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America's 911 System Is Facing Its Own Emergency
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- America's 911 System Is Facing Its Own Emergency
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- 2:42
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- 2 months ago
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- People often dial 911 in dire situations, fearing for their own lives or someone else's. Being quickly connected to an emergency dispatcher can be a matter of life or death.
But across the country, callers are being placed on hold. Why?
Byard Duncan and our friends at Type Investigations investigated that question. Here's what they found. Read more at MotherJones.com
Video by Sam Van Pykeren
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- Mayor Mamdani: The Midterms Could Be a Climate Election on Data Centers
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- 1:50
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- 2 months ago
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- "This is the first time that a policy will affect my life."
This is a quote from a middle-aged man who was asked about data centers in a recent viral clip that's caught fire across the web. And while most people's first reaction is to immediately facepalm at his ignorance, Mayor Zohran Mamdani sees something else: An opportunity.
"The thing that I always say is that's an opportunity to bring someone into a movement, to say that you're a part of something that is bigger than yourself," said Mamdani during today's Climate Desk Live event.
"There are a lot of people who care about data centers who might not even realize that this is a climate concern," he added. "And to me, that's part and parcel of what the challenge is: How do we ensure that climate is understood in terms of a quality-of-life impact?"
Video correspondent: Garrison Hayes
Producer: David Ritsher
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- Mayor Mamdani: The Jalen Brunson of Climate Change?!
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Could New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani be the Jalen Brunson of climate change? Mamdani talked the Knicks, making the climate crisis a priority, and more at a Climate Week fireside chat with our Garrison Hayes this morning.
Video correspondent: Garrison Hayes
Producer: David Ritsher
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- Mayor Mamdani: Climate Action Is Affordability Action
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- "The way that climate is treated in public discourse is almost like it's a luxury that some can afford to have while others have to deal with more immediate crises.
The reality is climate change is an immediate crisis."
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani breaks down why the climate crisis is also a quality of life crisis.
Video correspondent: Garrison Hayes
Producer: David Ritsher
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- Why Does Trump Like Mamdani? We Asked Him.
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- 1:48
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Why does Trump like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani so much? Well, we asked him.
On Thursday, Mamdani sat down with Mother Jones video correspondent @garrisonh amid a packed week for New York and the mayor specifically. On Monday, Mamdani met with Donald Trump, and pitched the president federal funding for a massive new affordable housing development. Trump left looking decidedly happy with the Mayor.
When Hayes asked why the president seemed so enamored with him, Mamdani replied: “This is the city where the President comes from.”
“The conversations we have are not just those of a mayor and a president, but those of two New Yorkers—New Yorkers with many differences of opinion, but who love this city,” Mamdani said.
Mamdani said that he brought up the need for stability for Haitian New Yorkers, who recently had their TPS status ended. “As long as someone can help the city,” he said, “I’ll talk to them.”
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- What World Is Melania Living In?
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- 1:17
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- 2 months ago
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- First Lady Melania Trump appeared on Fox and Friends on Wednesday to defend her husband’s second term despite his abysmal approval rating stemming, in part, from Americans’ anger at the state of the economy and Trump’s war with Iran.
“He works nonstop,” Melania told the hosts. “He has the most energy than anybody. He's, from morning to evening, nonstop working.”
“That's what we see. Definitely under-appreciated. Absolutely,” the Fox hosts agreed.
But most of the country seems to be seeing something else. In July, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand pressed Defense Secretary Hegseth on why he was requesting more money for a war that Congress hasn’t approved of.
“So you're essentially saying you're asking for literally $1.5 trillion for a war that President Trump said he already won?”
A recent CNN poll shows that Trump is losing support from independents, with approval ratings hitting historic lows....
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- Thousands Rally Against The Authoritarian Toddler's Takeover of the Kennedy Center
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Trump's mindset when it comes to the Kennedy Center is that of an authoritarian toddler. If he can't have the toys he wants, he'll try to break them and make sure no one else can have them, either.
Thousands of furious DC-area residents and Kennedy Center patrons gathered in front of the arts center last week in protest of the president's threat to tear the building down if he's not allowed to inscribe his own name on its exterior.
