Reposted by Sarah QuinlanNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Opinion | I am a Republican because I believe in traditional family values. Here's why I support a government run by two men who between them have 19 children by 8 different women. 453172619
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Rep. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) won reelection by more than *20* percentage points in Nov. Yet his voters booed & yelled at him during a town hall this week. Flood saying “ I support Elon Musk & DOGE” prompted boos & thumbs down. One attendee held a sign that read “LIAR.” thehill.com/homenews/hou...thehill.com 010
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Elon Musk is everything Republicans accused George Soros of being. “Elon Musk's political action committee is offering Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition expressing their opposition to ‘activist judges.’” www.axios.com/2025/03/21/e...axios.comMusk's PAC offers $100 to Wisconsin voters in pitch against "activist judges"The move reflects how Musk is throwing his considerable wealth behind Trump's priorities — including an upcoming election in Wisconsin for a crucial seat on the state's Supreme Court. 030
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025“The Trump administration is weighing whether to offer economic aid to farmers that experience hardship as a result of President Trump’s upcoming tariffs, Brooke Rollins, the secretary of agriculture, told reporters on Friday.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...nytimes.comTrump administration weighs economic aid for farmers affected by tariffs. 000
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025“Of all the things they could be doing, the places they’re putting their focuses on first are really things that just don’t matter … This was a waste of our time,” a defense official said. “This does absolutely nothing to make us stronger, more lethal, better prepared.” www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/p...cnn.comMilitary was instructed to search keywords including ‘first’ and ‘history’ during rushed purge of Pentagon websites | CNN PoliticsSecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s February memo ordering all diversity, equity and inclusion-related content to be removed from Pentagon websites was so vague that military units were instructed to ... 130
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanRichard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 17/03/2025“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...washingtonpost.comOpinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearlyThe decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China. 1455338539329
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanJoe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Full poll here. It also shows Trump at -11 job approval (from +3 in January). He's underwater on immigration (-3), the economy (-13), the federal workforce (-15), Ukraine (-17), and trade with Mexico and Canada (-19 and -22). Disapproval for Musk/DOGE is at 60% - 68% among independents.poll.qu.eduVoters' Ratings On Economy And Trump Dip, Trade And Russia - Ukraine War Weigh On Trump's Numbers, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Majority Disapprove Of Trump's Handling Of Zelensky Me..."A noticeable uptick of discontent can be seen over President Trump's handling of a range of issues: from Ukraine to the economy to the federal workforce," said Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst T... 10331120
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025“Her argument is fantasy wrapped in historical inaccuracies inside a lousy policy proposal. Manufacturing isn’t dead, real wages arent lower & young ppl dont want to work in manufacturing.“ A must-read on what the nostalgia for 1970s manufacturing gets wrong. www.nationalreview.com/corner/magas...nationalreview.comMAGA’s Manufacturing Nostalgia | National ReviewThe romanticizing of the workplace of 1970s America is a fantasy wrapped in historical inaccuracies inside a lousy policy proposal. 010
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025“The critics declared Meghan Sussex’s Netflix show With Love, Meghan a failure before it even aired… The media tried to control the public perception, but audiences made their own decision. The real failure was not Meghan’s show. It was the media’s credibility.” feminegra.com/with-love-me...feminegra.comWith Love, Meghan Renewal Exposes Failed Smear CampaignThe media declared Meghan Sussex's show a failure before it aired. Now, With Love, Meghan renewal proves their false narratives wrong. 000
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025“At Social Security, the DOGE team was initially focused on fears that dead people were fraudulently receiving benefits... [But] none of those deceased people or their relatives were actually receiving benefits. The DOGE team appeared to drop the matter.” wapo.st/3DKAX0Iwapo.stSocial Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone serviceAgency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans. 030
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Trump “is trying to defenestrate Perkins Coie to intimidate elite law firms from representing his opponents or plaintiffs who challenge his policies. This violates a bedrock principle of American law, which is that even the worst clients deserve representation.” www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...wsj.comOpinion | Trump, Perkins Coie and John AdamsThe President breaks a bedrock legal principle by targeting the law firm for representing clients he doesn’t like. 000
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025“I know why so many lawmakers sit by & watch as the arson unfolds: fear for their jobs...But there must be more who harbor a deeper fear: of what history will make of them if they don’t speak up now about the wanton vandalism to the country they were elected to protect.” www.wsj.com/opinion/capi...wsj.comOpinion | Capitol Hill’s Republican Sycophant Caucus‘I don’t mind what Trump does, because I trust Trump,’ says servile Sen. Graham of South Carolina. 000
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 09/03/2025NEW: State health department announces new measles case in Maryland State agency alerts: "Anyone who visited the following location.. may have been exposed: Washington Dulles International Airport: The international arrivals area March 5th, 4pm-9pm" 29347782321
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 09/03/2025From “I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One” to “shut up about egg prices.” 040
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanBradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 08/03/2025It was inevitable. 3633587
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025More than anything else, Trump loves winning. Yet he has already positioned America to lose the 21st century, in three simple steps: 1. Alienate your friends. 2. Destroy your business environment. 3. Slaughter your golden goose (i.e., science and research). wapo.st/41iUzAWwapo.stOpinion | How to lose the 21st century, in three easy stepsTrump is throwing away what could have been the next great American century. 39821195
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025People tend to talk about books like 1984 these days, but C.S. Lewis’ THE LAST BATTLE does not get enough credit. For me, there was perhaps no better prep for politics today than taking to heart the lessons from THE LAST BATTLE — from Shift, Rishda, and Ginger, to the dwarfs… 100
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanKiwiRed @kiwired.bsky.social · 01/03/2025It just sucks all the air out of the room. 8665127
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025There are too many Americans who have grown bored and spoiled living in a world in which America has influence and power, but they’re going to miss American hegemony when it’s gone. 091
