"The very moment that I was put into handcuffs, I was not out of handcuffs until I was in the jail ... The most time that I spent unhandcuffed, outside of chains, was within the confines of a maximum security cell."

"This was a family who wanted to contribute to their community, a child who was bright and wanted to get a good education ... They were denied that opportunity because of our broken and punitive immigration system, a system that is now set up to cause as much harm as possible."

"We gathered the remains of children, elderly, infants, women, and young people ... [W]e called the ambulance and the civil defense, but they couldn't get by the Israeli army."

"The more that people understand who and what these organizations are, that there is this mass campaign to propagate smears and to stamp out any criticism of Zionism or ... U.S. support for Israel, the less effective those smears will be."

"The same systems that made sure Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color were last in line for clean air, safe housing, and political power are ... making sure we're also first in line to drown, burn, or be displaced."

"Many women prefer silence ... because speaking out can mean exposing themselves and their families to renewed violence, social ostracism, and practical ruin."

"Some [carceral] facilities classify having more pads or tampons than the allowed number as contraband, which can lead to confiscation or ... disciplinary actions. Rules on property and hygiene mean that leaking through uniforms or bedding may be treated as a violation."

"[Losing your tent]'s almost worse than a burglary ... It's not just that someone got into your house. Someone took your house."

"What happened to me is ... nothing compared to the cruelty inflicted on people inside these facilities—torn from their families and held in inhumane conditions. We cannot allow ICE to continue these abuses. We must keep pushing for people to be released."

"Inviting a Zionist perspective would be like inviting a Nazi perspective during the Holocaust."

"As a result [of Israel destroying rainwater collection basins and drainage networks], rainwater — mixed with wastewater leaking from collapsed sewage systems — has flooded streets and ... tents [in Gaza], creating conditions that are highly conducive to the spread of diseases and epidemics."

"[I]t's misleading for police to claim that 'sanctuary' laws will protect residents ... from deportation. Because ICE routinely mines FBI criminal databases, gang databases, and court records, even brief contact with the criminal legal system can put people at risk."

"[D]espite repeated calls for help, the black goo still clings to walls, roofs, and soil of more than half of the town's properties ... Dozens [of] pets and livestock, including cattle and horses, have been coated in the [harmful] residue."

"One of the most notable contractors is Quantico Tactical ... [It] has received more than 50 contracts valued up to $19.3 million for fiscal years 2025-2026 providing a wide range of firearms, 'less than lethal' munitions, restraints, communications equipment, and other supplies to [CBP] and ICE."

"Families wishing to contact the [Trans Youth Emergency Project] about their situation can do so... by filling out the[] intake form. The national project offers family navigation through one-on-one phone calls to help identify providers unimpacted by restrictions, as well as travel grants of $500."

"Not only are many prison visitation policies excessively strict ... but many parents are simply incarcerated too far from home for visits to be logistically or economically feasible."

"[Justine Paul] was 24 on the day of his arrest and 31 when he was freed. The cost to Alaska taxpayers to jail him all that time only to drop the charges: an estimated $550,000. ... When prosecutors abandoned the charges against him in 2022, no one wrote about it."

"I don't believe that this genocidal imperialist hellhole can sustain itself."

"[Bari] Weiss was recently appointed to the editor-in-chief of CBS News ... [S]tories published by [Weiss's website] The Free Press are often contrarian and fundamentally flawed, such as one that attempted to show that children who starved to death in Gaza already had underlying health conditions."

"Most police contacts are initiated by residents: almost 30 million people initiated contact with police in 2022. However, only half of these people ever reported possible crimes. More often, they were seeking help. ... [M]ost calls to the police would be best directed elsewhere."

"An estimated 19 million people [in the US] are burdened with the collateral consequences of a felony conviction ... and an estimated 79 million have a criminal record of some kind; even this is likely an underestimate, leaving out many people who have been arrested for misdemeanors."

"Not a single card was thrown away; they became makeshift keepsakes ... offering images of comfort — a silver thread to life outside. In a place where kindness was scarce, those modest cards reminded us of the season's simple warmth, reaching through concrete to touch hearts starved for connection."

"[T]here are many worlds that await and many chains to be broken."

"National Labor Relations Board administrative law judges have found that Starbucks has committed more than 400 labor law violations. ... [One ALJ] noted that [Starbucks] had ​'engaged in a scorched earth campaign and pattern of misconduct in response to union organizing at its stores.'"

"Swedes have ditched cigarettes in favor of oral snus and nicotine pouches on a large scale ... [B]y 2025, this had brought Sweden's smoking rate down to just 5.31[%]—the lowest in the world."

