“I decided not to dwell on it, and just do my job.”
— ProPublica, A Border Patrol Agent Reveals What It’s Really Like to Guard Migrant Children.
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“I used to work in US intelligence advising presidents on risk. The biggest threat to our country today is the Republican Party.”
— Paul Nailer, The Independent (7/18/19)
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“As Trump’s polling numbers continue to improve and the likelihood of his winning in 2020 increases daily, the Democrats must empower a master storyteller of their own. Will this be the familiar in the form of Joe Biden? Or instead a new and more exciting voice? The Democrats must choose correctly. Time is running out.”
— By Trump the storyteller: His gift for narrative is why he may win again
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“Trump hates immigrants. He hates people of color. He hates worker rights. He hates journalists, and scientists, and educators. He hates democracy. He must be removed from office. For I do not think that constitutional democracy can survive another four years of his awfulness.”
— Jeffrey C. Isaac, Trump’s Latest Tweets Are Not Just Racist, But Part of a Broader Reactionary Attack on the Left
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“Arnold Toynbee says, “When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable.”
— Arnold Toynbee
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