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No One in the GOP Chat Was a “Kid”
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- No One in the GOP Chat Was a “Kid”
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- 1:32
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- 1 year ago
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- No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid," JD Vance. We checked.
By scanning public records and media reports, Mother Jones determined the ages of eight of the 11 participants in the abhorrent leaked texts from young Republicans that Politico covered on Tuesday: They appear to range from 24 to 35.
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- When miscarrying becomes a crime.
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- 2:27
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- 1 year ago
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- Women across the US are facing criminal charges for miscarrying—this is what "fetal personhood" looks like.
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- This Secret Tech Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
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- 16:07
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki/
Operating from their base in Jakarta, where permissive export laws have allowed their surveillance business to flourish, First Wap’s European founders and executives have quietly built a phone-tracking empire, with a footprint extending from the Vatican to the Middle East to Silicon Valley.
It calls its proprietary system Altamides, which it describes in promotional materials as “a unified platform to covertly locate the whereabouts of single or multiple suspects in real-time, to detect movement patterns, and to detect whether suspects are in close vicinity with each other.”
Altamides leaves no trace on the phones it targets, unlike spyware such as Pegasus. Nor does it require a target to click on a malicious link or show any of the telltale signs (such as overheat...
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- What is a “Kavanaugh stop?"
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- 1:35
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- 1 year ago
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- Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”
It comes from Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s defense of a Supreme Court ruling made a month ago that gave ICE the green light to launch raids and effectively detain people just because of how they look, along with where they work, the type of work they do, and the language they speak.
As Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video, Kavanaugh's concurrence dismisses an ICE stop as simply a minor inconvenience. He writes: “As for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.”
But Kavanaugh’s chipper language is belied by multiple new lawsuits and high-profile raids that show them to be any...
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- Does the Trump administration know what habeas corpus is?
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- 1:04
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- 1 year ago
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- I am once again asking... does anyone in the Trump administration know what habeas corpus is?
While taking questions from conservative influencers Wednesday, Donald Trump appeared confused when asked about suspending habeas corpus. (Which is a Constitutional right.) "Who?" the president asked before kicking the question to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
But back in May, Noem revealed that she doesn't quite understand what habeas corpus is either.... 🙃
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- ICE Is Sending People to a Prison in Africa’s Only Absolute Monarchy
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- 0:22
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- 1 year ago
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- Eswatini, the landlocked nation formerly known as Swaziland, is Africa’s last remaining absolute monarchy.
In other words, Eswatini is just the kind of country—small, untroubled by democracy, and presumably eager to avoid a superpower’s wrath—with which the Trump administration has been eager to do business.
In his latest piece, Noah Lanard takes us inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.
Read it here: https://bit.ly/47gNtB1
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- A 90-Second crash course in Trump’s betrayal of American soy farmers
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- 1:29
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Tomorrow, Donald Trump is expected to announce a significant aid package for soy farmers hurt by his trade war with China, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
China is the world’s largest soybean importer and typically buys about half of the US crop—last year, that came to $12.6 billion dollars. This summer, China has purchased zero dollars worth of soybeans from the United States and has no future orders planned.
Farmers are struggling. And worse, last week, Bessent announced that Trump was giving $20 billion in economic aid to bail out the far-right government of Argentina, a main US competitor in the soybean market. The influx of cash from Trump allowed Argentina to remove its own export taxes on soybeans, so China is getting an even better deal from them.
Trump’s aid package to farmers is expected to be in the billions of dollars. But to some farmers, ...
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- "The enemy from within" and its authoritarian roots.
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- 2:37
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- 1 year ago
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- You might've missed a line that was tucked away in Donald Trump's recent speech.
He called on the admirals and generals to be ready to fight “the enemy from within” in American cities.
Authoritarians like Lenin, Stalin, and even Hitler have used variants of this phrase to delegitimize and demonize their opponents and to justify horrific acts of repression, from smothering debate to imprisoning and executing rivals and critics.
That’s Trump’s line—and it’s a dangerous escalation.
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- "War-ravaged" Portland only exists in Trump's head. #ice #portland #protest
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- 2:47
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- 1 year ago
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- Jane Goodall's final, urgent, message
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- 0:38
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- 1 year ago
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- "We're not intelligent. If you're intelligent, you don't destroy your only home."
Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while doing what she’s done for most of her later years—touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence.
From @vox via Climate Desk. Watch here.
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/jane-goodall-chimpanzees-death-final-message-video/
#janegoodall #climate #environment
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- Anti-vaccine activists rally near CDC headquarters: "I am Charlie Kirk."
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- 2:40
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- 1 year ago
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- “I am Charlie Kirk.”
Last week, Mother Jones national correspondent Kiera Butler spoke to a group of anti-vaccine activists rallying near the Atlanta headquarters of the CDC in support of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The rally attendees showed up to support Kennedy during a week when he came under fire for a particularly rambling press conference, where he and President Trump blamed the over-the-counter painkiller Tylenol for what they described as an autism epidemic.
Here's what some of them had to say.
Read the full report: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/antivax-rally-cdc-rfk-jr-maha/
#vaccine #autism #rfkjr
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- Charlie Kirk’s memorial was Christian nationalism’s biggest moment #charliekirk @GarrisonHayes
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- 2:43
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- 1 year ago
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- Where’s Black MAGA while Trump Wipes Black History?
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- 0:54
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- 1 year ago
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- Last summer, vying for the White House, Trump hailed himself as "the best president for the Black population." A little more than a year later, this claim has become increasingly difficult to believe, precisely because of what he's done.
In this video, @garrison_hayes highlights this week's Washington Post report on the Trump administration's decision to remove Black historical images and markers from national parks and museums. As someone who has covered the rise of Black support for MAGA extensively, it hit Garrison hard: Where are those voters now Trump is wiping this history from the books?
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- Presenting "Climate Desk Weekly"
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- 0:43
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
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- The Man Sending US Military Contractors to Gaza Posted This Song on SoundCloud?
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- 0:57
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- 1 year ago
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In July, one week after a whistleblower accused contractors from the American security firm UG Solutions of deploying stun grenades and shooting live ammunition toward Palestinian civilians in Gaza, a new song appeared on the SoundCloud account of “Jameson G.”
A Mother Jones investigation shows that UG Solutions founder Jameson Govoni is a co-owner of the account, which uses the artist name “UltimoGringo.” It is part of a questionable background for Govoni, a former Green Beret and serial small-time entrepreneur who had almost no public presence until his armed contractors arrived in the Middle East earlier this year.
Read more about Govoni's path to the center of a dubious scheme to deliver aid in Gaza in Noah Lanard's latest piece on MotherJones.com.
#gaza #palestine #politics
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- Hasan Piker on Charlie Kirk, Dangerous Rhetoric, and the Radical Power of Empathy
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- 17:30
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
On September 25, the left-wing Twitch streamer and political commentator Hasan Piker was supposed to debate Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk. But one hour into an eight-hour stream on Wednesday, Piker’s chat started posting that Kirk got shot.
“Oh my God, he definitely got shot in the neck,” Piker said, his hand covering his mouth as he watched the footage (which was not on the livestream). “Oh, fuck.” After a few moments of silence, Piker told his audience not to watch the clip. “There’s very little chance that he will survive that.”
Piker was immediately clear that what happened to Kirk was reprehensible, telling his viewers not to joke about the killing—and that what followed likely would be, too. “The reverberation of people seeking out vengeance in the aftermath of this violent, abhorrent incident is going to be genuinely worrisome,” he said.
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- No, Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
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- 3:30
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- 1 year ago
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- No Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way.
His assassination should be wholeheartedly condemned, says M. But his full impact on the descent of American politics should not be sidestepped.
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- How Trump responds to a crisis vs. how Biden does
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- 1:54
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- 1 year ago
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- Donald Trump has a history of making national tragedies worse. So here's a quick side by side of how one president responds to a national crisis versus how another does.
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- The Threat That Could Destroy 20 Years of Progress in the Lower Ninth
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- 2:23
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- 1 year ago
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- “You're taking advantage of people who are still trying to recover.”
20 years after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of the Ninth Ward are still fighting for survival. The latest threat? A $5 billion canal project that could drown them all over again.
From Capital B News and Mother Jones, this is the threat that could destroy 20 years of progress.
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- The One Crime Trump Doesn’t Seem to Have a Problem With? Domestic Violence.
