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What “Medicaid Reforms” Actually Mean
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- What “Medicaid Reforms” Actually Mean
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Why say “Medicaid reforms” when trying to kick people off of Medicaid?
Why did GOP lawmakers insist they couldn’t negotiate over health care if the government was shut down?
Why lie about federal spending on undocumented people’s health care?
To understand, @bychrisvazquez turned to an unlikely source: his high school English notes on ‘Language in Thought and Action’ by S.I. Hayakawa. The book can help answer: Why do politicians sound like that?
Take House Speaker Mike Johnson. After the government shut down, he discussed “Medicaid reforms, not cuts.” Then he clarified what reforms he had in mind: “Kick those people off,” he said of groups that he believed to be improperly enrolled. The difference is a matter of semantics, or more specifically, what Hayakawa calls “affective connotation.” That’s our personal feelings attached to language. After all, if 74 percent of surveyed Republicans approved of Medicaid...
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- Even anti-abortion groups have reservations about this new law.
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Senate Bill 323, also known as the Unborn Child Protection Act, may be the most draconian abortion legislation to advance in the post–Roe v. Wade era.
And even anti-abortion groups have their reservations.
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- Anti-vax activists downplay polio
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- Before the rollout of the polio vaccine in the 1950s, the disease paralyzed or killed more than 500,000 people worldwide every year.
The disease was especially catastrophic for children, some of whom were confined for years to wheelchairs or a mechanical breathing chamber known ominously as the iron lung.
The darker chapters of public health history do not seem to faze anti-vaccine activists, who have long claimed that measles, a catastrophic disease, is no big deal. Now, it’s polio’s turn to be downplayed.
Read the whole story from Mother Jones correspondent Kiera Butler on our site.
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- Democrat Aftyn Behn: "This is the last flippable seat in the country"
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- 2:19
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/tennessee-aftyn-behn-special-election/
You should be paying attention to Tennessee.
The congressional race in the state’s seventh congressional district, which includes Nashville, is where cracks in Donald Trump’s base are starting to show. Democrat Aftyn Behn is facing off against Matt Van Epps, a republican West Point grad who had been strongly favored to win.
Both parties have bombarded the state ahead of the special election on December 2. Trump held a telephone rally for Van Epps, and super PACS from both sides have flooded the race with money, including $1 million from one allied with Trump, according to the New York Times.
“This is a predominately Republican district,” Behn told me. “It was drawn that way.” Indeed, Republicans never intended for it to become a battleground, but the special election has given Democratic voters in the state...
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- I spoke with Affordable Care Act recipients—here's what they're saying
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- “I did vote for Donald Trump,” says one Affordable Care Act recipient I spoke to. “I was completely wrong.”
Affordable Care Act subsidies are still set to expire at the end of the year. So, Chriz Vazquez talked with a few people who will be affected by it. Watch:
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- The White House responds to Trump's "piggy" comment.
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- "Honest" and "respectful." That's the White House response to the President of the United States calling a reporter "piggy."
When asked about the the comment made on Air Force One, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded: "I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces, rather than hiding behind your backs, is frankly, a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration."
🤔
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- Trump meets business partner in oval office.
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- 1:09
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- The United States once had a strong relationship with the kingdom dating back decades. But in recent years, the country’s abysmal human rights record—fomenting war in Yemen and feuding with Qatar—as well as its strong grip on the oil market, have led to an often tense relationship.
At least, until Trump came along.
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- Inside the $4 Billion Industry Built on America’s School Shooting Epidemic
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Documentary filmmakers Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari examine a troubling new market that's emerged in the US.
The entrepreneurs who are part of the booming school safety industry face a cruel irony: they are dependent on the uniquely American epidemic of school shootings.
“Every time there is a shooting, we see an uptick in business,” says one, featured in the new HBO documentary Thoughts and Prayers, who sells bulletproof wall art and skateboards. “Every time there is a tragedy, it economically benefits my family. That’s not what I wanted. We could be a $300 million company by the time this documentary airs.”
There are, as the documentary shows, bulletproof desks that can double as shields, blackout shutters to block visibility into classrooms, and video game simulations that test how teachers respond to a fake threat of a school shooter. The school s...
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- Mace Defends Trump: "He's a Good Man." Sure, Nancy.
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- 0:23
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) defends President Trump's record with women and girls. How closely has she looked at that record?
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- Marjorie Taylor Greene is denouncing the "toxic politics" she helped create.
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- You've probably seen Marjorie Taylor Greene on the airwaves denouncing the "toxic politics" in the United States. So, let's revisit the evidence of who helped make these politics so toxic.
