4 Time February 10, 2020
For the Record‘The people aretired of the abuse.’IRIS GUARDIOLA,
82, speaking to the Associated Press at a Jan. 23 protest in
Puerto Rico, demanding the resignation of Governor Wanda
Vázquez over the U.S. territory’s handling of disaster aid‘Why did youremoveme from thephoto?I was part ofthe group!’VANESSA NAKATE,
Ugandan climate activist, in
a Jan. 24 tweet, after being
cropped out of an Associated
Press photo of climate
activists—among whom
she was the only person of
color—in Davos, Switzerland;
the news agency apologized‘It’s difficultto describethe painand loss theChinatowncommunity isfeeling, butwe will notbe broken.’MARGARET S. CHIN,
New York City council member,
in a Jan. 27 statement after
a fire tore through a building
housing the archives of the
Museum of Chinese
in America‘IS NOTHING
SACRED?’
GEORGE TAKEI,
actor, on the Jan. 24 unveiling of the U.S. military’s new Space Force seal
and its similarity to the insignia of Star Trek’s fictional Starfleet Command‘He asked,
“Do you think
Americans
care about
Ukraine?”’MARY LOUISE KELLY, NPR host,
quoting from her discussion
with U.S. Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo after they
clashed during an interview;
Pompeo accused her of lying
about their exchange97,
Number of gallons of red
wine that spilled into
a creek from a winery
in Sonoma County,
California, after a
blending-tank door popped
open on Jan. 22Carpool lanes
Arizona police cited
a man for driving in
the HOV lane with
a fake skeleton as
a passengerTraffic lights
A group of Florida
friends went viral
with a video of
themselves playing
Uno at a long red lightGOOD WEEK
BAD WEEK
80
Number of pythons captured in
the Everglades during the 2020
Python Bowl, according to a
Jan. 25 Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission
announcement; the annual event
raises awareness of the threat
posed by the invasive species