This article I had published at @motherjones.com in January feels very relevant with federal special ed office layoffs. Project 2025 targeted disability education services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mary Retta on the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed and diversity itself, from the "compact" to their hostility enabling colleges to seemingly stonewall their unions and dispose of roles @teenvogue.com "I think the numbers of Black and certain other minoritized students and faculty will decrease.”

“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.

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:

"Of course, I am not K, but I find myself uncannily identified with his predicament." Judith Butler's open letter to UC Berkeley.

"It is often the case that the individuals who commit political violence in this country have incoherent ideological backgrounds. They don’t have clear manifestos, nor do they come from a background that signals attachment to one party or the other." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Questions about their fate swirled after the government's July deadline for destruction came and went. Then came a false report they'd been incinerated. Aid groups say it's not too late to save them.

My story on (some of) the misinformation in the last 48 hours:

This is from my last story as a fellow at Mother Jones. As someone who arrived at journalism via career switch, I've used it as a vehicle to reflect on questions in my own life—namely, what family, community, and solidarity mean to me. A little on the ones I’m most proud of below:

Rampant mosquitoes swarming the tents. Leaks after summer rainstorms. Excessive heat. And hurricane season around the corner. This is life in "Alligator Alcatraz." @lauracmorel.bsky.social reports:

For my last story as a fellow at @motherjones.com, I got to do what I love most: Talk to regular people about the impacts federal policy has on their day-to-day lives. I'm so grateful to the people who shared their worries and stories of student debt with me. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say “People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.” Here's a rundown on what to know @motherjones.com. Be warned that the latest images we have from Gaza are disturbing. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"The Trump administration has increased travel bans, detention space and daily arrest goals. Elected officials have been wrestled to the floor and handcuffed... Meanwhile, millions of noncitizens remain in the shadows, wanting to be left alone to earn a better living for their families."

How exactly will RFK Jr. and his allies wreck the US's vaccine infrastructure? From sabotaging the federal vaccine court to attacking the supply system, this is the plot to make Kennedy's anti-vaccine crusade our national nightmare. "If he gets what he asks for, I hope he lives to regret it.”

are you enrolled in the SAVE plan for student loans and facing confusion or financial distress at the prospect of upcoming interest charges or changing loan repayment plans? I’d love to talk to you for @motherjones.com. reach me at [email protected] or securely (info in my bio).

New @motherjones.com: Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants? Yesterday they quietly convened a panel whose participants suggested that women just feel emotions more deeply than men & that SSRIs cause autism (false). Meanwhile, mothers' mental health is plummeting.

As CEO of Microsoft AI, Mustafa Suleyman wants everyone to have their own AI assistant. But MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle warns about forming emotional connections with AI. This is part 2 of TED Radio Hour's "Prophets of Technology," featuring conversations with those crafting our digital world.

The National Weather Service sent urgent alerts about potentially life-threatening danger hours in advance of the flash floods, leaving time to try to evacuate those in harm’s way. In Texas, some local officials did just that. But others did not. Read @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social's story:

NEW: Jordan Lasker recently made news by leaking hacked admissions data about Zohran Mamdani. Our investigation shows a Reddit user who posted highly specific details that fit with his offline life once wrote: “I actually am a Jewish White Supremacist Nazi.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One person died in federal prison after being kept in restraints for over two days. Another was restrained so tightly that part of a limb had to be amputated. A new report by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog comes after investigations by The Marshall Project & NPR exposed similar abuses.

Powerful visual story about a transgender asylum seeker from Honduras who fled to the U.S. due to safety concerns—and is now fleeing because of Trump. "The U.S. is no longer a free country,” she said. “When it changes, I’ll go back.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Shortly after President Trump was sworn in for his second term, videos of ICE raids began to surface across social media — from every corner of the U.S. nbcnews.to/44XmEAO

New for @motherjones.com “Rap music has provided opportunities for artists coming from marginalized backgrounds to express their hopes, their aspirations, but also their frustrations [and] their political views,” says Chad Williams. www.motherjones.com/media/2025/0...