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- "Quiet! Quiet, piggy." Trump snaps at reporter
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- 0:16
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- “Quiet! Quiet, piggy,” Trump snapped at a female reporter on Monday when asked about the Epstein files.
After months of MAGA infighting and an unusual Republican break with President Donald Trump, the GOP-controlled House on Tuesday is expected to overwhelmingly pass a bill seeking to force the Justice Department to release a huge trove of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
The bill’s passage—now seen as a foregone conclusion—appears to mark a rare legislative loss for Trump, who, after months of efforts to kill the measure, reversed course this weekend. Faced with certain defeat, he attempted to save face by directing House Republicans to back the bill after all. “Sure,” he even said when asked if he’d sign the legislation should it pass both chambers of Congress.
But Trump’s sudden acquiescence, as he stares down yet another humiliating news cycle tying him to a notorious pedophile, seems little more than a facade. The presiden...
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- This is what disabled adults lose with Medicaid cuts.
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
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- This Is What Disabled Adults Could Lose in Trump's Medicaid Cuts
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- 6:24
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/trump-medicaid-audrey-jeremy-show-gop-cuts/
In late April, podcasters Audrey Presby and Jeremy Fraser decided to venture out of their studio in California to head to Washington, DC. It was not the most joyous occasion: Presby and Fraser, both of whom have Down syndrome, were there to plead with House representatives not to vote to pass the sweeping health care funding cuts in President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB).
“A lot of people are going to feel terrified, petrified, scared of what’s going to happen next,” Presby said in a viral clip of the podcast. Much to the fear of the disabled and low-income people who rely on it, Congress voted to pass the OBBB in early July, which will lead to around $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the course of the next decade.
Presby and Fraser, who are in a relationship, both receive support through ...
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- Megyn Kelly downplays Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "There's a difference between a 15-year-old and a five-year-old." – Megyn Kelly
😳
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- Rising energy prices may have led to Democrat wins
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/democrats-elections-energy-electricity-power-bills/
On the campaign trail in 2024, President Donald Trump promised to halve Americans’ energy bills by January 2026.
After his win, his administration pushed policies that undoubtedly contributed to their rise. They tried to squash cheap, local energy from renewable sources while bankrolling the dying coal industry. They put tariffs on materials needed to keep the grid running smoothly. And they gutted regulations to help the AI industry build more and more energy-gobbling data centers—all while trying to power them with fossil fuels.
With less than two months to Trump’s self-imposed deadline, household electricity bills are up 11 percent on average since his inauguration. Gas bills have spiked even higher. More than 70 percent of Americans—regardless of party—say they’re concerned about rising utility paym...
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- I broke down my health care budget. Whyyyy.
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- 1:13
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Health care is set to get more expensive. But, how much more expensive? It depends.
At the heart of these price hikes is a standoff between lawmakers over funding tax credits that help people pay for Obamacare coverage. Basically: Democratic lawmakers want to fund those tax credits; Republican lawmakers don’t. (Along with a whole lot of shutdown shenanigans that have once again punted a vote over the matter to December.) Without relief, nearly 22 million people who get those credits can expect to pay more.
Think you’re safe if you weren’t getting these tax credits anyway? Think again! Insurers that are part of Affordable Care Act Marketplaces (i.e. where you buy health insurance through Obamacare) proposed a median premium increase of 18 percent—about 11 percentage points higher than last year’s median. And think you’re safe because you get health insurance through your job? Also think again! Next year is expected to see the highest increase in t...
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- "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the Situation Room."
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Karoline Leavitt wants you to stop asking about meeting Trump officials had with Rep. Boebert in the Situation Room, thank you very much.
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- Worried about rising health care costs? I want to hear from you!
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- I’m @bychrisvazquez, a journalist covering health care and the government shutdown. I’m also enrolled in an Affordable Care Act Marketplace plan, and I’m bracing for steep increases to how much I spend on health care. Are you in the same boat? Roughly 21.8 million people are getting (possibly soon-to-expire) advanced premium tax credits to help pay for Marketplace coverage, according to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. And even if you don’t qualify for those tax credits, you still might see higher health care costs.
A quick update on this whole fast-moving mess: On Sunday, a group of Senate Democrats and one independent broke ranks to advance a government-funding bill that punted the question of extending ACA tax credits to a final Senate vote in December, before the measure moves to a largely opposed Democratic caucus in the House—though Republicans likely have the votes to pass it. That keeps the question of when—and if—Americans on...
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- Why Border Patrol Recruits at Rodeos
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- 4:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/...
You are paying for Border Patrol to sponsor bull riding.
For nearly two decades, the government has been hiring workers for border enforcement at rodeos. In 2008, US Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol’s parent agency, began its sponsorship of the Professional Bull Riders (PBR), the largest competitive bull-riding league in the world, which brings sanctioned rodeo competitions to hundreds of cities every year.
The contract for the initial partnership petered out during the Obama years. But during President Donald Trump’s first term, amid a broad push to hire for the Border Patrol, the administration reupped the association, signing a $1.5 million deal with PBR.
In 2019, the government allotted $3 million annually for the next five fiscal years for the PBR sponsorship, for a total of $15 million.
At PBR league events, bullfighters a...
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- So WTF Just Happened With Health Care and the Shutdown?
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- 0:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Hi it's me, Chris Vazquez! I'm working on an ongoing series with Mother Jones about spiraling health costs and the government shutdown. You can check out the first two videos in the feed you're watching this one. And there's some news on this I need to bring to you right away: A group of Senate Democrats, along with one independent senator, broke with their party Sunday in voting to clear a procedural hurdle on a bill to reopen the government. Democrats had previously refused to advance any funding legislation that didn’t extend tax credits for Americans who get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. The Senate still needs to actually vote on the funding bill. If it passes, it’ll go to the House of Representatives, where most Democratic lawmakers have expressed opposition to the legislation. However, POLITICO reports that Republicans likely have enough votes to pass the bill. I'll be tracking it...
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- Rep. Jasmine Crockett on why Democrats won last week's elections
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- 2:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "THIS IS ON YOU!"
Rep. Jasmine Crockett told @garrisonhayes that Democrats won big last week because Americans are feeling the pain of Trump's policies.
Nearly a year to the day after Democrats lost their bid for the White House, Rep. Crockett believes that some Americans in races across the country expressed buyers' remorse. From rising healthcare costs to delayed SNAP benefits, the Texas Congresswoman placed the blame squarely at the president's feet.
"People are experiencing real, real, real pain. And I think that that was a great motivator."
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- The reality of losing SNAP benefits
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- 2:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "It's embarrassing to have to tell people you're looking for food because we live in a society that expects you to be able to do that without any trouble."
Earlier this week, Mother Jones video correspondent @GarrisonHayes visited a Nashville food bank where he talked to folks who’d recently lost their SNAP assistance. Here’s what they had to say.
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- Why my health premium is set to skyrocket
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- 1:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
The government has been shut down for over a month, millions of Americans are bracing for skyrocketing health care costs, and unless Congress acts, I’ll be one of them. So, how on Earth did we get here?
To start, let’s go back to 2010, when I was a small child who didn’t have to worry about understanding the word "deductible". That year, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, colloquially known as Obamacare. The law established marketplaces where people could buy health insurance if they didn’t get it through work, Medicare or Medicaid. It also gave tax credits—or a dollar amount you subtract from how much taxes you pay—to lots of people who got insurance this way.
By 2014, those marketplaces were up and running. That year alone, over 5.4 million people saved an average of $276 per month thanks to the credits, according to data from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Servi...
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- Voters Soundly Reject Trump’s Plot to Rig the Next Election
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- 2:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- California's Prop 50 has passed... so what's next?
On Tuesday, Democrats passed new congressional maps, defeated GOP attempts to make it harder to vote, and protected pro-democracy judges.
But the biggest anti-Trump victory came in California, where voters overwhelmingly approved Prop 50, enshrining a new congressional map through 2030 that could give Democrats five new US House seats in the next election.
Beyond the significance of offsetting Texas’ Trump-inspired mid-decade gerrymander, Democrats hope the momentum from Prop 50 inspires other Democratic states to take similar action.
Read Berman's full report here: https://bit.ly/3WIvoWz
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- Nancy Pelosi on Trump: "A vile creature."
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "A vile creature. The worst thing on the face of the earth."
Former Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) didn't mince her words when asked about the president in an interview with CNN. Watch—
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- Sam Bankman-Fried’s Campaign to Reclaim the FTX Story
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- As oral arguments begin today for Sam Bankman-Fried's appeal of his 2023 fraud conviction, Reveal and Mother Jones investigates the collapse of FTX that put him behind bars and the controversial bankruptcy that has unfolded in its aftermath.
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- While Americans go hungry, President Donald Trump was partying it up.
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- While Americans go hungry, President Donald Trump was partying it up.
The president spent Friday night hosting a Great Gatsby–themed Halloween celebration at Mar-a-Lago, just hours before tens of millions of low-income Americans were set to lose access to food stamps due to the ongoing government shutdown and Republicans’ refusal to use contingency funds used to keep SNAP operating.
