Mother Jones
Top Security Expert: Political Violence Is Spiking As Trump Axes Prevention Efforts
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- Top Security Expert: Political Violence Is Spiking As Trump Axes Prevention Efforts
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- 7:29
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- 1 year ago
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Since March, the Trump administration has dismantled a leading office at the Department of Homeland Security whose mission was averting terrorism and targeted violence. The Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, known as CP3, has been stripped of funding, and most of its 40-plus personnel have been fired, reassigned, or otherwise pushed out. Amid this process, the White House temporarily put in charge a 22-year-old Trump superfan who arched an eyebrow for his agency portrait and has zero leadership experience in government, let alone in national security.
Former DHS official William Braniff talks about building CP3, an innovative model for stopping terrorism—and how its loss may harm America.
The demise of CP3 comes as the White House has diverted major law enforcement and security resources toward deporting undocumented immigrants. It also comes as high-profile acts of p...
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- The Marines Did Not Sign Up to Police LA
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- 3:00
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- 1 year ago
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Late last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Donald Trump’s deployment of federal troops to Los Angeles could continue while a challenge by California Gov. Gavin Newsom moved through the courts. But by deploying more than 4,000 National Guard members and at least 700 Marines to the heart of LA, Trump is treading, at best, into a gray area.
“It's a legal authority that is somewhat obscure and murky,” says Mark Nevitt, an associate professor of law at Emory University, who previously served twenty years in the Navy as an aviator and lawyer with the Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. Since 2016, Nevitt has been advocating for reform of the Posse Comitatus Act, the Insurrection Act, and presidential emergency powers.
Read the full Q&A with Nevitt at MotherJones.com
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- NYC Mayoral Candidate Brad Lander's Unique Ad
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- 2:00
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- 1 year ago
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- NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander dropped a new campaign video highlighting how the NYC subway system is inaccessible—here’s what the video got right, according to our disability reporter Julia Métraux.
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- Inside the Scrappy Network of Volunteers Protecting Their Neighbors From ICE
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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Jonathan Paz, 31, is the founder of Fuerza, a volunteer group in Waltham that responds to ongoing ICE arrests. Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie joined his neighborhood patrol to learn more about rapid response teams popping up in communities in response to increased ICE arrests.
You start picking up on the fact that there are abandoned vehicles because people had a loved one taken,” Paz says.
Fuerza documented more than 50 arrests in Waltham in May—likely far fewer than the actual number. The dramatic escalation wasn’t surprising. At CPAC in February, border czar Tom Homan promised, “I’m coming to Boston. I’m bringing hell with me.”
“Hundreds and hundreds of people keep showing up to these community watch trainings,” says Marlene Martinez, from Siembra, a program in North Carolina that pioneered the volunteer-driven ICE hotline model. The hope, s...
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- Harsh Rhetoric and Political Violence: It's a Trump Problem
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- 2:57
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- 1 year ago
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- "This is not a both-sides issue. It is a Trump issue."
In the aftermath of the horrific political assassinations in Minnesota, there’s once again a conversation about violence and the heated rhetoric in politics today.
Washington, DC, Bureau Chief David Corn notes it’s true that violence has been committed by people on both the right and the left. But here’s a key point: Only one party supports a leader who has excused and encouraged political violence. That’s the GOP.
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- Federal Agents Handcuff and Detain New York City Mayoral Candidate
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- 0:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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“Where is it? Where is the warrant?”
On Tuesday, Lander—one of the major candidates in New York’s Democratic primary for mayor and the city’s current comptroller—was detained by law enforcement officials while attempting to escort a man out of an immigration court building. “I will let go when you show me the judicial warrant,” Lander told the agents while holding on to the man they were apparently arresting.
The Department of Homeland Security quickly accused Lander of “assaulting law enforcement and impeding a federal officer.”
Lander's detainment is one of several against Democratic lawmakers since Donald Trump's return to power.
This retribution campaign, though long promised, has proven sweeping and egregious, targeting everyone from law firms that cross him to the highest levels of the Democratic Party. But the administration has be...