Ohio really is the heart of it all 😌

Budapest's streets overflowed with Pride marchers on Saturday, despite the Orban regime's threats of legal consequences. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🎉 The "holy shit documentary of the year" has another holy shit moment! Very thrilled to announce that our colleagues at @revealnews.org have won an Emmy for their incredible documentary, The Grab. Stream it now on Hulu!

What counts as religious infringement? According to conservative Supreme Court justices, a child's mere exposure to teachings that run afoul of their parents' beliefs. The court today transformed religious freedom—and public schools—to the detriment of queer kids. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Parental rights win at the Supreme Court again. @sarahszilagy.bsky.social unpacks the court's ruling that public schools that prohibit parents from opting kids out of teaching that goes against their religious beliefs—in this case, LGBTQ-inclusive books—likely violate religious freedom.

To mark the 3-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, I published a guide on all the ways doctors, nonprofits, pilots, and ordinary people are helping people from banned states access reproductive healthcare. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Supreme Court just green-lit bans on gender-affirming care for minors. “We will find ways to keep fighting,” Chase Strangio vowed. “We’ll fight in state court. We’ll lobby Congress. We’ll lobby our state legislatures, and we’ll organize in the streets." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

For @motherjones.com, I'm interested in hearing about grassroots projects in local communities that aim to help disabled/aging residents when climate disasters strike. Please be in touch at [email protected] if you have any examples and reposts appreciated.

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

NEW: @artiscuriskis.bsky.social and I wrote about what it's like to be wearing a mask at New York's Nassau County's #NoKings rally for @motherjones.com. The county notoriously has a mask ban, making covering your face a form of resistance in itself. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I've spent the last few months examining the +1,450 grants terminated at the NIH, including reading hundreds of abstracts. Many were studying how to solve or improve health disparities – not just identify or explain them. Some of the terminated grants (h/t to @scott-delaney.bsky.social + team)

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...

When I started this story in December, I planned to write about how remarkable it is that scientists discovered wildfires 50,000 years ago with ice cores. But then Trump happened. The US was the "premier polar power" in science. Experts say this is "imperiled" thanks to cuts to science.

Conservatives are deploying “parental rights” as a way to advance regressive and unpopular social policies. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @sarahszilagy.bsky.social

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...

"DHS falsely accused Padilla of failing to identify himself. (He can be heard in videos that have circulated on social media doing just that.)" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

for the last 5 years I've thought daily of the solidarity, creativity and care I saw during the 2020 uprisings. I asked @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social, @deanspade.bsky.social +more what lessons from then we can use now @teenvogue.com

read this countless times over the past month was truly enthralled every time. Julia’s disability reporting is always class-act, and her thoughtful, nuanced approach is no different here. (the opportunity to immerse myself in checking this piece was well worth the time I spent on 4chan for it)

For the July/August issue of @motherjones.com, I dived into Elon Musk's relationship with Aspie supremacy and how it's promoted online. This ideology, coined by the late autistic blogger Mel Baggs, also dehumanizes autistic people with high support needs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How did John Fetterman become "Trump's favorite Democrat"? A staffer who worked for Fetterman on both the campaign and in Congress tells @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social it was the Israel-Hamas war that broke the senator, leaving his positions “clouded through a fuck-the-opposition-left” mindset.

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Education to reinstate thousands of employees it fired in advancing President Donald Trump’s mission to eliminate the department.

Wesley Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in journalism say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

Sarah Ortiz has spent years trying to prove that her ex used her personal information to rack up $45,926 of debt in her name without her knowledge. Unfortunately, Sarah's story isn't new. Scores of women across the country are victims of coerced debt—and it's ridiculously hard to crack down on.

“Did we just screw up our child’s life? In seeking to help him, did I just paint a giant target on his back?” a father of an autistic kid asks. Such important reporting by @rosebroderick.bsky.social

“I remember the cop kicking me in my face. She had me by my hair. She kneed me.” New: @josephinelee.bsky.social reveals how the destruction of the Department of Education is hampering the search for justice in this case of police brutality in school ...