Janine Jackson

A one-year-old baby was shot dead by police, but the press reaches for passive language to shield the police and their barbaric actions.

"These are all based on future bets that are, at best, very, very shaky, if not altogether absurd. But in the present, it gives them enormous power."

"Without understanding the well-researched interventions that actually help people rather than incarcerate them, I'm worried about the direction we are taking."

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"Trump wants to be the hegemonic leader of the world--on his own terms, whatever those terms may be, as they change hour to hour."

"It’s up to us to connect with our neighbors, and build something collective that together, on scale, will change the world."

"What Callais does is weaken...the entire framework of Section Two, and reduce the Voting Rights Act to little more than words on a paper."

Janine Jackson: In addition to the visible, horrific murders in the streets by ICE agents, at least 52 people have died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the US, between Trump's inauguration last January and June 4 of this year. Reasons include unsanitary facilities, inadequate food, substandard health infrastructure and delayed—which is to say, denied—medical care.

"The majority of people utilizing SNAP are children, followed by older adults, followed by people with disability...some of the most vulnerable in our country."

It goes without saying that had the attacker been a "white" Christian, there would be zero calls for them to publicly distance themselves from Christian groups.