"Displays of hardware, whether its tanks or Stryker vehicles, is more characteristic of totalitarian militaristic states like North Korea or Russia."
"Veterans are retired early because of the wounds and the injuries they receive, and they’re entitled to disability compensation for them, but then their retirement pay is reduced dollar for dollar bec..."
"Instead, DOJ should ensure that both the company and the executives that ran it are held accountable for any wrongdoing by thoroughly investigating the potential culpability of Boeing executives and h..."
"This is a really offensive defiance of the constitutional role that the Senate has to play."
"Putting someone in that role who’s been approved for a different job is a thumb in the eye of the Senate."
"Make no mistake, it is a disaster that is on the horizon, approaching us as surely as a thunderstorm in the nation’s capital."
"Due process is a bulwark against tyranny and a legal protection afforded to these students by law."
"President Trump’s gutting of the Department of Education has thrown classrooms all across America into chaos."
"They will be MAGAs, basically. Given the trend of the end of the last Trump term, we’re heading over a cliff in terms of fringe right wing views. They will have a litmus test on steroids."
"We need to be ready for the fight ahead and redouble our efforts, and be unified."
"I think none of us wants to shut down the government. In a sense, the Republicans are shutting it down as we speak."
"The litany of dismantling agencies by firing their employees is happening in real time, but it's really on them to produce majorities for whatever it is they want to pass."