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The Definition of Heroism and Bearing Witness: An Extraordinary CNN Interview.

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Last night, CNN’s Anderson Cooper broadcast an exclusive interview with the woman who was first seen in early videos posted of federal agents killing Alex Pretti last Saturday. Stella Carlson was standing close to the deadly skirmish, and ended up as the citizen with the best vantage point to record the shooting—holding her camera phone […]

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Those Brutal “Melania” Documentary Reviews Have Vanished from Letterboxd

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Yesterday I published a story about what was quickly becoming a surprising site of capital R Resistance: the Letterboxd review page for the $75 million documentary film, Melania. Comments were profane, fun, silly, unprintable. I included some of my favorites. The point I was making was this: Even before the movie’s release this Friday, it […]

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Letterboxd Users Are Pre-Swarming the “Melania” Doc with Amazingly Mean Reviews

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Jeff Bezos’s $40 million bribe of the Trumps, in the form of his Amazon-MGM-produced Melania documentary, is out in about 2,000 theaters across the country this Friday (5,000 worldwide, according to MarketWatch), backed by an inescapable $35 million advertising assault on the country’s airwaves and commuter transit. The Wall Street Journal reported that Melania will […]

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The Canadian PM’s Davos Speech Is Unmissable in a Time of “Rupture”

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President Donald Trump famously doesn’t like to read. And if his increasingly frequent public naps are any indication, his attention span is only getting shorter. But he did claim to watch what one historian praised as a “riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest” speech by Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada yesterday in Davos, Switzerland. And […]

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A Wave of New Polls Shows Trump’s Support Cratering Across the Board

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As President Donald Trump wraps up the first year of his second term—one marked by US aggression abroad and rising political violence at home—a wave of new polls released this week shows him and his policies at remarkably high, and in some cases record, levels of unpopularity. Across nearly every major measure, Trump is generating […]

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Scenes of Escalating Violence, Chaos, and Resistance in Minneapolis

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Minneapolis remains on edge after the ICE killing of Renée Good last Wednesday. As ICE and Border Patrol operations intensify—Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that “hundreds more” agents are being sent to the city—residents continue to spill into the streets, filming, heckling, and tracking federal vehicles, block by block. Following this drama closely […]

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Protesters Decrying the Killing of Renée Good Know What They Saw with Their Own Eyes

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In the immediate aftermath of the ICE killing of Renée Good in Minneapolis last week, the Trump administration smeared her as a “domestic terrorist,” claiming that she had weaponized her vehicle. They labeled Good a “violent rioter” and insisted every new video angle proved their version of the truth: Good was a menace and the […]

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We’re on the Ground in Minneapolis as Tensions Flare After ICE Shooting

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Amanda Moore is a journalist who has been covering the rise of ICE across the US for months, writing news articles and posting clips of confrontations to her social media feeds and, in the process, becoming one of the most prominent chroniclers of Trump’s immigration crackdown from the front lines. Amanda will be filing stories […]

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Two Countries. Two Tragedies. One Huge Difference.

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I’m in Sydney visiting family for Christmas. I’m writing this a short drive from where two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sunday, killing 15 people—one of the worst days of violence in modern Australian history. I’ve lived in the US for nearly 15 years and have covered plenty of its disasters up […]

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“Unfathomable.” Hanukkah Massacre Shatters Australia’s Long-Held Pride on Guns and Safety.

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Phillip Abram is a lifelong resident of the Sydney, Australia, enclave Bondi Beach and a member of its world-famous surf club. The 59-year-old food sector worker starts every day, like many Sydney-siders, by plunging joyfully into the Pacific Ocean. “There are hundreds of Jewish people down there every morning that I know—middle-aged, elderly, young, community […]

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The Uncanny Gmail Clone That Drops You Straight Into Epstein’s Inbox

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Earlier this month, the House Oversight Committee released a flotilla of Epstein emails—more than 20,000 in total. The revelations created a tidal wave of news. In perhaps the most famous email, Jeffrey Epstein claimed Trump “knew about the girls.” Epstein also called Trump “the dog that hasn’t barked” and alleged that Trump had once spent […]

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Frogs, Axolotls, and a Hippo Take Manhattan to Deflate Trump’s “Antifa” Slur

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A joyous, mocking menagerie of frogs, axolotls, and at least one giant pink hippo made its way down Seventh Avenue in Manhattan on Saturday, alongside thousands of others, in a defiant protest that formed part of the nationwide “No Kings” rallies. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mother Jones (@motherjonesmag) With limited […]

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