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I got to do some of my best work as a fellow . Truly the greatest fact-checking training and reporting experience there is. Can't recommend this program enough!
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Mother Jones is hiring Editorial Fellows We’re looking for smart and curious people to fact-check, research, write, and learn a whole lot. motherjones.com/careers/fellowShow this thread
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“In a sign of how fraught the political landscape has become, one publisher created multiple versions of its social studies material, softening or eliminating references to race—even in the story of Rosa Parks—as it sought to gain approval in Florida.”
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“They want to do as much damage to the trans community as they can.”
“It was like Deutsch assembled a team of Navy SEALs—we were all trained killers in a specialty.”
The leaked emails inside the war on trans kids:
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Steve Bannon, an exiled mogul, and the Ukraine rescue effort that (mostly) wasn't.
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"Frankly, it’s nothing more than bullying. It’s bullying he did to Disney. It’s bullying he’s doing to New College. It’s bullying he did to students wearing masks in his presence. It’s bullying he did to our LGBTQ+ students. And now he’s doing it to me."
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This whole thread is extremely fun to look at. That said: VOTE FOR US!
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ASME Awards 2023: nominated in General Excellence, Literature, Science and Politics category. Congratulations and team! #ASMEawards
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ASME Awards 2023: nominated in Video category for “Failure to Protect,” reported by , produced by youtube.com/watch?v=8DEPpY #ASMEawards
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Meet the religious crusaders—the rabbis, clergy members, and devout Americans—working to save abortion rights around the country, with faith at the very core of their fight. reports:
New: Santos' 2022 campaign reported receiving more than $45,000 from relatives in Queens.
One of those relatives, who was recorded as giving $5,800, told me at their apartment yesterday that they did not make any donation to Santos. w/
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New: We've identified more than a dozen top donors to Santos' 2020 campaign who do not seem to exist.
I also spoke to a friend of Santos' who says he did not give the $2,800 donation attributed to him.
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I spent the last year reporting and writing about Nick Fuentes’ alienated army of zoomers, influencer fascism, and why it’s a mistake to assume younger generations are pre-destined to be progressive
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The story of who funded the effort to legally bring mifepristone to women in the US, and what benefits those funders could soon reap, has been mostly kept quiet—until now. reports on the secret money men behind the abortion pill.
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I had a great conversation with from about Brazil's insurrection on Jan 8. Here's the full interview:
Two years ago this Brazilian expert on the far right predicted their insurrection
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Expanding opportunities for parole, while a step in the right direction, in no way should replace asylum.
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🚨 EXCLUSIVO. Chamadas para invasão do Planalto, Congresso e STF correram livremente em redes sociais, como o Twitter, dias antes da ação através do código "Festa da Selma".
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Happy New Year! is commissioning online features and magazine stories: culture essays, back-of-the-book columns, front-of-the-book dispatches, and features/profiles.
For print, rates start at $1.75/word. Online rates start at $0.75/word.
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We cannot talk about the heroes of 2022 without mentioning the girls and women of #Iran, who for months have been bravely at the forefront of protests calling for an end to gender oppression✊🇮🇷.
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#MahsaAmini #IranProtests
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"I'm Glad My Mom Died" by
"A Heart That Works" by
"Strangers to Ourselves" by
"I Dream of Dinner" by
These are the best nonfiction, novels, and cookbooks that got us through 2022
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"I want to apologize for the emotion because anyone who went through want I went through over these last few years and being here now is proof that God exists.”
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Are the conservative justices on the Supreme Court ready to embrace blatant fraud?
reports on the fake document at the center of the high-stakes case that could have profound effects on American democracy.
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How the next generation of Arizonans helped move the needle in a state known for its war against immigrants, by via .
latindispatch.com/2022/12/02/how
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A principal of a high school in Ohio—where some parents demanded banning Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye—said he has stopped meeting with parents alone in his office because he assumes he is “going to be accused of something I didn’t do at some point.”
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A good overview by of the shift in Arizona politics that led to voters approving in-state tuition regardless of immigration status. Hopefully more journalistic & academic pieces to come about what's happening in Arizona
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in which i put on my best on-screen millennial and dig into the youtube archives to bring you 13-yr-old sam on camera. all to try and convince you to support our work at
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"A lack of foresight plagued our war in Afghanistan from its start. Now it’s plaguing the war’s aftermath," writes:
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“Even though DACA has been huge for so many of us including myself,” with the National Immigration Law Center told me. “We’re at the point where we can no longer wait. We’re on a ticking clock."
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“The writing on the wall is clear: DACA is coming to an end.”
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It was not just that democracy was “on the ballot”; what Democrats understood, and what Republicans to a significant degree did not, was that it was also about the things you stood to lose if it weren’t.
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BREAKING: Katie Hobbs defeats Kari Lake in Arizona
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Conservatives running on culture wars claimed positions as state board of education members and superintendents. In some cases, voters had to choose between longtime educators and public school advocates and academic freedom and school choice proponents:
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You don’t even have to like soccer to learn from it—because in a lot of ways, the story of the sport’s last two decades hasn’t been about soccer at all.
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Mohammed bin Salman is a murderer. Qatar is an autocratic regime that criminalizes homosexuality.
But with their billions in oil wealth, they’re remaking the world’s most popular sport. Welcome to soccer’s gilded age.
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An anti-abortion Republican just lost his bid for Kentucky's supreme court
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So how crazy has the GOP really gone?
reports on a recent conference where Republican candidates running for secretary of state—the guardians of election integrity—hobnobbed openly with extreme conspiracy theorists.
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