Lax gun laws and restrictive abortion access have influenced Mississippi’s place as the number one state in the nation for pregnancy-related gun deaths. This story was originally published by @mississippitoday.org.

Trump claims Save America Act will “guarantee the midterms” for Republicans. It won’t. 10 states with lowest rates of passport ownership all voted for Trump www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"You told the media that I was a ‘freaking snake.'” The explosive remarks, from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), were directed at Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) during his confirmation hearing to be the new Homeland Security Secretary.

“It’s toddler AI misinformation at an industrial scale. It’s very risky for the developing brain.” Children’s media experts say AI-generated “slop" has infiltrated the internet, preying on young children and their unsuspecting caregivers.

United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a NYT investigation. Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”

Yeah, that is Sean O' Brien, head of the Teamsters, serving as Mullin's confirmation wife. How many union members will be arrested by the DHS that Mullin leads? Does O' Brien care?

A newly passed law in Washington state makes it easier for the government to use or exchange soon-to-expire abortion drugs. @goldsteinstreet.bsky.social of @washingtonstatestandard.com reports:

“Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken, and a damaged lung. Tell me to my face.” The explosive remarks, from Sen. Rand Paul, were directed at Sen. Markwayne Mullin during his confirmation hearing to be the new Homeland Security Secretary.

"President of the United States freed every single perpetrator of those crimes" @trahan.house.gov said of actual Medicaid and Medicare fraudsters at a committee hearing on supposed fraud. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

From Identitarian networks and neo-Nazi meetings in Europe to Trump government rhetoric, this timeline shows how “remigration” crossed borders, gained political legitimacy, and became U.S. policy, turning an extremist ideology into state action with severe human rights consequences. Read more:

Thanks to shield laws in blue states, abortion providers and helpers are protected from being prosecuted for providing care to patients in states where abortion is illegal. “It’s painfully obvious that anti-abortion extremists are targeting shield laws because they are working.”

“It’s painfully obvious that anti-abortion extremists are targeting shield laws because they are working.”

Iran war is a disaster. Gas prices are rising. Economy is tanking. So what are Trump & Republicans singularly focused on? Making it harder to vote www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

SCOOP— Trump wants a 24k gold coin w/ his face on it for America 250, but an official at a late February coin advisory committee meeting called it something only done by "nations ruled by kings or dictators." After NYT reported the criticism, US Mint yanked online vid of the meeting w/o explanation.

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts. State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis.

Thank you for writing this. It reminds me of DOMA, which allowed states to not recognize marriage licenses issued to same sex couples in other states. If TX didn’t need to honor the laws of VT then, then why does everyone need to honor TX laws now?

Dr. Oz calls Medicare fraud an epidemic. Trump keeps pardoning the culprits.

Put simply, the abortion-access movement is winning. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@byninamartin.bsky.social has written the definitive policy story on how it came to be that abortions are more accessible than ever *after* the fall of Roe v. Wade. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Excellent piece from Nina Martin about the success of shield laws and how abortion ban states, for now, have no answer to them. Other than to whine and complaint.

What makes this piece so good, is that it takes the position that shield laws are working by facilitating more abortion access than before Dobbs and the antis are doing very little to counter them. It's the opposite framing from what you usually read. Guess what? This is the better way!

This week, the Senate starts its debate over Trump's SAVE Act, a bill that, if it were to pass, experts say would "be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted.”

It's one of the biggest WTFs of the post-Dobbs era: Red states ban abortion—and abortion in red states goes UP. How did THAT happen? New from me @motherjones.com: The origin story of shield laws, the mightiest legal weapon in the abortion rights arsenal. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Four years ago, shield laws didn't exist. Now, they are one of the strongest weapons in the reproductive-rights arsenal. How blue states got around the GOP’s efforts to ban abortion in red states.

