Hear what the other side is actually saying.

❝This is the 10th straight day of Donald Trump's recent escalation, which has completely backfired yet again on Donald Trump and the United States.

❝It is absolutely appalling to me to see these brave men and women who are stationed out there get killed for Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's war. The way Donald Trump treats their deaths to me is so incredibly callous as well.

❝And the parallels between how Trump didn't handle COVID and how he is disastrously handling a catastrophic and unlawful war he started. It directionally is very, very similar.

❝service members were killed over the weekend in Trump's criminal war on Iran after the U.S. resumed bombing Iran and its civilian infrastructure.

❝Why are the richest people in the country spending tens and tens of millions of dollars to defeat Abdul El Syed? Why does the billionaire class feel that they need to outspend them in this election 12 to 1?

❝We have to look at who is hesitant and why. What are those systemic issues that are at play?

❝Towards the end of the conversation, we also spend some time talking about the Prairie Land 9, the folks in northern Texas that just got barbaric, cruel, and unjust punishments for 30, 50, 70, 100-year sentences for protesting outside of a NICE concentration camp as an attempt for the fascist police state government to make an example of the left and finally, in a lot of ways, leveraging that earlier pronouncement that Antifa are terrorists to try to lay the groundwork legally for this sort of judicial warfare against protesters who are standing up for the dignity and the humanity of other human beings.

❝And when you think about the stakes, it's socialism or it's barbarism. So we either win and we're alive, or we all lose and we're dead.

❝I really do believe deep in my core that we're moving towards freedom. We're moving towards this like absolute, absolute bliss. I don't know if we get there, but as a human species, there's something in us that drives us towards liberating not only ourselves and really, really specifically, not only ourselves, but everyone. And we just got to choose to do it.

❝Donald Trump has been draining the reserve to counter the effects of a crisis of his own making. His war in Iran has interrupted global energy supplies, and resulting price increases are always bad political news.

❝And whatever one thinks of that set of arguments, I think it really is overlooking the importance of this group of people in the early 20th century, very elite people, who actively promulgated an elaborate and totally imaginary set of claims about the scientific basis of race and of racial hierarchy.

❝But it sometimes feels like the bad guys are firmly in control.

❝I think that it's part of the corrosion of political and public life. That this is frankly something that I don't even blink at anymore because it’s become in many ways a norm over the last few years. And I also think that Americans are hungry for a very different kind of politics: one where disagreement is a part of it, deportation and demonization is not.

❝I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague. He's a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court.

❝And I think to me, I've defined it to you as someone who works to afford their life. I also think no matter how you define it, we have an understanding that those who are struggling to afford their rent, struggling to afford their groceries, struggling to afford their childcare, are the people who should be at the heart of our vision for what comes next.

❝Michael, I've never heard, seriously, him, even Donald Trump, give as many lies, say as many falsehoods, as many things that were just completely made up. It was an exercise in the most cynical kind of politics I have ever seen.

❝I would go so far to say it definitely isn't if you have to go up there and parrot the big lie or just pretend that it's the truth.

❝But it gives me hope, I mean, not just because it's 100 plus Dems, and even Nancy Pelosi, former House Speaker, very notable voting for that, but as somebody who believes that there should be a party in the American political system that stands up for human rights everywhere...

❝I could actually, you know, I wrote something down, but I know part of what I, there's one sentence in what I wrote down here was that I thought to myself, if this is an attack by foreign people on the United States of America, will the American people notice that some people are pissed off with American foreign policy and that this is a result of it? And I did think that.

❝And in that visit, and those visits that I made, you know, I decided that I would be vocal and do anything that I could to help my Palestinian brothers and sisters to achieve equal human rights with their Jewish brothers and sisters between the Jordan River and the sea. I'm not asking anyone to kill anyone, right?

❝The people, the enemy is a very few, very, very rich oligarchs. Probably a thousand or two thousand of them in the whole world. And they run the whole thing.

❝So first of all, the context of Trump overall, again, displayed in the speech is he's a massive pathological liar. So the chances of any of this being true is very unlikely.

