Well... at least we know where Red Panda is tonight...

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...

jesus christ

"She enthusiastically complimented my bangs and I was later disturbed to discover that she’d been arrested in 2022 for breaking into the apartment building of a New York City councilmember and vandalizing his office building with homophobic messages." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I checked in with Curtis Sliwa. He still doesn't care what you think. "Everybody loves Curtis,” the failed Republican candidate told me a couple hours ago, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. New @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Whatever you do, make sure to read to the end of this great @timothypmurphy.bsky.social wrap-up

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

In case you've missed Sean Duffy's latest crusade—turning the US Merchant Marine Academy into what one critic calls an "unconstitutional, fundamentalist Christian nationalist filth-saturated institution"—@smencimer.bsky.social has you covered in this great piece

The Gather Step As Liminal Space: Vol. 1

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

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...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

The ideal Chotiner interview subject is an expert who cares deeply about their expertise but feels it isn't understood properly to the general populace and Chotiner acts as an intermediary. The ideal Chotiner victim, coincidentally, believes that this describes them perfectly.

We got you covered: www.youtube.com/shorts/-hnAt...

This is how the GOP thinks it can achieve permanent minority rule.

“Most of the spending was on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and ‘guided missile warheads and explosive components.’” — @juddlegum.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Really appreciate you sharing this bit as the journalist who spent hours researching and analyzing the info it would be great if you could link back to the original work: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

ICYMI: When skeptics called out Medical Properties Trust, they found themselves harassed—and surveilled. Featuring a cameo by Trump's onetime acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney! bit.ly/3WMeCG1

More than a third of the recruits at ICE's training academy are failing the personal-fitness test, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told Miroff.

While hospitals across the country were falling apart, leaving patients in crisis and facilities severely understaffed, a shocking campaign to silence and surveil critics was underway. Read @h-lev.bsky.social and @acleek.bsky.social's latest investigation into Medical Properties Trust.

"We believe that the president is not a monarch...We believe he has no more business dispatching troops to Portland or Chicago or Los Angeles than King George had dispatching troops to Lexington. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

they’re on it

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW from @julialurie.bsky.social: “They basically told me you can keep doing your job the way we want you to do it without the chair or without the breaks or you can go on unpaid leave.”

Latest from @davidcorn.bsky.social: "When I first met Miller, he did not seem like a likely propagandist for autocracy. I guess you never know."

I know the whole “every accusation is a confession” thing but it’s pretty clear this is the most elitist government that’s existed in decades. It’s just 12 billionaires in a group chat sharing banned Reddit memes

New from me: In March, FHFA director Bill Pulte made himself chairman of the board of Fannie Mae. But after, he did not file a required disclosure form tied to the role with the SEC—the same kind of paperwork error he has used to attack Trump's political foes. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

A professor had to flee the country last week after receiving death threats for his work on antifa. I spoke with historian @mark-bray.bsky.social about his experience being targeted by the far-right and what the history of fascism can teach us about this moment. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Erik Prince, Blackwater founder Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe founder Jared Leto, actor Sophia, simply getting a driving lesson Just some of the thousands of people in 100 countries we discovered were targeted by phone-tracking tech sold by a secretive firm called First Wap ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse. Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.

Guys, I'm worried about the fans sitting behind me in the SeatGeek view-from-my-seat

A tiny firm with no experience, but lots of Trumpworld ties, got a massive contract from DHS. A rival says the award was rushed and "unlawful."

Joseph Ladapo was once a successful normie: A Harvard Medical School grad w/ faculty positions at NYU & UCLA Then his wife & an ex-Navy SEAL-turned-guru came along 👀 @kieraevebutler.bsky.social & I on the pair of mystics who seem to lack any Western medical training yet have inspired FL's top doc:

How a lobbying shop with deep ties to Trumpworld helped land a lucrative no-bid ICE deal for a company that for years had struggled to break into federal contracting (1/x)

Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO Ken Wagner is circling retirement at 77. Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility? (1/x)

Very helpful visuals of ICE's enormous expansion due to the BBB by @motherjones.com : www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I joined @juliekkohler.bsky.social on the White Picket Fence podcast to discuss the growing pronatalist movement: who's behind it, what it stands for, and its links to Christian Nationalism. Listen here: lnk.to/wpf-ep3

Did you hear about the tiny company based out of a random house in Virginia that won $1.3 billion to build an ICE detention center? How did it get that deal? Turns out a lot of the money is going to a bigger firm—whose owner is friendly with the Trump fam. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Chain-link cages. Flooded tents. Clouds of mosquitoes. Malfunctioning AC. Scarce food. Zero recreational time: Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz. (1/x)

ICE’s detention state, by the numbers (1/x)

Fired immigration judges spoke to @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social about how firings and changes in the system are upending due process www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As numbers balloon, so too does interest in replicating the hellish conditions inside Alligator Alcatraz, with red-state governors gleefully proposing detention centers like "Cornhusker Clink" (Nebraska) and “Speedway Slammer” (Indiana). @lauracmorel.bsky.social + @idgordon.bsky.social report:

But with its expanding workforce and plans to arrest far more people, hiring standards at ICE have plummeted. bit.ly/3WrAsyq

Take a look at these charts. 1) The number of people booked into ICE detention with no criminal history has skyrocketed. 2) Once, most detainees were arrested at the border. Now the majority are caught by ICE, everywhere.

The record-breaking numbers of this system are hard to overstate. But it’s also not JUST that there’s more money to detain and deport undocumented immigrants. There’s also been a shift in the kinds of folks the feds are arresting—and where they’re being arrested. bit.ly/3WrAsyq

From the companies profiting off the administration's dragnet to the hell of Alligator Alcatraz, our reporters trace the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump's police state. That includes the tiny, inexperienced firm that somehow landed a $1.3 billion detention deal to hold 5,000 human beings.

Our latest cover package, investigating the brutal rollout of Donald Trump’s immigration police state. Please read and share!