Weekend Quotables
Eagles: 'A resounding NO' to White House visit.
Super Bowl Champs Say No to White House Visit
Recent discussions between the players and the Eagles front office resulted in a 'massive no' when asked if they would accept an invitation to the nation's capital. The Philadelphia Eagles' decision to decline a White House invitation after their Super Bowl LIX victory reflects ongoing tensions with President Donald Trump, stemming from their 2018 boycott of a similar visit during his presidency. — Newsweek
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Jane Fonda
“I made my first movie in 1958. It was at the tail end of McCarthyism when so many careers were destroyed,” she said. “Today, it’s helpful to remember, though, that Hollywood resisted.”
She then asked the crowd: “Have any of you ever watched a documentary of one of the great social movements — apartheid or civil rights or Stonewall — and ask yourself, would you have been brave enough to walk the bridge? We don’t have to wonder anymore. We are in our documentary moment. This is it, and it’s not a rehearsal!” — SAG Awards
Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director
“We’re at the Rubicon. Whether we’ve crossed it is yet to be determined.” — New Yorker
Mark Smith, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE) Local 1
“I’ve never seen a billionaire put out a forest fire. I’ve never seen a billionaire make sure people get their Social Security checks on time. I’ve never seen a billionaire answer a phone call from a suicidal veteran on a crisis line. So I don’t trust a billionaire to decide what happens to our public services—and that’s why we’re fighting to get this billionaire’s hands out of them.” — Real News
Elizabeth Todd-Breland, former Chicago school board member
Breland, who helped craft CPS’s Black Student Success Plan, said: “Now is not the time for anticipatory obedience and preemptive acquiescence. This is not the time to shrink but to live out our values.” — Block Club Chicago
Illinois State Schools Superintendent Tony Sanders
Don’t stop teaching certain subjects because of Trump. “Black history is American history.” — Chalk Beat
Mississippi House Rep. Zakiya Summers
Rep. Summers warned that there is “a true effort to roll back everything that we have accomplished since the Civil Rights Movement and even further than that.” — Mississippi Free Press
Donald Trump says the US wants Ukraine aid money back.
My response on X: It’s too late for that. Half the money has been blown up, and the other half has admittedly gone “missing.” A million Russian and Ukrainian parents want their children back. — Globe Eye News
