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- There’s a Standoff Between Far-Right and Far-Left Groups in Portland. Trump Just Picked Sides.
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 03:49 PMThe city of Portland, Oregon, has been bracing itself for showdown on Saturday between the Proud Boys, a all-male far-right group, and self-described anti-fascists, known collectively as Antifa. The face-off is expected at the “End Domestic Terrorism” rally, a far-right gathering with a stated purpose of getting Antifa declared as a domestic terrorist organization.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Daily News Just Hit Trump With A Headline For The Ages
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 01:46 PMThe Saturday edition of New York‘s Daily News elbowed President Donald Trump in the wake of backlash against reports that the president had inquired about the possibility of the United States purchasing Greenland.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Beto O’Rourke Is About to Run the Campaign Pollsters Warned Against
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 11:42 AMThree days after Beto O’Rourke launched his presidential campaign in March, he promised to stop swearing. Using the f-word is part of the former congressman’s nature. When he conceded his shockingly close Senate race against Ted Cruz last November, he famously dropped an f-bomb.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Farmers at the Iowa State Fair Say They’re Backing Trump’s Trade War
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 04:29 PMBeneath a blazing mid-August sun at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines last week, liberal voters crowded around the Des Moines Register’s political soapbox to hear the Democratic presidential candidates speak.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- House Judiciary Committee Subpoenas Corey Lewandowski and Rick Dearborn
Thursday - 08/15/2019 - 01:55 PMCorey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager who on Thursday got an apparent endorsement from Trump for a possible Senate bid in New Hampshire, recently received something else: a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How QAnon Will Outlive 8Chan
Thursday - 08/15/2019 - 06:00 AMThe infamous imageboard 8chan went off the internet last week after a white-supremacist shooter killed 22 people in El Paso, and a manifesto he’d written was posted on the site.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Kamala Harris’ New Gun Control Proposal Takes on Domestic Terrorists and White Nationalists
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 03:41 PMIn the wake of the latest deadly mass shootings—in Texas, Ohio, and California—2020 Democratic presidential candidates are ramping up their plans to curb the country’s gun violence problem. And now, Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has gone a step further with a detailed plan that connects gun violence to combatting domestic terrorism and “violent hate.“
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Simone Biles’ Gravity-Defying Moves Almost Didn’t Happen
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She had taken time off. She finished fourth on Dancing With the Stars.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Digital Media Fellowship (New York City)
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 04:44 PMMother Jones is looking for a whip-smart fellow to join our digital publishing team in New York City. This fellowship is audio-intensive. We’ll immerse you in the process of turning our award-winning investigative journalism into richly textured, entertaining, and informative podcasts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos Are Scheduled to Speak at a Conference Organized by a QAnon Supporter
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 07:18 PMMichael Flynn and George Papadopoulos, two former Trump foreign policy aides who both agreed in late 2017 to cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, appear to have found some new allies: QAnon conspiracy theorists.
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- 31 People Died in One Weekend. Democrats Are Finally Going Bold on Guns.
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 12:08 PMIn the aftermath of back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had a simple message for her caucus: Keep the pressure on Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to hold a vote on H.R.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Federal Lands Are Becoming Tribal Lands Again
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 06:00 AMThis story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump Fat-Shamed a Supporter. It Went Just How You Would Imagine.
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 12:30 PMPresident Donald Trump ridiculed a man’s weight at a Thursday night rally in Manchester, New Hampshire.
“That guy’s got a serious weight problem. Go home. Start exercising,” Trump said as protestors were being led out of the venue, according to the Associated Press.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hundreds of New Child Sex Abuse Cases Are Flooding New York’s Courts
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 06:00 AMWhen 52-year-old Michael Whalen stood up in front of the St. Louis Roman Catholic Church in downtown Buffalo, New York, in February 2018, to tell his story of being sexually abused by a priest as a teenager, it set off a Spotlight-style chain reaction.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Israel Blocks Visit by Omar, Tlaib After Trump Smears Them in a Tweet
Thursday - 08/15/2019 - 11:14 AMPresident Donald Trump on Thursday called on the Israeli government to bar Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) from entering the country during a planned visit to the West Bank this weekend, claiming in an incendiary tweet that they “hate Israel” and “all Jews.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Political Campaigns Are Pitching Donor-Match Programs That Might Not Exist
Thursday - 08/15/2019 - 06:00 AMAs the Democratic presidential candidates wound down their second debate in Detroit last month, Donald Trump’s fundraising committee blasted out an email decrying the “socialist circus” with a tempting offer to supporters of the president.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Steve King: Without Rape and Incest, “Would There Be Any Population in the World Left?”
