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Minneapolis church feeds thousands of families fearing ICE
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- Minneapolis church feeds thousands of families fearing ICE
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- 2:46
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- 10 months ago
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- "It's really evil what's going on. And coming from the conservative government, 'Christian' government, I just think they're reading their Bible backwards."
In December, Pastor Sergio Amezcua put out a sign-up for Minnesotans who were afraid to leave their homes and needed grocery deliveries. He thought 10 or 20 families would sign up. Since then, his church, Dios Habla Hoy, has delivered food to 17,000 families.
Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie spent the week in Minneapolis talking to clergy, protesters, and people confronted by ICE. Follow along for more updates.
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- "They Picked the Wrong State to Mess With"
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- 1:22
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- 10 months ago
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- Live from Minneapolis as marches and strikes take over the city.
Hundreds of Minnesota businesses—from breakfast spots to bike shops to breweries—are shutting down Friday as part of a general strike pushing ICE out of the state.
The "Day of Truth and Freedom" includes protests, prayers, and fasting, organized by a coalition of clergy and supported by labor organizers and the entire Minneapolis City Council. There's also a march planned. All this is even more extraordinary given the Arctic conditions that are currently sweeping the city.
We are on the ground, live today. Follow along for updates.
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- No, antidepressants don't cause mass shootings
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- 7:13
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- 10 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
As US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn a lot of attention for promoting pseudoscience and disproven theories, especially on vaccines. He is using that playbook on another major public health issue: gun violence, which remains the leading cause of death for kids in America. When it comes to school shootings and other mass shootings, here’s what RFK Jr. wants you to believe: It’s not the guns, he argues, it’s the pills.
The fringe theory that antidepressants can cause people to turn violent has been around for decades, focused primarily on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which are the most common class of these drugs. But extensive research on the theory by mental health and violence prevention experts has found no credible evidence that antidepressants cause or contribute to mass shootings.
In this video, Mark Follman, Mother Jones editor and ...
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- What these American and Panamanian teenagers did in 1964 changed Panama forever
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- 1:25
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- 10 months ago
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- President Donald Trump has called for the United States to reassert control over the Panama Canal.
This new video collaboration between @RetroReport and @reveal examines the 1964 protests in Panama that led to violence following a disagreement between American and Panamanian high school students over which nation’s flag should fly outside a school.
The clash reflected a larger conflict over control of the Panama Canal and the US-administered Canal Zone, a territory that divided Panama geographically and politically.
Watch the full video and learn more about the impact of the conflict here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/panama-canal-venezuela-trump-protest-greenland-us-imperialism/
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- ICE Took Him. Now His Family Lives in Fear.
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- 7:08
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- 10 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
A little girl can’t go to the park with her parents. A mother trembles while taking out the trash. A father peeks through the blinds to see if anyone is watching. Years earlier, this family faced persecution in Venezuela, but now they’re living in terror in the United States.
They traveled thousands of miles on the most treacherous migration path in the world to seek asylum in the US, but following the legal pathways didn’t matter amid Trump’s anti-immigrant crackdown. Jose, one of the primary providers for the extended family, was taken by ICE. For the safety of the family, we’ve changed their names and concealed identifying details.
Like many Venezuelan asylum seekers, they are stuck in a lose-lose situation. The Trump administration has specifically targeted Venezuelan immigrants for deportation, while simultaneously bombing their home country, abducting Venezuelan Preside...
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- Minnesotans aren't even letting ICE agents piss in peace.
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- 0:38
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- 10 months ago
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- Border Patrol official Greg Bovino sure does draw a crowd.
Minnesotans are showing up in numbers, yelling and whistling, to make sure the community knows where Bovino and his federal agents are. Even if they're just getting a snack.
The message is clear: We won't even let you piss in peace.
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- Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney calls for resisting "great powers"
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- 1:09
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- 10 months ago
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- “The middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu."
Imploring an audience chock-full of European officials at the annual World Economic Forum to recognize that “nostalgia is not a strategy,” Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada rallied middle powers—countries with economies similar to Canada—to bind together in the face of unilateral military and economic coercion by bigger powers. (Unspoken but clear among them: Trump’s America.)
In doing so, Carney painted a stark view of a new world in which old rules have been torn up, and countries should stop pretending otherwise. “We are in the midst of a rupture,” he said, “not a transition.”
His call to the world: Resist subordination to the “great powers” who “have the market size, the military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms.”
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- This is how Congress could stop Trump from taking Greenland.
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- 2:37
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- 10 months ago
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- Is there a way to stop Trump from taking over Greenland? Yes. But it relies on Congress to act.
That's what Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) wants to do with his new bill, which if passed, would stop the flow of federal funds to do anything like coerce, purchase, or invade the country. David Corn caught up with the California legislator, who serves on the House's intelligence committee, to figure out what's at stake.
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- What a Secret Government Warehouse in Venezuela Says About the US Today
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- 5:25
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- 10 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Reporter Nathan Halverson traveled to Venezuela in 2016 for CIR’s documentary The Grab (https://revealnews.org/the-grab/) to report on what happens when a once-wealthy country runs out of food. People waited in lines for days just to buy food. Police struggled to maintain order as hunger and desperation spread, and anger toward the government boiled over. The crisis was largely attributed to corruption and economic mismanagement under increasingly authoritarian leaders.
Today, as the United States grapples with a presidency marked by executive overreach, what lessons can Venezuela teach Americans? And what are the long-term costs of ignoring experts and instituting policies that benefit a select few?
For Halverson, who exposed how Venezuela used food as a weapon of control, this moment shows how quickly a crisis can spiral.
To learn about the current situation in Venez...
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- ICE’s tear gas sent a 6-month-old to the hospital
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- 1:22
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- 10 months ago
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- A mother in Minneapolis rushed to perform CPR on her 6-month-old baby on Wednesday night after federal immigration agents deployed a flash bang and chemical agent near her car, leading all six of her children to be taken to the hospital.
This isn’t the first time kids have been on the receiving end of chemical weapons used by federal immigration agents in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans. These include incidents where children have been harmed as ICE agents targeted their parents with chemical agents. Young people have also been caught in the crosshairs at protests or nearby. Several incidents of tear gas have taken place at schools.
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ice-tear-gas-on-kids-minneapolis-chicago-chemical-irritant/
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- Gov. Tim Walz urges Minnesotans to bank evidence against ICE
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- 1:04
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- 10 months ago
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- The Trump administration’s offensive against immigrants in Minneapolis—and those who seek to help them—continued to intensify Wednesday night and into Thursday after a federal agent shot another person during an immigration operation.
In a Wednesday night address, Gov. Walz spoke directly to Minnesotans, urging them to continue to record ICE’s actions. “If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and record. Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans. Not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution,” he said, once again telling protesters to respond peacefully.
“Trump wants this chaos,” Walz added. “He wants confusion. And yes, he wants more violence on our streets. We cannot give him what he wants. We can’t. We must protest loudly, urgently, but also peacefully.”
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- Mayor Zohran Mamdani Is Already Delivering for New York Taxi Drivers
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- 2:53
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- 10 months ago
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- New York City's Zohran Mamdani is already using his power to deliver for his community.
Back in 2021, Mamdani helped secure massive debt relief for NYC taxi drivers by going on a 15-day hunger strike. On Tuesday, he was joined by many of the drivers he went on strike with as he announced Midori Valdivia as his pick to run the Taxi & Limousine Commision—another win for taxi and rideshare workers.
We caught up with the mayor after the event. "There's still work to be done," he told us. Watch!
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- Can the ICE officer who killed Renée Good be taken to court?
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- 0:51
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- 10 months ago
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- After an ICE agent shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis, protesters have amassed around the country, many wondering: Can that officer be taken to court?
The Trump administration, predictably, says the agent, Jonathan Ross, is immune from prosecution. “You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal law enforcement action,” Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Thursday. “That guy is protected by absolute immunity. He was doing his job.”
But what do independent attorneys say? “I’ve deposed thousands of police officers,” veteran lawyer Robert Bennett told Mother Jones reporter Samantha Michaels. “ICE agents do not have absolute immunity.”
Watch and read the full interview at MotherJones.com.
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- Federal agents pull Minneapolis woman from her car
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- 1:28
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- 10 months ago
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- She said she was headed to a doctor's appointment. Federal agents still attacked her.
