From my latest: "Trump is still armed with every weapon in the world and has continuously stoked and perpetrated violence against marginalized people, it is irresponsible to suggest that the danger has passed." truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
"Wishful thinking was not helpful at the onset of the Trump administration and it is not helpful now. Pretending that the danger is now minimal reflects a total disregard for the fates of marginalized people in this political meantime." truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
The pandemic is killing about 1,000 people per day in the U.S., as case rates continue to soar. Inside immigration detention facilities, the monthly case rate of COVID-19 per 100,000 detainees increased from 1,527 to 6,683 from April 2020 to August 2020. truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
"The United States keeps upwards of two million people caged at any given time, and not one of us can pretend, in this political moment, that we don’t know what’s about to happen to a great many of those people as the second wave crashes." truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
"For the next two months, Trump will have the same license to commit atrocity that he has had for the last four years: the presidency. And thanks to COVID-19, he will be able to perpetrate those atrocities without lifting a finger." truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
"Trump is a showman. This is his last act, and while the facts may dictate this story’s outcome, they will never dictate Trump’s narrative. [And that narrative] will fuel racist propaganda and fascist fantasies of persecution." truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
"One word that I have absolutely no interest in right now is 'unity.' The word 'unity,' in the mouths of Democratic elites, is about order. It’s about quieting expectations and ensuring our cooperation with compromises that should not be made." truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
"The expectation of unity is never allowed to hinge on whether Republicans will accept the humanity of people who their preferred leaders would grind under." truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
"The expectation is not that Republicans accept that some people will offer water to migrants in the desert, or that a white man might be prosecuted for the murder of a Black man. That is never the cost of calm." truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
"Democrats will talk about the need to come together around legislative goals but the truth is that the GOP will negotiate in its own interests, and no amount of good will on the part of the Democrats will shift the strategy of Senate Republicans." truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
"What we need to survive these times is not unity. It is alignment — functional alignment among those who agree on key goals ... we need to pool our efforts to keep as many people safe and alive as we can for as long as possible." truthout.org/audio/welcome-…
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