"It's particularly critical, in a moment where we are protesting police brutality and over-surveillance and the over-militarization of police, to take into account how advanced technologies like face recognition play into historical injustices and over...

"While we have been acting like we've done a good enough job on the coronavirus, and now can get back to what we were doing before, other countries have really taken seriously the fact that they have this deadly pandemic going on."

Trump's bizarre delusions on Covid-19 aren't just bats in his attic; they've driven a response that is nothing short of disastrous.

"Generally applicable nondiscrimination laws protect everyone, including unpopular groups, including, in this specific instance, LGBT people; and we're not going to read extratextual exceptions into them."

The reaction from corporate media to Trump's threat to crush an anti-racist rebellion was to chastise his move as “un-American,” obscuring the domestic sources of inspiration for his vicious crackdown.

A historic Supreme Court ruling declared that Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 does in fact make it illegal for employers to discriminate against a worker because of their sexual orientation or their transgender status.

"Guess what won't instill consumer confidence? A law that immunizes businesses if they don't do what's right to keep people safe. Why, in Heaven's name, would I decide to go back to restaurants and movie theaters if they have no incentive to do the rig...

"I think this bill really does fail to imagine what public safety could look like. That's our biggest problem with it. They're not listening to people on the ground."

"What we see from President Trump's nominees to these powerful courts of appeals and the Supreme Court is a consistent right-wing ideology, frankly going further even than some Reagan and Bush appointees."

"It does make sense that for the people who are trying to amplify the voices of people who are resisting police violence, that the police might not be too happy about that."