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KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true? HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart-- KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

A few years ago, we asked @eamonwhalen.bsky.social to look into an odd story: A mall in Minneapolis hired a group led by a former military contractor in Iraq to crack down on a memorial garden. Today, we’re publishing the wild story that Eamon dug up. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

At @insideclimatenews.org, we're keeping track of environmental lawsuits involving the Trump administration thanks to great work by my colleagues @peteraldhous.com and @mlavelle.bsky.social. Keep this one handy: insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...

put a stake in it www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“This is essentially despotism as a service.” Over two decades, a little-known company called First Wap created a surveillance empire. Its phone tracking tech has targeted politicians, journalists, actors, and maybe even you. A groundbreaking investigation from @lighthousereports.com:

Silicon Valley once laughed off OpenAI. Now it’s the world’s most valuable private company. Tech journalist @karenhao.bsky.social has been writing about OpenAI’s remarkable rise and joins us to examine the AI boom on this week’s “More To The Story.” 🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/4v5by3wm

🎉 We have Circuit 06 Finalists 🎉 Selected from a stunning pool of 72 submissions these 12 fluxworks offer a brilliant sonic spread of creative tension, repetitive sound & color embodiment, just as the prompts called for. Deets here www.audioflux.org/circuit-06 & listen to them all at XMTR.fm (!)

“We were treated like digital peasants.” What happened after FTX’s collapse? Read @revealnews.org's investigation into the untold tale of a bankruptcy that has ballooned into one of the biggest in US history, and the lawyers and opportunists who have profited from the carnage.

It's the last day of our September fundraiser! Please consider supporting our non-profit newsroom as we double down on fearless reporting—just as corporate media caves to Donald Trump. Your donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Thank you so much!

FTX’s collapse wasn’t just about Sam Bankman-Fried. It’s about billions in customer money, a high-powered law firm steering the case, and who really profits when companies implode. With exclusive interviews, we retrace the collapse of FTX in part 1 🔊 @revealnews.org ow.ly/ttwq50X34Mv

FTX’s collapse wasn’t just about Sam Bankman-Fried. It’s about billions in customer money, a high-powered law firm steering the case, and who really profits when companies implode. 🎧 Listen to part 1 of our new series with @motherjones.com:

Bringing wind power to Staten Island used to be a bipartisan project. Now, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to squander those efforts. The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.

Bringing wind power to Staten Island used to be a bipartisan project. Now, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to squander those efforts. The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.

CDC Exodus Includes Lead Official Tracking Food Safety and Animal Agriculture Disease

I've been waiting for MAHA's anti-industry stances to run smack into the administration's pro-industry positions. Pesticides are proving to be the first major battleground and the MAHA Moms are losing. My latest with @rachelcohrs.bsky.social (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This story is wild! 🧵1/ A celebrated startup promised Eastern Kentucky green jobs. Workers say it delivered "a grueling hell on earth." Tomatoes, tech dreams, and a trail of trauma — the rise and fall of AppHarvest is a story you won't forget. grist.org/agriculture/... #Food ##Kentucky #Farms

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

It was a pleasure speaking with @motherjones.com about the primary, how we need collaborative—not divisive—politics, and what comes next. (And that Liberty game offer is still open, Tim Robinson!) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained. They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N

Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold hearings on the first proposed federal rule to prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths at work by requiring water and rest breaks when temperatures surpass certain levels, put forward by the Biden administration.

“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”

“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.” In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.

No Kings crowd marching to the Nassau County legislative building on Long Island. Speaking with protestors about the existing county wide mask ban for a @motherjones.com story with @juliametraux.bsky.social

No Kings crowd gathering in front of Nassau County Court House in Mineola, NY.