Spokespeople for the White House did not respond to questions about Trump’s activities this weekend.
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- Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Campaign to Reclaim the FTX Story
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- 13:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-crypto-bankruptcy-sullivan-cromwell-fraud/
As Sam Bankman-Fried prepares to appeal his 2023 fraud conviction, Reveal and Mother Jones investigates the collapse of FTX that put him behind bars and the controversial bankruptcy that has unfolded in its aftermath.
We reviewed thousands of pages of legal records and corporate documents and spoke to key insiders, including Bankman-Fried’s parents and Bankman-Fried himself, whom we interviewed more than a half-dozen times in prison. These interviews gave us rare insight into the arguments that Bankman-Fried’s legal team will likely use in court as they press for his conviction to be overturned.
“You know, I never defrauded anyone,” Bankman-Fried said in one conversation. It was a sentiment he expressed again and again, despite the findings of a jury. He insisted that FTX, the cryptocurrency exchan...
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- Kristi Noem denies US citizens have been detained by ICE. We have evidence.
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- During a press conference this week in Gary, Indiana, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem brazenly claimed no US citizens have been detained or arrested by ICE, and labeled any reporting to the contrary is “simply not true”. But Noem is ignoring the facts.
ProPublica discovered that more than 170 Americans have been detained by immigration agents since the beginning of the current Trump administration, reporting that they’d been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.
Here are some of the most prominent examples.
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- SCOOP: Reporters uncovered a massive archive of phone numbers and location data—and it's terrifying
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- 2:44
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- It led us on an 18-month odyssey to expose a shadowy surveillance firm whose phone-tracking tech has been used by repressive regimes, corporate spooks, and Jared Leto.
Operating from their base in Jakarta, where permissive export laws have allowed their surveillance business to flourish, First Wap has quietly built a phone-tracking empire, with a footprint extending from the Vatican to the Middle East to Silicon Valley.
Its system leaves no trace on the phones it targets. Nor does it require a target to click on a malicious link or show any of the telltale signs of remote monitoring.
This investigation rewrites what Americans know about the shadowy surveillance industry.
Find the full story at the link in our bio. And watch the full short doc on our YouTube channel.
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- Is it time for California to "soft secede?"
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- What would it mean for California to "soft secede?"
This is how blue states can use their economic and cultural clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.
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- Bay Area organizers push back against ICE
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "We are not the kind of people that allow folks to take our neighbors, our teachers, our construction workers. We need everybody."
On Thursday, federal agents assembled on the US Coast Guard Base in Alameda for Trump’s now-cancelled anti-immigration surge.
From sunrise to sunset, hundreds of protesters across the Bay Area mobilized to protect their communities. We spoke to organizers in Oakland about the ways they push back.
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- Bay Area Faith Leaders Protesting ICE
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Earlier today, Mother Jones talked to Bay Area faith leaders about what brought them out to protest ICE. Here's what they had to say.
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- David Corn on Trump's East Wing Demolition
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Don’t miss our DC bureau chief David Corn and his dramatic reading outside the White House.
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- Tensions Rise at ICE Protest in Alameda
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Footage shows tensions rising outside a Coast Guard base in Alameda, where federal agents are reportedly staging.
#ice #protest #sanfrancisco
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- A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless.
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A pregnant Amazon employee asked for a chair to sit on—and wound up homeless.
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- Portland Feds Are Escalating Chaos at ICE Protests
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Portland feds are escalating chaos at ICE protests.
- Title
- Mike Johnson seems unaware
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Does the Speaker of the House know what's going on in the country?
It's not clear that he does, as Mike Johnson's communication strategy seems to rely heavily on being unaware. When faced with questions he should be able to answer, he has a reliable response: "I don't know."
Take a look at a few things Mike Johnson doesn't know:
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- He was sentenced to death row—then DNA set him free
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- 1:57
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- "I am probably the most apolitical person in America because I—I was separated from all of you, and I was told that I was worthless and that I would be put to death."
Nick Yarris spent more than 20 years in solitary confinement for a crime he didn’t commit. And he wasn't at the No Kings protest on purpose. On his way back from the store, he stopped to observe the rally, calling himself “more of an observer than a participant in life.”
"Tomorrow changes everything," he told us.
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- Top Republicans Stand by President’s Poop Video
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- 0:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Late Saturday, as “No Kings” protests across the country came to a close, President Donald Trump emerged with what appeared to be his official response to the resoundingly peaceful demonstrations opposing his presidency: He posted a video of himself, as king, manning a fighter jet as it released shit-laden sludge onto his detractors.
