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“We have counted on communities to be places where everyone could belong and where the public schools were the recipients of mass support, regardless of party or politics. That is no longer true. And we are the worse for it.”
― Laura Pappano, School Moms: Parent Activism, Partisan Politics, and the Battle for Public Education

“Slaughter dressed up in bureaucratese dulls the senses, and over time can anesthetize an entire population to the horror happening right where they live. Objective reality is winnowed away by each succeeding government report. The dead perish again, into nonexistence.”
― Patricia Evangelista, Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

“Amazon makes 38 billion every year charging merchants for search placement.
On average, the first result in an Amazon search is 29 percent more expensive than the best result for your search. Click any of the top four links on the top of your screen, and you'll pay an average of 25 percent more than you would for your best match. On average, that best match is located seventeen places down in an Amazon search result.”
― Cory Doctorow, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

“When you make art and you don’t know what’s going to happen, you’re involved in the mystery that life really is.”
― Susan Magsamen, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us