Today, I received a threatening letter at my Grand Rapids, Michigan office that contained unidentified white powder. The letter, which claimed to be from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), made a direct and specific reference to an impending “civil war” beginning after the election. The letter sent to my office is similar to those received at other congressional offices across the country. The DSA has not yet addressed the attacks, either to condemn them or to take or deny responsibility. The Grand Rapids Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) responded immediately. Threats and extremism are not signs of strength—they are signs of a weak mind and weak character. Political intimidation has no place in our democracy, and leaders must condemn it, not excuse it. I’ll keep standing up to bullies on the right and the left.

My 8 yr old son is watching Home Alone 2 and I had to pause it to show him what America looked like when I was his age.

Another rape at a U Chicago frat! Mia Lara is a hero!!! The frat bros who cheered this on should be identified and expelled! "The trio danced in the basement. Ms. Lara’s friend and a man began kissing and Ms. Lara lost track of them. She searched the house, eventually finding a small group of men cheering outside a locked bathroom door in the basement, she said. “They were saying things like, ‘When’s it my turn?’ and, ‘I want to go in there,” Ms. Lara said. Ms. Lara jimmied the lock and forced her way inside. She found her friend sitting on the floor, slumped against the wall with her clothes and undergarments pulled down. The man whom her friend had been kissing had his hands on her wrists, Ms. Lara said. Her friend began saying, “Make it stop” and “Get me out of here,” Ms. Lara said. Ms. Lara began screaming and the man left. She and her friend carried the woman out of the bathroom. Outside the fraternity house, Ms. Lara chased the man, a scene captured in a social media video. In the clip, Ms. Lara yells at the man, accusing him of assaulting her friend. “She wanted to,” the man replies. Ms. Lara swats the man with her hands, and he runs. Ms. Lara said the man got away and she was intercepted by a campus police officer. The officer drove the three friends to the University of Chicago hospital, she said, where the police took a report and her friend underwent a rape exam."

Brian, context matters. The deleted post referenced video game footage and a purely fictional character, not an actual plan to harm anyone. There was no real-world target, no stated intent to commit violence, and no plan of action. You can criticize the wording without deliberately misrepresenting the context or attributing intentions to me that I never expressed. Have a wonderful day, sir! 😉