quote [ Dr. King said the only transformative force that could really, fully transform America would be for poor whites and blacks and brown people and working people to come together. ]

quote [ California has issued a ban on state-funded and state-sponsored travel to four more states that it says have laws discriminating against LGBTQ people.
...
Alabama, South Dakota, and Texas all recently passed legislation that could prevent LGBT parents from adopting or fostering children and Kentucky passed a religious freedom bill that would allow students to exclude LGBTQ classmates from campus groups.
...
The law bans state-funded or state-sponsored travel by employees of state agencies and departments as well as members of boards, authorities, and commissions. ]

quote [ Senator Chris Murphy talks with Rachel Maddow about the Republican tactic to try to quickly push their health bill through hoping Americans won't notice, and the importance of public feedback, particularly to persuadable Republicans. ]

quote [ Editorial: In the Arab world, freedom of speech is being curbed to stop old and new media from raising questions about the way in which countries are run. This is wrong ]

quote [ They call themselves the Three Percent. They're armed, say they're ready for war on Canadian soil, and experts say they are dangerous.

An eight-month VICE Canada investigation into the inner workings of the group has found it to be a tight-knit openly anti-Islamic group that is unique in Canada's far-right ecosystem?one that, as one expert puts it, seems to be a "wholesale lift of an American militia." During VICE Canada's investigation, the group's rhetoric and tactics rapidly escalated from virulently anti-Islam online posturing to IRL monitoring of mosques, live fire paramilitary-style training, claiming to buy land, and plans for creating smoke and flash bombs. ]

quote [ in a country like the U.S., democratic backsliding will likely to start off looking a lot more normal -- with slow, legal attacks on our democratic institutions. ]

quote [ Finnish citizens given universal basic income report lower stress levels and greater incentive to work

Participants receive ?560 (£473) every month for two years and do not have to demonstrate that they are actively seeking work ]

quote [ Democrats and Republicans have spent two months hunting for voters who cast ballots in 2016 but didn?t participate in the April primary. ]

quote [ A new survey of the electorate explodes many of the myths we believe about American politics. ]

quote [ By multiple accounts, the Republican president denounced the House Republicans? proposal in no uncertain terms. A CNN report, for example, quoted a source saying the bill was ?cold-hearted.? BuzzFeed?s article said Trump used the phrase ?son of a bitch? to describe the pending legislation.

Before the meeting with Senate Republicans began in earnest, the president told his guests that the Senate version will be ?generous, kind, with heart.? Left unsaid was Trump?s apparent belief that the House version, which he touted vigorously, wasn?t generous or kind, and obviously lacked heart. ]