BIG MOTHER JONES SCOOP: There are lots of unresolved health and environmental concerns with glyphosate (a.k.a. Roundup), yet the government keeps letting farmers, companies, and public agencies spray it all over—including, as we recently learned, in America’s forests.

Of course.

More normalization: He exploited the event to tout his ugly and gigantic ballroom.

Good point. But how do you get media to avoid the sensationalism?

But Trump still has made a bundle. Rubes.

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Next big development: paper invitations!

More MAGA-on-MAGA catfighting.

"Your table is almost ready."

I thought that was Charlie Sykes!

You can stand up to Trump and win.

It’s very hard to have a civil dinner with a face-eating leopard.

Jeez.Can a post be more suck-up-ish? She’s part of an administration responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children due to its killing of USAID. It’s also done harm to as many through its mass deportation blitz.

Protesters at a dinner at the former US Institute of Peace where David Ellison is holding a dinner to “honor” Trump.

So dumb. And Trump nods along. Imagine having men in charge who don't understand basic math.

Glad to see WME, which represents me, has opted to not host its White House Correspondents Dinner party & instead is making a donation to the Freedom of the Press Foundation's Digital Security Training Program, which helps reporters protect themselves & their sources online. But I'll miss the bash.

Good thread.

Well, it's not as if anyone was listening to them.

So, the guy who thinks that witches have taken over California is now the acting Secretary of the Navy? Super.

Fortunately, there’s nothing happening in the world that requires his attention.

NEW: DNI Tulsi Gabbard was reportedly not invited to a White House meeting on the Iran war. But, as I report in my OUR LAND newsletter, she's waging her own war on the truth to serve Trump's revenge fantasies—and it could affect the future of American democracy. link.motherjones.com/public/45288...

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

But it’s the Golden Age. Don’t people know that?

5D chess.

Beyond proud to announce that we've won a Webby Award for our coverage of ICE's Minneapolis takeover. Between January 7 and February 3, we deployed reporters to Minneapolis and brought back indelible footage. 🧵

He just loves serving the people of Florida.

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NEW: DNI Tulsi Gabbard was reportedly not invited to a White House meeting on the Iran war. But, as I report in my OUR LAND newsletter, she's waging her own war on the truth to serve Trump's revenge fantasies—and it could affect the future of American democracy. link.motherjones.com/public/45288...

A dark money group funded in the past by Peter Thiel has given nearly $9 million to a GOP-led PAC that is blanketing Virginia with mailers comparing the upcoming redistricting referendum to Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

But not the 2024 election? Trump and his folks argue the election was rigged when he was president, but not rigged when Joe Biden was president.

America First?

I hope they video the Patel deposition.

NEW: Meta co-sponsored a celebration with the Daily Wire for podcaster Isabel Brown, who often foments about Islam and wants to "save the West," which is an interesting, cocktail-party-level look at the company's rightward pivot www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's just not a Sunday unless Donald Trump is explicitly threatening war crimes.

Feel free to congratulate me.

Tucker Carlson keeps up his attack on Trump. In a recent commentary, he says that Christianity is not the religion of Donald Trump. His religion, Carlson claims, is "Israelism...the defense of Israel." Fighting words?

DiGenova worked with Rudy Giuliani in the effort to smear Joe Biden in 2019-2020 that was tied to what Trump’s own administration called a Russian intelligence. disinformation operation.

No Tulsi Gabbard?

Bill Nye and hundreds of Planetary Society members are heading to DC on Monday to protest the White House's proposal to slash NASA's science budget in half. These cuts were announced as the Artemis astronauts were on their way to the Moon:

Hey, I think we found the judicial activism.

Let me impulsively bomb a country and kill people so I can then stop the bombing and killing in order to win a Nobel Peace Prize is quite the strategy.

Rogan is enabling a corrupt authoritarian. Never forget.

Trump is seeking to set a record for personal corruption in the White House. He wants to steal your money.

I’m $ure there’$ a rea$onable explanation.

They will never boo Russia. But they will boo our allies.

The grift will never end. They keep testing how far they can go and find out they can go farther.

Actually, Atlas was condemned to carry the sky on his back. (The image of him with the planet came later.) And that was his punishment for losing a war. This guy should try the internet.

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You want Big Tech crazy? The billionaires financing the AI gold rush are trying to create superbabies to stop the rise of something akin to Skynet. ow.ly/Lrli50YKp8u