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Jacob Rosenberg
6 days ago
In 2021,
@nlanard.bsky.social
came back from a hunger strike of taxi drivers and told me that a politician who had just turned 30 might be the future of politics in NYC. Here's a look back at a pivotal moment in Mamdani's rise
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The moment that made Mamdani
How a 15-day hunger strike foreshadowed his campaign.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/hunger-strike-mamdani-taxi-driver-moment-that-made-him-mayor/
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Hamilton Nolan
6 days ago
It is worth saying that putting âAfricana studiesâ in scare quotes as if itâs a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. Itâs just racism. âAfrica is not worthy of a majorâ is the implication. Yeah dude youâre just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
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âOur culture is built to eternally forgive men, generally, and white men of means, especially, for their mistakes.â
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
on Platner and the bone-headed calls from Dems to forgive a wee bit of racism now and then is very, very good.
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Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democratsâ Greatest Weakness
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/nazi-tattoo-graham-platner-democrats.html
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"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" is a GAUNLET of a film and performance by Rose Byrne. I talked to brilliant writer + director Mary Bronstein about our mutual love for Conan, the cosmic shitshow of motherhood, and the rare thrill of watching a REAL middle-aged woman's face on a giant screen.
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âIf I Had Legs Iâd Kick Youâ invites you to look directly at a woman's rage
Mary Bronsteinâs new film is a shot-out-of-a-cannon rejoinder to the message that suffering women should âtough it out.â
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/if-i-had-legs-id-kick-you-mary-bronstein/
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"When politicians say 'able-bodied,' itâs a roundabout way of downplaying the challenges faced by people who have been left behind, yet deemed capable enough to contribute to capitalism. But their language fails to hide the true message: The state does not want to help you."
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The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge
How the idea of âable-bodiedâ is abused
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/medicaid-rfkjr-able-bodied-keyword-mother-tongue/
about 1 month ago
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One wind farm in Texas had been supplying enough clean energy to power thousands of homes. "But now it will be sending all that electricity to Eric Trumpâs bitcoin machines instead" -- just as Dad declares war on wind power construction for everyone else!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump's war on wind power has one very big exception
The president's sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for bitcoins.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/donald-trump-eric-trump-bitcoin-mining-wind-power/
about 2 months ago
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There are many ways to take in Samin Nosrat's much-anticipated new cookbook! But for me, it arrives as a gorgeous antidote to these soul-sucking times, a practical guide to an intentional life + the daily ask of what makes a good life.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Eight years in the making, Samin Nosrat's new cookbook arrives right on time
Can a cookbook reveal the ingredients for a good life? Nosrat's latest offers a guide.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/samin-nosrat-arrives-right-on-time/
about 2 months ago
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Trump's takeovers of America's largest cities are about much more than deportations and supposed "crime." Advocates worry that they preview the plan for the 2026 midterms: the military at polls + ICE citizenship checks at the ballot. Read
@ariberman.bsky.social
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Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election
From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/donald-trump-plan-to-rig-2026-midterm-elections-voter-suppression-gerrymandering-certification/
2 months ago
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Perfect casting. Masterful. I am in awe.
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Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/nyregion/eric-adams-saudi-arabia-ambassador.html
2 months ago
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Wall-to-wall absurdity in this!! But this quoteâ"This is gonna be so subtle and fabulous for school drop-off.ââbroke me, now has me googling local options for a facelift :((((
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The Forever-35 Face
The face-lift is better than ever, and everybody wants one. Deep inside the uncanny world of the surgically ageless.
https://www.thecut.com/article/undetectable-facelifts-trend-popularity-deep-plane-face-lift-vs-smas.html
2 months ago
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my hot take is that Bridgegate *should* get re-investigated, its cartoon mob villains studied and poked in a lab to explain today's never-ending Bridgegates
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Trump's retribution tour threatens to go after Bridgegate, a notorious retribution scheme
His campaign is careening toward its logical extreme, no matter how obvious the irony.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trump-chris-christie-bridgegate-revenge/
3 months ago
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"And Just Like That ⊠was a state of mind, and that mind was in a coma."
