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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h

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 · 11h

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.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h

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 · 15h

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 · 15h

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 · 17h

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 · 17h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 1d

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

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

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:

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h

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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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

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 · 1d

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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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to @onthemedia.bsky.social for a great conversation about how the Supreme Court is facilitating a “dual state” form of authoritarianism!

On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 1d

📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

“I know some judges who had packed up their offices in anticipation of being fired."

The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

“Fired for no reason”: Former immigration judges speak out against Trump’s assault on the courts

The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

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

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Florida's surgeon general isn't just guided by science...his beliefs are shaped by a wife who says she can speak to spirits and levitate, and an energy healer guru.

Our latest on Joseph Ladapo:

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 · 1d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina, a main US competitor in the soybean market.

This is a move that will only further screw over American soybean farmers, who're being priced out of their own market.

A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers

Here’s the geopolitical beans.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

They say the only things certain in life are death and taxes.

But America’s billionaires, having taken care of the latter, are now trying to disrupt the former—and make sure nobody can pry their fortunes from their cold dead hands.

These billionaires want to disrupt death—and keep their fortunes forever

Sci-fi meets Silicon Valley meets the trust industry.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

“I don’t think, in health policy history, we’ve [ever] seen as big a projected increase in health insurance premiums.”

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” is not a political film. But Mary Bronstein's new film arrives as a shot-out-of-a-cannon rejoinder to the message that suffering women should “tough it out.”

"This is a woman who’s going through it. And instead of averting our eyes, I’m making you deal with it.”

“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” invites you to look directly at a woman's rage

Mary Bronstein’s new film is a shot-out-of-a-cannon rejoinder to the message that suffering women should “tough it out.”

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

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 · 1d

You're not imagining it: The internet is absolutely skewing our reality of women (and men) in the workforce.

A new study, where researchers analyzed over half a million images from Google search, revealed that age and gender biases are baked into what we see online.

It's true: The internet skews the reality of women (and men) in the workforce

Age and gender biases are baked into what we see online, a large new study confirms.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Today, as the government shutdown persists, the Trump administration has started to fulfill its long-held promise to lay off federal workers.

The man behind all this chaos? Russ Vought, the “grim reaper” of government cuts, who @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social profiled back in 2024:

The bureaucrat who could make Trump's authoritarian dreams real

Russ Vought has a plan to take presidential power to new heights.

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