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- "I'm a child of an immigrant. That's my first reason for being out here."
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- From coast to coast, Americans marched with one message: No kings in the USA.
In New York City, Mirella Camacho, the daughter of immigrant parents, told Mother Jones' Cynthia Rodriguez it was important to come to the protest and speak out on their behalf.
"I'm a child of an immigrant. That's my first reason for being out here," she said. "If my parents can't fight for themselves, I want to be able to fight for them—and make their voice count."
Read more of our "No Kings" protest coverage here: https://bit.ly/3HVAnil
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- “That’s Why America Is Great”: New York City Protesters Push Back With Love and Defiance
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- 1:55
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- 1 year ago
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- Alexis Lazo, a 23-year-old musical theater student and actor, used to be a self-described “centrist,” but as a child of immigrants himself, he no longer felt as if he could stand on the sidelines. Brandishing a sign that read “No Kings, No Cults, No Orange Tyrant,” he said, “I just can’t stand by anymore and just kind of like be ignorant,” adding, “It just wouldn’t be right.”
Read more about the protesters that showed up to Manhattan’s Bryant Park here: https://bit.ly/3FNimCp
#trump #nokings #nyc
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- Defying a Ban, Long Islanders Masked Up for “No Kings”
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”
In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public wearing masks, making it the first individual county in the country—North Carolina previously passed a statewide mask ban—to do so after the start of the Covid pandemic.
Protesters outside Nassau County’s main courthouse defied the ban for June 14th "No Kings" rally. We asked them why. Some cited safety, others privacy.
“Masks are also a vital tool for medically vulnerable people to safely participate in public life, including protest,” New York Civil Liberties Union senior policy counsel Allie Bohm said to Mother Jones before the protest. “Any ban on masks effectively forces them to choose between their safety and their rights.”
Read more at MotherJones.com
#NoKings #masks #protest
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- Hudson Valley’s “No Kings” Rally: Protesting Dictatorship in a Key Battleground
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- 1:41
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- 1 year ago
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- "We are watching the rule of law be undermined entirely."
New York State Senator Michelle Hinchey gave a fiery speech denouncing the militarized response to the LA protests against ICE immigration sweeps in the state and the attack on California Democratic Senator Alex Padilla.
Close to four hundred people assembled in the Hudson Valley town of New Paltz, New York, on Saturday morning for one of the first “No Kings” rallies of the day.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/3Zxve6f
#nokings #trump #democracy
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- "Where were you when we were watching dictators take over?"
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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"Where were you when we were watching dictators take over?" asks New York State Senator (D) Michelle Hinchey to a crowd in New Paltz, NY gathered for one of the first “No Kings” rallies of the day.
The 400-some crowd was large turnout for the town of roughly 15,000, which is part of a key swing district represented by Democratic Congressman Pat Ryan.
“We are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution next year,” said Jen Metzger, the county executive of Ulster County, which includes New Paltz. “That was a war against tyranny. We are fighting a war against tyranny again.”
Read more at MotherJones.com
#nokings #protest #trump
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- The US government is posting content apparently made by white nationalists.
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- 2:05
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- 1 year ago
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- The US government posted an image apparently created by a white nationalist. The poster likes to use the N-word and share content from a neo-Nazi account, too.
So let's be clear: The people whose post on official government accounts are now amplifying envision an America that is forever dominated by whites—at almost any cost.
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- Pay Attention to What Kristi Noem Said Before Alex Padilla's Removal
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- 2:32
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- 1 year ago
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- By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference.
But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out Washington, DC, Bureau Chief David Corn.
"She is basically saying it's time for civil war between the Trump administration and the people of Los Angeles and California and their elected leaders."
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- WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
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- 1:11
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- 1 year ago
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WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
As Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem talked about the need to apply constitutional rights to all citizens in a Thursday press conference, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), ostensibly an unannounced guest, approached the podium.
“I’m Sen. Alex Padilla,” he is seen stating. “I have questions for the secretary.”
In a statement, DHS falsely accused Padilla of failing to identify himself. (He can be heard in the video doing just that.)
