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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Mar 22

Opinion | 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.

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 22

Rep. 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.”

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 22

Elon 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.’”

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Musk'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.

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 22

“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.”

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Trump administration weighs economic aid for farmers affected by tariffs.

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 22

One defense official said of the removal of “firsts” in the military, “That’s just history. It’s not really DEI – it’s literally just history.”

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Military was instructed to search keywords including ‘first’ and ‘history’ during rushed purge of Pentagon websites | CNN Politics

Secretary 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 ...

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 22

“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.”

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Military was instructed to search keywords including ‘first’ and ‘history’ during rushed purge of Pentagon websites | CNN Politics

Secretary 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 ...

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · Mar 17

“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...

Opinion | Trump upending world order will cost America dearly

The decline of American influence is a gift to Russia and China.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · Mar 13

Full 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.

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 14

“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.

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MAGA’s Manufacturing Nostalgia | National Review

The romanticizing of the workplace of 1970s America is a fantasy wrapped in historical inaccuracies inside a lousy policy proposal.

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 12

“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.”

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With Love, Meghan Renewal Exposes Failed Smear Campaign

The media declared Meghan Sussex's show a failure before it aired. Now, With Love, Meghan renewal proves their false narratives wrong.

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 12

“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.”

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Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service

Agency considers ending phone program that helps with claims processing and is used by millions of elderly and disabled Americans.

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 12

Trump “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.”

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Opinion | Trump, Perkins Coie and John Adams

The President breaks a bedrock legal principle by targeting the law firm for representing clients he doesn’t like.

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 11

“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.”

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Opinion | Capitol Hill’s Republican Sycophant Caucus

‘I don’t mind what Trump does, because I trust Trump,’ says servile Sen. Graham of South Carolina.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · Mar 9

NEW: 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"

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 9

From “I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One” to “shut up about egg prices.”

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · Mar 8

It was inevitable.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Mar 4

More 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).

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Opinion | How to lose the 21st century, in three easy steps

Trump is throwing away what could have been the next great American century.

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 2

… Shift, Rishda, & Ginger prepared me to recognize deception & treacherous ambition.

The dwarfs remind me not to become so bitter & cynical that I grow disillusioned with the truth.

For those who feel similarly, may we remain steadfast Friends of Narnia.

Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 2

People 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…

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KiwiRed @kiwired.bsky.social · Mar 1

It just sucks all the air out of the room.

A three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons. Two people of sitting together. In the first panel one says "Let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the second replies "Same." In the second panel, they sit together in silence. In the third panel, the first person says loudly "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person responds "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS".

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Mar 1

There 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.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Feb 28

“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.”

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Jessica Riedl @jessicabriedl.bsky.social · Feb 25

Well, 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.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Feb 25

Reporter: Who is the administrator of DOGE?

White House secretary: “I’m not going to reveal the name of that person from this podium…”

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Sarah Quinlan @sarahmquinlan.bsky.social · Feb 22

Lord 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

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