"I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” What happened when employees at one architecture firm refused to go along. @msjpauly.bsky.social @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

why is Donald Trump's DOJ helping a convicted Russian liar & tax cheat with ties to Russian intelligence throw out his guilty plea and get out of prison? So many questions @davidcorn.bsky.social @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yes, Donald Trump once did a deal with oligarchs who were tied to Revolutionary Guard of Iran. I know, you're surprised, right? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Last year, @julialurie.bsky.social dropped a groundbreaking investigation into Utah's often exploitative private adoption industry. Now, Utah lawmakers are dramatically reining in how adoption agencies operate in the state.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Secret Service want to build a tool for tracking US travelers’ flights and other personal information according to previously unreported documents reviewed by Mother Jones.

Horrific. Georgia police charged a woman with murder after she allegedly used misoprostol. Hospital may have reported her. @pregnancyjust.bsky.social calls it “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion, even though no law in the state of Georgia permits such a charge." bit.ly/46W2Ezb

Trump says he's bombing Iran to stop it from getting nuclear weapons. But actually, he's *incentivizing* Iran to build up its nuclear arsenal Meanwhile, a half-ton of highly enriched uranium is out there ... somewhere... @davidcorn.bsky.social @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gaze upon my field of fucks It lies barren

We're tracking the high-stakes Louisiana lawsuit that could stop ppl in abortion-ban states from getting pills thru the mail. We'll update it as the case advances. This is the kind of unglorious service journalism newsrooms (incl. my own!) have less and less time for, but which remains essential.

"incorrect targeting intelligence" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The DOJ sent subpoenas to 20+ providers of gender-affirming care. At least 7 of these have been successfully challenged in federal court. The DOJ has appealed most of these decisions, but it only asked to expedite one: The sole case where its opponent is a small practice without in-house legal.

Look what came in my door step today! My colleague and fellow @fspnwu.bsky.social comrade @amylittlefield.bsky.social BOOK!!! For years, Amy has been talking to me about this book. SO I AM SO HAPPY that it’s here!!!! Can’t wait to dive into this book! bookshop.org/p/books/kill...

Women are not okay. We’re furious.

The latest generational test for Dems comes today in Mississippi, where Rep. Bennie Thompson faces a young alum of Schumer’s & Warren’s offices who believes voters "are ready for a new generation of leadership” He’s one of 80+ Gen Z & millennial candidates mounting primary challenges to House Ds:

This is terrifying: Christian Zionists, who believe Israel must vanquish its Muslim enemies to usher in the second coming of Jesus, consider the US war w/Iran to be a prelude to the End Times. @kieraevebutler.bsky.social @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

When 6yo Joseph Rodriguez got sick, his mom (a domestic abuse survivor from Colombia) had to bring him along to her regular check-in at a Calif ICE office. He was detained & deported—all w/o his hearing aids. @juliametraux.bsky.social @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

In 1974, an Internal Revenue Service attorney named Paul Haring pitched an idea to Catholic leaders that would shape the lives of millions of women for the next half-century. The Hyde Amendment is a ban on federal Medicaid funding of abortion that will mark its 50th anniversary this year.

I’ve been covering abortion access since 2015, and I’ve never experienced the kind of fervor that I witnessed outside a clinic in North Carolina: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A must-read chapter from a must-read history of how abortion rights in the U.S. unraveled. By the amazing and hilarious @amylittlefield.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Let me be heartbroken and enraged all over again.

Behind the Hyde Amendment was an age-old American idea—that white men should be spared the burden of paying for things that women need to stay alive. @amylittlefield.bsky.social @motherjones.com on the forgotten, enraging, history of the law that doomed Roe. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hundreds are dead. Iran is retaliating. And some of the people who helped start this war think it’s going exactly as God intended.

"This is the story of an extraordinary effort by the second Trump administration to shape our ideas about who and what men and women are—a campaign that began with the targeting of trans people but has vast implications for the rights of cisgender people as well. At the center is May Mailman."

We are seeing in real time how the Trump administration and the courts are reaching a new phase of destroying rights and protections of women and LGBTQ+ people by scapegoating transgender people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.

Charlotte NC has become a critical access point for abortion patients from around the South—and a flash point for anti-abortion protestors emboldened by Trump 2.0. New @motherjones.com: @kbeccaandrews on the gathering storm www.motherjones.com/politics/202...