The Assignment with Antonia Hylton

"We need a big tent Democratic party and right now we have a fake big tent where there is room for you as long you are not going to question those in power... but if you start jeopardizing those things, suddenly there's no room for you in our party." Gen-Z activist Morris Katz's advice for Dems.

@anthonycoley.bsky.social on Republicans breaking with Trump on Iran. "It looks like damage control... 13 Americans have died... Republicans are starting to see the downstream political impact of their inaction."

Donald Trump is about “power for the sake of oppression.” @jamaalbowmanny.bsky.social rips Trump’s obsession with power and comparisons of himself to leaders like Hitler.

@ravireports.bsky.social on how he interprets President Trump’s latest Truth Social threat: Tolls on the Strait of Hormuz if a deal isn’t reached within 60 days: “We need to follow the rules, but if we don’t follow the rules only I can break the rules”

@ahylton26.bsky.social: "Are we better off right now... than we were when this whole war began?" Ayman: "No, we are not better off... you've had 13 American service members killed, thousands of Iranians, including schoolchildren killed... from a sheer human toll, we are not better off."

@ross.house.gov weighs the possibility of Trump pardoning Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell: “Pardons are given out like Halloween candy. But he knows that this one is directly tied to him.”

"Texas has bigger problems... we are number one in school shootings... and from what I've seen... Ken [Paxton] seems to be focusing on Trump, Trump, MAGA, Trump, MAGA, Trump." Former Ken Paxton impeachment lawyer Dan Cogdell on why he's supporting James Talarico.

"[Mike Johnson] is not a Speaker of the House... he's President Trump's boy and he does whatever Trump wants." @repcohen.bsky.social

@gtconway.bsky.social breaks news on The Weekend: Primetime on his campaign in the NY-12 Dem primary. "I'm only doing this for one term... I'm doing this because we need to do something now. We can't survive thirty-two more months of what we've seen for the past sixteen.

@daniellemoodie.bsky.social: "If [Trump] decided tomorrow, he wanted to come here with a crane and take down the Statue of Liberty and put himself in its place, [Republicans] would clap like seals."

"People should be up in arms!" @nickakerman.bsky.social sounds off on Trump nominating his former lawyer, Todd Blanche, to serve full-time as attorney general.

"This is like holding a winning lottery ticket next to an open flame... "60 Minutes" is a cash cow... if they were to burn this, it does great damage." @macfarlanenews.bsky.social

"I've seen war... what I saw in Gaza was not a war... I couldn't just go back to my practice and say I've contributed, and I'll do another trip next year." @hamawyfornj.bsky.social explains why he decided to run for Congress after serving as a doctor in Gaza.

@crampell.bsky.social: "I'm very curious about what happens in both of these (California] elections where Republicans have gotten a lot closer... to securing the leadership of the state and a deep blue city. Former Sen. Barbara Boxer: "No way... I don't want to leave here before saying no way."

"If anybody is digging up this footage in the future, I just want them to know it is exactly as stupid as I thought. For my grandkids... it was exactly this dumb." @pablo.show reacts to Trump saying he'll hold a rally for his Freedom 250 event after several artists backed out.

@esglaude.bsky.social: "What Trump and America 250 or Freedom 250... what they're going to try to do is to tell a story of the country that emphasizes a particular understanding of America as White."

@skyeperryman.bsky.social an.bsky.social on her legal victory against Trump's $1.8B fund. "This administration is facing over 750 lawsuits, and they are losing far more than they are winning... they want to avoid any accountability... and yesterday you saw the federal courts flat-out say no way"

“A meth lab of conservative grievance” – @profmmurray.bsky.social jokingly describes how conservative ideals from Supreme Court Justices make their way down to lower courts and end up becoming a real legal theory

"Cuba doesn't pose a threat to the U.S. National Security." Cuban Ambassador to the UN, Ernesto Soberon Guzman, weighs Axios report that the U.S. is assessing a drone threat from Cuba.

"Can't you get one woman? Can't you get one person who isn't an older white man? I sound woke; I sound positively woke here!" @elisejordan.bsky.social jokes about the guests for Stephen Colbert's final shows.

@bradleyonishi.bsky.social: "We've gone past Christian nationalism to a form of Christian supremacy that says unless you align with... this government's understanding of religion, then you're not real American... that's what makes it incredibly dangerous."

"Mike Johnson is from the South... he absolutely knows that this is bollocks... he is celebrating the return of Jim Crow to the South and that is a terrible thing for America." @staceyabrams.com responds to Speaker Mike Johnson's claims that redistricting will "bring back fairness."

Lindsey Graham says Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) will lose his GOP primary for going against Trump saying, "this is the part of Donald Trump." Ayman: "What does Donald Trump have on Lindsey Graham?"

@esglaude.bsky.social: "Racism still occupies the throne of this country... it's also a challenge because we have to raise our babies in this. One of the most difficult challenges of a Black parent in the U.S. is to ensure that their babies grow up not believing what the world says about them."

Rev. Sharpton on Alabama protests: "It's always going to be a percentage of young people and old people that will pay the price for the many... there's enough young people... willing to organize and get this done.”