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...

It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today) www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...

“Our culture is built to eternally forgive men, generally, and white men of means, especially, for their mistakes.” @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.

"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.

"When politicians say 'able-bodied,' it’s 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."

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 Trump’s bitcoin machines instead" -- just as Dad declares war on wind power construction for everyone else! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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...

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's latest:

Perfect casting. Masterful. I am in awe.

Wall-to-wall absurdity in this!! But this quote—"This is gonna be so subtle and fabulous for school drop-off.”—broke me, now has me googling local options for a facelift :((((

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

"And Just Like That … was a state of mind, and that mind was in a coma."

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

"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.

"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 won’t do anything about it. Same goes for Dems who condemn but still won't say Israel.

“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” 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...

"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 Martínez, one of the inmates, recalled that a prison nurse was watching. 'Hit the piñata,' she cheered."

“For 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.”

"I am not a survivor or a responder. I’m a witness, or a voyeur. The distress I am feeling is shame." I think about this piece often, but especially this week.

"I crawled on my hands and knees through a crowd... I had to collect whatever had fallen to the ground — lentils, rice, chickpeas, pasta, even salt. My bones ache from being stepped on, but I have to do it for my children. I can’t bear the sound of their hunger" www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...

AI not beating the allegations that it's fucking stupid

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.

an enlivening piece from @inaeoh.bsky.social on the aesthetics of ICE www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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.

We are the fucking worst. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

$100 billion in new ICE funding is about to get unleashed thanks to this bill. Come process that crushing figure with me.

these people respect their constituents about as much as they respect themselves. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

For more on the tacky aesthetics that link Bezos-Sánchez to Trump-world, read @inaeoh.bsky.social on what's happening to the faces of the ruling class. “Over the top, overdone, ridiculous,” is how one New York plastic surgeon described it.

happy primary day everyone. it's a hot one!!!!!

Monster then, monster now! 🙏🙏🙏 for some rare good news tomorrow.

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

For the right, a white woman that sits atop a powerful agency ruthlessly deporting thousands is the “beautiful, delicate, tiny” victim. People of color with opinions they don’t like, even elected officials, are the violent aggressors.

It’s the way his voice broke when he said “imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers” 😣😣 As the granddaughter of migrant farmworkers and an immigration expert, I have this exact fear. They’re kidnapping and abusing our loved ones. How else are we expected to respond? Thank you, @padilla.senate.gov

"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 📣 @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

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 Jenner—in a rare human moment—previously expressed regret over.

forgot how destabilizing the KARDASHIAN JENNERS can be for our readers

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

"A National Institutes of Health employee in the South said she’s checked her government benefits to calculate how much money her family would receive if she killed herself."

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.

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!!!

that single sentence is going to drive me insane

bad headline! implies (racist) superiority! try again!

"We’re all terrified Alex is going to get called up before some congressional hearing and do a terrible job."

The April Sidney Award goes to @nlanard.bsky.social and @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social @motherjones.com.web.brid.gy for ”You're Here Because of Your Tattoos”—an exposé of Trump's brutal and capricious deportations.

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!!

"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

"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.

This is a straight-up kidnapping, in broad fucking daylight + masked federal agents.

“Over the top, overdone, ridiculous,” —how one New York plastic surgeon described "Mar-a-Lago Face." Great piece by @inaeoh.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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.