"Woe to those who manipulate religion ... for their own military, economic and political gain."

"[W]hat they have been doing on the ground in real time is ... ensuring that a lot of people who want access to resources, who want access to services and who want access to livelihoods and money, pick up a gun to do so."

"Iran has proposed allowing some ships through alternative agreements ... and has allowed a small number of ships to transit the strait amid the war. But the U.S.'s additional blockade is now stopping all traffic."

"In a statement explaining his vote, [Jared] Golden [(Maine)] cited the temporary ceasefire ... Golden, one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress, announced in November that he was retiring from Congress."

"If another nation were blocking U.S. access to oil, as the Trump administration is doing with Cuba, [the U.S. government] would see it as an act of war ... These wars, including any new attack against Cuba, are illegal."

"The Israeli defense minister has said that he envisions Israeli forces to remain in southern Lebanon for a long period ... repeatedly referencing the 'Gaza example.'"

"Trump has ... threatened jail time for journalists who refuse to divulge their confidential sources to the administration."

"[Palantir] grew so much last year that it joined the list of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with its stock more than doubling in value in the first half of 2025... [Palantir] said it was 'crushing' expectations in terms of growth, with revenue growing 93[%] year over year at the end of 2025."

"Just prior to the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear sites ... [Chuck] Schumer posted a video to social media accusing Trump of 'folding on Iran' by attempting to negotiate a deal, bemoaning about how 'Trump always chickens out' regarding the use of military force."

"In Israel, the last execution carried out for a non-Palestinian was back in 1962. Meanwhile, the killing of Palestinians has never ceased. ... [I]t has been institutionalized."

"By overturning the Public Land Order with a [Congressional Review Act] resolution, Senate Republicans ... cut tribes out of the conversation. They disrespect tribal treaty rights and directly risk those tribes' guaranteed access to their traditional way of life and subsistence use of this place."

"The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Lebanon has cost more than just money, of course ... [I]t has killed thousands of people so far."

"Israel is notorious for violating ceasefire deals, as it is currently doing on a daily basis in Gaza. ... [The Lebanese military] ha[s] already recorded several violations by Israeli forces, and has warned residents attempting to return to their homes in southern Lebanon to 'exercise caution.'"

"My driver's side window was actually open for [the ICE officers] to use to open the car if they needed to. But ... they smashed my passenger side window and yelled to both get out of the car and drive."

"[I]t's impossible to ignore that [Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr.] is pushing for Black children to be separated from their families ... because they've been prescribed depression or ADHD meds."

"The U.S. is home to 6 of the top 10 global arms companies and 13 of the top 15 global tech companies. The White House's 2027 budget includes over 18 billion U.S dollars for the Department of Defense to stockpile minerals ... That figure is up from the current 2 billion U.S. dollars."

"Gaza resembles a prison without walls. ... [E]ach of us lives under constant limitations with every step we take, while empty slogans and the so-called ceasefires hover above us."

"[S]everal university police departments opted to enter into agreements with ICE, granting campus police the authority to interrogate anyone who is believed to be an immigrant about their status, make arrests without a warrant, detain people ... and transport them to detention centers."

"These AI billionaires and data center investors have decided that there are some communities that ought to be sacrificed on the altar of their progress. ... [O]ur lives are so much more valuable than the profits of companies that have built an extractive ecosystem across our entire world."

"There is very little information or awareness that flows between prison and the outside ... Visual art and design are uniquely poised to break down this barrier, to bring people inside prison life and inside the reality of the impact and presence of carcerality in our world."

"The Israeli Cyber Unit ... surveils Palestinian social media and pressures social media companies to remove anything to which it objects. Israeli NGOs mass-report pro-Palestine content, complementing governmental requests for censorship."

"[A] handful of scrappy independent outlets broke stories that changed the trajectory of an election. ... [W]hen coordinated with civil society organizing and election protection, investigative journalism creates a kind of immune system for democracy."

"[Israel's] issuance of blanket evacuation orders, combined with the destruction of ... housing that displaced persons would have returned to, is consistent with the pattern of domicide that [Israel] initiated during the genocide in Gaza."

"Research published ... by the National Center for Scientific Research in France demonstrates that the warming of the planet does indeed increase the likelihood and intensity of hailstorms."

"Doxxing campaigns launched by pro-Israel groups ... often hinge on claims that engaging in pro-Palestine or anti-Zionist speech or criticizing Israel is antisemitic."

"Workers did not cause this crisis. Energy companies, war-makers and ... government that serves corporate interests did."

"[T]he US-Israeli war has killed more than 3,300 people in Iran — including hundreds of children. ... 40% of the bodies of Iranian victims were 'initially unidentifiable due to the type of bombs and missiles' used by the US and Israeli militaries."

"The outrage shouldn't be about a destroyed statue of Jesus ... The real outrage is the targeting of civilians, the assault on human dignity, the devastation in Gaza and Lebanon. War is evil."

"[Majdi Aslan] paid the price of our humanitarian work."

"[Amos] Hochstein, who was born in Israel and formerly served in the Israeli military ... did not express opposition or support for the current war that has killed thousands of Iranians so far."