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“DOGE set a goal of eliminating 20% of government websites, whereas everything that’s been deleted now is living in the Wayback Machine.”
“It’s our taxpayer money that is going into those public assistance programs that these companies are using to make this model workable.”
“War of aggression, UN charter, Nuremberg precedent: These are not foreign things being imposed on the US. These are part of our domestic legal system.”
“Iran is a country that, on a bipartisan basis, has been a bogeyman for America for many decades now, and has been demonized across the mainstream media.”
“The role of truthful, community-rooted local news and civic information has never been more clear in the overall health of our democracy.”
“The Court literally just held that if Tennessee wants to ban transgender healthcare for minors, it can do so.”
“If we can’t see the money that’s going out, we can’t make any evaluation on whether it’s a good use of our money.”
“I do think mainstream journalists need to understand the intersection between profit-making and incentives to go to war.”
“The regulatory system is being used to steer media ownership towards billionaires who are going to be friendly to Trump.”
“Whenever you see sanctions, you really should think war, because that’s really ultimately the outcome.”
“Those who start the war are responsible for all horrors that take place within the context of that war.”
“Right now is the exact moment that we should be looking back on the conditions that marginalized people experienced at this country’s formal conception.”
“It’s our government, with our resources, that is essentially playing a huge role in causing the suffering in Cuba.”
“While it’s been portrayed as about 2020, I think the bigger reason they want the ballots is about 2026 and 2028.”
“The only way that such a—I would call it what it is—colonial project could go unnoticed is under this project of ceasefire.”
“What we’re seeing is this criminalized language around acts that are simple acts of solidarity…. Those smaller acts of solidarity every day are so important.”
“People want to talk so much about the King holiday as a time for community service, but it’s really a time for community action.”
“If you can reduce the amount of news, and the free flow of information, you can reduce democratic rights.”
“If ICE is acting with such impunity and disregard for human life in broad daylight…what happens inside of immigration detention centers?”
“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.”