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And Just Like That, And Just Like That ⊠Is Dead
And Iâm actually really sad about it.
https://www.vulture.com/article/and-just-like-that-ending-season-3-series-finale.html
3 months ago
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Julia Carrie Wong
3 months ago
Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other âfruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be plantedâ into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.
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Israelâs new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers
Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/30/israel-gaza-humanitarian-aid-starvation-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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"Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began." 60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2025/israel-gaza-war-children-death-toll/
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"You can't fake that" is a shockingly crass way of describing mass starvation. But look a little closer, and Trump's remarks are just a variation on an American theme: Yes, we see the starving kids but we wonât do anything about it. Same goes for Dems who condemn but still won't say Israel.
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"They look very hungry" and a familiar American excuse
Trump seemed to admit that children in Gaza are starving. He's just the latest politician to pretend he can't do something about it.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/trump-gaza-hunger-starvation-israel-they-look-hungry-familiar-american-excuse/
4 months ago
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Julianne McShane
4 months ago
âWalking corpsesâ: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say âPeople in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.â Here's a rundown on what to know
@motherjones.com
. Be warned that the latest images we have from Gaza are disturbing.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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âWalking corpsesâ: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say
"People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/walking-corpses-israels-blockade-of-aid-starves-gazans-aid-groups-say/
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Isabela Dias
4 months ago
"The female guards would count to 20 as they administered the beatings, and if the prisoners complained or cried out, they would start again...Tito MartĂnez, one of the inmates, recalled that a prison nurse was watching. 'Hit the piñata,' she cheered."
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No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive
Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their four months in CECOT.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/07/inside-cecot-mega-prison-el-salvador/683646/
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Julia Carrie Wong
4 months ago
âFor infants, we have virtually no baby formula. Children are being given 10% dextrose (sugar water), which has no nutritional value ... When an international colleague tried to bring baby formula into Gaza, Israeli authorities confiscated it.â
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Iâm witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gazaâs children â why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard
A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now â all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/22/gaza-israel-deliberate-starvation-ceasefire-aid
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"I am not a survivor or a responder. Iâm a witness, or a voyeur. The distress I am feeling is shame." I think about this piece often, but especially this week.
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The Year in âSensitive Contentâ (Published 2023)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/arts/instagram-gaza-israel-children.html
4 months ago
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Jacob Rosenberg
4 months ago
"I crawled on my hands and knees through a crowd... I had to collect whatever had fallen to the ground â lentils, rice, chickpeas, pasta, even salt. My bones ache from being stepped on, but I have to do it for my children. I canât bear the sound of their hunger"
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
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We are starving
My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.
https://www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-food-aid-siege-children/
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Marisa Kabas
4 months ago
AI not beating the allegations that it's fucking stupid
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Why This AI Influencer Is Going Viral at Wimbledon (Yes, You Read That Right)
Mia Zelu uploaded an Instagram carousel of herself seemingly at Wimbledon; however, the post isn't what her nearly 200K followers think because she's an AI-powered social media influencer.
https://people.com/ai-influencer-is-going-viral-at-wimbledon-11770402
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They look like divorcees who wander America's dead malls. But while the look of ICE agents is easy to mock, their accessible masculinity is helping excuse and normalize institutionalized terror. I take a look at how ICE's bro aesthetics fit into MAGA's larger cultural project.
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The plainclothes goon squad
The aesthetics of ICEâpuff-chested and average broâdo more than shroud Trumpâs immigration cops in secrecy.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-masks-aesthetics-dhs-plainclothes-goon-squad-essay/
4 months ago
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reposted by
Jacob Rosenberg
4 months ago
an enlivening piece from
@inaeoh.bsky.social
on the aesthetics of ICE
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The plainclothes goon squad
The aesthetics of ICEâpuff-chested and average broâdo more than shroud Trumpâs immigration cops in secrecy.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-masks-aesthetics-dhs-plainclothes-goon-squad-essay/
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I haven't been a regular late-night viewer in forever. But as a kid, the genre was the biggest influence in shaping my news sense. Killing the Late Show franchise to lick Trump's boots marks a dark new chapter for the culture at large: the art we consume, watch, read. We should all be disturbed.
