read this excellent piece by @nlanard.bsky.social on a Central Valley candidate fighting to win back over Latinos who went for Trump last election: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In 2024, Trump surged among Latino voters in California's Central Valley. Now a key House primary pits a Bernie and AOC backed college prof vs a moderate state legislator supported by the DCCC and pro-Israel spending. Here's what it looks like on the ground. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Crypto Super PACs are spending massive amounts of money to buy Alabama's GOP Senate primary. The $7 million they've put in so far serves two purposes: Securing another senator and scaring everyone else into submission. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Must read on the rise of our AI oligarchy filled with pitch-perfect lines like this: "I reached a long gray building with earthmovers scattered around the exterior and rows of identical Cybertrucks in the parking lot. This is ­MechaHitler’s bunker." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has reportedly resigned from Congress right before the Ethics Committee was to announce sanctions against her. As @nlanard.bsky.social reported last week, Rep. Cory Mill is STILL hanging on despite facing a staggering number of scandals.

As calls to expel Cory Mills from Congress increase, check out this profile we published of Mills based on interviews with 18 people who've known him. As one man who served with Mills in the Army told me: "I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

After Trump's threat that a "whole civilization will die tonight," I asked the White House about concerns Trump is considering using nuclear weapons. They directed me to Trump's post. Their follow-up stated: "Only the President knows where things stand and what he will do."

Hey, I'm a Features Editor at New York Mag now. I'll be working on a mix of stuff, with a focus on news and politics. (You can pitch me, or belittle me, at the email in my bio.)

“He was deceived by Israel” is going to be the story so many people are going to reach for and I think creating this stabbed in the back myth is going to have some really bad consequences down the line.

The on-the-record quotes in this story about Rep. Cory Mills are absolutely bananas. Sample: "When you’re a Grade A jackass and you do dumb shit and you make everybody look bad, you get remembered." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"An email exchange from...2018, shows 'HWL'...discussing AdFin with Epstein—an apparent sign that Lutnick was aware of Epstein’s involvement in the company and that he maintained a business relationship with Epstein far longer than he has acknowledged." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New: Emails and documents from Epstein files reveal Howard Lutnick and his firm had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. The two were involved in a deal for at least six years, and an email shows "HWL" discussing the investment with Epstein in 2018. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social

"Everybody Hates Cory": Mother Jones does a deeeeep dive into scandal-plagued stinker, #Florida Congressman Cory Mills, detailing his entanglement with sex workers, his stolen valor case & the restraining order he just got www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @motherjones.com

In the last 7 months, Cory Mills and his company have each faced their own separate and unrelated eviction lawsuits for not paying rent, AND each have had judges slap them with their own separate and unrelated restraining orders—Cory for dating violence, his company to freeze its assets

It takes a lot for a politician to stand out as especially sleazy in this era, but Rep. Cory Mills makes the cut. His district (Florida's 7th, suburbs between Orlando and Daytona Beach) is only rated R+5 and there's a competitive Democratic primary, so hopefully he'll be booted this year.

My profile of Congressman Cory Mills is based on interviews with 18 people who have known the Florida Republican from his youth to the present day. There's stolen valor, a restraining order, a failed grenade company, sex workers, a Trump endorsement, and much much more. Here's what I found.

Here's a three-minute video that goes through my reporting in the profile below. The My Cousin Vinny-esque cross examination at the start alone is worth the watch.

Watch this if you want to see a sitting member of Congress say something obviously false under oath before getting hit with a restraining order. Pro tip: Don't tell a lawyer cross-examining you that your divorce hasn't filed if she is holding your divorce papers in her hand.

You’ve got to click through to really be able to read this, but note that the box on the top right says this will actually be a two-level facility, with around 5,200 beds on the ground floor (if I’m reading the blurry text right) and around 3,100 on the “mezzanine.”

Now that's a lede From @nlanard.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is just a brutal profile. It's worth noting that FL-7 is only an R+5 district ... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We watched more than 50 hours of dashcam and bodycam footage taken from the first night of the ICE sweeps in Nashville in May. During one arrest, an agent finds an immigrant's ID and notes he's a manager at a Mexican restaurant. “The guacamole is never going to taste the same,” the agent laughs.

Incredible read from @nlanard.bsky.social

I spoke with 18 people who've known Florida Republican Congressman Cory Mills. Nearly everyone, I found, dislikes him. As one Army veteran who served with Mills put it, “I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Veterans accuse him of stolen valor. His international arms company is deep in debt. He had a restraining order placed on him last year. And he's widely disliked. Read my profile of Florida Republican Congressman Cory Mills here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Excellent profile of JB Pritzker by @timothypmurphy.bsky.social that shows the family history behind his efforts to stand up to another very different billionaire www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

spent some time in Chicago, and also at a very nice library at Yale, trying to understand JB Pritzker www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Kudos to Mayor Mamdani. This is what economic justice looks like. And it's a reminder of how we can fight corporate greed at the state and local level. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/mamdani-ice-delivery-workers-settlement-backpay-uber-gig-workers-million/

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I grew up in Minneapolis, and returned last week to find a city that felt like it was under siege—and a city coming together in a way that was unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed. Here’s my story: part scene piece, part love letter to my hometown www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Amateur hour in Minneapolis continues, even with Bovino out of the picture. This is indicative of a broader issue with Trump’s mass deportation push; officers aren’t doing even basic investigations (to figure out things like “is this address a consulate”) as pressure to keep up arrests is so high.

Before being pushed out, Greg Bovino was rewarded by the administration for terrorizing residents of cities across the country. It only proved too much when he was too obviously caught lying about the defenseless man his agents killed on camera. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@nlanard.bsky.social on what the demotion of Bovino does and doesn't mean: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This was the instant response of a doctor who had literally just watched them shoot Pretti.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

NEW: Another declaration you have to read! Alex Pretti was shot near the apartment of a doctor, who saw the shooting occur and rushed to provide emergency aid as he lay dying on the street. They describe what they saw: "The victim had at least three bullet holes in his back."

A pediatrician who had to insist on providing assistance to Alex Pretti says immigration agents "appeared to be counting his bullet wounds" instead of checking for a pulse or administering CPR.

A new video contradicts the Trump administration's account of the Minneapolis shooting

NEW REPORTING: “This is fucking crazy, I don’t recognize our country.” We’re on the ground in Minneapolis speaking with enraged and grief-stricken residents after federal agents killed another local in the streets.

Spent a couple minutes with Mayor Mamdani, his team, and taxi drivers this week as he announced his nominee to run the TLC at LaGuardia. Video below on his 15-day hunger strike in 2021 coming full circle

Read @jamespwest.bsky.social reporting from Sydney on this weekend's horrific massacre www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Read this story. @dfriedman.bsky.social asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth’s mentor. Then the threats started. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Some details from this investigation: -Friends with a guy convicted of incest -Accused by first of 4 wives of holding a gun to her head -Accused by second wife of owing more than $100,000 in child support -Assaulted an unarmed Black man then lied about it while working as a cop, per police records

MoJo reported on Higgins last year: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In 2019, a Higgins staffer resigned after police alleged that the staffer was part of a sex-trafficking ring involving Chinese women who were reportedly forced to live and perform sex acts at local massage parlors. (The staffer resigned and charges were not pursued.)