❝And it turns out it was a disastrous idea. So, when he also said mainstream media was working with the people that are interfering in elections, well, that's actually a super believable fact because there's one country that mainstream media is constantly supporting, and that's Israel.

❝Are they going to propose something crazy around the elections to actually cheat themselves? Or is this just demagoguery about, hey, China, oh my God, we lost because of the Chinese in the deep state who we won't name?

❝So I think the main reason why I became interested in writing this book was a sense that kind of the way we understand technological politics today is very, I would say, quite limited. It's very often about, for example, how can we legislate something a little bit better? How can we make sure that that we adapt the technology in such a way that it does less harm for example I think and I always felt like okay that's sort of that's interesting but surely there's like more to technological politics than just a sort of a change in legal framework for how we deal with technological innovations.

❝And it's a, you know, it's kind of a rewriting of the actual motivations of the Luddite in order to try to like, in order to try to smear what this group or this movement was. And so even then, in this history that is a little bit more familiar to people, you already have this kind of rewriting of what happened to make it so that people are intentionally misinformed about what it was, I guess.

❝So we need to make sure that our resistance technology is the polar opposite of that, by which I mean it needs to be radically democratic. It needs to avoid reproducing a very narrow idea of what it of which humans count within these narratives.

❝Lawless thugs roaming our streets, killing innocent people. You decide.

❝We have government-sanctioned murderers on the streets of America. America.

❝That means we have an obligation to stop what ICE is doing, stop what Trump is doing, and be prepared to get arrested for what we do. Outside of voting, engaging in civil disobedience is the highest power a free citizen has.

❝He had legal permission to be here and to work here. But this morning at 7:17 a.m., he was shot and killed by Trump's federal agents on the street in Biddeford, Maine.

❝Quote, this action was never about a party seeking judicial resolution of a legal issue or a factual dispute. The nature of the suit itself, the conduct of the parties and counsel make plain that this was an attempt to use the court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the president and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law.

❝The top lawyer for the Times saying in response, the appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom that it protects.

❝So obviously, you know, on a very high level, like Zoron winning in New York really set the stage. But since then, we've seen DSA wins in Los Angeles, more in New York, in Colorado, and really just kind of proof that these Democratic socialist politicians are able to challenge, at least in the primaries, well-established and funded, more centrist, and, you know, frankly, Zionist Democrats.

❝And we have to not have that door shut prematurely. That door has to be open.

❝I do think we will see some level of unity between centrist DIMS and the far right in the face of that repression.

❝And that elephant in the room is that Trump is dying. We heard about this earlier in the week, but I want you to understand something.

❝This is what Trump did to America. It's what Trump did to you guys. He tricked you.

❝America will be dancing in the streets when Donald Trump dies. They will be. This country will feel a great weight lifted from its soul.

❝One of my favorite things when white people feel the necessity to dissociate from other white people by saying that they hate white people. White people don't have personalities outside of racism, and I mean that so sincerely.

❝If they're qualified, if they're impressive, and I have a white and a black person, I'm hiring the black person every single time.

❝There is something so tragic about white America that if we could just do this one thing, I think the rest of our problems would disappear.

❝It is connected. It is all pointed at November, and I think they’re trying to engineer the outcome of an election.

❝Well, baby, this is the vestiges of slavery. This is just like what happened after the fall, or the collapse of Reconstruction.

❝And what we see billionaires doing right now, we see oligarchs doing right now is using some of the most dangerous theories known to humanity to ensure that they can continue to hoard wealth and power...

❝Donald Trump is boss Tweed.

❝Like, the most important thing we could do to preserve this country going forward is eliminate senatorial ballots.

❝He’s made some deal with the deep state to throw the election to the Democrats. That's the only this can be.

❝We are very aligned with the purpose of creating a formal public record of the experiences of victims and survivors of human rights violations, regardless of immigration or citizenship status.

❝Well, UNIDOS made some decisions based on our previous experience from 2016 and we were tracking policy that was really showing us that having a large infrastructure with the amount of money that the Department of National Security was getting, like $60 billion, represented an incredibly big challenge to regular community organizing.

❝We will become agents of trust, we will become truth keepers, and we will be the external vehicle for the Truth Council to be successful.

