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After Maui’s Fires, Native Hawaiian Families Face a New Threat: Foreclosure

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a Native Hawaiian teenager growing up in West Maui, Mikey Burke couldn’t wait to leave. “All my life, I thought I was bigger than this town, bigger than the village, and I was going to go somewhere and make something of […]

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As Feds Flaunt Trump’s Takeover, DC Pushes Back

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In a small park in northwest Washington on Friday, a group of what appeared to be eight federal agents posed for a picture in front of an anti-ICE banner. Then they tore down the sign and departed with it. In its place they appeared to have left a dildo. We can’t be sure how much […]

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The Trump-Putin Summit Was a Win for Russia

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During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would end the Russia-Ukraine war in the first 24 hours of his presidency. Eight months in, he has left a summit with President Vladimir Putin without a deal. Trump went into Friday’s meeting in Anchorage with the goal of securing a ceasefire, telling reporters on Air […]

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Puerto Rico’s Transition Care Ban Is Driving Trans Kids Into Exile

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“People are scared out of their minds,” Dr. Miguel Vázquez Rivera tells me. The psychologist and executive director of the True Self Foundation, an LGBTQ advocacy nonprofit in Puerto Rico, says that he has seen a rise in clinical “anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation” in transgender people across the island after Puerto Rico’s total ban […]

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Anti-Vaxxers Are Making Excuses for the CDC Shooter

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When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on Scripps News this week to address the tragic CDC shooting, he began by condemning the violence that had occurred four days earlier, when shooter Patrick Joseph White fired over 180 rounds into CDC buildings in Atlanta, Georgia. White broke approximately 150 windows and […]

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The Democratic Socialists of America Want to Win

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Last month, energized by growing membership and recent electoral victories—including Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral primary win—the Democratic Socialists of America convened in Chicago. The disagreements were the usual for the group: the needs of electoralism pitted against the goals of radicalism. But, overall, the goal was the same. DSA wants to win. Building […]

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The Official Voice of the US Government Is Cruel, Gross, and Weird. What Is That Doing to Us? 

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In March, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a woman they accused of drug trafficking and entering the country illegally. Standing in a parking lot, they photographed her, weeping, eyes half-closed in anguish, her arms cuffed behind her back. And then—in a cruel innovation specific to the Trump administration—the White House’s official Twitter account […]

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Tribal Nations Scramble to Save Clean Energy Projects

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cody Two Bear, who is Standing Rock Sioux, served on his tribal council during the Dakota Access pipeline protests in 2017. Growing up in a community powered by coal, the experience was transformative. “I’ve seen the energy extraction that has placed […]

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EXCLUSIVE: These Three Texas Democrats Are “Standing Strong” Amid GOP Redistricting Push

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We’re well into the second week of the Texas redistricting showdown. Far from home, these Texas Democrats are resolute. In an undisclosed location, I sat down with them to talk about their decision to leave their home state to stand up for democracy. WATCH: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mother Jones […]

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Tulsi Gabbard Once Blasted Trump for Being a Warmonger and Protecting Al Qaeda

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These days, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is a faithful servant for President Donald Trump, going so far as to cook up a phony intelligence report so Trump’s Justice Department can pursue investigations of his perceived enemies. But not so long ago, Gabbard slammed Trump for being a warmonger supporting a “genocidal war” […]

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Trump Plans Raids on DC’s Homeless Tonight, Sources Say

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The Trump administration is planning citywide sweeps of dozens of homeless encampments in DC starting tonight, according to city workers and advocacy groups briefed on the plan. In anticipation of the raids, organizations that assist the homeless are hurriedly working to get homeless individuals out of tent encampments before they can be detained or arrested. […]

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Ken Paxton Is Beating John Cornyn…In a Race to the Bottom

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Ken Paxton’s path to becoming one of the conservative movement’s most powerful lawyers is littered with the sort of obstacles that might have brought a more reputable politician down. The third-term Texas attorney general is a law enforcement official whose own staff reported him to law enforcement; a former state representative who was later impeached […]

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