

We did! We passed a bill to fund the Secret Service and TSA and FEMA 100-0. If Speaker Johnson would just call it for a vote, it would pass. That’s the problem.

Feels like this should be a story the press covers.

Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a disaster.

It's good that the ceasefire is continuing. But Trump should just end this war for good. His strategy of compounding one mistake with another is just making Iran stronger and continuing to fuel a domestic and international price crisis.

We have to stay vigilant, but the paths for Republicans to steal the election are foreclosing. Why? Because people all across this great nation - from California to Minneapolis to Virginia - are doing the hard work to save our democracy.

Part of Trump's ongoing efforts to use DoJ to target and harass anyone who opposes his policies.

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it. He’s just burning your tax money.

I am in Barcelona today to help unite progressive parties from around the world in a defense of democracy and a war against corruption. A first of its kind event. Necessary to beat back the forces of fascism.

I'm helping to lead a group of Senate Democrats who are planning to force a vote - every single week the Senate is in session - to end the war in Iran. We have that right under the Senate rules, and we are going to keep putting Republicans on record supporting this insane war.

The nonstop grift the Trump family is running on taxpayers is just extraordinary.

Orban copied Trump. Trump copied Orban. And in the end, the people of Hungary chose democracy and the rule of law. As will happen here too. But only if we do our work, like they did.

3 ships. The Strait is not open.