Reporting by Stephanie Mencimer
Video by Sonel Cutler
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- The Three Most Alarming Things Trump Said During His UN Speech
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- 1:07
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- This morning, President Trump gave a 37-minute speech at the UN General Assembly that served up a medley of reheated leftovers and provocative threats.
He spoke at length about Iran, saying that he had two options for ending the war: make a deal or annihilate the country. Watch three of his most alarming comments.
Producer: Rae de Leon
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- WATCH: Trump’s First Remarks Without the TV Pool
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- 0:33
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Hear that? Neither do we.
On Monday, major news networks announced they would pause coverage of presidential events in response to President Donald Trump banning CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House.
“The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting,” ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC said in a joint statement of solidarity. Those five networks belong to the White House television press pool and rotate daily to provide reporting, video, and audio of the president’s daily events to share with other outlets around the world.
Later that day, the president held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new White House helipad, during which the audio was indecipherable, leading a Newsmax reporter to speculate that the reason might be the absence of the usual television press pool.
Welp…“This...
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- Bo French's Racist Tweet Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- If you're not pissing off Karl Rove and John Cornyn, you're apparently not Republican enough.
To understand the islamophobia that has become mainstream in the GOP in 2026, you should understand Bo French, one of the most notorious bigots in North Texas.
Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/bo-french-jon-rosenthal-texas-railroad-commission/
Reporting by Tim Murphy
Video produced by Peter Berger
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- Did My IUD Make My Depression Worse?
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- After Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie had her IUD removed, she was surprised to find that she felt happier and calmer than she had in years.
Her experience made her wonder: What does the science say about how hormonal birth control affects mood? And in a moment when contraceptives are so politicized and misinformation is rampant, is it possible to talk about the side effects of birth control without giving ammunition to those who want to get rid of it altogether?
In talking with scientists, doctors, and public health experts, Lurie learns that for years, research has found that people on hormonal contraceptives are much more likely to experience depression, suicidality, anxiety, insomnia, and other effects rarely discussed by the doctors who prescribe them.
“For some women, it can be an almost overnight change,” says OB-GYN and contraceptive researcher Dr. Ojvind Lidegaard.
This week on Reveal, we explore the gaps in wo...
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- Trump Just Took a Big Step Toward More Authoritarianism
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Donald Trump just took another step toward authoritarianism.
Late Friday, Trump announced that he was banning Politico, CNN, and MS NOW. "Because they're fake news," he said. He offered no details about what that would look like, but threatened to ban other news outlets.
Top First Amendment groups in the country have already said they will sue if Trump tries to implement it.
Producer: Sam Van Pykeren
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- The Christian Nationalism in Trump's Cabinet Is Loud and Proud
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- "I do use this platform," said US Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. "I believe in making disciples of all the nations."
During an interview with a right-wing Christian network at Trump's midterm convention, Rollins urged America to "wake up."
"We can keep fighting every day, but if those socialists, those Democrat socialists who believe in bigger government, who don't believe in God, their religion is a radical climate agenda, wake up America" she said. "This is real and the darkness will overcome the light in this country if we're not successful at the ballot box today and in the future."
We've been covering the rise of Christian nationalism across the country and how it's made its way into the highest ranks of our government. Head to www.motherjones.com for more.
Producer: Sam Van Pykeren
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- DC Residents Hate Trump's Kennedy Center B.S.
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Trump’s costly campaign to make Washington “safe and beautiful” is floundering. Case in point: The Kennedy Center, which he shut down, fenced off, and threatened to demolish this week if a judge doesn't allow him to inscribe his name on its exterior.
It’s hard to avoid the similarities to a creepy courtship. If Trump can’t possess it, he threatens to kill it.
Read more at MotherJones.com
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- AOC Calls Out The Real Problem With Macklemore's Removal
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Ed Sheeran? Change the channel, at least according to AOC.
The New York representative recently weighed in on the Macklemore-Ed Sheeran dispute, highlighting the real conversation here: Billionaires will be a threat to free speech when they want.
Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of, among a ton of other stuff, the New England Patriots and its stadium, allegedly pressured Ed Sheeran and his team to remove rapper Macklemore from his tour after Macklemore voiced support for Palestinians amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza. All four of the remaining opening acts withdrew from the tour in solidarity with Macklemore by Tuesday afternoon.
On Wednesday, Macklemore pledged to donate his $1 million in net earnings from the tour to “six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people.” He invited Kraft to do the same.
The same day, Kraft released a statement pledging $2 million to "aid in the region."
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- Why Would Rep. Jasmine Crockett Award Chris Brown??
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
(TW: sexual assault, violence)
Rep. Jasmine Crockett defended victims of Epstein and Trump. So why is she kissing up to Chris Brown?
Just four months before the Texas Democratic representative joined Chris Brown onstage to sing his praises while awarding him recognition in the congressional record, Crockett told three of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims, “Your courage is contagious.”
“I’ve been smiling probably more than I’m supposed to as I’ve sat here because y’all bring me so much joy. And let me tell you why,” she added. “The reason is this: because in spite of this incompetent government, y’all do not back down.”
Throughout her career, Crockett rarely, if ever, shied away from calling out the Republican Party’s racism and misogyny. She’s steadfastly called out the Department of Justice’s failure to release the Epstein files and d...
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- Why Is Pete Hegseth Purging Women From Command?
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Why would Peter Hegseth want to purge women from combat? Look no further than his spiritual mentor, Doug Wilson, and their ideas about "biblical masculinity."
Read Kiera's full story here: https://bit.ly/3UM5Yd4
Reporter: Kiera Butler
Producer: Sam Van Pykeren
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- What This Russian Oligarch's Wedding Gift to Trump Jr. Reveals
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- It's not all just wedding bells and wedding bills! Donald Trump Jr.'s Russian oligarch gift reveals exactly how Putin's cronies are cozying up to the First Family.
WATCH:
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- Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
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- 4:36
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- From 2025: Americans deserve an answer to this question.
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 and rogue government operatives.
In this film—which credits Patel as ...
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- The 3 Most Off-the-Rails Answers from Kash Patel’s Senate Hearing
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- FBI director Kash Patel faced lawmakers during Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. His answers to questions—from why the agency lowered its hiring standards to why he “barged” in on the USA men’s hockey team’s celebrations earlier this year—were…perplexing, to say the least.
Producer: Rae de Leon
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- Conspiracists and Supporters Collide at Charlie Kirk’s Memorial
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- 2:57
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- We went to Charlie Kirk's one year memorial service at the site of his death. And it was full of contradictions—conspiracy theorists colliding with diehard supporters and protesters.
September 10 marked the one-year anniversary of the death of conservative youth activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. According to event organizers, thousands of people made the trek to the university event center to remember the founder of Turning Point USA. While it was mostly fans of Kirk and locals who had made the journey, none of the attendees happened to be from the Trump administration, unless you count Trent Staggs, the former mayor of Riverton, Utah and failed Senate candidate who now works in the Small Business Administration.
The event was subdued and received little media coverage because most of the political world was instead focused on President Donald Trump, who scheduled his midterm convention in Dallas for the same night, reportedly without consulti...
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- Your Deadbeat President Is Never Giving You $5,000
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- If desperation and embarrassment had a baby…it’d be Trump’s midterm approach.
“If Republicans win both the House and the Senate,” Donald Trump told a crowd at Wednesday’s GOP convention in Dallas, “I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States for $5,000.”
Trump’s fantastical and insincere pledge reveals an increasingly frantic and chaotic midterms strategy. And like his previous promises of free cash—including $2,000 checks from supposed tariff revenue and $5,000 checks from all that money we never saved from DOGE—it is NOT going to happen. Even the faithful at Fox News were skeptical.
The plan could cost at least $1 trillion and arrives just as alarm bells are clanging over a ballooning national debt and ever-rising cost of living.
And let’s be honest, it’s just desperate.
Check out the full story from Mother Jones’ Inae Oh here: https://bit.ly/4r4atvn
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- WATCH: Three Deranged Moments From Trump’s Cult-Like Midterm Convention
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- From leading a cult-like group pledge to “cheat like hell” in the midterms to an absurd promise of cash to Americans—the GOP kicked off its midterm convention in Texas on Wednesday, with a few unhinged moments from Donald Trump.