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Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/stephen-colbert-cancelled-cbs-trump-paramount/
4 months ago
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We are the fucking worst.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/07/usaid-emergency-food-incinerate-trump/683532/
4 months ago
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$100 billion in new ICE funding is about to get unleashed thanks to this bill. Come process that crushing figure with me.
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What $100 billion in new ICE funding looks like
The staggering increase is difficult to process. These numbers will help.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-funding-100-billion-big-beautiful-bill/
4 months ago
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reposted by
Tim Murphy
4 months ago
these people respect their constituents about as much as they respect themselves.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
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Mother Jones
4 months ago
For more on the tacky aesthetics that link Bezos-SĂĄnchez to Trump-world, read
@inaeoh.bsky.social
on what's happening to the faces of the ruling class. âOver the top, overdone, ridiculous,â is how one New York plastic surgeon described it.
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In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/maralago-face-conservative-girl-makeup-brutal-aesthetics-of-maga-trump-gaetz-guilfoyle/
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happy primary day everyone. it's a hot one!!!!!
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Mayor Bloomberg attaches home AC unit to car
YouTube video by CNN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5vJWHMlHHg
5 months ago
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Monster then, monster now! đđđ for some rare good news tomorrow.
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Monsters of 2024: Anthony Weiner and Andrew Cuomo
Two of New York's most infamous sex pests appear to be eyeing political comebacks.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/monsters-anthony-weiner-and-andrew-cuomo/
5 months ago
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Tim Murphy
5 months ago
a lot wrong here but i think you should simply not wear your vintage Guinness shirt to meet with members of Congress, at a federal building, about your government job
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For the right, a white woman that sits atop a powerful agency ruthlessly deporting thousands is the âbeautiful, delicate, tinyâ victim. People of color with opinions they donât like, even elected officials, are the violent aggressors.
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The "delicate, beautiful, tiny" fascism of Kristi Noem
The right thinks Noem is the victim of Sen. Padilla's assault. But what about Rep. McIver?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/kristi-noem-lamonica-mciver/
5 months ago
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Alejandra âš
5 months ago
Itâs the way his voice broke when he said âimagine what theyâre doing to farmworkersâ đŁđŁ As the granddaughter of migrant farmworkers and an immigration expert, I have this exact fear. Theyâre kidnapping and abusing our loved ones. How else are we expected to respond? Thank you,
@padilla.senate.gov
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"Begging Obama to save us is undignified. It reeks of weakness, and it begets more weakness. The answer will not come from above." blast this piece on repeat đŁ
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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Opinion | Obama Isnât Going to Save You
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/opinion/obama-save-america-trump.html
5 months ago
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Mother Jones
5 months ago
The Kardashian-Jenners are suddenly honest about their plastic surgery, sparking praise for no longer "gatekeeping." But that praise,
@inaeoh.bsky.social
writes, is wildly out of step with reality, and promotes a decision that Kylie Jennerâin a rare human momentâpreviously expressed regret over.
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Kylie Jennerâs plasticized candor
The Kardashian-Jenner empire has a new trick to keep us looking when everyone looks the same.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/kylie-jenners-plasticized-candor/
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forgot how destabilizing the KARDASHIAN JENNERS can be for our readers
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Kylie Jennerâs plasticized candor
The Kardashian-Jenner empire has a new trick to keep us looking when everyone looks the same.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/kylie-jenners-plasticized-candor/
5 months ago
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ProPublica
5 months ago
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city âsweepsâ to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. âThey took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,â a 29-year-old in California wrote.
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âI Have Lost Everythingâ: The Toll of Citiesâ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings â including important documents and irreplaceable mementos â when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country soâŠ
https://projects.propublica.org/impact-of-homeless-sweeps-lost-belongings/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=6-4
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"A National Institutes of Health employee in the South said sheâs checked her government benefits to calculate how much money her family would receive if she killed herself."
