“We’re just so far removed from this becoming a reality. At best, this is one step above the edgelord meme factory at every federal department.”

“It’s such a huge watershed moment,” @aoc.bsky.social tells @politico.com. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he used this as a very unifying moment, but also on very resonant and salient grounds to send a message to people.”

“Violence is not the answer to any of this. I don’t understand anybody that would do that. It brings me back to Charlie Kirk losing his life here in our own backyard. It’s like, what on earth is going on here?”

“I wouldn’t recommend talking about her at all. I don’t think praising her is good politics. But I don’t think bashing her is good politics either, because there’s still a lot of goodwill for her there.”

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“Some of that has to do with the general chaos on this side of the pond where it’s a never ending stream of scandal emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Trump has set a tone of defiance on refusal to accept and feel any shame,” says @normeisen.bsky.social.

“I was so fat and nasty. I would eat anything.”

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“She’s going to be attuned to any election-year cycle to where she can do the most good for the most people,” says @raskin.house.gov. “She has profound ambition for where she wants New York to go and where she wants the country to go.”

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In the past, “people could expect to go to a march, make a sign, put on a pink hat and come home. And that’s fine. But that’s not the era we’re in.”

“There’s a debt of gratitude to Black liberation movements that really pioneered this. The Black Panther Party did it.”

The Milan-Cortina Games are “happening in the most fractious political moment in the recent history of the Olympics.”

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“We want more Manchins and Sinemas and Fettermans. That is the cost of having a fucking majority. And our donors need to understand when you have a majority, you get to set the agenda.”

“You look at the next two to three Senate cycles, we’ll be scratching and clawing to get and hold 50 or 51 seats.”

“People are done with Donald Trump’s flagrant attempts to goad us and poke at us and insult us. It’s like water off our back. We’re a much tougher people than we were last year.”

“We’re looking at the world in a very different light. And we’re looking at a next-door neighbor who makes increasingly unhinged threats towards us. So to go to international games and pretend that we’re all one happy family, well, that’s gone.”

“It’s really important for us to know that we are not alone in this, that we actually have people from other countries who care about us. People are scared and they are more and more concerned. Because of Trump’s statements, they get very worse and worse.”

"A year ago, I would have told you we were almost guaranteed to win the Senate. Today, I would have to tell you it's far less certain."

“People who typically wear sequins are performers, and there is a very high degree to which this is all a lot of political theater. So I think that the sequins also make a lot sense in that context.”

“Get out before it’s too late.”

“... the difference with this business is it’s not Pets.com. It’s not a business that just disappears into the muck of venture capitalism. It’s a business that is essential to the survival of the Republic, for Christ’s sake. So you don’t fuck around with it like that,” says @sallyjenx.bsky.social.

“It’s something we would do in a banana republic.”

“I worked there for 60 years, and how many people get to say that about any occupation whatsoever?”

“Governor Hochul and her team are attempting to address the affordability crisis for New Yorkers,” says @jasgripper.bsky.social. “Of course, they also took note of the enthusiasm around Zohran’s win.”

“If you’re going to run in a Trump +10 district, you don’t want some far-left influencer type to run.”

"People imagine them as members of Congress who have staff and bodyguards. No. They're just regular people who everybody knows where they live."

“People are rejecting the politics of fear that’s defined the Trump era, are increasingly worried about the harm ICE tactics are causing. Americans understand that cruelty is not a policy and enforcement without humanity is being rejected.”

"We need to know why the White House has been so obsessed with covering up the Epstein files."

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“We can’t trust the federal government, and they are now adversaries of the states.”

“The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need. Sometimes I wish you would just hold me in contempt, your honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep.”

“If he can help us win the trifecta, and then use it to actually govern and get good results — or as he likes to say, ‘get shit done’ — that looks really good at the national level,” @mikeschlossberg.bsky.social tells @lisakashinsky.bsky.social.

“I will have to learn a new way to read the paper, since I have started with the sports page since the late 1940s.”

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“I’m not this Hasidic journalist. I’m a journalist who’s Hasidic.”

“Come on, Mr. Newsom, say you love your son.”

“Gavin, if you want to see me, you should probably do so before Thursday. Because that’s going to be my last day on earth.”

Ken Martin: “In a Trump +17 district, Republicans had to go all out and still lost this race. Tonight’s results prove that no Republican seat is safe.”

“Renee Good’s death was tragic. Alex Pretti’s is a trend.”

“We had a good time at the Alfalfa Dinner. I think we did well, I hope we did well. But it was very good. Tremendous people.”

“Did this guy take his interior design inspiration from American Psycho?”

“I’m just putting it out there. Let other good people judge. But hey, at least it’s on my terms, not yours.”

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“It’s almost a contagious energy.”

“The movement we’re building is about taking a bet on the divide in our politics not really being about left versus right, but being about the folks who are locked out and the folks who are locking them out,” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social tells @politico.com.

Trump to @politico.com: “When I’m no longer around to settle wars, the U.N. can. It has tremendous potential. Tremendous.”