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"I thought when Bush was president that that would be the height of insanity." #handsoff #protest
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- "I thought when Bush was president that that would be the height of insanity." #handsoff #protest
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- 1:04
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- 2 years ago
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- Protests are popping up across the country—so let's talk to these Americans! #handsoff #protest
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- 1:37
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- 2 years ago
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- Americans nationwide are exercising their right to free speech and assembly. So let's go hear what they have to say.
Across the country, what could end up being hundreds of thousands of Americans are joining together in towns, cities, and parks to vocalize their opposition to Donald Trump's wake of destruction. Our reporters are on the ground speaking with everyday people about why they're there and how these actions by the administration are affecting their lives.
Follow along for more coverage in our story—and we'll have more coverage coming as the day unfolds!
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- There's a dark truth to Trump's tariffs. #tariffs #trump #truth
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- 2:00
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- 2 years ago
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- If you think about politics traditionally, Trump’s tariffs don’t make sense. Presidents’ political fortunes are generally tied to the strength of the economy, so they can be expected not to take actions that almost all economists predict will cause economic pain, both short and long term. So if Trump is willing to hurt the economy, he must be getting something he wants even more in return.
That thing is power. With tariffs, Trump can exercise a kind of corruption that the country hasn’t experienced in some 150 years—a kind of control that is ultimately incompatible with both democracy and prosperity.
With tariffs, Trump is poised to trade a strong economy for one run on loyalty and retribution. Trump, a president who rules like a mob boss while claiming vast new powers, is transforming the government into a tool of reward and punishment.
But history shows that an economy run on favors and grievances is ultimately a poor one. “If you lo...
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- Without USAID, Myanmar Is Struggling to Recover From Its Massive Earthquake
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- 0:59
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- 2 years ago
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While international aid rushes to help Myanmar in the wake of a 7.7 magnitude earthquake, the US is nowhere to be seen.
The earthquake, which hit last Friday, has killed at least 3,000 people and left thousands more injured. Chris Milligan, former director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission in Myanmar, spoke about how inadequate the United States response is.
Milligan arrived in Myanmar in 2012 with a mandate: Help repair diplomatic relations with the southeast Asian country by reopening its United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission.
By that point, Milligan had worked for the USAID for more than two decades—a tenure that included working on reconstruction in Baghdad following the Iraq War and coordinating the recovery response to Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake.
Fast forward to now, and ...
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- Reality check: Tariffs will cost Americans money. (No matter what Trump wants to believe.) #tariffs
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- 0:57
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- 2 years ago
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- On Wednesday, President Trump announced something he'd long been campaigning for: Tariffs.
In the Rose Garden of the White House, Trump announced blanket tariffs on nearly all US trade partners, explicitly targeting China and the European Union. Calling it an "economic emergency," Trump blamed former presidents (of which he is one) for the current "calamity." He went even further with his rhetoric, however, exclaiming that “our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered” by others.
As @bbcnews notes, this "is the biggest upheaval of the international trade order since the aftermath of World War Two." And as @apnews reports: "It kickstarts what could be a painful transition for many Americans as middle-class essentials such as housing, autos and clothing are expected to become more costly, while disrupting the alliances built to ensure peace and economic stability."
While the Trump administration charges down the path of no return, ...
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- Why Cory Booker's Speech Was So Historic
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- 1:23
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- 2 years ago
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Cory Booker's Senate speech made legislative history. But what is that history?
@GarrisonHayes looks at the story behind the story in his recent video.
Read more at MotherJones.com
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- Sen. Cory Booker just delivered the longest Senate speech in history. #corybooker #senate
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- 2:23
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- 2 years ago
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- Elon Musk Is Trying to Buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court
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- 2:41
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- 2 years ago
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His attack on democracy isn’t limited to gutting the federal government. He wants it all.
Not content with spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump and Republican candidates in 2024 and then taking a wrecking ball to the federal government, Elon Musk is now trying to flip the balance of power on the top court in one of the country’s most important swing states.
