“There is not going to be a SAVE Act in this Congress. Period. Why are we spending another minute about it talking publicly? Because it’s not going to get there.”

“If the Republican Party wants to return to their self-righteous and morally condescending position of 20 years ago, be my guest,” @mcbride.house.gov tells @daveweigel.bsky.social.

“If AOC was this Tea Party’s Ted Cruz, yes, DAC is this Tea Party’s MTG,” @liamkerr.bsky.social tells @politico.com.

Mamdani: “I wish them a lovely wedding.”

“Races in New York are really important, but New York is not America. We should be careful of treating primaries in a blue state in a blue city emblematic of what the Democratic Party is as a whole.”

Jamie Harrison: “What is the establishment? Tell me what you mean when you say that. In South Carolina, that is Black voters. If I drill down even more, it’s Black women, and if I drill down even more, that’s older Black women.”

“The old politics that got us into this crisis is not the politics that’s going to get us out of this crisis.”

Howard Wolfson: “Republicans will very quickly seek to elevate, as they always do, the most radical voices in the Democratic Party. And after tonight, they will have more radical Democrats to choose from.”

“It’s the only issue that everyone in Florida can agree on. Except the forces of Big Mockingbird.”

“They want people who have actually paid rent in the 21st century, they want people who have paid child care in the past 10 years,” says @davidhogg.bsky.social.

Out today. Gotta read it.

Tillis: “... we need to be honest with the president.”

“Barack Hussein Obama, have you ever heard of him?”

ANOTHER great hire.

"And if I'm out, then I think a lot of other people are out."

“It’s a bad bet for democracy,” @merkley.senate.gov tells @politico.com. “If you allow election betting, you now have very affluent folks who can bet millions of dollars and simultaneously affect the outcome of an election through dark money. … That type of corruption in our elections is deadly.”

“So in a way, this deal is a bit of a nothing burger at the end of this very long and devastating war.”

Another great hire.

“I’m not running because of my following. It’s just one strength I’d bring to Congress.”

“The economy, obviously, is important, but it’s overcome by the identity divide.”

“People in politics are very competitive. … And they don’t necessarily care a whole lot about anybody else. That may sound a little harsh, but I think that’s kind of the reality.”

Via @tommytomlinson.bsky.social's Substack: Gosh! The cast from 'Napoleon Dynamite' bought a baseball team.

... Musk’s net worth is five million times as large as that of the average American family.

"When I was much younger, I used to try to control everything. And I realized that, no matter what, people would assign stories and values. I said, I didn't mean that. It doesn't matter."

"Like, now he's had his first year at school, all he does is roll his eyes and say '6-7' and 'bruh.'"

“The worse it looks, the better it performs.”

“This is the real American dream, happening in the mall parking garage.”

"How long did you have breasts for, Dad?"

“Congratulations. I’m sure he’s a very nice boy.”

“Micah is really the person that you need,” said one of his endorsers, former Gov. David A. Paterson. “I’m just not sure how many people feel he’s the person that they want.”

“Had my first Taco Bell today. Unique.”

“If you are not able to explain the meaning of life, who are you?”

“There’s nothing more beautiful than a shovel. Did you ever watch anybody shovel coal in a locomotive, or shoveling wheat? It seems almost like a ballet.”

“If you then want to build a political movement around that kind of skepticism about slow counts, then there’s fertile ground among the public.”

“It’s a bad agreement in which the Americans are paying with cash, and got, at the maximum, a letter of intent.”

“I’ve been photographing the city for over a decade, and I’ve never seen the city that energized, especially around a sport.”

“What’s left after the prison is gone?”

“It was about sort of everything, you know? Breath and life and moments and time and eternity and preciousness and humanity.”

“How about a Y.M.C.A.?”

"There are few things my reporter brain enjoys more than when a company finally goes public because of the sheer amount of information it is legally required to release."

The headline on the jump in print: How do you like them oysters.

"That's what fútbol does."

“Regime Change” describes the “most powerful president of our lifetimes” ...

“We’re not in Raleigh, we’re not Charlotte, so it was kind of a big deal.”

“Algae, particularly blue-green algae, like it hot. So this time of year is their optimal growth period. It’s sort of Biology 101.”

“The kind that comes once a generation, when people have been pushed too far, and they decide all at once and all together that enough is enough.”

Enjoyed listening to this interesting conversation.

"The richness of the broth is out of this world," reads one comment on this Brodo di Pollo con Pastina recipe. nyti.ms/4uEsCjF

“I think it is very hard to ever get over the fact that he is responsible for the hellscape that we live in now. It is undeniable that his hubris cost us. He was an extremely impactful president who was successful in delivering tangible wins for Americans, but all of that is washed away.”

“It does kind of feel like a Whole Foods parking lot in Portland is the new diner in Ohio where you talk to voters to be baffled that they’re still supporting their candidate,” says @aseitzwald.bsky.social.