Today’s edition of quick hits.

* And so it begins: “Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., filed a resolution Monday to impeach Pete Hegseth, a maneuver that will force the House Republican leadership to vote on whether to oust President Donald Trump’s embattled defense secretary after his party’s resounding losses in the midterm elections.”

* From late Friday: “President Donald Trump said the U.S. military on Friday carried out new limited strikes on Iran, targeting an Iranian air defense system. Iranian state media reported the sound of two explosions in the Suza area of Qeshm Island, which is in the crucial waterway for oil shipments.”

* Saturday’s mass shooting in Krakow, Poland: “World leaders paid tribute to victims, and Poland declared two national days of mourning after the shooter, motivated by far-right ideologies, killed six people in Kraków in what the country’s defense minister characterized as a ‘terror attack.’”

* The ongoing war: “Russia entered the fifth year of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine with a clear objective: Seize the cities in the eastern Donetsk region that remained under Kyiv’s control. But 2026 hasn’t gone according to plan for Moscow. Through the end of October, its forces have gained just 46 square miles of territory in Ukraine, compared with 1,874 square miles in 2025, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a think tank in Washington. And for the past two months, Russian forces have lost more land than they gained, ISW says.”

* It is possible for countries to hold former leaders legally accountable: “Ousted Paraguayan President Santiago Peña was placed under house arrest Friday on suspicion of breach of trust, shortly after the Senate removed him from office over the collapse of a major bank tied to his government.”

* An update on a story from a couple of months ago: “Gov. Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey is expected to appoint Shirley U. Emehelu, a former federal and state prosecutor, as her lieutenant governor on Monday, according to two state officials familiar with the decision who were not authorized to discuss the selection. Ms. Sherrill’s original second in command, Dr. Dale G. Caldwell, resigned in September after a sexual harassment inquiry found that he had violated state workplace standards.”

* These allegations are interesting for all sorts of reasons: “The right-wing activist Laura Loomer has been paid by private clients to make political posts on social media without publicly disclosing the payments, according to a former campaign aide to President Donald Trump and three others familiar with the arrangements, shedding light on what they say is a business practice of one of the Trump administration’s most influential online firebrands. … Loomer, one of Trump’s best-known online acolytes, denied to The Post that she is paid to post on social media.”

* As usual, the progressive justice is correct: “Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Saturday that she hopes the court’s decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity will be overturned, saying her colleagues have done some ‘crazy things.’”

* A discouraging update from the former president: “Joe Biden is reducing appearances on his book tour amid his fight with cancer, the former president announced. In a statement Sunday, Biden said his illness would limit the number of ‘conversations’ he could participate in about his forthcoming memoir, ‘Promise Me, America,’ slated for release on Nov. 17.”

* As for Biden’s successor, his sense of humor remains bizarre: “President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday night that he was ‘only kidding’ in his earlier social media post offering the job of White House press secretary to Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White.”

See you tomorrow.

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