Hear what the other side is actually saying.

❝But even after we crush it on November 3rd, we have to be vigilant because I could see some Michigas with Johnson and I could see some assaults on truth, trust, and the rule of law that will make all the rest of this look like it was a spring training.

❝Donald Trump admitted that he was the one who ordered the DOJ to file a completely frivolous lawsuit to block the certification of the Alaska Senate vote before the vote even takes place.

❝And we've got to send that message to the rest of the globe...that we are not the American, this country, it's not over, that we're just beginning, that we're resilient, that we'll be in a process of renewal, that all of us are going to be repairs of the breach, that the best is yet to come, and that the status quo that we all have contempt for does not need to continue after November 3rd. We collectively, we, all of us together, can end Donald Trump's presidency as we know it. And let's prove that point.

❝But the actual Elon Musk is maybe one of the most important and powerful far-right political organizers and donors in the world.

❝So the classic cargo cult, right, is that in these Polynesian islands in World War II, there would be these American supply planes dropping supplies, and the supplies would come and the people would be happy about it. And then once the war was over and the planes weren't flying anymore, the people on these islands would develop these rituals, basically trying to summon the cargo again.

❝Like, if we can get further confirmation of this charge, then certainly this is the most significant bribery scandal in American history.

❝Like predators see Trump or they see the reaction to like the Cornell case or whatever, and they feel spoken to and represented when he defends people accused of horrible, horrible crimes.

❝But when you have the double whammy of your life has been made much, much, much, much more difficult thanks to the very direct decisions that were made by the president, and him and his entire criminal family and all of the hangers-on around him are just on the take and cashing in in every way they possibly can and then obsessing with things like a gilded ballroom versus I don't know how you're going to be able to afford to put gas in your tank, it becomes pretty galling to people.

❝If you are a white woman that is not a useful object avatar mascot that provides license for racialized hierarchy and protects capital, you will be treated like Amy Acton.

❝Well, you know, some people asked me to do it in 2022, late 2022. So this would have been well before he hitched his wagon to Trump. And at the time, I had sort of mixed feelings about him.

❝So it's hard for nurses, you know, first responders, plumbers to kind of understand how that works, like how you fail and you get massively rewarded. And so, in a way, it was kind of setting a context for some of what was to come, which was how Elon then kept playing with that economic model in ways that made him the richest person on the planet.

❝And he offers an insanely high price and also waives all of his due diligence.

❝They flew through Syria and Iraq and turned around just as they were about to enter Iranian airspace.

❝Nevertheless, it's still important, I think, that these incidents do get attention as long as people keep in mind that this is something that Palestinians who live there face on pretty much a daily basis.

❝Trump told reporters on Monday that he would be thrilled to have this session, but he wants to talk about denuclearization more than he wants to talk about Ukraine.

❝So, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is one of the crown jewels of the civil rights movement… And over the last 60 years or so, you can see how that has completely transformed the ability of black voters across the South to participate in the political process.

❝Over the last few years, there are people, predominantly conservatives, in the South, who feel that the parameters of the Voting Rights Act were too restrictive. That was necessary in the 1960s. It's not necessary today.

❝But I say to you all, the Supreme Court did not order Mississippi to draw any new maps. Not one single line.

❝He said, quote, the increasing incivility in the political arena should concern us all.

❝One member of the Florida Republican Executive Committee told us, quote, Angie's a ball of energy. She's scrappy. Yes, she's outlandish in her behavior, but she is Trump. She's talking to people in a populist way and she's not afraid to talk to the media.

❝And for someone in this hype of a position to come out and, you know, at least tip their hand that like it was because the Maha agenda had stalled.

❝I need ammunition, not a ride. I need ammunition, not an evacuation.

❝I think it's clear enough that he doesn't care enough about his party to do what he'd have to do because he's also lazy to steal this election.

❝And the attorney general, who's supposed to be independent, was asked, you're not going to do that, right? And he was like, We'll see.

❝Donald Trump lies as he breathes. So most Republicans now just lie so damn easily.

❝So, like, Putin is basically like, here, Donald Trump, I'm going to write you a check, but you're a prostitute, and I'm going to now pay you for the privilege of just humiliating the shit out of you on the world stage.

❝The first thing they need to do is hold hearings into Kushner or Wickoff and this whole deal, because this is not just about Grift. This is literally about selling out everything that both parties have stood for for the last 80 years. I'm apoplexic about it.

