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Congress rebukes the president on Iran; a ceasefire in Libya falls through.

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“There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months. That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.” [Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who this week announced that she is cancer-free, in an interview last year / NYT]

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“While Facebook may not be nicotine I think it is probably like sugar. Sugar is delicious and for most of us there is a special place for it in our lives. But like all things it benefits from moderation.” [Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth in an internal memo / Recode]

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“You get dragged into the gutter of nastiness and pettiness and shame and all of these things, and it sometimes seems healthier and wiser to just move on with your life and not allow yourself to be re-victimized.” [Actress Daryl Hannah in a 2017 story on the trauma of speaking out against Harvey Weinstein / The New Yorker]

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“Don’t be a misogynist, don’t be a homophobe, don’t be a whatever-phobe and show up.” [Advice to the GOP on winning elections from Rep. Will Hurd, the only black Republican in the House of Representatives / NYT]

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“Sticking your head in the sand is no way to advocate for a better future for women.” [Researcher and author Sarah Hill said about taboos in women’s health]

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“Nike has their First Amendment right to make individuals such as Colin Kaepernick their brand ambassadors. We have the right to make patriots like Chief Gallagher one of ours.” [Founder of Nine Line Apparel Tyler Merritt’s reasoning on why the company and others are partnering with Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher]

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“We have learned many times over that there is no such thing as a gun-free zone. Those with evil intentions will violate the law and carry out their heinous acts no matter what.”
[Sen. Donna Campbell, co-sponsor of Senate Bill 535 that allowed the parishioners of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs to carry firearms]

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“There’s a family feud under the water between what Trump and McConnell think is the best strategy.” [Dan Eberhart, a major Republican donor, on the upcoming Senate impeachment trial]

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“If you’re applying to 10, 15, 20 schools, there’s no way that you’re going to get everything in, review every single thing, sign every single thing on time. There’s probably money being missed out on, applicants not being admitted, that kind of thing.” [Director of a Chicago organization that provides financial advice speaking about the issue of colleges primarily using email to contact prospective students]

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“I was surprised that she didn’t do more in terms of Bush and going after Bush. It just seemed like she was really going to look to impeach Bush and get him out of office. Which personally I think would have been a wonderful thing.” [President Donald Trump said when Wolf Blitzer asked him, in 2008, about Nancy Pelosi]

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“I was doing nothing more than notifying my co-workers about Google’s obligations under labor law. Googlers are expected to take initiative and it’s really important we hold upper management accountable.” [Wrote former Google security engineer Kathryn Spiers about her firing for notify coworkers of their right to unionize]

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“If a person can accomplish all of that positivity with so little, imagine what they could do with a little bit of support and encouragement.” [Terah Lawyer, program coordinator for the Homecoming Project, speaking to the impact of the project]

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“It was a painful scene, may God help his mother, and I wonder why the police did not do anything. Maybe tomorrow this thing could happen with me and no one would help me.” [Abu Mohammad Alkinani, an Iraqi man who knew the boy killed by a mob Thursday]

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“We’re encouraged that China and the United States seem on the verge of a breakthrough on the phase one negotiations. If accurate, it would be a positive first step in improving our commercial relationship at a time of great uncertainty.” [Executive vice president of the US Chamber of Commerce Myron Brilliant said of a possible US-China trade deal despite clashes with the Trump administration and Chinese officials]

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After 80 days, it’s time that for one day, for the citizens of Israel, we sit and have a serious discussion about forming a broad unity government. It’s not too late.” [Likud’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to his rival, Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, about avoiding a third Israeli election this year]

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“That was all a lie. Why would they look after our medical needs? That’s not high on their agenda at all.” [UK citizen Jules Barcroft on why she no longer believes that the British government cares about health care]

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“We are, as we do with most active-shooter investigations, we work with a presumption that this was an act of terrorism.” [FBI special agent in charge Rachel Rojas on the investigation of the shooting the Naval Air Base Pensacola]

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“How many cases have there been since mine, how many women have been killed? And the government just sits, frozen, unable to do anything.” [Margarita Gracheva on why her own experience with domestic violence pushed her to become a Russian activist against abuse]

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“If he uses statements and expressions that intentionally amplify the atmosphere of confrontation at this time of crisis, we will have to diagnose that the dotard started to be senile again.” [North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui said of President Trump]

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“To a historian, to see this term is to understand its very close association with debates that center around the need to morally reform the poor.” [Susannah Ottaway, a historian of social welfare at Carleton College in Minnesota, on what “able-bodied” has meant for government benefit programs and history.]

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“What the Chinese government is doing should be a warning to everybody who kind of goes along happily thinking, ‘How could anyone be worried about these technologies?’” [Pilar Ossorio, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin Madison on China’s use of DNA in mapping faces and discriminating against Uighurs]

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“France, Germany and the United Kingdom warmly welcome the decision taken by the governments of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, to join Instex as shareholders.” [Joint statement from Paris, London, and Berlin about six new European countries joining their plan to uphold the commitments of the Iran nuclear deal]

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“In the world of social media, some people are hard at work in sowing toxic doubts and disinformation to undermine trust.” [Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s response to China attacking him for failing to bring the province in line with the mainland]

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“The ugliness my jokes help reveal is why I’m so worried about our pluralistic democracies. Demagogues appeal to our worst instincts. Conspiracy theories once confined to the fringe are going mainstream, fueled in part by President Trump.” [An excerpt from actor Sacha Baron Cohen’s op-ed in the Washington Post]