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The Justice Department Is Basically Trump’s Personal Law Firm Now
Mother Jones • Sep 21, 2025

The Justice Department Is Basically Trump’s Personal Law Firm Now

Should historians now and in the future need to identify a moment illustrating President Donald Trump’s unabashed attempts to politicize the Justice Department, they could easily look to the events of the past few days. Let’s start with Trump publicly calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to use the powers of the department to go […]

These Texas Scientists Are Doing Their Best to Thwart Scary Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Mother Jones • Sep 21, 2025

These Texas Scientists Are Doing Their Best to Thwart Scary Mosquito-Borne Diseases

This story was originally published by Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under a microscope, a mosquito can look stunning. Their blue-green iridescent scales, purple bands, and attractive spotted wings shimmer—dazzling enough to forget, for a moment, the insect lives to take a sip of your blood. Mosquitoes range in size, […]

Colin Kaepernick Pays for Autopsy of Black Student Found Hanging From Tree
Mother Jones • Sep 20, 2025

Colin Kaepernick Pays for Autopsy of Black Student Found Hanging From Tree

NFL star and noted activist Colin Kaepernick is paying for an independent second autopsy for a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree. Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University whose body was found on campus a week ago. The state’s medical examiner ruled it a suicide, but […]

JD Vance Jokes About Killing Civilians as Kimmel Gets Yanked Off Air
Mother Jones • Sep 20, 2025

JD Vance Jokes About Killing Civilians as Kimmel Gets Yanked Off Air

The Republican party apparently thinks that making fun of people’s deaths is absolutely abhorrent, unless the people dying are your perceived political enemies. Over the past two weeks, the Trump administration has deployed two lethal, and highly contested military strikes on boats in international waters, claiming that the passengers were members of Tren de Aragua […]

Kids Under Fire in Gaza
Mother Jones • Sep 20, 2025

Kids Under Fire in Gaza

When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shocking conclusion: In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had […]

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