Earlier today in Minneapolis, journalist Amanda Moore documented a tense, chaotic federal operation near 34th Street and Park Avenue. Agents appearing to remove people from a nearby home who “looked like they might be teenagers” drew a crowd in protest.
At the same time, a woman trying to pass by the protest was stopped by federal agents, who smashed the passenger-side window of her car, cut off her seat belt, pulled her out of the car, and arrested her. In the video, she pleads to be allowed through for medical care, saying she’s disabled and trying to get to the doctor.
As tensions escalated, Moore reported agents fired pepper balls and deployed tear gas.
The scenes unfolded amid a broader surge of federal immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities following the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer last week.
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- US Reduces Number of Vaccines It Recommends for All Children
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- 1:12
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- 10 months ago
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- Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s Health and Human Services Department is changing vaccinations for your child.
Federal health officials reduced the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 to 11 last week.
This change to the vaccine schedule is the culmination of months of efforts by Kennedy, who has a long record of anti-vaccine activism, to alter the way vaccines are approved and recommended.
According to NPR, officials said that the revision was made without formal public comment or response from vaccine makers, evading the usual process in which bodies like the CDC’s ACIP evaluate changes. Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, told NPR that the decision “will sow further doubt and confusion among parents and put children’s lives at risk.”
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- Watch This and Decide for Yourself About What ICE Is Doing in the Streets
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- 2:57
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- 10 months ago
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- Watch this for yourself and decide: Is ICE escalating things?
Reporter Amanda Moore puts it simply: “Yeah, it’s chaos.” Over the weekend she captured confrontations she describes as “extremely violent,” including a Saint Paul gas station scene where agents “busted out the window of a car.”
Even the timing, she notes, might be a signal of escalation. Amanda says Sundays were normally a day off from the front lines, but says “I guess not anymore.”
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- Renée Good: The Video vs. The Lies
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- 3:00
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- 10 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
In the immediate aftermath of the ICE killing of Renée Good in Minneapolis last week, the Trump administration smeared her as a “domestic terrorist,” claiming that she had weaponized her vehicle. They labeled Good a “violent rioter” and insisted every new video angle proved their version of the truth: Good was a menace and the ICE agent a potential victim. That’s despite the video evidence to the contrary, showing Good, by all appearances, trying to leave the scene of the altercation, while ICE agents acted aggressively. Kristi Noem, the Secretary of Homeland Security, spent Sunday doubling down, insisting that Good had supposedly been “breaking the law by impeding and obstructing a law enforcement operation.”
Last Thursday, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz invoked Orwell's 1984 to describe this break between what millions of people saw, and what Trump and his allies insisted had taken...
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- The lie of “self-financing” oil wars
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- 0:57
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- 10 months ago
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- The US attack on Venezuela relies on the same deception that justified the war in Iraq: the idea of self-financing wars with oil.
President Trump said Saturday that the US will run Venezuela following the capture of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. “It won’t cost us anything because the money coming out of the ground is very substantial,” he said at a Saturday press conference at Mar-a-Lago following news of the US attack. But we’ve been down this road before.
“There’s a lot of money to pay for this. It doesn’t have to be US taxpayer money,” Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz claimed about Iraq in March 2003, the same month as the US invasion. “We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.” He said oil revenues could bring $50-100 billion over the first years of the invasion.
That wasn’t the case, and just like what would happen in Ira...
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- Europe tells Trump: Greenland is not for sale
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- 1:19
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- 10 months ago
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- European leaders argued for Greenland’s sovereignty this past Tuesday amid President Trump’s continued threat to take over the island following his military operation in Venezuela.
Greenland is an autonomous territory in Denmark. Citizens of Greenland are also citizens of Denmark and the European Union. In a joint statement released Tuesday, more than half a dozen European leaders wrote that “Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.”
The leaders asserted that security in the Arctic region must be “achieved collectively”—which includes NATO allies like the United States—by upholding the UN Charter that establishes “sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders.”
Since the US captured Maduro, Trump has threatened Colombia, Mexico, Greenland, Iran, and Cuba.
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- “Garbage”: How Trump Used to Talk About Venezuelan Oil
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- 1:42
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- 10 months ago
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- Trump spent years hating on Venezuela’s “horrible” oil. What changed?
Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump called the country’s crude “horrible,” “tar,” “the dirtiest stuff you can imagine,” and the “worst oil probably anywhere in the world.” But, less than two years later, President Trump has framed his move to depose Nicolás Maduro in large part as a move to seize this “garbage” oil.
His reservations about the quality of the fossil fuels he plans to acquire have disappeared. Instead, the president has suggested he may be willing to send in more US troops to keep control of it and that he’s not “afraid of boots on the ground.” Gone, too, are Trump’s warnings that Venezuelan heavy crude will pollute the air in American communities when it’s refined stateside.
Read more here: https://bit.ly/4sxEOTt
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- AOC Responds to JD Vance Over ICE Shooting
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- 0:50
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- 10 months ago
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- "That is a fundamental difference between Vice President Vance and I," says Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in response to JD Vance's defense of the ICE agent who shot and killed Renée Good in Minneapolis.
"I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street."
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- Gov. Tim Walz Quotes Orwell's 1984
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- 1:23
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- 10 months ago
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- Gov. Walz got emotional Thursday, invoking Orwell's 1984 to describe the Trump administration's handling of the Minnesota ICE shooting.
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- Trump Has a Message: We Will Use Violence on You
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- 3:39
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- 10 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
The military assault on Venezuela, the shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE agent, the launch of the White House’s new revisionist website about January 6—these three events convey a powerful and unsettling message from Donald Trump and his crew: Violence is ours to use, at home and abroad, to get what we want.
In each episode, the Trump administration has employed or embraced violence that seemingly violates the law and extends beyond ordinary state powers. The US military attack on Caracas and kidnapping of its repressive and fraudulently elected president, Nicolás Maduro, violated the Constitution and international law. Absent an imminent threat from Venezuela—and none existed—Trump did not have the constitutional authority to unilaterally launch an act of war against the country. Yet he deployed the tremendous force of the United States’ war machine to dethrone and abdu...
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- We’re on the Ground in Minneapolis as Tensions Flare After ICE Shooting
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- 2:56
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Amanda Moore is a journalist who arrived on the ground in the immediate aftermath of the shooting of Renée Nicole Good, the 37-year-old mother who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, sparking mass protests. She spoke to Mother Jones’ executive editor James West from outside the Whipple Building in Minneapolis.
Amanda has been covering the rise of ICE across the US for months, writing news articles and posting clips of confrontations to her social media feeds and, in the process, becoming one of the most prominent chroniclers of Trump’s immigration crackdown from the front lines.
Amanda will be filing stories for Mother Jones over the coming weeks and months about ICE and its operations. Follow her at @noturtlesoup17 and stay tuned for more updates.
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- Trump’s Venezuela Move Could Deliver a Big Win for This MAGA Billionaire
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Billionaire hedge funder Paul Singer, whose firm acquired oil giant Citgo at a bargain price, has much to gain from Nicolás Maduro’s ouster.
On Fox News Saturday, Trump made clear that one of the motivations for Saturday’s attack was to increase the production and export of Venezuelan oil.
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- ICE can't seem to stop shooting people
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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- ICE can't seem to stop shooting people.
There have been 14 shootings in which federal agents shot someone during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown, according to The Trace.
But as Mother Jones' Noah Lanard wrote in October, there is little evidence that ICE agents face such severe and widespread danger compared with other law enforcement agencies.
ICE's own records show that none of their agents have ever been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. So, it seems ICE may pose a far greater danger to civilians than the other way around.
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- Even Republicans Are Challenging Trump’s Claim That His Venezuela Campaign Is About Drugs
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- 1:38
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- 10 months ago
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- Even diehard Republicans are splitting from their dear leader over the claim that his Venezuela campaign is about drugs.
Trump's pinning of fentanyl on Venezuela also avoids a broader point on health policy, writes MoJo's Julia Lurie. The dramatic proclamations—and now acts of aggression— gloss over a glaring reality: The administration is slashing funding for state and federal agencies that provide addiction treatment and overdose prevention programs.
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- It's Always Been About Oil
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- 0:29
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- Did Trump warn Congress about an act of aggression toward another sovereign country? No.
