conv.politics

“It is designed to have a chilling effect, with the hope that it discourages other outlets from publishing stories that they fear might provoke similar…”— Amicus brief filed by media outlets · full quotes →

“It's their own fault. They sort of ushered this in by bending the knee and putting on MAGA folks.”— Don Lemon · full quotes →

“It's a perversion of the whole purpose of refugee assistance.”— Jeremy Konyndyk, President of Refugees International · full quotes →

“It's critical that President Trump use this moment to secure increased AI safety coordination on the shared risks that frontier models hold, while also…”— Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) · full quotes →

“Look, we are a big tent party, and being a big tent party is a strength, not a weakness.”— Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer · full quotes →

“Bobby is among my closest friends in the world for many years, and I'm grateful to be able to host him anytime.”— Gavin de Becker · full quotes →

“Fears are growing that President Trump may deploy the U.S. military to polling places in the upcoming elections, despite strict state and federal laws against…”— NPR · Mastodon · full quotes →

“It's about control. If you strip it back, and all the fluff and, you know, the verbiage, you can actually strip it back to one word, which is control.”— Andy Burnham · full quotes →

“So much of this language is almost indistinguishable from the way Albanese speaks - focusing on free market mechanisms, techno-solutionism, constantly about…”— ketanjoshi.co · full quotes →

“Has a lot on his plate”— Melania Trump, First lady · Mastodon · full quotes →

“It's going to have to be the American regime.”— olddale.bsky.social · full quotes →

“What is actually dying in Germany is not just a hitherto dominant party, but the image of centrist politicians as moderate technocrats.”— Yanis Varoufakis · full quotes →

“Let's not send out the diesel.”— Donald Trump, U.S. President · full quotes →

“We need to ban the opposition like they did in germany. Democracy is when we win.”— Scratch_Careful · full quotes →

“I think possibly it was fear… They had seen the way I had been treated at the hospital by senior staff members.”— Sandie Peggie · full quotes →

“Instead of lowering your energy bills or cutting your taxes, Burnham has announced a National Centre for Information Defence. This is a Labour Ministry of…”— Nigel Farage · full quotes →

“The tax cuts in President Trump's signature achievement were the Republicans' answer to voters' economic struggles, but its health care and food assistance…”— Audra D. S. Burch, New York Times reporter · Mastodon · full quotes →

“A war has sent up the price of diesel. These guys said, 'We don't know if we're going to keep the farm.'”— Adam Hamilton · full quotes →

“if you are in a +15 district you're within the margin for error, if you're in a +10 district you're underwater”— Iowa House Republican pollsters (via Steve Deace) · full quotes →

“If it's a clear-cut case and we can expect the Supreme Court to overturn it, it means that the coalition parties that supported the ban blatantly disregarded…”— Specialk3533 · full quotes →

“The No 1 thing was the economy, cost of living, fuel prices, healthcare and food costs.”— Shay Blodgett, Alaska Airlines worker and IAM Arizona political program leader · full quotes →

“These actions to lower costs are needed ASAP, and the war needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end.”— Ashley Hinson, Republican Senate nominee for Iowa · Press · full quotes →

“Georgia looks like it's pretty close to done. And North Carolina seems to be close to that.”— Sen. John Cornyn, Outgoing Republican Senator, Texas · Press · full quotes →

“We don't know what's going to happen in the midterms. But we know for a fact that today you can watch the hilarity of the collapse of so many of Trump's plans…”— Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo editor · full quotes →

“They don’t like it. Even the people that love the president don’t like it.”— Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana · The Washington Sun · full quotes →

“isn't the bigger story the fact that the leader of what used to be the world's most powerful nation… has clearly and undeniably lost his mind?”— Paul Krugman · full quotes →

“Legislatively enacted laws are just on firmer footing when there are political changes at the executive level.”— Amanda Barrow, UCLA Law Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy · full quotes →

“Political parties in the United States are facing growing internal divisions, while voters increasingly question the two-party system.”— Al Jazeera · full quotes →

“Denmark's signing statement was brilliant, for sure. (The speech; and perhaps this pre-show music/choreography)”— drmike@mastodon.social · full quotes →

“It's the little things that say a lot about whether government is delivering for New Yorkers.”— Zohran Mamdani, Mayor of New York City · Press · full quotes →

“For generations, women fought for a seat at the table. The next chapter is about owning, growing and making space for the women who come next.”— Melania Trump · full quotes →

“Scientific research is an economic blessing. Keep Trump cronyism out.”— Washington Post opinion headline · Washington Post · full quotes →