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- Mamdani Says NYC "Lied" About Toxic Post-9/11 Air
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- A few days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the release of thousands of air quality records, providing unprecedented insight into the lingering health consequences of the 9/11 attacks.
Our friends over at Reveal did a deep dive into this very topic, following a former doctor-turned-journalist trying to figure out why, two decades later, the illnesses haven’t stopped.
Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/more-people-have-died-from-9-11-than-on-9-11/id886009669?i=1000787959082
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- Trump Falsely Suggests He Was Pulled from Ground Zero on 9/11
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Where was Donald Trump on 9/11? Getting pulled from Ground Zero by firefighters, he claimed on Tuesday.
Nup.
"We thought it was coming down on top of us, and two firemen, big strong guys ... they grabbed me under the arms, said, 'got to get out of here!' and they literally lifted me up ... and they started running with me," the president said in a rambling speech at a memorial ceremony near the White House Tuesday morning.
But calling into a local television station a few hours after the attacks in 2001, the real estate developer recounted watching an explosion out of his Trump Tower window more than four miles from the Twin Towers. True to form, he found a way to make the moment about himself, adding that his building, 40 Wall Street, was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan.
The president has landed himself in several 9/11-related controversies in the last 25 years. During the 2016 presidential race, he ignored pleas to help 9/11...
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- California’s Top 100 Roundup Users Revealed
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
The Wonderful Company is the top sprayer of the herbicide glyphosate in California, according to records analyzed by Mother Jones as part of its searchable database of Top 100 users in the state. The company used 328,000 pounds in 2023, the latest year pesticide records are available—about 68 percent more than anyone else in the state.
How California farmers use the weedkiller matters to the rest of the country, too: The state is the largest producer by value of agricultural products in the United States, and produces nearly half of the country’s vegetables and more than three-quarters of its fruits and nuts.
In a statement, a spokesperson for The Wonderful Company said it “is one of the most environmentally focused agricultural enterprises and prioritizes sustainable business practices across its farming operations. The company, the spokesperson added, “currently uses glypho...
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- We Got Max Miller’s Old High School Yearbook
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- We got ahold of Max Miller's high school yearbook—and it brings back an old allegation. (Which Miller denies.)
For the past few months, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) has been embroiled in a growing list of scandals and allegations of harm. Miller’s ex-wife, the daughter of Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), has accused the Republican congressman in legal filings of being an absentee father, abusive husband, and having a history of violence and misconduct towards women dating back to his high school days. Miller has repeatedly denied these allegations.
As Abby Vesoulis reported in July:
For instance, one of [Emily] Moreno’s legal filings in their ongoing child custody case asked Miller to comment on the accusation that he pushed a female peer down a set of stairs during his high school years. “Why did you not pursue a defamation lawsuit against [redacted] for alleging you pushed her down a flight of stairs?" Miller’s response: “OBJECTION; relevance,...
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- We Toured Trump’s DC Vanity Projects and…They’re a Mess
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
The Supreme Court ruled this week that construction can move forward on President Trump’s $900 million White House ballroom. But across Washington, the president’s other pet construction projects aren’t going so well.
The Kennedy Center is closed, and its facade is covered with a tarp. The Reflecting Pool is drained and fenced off. The statue garden with sculptures of 250 Americans Trump hoped to complete by July 4 is nonexistent.
Should we even mention the 250-foot arch?
In fairness, the president has successfully fixed two ornamental fountains near the White House—it only cost the National Park Service $17.4 million (through a no-bid contract to Clark Construction) to do it. But they’re nearly impossible for the taxpayers who funded the repair to enjoy since the administration installed 13-foot steel fences around the perimeter of the park the fountains sit i...
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- Is Zach Lahn REALLY MAHA's Farm Hero?
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- 2:58
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Zach Lahn, Iowa’s Republican nominee for governor, depicts himself as a populist farm-country hero.