❝It’ll get worse, of course, because we've got lowbrow people that want to run for these campaigns. But this is a low moment in Ohio, and it's a low moment in U.S. national politics.

❝No, this is Vivek Go Home. You tried once. You've tried again. This is Vivek RIP.

❝And so it's been moving in his direction since mid-October, and it's moved up since Trump started talking about John's ass, okay, and his hands and his feet and all this other shit.

❝You want to change your life? I'll help you. You need housing, education, whatever. But if you don't, we're coming.

❝If you want a good policy prescription, list, listen to the mayors. It doesn't appear that they did listen to you guys as much as they needed to, but they're starting to.

❝Rich people on the pro-democracy coalition, they don't think about funding this work. They think about funding healthcare research, breast cancer research. They think about funding education. They think about funding AI. Then they give to campaigns. But this is what matters. Organizations like Cleveland Votes, organizations like Block in Wisconsin, organizations like the NAACP, they are doing work all year round.

❝I'll be honest, I'm going to spend a little few more minutes on it. If this tactic works, we're going to regret this collectively as a society, as campaign policy.

❝So there is not a single issue that voters are concerned about where they view the Republican Party as the more viable party to handle that, that that party can handle it better than the Democratic Party. What this is really about is that this is Donald Trump, right?

❝Look, I think this is disqualifying, period.

❝No country right now better reveals the transformation of the way the world sees America, the way we've turned from ally and partner to bully and predator than Canada.

❝And I said, Sherrod, with all due respect, that's the point. We want your constituents to be complaining to you, and we want you to go out and say you guys might lose your job because of Trump's stupid trade war with Canada.

❝For technology and AI, Trump has acted like a Manchurian agent. I mean, he has put China in incredibly strong position compared to where it was even a couple of years ago.

❝He had no fucking idea who I was. Really?

❝Everybody knows Twitter is for porn.

❝Because he kidnapped the kidnapped two South Korean filmmakers and made them live in slavery. It's not a place to fucking visit Hassan.

❝You just called women whores. You're just not good at your job.

❝I think for many people, it's scientists, but a lot of, I just hear people listening to it, and then they're just like grabbing onto it and being like, yes, this solves my trauma, which I am the victim of. Everybody is too much trauma. I'm the victim of trauma culture. I don't want you to process it that way. I hope it gives you the keys to unlock ways to actually be happy.

❝Like, Aziz Ansari was just bad at dating, but he got kind of screwed at the height of his, like, pretty good show because it didn't work out when he tried to date someone and he didn't do anything horrible, you know? Let's go, Shoey.

❝The time for old-fashioned status core policies and status quo politics has got to end.

❝And I'm talking about black women, repeat voters, so important to the Democratic Party. And as I've talked to many of them in preparation for this interview, I hear something over and over again that you focus on economic equality, and I understand that, but there is a concern that you downplay the role, the pernicious role of race in creating barriers to opportunity, that it is dismissed sometimes as identity politics.

❝We got the money, we'll select the candidates, we'll call the consultants, we'll do TV ads. Ours is bottom-on-up politics. Grass politics, knock onto us.

❝And then he added, such ingratitude.

❝Basically, if you can buy an election, this will be the test of it.

❝This was the reason why he rolled so much money into the Trump campaign, is because his companies were facing federal civil investigations.

❝The idea that you would go after a congresswoman in terms of, oh, we want to pull your citizenship because of his wrongdoing is beyond the pale. I mean, there it would only be happening because she is who she is, meaning a target of Donald Trump.

❝Here, it's not just we are within 60 days of an election, we are in the election. People are voting.

❝And so I have like a million questions about this because they have raided in just within the very narrow window to a midterm election a sitting Congresswoman’s house. And like, they took her phone. Like, I want to know what the legality is of all of this across all the vectors.

❝So this is how Trump describes Zachariah in a post. She has an unblemished record of support, and she's been a loyal and brilliant supporter right from the beginning. She is likewise a devoted fan and member of MAGA. Devoted fan, fan.

❝It’s like when I say he went to a mental health facility, what I mean is, I don't fucking like this guy.

❝I was like, why doesn't Fox News do a feature on what a pedophile Podesta is? Because she should know that, like, if they tried doing that, then the Fox News legal department would like physically tackle any anchor who tried. Yeah, they would not let these blurry JPEGs that pass as evidence through the Fox News.

❝We're back to really using information to set different prices for different people. And it's sort of worse than haggling because it would be like if the market keeper rummaged around your house first before he decided how much he was going to charge you.

