"We are at a tipping point": A debate about an ICE warehouse provided “an opening in areas where doors are not usually open to Democrats.” @msjpauly.bsky.social on the scene www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How the threat of an ICE detention center galvanized a Trump-country coal town

“We do deserve better than a plethora of data centers, detention centers, warehouses, biosolids processing plants, massive landfills.”

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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 burden of expectations, the sense of disappointment…You start to understand, in some small way, what it feels like to play for England." @timothypmurphy.bsky.social on the weight of committing to cooking or eating a dish for every World Cup country www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My half-baked attempt to cook through the World Cup

One family's three-month feast, from Group A through chipa guazu.

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"When I buried my father, a man who bequeathed me his entire face but very little of his time, I turned to words from Jesmyn Ward," writes @jamilahking.bsky.social , who interviewed Ward about the unusual word at the center of her new essay collection.

The obscure word that helped novelist Jesmyn Ward process her grief

“Maybe using that word was the first step out.”

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“As a child who grew up in a homeless shelter…Johnny Appleseed became a personal hero. A patron saint.” Following in his footsteps—across an America no longer made for walking—was no easy task, @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social discovered: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

Hunting for Johnny Appleseed in the backroads of America

The true story of John Chapman is much more complex—and booze-fueled—than the history books had led me to believe.

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How glyphosate got its groove back: Scientists are wary of Roundup. MAHA hates it. But it's now being sprayed all over state and national forests, our investigation reveals www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We are bombarding America’s forests with Roundup

Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere.

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“You are taught from childhood that there is one way to go to heaven, and that way is to perform as a wife and a mother.”

Trad wife horror story

In Caro Claire Burke's new novel "Yesteryear," an influencer gets stuck in the era she fetishizes.

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She's Been a Trad, Trad Girl: The alternative headline for my interview with @caroclaireburke.bsky.social on her thrilling new novel "Yesteryear"—which sends an influencer back into the 1800s, and is loads of fun. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

Trad wife horror story

In Caro Claire Burke's new novel "Yesteryear," an influencer gets stuck in the era she fetishizes.

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Workers in Colorado have effectively shut down the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley with the largest strike in decades. As usual, @genoways.bsky.social is on the scene and wrote a deft dispatch @thefern.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Workers in Colorado have shut down one of the nation’s biggest meatpacking plants

It’s the largest strike in decades. Who wins if meat prices keep rising?

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Vincenzo Latronico's slim and unsettling "Perfection" was the top 2025 novel I managed to read this year. Check out why and read my colleagues' top picks www.motherjones.com/media/2025/1...

The 24 best books we read in 2025

New nonfiction and fiction titles we loved, plus some older ones that were just right for the moment.

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“We were afraid, because what we are feeling these days is Immigration is everywhere.” Veteran criminal justice reporter @samanthamichaels.bsky.social on the effects of the shocking and fearful police presence in Memphis www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.

“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."

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DOGE cuts/Trump's policies have come as an assault on farmers—especially small farmers. “It would seem like they’re trying to create fewer farms.” Our partner piece with @thefern.org delves into what it could mean for rural communities as we know them. www.motherjones.com/food/2025/05...

Trump’s assault on small farmers

And what it could mean for rural communities as we know them.

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On Earth Day, don't miss @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social 's story about a rare salamander at threat of extinction from climate chaos, sprawl, and Trump—and the passionate biologists determined not to let us turn our backs on it www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Legend has it this salamander came from hell. We’re about to send it back.

Climate disasters, human sprawl, and now Trump: This is how extinctions happen.

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@MotherJones is hiring our next class of Editorial Fellows! Learn about investigative reporting by fact-checking for our most ambitious and impactful reporting, with guidance from crack editors/reporters and the amazing @ruthcmurai motherjones.com/careers/fellowships/

The Ben Bagdikian Fellowship Program

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After seeking asylum in US and being recruited by the world's largest meatpacker, Haitian workers faced squalid living conditions, backbreaking line speeds, and injuries like "claw hand." Now Trump wants to deport them. Our investigation with @thefern.org www.motherjones.com/food/2025/03...

They fled Haiti and work America's most dangerous jobs. Trump plans to deport them.

After being recruited by the world's largest meatpacker, they faced grueling conditions on the line. Is the worst yet to come?

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Mi colega @melvisacosta.bsky.social explica la "Habla Inglés" orden de Trump—en español www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd4C...

Trump’s “Speak English” Order Explained—in Spanish

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Trump's mantra: *They* ruined America; *we* have to take it back. The “theys”, of course, are immigrants, whistleblowers, trans people, journalists, Democrats, civil servants. Hear how they are fighting back, in their own words, in our new cover package www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump's targets

He promised revenge. Here’s who’s first on his list—and how they’re fighting back.

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“I was hoping America to be better than back home,” says Haitian immigrant Tchelly Moise. “Someone needs to be held accountable for this, because this is not okay anywhere.” This week's @reveal, a collab w/ @FERNnews, meatpacking workers speak out www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This week's episode of Reveal: Immigrants on the line

Haitian meatpacking workers are in the crosshairs of Trump's mass deportation agenda.

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“How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology and then legislate about it?” @msjpauly.bsky.social talks to biological anthropologist @kateclancy.bsky.social about Trump's insane definitions of "male" and "female" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications

"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology and then legislate about it?"

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In one of the most powerful essays we've run in recent months, @eminietfeld makes a brave, incisive case for rethinking the popularity of "The Body Keeps the Score" www.motherjones.com/media/2024/1...

What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong

People kept telling me to read "The Body Keeps the Score." I was shocked at what it actually says.

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“Trump has basically said he is waging war on science and scientists," as a source told @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social Plenty of them are now anxious about their jobs and their research; here's what several had to say www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Waging war on science”: Researchers worry about their jobs under Trump 2.0

"There are a lot of days where I feel very much like just quitting all of this."

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Stop everything you're doing and read this @julialurie.bsky.social story on adoptions right now. And next time you hear someone talk about "making adoptions easier," remember this is what that can look like. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

She was pregnant and needed cash. Utah's thriving adoption industry was happy to help.

"It's like you're…baiting them in," said one adoptive mother.

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Mining the critical metals that we need for everything from EV batteries to solar panels and wind turbines is a dirty, dangerous business. What are the alternatives? @VinceBeiser explores www.motherjones.com/environment/...

A $60 billion-a-year climate solution is sitting in our junk drawers

In rich nations, just a fraction of trashed electronics is mined for critical metals. We’re going to have to up our game.

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