Doctors rail against NC's proposed masking ban aimed at protesters
“Politicizing what is fundamentally a health issue for a cheap shot at the Israel-Gaza debate is unconscionable.” -
Cameron Wolfe, Duke infectious disease specialist
“We talk a lot about freedoms in this chamber. ... [People] should have the freedom to wear a mask ... to protect [their lives] ... without fear of being arrested.” - Sen. Sydney Batch, cancer survivor
North Carolina bill to curb mask-wearing in protests could make it illegal for medical reasons, too
People wearing a mask during protests could face extra penalties if arrested, under proposed legislation critics say could make it illegal to wear a mask in public to protect against COVID-19 or for other health reasons.
“The world is different now. We can’t go back to when pandemics didn’t happen.” - Sen. Natasha Marcus (D)
Woman pleads guilty to conspiring with neo-Nazi leader to attack energy grid
A Maryland woman admitted to scheming with a neo-Nazi leader from Florida to destroy electrical substations surrounding Baltimore in an attack that she told a confidential FBI source would be “legendary” and “probably permanently completely lay this city to waste.”
Fear is widespread on American campuses, researcher says
Students are “observing acts of physical violence and intimidation right in front of them. Jewish students are seeing Jewish buildings attacked. Muslim students are seeing people ... counterattack against Muslims. The students that are not Jewish and not Muslim, they’re just seeing everybody getting ... attacked.”
Bernie Sanders: Israel is ‘becoming a religious fundamentalist country’
“Bottom line, Hamas committed an atrocity. ... Israel certainly had the right to defend itself, but it did not and does not have the right to go to war against the entire Palestinian people. ... Two-thirds of the casualties and deaths are women and children. Unacceptable.”
David Hancock offered evidence that Rittenhouse not only failed the standard tests for entry into military service, but was permanently banned from applying to the Marines.
"Kyle failed to learn a single thing. He remains the same uneducated, arrogant, and antagonistic individual, incapable of telling the truth."
“Bigotry has rotted the Michigan Republican Party from top to bottom – they can’t look at a basketball team without going into a conspiracy-fueled frenzy.”
Politician decried "illegal invaders" at the Detroit airport. They were college basketball players arriving for the Sweet 16.
“We have white prosecutors standing in front of overwhelmingly white juries comparing Black defendants facing the death penalty to animals – ‘mad dogs,’ ‘hyenas,’ ‘predators of the African plain,’” said Henderson Hill, senior counsel for the ACLU. “The racism in North Carolina’s application of the death penalty is so clear it’s blinding.”
On Jan. 8 of last year, a mob ransacked Brazil’s Congress and other offices, claiming an election had been stolen. Unlike the Jan. 6 rioters in Washington, the Brazilian protesters have almost no support now.