❝I was thinking about the number of times that I had gotten tear gas and pepper sprayed or hit with pepper pellets at anti-ICE protests over the course of the last year, which at this point is probably at least a half dozen times.

❝I worry about the consequences of this decision very rarely, and I find that my anxiety about the world is much higher when I am not taking action.

❝Her daughter had a pointed question that puts Jacoby on the verge of tears.

❝There are now six billionaires who own a majority share of American news media. And one family in particular, headed by Oracle CEO, IDF donor, and AI data center Kingpin Larry Ellison is on the verge of controlling CBS, CNN, HBO, MTV, BET, Nickelodeon, Pluto, and the actual algorithmic infrastructure of TikTok itself, which in itself may be more influential than all those outlets put together.

❝Yeah, media capture is about who actually controls the platforms and the channels that deliver news and information to us. And part of what we're trying to communicate is the that it's increasingly a smaller and smaller number of people.

❝I think it is uh it is a challenging thing to be to get to that place, like it requires a certain compromise of values.

❝I was shocked because I didn't actually write him a private letter. There was a postcard going around describing a particular atrocity of killing a Palestinian child. And I was so outraged that I took my pen and wrote in tiny letters that statement and sent it to him.

❝They shall have no water, they shall have no food, they will have no power, they are human animals and they will be treated as such. That kind of rhetoric... that scared me.

❝It became something else, and it kept transforming itself into what it is today, which is an insupportable ideology of extremism, of militarism, of racism, and eventually of genocide. Anyone who supports it becomes complicit in the acts of that particular political ideology.

❝It was tax returns of many of our richest Americans paying zero in taxes. And so now it's no longer possible for people to say it's just theoretical, because we know that it's not.

❝The fact that we reward it over work is crazy to me.

❝It does piss me off that people above me are not paying taxes.

❝And so our affordable housing nonprofits have been asked to do something impossible.

❝Um, everybody knows that so many people were trapped in their homes hiding from the federal government.

❝Yeah, we're here because elections have consequences, and we re-elected a mayor who wants to invest in the police first and foremost.

❝What percentage of the men that that the trade do you think have wives? Well, you know, the marriage rates are falling. Birth rates are falling, and they're blaming it all on us.

❝He was talking so freely about game, and I said, Hassan, you better fuck a man or hush it up. I know that’s what I would agree. And I would say absolutely first in line for that.

❝I will say to finish my point of what I was saying is I do have that fear that someone could do something or disrespect me or try to harm me. But I don't care. I still have to use my voice, even if it means one day that they would try to take my life away from me. We have to use our voice. We have to speak because we cannot allow them to make us feel afraid and to make us feel like we can’t fight for the things that we believe in.

❝Today, as we're going on the air, we have the news that the US president just threatened what I think can only be described as genocide. He threatened to wipe out an entire civilization.

❝Clearly, Trump does not think he's in a good place because he's reaching for the most extreme threat possible.

❝A principeless narcissist and a pathological president will end poorly. It will.

❝The entire country is, and it's a total man-made disaster.

❝Trump is a big son of a bitch, man. I just don't get it. Trump has no decency. He doesn't.

❝Cuba's future belongs to no one but the Cuban people themselves.

❝Far too many of our elected officials are not responding the way they must to the Trump administration. No kings, no war, and no ICE.

❝Because the game, Jason, that they play that we watch is if they have competitive races in a Democratic seat, then that's less resources Democrats can put into a Republican seat. And Democrats just have kind of loaded the board with more competition for Republicans.

❝I'm an old school Democrat. I'm a Dick Kennedy Democrat, Clinton Democrat, Obama Democrat, and I'm tired of these San Francisco values being infiltrated in our city.

❝“Trump knew his war with Iran would raise gas prices. Now he wants to illegally resurrect a pipeline shut down by courts and facing criminal charges, and it won't even cut production. This is fascinating. He concluded by saying, I refuse to let Trump's efforts sacrifice Californians, our environment, or our $51 billion coastal economy.”