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 02:09 PMThe twisted logic of the most extreme elements of the anti-abortion movement just got even more absurd. Laws restricting abortion access should not have exceptions for rape and incest, says Rep.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- “Very Badly Managed”: Inside Chicago Elections Officials’ Battle with Facebook
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 06:00 AMOn October 20, 2018, just 16 days before that year’s midterm elections, Jim Allen, the spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners, tried to boost a Facebook post on the board’s page announcing the opening of early-voting locations in the country’s sixth-largest elections jurisdiction.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - DC Mayor Rejects Plan for Migrant Children Facility in the Capital
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 05:44 PMScrambling for additional space to house migrant children, the Trump administration awarded a contract to a company that planned to open a facility in the administration’s own backyard of Washington, DC.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Top Trump Official Edits Statue of Liberty Poem to Justify Rule Punishing Poor Immigrants
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 11:44 AMOn Monday, the Trump administration announced that it was moving forward with a new policy blocking immigrants who are deemed likely to use government assistance programs, such as food stamps and Medicaid, from obtaining a green card.
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- Michael Flynn Just Pulled Out of a QAnon-Connected Fundraiser
Saturday - 08/17/2019 - 04:56 PMMichael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, pulled out of a fundraiser for his legal defense fund that was organized by a supporter of the bizarre conspiracy theory known as QAnon, after Mother Jones reported on the event’s connection to the fringe group.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It’s Been Three Weeks, and I Still Can’t Stop Listening to Carly Rae Jepsen’s Latest Single
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 07:17 PMIt’s no secret we here at Mother Jones have a soft spot for Carly Rae Jepsen.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Michael Flynn Wants a Judge to Allow Him to Travel to a Conference Held by a QAnon Fan
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 12:06 PMMichael Flynn wants a judge to allow him to travel to Atlanta to raise money at an event organized by a QAnon supporter.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - I’ve Heard Anti-Latino Racism for Years. But the El Paso Massacre Weaponized It.
Friday - 08/16/2019 - 06:00 AMLast week, while sweating through my clothes reporting in El Paso in the wake of the deadliest attack on Mexicans and Mexican Americans in recent US history, I got on my phone and noticed a disturbing but familiar conversation happening on Twitter.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Trump Administration Is Trying to Make It Easier to Fire Unmarried Pregnant Women
Thursday - 08/15/2019 - 06:22 PMThe Department of Labor proposed a new rule this week that would make it easier for employers to discriminate against workers who they say violate their religious beliefs, including members of the LGBTQ community, pregnant women who are not married, and others.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Pentagon’s Fighter Jet of the Future Is Causing a Whole Lot of Problems in the Present
Thursday - 08/15/2019 - 06:00 AMThe F-35 fighter jet program has long been, as they say in the military, FUBAR. With a price tag that was slated to be $233 billion, the program’s costs have doubled over the past two decades, even as hundreds of jets remain unfit for combat and remain stuck in testing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Cuccinelli’s Family Tree Suggests His New Immigration Rule Might Have Blocked His Ancestors
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 04:39 PMOn Monday, while rolling out a sweeping rule designed to make it harder for working-class immigrants to get legal residency, US Citizenship and Immigration Services Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli turned to his family’s history.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Is Sen. Richard Burr Investigating Trump’s Russia Ties—or Helping to Cover Them Up?
Wednesday - 08/14/2019 - 08:55 AMRichard Burr was contrite. It was late February 2017, and the Washington Post had just exposed the North Carolina Republican and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee for running damage control for the Trump administration over its mounting Russia scandal.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- What the Border’s History of Racist Violence Tells Us About the El Paso Shooting
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 05:44 PMAfter his arrest, the El Paso shooter admitted to targeting Mexicans. Days later, federal agents rounded up and detained hundreds of Latino workers in Mississippi.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Introducing a New Comment System for Mother Jones
Tuesday - 08/13/2019 - 12:15 PMMother Jones has launched a new comment system for our website. As of noon ET today, all new articles will use commenting software named Coral, from Vox Media. With its roots in Mozilla and the open-source community, Coral is designed to be a more ethical, discussion-centered commenting platform, built around best practices of privacy and community design.
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