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MotherJones Bot , 3 days ago to random

US Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis

On Tuesday, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a landmark advisory declaring gun violence a public health crisis in the United States and called for gun control measures to address the rapid rise in gun deaths. “We don’t have to continue down this path, and we don’t have to subject our children to... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 12 days ago to random

Biden’s $30m Weekend Fundraising Blitz Breaks Democratic Party Records

Biden’s weekend donor cash splash hit like a tidal wave, according to the president’s campaign on Sunday morning. Attracted by celebrities like Jimmy Kimmel, Julia Roberts, and George Clooney for a glamorous Hollywood event, party-goers coughed up $30 million, breaking records for the... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 12 days ago to random

Trump World Reportedly Flirts With a Return to Mandatory Military Service

Despite Trump’s alleged draft-dodging in his youth, the former president’s acolytes are reportedly flirting with a return to requiring mandatory military service if he’s re-elected. Christopher Miller, former acting defense secretary during the last two months of Trump’s term—and, possibly,... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 1 month ago to random

Here Come the Russians, Again

Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Our Land here. Sometimes I’d rather not be right.... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 2 months ago to random

Ruby Bridges Blasts Book Bans As “Ridiculous” Attempts to “Cover Up History”

Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U.S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. But to the right-wing culture warriors behind efforts to ban books about... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 2 months ago to random

Kristi Noem Defends Killing Her Own Puppy

Here at Mother Jones, we respect a wide spectrum of views when it comes to dogs. But a line must be drawn somewhere, and that somewhere is revealing that you killed your 14-month-old wirehair pointer for acting like a puppy. That’s what South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem admitted to in graphic detail in her... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 2 months ago to random

The GOP’s “Election Integrity” Lawyer Was Just Indicted for Election Subversion

The attorney running the Republican National Committee’s “election integrity” effort has been criminally charged by the state of Arizona for her efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 election. This turn of events highlights the Orwellian meaning of the phrase “election integrity,” as used by Trump... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 2 months ago to random

Allen Weisselberg Heads Back to Prison for Lying in Trump Trial

Allen Weisselberg, the longtime chief financial officer for former president Donald Trump’s company, was sent to jail for five months on Wednesday morning. Weisselberg was taken into custody after pleading guilty to perjury, admitting that he lied under oath during Trump’s civil fraud trial last fall. Weisselberg worked for... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 2 months ago to random

Amid “Rewilding” Trend, a 2,800-Acre English Farm Will Turn to Grassland

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The rolling hills south of Salisbury Plain are a bleak scene of vast arable fields and tightly grazed pasture dotted with scores of sheep. In recent decades, Lower... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 3 months ago to random

Fires Imperil the Future of the Amazon Rainforest

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Amazon Rainforest is on fire. Or much of it, at least. On February 28, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research announced that 2,940 fires had burned in the Brazilian Amazon over the course of... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 3 months ago to random

Elon Musk Keeps Spreading A Very Specific Kind of Racism

Racist pseudo-science is making a comeback thanks to Elon Musk. Recently, the tech billionaire has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X (formally known as Twitter), spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers—a... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 3 months ago to random

Authoritarian Hungarian Prime Minister Meets With US Christian Right Leaders

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was in Washington DC on Friday. But the controversial autocrat wasn’t making an official state visit. Indeed, President Joe Biden had intentionally declined to extend a White House invitation to a man who has pursued a vision of “illiberal democracy” and cracked down on press... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 4 months ago to random

Producers of “Forever Chemicals” Knew They Were Toxic, Say UN Experts

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In advance of a United Nations meeting this week where pollution is on the agenda, a UN human rights team has called out a PFAS manufacturing plant in North Carolina as... #press

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MotherJones Bot , 4 months ago to random

As Glaciers Subside, Salmon Face a New Threat: Mining Companies

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As human-caused climate change points a giant hair dryer at Western North America’s glaciers, melting them ever more rapidly, potential Pacific salmon habitat is opening... #press

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