Building America’s Future, a dark money group backed by Musk, is spending at least $1.6 million in support of Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, a conservative judge in suburban Milwaukee running for an open seat in an April election that will decide whether progressives or conservatives control the court. The group began running ads across the state Thursday.
“Elon Musk is buying off Brad Schimel,” his opponent, Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, responded. She...
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- The ADA Is Turning 35—And It’s in Trump’s Crosshairs
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- 2:49
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- 2 years ago
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Tony Coelho, the Americans with Disabilities Act’s main author, sees a new wave of threats looming for disability rights.
On July 26, 1990, then-President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law. The bill’s primary author was former Democratic House Rep. Tony Coelho of California, who was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 22. The ADA’s passage, which disability rights demonstrations like the Capitol Crawl contributed to, exemplified an era of more bipartisan efforts to push civil rights forward.
Testifying before the House in support of the ADA, in 1988, Coelho said it was “time that our government recognized our abilities and gave us the dignity to do what we can do.” Living with epilepsy was not easy for Coelho, who “became suicidal and drunk by noon” in part due to challenges in finding a job after he revealed his diagnosis. Coehlo h...
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- The Men Who Disappeared to El Salvador Because of Their Tattoos: Reporter on All In with Chris Hayes
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- 7:51
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- 2 years ago
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Did ICE “disappear” someone because of an autism awareness tattoo?
New reporting from Mother Jones reporters Noah Lanard and Isabela Dias reveals how immigrants are being swept up and targeted by the Trump administration for innocuous tattoos like flowers and birds—and yes, an autism awareness tattoo.
Using this pretense that tattoos mean they are gang members, the administration has shipped the Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador accused of severely violating the human rights of inmates.
One prisoner, Neri Alvarado, is a baker with three tattoos. Two words— “brother” and “familia”—and one illustration of the autism awareness ribbon for his younger brother, who has autism.
“Anyone who’s talked to Neri for even an hour can tell you what a great person he is. Truly, as a family, we are completely devastated to see him going through ...
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- “You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”
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- 2:47
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- 2 years ago
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Did ICE “disappear” someone because of an autism awareness tattoo?
New reporting from Mother Jones reporters Noah Lanard and Isabela Dias reveals how immigrants are being swept up and targeted by the Trump administration for innocuous tattoos like flowers and birds—and yes, an autism awareness tattoo.
Using this pretense that tattoos mean they are gang members, the administration has shipped the Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador accused of severely violating the human rights of inmates.
One prisoner, Neri Alvarado, is a baker with three tattoos. Two words— “brother” and “familia”—and one illustration of the autism awareness ribbon for his younger brother, who has autism.
“Anyone who’s talked to Neri for even an hour can tell you what a great person he is. Truly, as a family, we are completely devastated to see him going through ...
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- Senator Grills Tulsi Gabbard on Omission of Climate From Annual Threat Assessment
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- 2:04
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- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Most of Tuesday's Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday was spent discussing the use of the private, encrypted messaging app Signal by leaders of the Trump administration to discuss military strikes in Yemen.
But while concerns about “Signalgate” dominated the hearing, there was also a brief exchange between Sen. Angus King of Maine and Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence. King grilled Gabbard about the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment by the US intelligence community. For the first time in 11 years, it did not mention climate change.
“I’ve been on this committee now for—this is my 13th year,” said King. “Every single one of these reports that we have had has mentioned global climate change as a significant national security threat except this one. Has something happened? Has global climate change been solved? Why is that not in this report, and...
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- All the Ways Trump Officials Are Downplaying the “War Plans” Group Chat
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- 1:45
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- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
You have probably heard that Senior Trump Officials included Jeffrey Goldberg (editor-in-chief of the Atlantic) in a Signal group chat discussing the plan for the March 15th attack on the Houthis.
Brian Hughes, spokesperson for the National Security Council, confirmed that Signal group “appears to be an authentic message chain, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain.”
Some Republicans have conceded that the leak constituted a serious mistake.
But President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and several of the administration’s officials included in the group message have gone to great lengths to hide their embarrassment and claim the whole thing was, actually, no big deal.