The altercation comes amid a chilling use of law enforcement to arrest Democrats and elected officials peacefully protesting the administration’s immigration crackdown. Just this week, Democratic Representative LaMonica McIver of New Jersey was indicted on three counts after her protest outside an ICE facility last month.
The unbri...
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- Gavin Newsom calls out Trump's authoritarian threat. #gavinnewsom #laprotests #trump
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- 2:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Rep. Sarah McBride on GOP Attacks
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- 2:01
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- 1 year ago
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“They’re employing the strategies of reality TV," Rep. Sarah McBride said about the barrage of attacks she faced in her first few months in office.
Last November, she became the first openly transgender person elected to Congress, outperforming Vice President Kamala Harris among voters in the nation’s second-smallest (and first) state. Before that, she was the nation’s first openly trans state senator when she served in the Delaware General Assembly.
Her congressional election brought not only a national spotlight, but also anti-trans attacks from GOP lawmakers once she took office. There were also critiques from some trans people who wanted McBride to fight harder on their behalf as Republicans mount a full-scale assault on trans rights.
Reporter Julianne McShane watched the new documentary State of Firsts which portrays McBride grappling with both the highs a...
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- Trump Makes It Clear: His Military Response in Los Angeles Is Just the Start
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- 0:36
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- 1 year ago
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The president told reporters that any protesters opposing his Saturday military-birthday parade will be met with “very big force.”
As protests continue to unfold in Los Angeles over workplace raids conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the president on Tuesday threatened any protesters planning to attend Saturday’s military parade in Washington, DC with “very big force.” (Saturday is also Trump’s 79th birthday.)
“We’re celebrating big on Saturday, and if there’s any protester that wants to come out, they will be met with very big force,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. He claimed to be unaware of any planned demonstrations, but characterized would-be protesters as “people that hate our country.” (Nationwide “No Kings” protests are slated to unfold on Saturday, to protest Trump’s constitutional overreach and corruption.)
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- Donald Trump is lusting for violence. #gavinnewsom #donaldtrump #laprotests
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- 0:24
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- 1 year ago
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- These Veterans Fought for the US. Now They’re Fighting Trump’s VA Cuts
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- 1:54
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- 1 year ago
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On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration.
The Trump administration has proposed eliminating 15 percent of the Department of Veterans Affairs workforce.
Read the full story here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/these-veterans-fought-for-the-us-now-theyre-fighting-trumps-va-cuts/
#veterans #trump #dday
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- “Well, We’re All Going to Die,” Says GOP Senator in Defense of Medicaid Cuts
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Joni Ernst’s casual cruelty reveals an accidental bedrock of GOP politics: Death does not matter, for certain people.
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- The Trump Trick: Pardon Black Celebs, Make It Easier to Imprison Black People
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Trump trick: Pardon Black celebrities, but ensure policies that make it easier to imprison and terrorize Black people. "It's a bizarre sleight of hand," says Garrison Hayes.
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- America's Politicians Are Old. Let's Talk About It.
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- 3:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/eleanor-holmes-norton-dcs-sole-congressional-rep-is-too-old-to-drive-can-she-defend-the-city-from-a-hostile-gop/
Broaching the subject of the advanced age of a member of Congress is still considered unseemly. But the issue has become unavoidable over the past year, especially after Democrats’ unprecedented efforts to pressure then 81-year-old President Joe Biden to drop out as the party’s presidential nominee, after he appeared bewildered during his June debate with Trump. In March this year, a local news outlet discovered Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas), now 82, living in a memory care facility, having slipped away from Congress without much notice. And of course, until her death in 2023, the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) descended into dementia in full view of the country.
“There’s no question that somewhere between six and a dozen of my colleagues are at a point where...
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- Abortion providers are experiencing a new wave of extremism
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- 0:47
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- 1 year ago
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- The numbers aren't lying.
When looking at the data of violent and threatening incidents targeted at abortion providers, it's clear: They are experiencing a new wave of extremism.
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- It's been 5 years since George Floyd was murdered. What changed?
