@jacobrosenberg.bsky.social writes that Hanna Pickard’s forthcoming What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine “has changed [his] understanding of [his] habits—and maybe it will change yours, too.” www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

nice to include a (correct) sicko ode to Angeball maxread.substack.com/p/the-read-m...

Discovered a new Bill Murray

wrote about smoking and a new book on the philosophy of addiction www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

"Even if you do go offline, you’ll find the real world is now a lot like the AI experience on your phone: supposedly easy, but shitty, and decidedly vacant" www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

huge news: "doves and pigeons are part of the family Columbidae, which includes hundreds of species, and there’s no real scientific distinction between the two bird groups" www.motherjones.com/environment/...

NEW: U.S. Military Willing to Attack “Designated Terrorist Organizations” Within America, General Says “That is one of the concerns with the administration asserting that the President essentially has a license to kill outside the law,” says expert. theintercept.com/2025/12/16/t...

re-read Greg Grandon on Kissinger and thinking today about the unbroken circle of political arguments for American militarism

Venezuela is not completely surrounded by an armada, because Venezuela is not an island. Also, Venezuela nationalized its oil industry in 1976, when Hugo Chávez was 21 and Nicolás Maduro was 13.

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is a harrowing account of city under siege www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

if you went to an ivy league school and traveled out to LA with a pilot in the peak tv/streamers era and couldn't get a solitary job in a writers room you must have been an UNBELIEVABLY bad hang

On the second point—please read @eamonwhalen.bsky.social on Royce White www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Blurbed some of the books I loved this year: Ratliff on running; finally reading Omeros; back with Larry Brown's failures; and remembering why we forget wars www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

Apply for my old job!

“This is about throwing sand in the gears of the entire system in order to end immigration.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Also apropos nothing else, public opinion was turning against Israel before TikTok went mainstream

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

"'not since Operation Cyclone,' the CIA effort to arm the Afghan mujahideen, 'has there been a covert action by any nation state to arm a paramilitary proxy group at this scale and sophistication and try to write it off as just a series of happy coincidences.'" theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...

when they make a mount rushmore of soy right content, this will be the Washington www.piratewires.com/p/heather-co...

"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."

good blog www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Much of the current immigration policymaking—if this rampant clampdown and unleashing of brutalizing force can be called that—seems to be now distilled to a simple modus operandi: we do it because we can. My reflection on a year of hell for immigrants and the Trump administration's casual cruelty:

We have never seen anything like this year. @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social attempts to list the many, many, many ways the Trump administration punished immigrants in 2025—and delighted in their cruelty. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is Lake Boehmer—a vast, polluted pool of sludge created by an abandoned well in the Permian Basin. In Jan+Feb issue @motherjones.com, Molly Taft (@mollytaft.com) writes about the unlikely activists trying to clean up old wells: Republican-leaning, former oil and gas workers on TikTok

Aquarium Drunkard :: Year In Review 2025 aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/12/08/a... Looking back to look ahead. Our list arrives in the spirit of sharing, and we’re back with our annual Year In Review. As always the following is unranked and unruly. Let it blurb.

Go read this excellent feature on orphan wells by @mollytaft.com (And read it to the end!!! because at the end there is a surprise: a sidebar by me, where my editor let me talk about the everything ranging from the 19th century oil boom to 21st century satellites. #ripMethaneSAT)

a big new one from me: I profiled a group of neighbors in west texas who have become the face of the abandoned well problem in the heart of oil country for @motherjones.com - an unlikely group of former industry workers and ranchers who are fed up with how Big Oil won’t clean up its messes:

EXCLUSIVE: Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Indiana won the Big Ten

We're proud to support our nonprofit journalism siblings as they fight for robust safeguards around the use of AI at their publications. At Mother Jones and Reveal, we're hard at work negotiating similar protections with CIR management. Solidarity!

In 2024, social media posts about people going to "fake offices" to "pretend to work" went viral in China. Local news described these offices as ways to keep up appearances and avoid the stigma of being jobless. Lavender Au visited one to see if that was true, and what people did there all day.

Back in November 2024, @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social explained the long Republican plan to get us here www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“So we’ve been trying to get access to Tom Homan…”

Pleased to speak with @nickturse.bsky.social. “Oversight needs to be broader than this one incident. It needs to cover the entire maritime bombing campaign. And it needs to go beyond the Department of Defense. We need to know how this policy was formulated in the first instance.”

I wrote about the private, intimate, often ridiculous agonies of working for a man who think you’re a monster nymag.com/intelligence...

On Monday, 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. This sweeping purge is part of Trump's broader effort to reshape immigration courts to fit his mass deportation agenda.

Elite graphic.

For the @thebaffler.com I wrote about how Nick Fuentes and "The Groyper Wars" changed Charlie Kirk thebaffler.com/latest/ready...

here’s a piece I wrote for @indyweek.bsky.social in 2020 on K&W’s uncertain future: “There can be all kinds of other things to go and see, but if they have a K&W, I love the place.” (cc: @tressiemcphd.bsky.social)

an annual holiday repost of a blog about my grandma, a great person and wonderful talker of shit

The @theintercept.com is doing vital reporting on how the US is using fake names from Star Trek ships to hide a buildup in the Caribbean of troops to potentially attack Venezuela theintercept.com/2025/11/25/t...

Stay in detention or lose your kid www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...

NEW: When Propecy Fails is one of the most famous social psychology books of all time, a look at a small group of UFO believers when the “spacemen” failed to land. I wrote about a new study from an independent researcher who says the book is not what it seems. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Stock investors, already nervous about the sky-high valuations of AI businesses, have taken note of the weakness in the bond market...the cost of insuring those bonds using credit-default swaps also has climbed" www.wsj.com/finance/inve...