For the truth and real danger behind this scandal, head the MotherJones.com
#signal #nationalsecurity #politics
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- I've Never Been to a Bernie Sanders Rally Like This
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- 8:24
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- 2 years ago
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The Fight Oligarchy Tour is drawing larger crowds than Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign ever did, but it’s also drawing a different sort of crowd, writes Mother Jones Senior Reporter Tim Murphy.
Although there were still more “Feel the Bern” t-shirts than you can count, at two stops in Arizona last week, most of the people I talked to were not longtime supporters. A significant number had not even attended a political event or a protest before. Many of these voters found Sanders’ long-running message of a growing oligarchy newly resonant at a time when the richest man in the world has been given carte blanche to dismantle public institutions. Above all, they showed up because they wanted to hear elected officials express the sort of frustration and rage Democratic voters have been feeling for months.
They wanted to be where the fight was. Sanders’ rallies offer both a ...
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- "My predictions have a pretty good track record." Sure, Elon.
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- 0:44
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- 2 years ago
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- "My predictions have a pretty good track record." Sure, Elon.
Catch up on all the week’s news at MotherJones.com
#elonmusk #tesla #spacex
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- Trump’s “DEI Purges”? Yeah, It’s Just Racist Bigotry
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- 1:26
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- 2 years ago
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We’re telling the stories of Black military heroes the administration just wiped from history.
Many were told that diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts had gone too far, and some people believed that Trump was simply making a good faith effort to rein it in, to curtail the abuses of “woke” gone unchecked.
@GarrisonHayes thinks those people are very wrong, but it’s okay—we’ll agree to disagree.
But what has become abundantly clear in the first 60 days of Trump’s presidency is that reining in alleged preferential treatment, or leftist overreaches were never Trump’s goal. Something much sinister is at play.
Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/?p=1122241&preview=true
#trump #dei #military
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- What DOGE is Getting Wrong About Privatizing USPS
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- 1:39
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- 2 years ago
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On March 20th, United States Postal Service workers, retirees, and supporters gathered in dozens of cities nationwide to protest the Trump administration’s efforts to privatize the USPS as part of the American Postal Workers Union’s Day of Action.
Fellow Alex Nguyen stopped by the demonstration in New York City. Despite the rain and cold, hundreds of demonstrators showed up in front of Manhattan’s James A. Farley Building, holding signs reading, “The Post Office Belongs to The People Not the Billionaires” and “Hands Off Our Mail.” The crowd also chanted in call-and-response, “Whose Post Office? The People’s Post Office” and “U.S. Mail. Not for Sale!” To the side, volunteers were handing out flyers to people passing by on the street.
The APWU, which represents over 200,000 USPS employees and retirees, announced these protests earlier this month. The union w...
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- Florida Mayor Threatened Theater Showing Documentary on Palestine
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- 2:51
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- 2 years ago
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Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner threatened to shut down his town’s local cinema for showing a documentary about Palestine—but after public outrage and national attention, he’s backed down.
The academy award-winning film “No Other Land” follows a Palestinian village struggling to survive in the West Bank amid Israeli government and settler violence. Co-produced by Palestinians and Israelis, the film was an obvious choice for O Cinema, which prioritizes global, award-winning films.
Kareem Tabsch, co-founder of O Cinema, is a filmmaker who made an award-winning movie about Miami Beach’s historic Jewish community. He co-founded O Cinema to give his neighborhood access to independent films that would otherwise pass it by. Tabsch spoke to Mother Jones about the attack on his cinema and why it is bigger than his theater: “It’s about democracy. This is about freedom of expres...
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- Garrison Hayes calls out anticipatory obedience in corporate America.
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- 2:28
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- 2 years ago
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- Are companies really shutting down DEI initiatives? Or are they doing something far more dangerous?
Mother Jones’ Garrison Hayes appeared on MSNBC to talk about the “death of DEI” lie that corporate America has recently embraced that he’s been reporting on. “They are allowing Donald Trump to pretend to be the authoritarian king that he desires to be, when in reality, this is America, and we have presidents, and he does not have that kind of authority,” he told Prime host Symone Sanders Townsend. “I think it's really important that, in this time, people stand up and say that very, very clearly.”