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- 3:00
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- 1 year ago
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- For all his anti-crime talk, there seems to be one crime Donald Trump doesn't have a problem with: Domestic violence.
Just look at who he's surrounded by—and the many accusations against him. But Trump has not only downplayed it in his speech, but through his actions.
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- Baltimore’s Mayor Slams Trump Troop Threat
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- 1:20
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- 1 year ago
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President Trump is planning to ramp up his federal reach into local enforcement after first flooding the streets of DC with National Guard troops, and this week he promised to send troops to more cities—including Baltimore.
Despite a federal judge ruling that Trump broke the law when deploying the National Guard in Los Angeles earlier this summer, Trump insisted during a press conference on Tuesday that his administration had “a right to do it because I have an obligation to do it to protect this country… and that includes Baltimore.”
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has been speaking out in defense of his city, including in a sit-down interview this week with @GarrisonHayes. Scott pushed back against Trump’s claims, saying that this year, his city has witnessed “the fewest amount of homicides through this date on record. That’s a 50-year low, and that’s still not good en...
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- This is Donald Trump's message to Epstein's survivors.
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- 2:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Donald Trump's message to Epstein survivors: "Enough."
On Wednesday, a group of bipartisan lawmakers held a press conference on Capitol Hill featuring survivors of the late financier and sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
“President Trump: You have so much influence and power in this situation. Please use [it] to help us," said survivor Anouska De Georgiou.
When asked about it in the Oval Office, Trump played the blame game. "This is a Democrat hoax that never ends...I think it's enough."
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- Republicans Keep Getting Booed at Their Own Town Halls
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- 1:10
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- 1 year ago
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- The last week of the August recess brought jeers, laughs, and unanswered questions.
At town halls across the country, attendees booed and demanded answers as their GOP representatives tried to defend President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Read more about the rowdy town halls here: https://bit.ly/4n4kHbS
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- Conservatives being weird about Taylor Swift reveals what they think about women.
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- 2:03
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- 1 year ago
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- Even Taylor Swift—one of the most famous and wealthiest women in the world—can’t escape MAGA logic: Women only achieve their full value when they’re wifed up and having kids.
WATCH:
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- Neri Alvarado was sent to prison because of an autism awareness tattoo. This is his story.
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- 2:55
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- 1 year ago
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- “They’re going to kill me here,” Neri Alvarado thought.
Alvarado was allegedly targeted by the Trump administration because of his tattoo of an autism awareness ribbon with his brother's name on it. Now, free from El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, Alvarado wants the world to know what they lived through.
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- Pete Hegseth's Christian nationalist ties.
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- 2:18
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- 1 year ago
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- "Not only does he belong to a Christian nationalist denomination, and not only does he have tattoos that evoke Christian nationalist themes...he's in charge of the most powerful military in the world, and you can put two and two together."
Kiera Butler has spent the last couple of years in the world of the TheoBros, helping explain figures like Doug Wilson, Pete Hegseth, and JD Vance.
Watch our full video on our YouTube channel!
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- Rep. Al Green on Texas: “This is racial gerrymandering at its worst."
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- 2:13
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
After weeks of delays, protests, and threats of arrests, the Republican-led Texas House on Wednesday passed a highly contentious redistricting plan that could give the GOP five additional seats in the US House.
“This is racial gerrymandering at its worst. It is something that Jim Crow would be proud of, but it is something that John Lewis would be ashamed of,” Rep. Al Green told Mother Jones during the House proceedings, “That Dr. King would be ashamed of that. The former president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was from the state of Texas, would be ashamed of it.”
As Mother Jones journalist Ari Berman wrote, the Trump-backed plan amounts to an effort to “rig the midterm elections before a single vote has been cast.” More than 50 Texas Democrats fled the state for nearly two weeks to delay the vote’s proceedings, prompting Gov. Greg Abbott to threaten ...
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- Israel Just Denied This Doctor from Entering Gaza with Food and Baby Formula
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- 1:08
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
“We were just denied. We were given no reason as to why.”
That is Dr. Mimi Syed, an American doctor who has volunteered for multiple medical missions in Gaza. She spoke to Mother Jones and Reveal from her hotel room in Jordan after being denied entry into Gaza to provide aid and medical care.
