i ended up getting a shot-clock-violation on my "heroes and monsters" picks, but fortunately @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social had the same thought and wrote about juries www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

Walk around Washington, DC, and you may spot murals and yard signs honoring Sean Dunn, aka "Sandwich Guy." But the 37-year-old rejects the hero label. So I’d like to suggest we salute a different group instead: the grand jurors who declined to indict him. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Okay, you got my attention 😳

Please allow me to rant for a minute. It's absurd that so many things—alarm clocks, fitness wearables, car features—require a separate subscription these days. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

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My colleague @samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in TN, where the onslaught of ICE officers has fundamentally reshaped daily life, drawing comparisons to 1930s Germany. “I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New from me: Literally nothing is known about the shooter. And yet. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@jamespwest.bsky.social was home in Sydney on vacation when the horror happened. As good journalists are apt to do, he put his life on hold to file this story. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

In DC, Trump officials celebrated the decimation of USAID with a sheet cake. In South Sudan, USAID budget cuts closed a health clinic in the middle of a cholera outbreak. Tor Top had to take his sick mother to the hospital, 8 hours away. She died on the way. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

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Scoop: Eric Neff is the new head of the DOJ voting section, per legal filing. His old job put him on administrative leave in 2022 after he based a prosecution around tips from election fraud conspiracy group True the Vote. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

big day for me. for *us.*

Today, the DOJ sued Colorado for access to its complete voter roll. This marks the 15th state sued over private voter info, 13 of which are led by Democrats. My colleague @ariberman.bsky.social and I published a big piece last week about why this should scare you. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Asian wife sharing,” Pentagon press policy, and me: Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Reporter @dfriedman.bsky.social was working on a story about a top aide to Pete Hegseth. Then Pizzagate promoter Jack Posobiec threatened to write a scurrilous story about him. ow.ly/EpQp50XHpYo

Jen Shah is free, People reports: people.com/jen-shah-rel...

Eileen O’Connor, Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center, spoke with @motherjones.com about the Justice Department suing states across the country to obtain their complete voter files, which contain private voter data like driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. 1/2

Trump’s Justice Department is hellbent on accessing our private voter info—Social Security numbers, party affiliation, driver's licenses—resulting in what experts warn would be a gold mine for hackers. “It's a hacker's dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere.”

"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Justice Department has waged an unprecedented campaign to intimidate states into handing over voters’ private information. The goal, as @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social report, could result in the unprecedented harassment of individual citizens like you and me.

Excellent and deeply troubling article by @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social @ariberman.bsky.social. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Over the last 6 months, the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from dozens of states. The goal? To build the federal government’s first-ever national database of registered voters using their private info.

So many scandals now but pay attention to this: DOJ has sued 14 states-12 led by Dems-to demand full unredacted voter files in order to turbocharge Trump voter suppression plans @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & I detail threat this poses to voting rights ahead of 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Important @motherjones.com piece here:

New via @ariberman.bsky.social & me: For years, right-wing groups have pushed for access to voter rolls, hoping to bolster unproven claims of widespread fraud. Now, Trump’s Justice Department is leading that effort. “The election deniers are now ascendant in the federal government.” bit.ly/4phNz1V

RFK Jr. is at it again: Now he blames pills—not guns—for school shootings. He's pushing a long disproven theory and promising “massive” new research on it. Weirdly enough, the agency he runs refused to give me any details at all when I inquired. My latest 🧵 👉 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Working on an article about "constituent services" and would love your anecdotes. Have you ever reached out to a politician's office for help cutting through red tape, accessing an entitlement, fast-tracking a passport, etc? Did they respond? Was your issue resolved?

I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes. So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/

The real problems on Riley Gaines’ college swim team, according to teammates and university documents: abusive coaching, sexual harassment, eating disorders. But Gaines climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports. Now, teammates speak out: ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp

Records we obtained, reported on by @MotherJones, show the Trump admin plans to expand its national citizenship-check system to include driver’s license and passport data—info that could be used to justify large-scale voter purges, including of eligible voters. americanoversight.org/demanding-an...

Scott Wiener Doesn't Care About Your "Neighborhood Character." He just thinks we need a lot more housing. And he's running for Nancy Pelosi's seat. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Scoop from @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social & @ariberman.bsky.social: Docs obtained by @weareoversight.bsky.social show efforts DHS is making to gather drivers' license data from all 50 states in order to weaponize Trump’s false claims of voter fraud. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.

In 2021, @nlanard.bsky.social came back from a hunger strike of taxi drivers and told me that a politician who had just turned 30 might be the future of politics in NYC. Here's a look back at a pivotal moment in Mamdani's rise www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Conservatives are melting down over a video from the Heritage Foundation president defending Tucker Carlson's interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Even Sen. Mitch McConnell was stunned.

Contingency money for SNAP exists, but Trump chose not to use it—at least, not until the courts made him. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

While hundreds of thousands of furloughed workers are going without pay, food stamps, formally known as SNAP, are set to run out on Saturday. Normally, the federal government would use contingency money to keep SNAP going, but the Trump administration said it had no intention of doing so.

At a very busy food bank in Hyattsville, MD, the government shutdown, SNAP benefits running out, and previous budget cuts all converged. “There’s absolutely more need, but less food," the food bank's leader told me. "It’s bad.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The EEOC is supposed to help workers who experienced hostile work environments. But under Trump, it became a hostile work environment itself, according to one judge’s recent ruling. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A media executive instructed staff that they "should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House." One more reason to support independent, nonprofit media: we don't think that way. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

A Planned Parenthood Southeast executive asked a colleague via email if PPSE had ever worked with Students for Life. Repro rights activists noted that’s akin to asking "if the ACLU has ever partnered with the KKK.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They weren't "kids"—I checked for @motherjones.com. They're 24 to 35, per public records. Sorry, @jd-vance-1.bsky.social ! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Just because federal employees aren't surprised doesn't mean they aren't mad. "I liked the fact that I still had the capacity for disappointment,” said one furloughed worker. My first story for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Russell Vought, Trump's shutdown hero, lives in a neighborhood where "everyone knows someone who lost their jobs." . @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social talked with a few of them about the shutdown www.motherjones.com/politics/202...