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- 2:17
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- 1 year ago
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- It’s been five years since George Floyd was murdered on a Minneapolis street in the Spring on 2020. Though far from novel, this particular act of state violence shocked the world and ignited one of the largest protest movements in modern history.
In Garrison Hayes' latest video, I argue that this moment was much bigger than Floyd; from the horrors of the Middle Passage to the chains of mass incarceration, from slave codes to Jim Crow, the full weight of America’s long-standing commitment to anti-Blackness bore down on that moment and the months of protest that followed.
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- "There will be consequences to pay for this.”
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- 0:22
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Several Republicans promised to protect Medicaid. But when it came down to it, they didn't.
The House voted to advance the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, endangering health care for millions of the poorest Americans.
As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in a speech on the House floor at around 2 a.m.: “When this country wakes up in the morning, there will be consequences to pay for this.”
The bill also included 11th-hour additions to ban Affordable Care Act health care plans from covering abortion and gender-affirming care for all Medicaid patients, including adults, after initially proposing to ban care for just minors.
Read more at MotherJones.com
#medicaid #congress #aoc
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- 10 ways you can buy power in Trump's America. #corruption #money
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Does Kristi Noem not know what habeas corpus is? #kristinoem #habeascorpus #dhs
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Pete Hegseth's PR Crisis Tour Is Not Convincing
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Fact check: Trump world is not the real world.
Pete Hegseth continued his PR crisis control around Signalgate(s) by appearing on Fox News Monday. "I don't get offended by much," he said. "This idea that I don't take classification or I don't take clearances seriously."
"Nobody takes it more seriously than me," he continued.
Well, we found him to be factually unconvincing.
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- How Star Wars reveals conservatives’ authoritarian fantasies #starwars
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- GUTTED: How private equity stripped a health system and patients died
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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- For years, a private equity-fueled for-profit chain slashed patient care while its executives got rich. Our new investigation reveals the human cost of this for-profit motive—and how mothers, newborns, and other patients paid the ultimate price.
Mother Jones partnered with Al Jazeera's Fault Lines to depict what happens when humanity is stripped from health care for profit. Watch the entire doc and read the piece at MotherJones.com.
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- Ed Martin won't go away.
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- 1:51
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
“This is crazy.”
Mother Jones has been following the ups and downs of Trump’s attempts to install a January 6 denialist into a powerful position. And he’s partially succeeded.
For all our coverage head to MotherJones.com.
#trump #justicedepartment #politics
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- Meet the 64-year-old kicked out of her Republican rep's town hall. #lawler #townhall #viralvideo
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Why Maxwell Frost Wants Democrats to “Get Caught Fighting”
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- 4:48
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Maxwell Frost, the youngest member of Congress, wants Democrats to “get caught fighting.”
He's showing his older colleagues how to punch back in the age of Trump, emphasizing the need for Democrats to act as an “opposition party” rather than just a minority one.
Frost told Mother Jones, “I mean, the name ‘minority’ already seems defeatist. We’re not in the minority. The things we want are actually in the majority.”
We profiled Frost for our recent magazine issue—find the full piece and full video at the link here: https://bit.ly/3Sq3axy
Thumbnail photo credit: Greg Khan
#politics #democrats #handsoff
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- Title
- The US government isn't a business. So why does everyone want it to run like one? #business #elon
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Trump's first 100 days have undone our social fabric. "But maybe that was the point." #trump
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Scientists Are Ditching Cows to Make Butter From Greenhouse Gases
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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We made our fellow eat this futuristic butter. Take a look.
(Filmography by Max Maldonado.)
#food #climate #technology
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- Thousands call on the Trump administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. #kilmarabregogarcia
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- 2:37
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Legend has it this salamander came from hell. We’re about to send it back.
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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Do you like clean water? Then you’ll like this slimy, hellish creature.
But, it is in danger of extinction.
Although you wouldn’t know it by looking at their sheer bulk—up to about 2 feet in length and weighing in at more than 3 pounds—Eastern hellbenders are sensitive creatures: the 160-million-year-old salamander species has evolved to breathe almost exclusively through its skin, and needs excellent water quality to survive
Back in 2019, the first Trump administration denied listing the Eastern hellbender under the act, opting to list only one population segment in Missouri. Now, under Trump 2.0., the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has fired thousands of federal employees at scientific agencies like the Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, National Park S...
