"Critical Race Theory [is] basically the idea that we still have problems with structural racism, and we don't get away from those problems by not talking about it, by having the 'see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil' approach."

Trump's obviously suppressive executive order has been largely shrugged off by media that ought to be sounding the alarm.

"Family members of the condemned are often erased and have been, for the most part, throughout this process, and I try to really keep that at the center of my work."

"He's failed in his job to make sure that the people come first, and not these companies."

As with many aspects of his presidency, the execution spree is both Trump being especially gruesome, and his simply making use of a gruesome machinery he certainly didn't create.

"We say, on the one hand, that they’re essential; we would like to compel them to go to work so that the rest of us could have the comfort of still ordering in our T-bone steaks and what have you. But we don’t pay these people in a way that reflects how essential they are."

'We've had decades-long underfunding of state and local public health departments, and just myopic funding cuts for pandemic preparedness. And this hampers coordinated access, and leaves us ill-prepared to reach the very populations that are the most affected by this virus."

"Historically, siege was considered an act of war; to undertake a siege against a foreign population was considered an act of war. And these sanctions are basically a form of siege against a civilian population, to extort some sort of political goal from their leadership."

As those of who do so celebrate Thanksgiving, we ought also to acknowledge the work that brings the harvest from the earth to the plate.

"It's the false balance that is putting us into a dangerous position, because you don't want to give any sort of balance to the autocratic side here."