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Carl Quintanilla

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

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26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / board member, NY City Center & Sag Harbor Cinema

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 11

(AP) — The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote.

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Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote

The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

“.. With Democrats having shown no signs of budging .. and a growing number of Republican lawmakers warning about potential blowback, the White House is now planning to hold off at least a little longer on sending out notices of Reductions in Force ..”

@cnn.com
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

$PSKY

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 17h

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. How can anyone in Congress — Democrats or Republicans — make a budget ‘deal’ with this administration if we now know the President is going to ignore implementing any part of the ‘deal’ he wants?”

@vermontgmg.bsky.social
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“Check the tariff shelf!” 🤡

George Pearkes @peark.es · 11h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

#AZ07

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight.

That is not a foundation of our democracy.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

JPM desk says it fielded lotta calls today on the $ORCL margin story — and the reversal in “names that benefitted from announcement of integration into ChatGPT ($BKNG, $EXPE, $PTON, ..) Likely doesn't completely dispel the fears that AI agents will eventually encroach on some of these businesses.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

Deal structure is getting more creative by the week. 🤡

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 7h

“XAI’s financing would be split between about $7.5 billion of equity and as much as $12.5bn of debt, the people said, and structured via a special purpose vehicle. The SPV will be used to buy Nvidia processors, and Musk’s artificial intelligence startup would then rent the chips out for five years”

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 7h

Do you have any idea how bad shit has to be for Republicans for Politico to write this?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

(Politico) - One week into the government shutdown, top Republican leaders appear to have lost the plot.

#RepublicansInDisarray @politico.com
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 10h

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

(Politico) - One week into the government shutdown, top Republican leaders appear to have lost the plot.

#RepublicansInDisarray @politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

Well that would be @cnbc.com but close enough

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. Never before has so much money been spent so rapidly on a technology that, for all its potential, remains largely unproven ..”

@bloomberg.com $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

“.. flights are being delayed this evening at Nashville International Airport due to “staffing,” with average arrival delays of 126 minutes as of 5:30 p.m.”

@politico.com #shutdown
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

“.. The strong growth usually seen due to shipments of holiday merchandise, “we are not seeing that,” said Dale Rogers ..

@cnbc.com #FreightRecession
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Pete Hegseth is furiously screaming "I SAID NO FATTIES!"

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 9h

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

“..’ Our family gatherings are filled with crying and trying to figure out how we get past this moment,” Mr. Aguayo said. “People are being terrorized. People are being attacked. That’s what it feels like.”

@nytimes.com #chicago
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

#AZ07

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

SEN. KENNEDY: “.. it’s not up to the president. I mean, his opinion matters, but Congress has got to appropriate the money. Read the Constitution.” 🤡

@mediaite.com
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

“.. the package won’t be coming out any time soon. The timeline has been further delayed because some USDA political appointees have been furloughed during the shutdown.”

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