“I think we should throw those books in a fire.”

“The Alliance Defending Freedom, for example, sponsored a bill in Belize that would criminalize consensual sex between LGBTQ people up to 10 years in prison.”

“Two prominent evangelical seminaries are challenging the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate in federal court. … The schools are represented by attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom.”

“The founder and a member of Project Veritas, along with anti-vaccine ‘whistleblowers’ touted by the group, spoke at a conference for supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory, where they lauded attendees and asked for their help.”

“Three University of Florida professors have been barred from assisting plaintiffs in a lawsuit to overturn the state’s new law restricting voting rights.”

“Eh, bien, I ask those who have troubled consciences whether it would not have been better to save the mother at that moment rather than condemn both of them to death?”

“To deny the effective ability of the federal government to regulate emissions based on a transparently unworkable doctrine that has been applied for all of five months 86 years ago would be absolutely insane, and is also easily the most likely outcome.”

“‘Quits’ is a Janus-faced economic data point — a sign of both how bad our work politic has gotten, and also hope that somewhere it could be better. It signals that people are fed up. But also that they have the confidence in finding new work, often that is better paid.”

“The real problem isn’t just polarization and political disagreements, it’s that one of the major parties has wholeheartedly embraced hatred and racial grievance.”

“Republican Villager arrested after allegedly casting more than one election ballot.”

“And he thought about them and he thought about them, and do you know where these rimjobs were? At Princeton!”

“The Supreme Court’s gutting of the landmark voting rights law in 2013—and the lack of congressional action to fix it—means that the current redistricting cycle is the first in more than 50 years where states with a long history of discrimination do not have to approve their voting maps with the federal government.”

“Back at the station, Robertson read Gray’s arrest report and, over the objections of another officer, he handed back the gun.”

“The sexual assault in Loudoun County is a deeply tragic story of interpersonal violence that is being unfairly wielded as a cudgel against trans equality — despite it having no relationship to or national implications regarding trans inclusion.”

“The vampire has, for centuries, been warning us that the Church has a problem with desire.”

“Between the church leader whom society praises and the prostitute whom it reviles, in this instance the reviled prostitute would show the greater integrity.”

“I see that decision now as a step toward discovering a more whole Christ, a more loving faith, and a religion that calls its followers to listen to women and their whole stories.”

“And it’s the reason we now use the word ‘vaccine’ — it comes from the Latin word for cow.”

“Her heart was beating too.”

“Despite all the health issues that can accompany being pregnant, domestic violence remains the No. 1 cause of death for pregnant women in America.”

“NRA leaders can also be heard describing the organization’s more activist members in surprisingly harsh terms, deriding them as ‘hillbillies’ and ‘fruitcakes’ who might go off script after Columbine and embarrass them.”

“If masculinity isn’t a social construct, then one wouldn’t need to put so much work into socially constructing it.”

“The protections of childhood are not afforded to all children.”

“Students of various ethnicities participated in the demonstration on Friday. Parents and student organizers claim that only Black students were suspended for their involvement.”

“I’ve lived in Grapevine my whole life, and of course there’s, like, that subtle racism, but now I’m starting to feel unsafe in my own community.”

“Republicans at all levels of state government are going to increasingly extreme lengths to preserve white GOP power by diluting the votes of communities of color in new maps drawn for the US House, state legislative seats, and local offices like county commission and city council districts.”

“The specific issue is that in their target for ‘full employment’ or whatever we’re calling it this year, the Fed long separated out Black unemployment from white unemployment, targeting a higher level of unemployment for Black workers which supposedly reflected ‘full unemployment’ and if you’re not a racist monster you can see the problem with that.”

“The investigation revealed how shoddy police work by local law enforcement and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation not only led to a wrongful conviction, but also left the real murderer free to kill again.”

“In my home state of Mississippi, Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam — the two men who abducted, tortured, and murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till — were acquitted after just an hour of deliberation by an all-white, all-male jury just one month after the murder.”