❝Look, companies should not be weaponizing your data against you to overcharge you. I think we can, at a minimum, agree on that.

❝So, all of these new technologies have done what I call reinvent the rip-off. The impulses were potentially always there.

❝On abortion, his own website says Codify Roe versus Wade. That means a federal law overriding Texas and all the other states.

❝On the economy, the man told a room full of climate activists that capitalism is an oppressive system that requires dismantling. Go read the Green New Deal principles from 2019.

❝I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity.

❝Well, we've created a similar kind of tweetism with money in politics. Because what we know is that if you want to be a candidate running for Congress, what the Democratic Party will tell you, what the Republican Party will tell you, is the single qualification to being a candidate to run for Congress is your ability to raise literally millions of dollars.

❝But what I do know is when you concentrate power in just a very few funders, that increases the opportunity for them to leverage that power into the distortion of policy. So in 2010, 0.3% of outside spending was from billionaires. And in 2024, that number was 19%. So it's a 63-fold increase.

❝And the super PACs are muting that channel. And by muting the channel, makes the democracy not work.

❝Because if the only way, think about what people are doing instead of having people over is Netflix and chill and order and DoorDash, right?

❝This is a barbaric practice. And, you know, they're trying to find a vein, and they can't find a vein, and they stab and stab and stab for hours and hours.

❝I'll tell you this: there’s an AI connection here, which is imagine if people, there’s increasing reporting that says that young people are finding, they kind of enjoy spending time chatting with AI more than with other human beings because the AI is very syncophantic.

❝But now it feels like so much is owned by just a 1%, right? That's like, how can you believe in if there's no capital to ism, you know?

❝And to me, as a socialist, I believe in the importance of government to deliver for working people.

❝I think one of the major things I saw was how deeply mismanaged the city budget was. It's not a sexy topic or one that most people wake up thinking about. But so often in politics, the incentive is just to tell the best possible story of the day and not tell the whole truth about what's actually happening. And so the prior administration had said, you know, we had a balanced budget. We had, I don't know, maybe a $6 billion deficit or so in the year to come. And then we came in, we looked through all the books, and we found that at a best case scenario, we were at a $12 billion deficit.

❝And the key finding was that fewer than 50% of Americans think that the midterm elections will be free and fair elections.

❝The recorder there used SAVE on the Maricopa County voter list, and SAVE flagged 60 people as non-citizens who'd previously voted in previous elections. But when county prosecutors dug into the data, they found that only eight of the 60 actually were non-citizens. The others were citizens.

❝citizens, there was another finding in that UC San Diego poll that found that non-white voters were significantly more likely than white voters to say that they worried voting this midterms would put them at risk of being questioned by federal officials, even if they are U.S. citizens.

❝And everybody else who doesn't is evil or a threat to all that is good and pure. And this is the us versus them mentality that we see really driving Christian nationalism, driving a sense of embattlement among conservative Christians, a sense even of being persecuted. This ever-present sense of threat ends up justifying aggressive behavior and even violence, righteous violence, if it is in the name of protecting Christianity, protecting all that is good and pure.

❝It is a sin not to be happy. And they are told to submit to their husbands in every way, including sexually, and that their happiness comes through self-sacrifice. Their happiness comes through pleasing the men in their lives. And you can see for women then who embrace this theology and try to pattern their lives around it, what does it mean when somebody asks you, Are you happy in your marriage? It is a sin if you are not, right?

❝And a lot of the violent nativism and authoritarianism of the Trump crowd is about protecting the ideal of white Christian womanhood. It's really no exaggeration to say that, is it?

❝There's no reason democracy should have a paywall.

❝But it's also saying that at this moment, are we going to worry more about one specific partisan victory? Or are we going to worry about the fact that democracy revolves around us having communication systems and ways of engaging and sharing information with each other? And when AI is coming in, it may break that entire framework and foundation.

❝And he said, in order for good things to happen, good people need to have power. And so here's how, like, you know, you can accrue power.

❝Okay, that's the story that we're okay destroying them and their world so long as ours remains sacrosanct. And that, frankly, is just the great hypocrisy of all this.

❝And it's tainted in blood. It's tainted in environmental destruction.

❝We abolished slavery. And I said, No, we abolished slavery right here. But there's more slaves on earth now than there were during the time of the Atlantic slave trade. So we abolished slavery on paper. We have a piece of paper that says slavery is abolished.

