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Trump’s DOJ Stripped Lifeline Legal Services From the Most Vulnerable Detained Immigrants

Mother Jones illustration; Stephan Savoia/AP On April 3, a Justice Department contracting officer sent the Acacia Center for Justice a “notice of...

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Isabela Dias

Trump’s Killing of Energy Star Program Will Cost Families a Bundle

The Energy Star program the program has cumulatively helped avoid 4 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Justin Sullivan/Getty/Grist...

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Tik Root

Is the New Pope MAGA or Woke? Depends Whom You Ask.

Pope Leo XIV greeted the crowd at Saint Peter's Square in Rome on Thursday. ANSA/Zuma The Conclave has spoken, and President Donald Trump will not...

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Julianne Mcshane

Trump’s New Surgeon General Pick Wants to “Raise the Vibration of Humanity”

A still from a video promoting Surgeon General nominee Casey Means' online metabolism course. Screenshot/onecommune.com On Wednesday, following...

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Kiera Butler

The Brain Rot Cabinet

Ken Cedeno/CNP/Zuma Last week, baffling many and delighting a few, HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared during a Trump administration...

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Anna Merlan

FEMA Will No Longer Go Door-to-Door to Assist Disaster Victims

A FEMA urban search and rescue team searches a community in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, October 11, 2024, in Clearwater, Florida. Jocelyn...

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Molly Taft

Ed Martin’s Derailed Nomination Shows Donald Trump’s Power Is Waning

Mother Jones illustration; Valerie Plesch/The Washington Post/Getty In late March, Ed Martin, then the embattled acting US attorney for DC, showed...

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Dan Friedman

DOGE Killed Dozens of Grants That Supported Women Workers

Participants in Hope Renovations' training program are among those who will be affected by DOGE's cancellations of Labor Department grants. Mother...

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Julianne Mcshane

Leaked Memo Reveals Details About Trump’s War on Science at the NIH

Mother Jones illustration; Christopher Burns; Braňo/Unsplash (2) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to end future funding for research...

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Jackie Flynn Mogensen

A Holocaust Tale for Today

Mother Jones illustration; Guardian archives; Jerzy Dabrowski/ONS/Zuma The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The...

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David Corn

North Carolina GOP Judge Finally Concedes After Six-Month Effort to Steal Election Fails

Democratic State Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs speaks to supporters in Raleigh. Makiya Seminera/AP Six months after the November election,...

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Ari Berman

Trump Is Eager to Defund Harvard, Yet Publicly Subsidized Hate Groups Get a Pass

Near the gates of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 15, 2025 David L. Ryan/Boston Globe/Getty One particularly surreal...

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Michael Mechanic

This Jewish Woman’s Attack By a Pro-Israel Mob Went Viral. Now She’s Speaking Out.

Mother Jones illustration; CBS News On Thursday, April 24, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was halfway through a tour of the...

wednesday 2

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Sophie Hurwitz

Aviation Industry “Failing Dramatically” on Climate, Insiders Say

Carbon emissions from aviation are excluded from the national plans countries submit to the UN’s climate body. Hendrik Schmidt/dpa/ZUMA This story...

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Damian Carrington

Nikole Hannah-Jones: Trump Is Erasing Black History

Mother Jones illustration; Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty; Regina Fleming President Donald Trump’s second term has swung a wrecking ball at...

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Reveal

The Case That Could Gut Disabled People’s Right to Equal Health Care

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals building in New Orleans, Louisiana. Rex Wholster/Getty For decades, American hospitals have been subject to...

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Julia Métraux

24-Hour Vigil to Save Medicaid Takes Over National Mall

"What they're doing with the budget is [destroying] community," Rep. Nancy Pelosi said. Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma At a 24-hour vigil to...

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Julia Métraux

Meet the 64-Year-Old Social Worker Who Was Booted From a Republican Town Hall

Law enforcement forcibly removed Emily Feiner from a Sunday town hall after she asked Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) about standing up to the Trump...

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Julianne Mcshane

Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks GOP Plot to Steal North Carolina Election

Supporters listen to speeches at a rally for Allison Riggs in Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 14, 2025. Makiya Seminera/AP The unprecedented GOP...

06.05.2025 2

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Ari Berman

RFK Jr. May Have Inspired Acting US Attorney’s Harassment of Medical Journals

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a confirmation hearing on January 29, 2025 Lenin Nolly/AP Ed Martin, the acting US attorney for...

06.05.2025 3

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Dan Friedman

Trump Administration Erases School Shooting Victims at ATF Headquarters

Former Attorney General Merrick Garland toured "The Faces of Gun Violence" exhibit with former ATF Director Steve Dettelbach at the brueau's DC...

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Julianne Mcshane

Bird Populations Are Declining Across North America

The number of snowy owls has reduced dramatically, the research has found. Imago/ZUMA This story was originally published by the Guardian and is...

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Patrick Greenfield

Trump’s Onslaught Hits Staffers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Wind turbines at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Wind Technology Center. Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Staff at...

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Henry Carnell

The Trump Administration Canceled a Program That Reduced SIDS. Enter the Anti-Vaxxers.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr speaks during a Make Indiana Healthy Again initiative event in Indianapolis, April 15,...

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Kiera Butler

“Designed to Scare People”: Lawyers Warn of Self-Deportation Notices Posted in Immigration Courts

Immigrants assemble for their court dates. Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx/AP On April 28, lawyer Paul O’Dwyer opened his email inbox to find some good...

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Isabela Dias

No, Elon Musk, Government Should Not Be Run Like a Business

Andrew Leyden/ZUMA For years, I’ve heard the familiar refrain: “America should be run like a business.” First, it came from the young...

05.05.2025 3

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Garrison Hayes

Trump’s Slot Machine Spits Out Two New Orders

Mother Jones illustration; Getty(2) Much has been written about the cruel, and often unconstitutional, onslaught of executive orders that has come...

05.05.2025 2

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Inae Oh

Trump Promised No New Business Deals With Foreign Governments. He Lied.

Eric Trump and Abdullah bin Hamad bin Abdullah Al Attiya, a Qatari government official Qatari Diar's Chairman. Qatari Diar press release This story...

05.05.2025 2

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Judd Legum

Trump Dismantled 30 Years of Environmental Justice in 100 Days

Protesters march outside of 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, United States, on April 2, 2025. Melissa Bender/NurPhoto/AP This story was...

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Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco

The Legal Theory Behind Trump’s Power Grabs

Mother Jones illustration; Kevin Dietsch/Getty; Getty It all started with Richard Nixon. It was the summer of 1974, and Watergate was closing in on...

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Pema Levy And Patrick Caldwell