Christy Quirk
Opinion research and advocacy/political strategy in declining democracies and emerging autocracies. Don’t ask questions you don’t want the answers to. Nice, FR
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- Reposted by Christy QuirkJD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.
- Only amateurs steal elections in election day
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- I’m going through boxes of my old stuff at my parents’. Apropos of nothing, this is a list of all the foreign correspondents in Warsaw in 1991.
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- How bad could it be?
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- Reposted by Christy Quirkagain, for everyone: when people believe their right to vote is threatened, they get angrier and will counter-mobilize. when people think their vote won't be counted or will be stolen, they are less likely to turn out.
- I think this would have the opposite effect of what is intended. Instead of supressing the vote you’re going to end up with angry people even more determined to cast a ballot bsky.app/profile/marc...
- Reposted by Christy QuirkICE observers in the Twin Cities suburbs say they fear being injured or killed, but are dedicated to being on the right side of history. They say working together has brought them community and connection. And they're seeing shifts in attitudes among their neighbors. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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- Reposted by Christy Quirk"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
- Reposted by Christy Quirk‼️🇫🇷 Marine Le Pen’s hopes of running for President next year are dribbling away. At her appeal against conviction for embezzling EU funds last night, the prosecution appeared to hand her a life-line but the concession was largely meaningless 1/ www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
- A lot of protest material is a bit kitsch but this knitted cap that spells out Fuck Trump in Morse code should be in the Smithsonian. America is already great.
- Reposted by Christy QuirkI love France on all days in all ways, but especially when she’s all, “Don’t make me tap the guillotine.”
- Reposted by Christy QuirkRemember like 15 years ago, when Russian dash cams of horrible accidents went viral? And everyone in Russia was using them because they couldn’t trust the authorities? Fundamentally, the dash cam and the body cam are the visual record of a failed state. They are a symptom posing as a substitute
- Reposted by Christy QuirkThis is very, very good.
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- Reposted by Christy QuirkThis, along with the seizure of ballots and voting data, is another massive red flag for Americans: This is the kind of thing authoritarians say and do when they are preparing to rig the vote. They are preparing to steal your vote, and you have to take action now to stop them.
- Reposted by Christy QuirkAs I've been saying: defending democracy requires being appropriately alarmed. "There won't be elections!!" is an absurd and counterproductive line, but "they can't possibly do anything bc the federal government doesn't run elections and they don't have the manpower" is unwarranted complacency.
- You don't have to believe that the fascists are competent enough to suppress voting everywhere in 2026 or 2028. You just have to believe that they can depress minority turnout in 5-10 cities to affect entire Senate races & the Electoral College. 2024 was decided by 120K votes in 3 states, after all.
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- Reposted by Christy QuirkA mother’s confession on SNL😂👇
- Reposted by Christy QuirkDoesn't seem like this should be his job
- No one is flying to the US! Why ever not?
- Reposted by Christy Quirk"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv
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- EL OH EL. I went to University with Newsom, at the Bay Area school commonly referred to as the one "where rich kids went who couldn't get into Stanford." He drove a red Ferrari. That stood out, even there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...
- Reposted by Christy Quirk“The Dossier Center has uncovered Jeffrey Epstein’s close contacts with 🇷🇺 Sergei Belyakov, then Deputy Minister of Economic Development and later head of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum Foundation. Belyakov is a graduate of the FSB Academy which prepares Russian intelligence officers.“
- Reposted by Christy Quirkactual soup nazis
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- Checks out. I’ve listened to this song probably 1000 times over the last year
- Reposted by Christy Quirkoh shit we got hennepin hannah
- Reposted by Christy QuirkI think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.
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- Reposted by Christy Quirk#Moldova General power cut in Chișinău and other parts of the country. According to the Energy Minister, the outage is caused by “serious problems in Ukraine’s power grid” leading to a voltage drop on the Isaccea–Vulcanești–MGRES line.
- Reposted by Christy QuirkDon’t forget what Ukrainians are going through.
- Melania: MUTE
- This is by far my favorite feed
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- Reposted by Christy QuirkI'm trying to formulate my thoughts about Don Lemon's arrest in terms other than "I told you so" and "it's only going to get worse, buckle up."
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- Reposted by Christy QuirkMy American colleagues and friends dislike it when I liken the course their country is on to what happened in Russia in the early 2000s. It’s a comparison that’s getting harder and harder to avoid…
- Reposted by Christy QuirkOnce again, extraordinary things happening on the social media of the German foreign ministry www.instagram.com/reel/DUGW47K...
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- Reposted by Christy QuirkOf the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them: 1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens 2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar 3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
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- Robert Fico, one of the few EU leaders to frequently support Trump, was concerned about the U.S. president’s “psychological state.” Fico used the word “dangerous” to describe how the president came across during their meeting at Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 17. www.politico.eu/article/dona...
- Reposted by Christy QuirkEarly reviews are in: ‘Even if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out’
- Reposted by Christy QuirkAnother view of "Love Thy Neighbor" from first hand account of detention in Minnesota: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
- “Long-term efforts alone will not meet the urgency of this threat. You do not respond to a patient in cardiac arrest by announcing a long-term public health strategy.” From the frontlines, Moldova president Maia Sandu articulates the challenges facing Europe. presedinte.md/eng/discursu...
- Reposted by Christy QuirkWow. The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.
- Reposted by Christy QuirkI have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.
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- Reposted by Christy Quirk"Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala said that ICE would not be welcome in his city, which is hosting most ice sports during the Feb. 6-22 Winter Games. 'This is a militia that kills...'" AP: apnews.com/article/ice-...
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- Reposted by Christy QuirkRest now, brother. I’ll see you in Smallhalla