❝He says he will name an AI czar and that this is all a hoax like Russia and climate change and Ukraine. He now says Ukraine is a hoax and he’s starting AI force like Space Force, he says, because Space Force wasn’t moronic. And he thinks, I think he thinks AI might not be an aircraft carrier of some sort. Maybe it's space lasers, AI.

❝Trump banned CNN and MS Now from the White House, and I immediately fell for it. The rest of the media finally, finally has to walk out, has to not give this bastard any further coverage. Meet me at the barricades. Nope, I was wrong.

❝After the midterms, after the metaphorical carnage that will either give the Democrats the House and cut Trump and his Reich off from most federal money, or it will give the Democrats the House and the Senate and thereby freeze his dictatorship where it stands.

❝Yeah, this is a new thing where essentially companies are trying to figure out what the maximum is that you're willing to pay and try to extract as much money from you as possible through all the data they collect about you.

❝And all doing it without a judge's supervision, without a warrant, and without most people in America knowing that this program was happening.

❝You know, I mean, our lawmakers, our political leaders have never really written rules of the road for digital services.

❝Big AI is literally lighting our books on fire. Pretty sure this is one of the worst things AI companies have ever done.

❝I love wandering it. I love buying a book...Yeah, there’s a magic to it that’s different.

❝In January of this year, a number of court filings were unsealed in the case of a bunch of authors against Anthropic in a copyright infringement suit...Through Project Panama, according to reporting from the Washington Post, Anthropic was training its AI models with the information inside the pages of physical books.

❝It was physically degrading. It was frightening. It was frightening.

❝Start with the fact that it's a joke, quote unquote, that it's a put-on and you're being lied to.

❝Like, everyone should be deported. But the interesting thing about this is: this is, I mean, the first response to this should be: number one, fuck you.

❝One of them, Mary Stacey, 68, a retired accountant, told the New York Post the case is bigger than OJ. It's gone more international, she said. It's the subject matter, postpartum psychosis, and it's more about mental illness. I think it's bigger than OJ, I really do.

❝He went straight to the left's most extreme talking points. I'm thankful that you asked this question and thankful that young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country. And I think only understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them. That is not a slip.

❝I think only understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them.

❝Every one of us has something much bigger to unite around, and that is keeping MAGA extremism from bringing the chaos we see in Washington.

❝When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich. Well, today, we're taxing the rich.

❝She will face Democrat Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, a progressive who easily defeated the more moderate Congresswoman Angie Craig in her own primary, 59% to 39.4%.

❝So we’re building a big, broad coalition, truly a big tenth of people that combines folks from DSA on one side, even if I’m not a socialist, and combines three-time Trump voters, even if I’ve never voted for Donald Trump.

❝He has already said or expressed the aspiration to primary someone who would be his Democratic Senate colleague, at least in theory, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, wants to put an ogre's head on the pike in the colorful language that he used.

❝I think it's bonkers. I think it's bad. I think it's wrong for all the reasons that Alicia and her column outlined.

❝It is the economy stupid. It is all about the economy. People are furious.

❝The war and the economy are really basically the kind of reverse Midas touch aspects of this Trump administration, because everything he touches that has to do with foreign policy or with the economy really is turning to shit.

❝The best antidote, as I've said before, to feelings of powerlessness is to exercise power, to be an activist, to energize, mobilize, and organize your community, your state, get involved in politics in favor of the candidates who are actually going to move this country in the right direction and against those who are taking it backwards. It is up to all of us.

❝I call myself a Democratic Socialist because I actually believe in this sort of more radical vision of a society without capitalism.

❝We’re anti-capitalist. We want a world beyond capitalism.

❝Isn't the problem just you have to figure out how to raise people's taxes? I think that any welfare state will require greater degrees of taxes that won't just come from taxing billionaires.

❝We’ve kind of gone from strategic failing to strategic flailing at this point.

❝And here it is. Yes, our elections will be free and fair. They will be held on schedule, on time.

❝You know, it's so important to emphasize this point about the hacking of the mind as opposed to the hacking of a voting machine and trying to cast out, as you said, on the sanctity of our election system or to make people feel like their vote doesn't count so they won't go vote.

❝ I mean, it is amazing to know how much damage these communists can do to industries in a state. You can drive people out of California.

❝ But they give the top Democrats tons of money.

❝ So we have the Indians paying off the top Democrats to outlaw the gambling halls.

❝I just want to be able to support a candidate that's America first, us first, and then not Israeli. And I want to support a candidate that's not fueling what's happening over there.

