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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Nov 15

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First it was Los Angeles. Then, Washington, DC. Then, Memphis. Now, Portland, Oregon, is in President Donald Trump’s sights—just the latest Democratic city facing increased militarization.

But the picture that Trump paints of a “war-ravaged” city literally just doesn't exist.

The “war-ravaged” Portland only exists in Trump’s head.

My video report paints a very Portland scene of defiance—and dance.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

Feeling safer now?

Trump's deportation machine has diverted some 42,000 crime fighters from other tasks

Feeling safer now?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h

Acquisition Logistics had no prior experience in incarceration. Previously, its biggest federal contract was $16 million, and CEO Ken Wagner is circling retirement at 77.

Could it safely operate a 5,000-bed detention facility?

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3h

"From this book, in particular, I hope people understand that the grieving process is lonely, but that nobody is alone in it."

In her new book, Ashley M. Jones builds a monument for her late father, Alabama, and Black people in America.

Alabama's poet laureate reckons with personal and political grief

In her new book, Ashley M. Jones builds a monument for her late father, Alabama, and Black people in America.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h

Pioneering medical researcher Gordon Guyatt was the anti-trans movement's favorite doctor—until he disowned them. They are, needless to say, having a normal one.

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown

The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h

It's hard to overstate just how badly and completely they screwed up.

The White House is already walking back hundreds of federal layoffs

Trump's cronies fired critical public health workers. Regret set in immediately.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

The Seventh Circuit has handed Trump yet another kick in the wingnuts.

Appeals court: Trump can't deploy National Guard on Chicago's streets

A ruling Saturday forbids the White House from actively using troops in Illinois.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

Our latest feature on Florida's surgeon general:

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

“It’s weird.”
“It seems messy.”

That’s what experts had to say about the $1.3 billion contract handed to a tiny firm called Acquisition Logisitics to run a detention facility at Texas’ Fort Bliss Army base.

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

“They sponsor this? Fuck them. No, really. Fuck them—I mean it. And you can quote me on that.”

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

How the Border Patrol uses rodeos to recruit

At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

Another bad day at the CDC.

Donald Trump's war on public health enters a new phase

Another bad day at the CDC

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h

Haitian immigrants moved to Colorado on the promise of a good job and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, they could be deported.

The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:

Immigrants on the line

Haitian immigrants moved to Colorado on the promise of a good job and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, they could be deported.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival’s lawsuit alleges.

How a new firm with DHS ties won a $915 million contract to help immigrants "self-deport"

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

When it comes to Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Trump’s presidency has been defined by the decay of public information sources and dismantling of public health institutions.

So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.

Donald Trump's war on public health enters a new phase

Another bad day at the CDC

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The Trump administration's latest layoffs include HUD staffers who investigate fair housing complaints, "disease detectives," and the team that publishes the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Donald Trump's war on public health enters a new phase

Another bad day at the CDC

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

At a time when so many people feel “really powerless, Michelle’s work is a reminder that it’s still possible to be powerful, and she’s done it through art.”

One woman’s quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

Nice little TV network you got there

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

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Reveal @revealnews.org · 1d

Hundreds of Haitians came to Greeley, Colorado, looking for a place to stay and a good job at JBS, the largest meat producer in the world.

Instead, they found squalid housing and an unsafe workplace.

Now, they’re being deported.

Haitian immigrants went to Colorado for the promise of jobs. What they found is being called human trafficking.

Haitian immigrants moved to Colorado on the promise of a good job and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, they could be deported

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

You break it, you own it. Kudos to @akalhan.bsky.social.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Hundreds of Haitians came to Greeley, Colorado, looking for a place to stay and a good job at JBS, the largest meat producer in the world. Instead, they found squalid housing and an unsafe workplace. Now, they’re being deported.

Immigrants on the line

Haitian immigrants moved to Colorado on the promise of a good job and a place to stay—only to be mistreated. Now, they could be deported.

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