Folks, we've got an epistemological crisis and it's not going well www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trouble in paradise! @annamerlan.bsky.social and I wrote about how some corners of the anti-vax universe are displeased by Trump's Tylenol announcement. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today @annamerlan.bsky.social and I have a piece about Trump's autism announcement, along with its weird connections to wellness people who are obsessed with folate deficiencies (and selling supplements for this supposed problem, naturally): www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Just a reminder that this is the guy who now has final say over any new CDC vaccine guidelines: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from me: I talked to @matthewboedy.bsky.social about his new book, which reveals Turning Point’s deep connections to a shadowy Christian nationalist movement.

J6ers and militia leaders are newly energized in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. “I’m going to be rebuilding Oath Keepers,” vowed Stewart Rhodes, leader of the militia group. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... by @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and me

Oh look it's RFK Jr.'s antivax group Children's Health Defense posting about tylenol supposedly causing autism a few days ago

New from me: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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."

And there it is. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Curiously, the main organizers of the highly influential MAGA conference where JD Vance debuted his "America is a people" speech last year don't live in the US—they live in West Bank settlements. This year's conference is happening now. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Something to know about the folks behind America’s most influential nationalism movement is that the nation they’re most connected to is not America. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

While he throws the CDC into chaos that may not be fixable, read @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and I on what else RFK Jr. is planning to do to vaccines, and remember the artificial September deadline he's set to "discover" the causes of autism: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from me: Meet the network state tech bro leading the CDC www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

getting my microplastics removed

While reading this bit from the leaked MAHA report draft it may be helpful to remember RFK Jr.'s plans to send people on SSRIs to "wellness farms" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One anti-vaccine activist added, helpfully, "He didn’t kill any kids. The CDC can’t say the same.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I had the pleasure of collaborating with @pemalevy.bsky.social and @dfriedman.bsky.social on a piece about the Christian Zionists involved with US aid to Gaza, and how their extreme end-times beliefs might influence their work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A must-read from my colleague @juliannemcshane.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from me and @annamerlan.bsky.social: What's really going on with RFK Jr.'s assault on vaccines www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

At the White House Faith Luncheon today Trump kinda said the quiet part out loud

New from me: how awkward for MAGA-land that MAHA and the tech bros are fighting www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Our new Reveal episode is out! Come to hear about how I got kicked out of a conference of pronatalists, stay for the giant panda discourse. revealnews.org/podcast/pron... A giant THANK YOU to @holarascon.bsky.social, Catherine Winter, and Marianne Szegedy-Maszak ❤️

I wrote about how Iran is dividing the Christian nationalists (and MAGA more broadly) into two opposing camps. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Other attendees and honorees of Christ for the Nations include "Stop the Steal" leaders. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I came expecting to see a diamond-encrusted steak appraised for $2.2 million. I left with the impression that crypto is a new American religion. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Anti-vaccine activists are, predictably, thrilled. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Go read this truly wild story by my colleague @annamerlan.bsky.social about how the head of RFK Jr.'s MAHA Institute has long pushed extremist ideas, including claiming that Israel is “a leading candidate for architect of the 9/11 attacks.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wrote about how some tech bros aim to use tribal sovereignty to create a crypto-friendly economic zone—and the broader goals of the tech Network State movement to create new deregulated places with their own rules. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wrote about the charismatic Christians who likely inspired the Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestine activism. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wrote about the TheoBros’ upcoming foray into DC—and their big plans. E.g. “I need a minister there who’s going to say, ‘Obergefell is next.’” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Read my brilliant colleague's investigation into a private equity-fueled for-profit chain with hospitals around the country, stiffed bills and slashed patient care while its top brass became multimillionaires.

I wrote about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s muddled and very strange references last week to "300,000 missing children" trafficked by the Biden Administration, and the ways in which we're experiencing the world's first Brain Rot cabinet www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Spent some time with @kieraevebutler.bsky.social considering Casey Means, Trump’s surgeon general pick: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from @annamerlan.bsky.social and me: America's first vibes-based surgeon general? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today, I wrote about the NIH's abrupt move to cancel the Safe to Sleep program, which has reduced infant SIDS deaths by 50 percent. And about how RFK Jr. has promoted the false notion that vaccines cause SIDS. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Christian influencer Allie Beth Stuckey says the only reason you don't want to have a baby (many babies!) right now is that your evil birth control is taking over your brain. (About that: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...)

I wrote about that one time (yesterday) when JD Vance posed with far right TV host Steve Deace, who fantasizes about "antifa members hanging from gallows in Trump ties" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wrote about the disturbing history of motherhood medals: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This morning, Italian former archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò had this to say about the late Pope Francis, just hours after his death. A few months back, I wrote about Viganò and the other "trad caths" who were not exactly bereft as Pope Francis was ailing. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW from me and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social: One undercovered thing about RFK Jr.'s press conference about an apparent increase in autism prevalence is that he just... really doesn't seem to know that much about autism. A brief tour: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Today @annamerlan.bsky.social and I wrote about the many factual errors RFK Jr. made in his autism press briefing this week—and his featured researcher's ties to pseudoscience groups. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from me: It's very in vogue for tech bros to talk about "network states," where likeminded people get together to form their own alternative nations, often with crypto fueling the economy. The TheoBros are actually doing something like this now in Appalachia. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I talked to CDC employees who were placed on administrative leave this morning about the breathtaking sweep of public health work that may very soon cease to exist.

"If Vice President JD Vance has his way,” one speaker said, “our whole electoral process may be recalibrating around this new pronatal biopolitics.”

This week, you'll probably see some stories in which pronatalists appear as a delightfully goofy sideshow. But there's something much darker and more important going on. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It was great to talk with @seanrameswaran.bsky.social on @vox.com's "Today, Explained" about RFK Jr. and the measles: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

They fled Haiti and work America's most dangerous jobs. Now Trump wants to deport them. @fernnews @tedgenoways reports on meatpacking's refugee workforce www.motherjones.com/food/2025/03...

Usually I'm pretty good at journalistic emotional distance, but the video in question was one of the most heartbreaking things I've seen in a long time. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW @motherjones.com: I spoke to HHS employees grappling w/ whether to take buyouts or stay & fight for public health as leadership seem hellbent on undermining them. Also has a scoop: NIH isn't sending cancer researchers to a major national conference next month www.motherjones.com/politics/202...