Conn McQuinn

Because of the efforts of High School Democrats of America, countless young Democrats have gotten involved and stayed engaged with the democratic process. It was an honor to chat with Milan and other young leaders at their annual summit.

Two consecutive headlines in the online Seattle Times this morning.

It feels like my Bluesky and Substack feeds are about evenly split between activists complaining that the Democrats won’t consider Supreme Court reform and Democratic leaders and activists loudly advocating for aggressive Supreme Court reform.

This is the way.

My friend @timwegenermn.bsky.social is part of the finance committee at the DNC and he wrote the most spectacular opinion piece about Ken Martin. That also breaks down exactly what the DNC is doing. If this isn’t enough to get you to donate, I don’t know what will be thehill.com/opinion/camp...

If this is what happens to adults using AI, imagine what it does to kids. www.wired.com/story/using-...

They own this. Whatever disasters continue to unfold belong not to the president and his Cabinet alone, but to the entire Republican Party.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

Tired of the AI summaries at the top of your Google search? Put -ai at the end of your search string. It doesn’t fix how crappy the search results are, but at least it shuts off the AI nonsense.

Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war. Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East. No war with Iran.

We absolutely, positively should not be using AI in K-12 education when we have no understanding of its impacts could be. It’s still an incomplete work in progress, with limited real-world applications. There is no reason we can’t wait a few years to see how this develops before adoption. #edtech

I’ve worked with technology for over 40 years, and the most important lesson I can impart to you is that nobody ever accurately predicts the impact of a new technology, ESPECIALLY the companies introducing it. Anyone who confidently tells you how AI will change things is deluded.

Resistance works.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

Americans must be eyes wide open that blocking the DHS funding bill will not shut down ICE. ICE is now sitting on a massive slush fund it can tap, whether or not we pass a funding bill.

We probably would not see eye to eye on a lot, but serious props to the Cato Institute for their absolute pile of great, full-throated defenses of immigration. They’ve done impressive work in this area for years now.

In regard to the debate about the training of ICE/CBP agents, I have an aphorism for you: "Culture eats training for breakfast." Individual behavior is mainly a product of organizational culture, which will negate prior training. ICE/CPB have well documented toxic cultures. THAT is the problem.

Walz: "If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world is seeing"

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

ICE needs to leave Minneapolis immediately and stand down across the country. #dhs #ice #trump

A light in the darkness in suburban Seattle, in solidarity with our friends in Minnesota. Defund, disband, and prosecute anyone and everyone involved in these crimes against our communities.

This looks like an execution. There must be an investigation. There must be accountability. Joining ICE does not give you license to murder. The President is escalating the situation—and I have no faith he will stop. The Republican Congress must join us to end this. Enough.

Donald Trump spread lies and conspiracy theories to his followers to make them believe the 2020 election was rigged against him, then incited an angry mob to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop the election certification. These are Special Counsel Jack Smith’s findings.

We're about to see a lot of clamoring for the Democrats to shut the government down. This talk always seems to ignore that no group that has ever initiated a government shutdown has ever gotten what they wanted.

PROUD of our party & the POWERFUL organizing by the DNC with the leadership of DNC Chair Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social! This is what building party infrastructure looks like! DNC launches When We Count Youth Fellowship-the DNC’s largest ever voter registration effort! democrats.org/whenwecount/

I propose that we call what happened to Renee Nicole Good a "Kavanaugh Killing."

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

I’m joining Rep. @robinkelly.house.gov to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and will use every lever available to end the terror ICE has unleashed on our communities. Stay loud.

The fact that ICE officers prevented a doctor from rendering aid after fatally shooting an innocent woman is sick beyond measure.   As we press for accountability, it is important that all of us spread the facts of this brutal and unjustified killing far and wide.

The right wants to talk about fraud? Somali fraud? Okay, give me 60 seconds.

#ICYMI, Dem AGs kept themselves busy this holiday season. With new lawsuits filed against the Trump administration, let’s break down the last few weeks. 🧵 ⚖️

Happy New Year. My first post is here to praise the House Oversight Committee for creating this ICE reporting dashboard to track the illegal actions of ICE. Thank you Rep Roh Khanna and the others from the House Oversight Committee for taking this important action! See the link below

One of my favorite online comics is Gary Lake, by Paul Southworth @southworth.bsky.social . I've been a big fan of his work for years, and this is his current strip. His artwork, characters, and stories are delightfully chaotic. Send some views his way! lakegary.com/comic/lg_001/

How are rural residents supposed to shop around for emergency care? What do they do when there's only one hospital for miles?   Especially when GOP Medicaid cuts are CLOSING those hospitals!

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.