He’s one of a slate of candidates put forward by the Make America Healthy Again movement, which has grown frustrated with Washington’s permissive attitude toward pesticides, food additives, and other health-related threats.
Lahn presents himself as an outraged farmer who doesn’t want to be a politician and is running on promises to take down Big Ag—a rare Republican take in a state politically defined by agriculture. But much of his background paints a different narrative.
He wasn’t raised as a farmer. Lahn didn’t register to vote in Iowa until October 2024, barely meeting the state’s two-year residency requirement for gubernatorial candidates. He says he moved to his family’s Iowa farm from Kansas in 2023, but the Daily Beast recently reported that he never claimed the house as his primary residence.
“At his core,...
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- Max Miller Just Suggested He Has Dirt on Bernie Moreno
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- 2:57
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- “There are certain things that he would like me to remain quiet about.”
A heated scene unfolded at the Cuyahoga County family court in Cleveland on Wednesday, as the key players in a bitter dispute that has grabbed national headlines assembled in one room.
The case is one that Mother Jones reporter Abby Vesoulis has been covering for weeks: a custody fight over the two-year-old daughter of Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) and his ex-wife, Emily Moreno—whose father is Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio).
Miller is currently defending himself against Emily's allegations that he held a gun to her head, shoved her against a wall, and threw scalding water at her—all of which he vehemently denies. Despite these allegations, and at least six Republican senators (including his former father-in-law) urging him to drop out, Miller is running for reelection and has vowed to stay in the race. The deadline to replace him on the ballot passed earlier this month.
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- The Supreme Court handed Trump a key victory regarding mail-in voting.
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- 1:59
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- “This ruling violates well-established precedents concerning this Court’s equitable discretion and needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent.
The unsigned opinion by the court’s conservative majority, issued over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, said it was too soon for states to challenge Trump’s executive order from March 2026 severely restricting mail-in voting because they had not shown how they would be harmed by it.
While not a ruling on the merits of the executive order, the Court’s decision still overrules a series of federal court rulings blocking that order, which represents an unprecedented attempt by the Trump administration to seize control of election administration from the states, based on Trump’s demands for Republicans to “nationalize the voting” and “take over” the voting system.
“By issuing this final rule, the Trump admi...
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- MAHA’s Farm Hero in Iowa May Not Be Who He Says He Is
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- 7:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Zach Lahn, Iowa’s Republican nominee for governor, depicts himself as a populist farm-country hero.
He’s one of a slate of candidates put forward by the Make America Healthy Again movement, which has grown frustrated with Washington’s permissive attitude toward pesticides, food additives, and other health-related threats.
Lahn presents himself as an outraged farmer who doesn’t want to be a politician and is running on promises to take down Big Ag—a rare Republican take in a state politically defined by agriculture. But much of his background paints a different narrative.
He wasn’t raised as a farmer. Lahn didn’t register to vote in Iowa until October 2024, barely meeting the state’s two-year residency requirement for gubernatorial candidates. He says he moved to his family’s Iowa farm from Kansas in 2023, but the Daily Beast recently reported that he ...
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- The Iran Deal that was Always 'About to Happen': A Supercut
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- On March 9, President Donald Trump said the war in Iran was “very complete, pretty much.” That was Day 10 of the conflict. Now it’s nearly Day 180.
After Trump and Israel launched “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran on February 28, the president predicted a quick military victory and said “there will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER.” Within weeks, the hardline stance gave way to negotiations aimed at a deal that would deliver the core US demands of Iranian denuclearization and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Six months later, there’s still no deal and no end date to a conflict that has cost the US $37.5 billion, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s July testimony to Congress. And this week, the administration pivoted again, unveiling “Operation Economic Outcast,” a sweeping sanctions campaign to isolate Iran from the global financial system, a tacit admission that six months of bombing didn’t get the ...
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- A Maidu Elder Denounces Glyphosate Spraying in California’s Forests
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
When Beverly Ogle, an elder of the Maidu tribe, was growing up, she, her brothers, and her grandmother used to harvest plants in the forests surrounding Lassen Peak in northeastern California.
“It was amazing the things my grandmother knew,” Ogle said, recalling how she would explain what different plants were used for—food, medicine, basket weaving.
