Hint: It is not the Democrats.

NFL star and noted activist Colin Kaepernick is paying for an independent second autopsy for a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

It is once again time to ditch the machines.

Worksite raids are often framed as a crackdown on unlawful employment practices. But instead of punishing employers, the administration is doubling down on hurting workers as a tool for mass deportation.

Trump has seized investigative and prosecutorial weapons that, in order to safeguard the rule of law, have traditionally been walled off from the president. SCOTUS handed him these loaded weapons.

From Germany to South Africa to Great Britain to Japan, ultranationalist movements have seized on Charlie Kirk's death. The irony here is hard to ignore: these same groups that often decry globalization are adopting an international message based on American politics.

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As the Trump administration removes Black historical images and markers from national parks and museums, @garrisonhayes.bsky.social raises an important question: Where are those Black MAGA voters now that Trump is wiping this history from the books?

After years of bipartisan warnings about TikTok’s potential national security risks, users may soon confront a different kind of threat, perhaps even worse: an algorithm “controlled by America.”

Trump “is immediately casting blame on his political opponents, demonizing and turning the heat up. And that is a recipe for more violence. The very top of our political leadership is stoking a political and cultural war.” The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:

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TikTok's algorithm will soon be "controlled by America"

“Mercy deaths.” “Special wards.” Nazi medicine cloaked mass murder in euphemisms. The first gas chambers weren’t built at Auschwitz — they were built in hospitals.

In the latest example of the president using the Justice Department to indulge his hurt feelings, Trump instructs Pam Bondi to go after his political enemies "NOW!!!"

These Texas scientists are doing their best to thwart scary mosquito-borne diseases

From publicly demanding that Pam Bondi go after his political enemies to the reported decision to close a Tom Homan bribery case, the Justice Department is basically Donald Trump's personal law firm now.

"This blatant double standard reveals that the GOP’s crackdown on Kirk’s detractors has nothing to do with decorum or respect for the dead, and everything to do with political retribution against their rivals."

“It’s very clear that they’re using this as a Reichstag fire moment…as an opportunity to further persecute and prosecute political dissidents.” Streaming star Hasan Piker was set to debate Charlie Kirk. Now he’s warning of a “Reichstag fire moment.”

President Trump hates wind power. But as his administration halts wind projects around the country, Trump's sons appear to be an exception to their father's war on wind. And they're getting awfully rich.

Trump “is immediately casting blame on his political opponents, demonizing and turning the heat up,” National Affairs Editor Mark Follman tells our friends at @revealnews.org. “And that is a recipe for more violence. The very top of our political leadership is stoking a political and cultural war.”

Federal judges have levied an “ego-driven, petty” attack that targets a transgender civil rights attorney. We spoke with legal journalist, @chrisgeidner.bsky.social, to discuss the importance of this case:

“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths." Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

"Kevin will put Ohio workers and their families first. Never politicians, lobbyists or special interests." -campaign website of Former Sen. Kevin Coughlin, lobbyist.

The Republican party apparently thinks that making fun of people’s deaths is absolutely abhorrent, unless the people dying are your perceived political enemies.

After the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk, it was natural that his allies, including Trump, lionized him as a patriot, free-speech advocate, and activist. Here’s the problem: Kirk built his movement with falsehoods. And his advocacy was laced with racist and bigoted statements.

American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability. The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:

Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities has found. A harrowing report from our friends at @theguardian.com:

“Mercy deaths.” “Special wards.” Nazi medicine cloaked mass murder in euphemisms. The first gas chambers weren’t built at Auschwitz — they were built in hospitals.

"To separate German euthanasia from the Holocaust is false. The latter was not a switch but a terrible evolution."

It's not just American conservatives who're turning Charlie Kirk into a martyr. From Germany to South Africa to Great Britain to Japan, ultranationalist movements have also seized on the late MAGA influencer's death.

As the Trump administration removes Black historical images and markers from national parks and museums, @garrisonhayes.bsky.social raises an important question: Where are those Black MAGA voters now that Trump is wiping this history from the books?

Worksite raids are often framed as a crackdown on unlawful employment practices. But instead of punishing employers, the administration is doubling down on hurting workers as a tool for mass deportation.

As someone who has covered the rise of Black support for MAGA extensively, it hit Garrison Hayes hard: Where are those voters now that Trump is wiping this history from the books? Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/black-maga-voters-history-erasure-video/

Last summer, vying for the White House, Trump hailed himself as “the best president for the Black population.” A little more than a year later, this claim has become downright unbelievable, precisely because of what he’s done.

NEW: Federal judges have levied an “ego-driven, petty” attack that targets a transgender civil rights attorney. We spoke with legal journalist, @chrisgeidner.bsky.social, to discuss the importance of this case:

Kevin Coughlin, a self-described small business owner who's running for Ohio’s 13th Congressional seat, promises to put workers and families first. “Never politicians, lobbyists, or special interests.” What Coughlin doesn’t say is that the “small business” he touts was in fact a lobbying firm.

The aesthetics of ICE—puff-chested and average bro—do more than shroud Trump’s immigration cops in secrecy.

Experts warn that political violence is more likely under these conditions: ✅ When democracy is declining ✅ When societies are divided by race, religion, or ethnicity, ✅ When political leaders tolerate or encourage violence ✅ When citizens have easy access to guns Utah checks all those boxes.

From Jon Stewart to Stephen Colbert, late-night hosts sounded off on the sudden suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! after ABC executives caved under pressure from the Trump administration.

“It really looks like… an extremely ego driven, petty attack on lawyers.” Over three years, multiple federal judges in Alabama have used secret proceedings and strong-arm tactics to harass Carl Charles and other lawyers who are fighting for LGBTQ rights in the South.

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“… while Cox neither tolerates nor encourages violence, he has helped undermine democracy through one of the state’s most divisive political controversies: partisan gerrymandering.” Cox also signed a restrictive voting law in March despite conceding the fears of voter fraud justifying it were bogus

“With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch." From Jon Stewart to Stephen Colbert, late-night hosts sounded off on the sudden suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! after ABC executives caved under pressure from the Trump administration.

The Justice Department this week sued two blue states, Maine and Oregon, to attempt to gain access to their full, unredacted voter registration lists, intensifying President Trump’s anti-voting efforts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gov. Spencer Cox has been preaching calm in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder. But in Utah, the fight over gerrymandering shows how hard bridging divides really is.

How federal judges put a trans civil rights lawyer under criminal investigation

Chris Christie observed recently that Trump has torn down the traditional barrier between the president’s personal ambitions and the DOJ's power to investigate & prosecute criminal wrongdoing. As if to prove Christie’s point, Trump publicly threatened to prosecute Christie just a few hours later.

As Gretchen Gehrke states, Trump's war on "woke" is altering "our ability as a collective society to be able to identify and discuss reality." “If we only are dealing with the information that we’re receiving via social media, we’re literally operating in different realities.”

From Germany to South Africa to Great Britain to Japan, ultranationalist movements have seized on Charlie Kirk's death. The irony here is hard to ignore: these same groups that often decry globalization are adopting an international message based on American politics.

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