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- The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000
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- 4:36
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kash-patel-fbi-trump-tucker-carlson-russia-ukraine-putin/
Last year, Kash Patel, the MAGA provocateur whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI, received $25,000 from a Russia-linked production company to participate in a documentary in which he assailed the FBI and called for closing its headquarters.
In November, Tucker Carlson’s online network released a six-part series called All the President’s Men: The Conspiracy Against Trump that purported to chronicle the familiar MAGA conspiracy theory that a Deep State plotted against Donald Trump while he was a presidential candidate in 2016 and when he was president. The fourth episode focused on Patel and his years-long crusade to depict the Trump-Russia scandal—Moscow’s attack on the 2016 election and Donald Trump’s efforts to cover up its existence—as nothing but a total hoax orchestrated by nefarious Democrats an...
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- A 2-Minute Crash Course in America’s Most Disastrous Tariffs
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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Donald Trump’s tariffs are wreaking havoc on the global economy while millions of Americans—including some of his own advisors—are furious.
Even as many voters watch their retirement and education savings vacillate wildly, MAGA World maintains the president knows exactly what he’s doing—it’s just “the art of the deal,” they say. But as our new video explainer points out, history tells a very different story.
Trump loves to reference the times in American history when tariff rates were much higher, pledging to usher in a new Golden Age. Trump’s hero, William McKinley, was the epitome of a pro-tariff president, and is a fixture of his speeches. But even a quick look at the facts doesn’t support Trump's nostalgia for the 1890s.
Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/trump-maga-tariff-history-video/
#tariffs #economy #...
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- The Real Reason El Salvador's President Cozied Up to Trump
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- 3:38
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669?i=1000703240477
Donald Trump’s deepening partnership with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, was on display as the two leaders rejected the idea of returning a man mistakenly deported by the U.S. and locked up in a Salvadoran mega-prison. Meeting at the White House, they indicated Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia would remain in Salvadoran custody despite a ruling by the Supreme Court instructing the Trump administration to take steps to return him to the U.S. Trump repeated his interest in sending American citizens convicted of violent crimes to Bukele’s prison in El Salvador and said his attorney general was studying the legal feasibility. Trump called Bukele “one hell of a president.”
Few media organizations have covered the rise of Bukele, as closely or fearlessly, as El Faro, founded in 1998 as the first digital newspaper in Latin America. In 2020, El Faro bega...
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- Trump's message: The law doesn’t matter, we can do what we want. #trump #bukele #deportations
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Donald Trump has a message for the US: There is no rule of law.
In the future, April 14, 2025, may well be recognized as a monumental day in US history. That is, of course, if there is honest history in the future. Because this is the day that President Donald Trump sent a clear message to the nation: There is no rule of law in the United States.
It happened in the Oval Office. Trump was hosting El Salvador’s authoritarian president, Nayib Bukele—who has referred to himself as a “dictator”—and an obvious issue hovered over the session: the Trump administration’s wrongful deportation of Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, where he has been locked up in the country’s notorious CECOT megaprison for the last three weeks.
The US government has conceded that Abrego Garcia was rounded up and shipped off with other immigrants to El Salvador by mistake. Yet at this tete-a-tete, both leaders made clear they intended to do no...
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- "They don't really care about academic freedoms or research."
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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In March, the Trump Administration cut $400 million in funding to Columbia University in retaliation for allegedly failing to address antisemitism. What do Jewish researchers think of this? Sam Seidman, a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, for one, is skeptical of the administration’s approach.
“It adversely affected the lives and the research and the careers of lots of Jewish students and faculty,” he says, “This isn’t the way you would have done it if you were actually concerned about that.”
Seidman joined Columbia in September last year to study youth depression and suicide, and help develop strategies to treat it.
Columbia largely caved to the Trump Administration’s demands, agreeing to allow for oversight of its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department and ban face coverings, among other conc...