But today, as the government coats California’s forests in the controversial herbicide glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, Ogle can’t go out into the backcountry she grew up in without fearing: “Are we gathering something that’s got poison on it?”
Indigenous Californians have safeguarded their traditions through violent persecution, boarding schools, and other threats from authorities. Now, they say they're under attack again, this time from a chemical.
“It’s kind of like killing our ...
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- Billionaire Math: How Elon Musk Turned Himself Into a Meme Stock
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
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- No matter what he does, Elon Musk’s net worth just keeps going up. Why? He’s a meme.
Welcome to Billionaire Math, a video where we make sense of the things that don’t make sense about the world’s ruling class.
Watch the full video at https://youtu.be/SVRcKv33qkw?si=nJ5_DvldToUrAYEX
Reporting by Tim Murphy
Video by Peter Berger
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- One of the Most Scandal-Plagued Men in Congress Faces Voters Today
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- 2:57
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Today’s the day that Republican primary voters in central Florida will decide whether to send the Donald Trump-endorsed Rep. Cory Mills back to Congress for a third term.
Amid allegations of stolen valor, a restraining order by an ex, and an ongoing investigation by the House Ethics Committee into the Florida congressman, the results of Mills’ primary will test not just the power of a Trump endorsement but also how willing the Republican Party is to look away when it comes to allegations of misconduct.
Watch video correspondent Garrison Hayes chat with reporter Noah Lanard, who has reported extensively on Mills’ controversies.
See the full video at https://youtu.be/Y4pJIwmTlrU?si=PJOmgubZxgFo4Gel
Read Mother Jones’ investigation here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/cory-mills-florida-primary-ryan-elijah-donald-trump/
Video by Garrison Hayes and Noah Lanard
Produced by HyoJung Kim
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- AI Helped Me Build a Killer Drone
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Can an average guy build a killer drone in his garage?
For the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and Mother Jones, reporter Matt Smith set out to answer this question armed with zero engineering background and only a handful of AI chatbots to guide him.
It didn’t take much convincing. The chatbots handed him a shopping list—everything from propellers to an onboard computer—and walked him through the assembly and programming, coaching a man with the technical chops of an 11th grader.
Watch what happened next—and what it reveals about how close AI has brought us to a world where anyone can build an autonomous weapon.
Credits:
Video by David Ritsher
Reporting by Matt Smith
Executive Producer Amanda Pike
Bulletin Editor John Mecklin
Read the full story at https://thebulletin.org/2026/08/ai-helped-me-almost-build-a-kil...
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- His Scandals Keep Piling Up. Can Cory Mills Still Win?
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- 12:34
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
On Tuesday, another scandal-plagued congressman will face a verdict from Florida’s Republican voters.
Rep. Cory Mills’ record includes accusations of stolen valor, a restraining order from an ex, a House Ethics investigation, a reported Department of Justice investigation, and more. He’s been rejected by several members of his own party, but still has a February endorsement from President Donald Trump.
Mills spent some of the final days of his campaign texting Mother Jones reporter Noah Lanard about several of the scandals he is facing, including his relationship with a woman who was just out of high school when he was in his 40s, who reportedly later described the relationship as “exploitative.”
“Adults are entitled to date in an attempt to find their person,” Mills texted Noah. "I find it sick that you and others obsess over my dating life."
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- Billionaire Math Doesn't Add Up the Way Yours Does
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- 9:48
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Forget "girl math" and "boy math." America's running on billionaire math.
They own yachts that have yachts. They leave Earth just to feel something. They buy art they don’t like and tout books they don’t read and play God with things they don’t comprehend. Above all, they live by their own set of rules.
There is a crude but undeniable logic to the rise of the American Oligarchy. As @TimMurphy argued in a cover story for the magazine earlier this year, decades of deregulation, concentration, opportunism, and no small amount of generally-quite-legal corruption have allowed a small group of people (mostly in Silicon Valley) to control an ever-greater share of the economy and bend the political process toward their own ends. Money begets power begets money. It’s why, laid out on the page, the net worths of the world’s richest men currently look like they’re heading toward orb...
