Quotables

“Do not lose the will to resist.”

Jailed Russian political dissident (and fierce Putin critic) ALEXEY NAVALNY, in an Aug. 4 message posted to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, just after a court extended by 19 years his sentence in a remote penal colony.

“A massive sound went off, and it was a huge blast that blinded me.”

MUMTAZ, a 46-year-old woman and political party worker who was wounded in a July 30 ISIS suicide bombing in Pakistan’s Bajaur district, according Al Jazeera. The blast, which targeted an election rally, killed at least 63 people and injured over 100.

“The policies of the Europeans are much more aligned with the evidence than are the Americans’.”

GORDON GUYATT, a clinical epidemiologist at Ontario’s McMaster University, speaking to The New York Times of American doctors’ “affirming” transgender treatments for youth as compared with Europe’s more cautious approach.

“The music, the speakers, the beat. All that energy can drive into the ground and shake it.”

JACKIE CAPLAN-AUERBACH, a seismologist at Western Washington University, telling CNN how the noise from July 22 and 23 Taylor Swift concerts in Seattle registered as much seismic activity as a 2.3 magnitude earthquake.