Hey, @samveep.bsky.social & I won a Telly for this video report on a $25K payment Kash Patel got from a Ukrainian American Russian filmmaker who was part of a Kremlin-funded propaganda operation. Check it out. We still don't know where the money came from. (Giuliani got $100K from the same source.)

Just dropped the biggest and baddest thing I’ve ever worked on: 22-minutes documentary into how science is rewritten by corporations and we pay the cost. Hope you queue it up for your night and give it a watch!

Beyond proud to announce that we've won a Webby Award for our coverage of ICE's Minneapolis takeover. Between January 7 and February 3, we deployed reporters to Minneapolis and brought back indelible footage. 🧵

We're nominated for a Webby People's Voice Award for our Instagram feed, where millions saw our reporting on Minneapolis, Christian nationalism, surveillance tech, the Golden State Killer, and so much more! VOTE FOR US NOW: wbby.co/58990N

Using the r-word is just bad. Democrats should have higher standards for themselves than Trump when it comes to using a slur that MANY disabled people find offensive. Looking at you, Graham Platner. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

SPOTTED: Donald Trump makes an appearance at No Kings in DC. 📹 : Marianne Szegedy-Maszak

The AMA said surgeries should “generally be deferred to adulthood.” (The generally established guidance) The NYT characterized this as the AMA having “backed limitations on gender-related surgical treatments.” What the NYT wrote is different than what AMA said. Full stop. 1/2

The article that keeps on giving:

the trump administration is taking a lot of inspiration from nazi propaganda. my new video looks at some of the most egregious examples from their feeds—and I think it's helping prime everyday people to cheer on even more awful things.

The US government won't stop sharing Nazi propaganda. This past year, official social media accounts from the Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and other government agencies have adopted a distinct voice online. But if you look closer, a pattern emerges.

Okay, so you wanna do a general strike? Here's some real, practical advice on how to make it happen, from conversations with various Minnesota organizers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

me: uploads a clean and clear audio file of an interview in english adobe:

Totally normal headline you see every day in functioning democracies around the world…

Rob has been the only Evangelical I’ve run into who has been actively in the streets to witness, pray, and be a body on the frontline in the streets of Minneapolis. I hope you watch this.

Hard to say how many showed up for Alex Pretti’s vigil, but easily hundreds if not thousands. After community activists and leaders spoke at the park where they gathered, everyone marched to the site of Pretti’s killing. Streets just filled with people demanding ICE out.

Minneapolis has a song just for Kristi Noem.

“If Minnesota falls, everything falls. We’re done as a nation.” Fury. Grief. Anguish. Locals on the frontlines of Trump’s attack on Minneapolis are speaking out following the killing of another one of their neighbors. We’re on the ground with @samveep.bsky.social tracking the aftermath.

Our @samveep.bsky.social is at the scene where 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. Read his heartbreaking dispatch from on the ground.

“We’re furious that our neighbors are getting kidnapped and murdered in the streets,” a protester named John told me. “This is supposed to be America, the land of the free, and this is not freedom.” I spoke Minnesotans who showed up where Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents:

I was just supposed to follow clergy leaders as they did a pilgrimage from George Floyd Square to Renée Good’s memorial. But then when we got back to the landing spot, we found out an observer had been attacked by ICE agents who had been tailing the religious leaders. From me today in Minneapolis:

the protect the children crowd is real quiet

New video from our team shows a horrifying ICE attack on a woman who says she is disabled and was just trying to get to her doctor's appointment.

The high schooler at the heart of the current case knows that the battle at the court is about much more than whether she can play track and field with her friends. “It’s just one part of a plan to push transgender people like me out of the public life entirely.”

In the aftermath of the ICE killing of Renée Good, Trump's admin smeared her as a “domestic terrorist." That’s despite video evidence to the contrary. Today, we joined the Manhattan thong for one of many dozens of protests held around the country this weekend. We asked protesters: What did you see?

