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...

Republican Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files. Here’s a damning investigation from @nlanard.bsky.social worth reading today in light of that: 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.)

This story also has one of the most memorable quotes I've ever been told. "[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"

From my investigation last year into Higgins' friendship with Leon Boudreaux, a former cop who was convicted of incest after a teenage relative accused Boudreaux of sexually assaulting her between the ages of 14 and 18. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

with @nlanard.bsky.social we ran the numbers on where Mamdani-mentum peaked—and checked back on the neighborhoods where Democratic support cratered in 2024 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Wrote about Mamdani’s successful 15-day hunger strike in solidarity with taxi drivers in 2021, what it was like to be there, and how it foreshadowed his campaign www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DHS often say assaults against ICE officers have skyrocketed, but fails to provide real data to back that up. I reviewed ICE's own Fallen Officers page. It tells a much different story, and shows that none of its officer have been killed by an immigrant since the agency was created.

DHS has said over and over that immigration enforcement is so dangerous that ICE agents needs masks and the military to protect them. ICE's own records show that no ICE agent has ever been killed by an immigrant. Covid-19 is by far the leading cause of death. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

A solid turnout in Brooklyn for No Kings running along much of Prospect Park

Daniel Levy, the head of the US/Middle East Project, has been one of the sharpest people I've talked to over the past two years about the war in Gaza. Read his take on the ceasefire in the Q&A below. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Read @nlanard.bsky.social on the latest black hole ICE is reporting to with no due process or national connection www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Some background on the absolute monarchy where the Trump administration is now paying to imprison people deported by ICE Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New: Inside the Kafkaesque legal battle that's resulted from ICE sending people without due process to a maximum security prison in Africa's last remaining absolute monarchy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How Robert Malley—a veteran US peace negotiator and the co-author of a new book on the failure of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process— is looking at the recent moves to recognize Palestine. Link to Q&A here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Really enjoyed doing this Q&A with Robert Malley, the former Clinton, Obama, and Biden foreign policy official whose new book with Hussein Agha pushes readers to think beyond the two-state solution. We also covered Biden's response to October 7 and recent moves to recognize Palestine.

Great lede from @timothypmurphy.bsky.social in this story on American comedians heading to Riyadh and people folding to autocrats more broadly www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From a story published yesterday by @nlanard.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Very much worth reading parts of Judge William G. Young's ruling taking on the Trump admin's assault on the First Amendment. Notable that a decision from a Reagan appointee is filled with paragraphs like this one. Story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

These are the only 4 federal cases Lindsey Halligan—a former Florida insurance defense lawyer—is listed as an attorney on. 3 are cases where she represented Trump. The 4th is prosecuting Comey. Doesn't get more clear than that.

A look at the legal background of the person who Trump just made one of the top prosecutors in the country so that she can go after his enemies www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Spent some time shadowing Greg Casar (and Dolores Huerta!) during the redistricting fight. His predicament embodied the party's: a rising generation of leaders, caught between a defiant old guard and an opposition willing to change the rules to stop them www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: “I’m pretty sure that Chuck E. Cheese has more of an in-depth prior hiring process." Mother Jones investigates the man sending armed military contractors to Gaza in an operation some of his own employees have called "amateur."

New: "These guys are literally cowboys." A look at the former Green Beret and hangover prevention company founder now in charge of the heavily armed American contractors accused of misconduct in Gaza. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"These guys are literally cowboys... They’re not aid workers who have any understanding or any ability to do this work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here is some of the history of the former Green Beret now in charge of the heavily armed American contractors accused of misconduct in Gaza. Read the full story here: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New: How Jameson Govoni—a little-known former Green Beret and serial small-time entrepreneur—ended up at the center of a dubious scheme to deliver aid in Gaza. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New: We just published a video featuring parts of our interview with Neri Alvarado, who spent more than 4 months in CECOT after the Trump administration falsely accused him of being a gang member. As you can see in the video, his largest tattoo is an autism awareness ribbon.

“There’s no family here, there are no lawyers here, nobody exists here.” For four months, Neri Alvarado, Julio Zambrano, and so many others wondered if they were ever going to leave CECOT alive. Now, they want to clear their names and justice for what they had to endure. With @nlanard.bsky.social:

NEW: We spoke to 3 Venezuelans about the hell they experienced at CECOT in El Salvador. Neri Alvarado, the 25-year-old with an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg, told us that even the ICE agent who questioned him concluded he was not part of a gang. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is a great reporting by Noah Lanard www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In a previously unreported comment, a person with a username associated with Darryl Cooper/Martyr Made wrote on a white nationalist website: "Think of how most people you know got here. It wasn’t from basic American ideology to reading Mein Kampf and then, boom, they’re onboard. It’s a process..."

New: How Darryl Cooper/Martyr Made went from appearing on an obscure neo-Confederate podcast to bringing David Irving's pseudohistory to millions of people on Carlson and Rogan. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One of the men @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social and I wrote about is Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos. He came into the U.S. legally, through the CBP One app. His family has worked tirelessly to secure his release from CECOT. Tonight, they got to hug him again. His mother Ydalys shares this video:

Many of these people came to the United States for protection. Never forget what they got instead. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

CONFIRMED: Arturo Suárez, the musician imprisoned by the Trump admin without due process in El Salvador for 4 months is FREE. A video shows him telling his brother that while they were imprisoned, they were beaten daily by guards. Remember: this is the first ever mass release from CECOT.

Incredibly powerful moment as some of Neri Alvarado's relatives see him walking off the plane in Venezuela after his release from CECOT. He was targeted because of his tattoos—the largest of which is an autism awareness ribbon featuring his brother's name

"The bitterness is still there. The anger about what happened to him is still there.” After four months, more than 200 men sent to El Salvador have been released from CECOT and returned to Venezuela. @nlanard.bsky.social and I spoke with family members and friends waiting to be reunited with them.

CONFIRMED: Neri Alvarado, the Venezuelan man imprisoned by the Trump admin without due process for 4 months in El Salvador because of bureaucratic errors stemming from his autism awareness tattoo honoring his brother, is FREE.

Amazing AP image from Ariana Cubillos of Arturo Suárez, a Venezuelan musician sent to CECOT, walking off the plane. (Identified to me by a relative.) “We spent four months without any contact with the outside world,” Suárez told teleSUR today. “We were kidnapped.”

A sister as well as a friend of Neri Alvarado Borges confirm that he is now back in Venezuela. Neri's wrongful imprisonment attracted international attention. He is the 25-year-old with an autism awareness ribbon tattooed on his leg. This is him leaving the plane.

NEW: Story from @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and me based on interviews with families of the men returned to Venezuela tonight after Trump disappeared them to El Salvador in March. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Earlier today, the mother of Julio Zambrano, one of the Venezuelans sent to CECOT, was told to go to Caracas for some "good news." She's at the airport in anticipation of her son's arrival after four long months. @nlanard.bsky.social and I are in touch with other families as they wait for more news.

@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and I are in touch with some of the family members of Venezuelans sent to CECOT. They've heard their loved ones are on their way home and are on their way to reunite with them. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...