Lisa K Hawes

Illinois Gov. Pritzker says “something is wrong with Trump,” adding, “I think he's got some dementia.”

We only get around 75 years to live… if we’re lucky. And Trump has taken 10 of those years from our peace. That’s not small. That’s a huge part of our life gone.

Why are the standards higher for The Bachelorette than the President of the United States?

A president should not put his name on another man's memorial. He should not hang a banner of himself on the Justice Department. And he should not put his face on a coin. This is un-American.

The United States is no longer a democracy and is sliding towards autocracy faster than Hungary and Turkey, according to the annual report of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at Gothenburg University. theguardian.com/world/commenti…

Let me get this straight. The federal government held a legal auction for the right to build offshore wind farms. A company won those auctions fair and square, paying nearly a billion dollars into the U.S. Treasury. The projects went through years of review. Courts repeatedly upheld their legality. Everything was above board. Then the Trump administration tried five separate times to kill other wind projects in federal court and lost every single time. Judges reviewed the administration’s supposed “national security” justification and weren’t persuaded.  So now they’ve landed on a new plan: pay the company nearly ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your tax money to just walk away. Because, and I am not making this up, the president thinks offshore wind turbines are ugly and claims without evidence that they “drive whales crazy.”  He’s been nursing this petty grudge since 2012, when he tried to block a wind farm visible from his golf course in Scotland. Fourteen years later, American taxpayers are footing the bill for it. This is stupid policy. It’s fiscally reckless, strategically blind, and driven entirely by a personal vendetta rather than any coherent vision for American energy or competitiveness. Meanwhile, China is racing ahead, building offshore wind at a staggering pace and positioning itself to dominate the global clean energy economy for decades to come. None of this is America First. nytimes.com/2026/03/17/cli…

GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting

A cartoon by Enrico Pinto. #NewYorkerCartoons

Huge: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — Trump's former personal lawyer who was also responsible for Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a cushy club fed — has intervened to block the DEA from providing details of a mysterious Epstein investigation to my Finance Committee team.

"Nearly five years." Investigative journalism takes years and years. The investment is immense, and always worth it, and, in the era of "hot takes" and ephemeral "content," rigorously reported journalistic work is needed more than ever. We must keep supporting investigative journalism. From @mannyNYT, lead reporter of the blockbuster piece on Cesar Chavez ⤵️

Not the brighest bulb, but knows when to use confidential insider info to score a big payday. #kleptocracy #corruption

Meta is shutting down VR social platform Horizon Worlds in further pivot away from the metaverse cnbc.com/2026/03/18/met…

Stupid in terms of climate change & clean energy. And what a waste of tax dollars.

First, the Omani FM came out and revealed that there was a deal on the table that met Trump's demands, but that he instead chose war. And now, it is revealed that the British National Security Advisor was also part of the talks, and he too attests to the fact that A) there was no imminent threat from Iran, B) Trump could have gotten a surprisingly good deal if he stuck to diplomacy. But the perhaps most damning quote in the story comes at the end, attributed to an unnamed diplomat: “We regarded Witkoff and Kushner as Israeli assets that dragged a president into a war he wants to get out of.” theguardian.com/world/2026/mar…

Dumbfounded. Dolores Huerta is one of the accusers. WHY did it take so long to come out? nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/…

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan kept his cool under Jon Stewart’s rapid-fire questioning about his reasons for running for California governor. m.youtube.com/watch?v=D5v1lK…

In their wildest fantasies about Hunter Biden, Republicans didn't come up with anything half as corrupt as what Kushner is doing in front of our eyes every day. He's handling US foreign policy at the exact same time that he's taking billions from the Saudi dictator.

Delta CEO: fuel prices have doubled for airlines since the start of the war, and we are passing them on to consumers as higher ticket prices.

Why have we never asked? A person died, his widow was paid handsomely, another was wounded, Trump’s medical records were never released, a report was never issued on the shooter, who then evaporated into history. It was hinky then, and it’s hinky now. Compared to how the media drills every tragedy into the ground (like Charlie Kirk), this was so weird.

We need to prove we can make people’s lives better. That’s how we move this state forward, this party forward, and our country forward.