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2025“Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.” 20649891398
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanJessica Riedl @jessicabriedl.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Well, it looks like we finally found "the Deep State." So much for all those transparency pledges. Not even the leadership of the CIA is classified. 0335
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Lord give me the patience to listen to Chris Christie speak about the dangers of Donald Trump — when he was one of the very first to endorse Donald Trump in 2016, long after it was obvious who and what Trump was. #PrinciplesFirst 1190
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025At the #PrinciplesFirst summit in DC this weekend! @billybinion.bsky.social is one of my favorite reporters so I loved getting to hear from him in the very first panel this morning! 👏 061
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025As someone who doesn’t drink coffee or tea, I wish more hotel conferences offered hot chocolate packets as one of the beverage options. 😂 140
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025“Progressives have the presidency they have long desired but a president they abhor. James Madison warned them: “Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm” (Federalist No. 10).” wapo.st/3EHjA1bwapo.stOpinion | It’s too late for progressives to be careful what they wish forProgressives sought an ever more powerful presidency. Now, to their horror, they have it with Trump. 220
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing *its own* history. 12043571981
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025“Members of Congress have acknowledged they’ve been bombarded with calls & emails about Musk & DOGE from constituents. The form letters lawmakers are sending in response suggest that many calls are from constituents reaching out to convey opposition or concern.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-gop-sa...thebulwark.comThe GOP Says They Love Elon. Privately, They’re Expressing Concerns.Republican members are sending letters to constituents promising oversight and limits on DOGE. 210
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025“The problem is, it moves slower. That’s hard for people to digest, because the threats are so urgent that you want to see a response to counter it that’s just as urgent.” www.semafor.com/article/02/1...semafor.comActually, the #Resistance is workingPanicked Democrats have overlooked their early successes. 000
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025“The Trump administration’s cuts are immaterial to the deficit... All direct foreign aid (including the surge in aid to Ukraine) adds up to a mere 1.17 percent of total government spending in the 2023 fiscal year.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Behold the Strange Spectacle of Christians Against Empathy (Gift Article)There is nothing woke about medicine or food. 022
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/02/2025We’re in for weeks of this on end. One of Musk’s tween haxx0rz stumbles into a complicated system they don’t understand, thinks they’ve discovered something earthshattering the veteran dunces never noticed, relays to Musk who also doesn’t understand, and broadcasts it to millions of followers. 1713757742
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11/02/2025This is not what the Constitution says. 79210
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/02/2025By the same token, think about when courts struck down Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. Republicans didn’t seem to think then that judges setting legal and constitutional boundaries on what the President can do was a problem. 18820
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 09/02/2025There are legal and constitutional mechanisms to do virtually anything Trump and Musk want to do. They just can't be bothered to learn what they are or go through the process (which often would require persuading people). 715723
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Day 1 of the #InvictusGames 2025 in Canada! Opening ceremony + wheelchair basketball 🏀 Go #TeamUS! 050
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Putting aside all party politics, I submit: Congress needs to do more, the President needs to do less. 513611
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanRepublicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 06/02/2025NEW: Fox News has hired Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to host a new weekend show called ‘My View with Lara Trump’ on Saturday nights. Now imagine the MAGA meltdown if MSNBC hired a Biden family member while he was president. 1771186161
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanNational Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Exclusive: Catholic Relief Services is bracing for massive cuts — as much as 50% this year — because of draconian reductions in U.S. foreign assistance ordered by the Trump administration, according to an internal email from the chief executive of the international relief organization.bit.lyExclusive: Catholic Relief Services lays off staff, cuts programs after USAID shakeupAn internal email says CRS is likely to be cut in half this year from Trump's freeze of U.S. foreign assistance. Cuts will "cost people's lives and livelihoods," a former bishops' conference official ... 117956
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanBerny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 05/02/2025The right obsessively laments the decline of merit as a hiring standard and then every chance it gets it interprets merit to just mean notching culture war wins against minorities or libs. 26645119
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 04/02/2025It is hard to imagine a bigger gift to China than what Elon Musk is doing to USAID right now. It’s the backbone of all democracy aid in the entire world. The other funder remaining now? China. 441649521
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/02/2025If the President wants to cut foreign aid, he can submit that in a budget and Congress can decide. 1925
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanPatrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The issue is not cutting foreign aid. The issue is a self-appointed chaos agent shutting down an entire government agency without Congress having any say, regardless of what that agency does. 314729
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanRuth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Between the tariffs, the idiotic threats to Canadian and Danish sovereignty, the destruction of USAID, and the undermining of NATO, it's hard to see what the Trump administration would have done differently in their first 2 weeks if their aim were to destroy US power and global influence. 19552151
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I don’t think US public diplomacy in the world should be led by someone who sides with China against Taiwan and says it doesn’t really matter anyway because the real enemy is Americans. I’d prefer someone who supports Americans and US partners. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel. 418230
Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I see all you Johnny-come-latelys to finally recognizing that the prequels are good, actually! 120
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 02/02/2025A little government 101. DOGE is a commission. Its only power should be to <recommend> action to Congress. They are a cynical and feckless bunch, but are the Republicans in Congress really going to allow Musk to usurp their existence and neuter their power? Stay tuned. 148323
Reposted by Sarah QuinlanPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/02/2025I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not. 754283156422