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- “We’re Going to Do Whatever It Takes to Keep Her Safe”
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- 2:47
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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“Please help us.”
The months since Trump’s inauguration have been hell for families with transgender children. They’ve already lived through record-breaking years of anti-trans state legislation, followed by the most anti-LGBTQ presidential election cycle in decades.
Now, as Trump turns the weight of the federal government against trans kids—attacking their health care and support in school, declaring “gender ideology” to be a form of child abuse—they’re dealing with canceled appointments, harassment, and the reemergence of mental health challenges they’ve fought to overcome.
Two of our reporters spent the last three months getting to know seven of these families: listening to their stories, hopes and fears, and plans to survive the Trump era. Some are making plans to move away. Some have already fled. Parents talk about doing anything for their childr...
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- Montana Legislators Say No to Prosecuting Parents for Trans Care
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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Five days after President Donald Trump declared “gender ideology” to be “one of the most prevalent forms of child abuse,” Montana’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives killed a bill that would have enshrined much the same idea into state law by criminalizing parents and medical providers.
Montana Senate Bill 164 would have made it a felony for any adult to help transgender children under 16 to gain access to gender-affirming medical care—including hormones, puberty blockers, and surgeries—classifying such help as child endangerment. On Tuesday, House lawmakers voted 58-40 to reject the proposed law, with 17 Republicans joining Democrats to block the bill from advancing to its final reading.
“I think it’s overly broad,” the lone Republican to speak against the bill, Rep. Brad Barker, said Tuesday. Barker said that while he generally opposes gender-affirm...
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- A Whistleblower Says Trump Sent the US Marshals to Try to “Intimidate” Her
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
This is not the first time US marshals have acted in strange ways since Trump took office.
A whistleblower who testified in Congress today is accusing the Trump administration of trying to “intimidate” her with help from the US Marshals Service, the law enforcement agency of the federal judiciary.
Liz Oyer, the former US pardon attorney who was fired last month, says Justice Department leaders dispatched two special deputy marshals to her house on Friday night—days before she was scheduled to speak with lawmakers about her concerns with the firing of career employees and what she describes as “corruption” at the department. “You appear to be using the Department’s security resources to intimidate a former employee who is engaged in statutorily protected whistleblower conduct,” Oyer’s attorney Michael Bromwich, a former Department of Justice inspector general, wrote ...
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- While Fallen Soldiers Returned Home, Trump Hit the Golf Course and Veterans Took Notice.
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- 1:44
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
President Trump’s absence at the dignified transfer of four U.S. servicemen who died during a training exercise in Lithuania is being noticed. While thousands gathered in Lithuania—including the Lithuanian president—to send the soldiers off, our commander in chief was busy (as he has been for over a quarter of his second presidency) playing in his Saudi-backed golf tournament at Mar-a-Lago.
This is not the first time that Trump has missed a dignified transfer—he only attended four out of 96 during his first term, per an investigation by HuffPost. Presidents are not required to be at the transfers and generally only attend a handful each term. (These four were met on US soil by Pete Hegeseth and several Democratic senators.)
However, there is a particular ire since Trump is missing the transfer for such a trivial reason. Chris (who asked us not to use his last name) is an Air ...
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- Voices from the #HandsOff day of protest. #protest
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "We swear an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic." – Chris, a veteran
"Just getting these crazy emails from Elon and DOGE, mocking us." – A federal worker, who asked not to be named out of fear of retaliation
"There's a blitzkrieg happening in government, and this is one tiny thing I can do about it." – Michelle, a San Francisco #HandsOff protestor
Veterans, federal workers, organizers and activists, costume lovers, and many more were among the thousands and thousands out in San Francisco, CA for the #HandsOff protest. We spoke with them!
Hear them in their own voice—watch!
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- My Trump-loving Massachusetts hometown just showed the hell up. #handsoff #protest #trump
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- 1:46
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- "Do you want a good government or a country that's in ruins?" #handsoff #protest
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- This interview was too good not to share in its entirety. So meet Grant, a 15-year-old student from Princeton, New Jersey, who spoke to our reporter at the rally there.
He has some thoughts.