“Strickland’s first trial in 1979 ended in a hung jury of 11 to one, with the only Black juror holding out for acquittal. He was later convicted by an all-white jury of one count of capital murder and two counts of second-degree murder.”

I got the COVID-19 vaccine today! My wing is feeling a little sore, but it'll give my body an extra protective boost that keeps me and others healthy.

Ms. @EricaRHill even said I’ve been getting vaccines since I was a little bird. I had no idea!

— Big Bird (@BigBird) November 6, 2021

“Viviano-Langlais has replaced the syringe-swastika with a picture that reads ‘God Bless Texas.'”

“Would it really be that much of a stretch to say that what Mr. Gosar did was incitement? Or does someone need to die first?”

“We’re just waiting to see when the civil war starts.”

“If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under God.”

“No more ‘Happy Hanukkah,’ only ‘Merry Christmas.‘”

“The hate-baiting, gun-loving, anti-immigrant, shit-posting internet troll — who’s about as far from the biblical Jesus as possible — is their guy. That’s what it means to be evangelical whether pastors embrace it or not.”

“If you have a worldview that can be undone by a novel, let me suggest that the problem is not the novel.”

“Deere & Co. workers approved a new contract Wednesday that will deliver 10% raises immediately and end a monthlong strike by more than 10,000 employees.”

“If the worst people think you’re hilarious, you’ve done something very wrong.”

“In 1976, he predicted the world would end in 1982. And in his 1990 book, The New Millennium, he said the world would be destroyed on April 29, 2007.”

“He already has a private jet. In fact, he has three. He stores them at an airport called Kenneth Copeland Airport, right next to his million-dollar mansion in Texas.”

“The Legionaries of Christ, a once powerful Catholic religious order that fell into disgrace in 2010 after sexual abuse scandals involving its founder, allegedly hid $295 million through the use of complex financial mechanisms such as trusts and offshore accounts.”

“As Table 1 demonstrates, estimates from academic researchers suggest that more than $160 billion lost annually is from taxes that top 1 percent choose not to pay.”

“It’s also an example of, when you state a core right wing political belief in straightforward terms, it sounds like some sort of parody.”

“For $35.95, parents who want to discipline their kids ‘God’s way’ can buy a handmade paddle, complete with Bible verse and free Prime shipping from Amazon.”

“It was bad when the religious right did it, it was bad when the Tea Partiers did it, and it’s going to be even worse now because these motherfuckers are crazier than all of them.”

“I am a prophetic dreamer. That means I see things in my dreams before they happen. God speaks to me through my dreams and shows me things.”

“The Ground Zero Mosque was the story we really didn’t need in 2010, but a decade later, it provides essential context for where we are today, not just for what it said about where the Right was headed, but for what it said about other people and institutions, too.”

“If the United States is too racist to take care of the people who help us prosecute our wars, perhaps we shouldn’t start them in the first place.”

“I will not be associated with the United States’ inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to Haiti, a country where American officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs in control of daily life.”

“Nearly a dozen states have enacted laws this year that pave the way for election subversion, and additional proposals are gaining momentum in other states, according to a new tally by a nonpartisan group that tracks election-related bills.”

“Thus, for patients with a predictable 28-day cycle, there is only about one week before the ‘six-week’ threshold to confirm pregnancy.”

“There is more than one religious view on abortion.”

“If he loses his job over this, people will be safer. End of story.”

“In a pair of Cape Town warehouses converted into a maze of airlocked sterile rooms, young scientists are assembling and calibrating the equipment needed to reverse engineer a coronavirus vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and most of the world’s poorest people.”

“Instead, as Biden made the vaccination campaign a central focus, Fox News hosts decided that their network’s self-declared role as Biden’s ‘opposition’ did not have a carveout for his effort to vaccinate the public and halt the deadly pandemic.”

“Tim Scott came up with the original plan to defund the police.”

“I felt like I’d just been stabbed by someone I once admired and now he was demanding that I stop bleeding.”

