Trouble in paradise! @annamerlan.bsky.social and I wrote about how some corners of the anti-vax universe are displeased by Trump's Tylenol announcement. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Agony of Trump’s Oligarchs newrepublic.com/article/2007... via @newrepublic.com

PSA: At 1pm ET, the Utah Redistricting Committee will discuss/vote on one of six maps congressional maps to advance in the state's court-ordered redistricting process. I'll be covering it, so follow along for updates. Some background on what's going on: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The federal judge overseeing the capital case against Luigi Mangione tells the Justice Department that the Trump administration is talking too much in the press about this case and may be in violation of local rules. Sanctions are on the horizon if they don't shut up. Todd Blanche is on notice.

America’s elite colleges are perpetual inequality machines. It doesn't have to be this way. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Remember when Sen. Mike Lee was cheerleading for Milei and his economic policies? How’s that working out?

I'm always intrigued by big corporations supporting this guy. I understand the hope that he'll be on their side if they give enough and buy his crypto, but who knows when his impulses will lead him to destroy a private company for no good reason. Why give him this power over you?

This doesn't surprise me. Back in 2016, I wrote: "The party of smaller government has made an art of designing expensive, complicated, and intrusively bureaucratic health care programs under the guise of promoting personal responsibility." www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

NEW: Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says, by @savmargaret.bsky.social

President Trump is using his time before the United Nations to once again rail against "the green energy scam" and...windmills. A good time to read how Trump's war on wind power has one very big exception, by @russchoma.bsky.social.

Spent some time shadowing Greg Casar (and Dolores Huerta!) during the redistricting fight. His predicament embodied the party's: a rising generation of leaders, caught between a defiant old guard and an opposition willing to change the rules to stop them www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The bonkers wellness myths that fueled Trump’s autism announcement www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How to survive a Republican power grab www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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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

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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has been preaching calm in a violent moment—but there's something missing www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

it's not great www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Utah's governor this morning trying to tamp down polarization and political violence in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder. He was well positioned to be the voice of reason. I wrote about him last year and his lonely crusade to make politics nice again www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“‘There was someone on TV, and he kept saying that this was not who we are — that we are not one of those countries that shoots people over politics,’ said Charles Phoenix, 62. ‘But it is who we are. We do shoot political leaders. We are that country.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

This is the kind of personalization that will be very useful to a seasoned Death Penalty defense attorney.

Why did Charlie Kirk matter so much to the right? For my latest newsletter for @thebulwark.com, I explore why he was a unique media figure in the Trump movement: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-charli...

The cruel Catch-22 of cash aid www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

Extreme gerrymandering. Nationalizing voter suppression. Weaponizing law enforcement. Occupying Democratic cities. Trump is pulling out all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to rig the next election ow.ly/jOJ850WTk0z

The National Guard spent last week defending the Mother Jones DC office from... tourists? But it made me wonder: If I got mugged on the way to work, what could they really, legally, do about it? As it turns out: not much! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation. Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."

National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.

Trump's cuts to FEMA to root out "woke" ideology is going to make disaster recovery more expensive www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The “Mini-Trump” attacking Lisa Cook had paperwork problems of his own www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A photographer’s view of ICE’s relentless courthouse arrests www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump’s USDA eliminates support for renewable energy, a lifeline for farmers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Waking up and discovering that in 2025 America, you live in a police state...feels a little too similar to places like Argentina, circa 1974, as if we are just one sandwich-throw away from having these troops violently unleashed on people opposed to the regime." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Must be real proud of your job if you can’t show your face.”

I guess Utah has finally just given up on saving Great Salt Lake. This week the state leg will vote to let 40 percent of it just dry up permanently. Goodbye migratory birds :(

Utah lawmakers were told today the Trump administration's next budget proposes a 55% cut to EPA. For states like Utah? The Utah Dept. of Environmental Quality says it represents a 71% cut in funding, which impacts clean air, clean water efforts (and has economic impact). #utpol #Utah

The chilling lede on this review of a book on Argentina's desaparecidos sounds way too much like the US right now.

the analysis in here from people living in encampments is more incisive and direct than a lot of the coverage from national media streetsensemedia.org/article/home...

The worst potholes I've encountered in DC recently were in Rock Creek Park, which the federal government under two Trump terms has poorly maintained.

Stephen Miller is right: crime is rampant in DC www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

So the Washington Post just cleaned out almost all of its opinion writers but now this: washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/washingtonpo...

The White House, without evident appreciation of the irony, is pushing Smithsonian to "eliminate political influence" in its displays, while ensuring they are "patriotic" and not "divisive or partisan." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

I am but a lowly liberal beta cuck in their eyes, and yet I do things like ride the bus that these alpha males are to terrified to do.

Stay salty DC 🔥

ICE agent, under oath, on the stand: We don’t do immigration raids. We do targeted “at-large operations.” “I don’t know anyone who actually conducts raids,” he says. (Long silence in the courtroom.)

Your weekly reminder that DC's sole congressional delegate, who might be counted on to protest Trump's latest assault on the city's autonomy, is 88 and too old to drive. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump's ruthless cuts have left our national parks in "survival mode" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...