On a related note:

"This policy operates as a prior restraint on publication which is considered the most serious of First Amendment violations ... The government cannot prohibit journalists from public information merely by claiming it's a secret or even a national security threat."

"[I]n its list of 'typical characteristics' of supposed extremism, [the Heritage Foundation memo] cites a trans flag with the words 'protect their right to exist.'"

"[C]onflagrations have been burning through mining regions, where soils are tainted with toxicants like arsenic and lead, potentially mobilizing those nasties ... And whenever fires burn through the built environment, they’re chewing through the many hazardous materials in buildings and vehicles."

"[S]tates are forfeiting hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies. ... These tax breaks divert funds away from direct government expenditures in support of schools, tackling income inequality, investing in public transit, environmental remediation and other community needs."

"Since October 7, 2023, Israel has emerged as a regional killer of journalists, with repeated incidents in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and ... Yemen confirming Israel's longstanding pattern of labeling journalists as terrorists or propagandists to justify their killings."

"Nitrates, commonly generated by the use of fertilizers on farmland, not only have been shown to cause cancer but also to negatively impact blood oxygen levels in babies ... [N]itrate is affecting the tap water of an estimated 263 million Americans in 49 states served by 26,644 water systems."

"The same forces that encouraged us to sacrifice the disabled, poor, and unhoused ... instruct us to ignore the genocide of Palestinians. The same forces that pushed conspiratorial misinformation about public health and vaccination want us to give up on practicing collectivity."

"I lost two years of my life … [F]or them, it's like nothing happened."

"During the economic downturn of the 1970s, immigration officials again descended on Chicago workplaces, movie theaters, and even churches, in search of suspected undocumented immigrants. ... [A]gents waited outside of churches to capture people leaving."

"[T]he remaining economic aspects of a multi-year contract would cost Starbucks less than one average day's sales. ... [Union baristas] aren't afraid to do what it takes to win [a] fair contract."

"How can this be legal? ... How is this humane?"

"[M]ost studies have found that eliminating [cash bail] does not increase overall crime rates ... In fact, some research has concluded that time in jail is so destabilizing that increasing pretrial release reduces recidivism — which is to say, future criminal activity."

"[Y]ou had to know there would be mental and emotional consequences to making women carry ... their [dead] fetuses."

"Women are not [generally] permitted to wear pants ... Just four personal items are allowed on employees' desks, with maximum dimensions of 5 inches by 7 inches. One former staffer at Uline's headquarters recalled a coworker who was forced to remove several drawings done by his young child."

"All their answers are completely evasive."

"Some of the [listed] factories are still banned — and ... still allowed to send exempted drugs to the U.S."

"[The kidnapped woman in the photo] was holding a bouquet of yellow roses and a box of chocolates. Looming over the photo was a statue of La Santa Muerte, known among law enforcement as a saint invoked to protect criminal acts. There was blood ... smeared on the statue's scythe."

"[Israel's] latest killing spree is not only a grave violation of international law, but also a terrifying warning ... [N]o place is safe."

"The false equation between anti-Zionism and antisemitism is intended to neutralize opposition against a criminal military power that is perpetrating a genocide ... [T]he repression of anti-Zionism through the 'charge of antisemitism' in liberal US institutions has been in practice since the 1970s."

"[A] toddler ... was brought in after an [Israeli] airstrike [on the children's hospital], her face blackened from burns and her torso ripped apart, with her internal organs spilling out."

"A lot of people are horrified by what they're seeing in Gaza ... You can translate that anger and fear you're feeling into action."

"Putting the Infidels [MC] ... in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan."

"If exercising my right to free speech gets me tear-gassed, then I'm not safe ... If my neighbors go missing into a deportation system where their families can't find out where they've been taken, then my neighborhood is not safe."

"[Coretta Simo Love] Monk's case is not the first time that the LA County Sheriff's Department has been accused of abusing or mistreating transgender people. ... [A] sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty to beating 23-year-old Emmett Brock, a transgender man who had not been implicated in a crime."

"You belong here."

"I was starting to get to the point where I did have some hope, and ... it was just cut off."

"Flotilla volunteers are not trying to enter Israeli territory. They are trying to enter occupied Palestinian territory for the purposes of delivering humanitarian aid in the context of a deliberate manmade famine pursued through [Israel's] policy of starvation as a method of warfare."