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White House officials wanted to put federal workers âin trauma.â Itâs working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. âWhy doesnât anyone care?â
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/05/20/federal-workers-trump-mental-health/
6 months ago
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Think you're impervious to branding traps + smooth-talking influencers?? Have a baby and watch yourself melt into a pool of humiliation! Jk. But read
@amandahess.bsky.social
's excellent new memoir for a better grasp of tech's chokehold on parenting. You'll be discomforted, fascinated, and LOLing.
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A better way to think about tech's hold on modern parenting
Apps and influencers offer to ease burdens. But a closer look at the darker origins of that promise can help caregivers navigate whatâs real.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/amanda-hess-interview-second-life-book-motherhood-technology/
6 months ago
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Rare, in these shit times, to look out and see small but indisputably Good things worthy of our appreciation. This one does that in spades!!!
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The Promise of New York
Other cities have better infrastructure, fewer rats, cleaner streets, plentiful public toilets, more elbow room. Yet people continue to flock here.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/12/the-promise-of-new-york
6 months ago
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jamelle
7 months ago
that single sentence is going to drive me insane
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bad headline! implies (racist) superiority! try again!
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7 months ago
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"Weâre all terrified Alex is going to get called up before some congressional hearing and do a terrible job."
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The New Soros
With Trump on the rampage, Alex Soros takes control of his fatherâs empire. What will he do with his influence?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/alex-soros-george-soros-foundation-democrats-trump-politics.html
7 months ago
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reposted by
The Sidney Hillman Foundation
7 months ago
The April Sidney Award goes to
@nlanard.bsky.social
and
@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social
@motherjones.com.web.brid.gy
for âYou're Here Because of Your Tattoosââan exposĂ© of Trump's brutal and capricious deportations.
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Mother Jones wins April Sidney for 'Youâre Here Because of Your Tattoos'
Noah Lanard and Isabela Dias win the April Sidney Award for âYouâre Here Because of Your Tattoos,â a Mother Jones feature revealing that young Latino men are being deported without due process because...
https://hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-awards/mother-jones-wins-april-sidney-youre-here-because-your-tattoos
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Should you start faking a bad French accent? Wear loud Resistance t-shirts while blurting out SORRY? Here's how to frolic abroad this summer when everyone (rightfully) hates us!!
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How to travel abroad as the world's most toxic brand: American
Could travel get hostile? How to dealâand why the longtail of Covid might be an American's saving grace.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/travel-abroad-american-trump-tariffs/
7 months ago
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"Suggesting that George Soros be arrested after an old lady shouted at a car is one of the softest moments in recent history. This is not the gesture of a man impervious to protests. It is the response of an oligarch being driven visibly insane by them." Excellent new
@timothypmurphy.bsky.social
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Elon Musk canât take the heat
The numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working. So do Musk's increasingly unhinged actions.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/elon-musk-cant-take-the-heat-wisconsin-supreme-court-empathy-doge/
7 months ago
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All In with Chris Hayes
8 months ago
"This is some of the finest journalism I've read in the Trump era so far," says
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
on
@motherjones.com
's reporting on the Trump admin deporting people to El Salvador, and in one case, over an autism awareness tattoo.
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This is a straight-up kidnapping, in broad fucking daylight + masked federal agents.
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Masked agents whisk away Tufts student from sidewalk, video shows
The widely circulated video of Turkish doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturkâs arrest in the Boston area has sent shock waves through the academic community.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/27/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-ice-video/
8 months ago
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Clara Jeffery
8 months ago
âOver the top, overdone, ridiculous,â âhow one New York plastic surgeon described "Mar-a-Lago Face." Great piece by
@inaeoh.bsky.social
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/maralago-face-conservative-girl-makeup-brutal-aesthetics-of-maga-trump-gaetz-guilfoyle/
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I'm a young mom who now smells like a sandwich and looks like a wreck. So, Botox and fillers are certainly top of mind. But for MAGA, something...different...seems to be happening. And American politics, like our faces, may never recover.
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In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/maralago-face-conservative-girl-makeup-brutal-aesthetics-of-maga-trump-gaetz-guilfoyle/
8 months ago
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