The modern conservative concept of parental rights is deeply connected to our country’s original notion of children as “chattel” of their parents. Scholars and advocates warn that, with Donald Trump as president, its national influence and scope is unprecedented. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“American-style intensive livestock farms are spreading across Europe, with new data revealing more than 24,000 megafarms across the continent.” “The top 10 countries for intensive pig and poultry farms combined are 🇪🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇮🇹, 🇬🇧, 🇩🇰, 🇵🇱, 🇧🇪 and 🇭🇺.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you're going to be at this Nassau County NY No Kings event and plan to be masking also for health reasons (there's a covid wave). Please get in touch with me for a @motherjones.com piece, as I'd like to connect you with @artiscuriskis.bsky.social who will be there. www.mobilize.us/progressived...

They're talking about the "golden dome" again. So let us remind you that experts overwhelmingly reject the proposal as “the insane ramblings of a senile old person.”

🔴NEW: Major food firms like Nestlé, PepsiCo and JBS are overstating progress on their climate goals, a new report finds Firms are criticised for a reliance on vague carbon removals, weak no-deforestation claims and a lack of progress on key transitions www.desmog.com/2025/06/03/f...

NEW: the LAPD reportedly used a helicopter unit to tell protestors they were on camera and “I’m going to come to your house.” The ACLU and EFF both say the statement is chilling: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Honored to be selected for this fellowship. Looking forward to convening with the cohort in the near future!

CLF is delighted to announce the new fellows who comprise the 2025 cohort of the Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists. The 2025 cohort is the fellowship’s second cohort and is composed of 12 journalists. clf.jhsph.edu/about-us/new...

Trump officials open up millions of acres in Alaska to drilling and mining. Doug Burgum says Biden order that banned drilling in National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska will be reversed. grist.org/energy/trump... #Alaska #Mining #AK #Oil #FossilFuels

At what cost? This heartbreaking story by @h-lev.bsky.social investigates how the intermingling of a for-profit hospital operator and private equity shattered lives. Data reporting by @melissa.news www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wrote about the rise and fall of Steward Health Care—fueled by a private equity firm, a real estate trust, & multimillionaire executives. The saga is a stunning indictment of what happens when financiers try to squeeze huge returns from the places that save people's lives. /1 shorturl.at/TcvV7

Friggin' bonkers story www.al.com/news/2025/05...

1/ I spent the past few weeks talking to immigration experts, asking what stories they think deserve more attention right now. Again and again, they said: Children are quietly stuck in immigration facilities, with no end in sight www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A dispatch from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, MA... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump radically remade the US food system in just 100 days. The people who grow and sell America's food no longer trust the USDA. We made a timeline to show you what happened. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Food #Trump #Chefs #Hunger #Agriculture #Farms #Farmers

Project 2025 described the EIA as historically providing "independent and impartial analysis." Despite this favorable description, it's recent findings were cut. propublica.org/article/the-...

NEWS: Reeling from Trump/DOGE cuts and chaos, energy data agency cancels major international report, deletes analytical centerpiece of its flagship U.S. energy outlook. www.propublica.org/article/the-...

Scientists are ditching cows to make butter from greenhouse gases

Check out my column about a new butter that might be the fat of the future Many thanks to @hencarnell.bsky.social for churning out this great video www.motherjones.com/food/2025/05...

“I felt this kind of fear, like something was telling me we weren’t going to Venezuela at all. Because the cops, when they had us here, they kept laughing a lot." @nlanard.bsky.social and I interviewed six Venezuelans who were nearly removed from Bluebonnet—presumably to El Salvador—on April 18.

We just published an investigation about six Venezuelans who were accused of being gang members and likely near sent to a Salvadoran prison this month. They insist they are being falsely accused. A quick thread on who they are and what's happening to them. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As Americans celebrated Earth Day, the nonprofit world was left anxiously wondering, “Will they or won’t they?” For the past week, rumors have abounded that the Trump administration would issue an Earth Day order seeking to revoke the IRS tax-exempt status of climate focused groups. It didn’t.

Scoop: Democrats have introduced an official inquiry into the decision to closure of the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled and aging adults remain independent. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"As Smith sees it, hellbenders and humans are different chapters of the same story. Climate change, after all, doesn’t discriminate between species—it’s coming for all of us." @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social on America’s largest salamander, for @motherjones.com: