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Trump Mistakenly Deported a Man to El Salvador. There’s Still No Plan to Bring Him Back.

On Friday, Federal District Court Judge Paula Xinis ruled that the Trump administration had failed to comply with a court order requiring it to...

12.04.2025 30

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Trump Posts AI Video of Ethnically Cleansed Gaza

On Tuesday, just before midnight, Donald Trump posted a grotesque AI-generated video on social media that depicts a future Gaza as his proposed...

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This Marine Wanted to Help Fellow Vets. DOGE Fired Him Instead.

On February 13, Andrew Lennox, an administrative officer for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Michigan, learned from an email that he had been...

26.02.2025 50

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GOP Activist Who Co-Hosted Podcast with White Nationalist Pushes Third Trump Term at CPAC

At the Conservative Political Action Conference, a new group pushed for President Donald Trump to serve an unconstitutional third term.   The...

22.02.2025 60

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Trump to Put in Top Military Post Podcaster Fired from Space Force for Self-Publishing Book About Marxism

In 2021, Matthew Lohmeier, a lieutenant colonel in the Space Force and former Air Force fighter pilot, self-published Irresistible Revolution:...

14.02.2025 10

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Elon Musk Keeps Boosting White Nationalists on X

In the three weeks since Donald Trump took office, Elon Musk has posted on X at the pace of an iPad-addicted child. During a roughly two-hour stretch...

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Trump Calls for Ethnic Cleansing and Using US Troops to “Own” Gaza

The quotes from President Donald Trump’s press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do not do justice to the obscenity of the...

06.02.2025 40

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Trump’s Pick for Counterrorism Called for Arresting BLM Leaders as Terrorists

Joe Kent, a former Green Beret who is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Counterterrorism Center, completed 11 combat deployments during the...

05.02.2025 60

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As Elon Musk Warns of Persecution of Whites, Trump Says He Will Block Aid to South Africa

On Sunday, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that the United States would cut aid to South Africa because the country is “confiscating...

04.02.2025 10

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Trump Picks Torture Memo Author for Deputy Transportation Secretary

Two decades ago, while serving in President George W. Bush’s Justice Department, Steven Bradbury wrote a series of memos justifying waterboarding...

30.01.2025 50

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Key Democrats Vote for Increasing Mandatory Detention of Immigrants

On Friday, the Senate voted to advance a bill that would significantly increase the number of undocumented immigrants subject to mandatory detention...

18.01.2025 10

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The Ceasefire Deal Makes It Obvious: Joe Biden Failed

In the early days of the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, President Joe Biden took some time to congratulate himself on a job well done. For...

17.01.2025 5

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A GOP Congressman’s Campaign Finance Problem Just Got Worse

There are holes in Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Ogles’ personal story. Some have been relatively harmless fabrications. Ogles claimed to be...

15.01.2025 4

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Democrats Could Give Republicans Vast New Immigration Powers

With Donald Trump less than two weeks away from taking office and promising an agenda of mass deportations, Democrats are poised to hand Republicans...

10.01.2025 40

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Hero of 2024: Dean Phillips, Kind of

Mother Jones illustration; Erin Hooley/AP The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year....

26.12.2024 7

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Los Angeles County Shows Why Democrats Lost

Voters cast their ballots during the early voting process at a polling station ahead of the 2024 presidential election in Los Angeles. Qian...

16.12.2024 60

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USDA to Require Testing of Milk to Monitor Spread of Bird Flu

A researcher performs a rapid antigen test on milk from a dairy cow inoculated against bird flu in a containment building at the National Animal...

07.12.2024 4

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Vote to Impeach South Korean President Fails After Martial Law Declaration

A 24-hour Yonhapnews TV broadcast at Yongsan Railway Station shows South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol delivering a special address at the...

07.12.2024 10

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Amnesty International: Israel Is Guilty of Genocide in Gaza

The Khamis Ghaban family, who fled Israeli attacks and took refuge in the Legislative Council building that was destroyed in Israeli attacks due to...

06.12.2024 10

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Tim Sheehy Won Republicans the Senate. He Might Have Lied About Getting Shot

Mother Jones illustration; Ben Allan Smith/The Missoulian/AP; J. Scott Applewhite/AP Last week, Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News anchor and Donald...

06.11.2024 10

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Can a Waitress Running on Economic Populism Beat a MAGA Republican Who Yells at Teens?

Rebecca Cooke, the Democratic congressional candidate in Wisconsin's 3rd district. Cooke for Congress Rebecca Cooke has spent many nights this year...

04.11.2024 2

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Clay Higgins Built His Brand on Law and Order. He Pals Around With a Man Guilty of Incest.

Mother Jones illustration; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma In 2015, Clay Higgins started his climb to Congress with a series of videos promising to...

25.10.2024 4

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Israel Killed Another Hamas Leader. What Happens Now?

Yahya Sinwar became chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau after his predecessor, Ismail Haniyeh, was killed. Sinwar was killed by IDF soldiers...

17.10.2024 2

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The Curious Case of Tim Sheehy’s Gunshot Wound

Mother Jones illustration; Chip Somodevilla/Getty There appears to be a bullet lodged in Tim Sheehy’s right forearm. That is not in dispute. But...

27.09.2024 3

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Rep. Clay Higgins’ Extremely Racist Tweet Is Only the Tip of the Iceberg

Rep. Clay Higgins in Washington, DC, in 2022. (Tom Williams/Getty) On Wednesday afternoon, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) posted a mocking, racist tweet...

26.09.2024 80

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As Biden Speaks at UN of Peace, Netanyahu Promises to Keep Bombing Lebanon

President Joe Biden waves after his speech at the United Nations on Tuesday. Michael Kappeler/AP When President Joe Biden first joined the Senate...

24.09.2024 4

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This Week Has Been Particularly Disastrous for Biden’s Mideast Policy

President Joe Biden meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in July. (Susan Walsh/AP) This February, President Joe Biden...

21.09.2024 7

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Uncommitted Won’t Endorse Harris but Urges Voters to “Block Donald Trump”

Vice President Kamala Harris at the Democratic National Convention. Bill Clark/Associated Press The Uncommitted movement announced on Thursday that...

19.09.2024 3

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JD Vance Thinks He Can Sell His Nationalism With Cat Memes

Mother Jones; Chip Somodevilla/Getty At the center of the two biggest controversies of JD Vance’s short political career have been cats. The first...

18.09.2024 2

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JD Vance Just Decried Political Violence. But He Endorsed a Book Celebrating It.

Mike Stewart/AP On Monday,  JD Vance wrote a more than 1,200 word post on X in response to a second apparent assassination attempt targeting...

18.09.2024 10

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How JD Vance Unleashed the Racist Backlash Against Haitian Immigrants in Springfield, Ohio

Justin Sullivan/Getty On Monday morning, a friend texted Vilès Dorsainvil to ask if he’d seen the claims circulating on social media. Dorsainvil,...

14.09.2024 20

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Trump Spent the Debate Spreading the Fever Dreams of Extremely Online Racists

AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais A young racist man who spends too much time online should have heard a lot to like from Donald Trump during Tuesday’s...

11.09.2024 40

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Here Is the Speech That the Uncommitted Movement Wants to Give at the DNC

Mother Jones illustration; Photos courtesy of Noah Lanard and Nate Gowdy Delegates with the Uncommitted movement at the Democratic National...

22.08.2024 2

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The Doctors Who Want to Tell the DNC About the Hell They Saw in Gaza

Tanya Haj-Hassan examines wounded children at a hospital in central Gaza in March. Abdel Kareem Hana/AP On Tuesday morning, as the party coalesced...

21.08.2024 3

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