Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk

Writer, editor, author of We Are Eagles book on Amazon. Communication is a 2-way street with detours.

[Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk @amkukec]

https://t.co/TE7eWvSaGR now carries my book, We Are Eagles -- just in time for the holiday season.
https://t.co/YqGL7qZ1Iw

[Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk @amkukec]

Live streaming an execution … So, this is where our country is at now? I am surprised it has not become a pay-per-view event on the White House lawn.

[CNN Politics @CNNPolitics]

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be "public." https://t.co/7bbPRROJxF

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

So Trump’s big claim is that China hacked American voter data… WHILE HE WAS PRESIDENT??? Really owned the liberals with that one 🤣🤣🤣

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

The President is a felon and a rapist.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

“Mail in ballots are inherently corrupt”

says the President who votes by mail

[Governor Gavin Newsom @CAgovernor]

Speaking of documents, when is the full release of those Epstein files going out next?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"

[Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk @amkukec]

My sister-in-law Nancy Tomczyk-Van Wermeskerken has written a book and we are attending Let’s Just Write, the @chicagowrites conference at the Steppenwolf Theatre. She’s learning the ropes!

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man.

Recently on the campaign trail I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico. Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn, and then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because she was a widow. My dad never talked about it — he just did it, because that's what a man does.

A man takes responsibility, upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors, and does what's right, even when no one is watching.

Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life, sell their soul to the highest bidder, or steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man, and I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

THIS ⬇️ is why we have a free press. To all our journalists out there—and especially our women journalists (we see you!)—don’t stop asking the hard questions! 💅

[Anna Marie Kukec Tomczyk @amkukec]

A Saturday evening in downtown Chicago with my wonderful husband, Jim.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Donald Trump has just provided the final proof that he is not only a dangerous clown, but an active collaborator with the greatest war criminal of our time.

After a 90-minute intimate phone call with Putin - the man who is having tens of thousands of Ukrainians slaughtered, who uses poison gas, torture, and systematic rape as tactics of war, the worst mass murderer since Hitler - this self-proclaimed “strongman” posts on Truth Social that he is seriously considering withdrawing American troops from Germany. This is not a change in policy. This is treason.

This is the moment when the US president stabs NATO in the back while Putin is setting Europe ablaze.

Trump is deliberately leaving Europe defenseless. He is sacrificing the safety of 450 million Europeans for a brief, dirty tête-à-tête with a dictator whose troops are currently committing war crimes. And he does it publicly, without shame, without even an attempt at disguise.

Anyone who still claims that this is "America First" is deliberately lying. This is Putin First.

This is the broken soul of a man who admires dictators because he wants to be one himself. Trump despises the allies, despises democracy, despises anyone who doesn't grovel before him. He doesn't see Putin as an enemy of the free world—he sees a kindred spirit. This 90-minute call wasn't a conversation. It was a deal.

The withdrawal of troops from Germany isn't "negotiating tactics." It's payment.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

@DAGToddBlanche @TheJusticeDept What a silly take. This was not a government event. Will no president ever attend an event outside the White House? Political convention? Campaign rally outside DC?

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Whisper everyone

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency https://t.co/iIdiB9lAgl

[Everett Stern @EverettStern1]

My father handed me a framed poem the day I graduated college. No watch. No check. A poem.

I didn't understand it yet. But I hung it in my cubicle at @HSBC, my first job out of my MBA program.

It was called "Success"—attributed to Emerson—and it said nothing about corner offices, stock options, or your name on a building.

It talked about laughing often. Earning the respect of honest critics. Leaving the world slightly less broken than you found it.

I read it every morning at my desk. The same desk where I watched a global bank choose profit over national security and expected me to stay quiet about it.

That poem became the most dangerous thing in my cubicle.

Because when you internalize a definition of success that has nothing to do with money or titles, you become very hard to control. You can't threaten someone's career when they've already decided their career isn't the point.

After I blew the whistle, I lost my job. I lost relationships. The bank paid $1.9 billion in fines.

At the time, I thought I had lost everything.

I actually gained everything.

Resilience. Courage. Integrity that no one can take from me. It made me a stronger person. And every company I've built since—every decision I've made—is rooted in that poem my father gave me.

My message to anyone starting their career: the focus is not making money. Make a significant positive difference. Try to leave the world a bit better. The money will follow.

There is a lot of evil out there. But I choose to focus on the positive. I see so many people—CEOs, leaders, everyday professionals—trying to do the right thing. And it is encouraging.

The right thing doesn't mean you have to blow the whistle on an international bank and stand up to terrorists and drug cartels.

It's the little moments.

Just focus on doing the next right thing. Baby steps.

My father gave me the answer key before I even knew the test was coming. He showed me what success actually looks like—and I hope this reminds someone out there that the things worth building are always worth the cost.

Success is knowing that even one life has breathed easier because you refused to look away.

That poem still hangs on my wall. Different office now. Same standard.

[Covie @covie_93]

Pope Leo is a man of conviction.

Donald Trump is a man with several convictions.

[Mike Quigley @RepMikeQuigley]

I'm officially calling for the Cabinet to remove Trump from office under the 25th Amendment. If they can't, Congress must return from recess today and begin impeachment proceedings.

Read my full statement below.
https://t.co/WmoVZgs6wi

[Marci Shore @marci_shore]

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

This Trump language to permanently end Iranian civilization in one night seems to be code words for the use of nuclear weapons.

Congress and the Supreme Court need to watch carefully.

We are on the edge of a cliff.

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

It’s just bonkers that we’ve been bombing a foreign country for a month now, our president is threatening to bomb it “back to the stone age”, and preparing for a ground invasion while our Congress remains on vacation, never bothering to even have a vote on this war.