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- Trump Just Lost Joe Rogan With His New Money Making Scheme
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- “He’s just on a grab!”
We know Joe Rogan is not exactly the paragon of good sense. So you know things are bad when even he is outraged about Trump’s latest moneymaking scheme. The president introduced a new Truth Social feature this month that sells early access to his posts to subscribers willing to shell out up to $100,000 a month.
Trump has used his social platform as an official White House channel to unveil major policy initiatives, deliver updates on Iran ceasefire negotiations, and fire government officials. With access to those announcements before they go out to the general public, subscribers can turn the betting markets to get a return on their investment.
The feature violates the First and Fifth Amendments, a lawsuit filed against Trump alleged this week. It also may amount to insider trading and market manipulation.
Watch the gears turn… ever so slowly… when Rogan learns about the scheme from comedian Shan...
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- Have Chatbots Made Autonomous Weapons Available to Everyman?
- Runtime
- 8:44
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Can an average guy build a killer drone in his garage?
That’s the question reporter Matt Smith set out to answer over the course of 11 months armed with zero engineering background and only a handful of AI chatbots to guide him, in this collaboration between Mother Jones and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
His goal: a fully autonomous self-guided drone, one a theoretical evildoer could walk away from even as it continued carrying out its mission—with no humans involved. AI companies claim their models have built in limits or “guardrails,” but Smith wanted to see how well those would actually hold up.
It didn’t take much convincing. The chatbots handed him a shopping list—everything from propellers to an onboard computer—and walked him through the assembly and programming, coaching a man with the technical chops of an 11th grader.
Watch w...
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- Could this Trump-friendly district be turning against him?
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
When Joe Wiscount moved back to his hometown with his wife, Lara, they found that waste had taken over. To the west and south, biosolids companies trucked in sewage from places like New York City and piled it in the open air, wafting clouds of morning stench toward Main Street. A landfill in the scar of an old strip mine bloated toward a village to the east. To the north, a plant processed chicken manure into fertilizer pellets.
The Wiscounts, retired teachers who often finish each other’s sentences, started calling the state environmental department and speaking out at local meetings, urging officials to stand up to companies. “Other states that have more money and resources, whatever they want to get rid of, whether it’s human crap or garbage, this is where it gets dumped,” Joe says. “People come in from outside the county with big money and just roll in and roll over everybody.” Then...
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- Trump Wants a PGA Course in DC. The Land Has Other Plans.
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- 2:55
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Trump’s track-record on DC renovation projects has been nothing short of disastrous. Just look at the Reflecting Pool.
So, will his DC golf course renovation work out any better? (The short answer: No.)
When President Donald Trump takes flight on Marine One from the White House, he often gets a bird’s-eye view of a municipal golf course located at East Potomac Park, a national park better known to locals as Hains Point.
Perhaps the flyovers inspired his recent ambitions to transform the beloved local links into a world-class golf course worthy of PGA tournaments.
Trump recently said construction on the new course will begin September 1. But his aerial view of this particular building site may obscure one of the park’s key features: Its water hazard.
Water from the Potomac River floods its sidewalks and drowned the city’s dreams of a modern swimming facility.
Now, it threatens to wash out Trump’s ...
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- Inside a Mass Shooter’s Harrowing ChatGPT Logs
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- 1:50
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- In the past year, there’s been growing evidence that troubled people are using ChatGPT and other AI chatbots to plan mass shootings.
For his latest investigation, Mother Jones national affairs editor Mark Follman took a close look at the mass shooting at Florida State University in April 2025.
He obtained a huge set of chat logs from the accused mass shooter—enough content to fill about 10 books.
The logs are a remarkable view into the mindset of the FSU shooter, who asked for tips on using guns and targeting the campus, and who told ChatGPT for months that he was desperate, angry, and suicidal.
But in addition to the many red flags, the logs also reveal some weird and disturbing chatbot behavior.
Read the investigation: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/08/openai-chatgpt-fsu-mass-shooting-chat-logs/
Reporter: Mark Follman
Producer: Anna Yeo
#AISafety #ChatGPT #OpenAI #GunViolen...