"[The Government Accountability Office] used undercover identities to communicate with purported drug suppliers about preferred communication platforms, pricing, and forms of payment ... [GAO's] investigative work, however, did not confirm that the purported suppliers in fact sold the listed drugs."

"[T]he files detail an eyebrow-raising interaction ... in which [Epstein] introduced [Trump] to a 14-year-old girl, and 'playfully' asked Trump, 'This is a good one, right?' according to the document in question. Trump reportedly smiled at Epstein and said he agreed with his assessment."

"[Todd] Blanche, 51, was [Trump's] lead attorney in the Manhattan trial that resulted in Trump being convicted of 34 felonies ... Blanche also defended Trump against criminal charges accusing him of conspiring to subvert the 2020 election and retaining highly classified documents."

"[E]xperts ... widely agree that the immune system is not detrimentally affected, overall, by COVID shots, and that vaccines reduce the likelihood of a person contracting COVID."

"Israel uses settler violence, uses its military raids, uses its arbitrary and discriminatory orders, including designation of land as state land, in order to cement and expand [illegal] settlements across the West Bank."

"Paramount launched its $108 billion effort to take over Warner Bros. ... after Netflix and [WB] leadership announced a proposed merger deal. Antitrust advocates have warned that either merger would be destructive for journalism, television writers, media industry competition, and consumers."

"This so-called 'pause' on offshore wind makes no sense and is an escalation of the Administration's ongoing, baseless attacks on clean energy ... In its ongoing effort to prop up waning fossil fuels interests the Administration is taking wilder and wilder swings at [such] clean energy projects."

"[T]he Pentagon is the single largest institutional consumer of energy in the United States and the world's biggest single source of fossil‑fuel‑related greenhouse‑gas emissions."

"[M]oney is often cited as a reason more can't be done. Yet the cops' [massive] budget demonstrates that there's plenty of money ... if the city wants to serve the people rather than place them in jails, prisons or cemeteries."

"[T]he state created [a voter registration form] on their own, without the immigrants' knowledge, and submitted it and checked off that [the non-citizens] were US citizens. Some employee of the state is ... doing bad things."

"[Larry] Ellison is a major donor to the Israeli military ... as well as a close confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu."

"There have been [at least] 30 deaths at ICE detention centers this year."

"Since 1967, Israel has steadily seized more and more Palestinian land ... Settlement population has increased exponentially from around 1,500 colonists in 1970 to roughly 140,000 at the time of the Oslo Accords in 1993—under which Israel agreed to halt new settlement activity—to around 770,000."

"[A]rmed intervention in Venezuela would be a humanitarian catastrophe."

"We will disrupt whatever plan ICE has. ... [W]e will not be moved. We will not be shaken. We're not going anywhere until ICE gets out."

"[W]e can't stop at resolutions that do not go beyond words."

"The soldier kept beating me on the stomach until I vomited ... The interrogator showed me my family's house, bombed, and told me he had killed all my family except for my wife and children."

"I don't believe that this genocidal imperialist hellhole can sustain itself."

"[Bari] Weiss was recently appointed to the editor-in-chief of CBS News ... [S]tories published by [Weiss's website] The Free Press are often contrarian and fundamentally flawed, such as one that attempted to show that children who starved to death in Gaza already had underlying health conditions."

"Most police contacts are initiated by residents: almost 30 million people initiated contact with police in 2022. However, only half of these people ever reported possible crimes. More often, they were seeking help. ... [M]ost calls to the police would be best directed elsewhere."

"An estimated 19 million people [in the US] are burdened with the collateral consequences of a felony conviction ... and an estimated 79 million have a criminal record of some kind; even this is likely an underestimate, leaving out many people who have been arrested for misdemeanors."

"Not a single card was thrown away; they became makeshift keepsakes ... offering images of comfort — a silver thread to life outside. In a place where kindness was scarce, those modest cards reminded us of the season's simple warmth, reaching through concrete to touch hearts starved for connection."

"[T]here are many worlds that await and many chains to be broken."

"National Labor Relations Board administrative law judges have found that Starbucks has committed more than 400 labor law violations. ... [One ALJ] noted that [Starbucks] had ​'engaged in a scorched earth campaign and pattern of misconduct in response to union organizing at its stores.'"

"Swedes have ditched cigarettes in favor of oral snus and nicotine pouches on a large scale ... [B]y 2025, this had brought Sweden's smoking rate down to just 5.31[%]—the lowest in the world."