Did Trump speak with major oil companies before and after an act of aggression toward another sovereign country? Of course.
Oil-garchy in plain sight.
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- A Year of Hell for Immigrants
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- 2:35
- Date posted
- 10 months ago
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- In the first Trump administration, cruelty was the point. Now, it is the norm.
Looking at the immigration system as a whole, virtually every part of it has been made harder and riskier, as if repurposed only to punish people for one of the most universal experiences there is: migration.
The message is clear: No immigrant living in the United States is to feel safe or welcome. No one will be spared. Not a college freshman visiting family on Thanksgiving. Not even the mother of the White House press secretary’s nephew.
Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is choosing—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism. And it’s doing so ostensibly in the name of “protecting” the American people.
Read more at MotherJones.com
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- Toys too expensive this year? You can thank the Grinch (Trump)
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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Toys too expensive this year? You can thank the Grinch (Trump).
At a December rally in Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump defended his tariff policies, saying, “You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter. Two or three is nice. You don’t need 37 dolls.” It’s a call for sacrifice from a man building a $400 million ballroom, all in the name of bringing back better-made, American goods.
Back in May, Stephen Miller, Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, argued a similar point. He said that American families would rather pay more for a well-constructed American doll than a doll from China.
But according to The Toy Book editor-in-chief James Zahn, this idea that we’re going to bring back toy production is “intriguing and infuriating,” he says. “There isn't really this industry to bring back to the United States, because the bulk of it was never here.”
Since the major tariffs hit earlier this year, every publicly tr...
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- Why Did Trump Pardon the Former Honduran President? Follow the Tech Bros.
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Why is Donald Trump pardoning a former president who was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine and taking millions of dollars in bribes?
Follow the tech bros.
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- "He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned" -Donald Trump
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- 0:44
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Despite backlash from the right, Trump stood by his callous remarks regarding the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele.
Early Monday, Trump issued an ugly rant on his Truth Social platform. He derided Rob and attributed his death “to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
Asked by a reporter about his post, he offered an encore of his disgusting performance: “I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned...He was very bad for our country.”
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- SCOTUS’s GOP Justices Are About to Hand Trump Way More Power
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- SCOTUS’s right-wing bloc sounds ready to axe independent federal agencies—and the precedents that guard them.
Oral arguments last week over the president’s power to remove commissioners of independent agencies made it clear where Republican-appointed justices stand.
Read more at MotherJones.com
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- The Trump administration won't stop firing immigration judges
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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Trump is trying to reshape immigration courts to fit his mass deportation agenda.
In early December, the New York Times reported, eight judges serving on the bench at New York City’s 26 Federal Plaza—ground zero for courthouse arrests—were terminated. Among them was Amiena A. Khan, the court’s supervising assistant chief immigration judge.
As it removes seasoned judges with diverse backgrounds, the Trump White House is also working to replace them with adjudicators it expects will be more aligned with its anti-immigration push. Earlier this year, the administration eased the requirements to hire temporary judges with limited immigration law experience and started recruiting military lawyers for temporary assignments, a move legal experts have warned could undermine due process.
More recently, the official Department of Homeland Security account on X started calling on candidates to apply to join the bench to work under a new title: “Depo...
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- New photos of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein just dropped. 👀
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- 0:37
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- New photos of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein just dropped. 👀
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- ICE Targets New Orleans in Latest "Swamp Sweep" Operation
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- 1:04
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- The Department of Homeland Security officially launched what it’s calling “Operation Catahoula Crunch” in New Orleans last week. The wider operation is called “Swamp Sweep.” Federal immigration officers, in coordination with local law enforcement, are aiming to arrest 5,000 people.
New Orleans Mayor-elect Helena Moreno, a Democrat who was born in Mexico, has been critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s impending presence in the city. “You have parents who are scared to send their children to school,” Moreno told the local CNN affiliate WWL. “At my church,” she said, “there is a one o’clock service, Spanish-speaking service every Sunday, that keeps getting smaller and smaller. People are really, really scared.”
Read the full story at MotherJones.com
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- We’d Never Deport Veterans, Noem Says in Earshot of Deported Veteran
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- DHS Secretary Kristi Noem assured Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-RI) that ICE has not deported US military veterans. One small problem: the deported US vet who joined the hearing virtually.