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- You're Paying So Much More for the Iran War Than They’re Telling You
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- What is the war in Iran costing you?
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently told Congress that the US government has spent $37.5 billion on the Iran War so far, and requested an additional $67 billion in emergency funding.
But what about the costs that don’t factor into Hegseth’s accounting—ones the rest of us are actually paying? This goes way beyond what you pay at the pump and affects the cost of everything from airline tickets and Amazon delivery fees to stuffed animals, diapers, baby wipes, bottled water and clothing.
Meanwhile, experts warn that a spike in fertilizer prices could spark historic levels of global hunger in some parts of the world.
And economists say the full impact hasn't begun to hit us yet.
Reporter: Amanda Pike
Producer: Anna Yeo and David Ritsher
#IranWar #WarCosts #Inflation #DefenseSpending #GasPrices #GlobalHunger #MotherJones #InvestigativeJournalism
- Title
- Rep. Max Miller Faces Mounting Allegations of Violent Behavior
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Mother Jones reporter Abby Vesoulis appeared on CNN last night to discuss her bombshell investigation about Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio).
CNN's Jake Tapper also got into a heated exchange with the congressman over these recent allegations.
You can read Abby's full story here: https://bit.ly/4waceIu
Reporter: Abby Vesoulis
Producer: Peter Berger
#MaxMiller #OhioPolitics #CNN #JakeTapper #Congress #PoliticalNews #MotherJones #InvestigativeJournalism
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- NEW: Bodycam Footage Reveals Rep. Max Miller Downplaying Abuse Allegations
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
On July 18, Mother Jones published an exhaustive article on a number of assault and domestic abuse allegations swirling around Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller.
The report was based on more than 2,000 pages of court filings and police records, including a 48-page investigatory file relating to possible child abuse after their toddler experienced a broken collarbone. This file included numerous troubling allegations from Emily Moreno—Miller’s ex-wife and the daughter of US Sen. Bernie Moreno—who accused Miller of throwing scalding water at her, shoving her against a wall during a heated custody exchange, and holding a gun to her head while she was trying to change their daughter’s diaper. Other public records accused Miller of drug abuse and threatening behavior.
Today, we’re publishing a video that includes select clips from seven hours of police interviews and bodycam foot...
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- The Post-Roe Surprise: More Abortions
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade four years ago, more than a dozen states have banned abortion outright.
But thanks to abortion pills by mail, abortion is still available in every state. In fact, the number of abortions has gone up since the fall of Roe.
In today's episode of Reveal, reporter Amy Littlefield follows Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, on her crusade to stop the flow of abortion pills.
Listen now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reveal/id886009669
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- Inside the Allegations Against Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Allegations of drug use, verbal abuse, threats, and violent behavior against multiple women.
Several Democratic members of Congress are requesting the House Ethics Committee investigate their colleague, Congressman Max Miller (R-OH), over allegations that he assaulted his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, and possibly injured their child.
Their calls for a formal probe into the embattled Congressman follow the publication of a July 18 profile in Mother Jones that reporter Abby Vesoulis drew from thousands of pages of public records alleging numerous episodes of misconduct.
Read the investigation: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/assault-misogyny-verbal-threats-records-detail-new-allegations-against-rep-max-miller-bernie-moreno/
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- Trump’s Bad Speech: A Disinformation Operation
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 3 months ago
- Description
- Trump’s bad speech was more than bad. It was disinformation.
President Donald Trump recently gave an "election security" speech saying US elections were full of fraud and suggesting that China meddled in 2020 to steal the election from him. But the documents he released to back this up? They said the opposite. One key document noted that US intelligence assessed in 2020 that China preferred Trump lose but never tried to interfere. It also stated that Russia ran a covert operation to smear Biden to help Trump win. None of the documents showed there has been major election fraud.
This isn't new. A year ago Tulsi Gabbard brazenly misrepresented declassified intelligence records to accuse former President Barack Obama of "treason”—and these lies triggered a criminal investigation of former Obama aides.
The big story about Trump’s speech isn’t just that he once again made false claims. It’s that he's perverting intelligence agencies and t...