You can watch Garrison’s video, pinned in our reels.
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- How Conservatives Laid the Groundwork for Progressives’ Target Boycott
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- 3:09
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- 2 years ago
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"If you want to understand why the widespread Target boycotts happening over the last few weeks are important, I think you need to look back at two very successful boycotts in recent history," reports @GarrisonHayes in his new video. "Specifically, the far-right’s boycotts of Bud Light and Target."
In the spring of 2023, conservatives lost their minds. After Bud Light sent influencer Dylan Mulvaney a few beer cans with her face on them, many on the right did the only logical thing: grabbed their guns and started shooting. All jokes aside, the boycott worked. With a fire in their souls, "the anti-woke bloodhounds" went on a search for their next divorced-from-reality tirade. And they found it in Target's Pride Month collection. And again, their boycott worked.
"The 2023 MAGA boycotts laid the groundwork for the 2025 DEI rollbacks," says Hayes. "Consumers tell corporations what they c...
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- Silicon Valley has a message for Elon Musk and the rest of the tech oligarchs. #elonmusk #oligarchy
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- 2:16
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- 2 years ago
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- Raquel Willis reminds us it doesn't have to be this way. And there's history to prove it. #history
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- 3:00
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- 2 years ago
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- The Republican crusade to bring us back to the 1950's is on full display. #lgbtq #therapy #news
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- 1:58
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- 2 years ago
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- Protesters Rally After Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil
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- 0:55
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- 2 years ago
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Over the weekend, a prominent Columbia University protest leader, Mahmoud Khalil, was detained by Department of Homeland Security agents and transferred to immigration detention, for allegedly leading “activities aligned to Hamas,” according to a government social media post, in order to enforce Trump’s January executive order on “combatting anti-semitism.” Khalil, who is Palestinian, is a legal permanent resident, according to his lawyers.
Amid the ongoing legal drama surrounding the case, including a Monday order from a federal judge in Manhattan to halt his imminent deportation, scores of protesters marched in protest of Khalil’s arrest. Our Sophie Hurwitz and Najib Aminy were on ground to capture the scene.
“ICE’s arrest and detention of Mahmoud follows the US government’s open repression of student activism and political speech, specifically targeting students...
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- Science March: "Our responsibility is to resist these changes in any way we can."
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- 1:20
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- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
On Friday, March 7th, protesters gathered in Washington, DC, and at more than 30 satellite protests nationwide in what appears to be the largest pro-science demonstration of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Reporter Jackie Flynn Mogensen went to the demonstration at Manhattan’s Washington Square Park.
Several signs noted science’s role in saving lives. One attendee, a New Jersey resident who asked only to be identified by first name, Richard, held a small sign that said, “Government Funded Biomedical Research Saved My Child’s Life.” At 14, he told me, his daughter was diagnosed with cancer. With the help of a new drug called an immune checkpoint inhibitor, she recovered. In a few weeks, she’ll graduate from college, he says, with plans to attend medical school. The “miracle” drug is what inspired him to protest. “It did literally save her life,” he said.
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- Trump’s Set Out to Dismantle Biden’s Climate Legacy. Can He?
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- 5:56
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- 2 years ago
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Since taking office, President Donald Trump hasn't wasted time unraveling Joe Biden's climate legacy. He's signed executive orders directing his administration to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement, end offshore wind leases, root out environmental justice programs, and declared a "National Energy Emergency" to encourage more fossil fuel production.
But many of Biden's climate policies won't be unglued easily. Some regulations, like the Biden administration's fuel efficiency standards, may take time, potentially years, to repeal. Other Trump administration actions are likely to be challenged in court, or already have been. And in some cases, like the Inflation Reduction Act, a $370 billion climate law that has so far hugely benefitted Republican districts, undoing the law may not be in Trump's own best interest.
To get a better sense of how Trump may reverse Biden's climate effor...
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- Science March: "If you don't get grants and bring in money, you're not seen as a viable scientist."
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- 1:01
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- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Today, March 7th, is the Stand Up for Science March. Our reporters are on the ground interviewing participants about what brought them out to stand up for science.
Christine, 33, explains that young scientists will be hit hardest by these cuts.
"If you don't get grants and bring in money, you're not seen as a viable scientist, and so that's the career to becoming a professional and being able to stay in the field."
#science #protest #trump
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- Science March: "These attacks on science from the federal administration are just unacceptable."
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- 0:26
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- 2 years ago
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Today, March 7th, is the Stand Up for Science March. Our reporters are on the ground interviewing participants about what brought them out to stand up for science.
"I work in economic development based on science and innovation, so I know how important science is to our economy, our economic well-being, and these attacks on science from the federal administration are just unacceptable, anti-intellectual and self defeating for our country."
#science #politics #trump
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- Science March: "We're the ones that are coming up with those cures"
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- 0:58
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- 2 years ago
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Today, March 7th, is the Stand Up for Science March. There are more than 30 demonstrations across the country protesting the Trump administration's widespread attacks on science.
Our reporters are on the ground interviewing participants about what brought them out to stand up for science. These two PhD students asked for their names not to be shared, but the spoke about the importance of their work: "If they go to a hospital, they're gonna get treated, but they don't see that we're the ones that are coming up with those cures in the first place—even going back to basic biology research, basic science research."
#science #trump #trump #medical
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- Trump’s “Speak English” Order Explained—in Spanish
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- 2:40
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- 2 years ago
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Trump wanted to make English the official language of the United States. But Mother Jones fellow Melvis Acosta wants to speak Spanish.
On Saturday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order designating English as the country’s official language. Speaking in front of Congress on Tuesday, he again said that he had made English the official language of the US.
But as Mother Jones' Julianne McShane wrote, what the order actually does is rescind an earlier executive order signed by Bill Clinton in 2000, which required government agencies and organizations that received federal funding to offer language assistance to non–English speakers. Agencies now have to decide for themselves whether they will offer documents and services in different languages.
This isn’t the first time Trump has attacked people for speaking other languages. He mocked Jeb Bush during the 20...
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- Thousands “Stand Up for Science” Across the Country
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- 0:48
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- 2 years ago
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Today, March 7th, is the Stand Up for Science March. There are more than 30 demonstrations across the country protesting the Trump administration's widespread attacks on science.
The “Stand Up for Science” organizers call for ending “censorship and political interference in science,” securing and expanding scientific funding, and defending diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in science.
Our reporters are on the ground interviewing participants about what brought them out to stand up for science.
Correction: The age of the protester in this video is 58, not 56.
#science #trump #protest
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- This is how the GOP raises our deficit with tax breaks for the wealthy. #gop #resolution #budget
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- 1:48
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- 2 years ago
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- Musk’s Reckless Ebola Cuts Could Lead to Deadly Pandemics
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- 8:18
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- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Last week, standing in front of President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, Elon Musk, the unelected billionaire running a blitzkrieg against the US government, acknowledged that he had made a mistake—that in going after the US Agency for International Development, the foreign assistance program that he has all but destroyed, he accidentally ended the Ebola prevention project it ran overseas. Musk claimed the error was quickly fixed and there was no interruption in service. But former and current USAID staff quickly told the Washington Post that Musk was wrong—the Ebola response remained sharply curtailed. And, as the Bulwark reported, Nicholas Enrich, the acting assistant administrator for global health at USAID, who was placed on administrative leave Sunday, had drafted an unfinished memo that predicted the demolition of USAID would lead to more than 28,000 cases of Ebola and related diseases, as ...
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- How DEI was a test case for corporate loyalty. #dei
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- 2:29
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- 2 years ago
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- Research shows Latino-led films sell more tickets. Then why are there so few? #oscars #latino #film
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- 2:25
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- 2 years ago
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- What’s more American than throwing a democratic ally under a bus for Russia? #trump #putin
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- 2:20
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- 2 years ago
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- A new report reveals that 40% of Musk's cuts have saved a whopping $0. #elonmusk #doge #donaldtrump
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- 1:05
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- 2 years ago
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- The Danger of Trump’s Plan for a Private USPS
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- 1:06
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- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
President Donald Trump is taking aim at the US Postal Service.