"[M]ore than 700 days into Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, Sen[.] Bernie Sanders concluded in an op-ed that what we are witnessing is, indeed, a genocide... While rightly citing the genocidal comments of numerous Israeli ministers, Sanders overlooks similarly genocidal comments from [Congress]."

"This is a world where Israel is now a pariah state in most of the world's eyes ... [C]utting off that state would entail little risk, as many of Israel's top experts in key fields are leaving the country. In any case, Israel's contributions can be compensated for within a short time by other[s]."

"[W]ith the full cooperation of Google, they are ensuring that top search results ... identify the brave [people] who are sailing to Gaza to end the blockade and genocide of 2 million people are people 'harboring terror.' It is clear that Israel is paving the ground for an attack on the flotilla."

"The child who remembered the way to school now lives in a tent with no streets, and the young man who dreamed of a house to get married in has only the memory of collapsed walls. ... Gaza, in its new iteration, is no longer a city visible to the naked eye, but a ghost."

"On September 13, 2025, our home was bombed again. We cleaned it, organized it, and stayed ... [W]e couldn't afford to leave."

"[Five-year-old Dania Amara] hits her legs and begs them to walk like before."

"I have to remain strong and confident that the [US] still has some caring and decency left and that in the end justice will prevail ... [S]oon all my tears and my family's tears will be wiped away, and we can have fun and smile, triumphant, as we did before, together and in absolute freedom."

"We cannot allow these facilities to operate when we know that they are violating constitutional ... and human rights."

"A malfunction — a 'negative pressure' issue, according to Billings police — forced meth smoke into the animal shelter ... It was not the first time smoke going into the animal shelter had been an issue."

"Local media outlets ... convince their audiences that drug use and the people who use them are inherently bad. By doing so, they're complicit in the ongoing cruelty against drug users and the inevitable death that follows. The same is true for city officials."

"We're trying to do everything we can so that these policies that put people in impossible choices and have turned our immigration courts into a trap are vacated and stopped ... People [should be able to] safely go to court without fear of arrest."

"[T]he whole point of solidarity[] is that you are stronger together ... [Y]ou do not leave anyone behind."

"I can't think of a single time I was told how long I would be in solitary confinement. You are simply taken there and expected to wait ... digging into the deepest corners of your mind. Which can often be dangerous, because the majority of people in solitary have extremely traumatic backgrounds."

"About 20 officers marched toward the protesters, a cloud of smoke obscuring them. They threw a flash bang grenade at the crowd while agents on the roof fired pepper balls. One demonstrator volleyed a flash bang back at the officers while ... fireworks ignited in the middle of the street."

"Israel kills every day and nothing happens... Israel starves a people and nothing happens. Israel bombs hospitals, schools, shelters, and nothing happens. Israel attacks a mediator and steps on diplomacy, and nothing happens. And with every act, every act unpunished, humanity itself is diminished."

"[I]n August [2024], there were the notorious 'right to rape' protests in Israel. It had come to light that Israeli prison guards were systematically raping and sexually abusing Palestinian prisoners. ... [An Israeli lawmaker] even argued that 'everything is legitimate' for alleged Hamas members."

"Our rights are being violated every day. This is a privately run facility that profits from our suffering. They are using us to make a profit but denying us medical care, food, even the most basic things like ... clothes and mattresses."

"As with so many cases of the 'Palestine exception' ... [Mahmoud] Khalil's detention was treated by much of the media as being implicitly justified by baseless accusations of antisemitism against him. Media figures on the left and right alike created a permission structure for his silencing."

"ICE subpoenas are not self-executing ... [A] platform is under no legal obligation to do anything. It remains the government's duty to initiate a proceeding to enforce the subpoenas. So, we urge platforms to not voluntarily comply with these requests before any enforcement proceeding is initiated."

"[A] commission of independent experts at the United Nations concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza ... [A]n investigation from The New Humanitarian found that Israeli forces have killed nearly 3,000 Palestinian aid-seekers and wounded almost 20,000 others since October 2023."

"[S]he worries about being charged with child abuse for trying to get her kid medical care. ... Doctors prescribe three main puberty blockers, which have been shown to reduce depression and suicidality in trans and nonbinary teens: Two are given as an injection, and one is an [arm] implant."

"[W]e refuse to be silent. We organize, just like we have been doing when we're being threatened with displacement, just like we have been doing when we're being harassed and beaten, just like ... when we're being unjustly detained and criminalized."