Simple would just be: “We love America.”

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. poets.org/poem/do-not-...

“They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump said. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?” www.wsj.com/us-news/as-s...

"Defeated in the Revolution, George is mounting a comeback. 2025, a bad year for American democracy, was a good one for its first enemy. The king is dead. Long live the king."

Mayor Mamdani thanks Eric Adams, prompting boos from the crowd. "He and I have had our share of disagreements, but I will always be touched that he chose me as the mayoral candidate that he would most want to be trapped with on an elevator," he says.

“Yield, man,” Johnson said. “Let the troops come into your cities.”

The villain of the American Revolution is a hero for second Trump administration. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.

Executed for smuggling weed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/w...

This year felt like a decade. I wanted to highlight some of the immigration reporting I've done over the past 12 months: In January, I wrote about the big money fueling the right's plot to end birthright citizenship.

Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area. www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...

The president “appears to be considering political, personal and financial interests and not the interests of the American public." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

It would be weird if the Secretary blowing up people without due process in the Caribbean was super careful about properly crediting a video clip. Just be glad he's not droning you.

DOGE: Real damage, fake savings. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The sentencing of Miles Guo, the Chinese exile and former billionaire convicted in July 2024 of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from followers of a cult like anti-CCP group he started with Steve Bannon, has been delayed again, from January to April.

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Hopefully this hero can quickly get back to work towing illegally parked ICE vehicles. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

Mother Jones is stepping up coverage of ICE and CBP's draconian, police-state style operations in places like New Orleans, Memphis, and Chicago. From @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social, who is chasing Bovino around around the country and writing for MJ: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We hope to continue covering waste and corruption in DHS contracting. Reupping this story we did back in October on a question "self-deportation" contract that went to a new company run by a guy with links to top DHS officials. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Unintentionally heard a bit of the White House presser on drug prices, with pharma execs looking like hostages. Caught the president saying: “This will have a tremendous impact on the reduction of healthcare.”

This is one of the most "I'm not angry, actually, and actually I'm laughing!" responses of all time

The chutzpah of the congratulations to JFK at the end is why she gets the big bucks. What an honor for JFK's family and fans.

Two weeks late, I want to point to this news as an example of why guns at protests are bad and threaten to spread political violence. There are (cautious, partial) connections to Kyle Rittenhouse. I wrote this after his acquittal in late 2021. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls

This quote from Ben Smith in Mother Jones' profile of Benny Johnson. Honestly, great call from the haters. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I've been reporting on the criminal justice system for over a decade and have lived in an authoritarian country overseas, but I've never seen anything like the police presence in ICE-occupied Memphis. Here's my dispatch: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Bongino is going home to the wacky podcast sponsors he seems to have never quite left. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“I met him once at a party,” says a colleague of mine. “His whole vibe is so weird that I thought at first he might be fucking with me.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This piece about the degenerate Hegseth regime at the Pentagon is not really about the degenerate Hegseth regime. It’s about living an honest life amid moral squalor. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Earnest positivity is off brand for me. But I'd be hard pressed to name a better piece of journalism than this. And would pay a lot for a little bit of Rachel Aviv's ability to write so sympathetically and well about someone doing something bad. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

After Mike Lawler calls it "political malpractice" and "bullshit" to not vote on ACA subsidies, Mike Johnson told reporters: "Mike Lawler is a very dear friend..Ironically, week before last, I was in NY in his district on Long Island and we were campaigning together." *Lawler is not from Long Island

No judge. No jury. Just the Secretary of War.

Bill Pulte, the self-appointed mortgage cop involved in partisan prosecutions of Tish James and other Dems, lacks experience for his job as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. But he has an interesting professional history. @h-lev.bsky.social is on it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For more than two years, Jared Kushner has sought to build a Trump-branded complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO. But the plans are running into resistance in Serbia.On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted four officials including a cabinet minister over the project.

Yikes, what Trump's Pentagon will do to try to kill an embarrassing story -- threaten a reporter: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is the modern American corruption.

In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home.

i mean... uh... well... lordy. this defies summation. incredible story. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Loomer got the NSA deputy director nom pulled

The story about the story is even worse than the story: It looks very much like Hegseth's office sent Jack Posobiec out to threaten a journalist for asking the type of questions that the Pentagon-approved media would never ask. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Roger Stone thrives on being a bitch and in this specific case, I shall not object!

This story is wild, but it's also a great look at journalistic ethics & the decision making process around what we report & how. Trust in journalism is at a low, partly because many don't know what the journalistic process is. Here's a look behind that curtain www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

absolutely wild @dfriedman.bsky.social story. read the whole thing!!

I have also pardoned Tine Peters. Why not

Fake pardons are free. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

He said he was “finalizing my story,” and wanted to know if me, my wife, “or your in-laws” wished to comment. His message arrived an hour and forty minutes after I wrote to Geressy, posing some last questions and telling him I was “finalizing this story." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...