I spoke with noturtlesoup17.bsky.social who is on the ground in Minneapolis for @motherjones.com. She's been one of the country's most prominent chroniclers of ICE escalation. We'll be featuring more of her work over the coming weeks and months. Give her a follow. www.youtube.com/shorts/7otLE...

A disgusting development in the story of the aftermath of Renee Good’s death. From @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social: Grok unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Good in a bikini—the woman who was killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis.

Grok unhesitatingly fulfilled an X user’s request to put a bikini onto the body of ICE shooting victim Renee Nicole Good. The chatbot, launched by Elon Musk, has been making deepfakes of a lot of other women, too. My latest in @motherjones.com: 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

shocker: there's a trump-supporting billionaire who could make a shit ton of money off of the attack on venezuela

Billionaire hedge funder Paul Singer, whose firm acquired oil giant Citgo at a bargain price, has much to gain from Nicolás Maduro’s ouster. On Fox News Saturday, Trump made clear that one of the motivations for Saturday’s attack was to increase the production and export of Venezuelan oil.

I made an information science/libraries/archives feed! Mostly for my own enjoyment but thought others may enjoy. Drawn from my growing "Libraries, Archives, & Information" list. Filtered by growing keywords list here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Comment/DM for suggestions or removals! 📖💻📜

On Tuesday, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palestinians in Gaza living through what Amnesty International and other groups labeled as a genocide.

I was scrolling TikTok last night and imagine my jumpscare when this is pushed into my feed??? TikTok is selling N*zi gear now I guess.

this is just a crazy story and further proves how much power the tech bros have over the world

A somber scene of reflection and outrage outside the Bondi Pavilion where an impromptu vigil is taking place. Prayer, intense grief, amongst Sydney’s Jewish community.

PTFO collaborated with @msjpauly.bsky.social and @motherjones.com on an investigation into Riley Gaines. Riley’s messaging about trans athletes involves “predatory men” and “sexual assault.” But there’s an important story multiple ex-teammates at Kentucky want you to know: youtu.be/iKUl8lkuGOc?...

I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes. So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/

NEW @motherjones.com: When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Megyn Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now, with Epstein, she’s claiming it’s not quite fair to call him a a pedophile because he was “into the barely legal type” of minors. ⬇️ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

um… this is scary (speaking tomorrow at the double exposure film fest in DC on how to build social short form presence!!)

just got to DC and it’s freaky af seeing troops everywhere

What would it mean for California to "soft secede?" @clarajeffery.bsky.social explains how blue states can use their economic and cultural clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

If you’d like to see more of my coverage from Coast Guard Island and the all day demonstration there, check out all the photos we just posted on the MJ Instagram ✊❤️ www.instagram.com/p/DQLdlG5DkL...

Hundreds of people currently marching toward the Coast Guard Island to re-up their protest presence at the entrance of where federal agents and National Guard are being housed.

Those cars sped out and what looked like civilian CG employees later followed through—

The “civilians” they cleared the road for are the same cars that entered this morning where an escalated confrontation happened. They are alleged to be federal agents.

CHP is currently pushing people out of the entrance to Coast Guard Island, Alameda, California, where ICE agents and federal guard are being housed. They’ve been asked to clear the street so “civilians” can leave the base. Unclear what they mean by “civilians” and won’t offer more information.

Heavy California Highway Patrol presence that just showed up in Alameda, California, with what we can confirm is about 30 or more sitting outside the perimeter seemingly waiting to be called in. They’re calling for protesters to move out of the road to clear the way for people to exit the base.

Guards kept having to turn away cause they were laughing/smiling at the chicken.

Protester praying on the "government property" line where US Coast Guard security is currently holding the perimeter. You can see on the ground pieces of the a car and the flash grenade that was used in an earlier altercation as alleged ICE agents tried to enter the facility.

Scenes and signs from the entrance to Coast Guard Island, where National Guard and federal agents are being housed. Protesters and faith leaders have been here since the early hours of the morning, blocking the one entrance on and off the island.

"Why did the chicken cross the road? To stop a fascist regime." The inflatable resistance continues from Portland, Oregon to the Alameda, California.