In New York, rallygoers met the trans athlete culture wars with celebration
Mother Jonesby Alex Nguyen·1d ago
As women’s sports continue to be used as a battleground over trans rights, hundreds of people attended a rally before a New York Liberty game Saturday to support transgender people in sports and...
The threat of human extinction will get Congress to act on AI safety…right?
Mother Jonesby Satchel Walton·1d ago
As many AI researchers have been increasingly fraught with existential terror about their own creations this summer, their alarm is spreading among policymakers and the media.
Trump administration's new priorities put profits ahead of marine conservation
Mother Jonesby Johnny Sturgeon·1d ago
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
This Palantir Billionaire’s Passion Project is Criminalizing Homelessness
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz·1d ago
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of the weapons-tech company Palantir, is also a major force behind the Trump administration’s policy of pushing unhoused people toward incarceration.
Federal judge strikes down Trump’s 75-Country visa ban
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz·2d ago
This January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed consular officers to refuse to process immigration visas for people from 75 countries because, he said, those immigrants would be more likely...
A Natalie Harp conspiracy theory (not really)
Mother Jonesby David Corn·2d ago
A version of 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...
In the wake of a toxic disaster, Roseland parents still struggle to keep their children safe
Mother Jonesby Adam Mahoney·2d ago
This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Ed Martin's exit suggests DOJ is getting better at political prosecutions
Mother Jonesby Dan Friedman·2d ago
Ed Martin, a trench-coat donning former “Stop the Steal” advocate whose work at various senior Justice Department jobs was charactered by brash, bumbling efforts to use the department to punish...
Flock execs are taking credit for catching bad cops now
Mother Jonesby Sophie Hurwitz·2d ago
Flock Safety is having a hard month. The surveillance technology company, which has sold more than 120,000 automated license plate reader cameras to some 6,000 police departments across the US, is...
Florida's GOP has a very short playbook: Call everyone a socialist
Mother Jonesby Laura C. Morel·2d ago
In a bright red power suit, Ashley Moody, the former Florida attorney general who nabbed the state’s GOP Senate nomination in Tuesday’s primary, strolled onto the stage of Florida Republicans’...
Why cancer, not affordability, may be the biggest issue in Iowa’s midterms
Mother Jonesby Chris Stein·3d ago
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
To Miami's chagrin, warming seas are driving a bumper crop of sargassum
Mother Jonesby Sara Sneath·3d ago
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpus’s job during the summer.
Can digital detoxes heal us from our screen-driven lives?
Mother Jonesby Paula Mejía·3d ago
I’m not sure when my smartphone began to feel like an albatross, when my unease about relying on it devolved into full-blown anxiety that I was frittering away my life on this tiny screen.
Native American leaders denounce record glyphosate spraying on national forests
Mother Jonesby Nate Halverson·3d ago
As Stephen Young stepped into the woods about an hour’s drive from Lassen Peak volcano in northeast California, the forest began communicating to him in an unspoken language learned from his years...
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