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“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.”
It’s not clear whether corporate media know they’re writing themselves a resignation letter, but they are.
“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.”
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.”
Some reports suggest you should not believe your eyes that saw ICE agents murder Renee Nicole Good as she attempted to slowly move her car away from them.
“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.”
Allowing allegedly local broadcast firms to acquire even more stations will put control over news in still fewer, more corporate hands.
Threats of funding cuts don’t just endanger nonprofits, they warp them—which is why putting political strings on funding violates the First Amendment.
“If you are a right-wing Latin American government that’s aligned with the US, you get a free pass in the media.”
A male coworker allegedly bludgeoning Amber Czech to death has nothing to tell us, evidently, about broader trends or influences.
“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 white-owned press didn’t just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.
“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.”
