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“Segregation was a government policy, it was racially conscious, it was not the unintended consequence of benign policies.”
The 50-year mortgage plan, while dressed up as reform, is in reality part of an effort to normalize permanent indebtedness.
“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.”
“It’s an extremely dangerous time for the free press, and it’s critically important that journalists not be kowtowing to this administration.”
“Unfortunately, the companies that have the freedom to report on it aren’t willing to take up their constitutional right, and speak truth to power.”
“I would’ve hoped by now that more US journalists would report on the fact that the US is at the brink of war with Venezuela.”
“It is my opinion that misinformation—not just scientific, but all kinds—is the greatest existential threat to the United States right now.”
“What they’re paying out in climate-attributable losses is almost the same as what they’re taking in from the fossil fuel companies in premiums.”
“We have not reconciled the history of… how government regulation was just reinforcing the racial apartheid that exists in our country.”
“It’s been the mission of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court to roll back things like the Voting Rights Act for 30 or 40 years.”
How do you explain that violent crime is on the decline? AP relegates reality to a dependent clause, and then recites inflammatory hysteria word for word.
