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Jimmy Kimmel Hits Back at “Bully” Trump
Mother Jones Sep 24, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel Hits Back at “Bully” Trump

Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night on Tuesday to a powerful standing ovation before using his opening monologue to directly condemn President Trump’s aggressive efforts to bring his critics and the larger media to heel. “We have to speak out against this bully,” Kimmel said. “He’s not stopping, and it’s not just comedy. He’s gunning for […]

US Marshals’ Efforts Around Trump’s January 6 Pardons Were “Highly Unusual”
Mother Jones Sep 24, 2025

US Marshals’ Efforts Around Trump’s January 6 Pardons Were “Highly Unusual”

As the US Marshals Service prepared for Donald Trump’s expected pardon of January 6 defendants, officials went to unusual lengths to facilitate the defendants’ travel home from the DC jail, newly obtained records show. The records, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request by the ethics watchdog CREW, are yet another window into the […]

Alabama’s Poet Laureate Reckons with Personal and Political Grief
Mother Jones Sep 24, 2025

Alabama’s Poet Laureate Reckons with Personal and Political Grief

In 2023, while on a group hike through the Sipsey River, Ashley M. Jones, Alabama’s youngest and first Black poet laureate, sat in a clearing and wrote the titular poem of her new book, Lullaby for the Grieving. Just before she was named poet laureate in 2021, Jones’ father, Donald Lewis Jones, died without warning. […]