Sotomayor blasts court’s ruling allowing Trump to fire agency heads With palpable anger, the Obama appointee read for 20 minutes from her sharp dissent, calling the decision one that “reshapes the structure of government.”

“Hypocrisy” has been a useful framework for deconstructing an insidious strain of American life. But it can also be a bit of a trap. “Hypocrisy” assumes that the imposition of values is really about the values. But sometimes it’s as much about the imposition.

Winning! (Not the same as "won" or "everything is ok"...)

Four years after Dobbs, the abortion-access movement is ... winning? My conversation with researcher @carolejoffe.bsky.social about how the end of Roe has transformed the abortion landscape for better as well as for worse. @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Supreme Court hits pause on a fast-moving case that threatened to decimate access to abortion pills nationwide. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How abortion advocates are rushing to get ready for whatever SCOTUS decides tomorrow in the blockbuster mifepristone case, by my colleague @lauracmorel.bsky.social @motherjones.com

The FDA is missing in action, as the SCOTUS case over telemedicine abortion pills spirals out of control. My latest @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

SCOOP: Bureau of Prisons has up to 120,000 pages of documents on Ghislaine Maxwell's transfer to a cushy minimum-security prison camp (yoga! puppies!). That's what it told us in response to a FOIA lawsuit. But no telling if/when any will be released. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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How the **other** abortion pill—misoprostol—could pick up the slack if mail-order mifepristone is banned in the US www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If prescribing mifepristone by telemedicine is banned, abortion advocates are ready to pivot to misoprostol-only abortions. I spoke with researcher Caitlin Gerdts @ibisrh.bsky.social about the why women rely on it around the world: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito—author of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade—has paused a move by the 5th Circuit to cut off abortion pills by mail. My update on a case that puts abortion back on the SCOTUS docket in a midterm year: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Where are the student protests? The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities, and a hostile federal government, have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do.

People with conditions like HIV and brain trauma are now living far longer—and revealing gaps in medical research and training.

The Fifth Circuit just gave a huge victory to abortion opponents—one that could dramatically disrupt the mailing of abortion pills nationwide.

Anti-abortion extremists in Texas are using the courts to take aim at abortion pills. But they keep relying on plaintiffs who turn out to be controlling, manipulative, and abusive.

For @motherjones.com: I take a look at the many anti-abortion Texas-based lawsuits that target abortion pills and why they keep relying on plaintiffs later revealed to be problematic and "abusive." “These cases range from messy to downright wild,” says law professor @maryrziegler.bsky.social

Anti-abortion legal strategies in the US often depend on abusive partners or shoddy "investigations."

Abortion opponents keep neglecting to vet the plaintiffs behind their abortion-pill lawsuits. And the cases keep blowing up in their faces.

“Yes, we have these great jobs, and we live in these great neighborhoods. But privilege comes with its own price.” Khiara Bridges took on Josh Hawley. Now she’s taking on the maternal healthcare system.

In all seriousness, Swalwell and Gonzales resigning does signal shame does actually work. For the longest time, Washington has been immune to shame and even the most disgraced scandal-ridden politicians don't leave unless they are made to. Shame does work

Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.

Observers of the Catholic Church say a war of words between a pope and U.S. president is unprecedented. The confrontation, they say, could be more risky for President Trump, who is taking on a core group of Republican voters in a midterm election year.

Trump raked in $28 million from Middle East business deals. Then he started a war.

Trump's attack on Pope Leo is the latest in how his Iran war is tearing apart MAGA's Catholic-evangelical coalition

“For Black women, there’s no exit from a pathologizing discourse.” I spoke with UC Berkeley's Khiara Bridges about Black maternal health. Also, about Josh Hawley and ballet! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What might MAGA-weary Americans learn from Viktor Orbán's predicted loss in Hungarian elections this Sunday? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Promised a whole bunch of war crimes. Anyway the markets will respond with relief most likely but what a fucking shit show and a waste of lives in so many places.

We lost this war quicker than Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, or Korea ergo we won says Trump

A new directive involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement at airports is sparking concern over screening and civil liberties.

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

The Golden Age isn’t so impressive.

TSA employees “deserve to be paid, not replaced by untrained, armed agents who have shown how dangerous they can be.” chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate” has a certain Vietnam-Afghanistan ring to it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is a bonkers story, and impunity is just.... www.abc15.com/news/local-n...

Unpaid TSA workers, huge spring-break crowds—yet again, the GOP and Trump administration have been caught without a plan to address a crisis of their own making.

“Sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate," a Trump official insists. Meanwhile, Iranian officials warn that attacks on the country's critical infrastructure would lead to energy and oil facilities across the region being "irreversibly destroyed.”

ICYMI this week: HHS opened what @maryrziegler.bsky.social calls “a Project 2025 investigation”: a probe into 13 states that require insurance plans to cover abortion

ICYMI: New data shared first w/ me for @ms.now shows the impacts of the temp defunding of Planned Parenthood through the Big Beautiful Bill — which some R's want to make permanent 23 clinics closed, breast exam visits down 25% in Dec., IUD insertions down nearly 40% the same month. ⤵️

Through interviews and a new report, a clearer picture of what pregnant detainees face in ICE facilities is emerging, and allegations are piling up.

By publicly quitting, Kent is fueling a broader conflict that is tearing apart Trump’s coalition over the Iran war and the role that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu played in pressing Trump into it.

“We have the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World, and we want people to talk about it, including in our Museums.” -Donald Trump, president of the United States.

“Anti-abortion extremists thought, ‘we’re going to overturn Roe, we’re going to ban abortion, we’re going to trap people [where they live], & they’re not going to get care. Because of shield laws & telehealth providers, that’s not the case—& they’re furious.” @byninamartin.bsky.social reports:

Good opportunity to take photos of faces imo

“Security like no one has ever seen.” Yep, that rings true.

Dems insist they’re ready to fund DHS, but Republicans won’t play ball.

Nowruz, the Persian New Year, celebrates the triumph of new life: spring. As it begins, we report on the war in Iran and its global impact. This week on Reveal:

Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...

The Trump administration is scrambling to cover its tracks amid legislative pressure and a First Amendment lawsuit over its alleged “domestic terrorist” database, new legal filings and emails reviewed by Mother Jones reveal.