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Elon Musk Says Goodbye With a Black Eye
Evan Vucci/AP Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. During an official Oval Office event marking the end of his time working at the federal government, Elon Musk on Friday emerged with apparent facial swelling and bruising around his right eye.…
Read MoreThe Trump Trick: Pardon Black Celebs, Make It Easier to Imprison Black People
Alice Marie Johnson, who had her sentence commuted by U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at the 2019 White House Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act celebration. Hosted in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., On Monday, April 1, 2019. (Photo by Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Get your news from…
Read More“BS”: Former HHS Secretary Blasts White House Defense of False Citations in MAHA Report
Former HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra spoke out against the Trump administration on Friday, calling their defense of fake citations in a MAHA report “BS.” Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The former Secretary of the Department…
Read MoreGOP Senator’s Defense of Medicaid Cuts: “Well, We All Are Going to Die”
The GOP’s reconciliation bill includes cuts to anti-poverty programs that help save tens of thousands of lives yearly.
Read More“Well, We’re All Going to Die,” Says GOP Senator in Defense of Medicaid Cuts
AP/Susan Walsh Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The largest Medicaid cuts in US history, which, if signed into law, would sever healthcare for the poorest Americans in order to offset massive tax cuts for the wealthy, have a curious…
Read MoreTrump’s Proposal for Office of Remigration Evokes Ethnic Cleansing, Critics Say
Eight months after U.S. President Donald Trump publicly called for a policy of “remigration” — a term that’s become a rallying cry among far-right groups in Europe and sparked comparisons to ethnic cleansing — the U.S. State Department said Thursday that it plans to create an office devoted to the project, with refugee aid resources…
Read MoreThe Worrying Backstory of Trump’s Proposed “Office of Remigration”
Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, stands for the pledge of allegiance during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs Committee.Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA/AP Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration…
Read MoreRFK Jr.’s Answer to US Health Crisis Is Citations Made Up by AI
The White House’s keystone health report outlining its agenda for Americans’ health is riddled with artificial intelligence “hallucinations,” with fabricated citations and broken links reflective of the administration’s embrace of non-scientific approaches to public health. An analysis by The Washington Post uncovered numerous citations in the “Make America Healthy Again” report with the letters “oaicite”…
Read MoreMcCarthy Attacked Individual Professors. Trump Is Going After Entire Campuses.
We speak with esteemed historian scholar Ellen Schrecker about the Trump administration’s assault on universities and the crackdown on dissent, a climate of fear and censorship she describes as “worse than McCarthyism.” “During the McCarthy period, it was attacking only individual professors and only about their sort of extracurricular political activities on the left. ……
Read MoreGOP State Lawmakers Are Attempting to Undermine Ballot Measures Passed by Voters
Across the country, Republican lawmakers have been working to undermine or altogether undo the will of the voters by making it harder to pass amendments and laws through citizen-led initiatives. In Missouri, the 2025 legislative session was dominated by Republican lawmakers trying to reverse two major measures that voters had put on the ballot and…
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