“Madam Secretary, we are joined on Zoom by a gentleman named Sae Joon Park. He is a United States Army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country in Panama in 1989," Magazine told Noem.
Park was taken into custody by Customs and Border Protection agents at an airport in Honolulu and placed on a one-way flight to South Korea in June. Park, a green-card holder and a Purple Heart recipient, self-deported after he was placed on a deportation list.
The Trump administration isn’t the first to deport veterans. Officials across the administration, though, have repeatedly and falsely denied detaining or deporting US citizens or those in the country with other legal protections.
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- "No data, no money"
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- The United States Department of Agriculture is threatening to withhold federal funding for food stamps for more than 20 Democratic-led states that have refused to hand over sensitive personal data about millions of participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
The agriculture department is seeking personal information like Social Security numbers, birth dates, and home addresses—information it claims will aid officials in rooting out fraud. Democratic leaders have warned the data could be used for other policies not related to keeping people fed, like immigration enforcement.
During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, USDA Secretary Brooke L. Rollins said that leaders have until next week to send in data or the department will “begin to stop moving federal funds into those states,” adding that her office wants the data to “protect the American taxpayer.” If the administration follows through on this deadline, according to the New...
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- Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew Released From ICE Custody on Bond
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- The mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s nephew was released from ICE custody Monday on a $1,500 bond.
Bruna Ferreira was arrested in Massachusetts last month while picking up her 11-year-old son from school and sent to a Louisiana ICE Processing Center. DHS declined to say whether the release signals any policy change on bond for detained undocumented immigrants, which the admin has typically opposed.
Read the report at MotherJones.com.
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- Science Journal Retracts Widely Cited Study That Claimed Roundup Is Safe
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- A landmark study on the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the most popular herbicide in the world, Roundup, has been formally retracted by its publisher. The journal that published the study said that it appears it might have been secretly ghostwritten by employees of Monsanto, the company that introduced Roundup in 1974.
But that hasn't stopped the Trump administration from shielding the company from people who say the herbicide gave them cancer.
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- 3 takeaways on skyrocketing health care costs
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
For the last two months, @bychrisvazquez has covered skyrocketing health care costs that millions of Americans face going into the new year. Here’s what he’s learned.
First, discontent with political leaders is running high. When the government shut down, affordable health care was at the center of lawmakers’ fight over funding the government. Democrats wanted any funding legislation to include an extension on tax credits for people on Affordable Care Act marketplace plans. Republicans refused. Then, a group of Senate Democrats broke ranks to reopen the government without extending the credits. People who’ve voted Republican before have shown frustration with GOP leaders for their refusal to extend the credits, and liberals and leftists alike have derided the Democrats who didn’t hold the line after the country endured the longest government shutdown in US history.
Second, ...
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- "My health care is a joke to you?"
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Amber Gustafson, a writer and nonprofit fundraiser in Ankeny, Iowa, doesn’t qualify for Affordable Care Act subsidies. But she’s still bracing for impact if lawmakers let them expire at the end of the year.
“I want them to continue to subsidize the plans of other people,” Gustafson said, “because the more people that are part of the ACA, the more cost effective it is for everybody.”
Before the Affordable Care Act was passed, Gustafson struggled to access care her family needed under private health insurance. The ACA changed that, and it also changed how she voted. A lifelong Republican up to the 2008 presidential election, Gustafson changed her party affiliation and watched with frustration as GOP lawmakers opposed passing the ACA.
Gustafson is a degree removed from lawmakers’ current fight over extending tax credits for people on Marketplace plans—she do...
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- "I may just not get health insurance."
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Arianna Freels, a stylist and magazine owner in Severn, Maryland, turned 26 last July—an American milestone that usually marks a child’s ineligibility to remain on their parent’s health insurance.
So Freels sought out her own plan on Maryland’s health insurance marketplace. Tax credits keep her monthly premium at roughly $60, and the plan she was auto-enrolled in for next year carries a similar price tag. But she fears how that might change if lawmakers allow these tax credits to expire at the end of the year.
“If things are going up, that plan is easily $500 a month.”
For more interviews with people bracing for rising health care costs, and other videos on how we got here, check out our feed.