❝There's no doubt whoever the next Democrat is is going to have to talk about reevaluating America's relationship with Israel.

❝So, stop fucking taking money and stop giving money until I don't know something happens to change it.

❝Trump literally walked out and said the words, nobody gives a fuck about housing. Thank you for the ad, Donald.

❝But this week, Donald Trump came and went to war with his caucus in the U.S. Senate. And it was the most foolish, arrogant, insane thing I think he could have possibly done.

❝The realization they're having, this creeping, slow realization that they're having, is that being with Trump now has become political poison.

❝You know, if you think about the EPA, for example, do Republicans want the EPA to be more effective at carrying out its legal mandate? Absolutely not.

❝The United States faces a dire threat to its democracy. And the tip of the spear is Donald Trump and a strongman presidency.

❝That was, in my view, the most dangerous decision the Supreme Court has been made, vis-a-vis democracy, in its entire history.

❝I'm just here to tell you that, Drew, dude, you're drinking too much. So you need to do something about this.

❝Yeah, it's a lot of fires and a lot of lower acuity things that probably need to be addressed. So I think a great example is if you work, I don't know, 12, 14 shifts a month, you go in at six in the morning, and it depends on the day.

❝The goal is to treat the sickest people first who are who may die sooner. And that's the point of the ER: is it we don't want you to die today, um, we are hoping to intervene to stop that from happening.

❝I was really excited and looking forward to celebrating my birthday. And I don't know, there's not, I don't want to say there's not much to celebrate, but it's just, it almost feels more inhuman to myself to create this illusion that I can have a normal day or a fun day when every day there's work to do.

❝In a letter to election officials, Newsom says, quote, the longer the voting count takes, the more mis and disinformation spreads.

❝She says her employer gave her a choice. They also told me that if I were to get detained and I couldn't contact my job, it would be considered job abandonment.

❝We are focused on bringing all those students up to grade level so they're ready to succeed the next year. And then one of our large focuses for this summer is making sure our high school students have their credits earned and ready to graduate and walk across that stage and toss that hassle across the front.

❝We're partnering with the Indian Ed Office along with our Office of Black Student Achievement and OLA, our Latin Achievement Program, really targeting specific groups of students and making sure that they're welcomed, have a safe place to work, and be able to maybe have some incentives that could include maybe some very healthy snacks and hopefully even some field trips that'll celebrate all the learning that they have.

❝Our credit recovery, that's for our students that didn't quite pass the core content classes, math, science, reading, social studies, and they have to make those credits up during the summer. We offer a virtual academy, and that's going to be right away in June from June 22nd through 26th.

❝We deserve to be safe from violence. We deserve to not have the fear like my seven-year-old said.

❝Because there's people on the internet that said they were going to come after my family.

❝It's not a safety issue, it's a money issue.

❝Supreme Court put another nail in the coffin of the Voting Rights Act. That's the 1965 law, often called the crown jewel of the civil rights era. The conservative majority essentially eviscerated the remaining parts of the law, guaranteeing fair representation regardless of race.

❝And what he says, therefore, is because of that, we don't want race discrimination cases like this, the Section 2 cases, to interfere with that full-blown politics.

❝And when Justice Jackson, in this most recent order that came from the court allowing Louisiana to move forward, said you are introducing chaos into the system, she's absolutely right.

❝And to get them to agree to stop doing that requires some kind of compromise, right? And currently the Trump administration does not seem interested in compromise.

❝But if you don't like the taste of your meal or if it's not cooked to your liking, that is most likely nothing to do with the server. That is something, a failure that happened in the kitchen.

❝So the whole exercise is flagrantly unconstitutional. And Congress cannot authorize unconstitutional action by abdication.

❝Yeah, so what they have in the bill that's on the Senate floor today is a ban on the sale of assault weapons. So it stops new weapons that aren't already in our community from entering.

❝And this is not going to do anything to stop the criminals who are already ignoring Minnesota's gun laws.

❝Every time I get in the car, I know that NPR News will be there for me with genuine, important news.

❝I think we're witnessing the collapse of the dollar.

❝Well, you know, I think unfortunately, the only thing we’ve heard of substance about affordability is whether or not you keep the gas tax, right? So, it hasn't been, I think, largely addressed.

❝I believe in the gas tax because it is necessary in order for our roads to continue to be built. However, we have this dichotomy of people who can actually afford electric vehicles not paying as much for the tax on our roads as people who are forced into gas-powered cars and actually have to drive further.