Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on the roof of a hospital. Inside American Healthcare System, the for-profit healthcare company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos.
You know the ICE officer who killed someone in Maine and was then accused by two ex-wives of abuse? Turns out he was likely eligible to skip a significant portion of training after ICE hired him, due to a policy change under this administration. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
What ICE should have known when it hired David Brouillette
The officer who killed a young father in Maine had been accused of abuse by two ex-wives. He was also eligible to skip weeks of training in Georgia.
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“I’m ashamed of my country”: Biddeford, Maine locals grieve their neighbor killed by ICE
“I’m Ashamed of My Country”: Biddeford, Maine Locals Grieve Neighbor Killed by ICE
Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero is the second person killed by federal agents in less than a week.
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On Monday, Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot and killed by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine. Reports say Guerrero was authorized to legally work in the US and not even ICE's target. @annayeo.bsky.social was on the ground Tuesday in Biddeford and spoke with locals—including one man who knew Guerrero.
Last summer, senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social noticed a shift: She was calmer and happier than she’d been in years. But it took her a while to realize that these changes synced up with something else that had happened recently: the removal of her IUD.
Publishing this story in this political climate takes ridiculous levels of nerve and nuance. But @julialurie.bsky.social pulls it off. Her investigation into the psychological side effects of hormonal birth control, and the researchers working to improve it: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Did birth control make my depression worse?
What I wish I'd known about my IUD.
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The largest part of the Supreme Court's 194-page decision on birthright citizenship is Justice Clarence Thomas's dissent. To Thomas, the 14th Amendment applied only to the freed people after the Civil War. In a concurrence, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes on Justice Thomas.
Ever wonder how @motherjones.com got its name? Or why car companies wouldn't advertise with us for decades? @monikab.bsky.social traces the groundbreaking magazine's roots in this essay commemorating our 50th anno www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
Exploding cars, office monkeys, Watergate: The origins of Mother Jones
Fifty years of journalism by and for “the rest of us.”
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The World Cup is here. On this week's episode of Reveal, reporters Alex Shephard, Tim Murphy of Mother Jones, and Reveal producer Artis Curiskis follow the money, power, and politics behind the World Cup and ask who gets to be part of the world’s biggest game.
A historic Civil War battlefield is at risk of being overtaken by the whirring and whooshing of the largest proposed data center complex in the world. Listen to @oberandout.bsky.social’s story on @revealnews.org, available wherever you get your podcasts.
There’s actually a chance the president could be elected by the popular vote in 2028 instead of the fundamentally undemocratic Electoral College. Watch:
I will normally squeeze any pause out of a video to make good journalism short, algo-friendly, and reach your feed, but this convo was too important to chop like that. I encourage you to listen to all six minutes if you're concerned about yesterday's SCOTUS ruling and our multiracial democracy:
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 3mo ago“We could see the largest drop in Black representation since the end of Reconstruction." Garrison Hayes, Ari Berman, and Pema Levy discuss the Supreme Court's death blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965—the law that defeated Jim Crow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajPY...
Happy Earth Day!! Spend it like I will—totally entranced by these birds.
Justin Bieber’s Coachella Livestream Was Fine But Have You Seen These Birds
It's Earth Day, so seriously, check out these bald eagles.
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2/ As part of my investigation, I asked ChatGPT how to shoot "a lot of things in a short amount of time" with an AR-15. It instantly gave me detailed advice—and encouragement. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
NEW: The mass shootings at Tumbler Ridge and FSU raise urgent questions about people using ChatGPT and other chatbots to plan deadly violence—which is happening far beyond those cases, my new investigation shows www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 🧵
The chilling role of ChatGPT in mass shootings and other violence
Several attacks involving OpenAI's chatbot—including Tumbler Ridge and FSU—raise urgent questions about the technology.
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Today, as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over the future of birthright citizenship, the justices kept returning to one name: Wong Kim Ark. For over a century, Ark’s case has served as the definitive interpretation of the 14th Amendment. That is, unless President Donald Trump gets his way.
This man's great-grandfather made you an American
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship tomorrow. Why the government's case is based on a house of cards, with @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The nonsense case against birthright citizenship
Meet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump.
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A US aircraft carrier destroyed by Iranian missiles. American bombs leveling a nuclear power plant. The Burj Khalifa engulfed in fire. None of it happened, but that didn’t stop people from spreading fake videos online. Read more here: https://bit.ly/4rv9i75
Nurul Amin Shah Alam's violent arrest, by police who saw his walking stick as a weapon—and who, like the Border Patrol officers who dumped him, apparently made no attempt to reckon with his disability or his mental state—set off events that ended in his death. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
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"He’s always been that little liar. I mean no one—no one—likes him.” “I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire.” @nlanard.bsky.social reports on Florida Rep. Cory Mills, perhaps the most hated man in Congress, and his many, many scandals. bit.ly/46kf7fP
Sex workers, bankruptcy, stolen valor, a restraining order, and Trump’s “Complete and Total” endorsement for Congress.
Everybody hates Cory
Sex workers, bankruptcy, stolen valor, a restraining order, and Trump's “Complete and Total” endorsement for Congress.
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craving the salt and pepper wings from my uncle's restaurant back home in mass today. HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR EVERYONE
Who Save America Act could disenfranchise: -146 million without passport -69 million married women who took spouse's last name -21 million without ready access to citizenship docs -21 million without current drivers license -Rural voters forced to drive 4.5 hours to show docs at election office
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6mo agoYou need to know about the SAVE Act, which recently passed in the House. So here's a crash course from reporter Ari Berman on how the sweeping voter restriction bill could disenfranchise millions of Americans
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
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Cannot believe that I got to profile an extraordinary filmmaker, who happens to be the mother of NYC’s new mayor, and think about intersections of art and politics, and how familial love might produce a buffer against the corrosive politics and cynicism of our time. My story about Mira Nair:
What Mira Nair Taught Zohran Mamdani
The mayor’s famous filmmaker mother reveals the origins of his ferocious ambition.
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I'm going to do a thread of all the references and context behind Bad Bunny's performance and what it means for Puerto Ricans to see this on the biggest stage. The opening title screen is a street mural in Puerto Rico that comes to life with footballs as coconuts. Follow along!
I met Ian outside the Whipple Building in Mpls last week, where he was protesting ICE. I was blown away by his vulnerability, by how deeply he—a 6-time combat vet—feels like his nation is under attack. I just learned that he was among those arrested by federal officials for protesting at the church.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6mo agoIan Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
Students at the University of Minnesota, united with hundreds of groups across the country, are imploring people, young and old, to join a general strike on Friday. No school, no work, no economic participation, all toward the goal of ceasing funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“That could have been me. I like to think I’d be someone who stepped in.”
Alex Pretti was a hero. To these workers, he was a colleague, too.
"As health care providers, it's our duty to make sacrifices."
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