❝“Californians have repeatedly rejected dangerous drilling off our coast for decades. Now, after dragging the U.S. into a war with Iran and driving up oil prices, the Trump administration is trying to exploit this crisis to further enrich the oil industry at the expense of our communities and our environment.”

❝“He is now accusing Trump of using a wartime crisis to push a project that has been tangled for months in court and before state regulators.”

❝They had his um uh they had their knee on his neck. I believe his exact words, they tried to George Floyd me, is what he told me.

❝It's political repression.

❝Now the police did the 7th police district, um, and I believe the fifth or the second, it was something like that, where now cops themselves can pull a felony charge on you that can bypass the judges.

❝The reason in which we want to, you know, bring uh as many black people together as possible because we understand uh the moment that we're in in this country. Um we've seen what's been happening in Minneapolis via the federal occupation, um, and we understand that there is a bunch of black people who actually want to uh throw down in this moment, people who want to be a part of both protecting their neighbors, but also holding the federal government accountable um to the work that it's supposed to be doing.

❝Regardless if your ancestors came here as prisoners of war via the transatlantic slave trade, so they came here on a boat or airplane, searching for a better life. All of our liberation is intertwined. Um we have to recognize that in this moment.

❝Absolutely I would say whether or not you've been plugged in, whether or not you have questions, um the point is for us to get together that that this is just a moment, but we have been through many moments in the last decade alone. But what we need to be up to is getting together and staying together to fortify for whatever comes next, and Lord knows what that'll be. We want to get ready so we can stay ready.

❝They're just like, here's some money. Here's a gun. Go over there and kill some people.

❝What's unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn't quote-unquote protest. It's low-level insurgency infrastructure built by people who've clearly studied the playbook.

❝The most important thing in any crisis is controlling the narrative.

❝We mostly only give federal subsidies to a pretty small number of commodity crops rather than promoting more diversified agriculture in our country that would not only lead to more economically sustainable markets, but more environmentally sustainable markets.

❝Our moral obligations are to stop sending military aid to Israel.

❝I 100% support ending the filibuster.

❝Trump made our city and state a proving ground for fascism, destroying lives, killing violence, spreading terror.

❝One of the leader guys locally is this Bavino brown shirt fascist who loves to make himself look like Heinrich Himmler.

❝I think like ultimately we need to we need to get rid of policing. We need to create other institutions that take care of people that make policing obsolete.

❝I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist. I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.

❝We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

❝For too long in our city, freedom has belonged only to those who can afford to buy it.

❝We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.

❝For too long, we have turned to the private sector for greatness while accepting mediocrity from those who serve the public.

❝No longer will City Hall hesitate to use its powers to improve New Yorkers' lives.

❝Uh, if you don't build houses, people don't live in houses. It's pretty simple, right?

❝We've lost our humanity as a society when we can look at a group of people, and I and I need people that understand this. 60%, according to the federal government, of our people on the streets are disabled.

❝Because there's no, it's not like uh, and you would know this, but it bears fucking repeating. It's not some quality of homelessness as a person.

❝First of all, I just want to start by saying everybody here hates the Democratic Party.

❝New York City could provide trans health care for every trans person in the country who, you know, can't afford it.

❝We've been told that the most important thing is to just do whatever fulfills you at any given moment. And you're the only person you should think about.

❝We want to see what options are ahead of us and how we can leverage every tool we have at the city to make sure our residents have access to fresh produce.

❝We've built stadiums and parking ramps with public money. We've given away tax increment financing dollars and left and right to entice development in this moment. We should build a grocery store that feeds our neighbors and pays its own bills too.

❝This is the exact opposite of what the city of Minneapolis needs. They are sending the message that anyone who comes to Minneapolis now has to compete with the government.

❝So the government acquires land and housing to you know to develop freeways and roads, and also to prevent the working class people, the people of color from becoming homeowners.

❝We're in a moment where Benito's direct action is calling forward all of the harm that is done and that is created when they manufacture homelessness and a housing crisis when we have empty homes that are boarded up, that are owned by the state, bought by, and paid for by our taxes.

❝I will not surrender the house, I will not surrender myself, and I if I need to die as a martyr, I will die to call the attention to all this corruption.