Clint Hendler
clinthendler.bsky.social
Clint Hendler
@clinthendler.bsky.social
Mother Jones senior editor
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for senior citizens it can mean so much to spend quality time with a young person, even if it's just a few minutes
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Pretty sure I just saw Zohran get a more vocal endorsement from Trump than he did from Schumer
November 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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This @pemalevy.bsky.social / @ariberman.bsky.social joint effort on John Roberts is a must-read.

"The Roberts court has spent Trump’s second term not applying the law so much as clearing it out of his way."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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These 20 House Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to fully repeal DC's police reform laws.

Wiping off the books critical laws on use of force, transparency, and preventing violent cops from getting rehired.

They think that they should have more say over DC police than the people of DC.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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We were promised an ump who called balls and strikes. We got federalist society angel hernandez. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Chief Justice John Roberts rigged our democracy, helped Trump retake power, and is now discarding legal and constitutional constraints on Trump's actions.

But Roberts needs Trump, too. This symbiotic relationship means there is no hope for course correction.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.”

This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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As Tom Steyer enters the race for California governor, here's a piece from 2019 when I went to his presidential campaign launch and couldn't find a single person who was voting for him not on his staff www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
Tom Steyer wants you to want him to be president
Steyer says he hopes "to retake the democracy together." Why does that mean a run for the White House?
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November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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I wrote about how an Iraq-war era military contractor ended up as a mall cop cracking down on a protest encampment in Minneapolis the summer after the George Floyd protests. This is the story of Nathan Seabrook and long arc of the war on terror. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How a mercenary became a Minneapolis mall cop
After the George Floyd protests, a former military contractor named Nathan Seabrook brought the war home.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches
November 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Meanwhile, on X
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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It was correct to speak of safety when the Unite The Right march bellowed "Jews Will Not Replace Us," or when a mass shooter gunned our people down at the Tree of Life synogogue. It is not correct to do so when a man who's spoken very respectfully of Jews (but cirticized Israel) wins an election
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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More New Yorkers voted Working Families Party than voted Republican.
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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This is worse than the worst thing ever attributed to any “Bernie Bro”. The Democratic leader literally refusing to say WHETHER HE VOTED FOR THE DEMOCRAT.
this shit right here is wrecker shit, as much as wrecker shit as any online leftist has done, if not more so. no wonder so many people are repulsed by anyone (rightly) saying 'vote blue no matter who', the most powerful elected Dem in the nation won't do it! it undermines the whole coalition! jfc
November 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I see Adrian Vermeule is calling on the SA and SS to stop their infighting
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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The only way to avert this mutually assured gerrymandering destruction of democracy is....

wait for it...

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION.

So...

what are we waiting for?

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Took a look at the new so-called Pentagon "journalists" w/ @annamerlan.bsky.social for @motherjones.com. Here's how they've covered their new overlord and the agency they're tasked w/ reporting on:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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NEWS: Civil rights firm alleges that Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino personally violated a judge’s order restricting tear gas use. Photo is from court filing by Loevy and Loevy.
October 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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the imagery of the White House looking like it got hit with a car bomb is stunning. But corporations with business before the administration paying for the president's home renovation should be a huge scandal too. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Big Tech helped bankroll the East Wing destruction
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google have a lot riding on their relationships with the Trump administration. They all cut checks for the ballroom.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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181. Pew, 2023 (asked of those who have any tattoos):"Do you ever regret getting your tattoo/any of your tattoos?"

(Full report: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...)
October 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Single-member districts unavoidably mean the tyranny of the map. You can try to be a benevolent dictator about it, and that's certainly preferable to a malignant one, but you're still deciding the vast majority of the results before a single vote is cast.
Over 200 Democracy Scholars Call on Congress to End Single-Member Congressional District
More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.
protectdemocracy.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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This July, @acleek.bsky.social & I made a radio show about a major hospital landlord named Medical Properties Trust.

Now, we’ve unraveled MPT's aggressive effort to silence and surveil its critics as they tried to raise alarm, using docs leaked to @occrp.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The secret campaign to silence critics of a hospital real estate empire
When skeptics called out Medical Properties Trust, they found themselves harassed—and surveilled.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Thinking bout this right now for no real reason—

“When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead”
When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News
Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'
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October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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There’s always a local angle.
October 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Talked to some folks here in Oakland...
"What brings you out to the No Kings rally?"

"Trump is being an asshole."

Oakland, California, protesters showed out for their local No Kings rally—and Mother Jones' @michaelmechanic.bsky.social caught up with a few to talk.
October 18, 2025 at 11:13 PM