According to a Thursday report from the Washington Post‘s Jacob Bogage, the president plans to fire the members of USPS’ board and hand the keys to the agency over to the Department of Commerce.
A White House spokesperson denied the report, just for Trump himself to go on and confirm it on Friday.
Trump’s new target is actually an old one. During his first term, the White House pushed to break up and sell off the Post Office—one of the most favorably viewed government agencies—in a 2018 plan: “A privatized Postal Service would,” among other things, “make business decisions free from political interference.”
Watch Mark Dimondstein, the president of the American Postal Workers Union, respond to Trump's new plan. Then, head over to MotherJones.com where Dimondstein explains to Mo...
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- Trump and Musk are waging war on the gov't to advance both oligarchy and autocracy.#trump #elonmusk
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- 1:54
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- 2 years ago
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- Trump wants federal power when it's convenient for his agenda. #trump #statesrights
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- 0:50
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- 2 years ago
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- America Will Pay Dearly for the NIH’s Mindless War on Wokeness and DEI
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- 0:59
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- 2 years ago
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Colleges, businesses, patients, students, workers, and US excellence will all suffer—and for what?
On February 7, the National Institutes of Health announced a 15 percent cap on indirect costs—an allowance that previously has averaged about 30 percent across the nation. For UNC, it meant a 40 percent research funding cut. The indirect rate, negotiated between the government and a given institution, is based on local and regional costs and various other factors.
Researchers, including biologist Mark Peifer, say cuts of this magnitude will be devastating.
“If my lab closes down, it will mean 10 people no longer have a job,” he says, and these are people “who live in my community, pay rent, go to the grocery store.”
If they stand, the reductions will create roadblocks for fledgling scientists, he says, because in many cases undergraduates will “no longer...
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- Across the US, Protesters Rally Against Donald Trump and Elon Musk
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- 3:20
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- 2 years ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
“I just can't sit idly by anymore,” said protester Dave Wilson.
From California to Florida, demonstrators were seen armed with signs that read “Resist fascism” and “Fight for Democracy,” as they marched against Trump’s agenda. Some braved freezing temperatures.
On Monday, thousands of protesters across the country hit the streets to tell Donald Trump and Elon Musk “No kings on Presidents’ Day” in response to the barrage of alarming actions—from legally questionable executive orders to mass firings—taken by the administration since the inauguration. Mother Jones Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery talked to some protesters in San Francisco about what angered them most.
Many of the protests were organized by the 50501 Movement, a grassroots organization aimed at mobilizing against “the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and...
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- Trump’s White Nationalist Agenda is Worth Calling What It Is
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- 2:33
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- 2 years ago
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The Trump administration doesn’t have a policy plan for America, but it does have an ideology: white nationalism.
That’s what’s driving the barrage of executive orders, shutdowns, and freezes currently wreaking havoc in America. Mother Jones video correspondent Garrison Hayes explains why it’s important to know the difference between white supremacy and white nationalism.
For years, Trump has surrounded himself with right wing ideologues like Stephen Miller, whose penchant for citing white nationalist websites in policy discussion was uncovered during Trump’s first term. Now, America is seeing the impact of the belief in a zero-sum game. “For one group to win, others must lose,” Hayes concludes in an interview with Eric K. Ward, executive vice president of Race Forward, a racial justice non-profit.
“This administration has no solution,”Ward explains...
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- The Dire Consequences of Science Without DEI
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- 0:48
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- 2 years ago
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The Trump administration is coming after science.
All sorts of research—on topics the administration may deem inappropriate, or conducted by scientists on “DEI” grants—appears to be on the chopping block. Isabel Low, for instance, a neuroscience postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University, says her funding is set to dry up in about a year. In preparing for her next career step, she was looking to apply for three grants, two of which were open to researchers from underrepresented backgrounds, including women: NIH’s MOSAIC and BRAIN Initiative awards. Now, she’s not sure those awards will be available. After the inauguration, “the web pages for these grants were just disappearing in real time,” she says. (Applications for these grants appear to have been restored, for now.)