The clip, which was reposted to his Truth Social account, was seemingly created via artificial intelligence. Its apparent aim—to mock protesters with self-regarding, intentionally asinine content—was nauseatingly obvious. But ask the top Republican in Congress about the president’s feces-dumping video, and one could easily mistake the remarks for a discussion of high art.
“The president uses social media to make a point,” Johnson told reporters Monday. “You can argue he’s probably the most effective person who has ever used social media...
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- "The vibes are incredible." San Francisco's No Kings rally
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "The vibes are incredible." Mother Jones' Clara Jeffery reports from San Francisco's No Kings rally on Saturday. Watch:
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- We talked to protesters at San Francisco's No Kings rally
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- 3:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- "It's anti-fascist, antifa. I don't believe in fascism. We fought fascism years ago, and we're gonna fight it again."
Thousands gathered for San Francisco's No Kings rally on Saturday. Mother Jones digital producers Peter Berger and Anna Yeo talked with a few protesters to find out why they showed up.
"My wife is a federal worker. She works, and she's getting no pay. So that has impacted us financially," says Rico, an electrician attending his first protest of Trump's administration. "This is my first. So I'm glad I'm here."
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- Meet the kids at the No Kings protests
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Donald Trump is “making fun of people for being Hispanic or dark-skinned or different colors,” says 10 year old, August. "Why is he talking to other people if he's orange?!”
Hear from the kids at the No Kings protests—and from the parents who decided to bring them.
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- Portland's No Kings attendance was no joke
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Portland, Oregon, has had their fair share of run ins with the Trump administration over the past few weeks.
On Saturday, it was clear Portlanders are not happy about it. Thousands—an early estimate—gathered to participate in the countrywide "No Kings" rally. Animal and cartoon inflatables were everywhere (a protest tactic Portland's inspired across the country) were out in astounding numbers.
Independent journalist @kevinhfoster spoke with the Portlanders who were there. Watch!
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- There Sure Were a Lot of American Flags at the “Hate America Rally”
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- When asked about the No Kings Rallies, House Speaker Mike Johnson said “We refer to it by its more accurate description, 'The Hate America Rally.' I'm not sure how anybody can refute that.”
So, we asked people at “The Hate America Rally,” or as it’s actually known, the “No Kings Rally,” what they thought of that and in fact, a lot of people refuted that characterization.
“I love my country,” says Rusty in Los Angeles, “Loving someone or loving your country doesn't mean you accept it. It's just everything's wonderful. You can accept it with its flaws and faults and hope for improvement.”
Senior news editor Jeremy Schulman reports from the DC protest, “American flags were everywhere, carried by people of all races and ages. A few flew upside-down, symbolizing—Alito-style—a nation in distress. Most were waved proudly. Signs declared protesters’ allegiance to the country, the Constitution, democracy, and the rule of law....
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- Oakland shows up for No Kings protest!
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- "Trump is being an asshole."
Oakland, California, protesters showed out for their local No Kings rally—and Mother Jones' Michael Mechanic caught up with a few to talk about why they were attending and how their lives have been affected by this administration's policies.
"This is the point of America right here," says Justin, who was in town from LA to attend a football game but wanted to make sure he attended. "To have this opportunity to protest."
Follow for more No Kings coverage!
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- These are some scary protestors
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- 0:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Such extremism! So much terror!
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- Frogs, Axolotls, and a Hippo Take Manhattan to Deflate Trump’s “Antifa” Slur
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “I tried to get a Portland frog outfit and they were sold out until November!”
Frogs, axolotls, and at least one giant pink hippo made its way through Manhattan on Saturday, alongside thousands of others, part of the nationwide “No Kings” rallies.
Follow us for more No Kings coverage!
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- Bernie Sanders speaking at No Kings
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
"This is about a handful of the wealthiest people on Earth who, in their insatiable greed, have hijacked our economy and our political system." Bernie Sanders speaking at the No Kings rally in DC. Watch here.
#nokings #berniesanders #politics
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- Portland's inflatable costumes are deflating Trump's narrative
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- 2:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- It’s much more difficult, in fact, well nigh impossible, to call Portland a war zone when ICE agents are forced to stare down an inflatable bunny rabbit.
So we spoke to those behind their newest tactic: Inflatable costumes. “I’ve just never been more proud of Portland,” the SpongeBob Squarepants inflatable said. “There is power in mockery…It’s a pretty effective tool to combat, I mean, overt fascism.”
Portland's inflatable costumes are deflating Trump's narrative, watch:
