James West
@jamespwest.bsky.social
Executive Editor, Center for Investigative Reporting (Mother Jones, Reveal)
Thrilled to join Patrick Healy (NYT), Kerry Eleveld, Levi Kalish (HuffPost), Lex McMenamin (Guardian US), Scott Shafer (KQED) & Christopher Wiggins (The Advocate) at #NLGJA2026 for "Beyond the Horserace: Covering the Real Stakes of the Midterms." Sat 9/12 in SF: Hope people say hi! PTsched.co/2PBeB
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Meta just settled a landmark addiction case. It barely matters to a company already racing toward something else entirely, writes @annamerlan.bsky.social. The company describes its glasses' AI as "a helpful voice in your ear." NOT CREEPY AT ALL.
Meta doesn't want to be a social media company anymore
Despite an $18 billion settlement to end a nationwide child endangerment lawsuit, the firm clearly no longer sees social media as its main product—or its future.
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"I started squealing," @resistanceschool.bsky.social told @sonelcutler.bsky.social about when she learned she'd won her fight against the Washington Post.
Karen Attiah fought the Washington Post and won
Employers who fired their staff for posts about Charlie Kirk have lost a string of high-profile disputes.
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👀 Congressman Max Miller suggests he has dirt on his ex-father-in-law Senator Bernie Moreno in a rare interview with @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social after a custody hearing in Cleveland on Wednesday. WATCH:
Max Miller Just Suggested He Has Dirt on Bernie Moreno
“There are certain things that he would like me to remain quiet about.” A heated scene unfolded at the Cuyahoga County family court in Cleveland on Wednesday, as the key players in a bitter dispute…
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Fellow elder millennials assemble! Star of The O.C. Ben McKenzie has become an badass investigative journalist taking on crypto scams and he spoke to our @alletson.bsky.social about blowing the lid on the industry. (Did you know he has an economics degree?) LISTEN: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Cult and Corruption of Cryptocurrency
Podcast Episode · Reveal · August 26 · 31m
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Someone on Reddit posted yesterday, “She always kept her politics quiet.” Uh, maybe quiet if you weren’t paying attention?
James West@jamespwest.bsky.social · 3w agoI wrote about how, in fact, Dolly was very, VERY Mother Jones:
I wrote about how, in fact, Dolly was very, VERY Mother Jones:
Here's to Dolly: union member, vaccine hero, literacy giant, staunch gay ally.
Community-based philanthropy and fighting for the underdog defined the superstar’s legacy.
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Corruption watch: A $500 million UAE stake. A $635 million meme coin windfall. @usschoma.bsky.social goes inside the financial conflicts swirling around this week's White House meeting.
Trump's White House business shindig will be a cesspool of financial conflicts
He's welcoming leaders of crypto firms and prediction markets—industries he's deeply invested in—to discuss regulation.
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ICE SHOCK GLOVE BACKLASH: "I personally am sickened to learn our schools have been used as a test bed for a new law enforcement technology." @hurwitz.bsky.social on the globe beat found them being used in schools.
Cops love ICE's new shock gloves. Parents want them out of schools.
Omaha requested 40 pairs of the gloves for just under $66,000 in 2025.
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@msjpauly.bsky.social exposes who's behind "Wolves in White Coats." [Narrator: Well-funded right-wing activists]
The Trump admin launches a new angle of attack against trans healthcare
Federal officials referred over 150 healthcare organizations for investigation into allegations of fraud.
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Okay Florida primary voters, only a few more hours to share this with your friends in line.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last mo.Do Florida’s Republican primary voters care if a congressional candidate has been accused of stolen valor and is subject to a restraining order if he also has President Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement”? We’ll find out tonight.
This month we're launching a new series about MAHA in the Midterms with @thefern.org. First up: This Iowa Republican rails against agribusiness monopolies. He spent years working for Koch-funded projects. Who is Zach Lahn, really?
Zach Lahn is MAHA’s great farm country hope. Is he the populist hero he claims to be?
He’s running for Iowa governor on promises to bust up Big Ag. But some farmers are questioning his authenticity.
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Words like these get tossed off every day now: "If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them." But russchoma.bsky.social reports on another terrible dynamic with this one. Trump has a golf and villa project there, blessed by the Omani crown: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's bombing threats have a golf course problem
His Oman resort sits just miles from the strait where he's promising to send in the US military.
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TOMORROW: Can Rep. Cory Mills survive FL's GOP primary despite stolen valor claims, a restraining order, and ethics + DOJ probes—all with Trump's endorsement intact? @garrisonhayes.bsky.social chats with the journo who broke open a lot of that @nlanard.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4pJ...
His Scandals Keep Piling Up. Can Cory Mills Still Win?
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A small group of Silicon Valley men keep failing upward into ever-greater wealth and power. Our new video breaks down the alternate reality they live in—welcome to Billionaire Math, reported by timothypmurphy.bsky.social and produced by Peter Berger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVRc...
Billionaire Math Doesn't Add Up the Way Yours Does
► For more, visit Mother Jones: https://www.motherjones.com/ Forget "girl math" and "boy math." America's running on billionaire math. They own yachts that have yachts. They leave Earth just to…
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Florida Rep. Cory Mills has Trump’s “complete and total” endorsement. He also has: 🚩 Accusations of stolen valor 🚩 A restraining order from an ex 🚩 A massive House Ethics investigation 🚩 More Now @nlanard.bsky.social reports that the scandal-plagued Republican might actually lose his primary.
One of Congress’ most scandal-plagued Republicans may be about to lose his primary
Florida's Cory Mills has been accused of stolen valor, was subject to a restraining order, and is reportedly under investigation by the Justice Department. He also has Donald Trump's "Complete and…
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A Missouri police chief said his officers have "grown really attached" to electric shock gloves. Now they're ICE's newest tool. Don't miss this behind-the-headlines look at the tech's development by @hurwitz.bsky.social
The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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Um this doesn't sound good. ICYMI by @hurwitz.bsky.social A regulator run by Trump's own appointee gave a bank charter green light to a crypto firm the Trump family itself controls—one that already paid Trump nearly $600 million from stablecoin and digital asset sales in 2025.
The Trumps’ crypto project just got one step closer to becoming a bank
A regulatory charter for World Liberty Financial could be "the most brazen act of self-dealing our system has ever seen."
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Florida's rural Republicans are so angry about data center construction near their homes that the governor's race might be legit in play. Totally fascinating by @lauracmorel.bsky.social
Could the GOP lose Florida over data centers?
"Party labels are less important when it comes to our homes and way of life."
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His opener to voters: "I'm John Strand, patriot for Congress, the J6 hostage who went to prison on principle so that you don't have to." @smencimer.bsky.social has been tracking this underwear model for years. Now he wants Floridians' vote.
The international underwear model who stormed the Capitol is now running for Congress
Florida's most crowded GOP primary has two Trump-pardoned felons. John Strand is one of them.
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It's truly scary how much the Trump administration is surveilling unions, NGOs, and any groups it thinks it can accuse of being part of some kind of antifa conspiracy. By @hurwitz.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Documents reveal the federal government’s vast Minnesota surveillance dragnet
After Alex Pretti was murdered, Trump's DHS didn't investigate his killer—but spent months spying on Minnesota unions, churches, and bike shops instead.
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Watch the gears turn in real time.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last mo.“He’s just on a grab!” Watch the penny drop in real time: Joe Rogan expresses outrage at President Donald Trump’s latest scheme, offering early access to his Truth Social posts at a STEEP cost, which some allege amounts to insider trading.
“He’s just on a grab!” Watch the penny drop in real time: Joe Rogan expresses outrage at President Donald Trump’s latest scheme, offering early access to his Truth Social posts at a STEEP cost, which some allege amounts to insider trading.
Yikes: A voter suppression law disabled voters fought is back, just as Texas heads into a marquee Senate race. @juliametraux.bsky.social always on the look out:
A Trump judge called mail-in ballots a threat to democracy
The new ruling revived cruel aspects of Texas' voter suppression law.
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A reporter with "the technical chops of an 11th grader" asked AI to help build a killer drone. It said yes. Watch what happens next. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
AI helped me build a killer drone
I asked AI chatbots to help me build an autonomous attack drone. They said yes.
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New from @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social Sooo: Max Miller swore he had video and a witness. Weeks later his lawyers wrote that his girlfriend "was in fact not likely present." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Legal filings allege Rep. Max Miller made “false statements” to an Ohio court
The Republican is accused of misrepresenting evidence to get a civil protection order against his ex-wife Emily Moreno.
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Well this is dark. Lawyer Joseph McBride is flooding the world with AI-slop memes to fight the pretrial detention of accused rapists Andrew and Tristan Tate. @annamerlan.bsky.social pulled up his legal resumé and it's 👀
The Tate brothers’ lawyer is on an aggressive, AI-riddled quest to win their release
Joseph McBride's strident defense of the accused rapists includes a flood of faked propaganda images.
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We've been FLOCK-TRACKING: A watchdog says Flock's new fixes still ask "thousands of police departments to police themselves,." alexjn.bsky.social asks what could go wrong?
Flock's answer to its surveillance scandals: trust us
The company is limiting access to its 120,000 license plate readers, but critics say the changes are largely optional and self-enforced.
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@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social broke this open and continues to:
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Legal filings say Rep. Max Miller made “false statements” to a court in order to get a Civil Protection Order against his ex-wife in Feb. Miller told the court he had an eyewitness refuting that he assaulted Moreno. Then his lawyers recanted the evidence. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