Low’s research, which focuses on how memories form in the brain, isn’t related to...
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- Trump’s War on Medicaid Will Institutionalize Millions of People
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- 2:24
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- 2 years ago
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The GOP wants to fund billionaire tax cuts—and let disabled Americans pay the price.
In August 1981, then-President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law that allowed the development of state-level programs to help disabled people live outside institutions like nursing homes. Known as Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers, the programs—now in their fourth decade—are funded by Medicaid and run by each individual state. With potential cuts to Medicaid a priority for the Trump administration, the future of HCBS remains in limbo. Donald Trump’s recently confirmed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has refused to directly answer questions about whether he’d fall in line with attacks fielded by Republican politicians and Project 2025 by offering a recommendation to cut Medicaid.
Reagan couldn’t be described as an advocate for disabled people’s rights—just over a yea...
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- Fun fact: White men don't have a monopoly on merit. #DEI
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- 1:11
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- 2 years ago
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- Trump's Claim of "Anti-Christian Bias" Is as Absurd as It Is Untrue
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- 4:00
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- 2 years ago
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On Thursday, Trump signed the executive order on “eradicating anti-Christian bias."
The sole example of so-called “anti-Christian bias” Trump cited at the National Prayer Breakfast was the case of Paulette Harlow, one of the nearly two dozen people he pardoned two weeks ago for blocking the entrances to abortion clinics (some of the more serious violations included breaking into the clinics and stealing fetal tissue). Harlow, a 70-something Massachusetts resident, was sentenced to two years in prison last May for being part of a group that broke into a DC abortion clinic in October 2020 and livestreamed their blockading of the entrance; she was found guilty following a bench trial of federal civil rights conspiracy and violating the FACE Act, a federal law that prevents interfering with access to reproductive health clinics, according to Biden’s Department of Justice. (Trump’s DOJ has sa...
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- Trump doubles down on his plan to "own" Gaza.
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- 1:14
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- 2 years ago
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President Donald Trump is doubling down—in strikingly transactional and inhumane terms—on his stated plan to take over Gaza, force out Palestinians, and block them from returning after the devastating war with Israel.
In a new clip previewing a forthcoming interview with Fox News host Bret Baier, Trump described his widely criticized plan to “own” and develop the Gaza Strip while forcibly relocating two million Palestinians to Egypt or Jordan.
These latest comments amount to Trump’s doubling down on a plan that the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres described as “ethnic cleansing” after Trump first floated it last week at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the White House. Trump’s comments then—that the US would “take over” the Gaza Strip and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East”—ca...
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- Trump's Plan to Hand Power to Christian Nationalists
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- 1:12
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- 2 years ago
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We always knew that Trump’s return to the White House would bring Christian nationalism to the highest levels of government.
There’s Russell Vought, an avowed Christian nationalist and an author of Project 2025, who is Trump’s pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget—which leads the implementation of the president’s policies, regulations, and funding decisions across the federal government, as Mother Jones reporter Isabela Dias has written. And there was the pair of Christian podcasters who, at a rally the night before Trump’s inauguration, thanked God for “choosing President Donald Trump as a vessel for your nation,” as our Washington, DC, Bureau Chief David Corn covered.
The signs, in other words, have been there for a while.
Read Julianne McShane's full article here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/trump-vought-christian-nationalism...
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- The Hidden History of Trans Health Care
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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As of Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website has scrubbed all mention of LGBTQ folks. The State Department has removed the “TQ” in LGBTQ from its guidance page for LGBTQ international travelers. The White House removed pages honoring Nex Benedict and Matthew Shepard. The CDC also issued an order to rescind and rewrite unpublished research papers by their scientists that include the word “transgender.” (Not to mention curtailing information on climate and vaccines.)
The scrubbing effort has been equated by journalists and internet commentators to a virtual book-burning reminiscent of the Nazi era, specifically the world’s first trans clinic, The Institute for Sexual Research. “A generation of knowledge is being trashed at lightning speed,” wrote Dan Samorodnitsky for Sequencer.
That lightning-speed flurry of executive orders evokes history even a...
