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Why did Maine dems back a guy with a Nazi tattoo, sexts, and racist Reddit posts? Everyday Americans are often willing to overlook discretions for a candidate who isn't "looking down on them." My conversation with Musa al-Gharbi on why wokeness is a dead end. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Why the scandal-ridden Democrat with a Nazi tattoo won Maine’s Senate primary
According to the Stony Brook sociology professor who wrote the book unpacking why wokeness is a dead end.
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Hey, @samveep.bsky.social & I won a Telly for this video report on a $25K payment Kash Patel got from a Ukrainian American Russian filmmaker who was part of a Kremlin-funded propaganda operation. Check it out. We still don't know where the money came from. (Giuliani got $100K from the same source.)
The Curious Case of Kash Patel's $25,000
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Just dropped the biggest and baddest thing I’ve ever worked on: 22-minutes documentary into how science is rewritten by corporations and we pay the cost. Hope you queue it up for your night and give it a watch!
The Secret Plan to Cover the World in Herbicide
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Beyond proud to announce that we've won a Webby Award for our coverage of ICE's Minneapolis takeover. Between January 7 and February 3, we deployed reporters to Minneapolis and brought back indelible footage. 🧵
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We're nominated for a Webby People's Voice Award for our Instagram feed, where millions saw our reporting on Minneapolis, Christian nationalism, surveillance tech, the Golden State Killer, and so much more! VOTE FOR US NOW: wbby.co/58990N
Using the r-word is just bad. Democrats should have higher standards for themselves than Trump when it comes to using a slur that MANY disabled people find offensive. Looking at you, Graham Platner. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Graham Platner claims he's changed. Why is he still using the r-word?
The left have their own ableism problems to grapple with, not just Republicans.
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SPOTTED: Donald Trump makes an appearance at No Kings in DC. 📹 : Marianne Szegedy-Maszak
The AMA said surgeries should “generally be deferred to adulthood.” (The generally established guidance) The NYT characterized this as the AMA having “backed limitations on gender-related surgical treatments.” What the NYT wrote is different than what AMA said. Full stop. 1/2
NYTimes Communications@nytimespr.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe New York Times’s body of reporting on the American Medical Association’s stance on gender-related care for minors is accurate and factual, and remains so despite the recent statement from the Chair of the A.M.A. Board, which contradicts the A.M.A.’s own statements. www.nytco.com/press/fact-c...
The article that keeps on giving:
The official voice of the US government is cruel, gross, and weird. What is that doing to us?
Joking memes about imprisonment, deportation, and death by alligator are designed to radicalize and desensitize.
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Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe US Department of Health and Human Services just released this video.
the trump administration is taking a lot of inspiration from nazi propaganda. my new video looks at some of the most egregious examples from their feeds—and I think it's helping prime everyday people to cheer on even more awful things.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6mo agoThe US government won't stop sharing Nazi propaganda. This past year, official social media accounts from the Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and other government agencies have adopted a distinct voice online. But if you look closer, a pattern emerges.
The US government won't stop sharing Nazi propaganda. This past year, official social media accounts from the Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and other government agencies have adopted a distinct voice online. But if you look closer, a pattern emerges.
Okay, so you wanna do a general strike? Here's some real, practical advice on how to make it happen, from conversations with various Minnesota organizers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Six vital lessons from Minnesota’s general strike
Minneapolis organizers weigh in on how to make the movement go national.
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me: uploads a clean and clear audio file of an interview in english adobe:
Totally normal headline you see every day in functioning democracies around the world…
Trump goes public with plan to "take over" elections
After the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in Georgia, the president calls on Republicans to assert control over voting "in at least 15 places.”
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Rob has been the only Evangelical I’ve run into who has been actively in the streets to witness, pray, and be a body on the frontline in the streets of Minneapolis. I hope you watch this.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6mo agoHe spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it. Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.
Hard to say how many showed up for Alex Pretti’s vigil, but easily hundreds if not thousands. After community activists and leaders spoke at the park where they gathered, everyone marched to the site of Pretti’s killing. Streets just filled with people demanding ICE out.
“If Minnesota falls, everything falls. We’re done as a nation.” Fury. Grief. Anguish. Locals on the frontlines of Trump’s attack on Minneapolis are speaking out following the killing of another one of their neighbors. We’re on the ground with @samveep.bsky.social tracking the aftermath.
Our @samveep.bsky.social is at the scene where 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. Read his heartbreaking dispatch from on the ground.
"It's a horror show": Anguish sweeps Minneapolis after federal agents kill another neighbor.
We're on the ground covering the aftermath.
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“We’re furious that our neighbors are getting kidnapped and murdered in the streets,” a protester named John told me. “This is supposed to be America, the land of the free, and this is not freedom.” I spoke Minnesotans who showed up where Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents:
"It's a horror show": Anguish sweeps Minneapolis after federal agents kill another neighbor.
We're on the ground covering the aftermath.
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I was just supposed to follow clergy leaders as they did a pilgrimage from George Floyd Square to Renée Good’s memorial. But then when we got back to the landing spot, we found out an observer had been attacked by ICE agents who had been tailing the religious leaders. From me today in Minneapolis:
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 6mo agoICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage. Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.
New video from our team shows a horrifying ICE attack on a woman who says she is disabled and was just trying to get to her doctor's appointment.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 7mo agoShe said she was headed to a doctor's appointment. Federal agents still attacked her. Earlier today in Minneapolis, journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) documented a tense, chaotic federal operation near 34th Street and Park Avenue.
The high schooler at the heart of the current case knows that the battle at the court is about much more than whether she can play track and field with her friends. “It’s just one part of a plan to push transgender people like me out of the public life entirely.”
Supreme Court battle over trans athletes is about so much more than sports
"It's just one part of a plan to push transgender people like me out of the public life entirely."
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In the aftermath of the ICE killing of Renée Good, Trump's admin smeared her as a “domestic terrorist." That’s despite video evidence to the contrary. Today, we joined the Manhattan thong for one of many dozens of protests held around the country this weekend. We asked protesters: What did you see?
I spoke with noturtlesoup17.bsky.social who is on the ground in Minneapolis for @motherjones.com. She's been one of the country's most prominent chroniclers of ICE escalation. We'll be featuring more of her work over the coming weeks and months. Give her a follow. www.youtube.com/shorts/7otLE...
We’re on the Ground in Minneapolis as Tensions Flare After ICE Shooting
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A disgusting development in the story of the aftermath of Renee Good’s death. From @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social: Grok unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Good in a bikini—the woman who was killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis.
Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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Grok unhesitatingly fulfilled an X user’s request to put a bikini onto the body of ICE shooting victim Renee Nicole Good. The chatbot, launched by Elon Musk, has been making deepfakes of a lot of other women, too. My latest in @motherjones.com: 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Grok deepfaked Renee Nicole Good's body into a bikini
Hours after an ICE agent killed the mother of three, Elon Musk’s chatbot was undressing her.
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shocker: there's a trump-supporting billionaire who could make a shit ton of money off of the attack on venezuela
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 7mo agoBillionaire hedge funder Paul Singer, whose firm acquired oil giant Citgo at a bargain price, has much to gain from Nicolás Maduro’s ouster. On Fox News Saturday, Trump made clear that one of the motivations for Saturday’s attack was to increase the production and export of Venezuelan oil.