Dr. Syed is one of a handful of American doctors who have been vocal about the atrocities they have witnessed in Gaza. In the States, she is a board-certified emergency room physician who works out of Olympia, Washington. She has lobbied in front of the United States Congress and, earlier this year, sat across the table from UN Secretary General António Guterres, sharing an account of what she saw while working in Gaza. She spoke to Reveal about this work earlier this year for our “Kids Under Fire in Gaza” episode.
The timing of her denial comes just as Israel plans to beg...
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- Pay close attention to what's happening in DC.
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- 2:42
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- 1 year ago
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- "A MAGA occupation of a left-leaning city."
If you look closer at what's happening on the streets of LA and DC, you'll see this is more than just "fighting crime"—it's a politically partisan occupation.
Senior Reporter Dan Friedman reveals how Trump is "overwriting democracy in DC to impose his version of order." That's authoritarianism, he says.
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- EXCLUSIVE: These Three Texas Democrats Are “Standing Strong” Amid GOP Redistricting Push #texas
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- 2:36
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Supreme Court is hiding something from you.
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Supreme Court is hiding something from you. And it could change the fabric of our country.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if you want to hide what you are doing in Washington, announce it on a Friday evening in the heat of August. That is precisely what the Supreme Court did.
But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The Republican-appointed justices have decided it is time to fully destroy the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Pema Levy shines a light on what you need to know.
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- Texas Dems On The Run
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- 2:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- “It’s not just a Texas problem. It’s an American problem.”
Mother Jones national correspondent @timothypmurphy spoke with Texas Democrat James Talarico on bomb threats, rigged elections, and life on the run.
The state speaker of the house ordered arrest warrants for Talarico and dozens of Democrats who left the state last weekend to prevent a vote on a mid-decade redistricting plan that would likely give Republicans five more congressional seats.
Read the Q&A: http://bit.ly/4583WXm
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- Donald Trump wants to seize your reality.
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- 2:53
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Let's be clear: Donald Trump is doing what authoritarians do.
He wants to seize our right to public information to distort reality for his political gain, reports David Corn. He's waging war on the truth, rewriting the past, and falsifying the present. This hallmark of authoritarianism is happening here, right now.
And the question is, do you want him controlling your reality?
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- What is Jeffrey Epstein’s (alleged) favorite book?
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- 2:18
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
What is Jeffrey Epstein’s (alleged) favorite book?
The Man From O.R.G.Y. It’s an obscure 1965 James Bond ripoff about a con man who travels the world under the guise of being a “sex researcher” in order to spy for the US government.
Unsurprisingly, the book is bad news. Like very, very, very bad news. (It’s about things we won’t mention here—but check the video for a screenshot to see.)
Hear about the book, one of Epstein’s close friends, and final thoughts in our second dispatch on Leland Nally’s feature from 2020 “I Called Everyone in Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black Book…”
And if you missed part one, find it on our profile!
#epsteinlist #epsteincase #epsteinfiles
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- The Knock-Down, Drag-‘Em-Out Texas Redistricting Showdown Heats Up
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- 2:12
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
The old-fashioned Western showdown is happening in Texas right now. And now, the FBI might get involved.
On one side you have Texas House Democrats who fled the state over the weekend to stop Texas Republicans from carrying out Trump’s orders to redraw the state’s maps. And Texas governor Greg Abbott who is very, very upset about it all. As of this writing, the move seems to have worked: the Texas House has failed to reach a quorum for two consecutive days. Now, Texas Senator John Cornyn wants the FBI to hunt down the Democrats and arrest them.
In this video @GarrisonHayes explains the standoff, the stakes and how both Republicans and Democrats are using the tool at their disposal to advance—or impede— competing visions for America.
Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/the-knock-down-drag-em-out-texas-redistricting-showdown-heats-up/
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- Dems Are in Their “Revenge Gerrymander” Era and This Zellennial Candidate Is Here for It
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- 2:16
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
In his latest video, Mother Jones video correspondent @GarrisonHayes asks, should Democrats be revenge gerrymandering?
"Hell yeah," says Texas congressional candidate Isaiah Martin.
On Sunday evening, Texas House Democrats fled the state to try to block an effort by state Republicans to redraw the state's congressional map and flips five districts from blue to red. Some Democrats are now looking for blue states to return the favor. Garrison asked Isaiah Martin, candidate for Texas’s 18th congressional district, for his thoughts on how Democrats should approach this moment.
Martin, 27, has skin in the game. A Houston native, he’s spent much of his young life working in politics, including as an advisor to the late Congresswoman Shiela Jackson-Lee. Last week, Martin made headlines when he was arrested for disrupting a local redistricting hearing when he refused to ...
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- Life inside "Alligator Alcatraz."
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- 2:29
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Rampant mosquitoes swarming the tents. Leaks after summer rainstorms. Excessive heat. Hurricane season around the corner. This is life in "Alligator Alcatraz."
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- Aid whistleblower says he had to order Domino’s pizza for workers—as Gaza starved.
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- 1:33
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- 1 year ago
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- Gaza Aid Whistleblower Speaks Out Amid Escalating Famine
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- 6:44
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- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
On June 6, Anthony Aguilar, a retired 25-year US Army veteran and Green Beret, found himself facing a daunting logistical problem. He had been recruited as a security contractor for UG Solutions, a partner of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—the Israel-backed American nonprofit now overseeing food distribution in the devastated Palestinian territory. His challenge: finding a way to feed the local Palestinian workers assisting with GHF’s efforts. “Nobody could figure out how to get food there,” he says.
So Aguilar says they settled on a workaround: ordering stacks of Domino’s pizzas via an Israeli delivery app and picking them up at the Gaza border themselves. “We then took those 27 pizzas in an armored convoy,” he says, to a GHF distribution site within the strip.
For Aguilar, it was a striking example of systemic failures at GHF, “an enterprise that has failed from th...
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- How ICE’s Arrest of a High School Student Activated a Massachusetts Town
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Marcelo Gomes da Silva is still trying to get back to his old life. The 18-year-old, who was born in Brazil, wants to enjoy the summer before his senior year at Milford High School in Massachusetts—go to pool parties, hang out with friends.
Since his arrest by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he has been praised for his strength.
“But that’s not really what I want,” he told Mother Jones on a video call. “I want everyone to think of me as Marcelo Gomes da Silva, just as I was before.”
On a Saturday morning in late May, ICE arrested Gomes da Silva on his way to volleyball practice. At first, when he noticed a white Ford Explorer trailing his car, he thought little of it.
But when Gomes da Silva pulled into a friend’s driveway, an ICE agent walked up, knocked on the window, asked for his documents, and eventually handcuffed him. The officer...
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- Tulsi Gabbard is trying to gaslight you in the name of authoritarianism.
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- 2:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Tulsi Gabbard is trying to gaslight you in the name of authoritarianism.
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- The Golden State Killer Story Police Don't Want You to Hear
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- 5:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2025/07/golden-state-killer-deangelo-victims-compensation-problems-police-accountability/
In 2019, Susan Bowlus got a text from a friend that caught her off guard. “I’ve been watching the coverage on the Golden State Killer,” her friend wrote, referring to the California serial killer who’d been arrested in 2018.
The killer’s name was Joseph DeAngelo, a cop-turned-criminal who’d broken into homes to rape and kill people during the 1970s and 1980s. He was finally caught in Sacramento County, thanks to DNA evidence and a genealogy website. Soon, he’d be prosecuted. “It’s so creepy and I feel weird asking you about this,” the friend continued, but “I remember you telling me about an assault you had.”
Forty years earlier, when Bowlus was 22, a man had entered her Sacramento-area house while she was sleeping and spent hours attacking and violating h...
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- An important update on a United States immigration case.
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- 2:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In case you missed it: An important update on a situation unfolding that could have dire implications for the future of immigration policy in the United States.
Mother Jones reporters Isabela Dias and Noah Lanard have spoken with family members of some of the men who were targeted and detained by the Trump administration, in part, for their tattoos. (As they exclusively reported, one of these young men was targeted for his autism awareness ribbon tattoo.)
Dias explains.
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- Now It’s Epstein Forever
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Through a spectacularly ham-handed series of moves, the Trump administration has ensured that Epstein conspiracy theories will never really end.
The MAGA base, especially its more QAnon-y quadrants, feel deeply betrayed by what they see as an unforgivable level of inaction and obfuscation on Epstein from the Trump administration.
Senior reporter Anna Merlan fills us in on dead billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's remarkable moment of renewed relevance.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/40sQURw
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- “Never Again Means Never Again For Anyone”: An Interview With Sim Kern
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- 1:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Sim Kern never set out to become a face of anti-Zionist Judaism—the English teacher turned science fiction author and “BookTok”-er was just in the right place at the right time.
Facing, as the October 7 attacks unfolded, a social media feed they described as embodying “two contradictory realities” about Palestine, they started posting about it.
“If you didn’t give a fuck about what’s happening in Palestine until two days ago,” Kern said in their most viral video, “that is because you see Israelis as people, and you do not see Palestinians as people.”
Over the past year and a half, their social media presence has turned into an archive of video shorts breaking down history and misinformation, and covering genocide in Gaza, where Israel’s defense minister recently announced plans to move the remaining population into a closed camp built on the ruins...
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- No, Democrats can't control the weather.
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
“Everything is a conspiracy theory if you don’t know how anything works,” says @GarrisonHayes in his latest video on the conspiracy theories swirling in the aftermath of the deadly Texas floods.
The Independence Day floods in Texas Hill Country have killed at least 121 people, with scores still missing. Yet even as the increasingly desperate search continues, some are pointing fingers—not at policy or failed leadership—but at a familiar punch list of conspiracy theories about weather manipulation. From HAARP and DARPA to the Deep State and Democrats, influencers and partisans are sowing distrust and misinformation by labeling the disaster anything but natural.
The tragic irony? There’s no need for a conspiracy theory when the truth is this plain: Texas floods often—and it’s getting worse as part of the growing climate crisis, arguably abetted by the very politicians ...
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- Culture Wars, Political Violence, and the Assassination of Melissa Hortman
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- 2:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- ► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/
Less than three weeks ago, America seemed to process and then, alarmingly, move on from the assassination of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. On Saturday, June 14, 2025, the couple were shot to death in their home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota—an attack Governor Tim Walz condemned as a “politically motivated assassination.”
In this video, Mother Jones’s @GarrisonHayes finds connections between the tragedy and one of the most charged culture‑war flashpoints in America—abortion. He delves into old committee hearings and other heated rhetoric to show that Hortman’s murder follows decades of hard‑line commentators doubling down on false narratives about abortion laws nationally—and in Minnesota in particular.
While the shooter’s exact motive remains under investigation, a recently resurfaced clip features the suspect, Vance...
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- If you're watching this, chances are they hate you.
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Mother Jones video correspondent @GarrisonHayes breaks down Trump's big brutal budget bill that just passed the Senate, putting it steps away from being law. The GOP has made its priorities clear:
They are doing everything imaginable to make sure that you are broke, sick, and hungry, Garrison argues, in his new video hot on the heels of today’s vote. In nearly every way imagine this budget bill will make life harder for millions of Americans.
By the numbers, this Senate bill:
➡️adds $3.3 trillion to the national debt, according to estimates.
➡️could cut up to 12 million people off of their health care coverage.
➡️provides $114 billion in tax cuts to the top one percent.
But this shouldn’t come as a surprise, Garrison concludes. This is exactly what Trump campaigned on and was elected to do.
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- As Political Violence Surges, Trump Shuts Down a Top Prevention Program
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- "The threat is growing and manifesting in more and different ways."
Former DHS official William Braniff talks about building CP3, an innovative model for stopping terrorism—and how its loss may harm America.
The demise of CP3 comes as the White House has diverted major law enforcement and security resources toward deporting undocumented immigrants. It also comes as high-profile acts of political violence have surged in the United States.
Find the full Q&A here: http://bit.ly/40uSMJk
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- 3 Ways Trump Is Sabotaging Free and Fair Elections
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- “The right to vote is the foundation of a democracy, and Trump isn’t hiding his all-out assault on your ability to cast a ballot and hold him accountable in the midterms,” Ari warns. “One thing you need to pay attention to is how Trump is sabotaging free and fair elections ahead of the 2026 midterms.”
Here are three ways Trump is weaponizing the DOJ to advance his voter suppression plans ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
Read Ari's reporting here: http://bit.ly/44tYsoj