“The attack on mainstream media goes beyond telling the people what they want to hear. It is part and parcel of fashioning the group and its adherents as an elect, a parallel elite of sorts, who bravely face the truth and take matters into their own hands while most either cower in the corner or watch the action from afar.”

“Are they getting people elected? Which is one of our main goals.”

“An email sent to her office over the summer read: ‘I’m really jonzing to see your purple face after you’ve been hanged.'”

“If Plan A is to make nice with authoritarian ethno-nationalists who are openly planning to get rid of democracy any time they lose any elections going forward, you might just need a different plan.”

“It was instant, overnight. We got thousands of applications that poured in.”

“Judge Algenon Marbley of the Southern District of Ohio described the actions of the Columbus police as ‘the sad tale of officers, clothed with the awesome power of the state, run amok.'”

“‘On more than one occasion, this individual was involved in sexual activities with several of the other girls, the congressman from Florida’s 1st Congressional District and myself,’ Greenberg wrote in reference to the 17-year-old.”

“What so infuriates the keepers of the flame is how the witness of Black people, going back to the very beginning, interferes with and ultimately defeats the myth of the Virtuous Republic. This is why anti-Blackness is baked into the increasingly vehement defense of the approved narrative: the one thing the mythmakers cannot tolerate is the persistence of this faithful witness.”

“An incorrect story I was ordered to write and which I failed to push back hard enough against was my breaking point.”

“Though they took different paths to January 6, together Kremer and Martin’s story reveals the larger tale of how the tea party surged, faded, and then mutated into a diehard pro-Trump operation instrumental in the radicalization of the Republican Party.”

“The holding company reported a $13 billion pretax profit for 2019, which was effectively tax-free, the accounts show.”

“Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn is drastically scaling back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that former U.S. President Donald Trump once called ‘the eighth wonder of the world.'”

“Strickland’s first 1979 trial ended in a hung jury of 11 to one, with the only Black juror holding out for acquittal. Two months later, he was convicted by an all-white jury.”

“DNA testing from a 1993 killing in Arkansas has revealed genetic material from a male other than the inmate executed for the murder four years ago.”

“Justice Neil Gorsuch cast the deciding vote allowing Lee to die. It was his first recorded vote cast as a justice of the court.”

“Since 2017, Black drivers have been searched at 29 times the rate of whites, according to a KARE 11 analysis of [Minneapolis] city data.”

“It’s not that Black lives don’t matter to FRC or Perkins. It’s just that Black lives don’t matter if they can’t be used for fundraising and scaring.”

“Martha Huckabay, the president of the Women’s Republican Club of New Orleans, spent her weekend defending slavery.”

That moment when he realizes he put a Jim Crow-era slogan in the bill he’s claiming isn’t voter suppression

“Our office reached out to the governor’s staff requesting a security detail in light of recent death threats she has been receiving and after she was chased by a man she did not recognize yesterday.”

“The reason is that this speaker and a whole lot of other people like him don’t view Black and brown voters, or the votes they cast, as ‘legitimate’ in the way their own votes are.”

“According to these geniuses, we should never have subsidized research on viruses at their origin point, because if you never research something, it can never hurt you — that is just science.”

“Almost all ‘upper middle class’ (ahem) people can at present pass on $23.4 million to the objects of their bounty with no federal estate tax consequences at all.”

“It’s really messed up to steal money from kids who grew up in foster care.”

“A mask shouldn’t have a political party. A vaccine shouldn’t have a political party, but we’ve conjured these things to have these connotations.”

“In August, Anderson called social distancing and wearing face masks ‘a pagan ritual of satanic worshippers.'”

“In essence, Gwen and her Orthodox compatriots were seeking a sovereign for the end of the world.”

“After the Anti-Defamation League called on Fox News to fire [Tucker] Carlson for his remarks, white supremacist and far-right personalities were quick to make their approval known.”

“To her credit, Officer Horne did not merely stand by, but instead sought to intervene, despite the penalty she ultimately paid for doing so.”

“Applying pressure to Mr. Weigel’s upper back, once he was handcuffed and his legs restrained, was constitutionally unreasonable due to the significant risk of positional asphyxiation associated with such actions.”

“What the police do is not what the military does. It should not be. And we should not want it to be.”

“It is a cancerous little phrase, low-skill.”

“He called the accusations a ‘political hit’ and said, ‘all my kids are Democrats.'”

“The GOP-led Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday voted 70-44 along party lines to pass HB 1475, which would ban transgender female athletes from competing on women’s athletic teams in both high school and college while subjecting some student-athletes to ‘genital inspections’ before they can play.”

“‘How to hit a woman so no one knows’ was typed into Google 163 million times, a 31% increase compared to 2019.” (See here — the study botched the data.)

“We dress it up and make it pretty, but it’s about power.”

“In research, the concept is called ontological parsimony.”

“If someone feels ‘excluded’ because a ride stopped featuring enslaved people and workers are wearing nail polish, it’s going to be very difficult to keep them happy.”

“Plant-based beer.”

“She wishes politicians in Washington, debating whether minimum wage should be $10, $11 or $15 per hour, lived a day like she does — with almost two hours on a bus, just to get to work.”

“I had my childhood taken from me because for whatever reason — because we weren’t white, didn’t speak English, because some of us weren’t citizens — someone decided it was okay to poison us in our own houses.”

“The fundamental truth about [Georgia’s] SB 202 is this: Its very existence is predicated on a lie.”

“Lawmakers introduced 108 restrictive voting bills in less than five weeks this spring, according to an analysis of the scope and momentum of election limits being considered across the country.”

“Religious membership in the U.S. has fallen to just 47% among those surveyed — representing less than half of the adult population for the first time since Gallup began asking the question more than 80 years ago.”

“Israel will have to decide whether its hugely successful vaccine rollout combined with measures like a coronavirus rapid test at the airport is enough to protect its citizens from evangelical Christians from the United States who refuse to get vaccinated, or if requiring vaccines is worth alienating a key political and economic force that returns home to sow positive P.R. for the land of milk and honey.”

“The department did little or nothing to limit his contact with children, and allowed him to salvage a career that led to the union presidency, where he became the public face of the city’s 1,500 patrol officers.”

“Six Seattle Police Officers are under investigation after being in DC on the day of the Capitol riots.”

“They barked conflicting orders at him: ‘Keep your hands outside the window!’ and ‘Get out of the car now.’ This is a standard cop technique that makes it easier to claim later that someone refused to comply.”

“Krasner has not at all halted prosecution of serious crime — on the contrary, he has prosecuted over 99% of homicides, and over 98% of non-lethal shootings, in which Philadelphia police made an arrest. Unfortunately, the cops made arrests in only about 40% of homicides and less than 20% of non-lethal shootings.”

“US police kill on a population-adjusted basis ten and twenty and fifty times more people than the police kill in almost all other wealthy developed countries.”

“It would depend on what they were raising money for.”

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good friend with a yacht?”

“I’m not talking about political contributions.”

“Danny Moore was removed Monday from his role as the chair of Colorado’s newly-formed Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission following scrutiny of social media posts where he touted unfounded claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election and referred to coronavirus as the ‘China virus.'”

“McPherson goes on to ask Merrill in explicit detail about sex acts she says they engaged in on multiple occasions and about specific locations. He told her later in the call he hoped to draw strength from God to resist continuing their affair.”

“What we witnessed was a race riot.”

“Why would a fabulously wealthy university treat employee benefits not as a bastion of last resort, but a piggy bank to be dipped into at will?”

“They said they may have misinterpreted a few of Q’s messages.”

“You know, I guess I would ask you — because I’m addicted to truth, logic and common sense — and my common-sense meter would demand the answer to why weren’t we shut down for COVID one through 18?”

“The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.”