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“That’s what I want people to understand, that that opposition that is asking for the US to bomb their country, they are not the majority of Venezuela.”
These are just a few of the void-filling conversations it’s been our pleasure to host in the last year.
“Every time this democracy has been threatened…the core of it has been the manipulation of racial resentment and white supremacy.”
“We need to be able to…look at corporate power, and look at their narratives and say, ‘What does this look like from the other side?'”
“All of the changes that happen economically that are going to harm the most of us and enrich a few of the others are sold to us as inevitable.”
“If you’re a wealthy supporter of JD Vance, you now have an easy way to create a story on CNN, simply by placing a bet for your favorite candidate.”
“If you are a right-wing Latin American government that’s aligned with the US, you get a free pass in the media.”
“It’s the people, it’s the citizenry of the world who are going toe to toe with the handful of politicians who are driving disastrous decisions for us.”
“The problem isn’t that we have 42 million people on SNAP. The problem is that we have 42 million people who live in poverty.”
“Segregation was a government policy, it was racially conscious, it was not the unintended consequence of benign policies.”
“They are OK with using race to hurt people. They are not OK with using race to help people who are actual victims of racism.”
“The fossil fuel industry is trying to preserve its own profits at the expense of people on the planet, and they are spreading a lot of disinformation.”
“There are people around him who want favors, want money, and they’re getting it…. He knows how to take bribes, basically.”
“Consumers don’t actually have very much choice in many of these circumstances. So it’s not like they’re able to choose a lower fare from a competitor, often.”
“The public should be able to read the government’s legal justification right now, while there’s still an opportunity to stop these illegal and dangerous strikes.”
“Manipulating the Decennial Census for political gain is so deeply undemocratic, and we need to talk about it in those terms.”
“It’s not just that it’s written in such a way that it opens the door to political policing. That was the original intent.”
“It’s necessary…for this genocide to unfold, to have the American public either ginned up for the violence, or confused about it.”
“You can’t talk about media without talking about power, because you know and I know that much media is about sucking up to power.”
“This is because of community pushback, communities that are saying, this is not worth the environmental threat that these data centers pose.”
