Joseph Ladapo was once a successful normie: A Harvard Medical School grad w/ faculty positions at NYU & UCLA Then his wife & an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-guru came along 👀 @kieraevebutler.bsky.social & I on the pair of mystics who seem to lack any Western medical training yet have inspired FL's top doc:

"A copy of the arrangement I reviewed shows that the United States has agreed to pay Eswatini $5.1 million to take in up to 160 so-called 'third country nationals'" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What happens when a miscarriage is treated like a crime? That’s not a hypothetical anymore. It’s happening in the U.S. right now. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Israeli conductor arrested during a Gaza protest says it’s unlikely he’ll ever be allowed to perform in his home country again—and that he regrets nothing.

JD Vance appropriating the term "blood libel" to describe legitimate criticism of ICE agents is one of the most antisemitic things I have heard in US politics in the past few weeks. Yet this administration has somehow managed to convince a lot of people it actually cares about fighting antisemitism.

Thanks, John Roberts.

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

How dare you call us fascists? We are merely prohibiting antifascism.

Trump has seized investigative and prosecutorial weapons that, in order to safeguard the rule of law, have traditionally been walled off from the president. SCOTUS handed him these loaded weapons.

Sure as hell looks like the UK needs electoral reform. If you put *these* voting preferences into FPTP...I mean, good God you could get just about any outcome, and none of them would be meaningfully democratic

I’m old enough to remember when Bob Iger, whose company recently paid $16 million to settle a meritless Trump lawsuit, and who just indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration, was a chair for the **Committee to Protect Journalists** dinner.

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

UM chancellor called the reshared post "hurtful" and "insensitive," and supposedly violates their "institutional values of civility, fairness, and respecting the dignity of each person." Seems like the "facts don't care about your feelings" crowd cares a lot about certain people's feelings.

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Americans clearly don’t understand that this line of argument is entirely lost for at least a generation. Talk about the US as representing “democracy” or “the free world” will be met with scorn everywhere. The world has converged to Latin America in that regard.

A nom de guerre, if you will (I’ll show myself out)

Pastor Doug Wilson at the National Conservatism conference that's happening now. He also believes that women, who shouldn't be allowed to vote, are "the kind of people who people come out of."

Frankly I’m surprised more comparativists aren’t saying, “Aw that’s so cute. America’s having its first little premature rumor and speculation frenzy about the autocrat’s death after his public absence for a brief period” (common in authoritarian regimes)

I think if Britain colonised your country of origin you should get free BBC iplayer.

fun fact, sergio gor used to be the spokesman for two different members of congress at the same time. and they were...michele bachmann and steve king www.semafor.com/article/08/2...

the reality is you do not want your haters to be your waiters. it completely defeats the purpose of being at the table of success.

A couple months ago, I heard a spellbinding talk by a futurist named Tracee Worley, who's spent a lot of time thinking about sci-fi writer Octavia Butler and her stunning predictions. I talked to Worley about futurism, prediction, and collective survival: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

they've just got to do like an omnibus impeachment that bars like 3,000 people from government on day one. like one of those unification church weddings.

I wrote about Darren Beattie, who’s been appointed as acting president of the US Institute of Peace, which was seized by DOGE earlier this year. Beattie once wrote that “competent white men must be in charge.”!Former USIP employees are agahst: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

Rather than being protectors of the status quo (as they run in 2024), democrats should be the party of "our institutions are broken and here's a set of reforms we propose: multi-member districts/PR, congress expansion, term limits for judges...."

Trump has overseen a disastrous shift in how aid is distributed in Gaza. The US is no longer just a funder and ally to Israel, it is now supporting and carrying out the deadly aid program. The US long decried famine as a tool of war. Now it is implementing it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

i believe i skimmed this back when it came out but also my brain was 2020 pandemic mush. really really excellent and worth your time if you haven’t read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social , we wrote about RFK’s assault on vaccines, and the move that appears to be coming next: weakening or destroying the vaccine court system that’s a crucial part of keeping them in production at all. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Extraordinary reading to understand the human impact of what’s going on.

Do not miss the latest from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @nlanard.bsky.social on the US-Venezuela prisoner swap that sent more than 200 Venezuelans stuck in El Salvador’s CECOT megaprison back to Caracas www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New: After he leaked Zohran Mamdani’s Columbia application data to the New York Times, critics called Jordan Lasker a “eugenicist.” A Mother Jones report shows there’s much more to his backstory. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How we've failed the promise of making “genocide” a crime

end of an era www.youtube.com/watch?v=58fL...

Experts question the legality of deploying National Guard officials as immigration judges. “There is no clear precedent for what DeSantis and the president are doing.”

"Shouting that this is “authoritarian” does not quite do it justice; they are literally proposing to do to Mamdani what Idi Amin did to his father." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.

Has one single Republican ever been asked on TV if they're a fascist

I remember not long ago when Republicans went ballistic at the idea of any national govt database.

We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent. Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.

Sharing this profile I did of Andy Ogles in light of his disgusting call to deport Zohran Mamdani. This is a guy who appears to have lied about: Speaking German, Japanese, and Russian. Being on the board of a YMCA. A job at a nonexistent company. And much more. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No punches pulled. Justice Jackson warns that the Supreme Court has just put the country on a path to dictatorship. “Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Incredibly important. Harvard is about to fail the Lando test, opening itself, the rest of higher education, and all of civil society up to further illegal and unconstitutional authoritarian exertion. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

🧵 Yesterday I published an exhaustive guide of the kinds of help people and organizations are offering strangers access out-of-state abortion care. Today, on the 3rd anniversary of the Dobbs decision that makes the work necessary, I am gonna delve a bit into each helper.