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- Small businesses hurt by expiring health care subsidies
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- 1:48
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- 11 months ago
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Andrew Volk, a bar owner in Portland, Maine, told journalist Chris Vazquez several times that he isn’t an economist. But as a small business owner, he’s on the frontlines of the American economy. And what he’s seeing scares him.
As lawmakers stall on extending tax credits for people who get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act, Volk is already seeing ripple effects. As marketplace plan premiums are set to spike, so too are prices for private insurance that Volk offers his employees. He’s grappling with how to deal with price increases between 25 and 35 percent.
He also fears that as marketplace plans get more expensive without these tax credits, fewer people will give up employer-sponsored health insurance to start their own small businesses—something he was only able to do because of affordable marketplace insurance.
To hear from others facing risi...
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- High health care costs even with extended subsidies
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
In Washington, DC, lawmakers are debating whether to extend tax credits that help millions of Americans afford health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
In Kanab, Utah, photographer Stacy Cox received a letter from her marketplace insurer saying that her monthly premium will increase by a whopping 50 percent—even if lawmakers extend these tax credits.
And if she loses her $1,415 tax credit, her monthly premium will rise to $2,168.
“So if these credits aren’t extended, we don’t have health insurance,” Cox said to journalist Chris Vazquez.
Stay tuned for more interviews with people facing skyrocketing health care costs, and check out other videos on our feed.
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- Expiring ACA tax credits affects everyone
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- 2:31
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- Steve Gomez, a construction manager in Gilbert, Arizona, relies on ACA marketplace coverage for his and his family’s health care—including his son Anthony, who was born with a congenital heart defect.
He’s used tax credits in the past to help pay for his marketplace plan, but elected not to this year. And next year, although his health care costs are set to go down per month, he tells @bychrisvazquez he cannot find a marketplace plan that covers the care Anthony actually needs.
And he believes the impending expiration of these tax credits is largely to blame: Because insurance companies can’t predict revenue, he says, they’re offering more limited care, and the effects of that trickle down to Steve and Anthony.
Keep watching for more interviews with people around the country grappling with the very real and emotional costs of America's health care chaos.
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- Did Donald Trump fall asleep during his Cabinet meeting?
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- 0:25
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- 11 months ago
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- It sure looks like someone had a hard time staying awake during their Cabinet meeting...
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- Skyrocketing health care premiums
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Michael Swanson, a restaurant server in San Antonio, Texas, relies on tax credits to keep his health coverage through the Affordable Care Act.
With those subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, he tells journalist Chris Vazquez that the same plan he’s on now would cost him 10 times more than it currently does.
Because of congressional Republicans’ refusal to extend these subsidies and Democrats’ acquiescence to their colleagues across the aisle, Swanson needs to find a new job that will provide him affordable health coverage at a sooner date than his current job would.
Michael is just one of several people I spoke to about spiraling costs—and the painful decisions attached. For more about how we got here, check out my other videos on the feed.
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- Sen. Mark Kelly slams Pentagon probe threat
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- 2:23
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- 11 months ago
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- "I've been through a lot worse in service to my country. The president and Pete Hegseth are not gonna silence me."
Last week, the Pentagon said it was investigating Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) for "serious allegations of misconduct" after he and five other Democratic lawmakers posted a video informing American troops they can defy "illegal orders."
Yesterday, Sen. Kelly addressed the investigation:
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- Trump voter regrets trusting him over health care
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- For Celia Monreal, one Senate vote can mean the difference between keeping health coverage or going uninsured.
Monreal, who lives in Tyler, Texas, said she doesn’t pay a premium right now for her ACA Marketplace plan, and tax credits would keep her monthly premium below $200 next year. But if Congressional Republicans continue to block an extension of those tax credits, which are set to expire at the end of the year, she could be paying $1,500 per month.
“Considering the bills and everything else, we wouldn’t be able to afford a $1,500 a month increase for health insurance,” Monreal told me.
Her heat bill can sometimes reach $1,000, and the rising cost of living has made it harder to care for her five children, four of whom are still under age 16 and live with her. If ACA subsidies expire, she’d have to choose those necessities over health insurance. She might also need to travel to Mexico and pay out of pocket for an operation her husba...
