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Slouching Into Fascism

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This column originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy, has tipped over the edge into authoritarianism and fascism. In the end, faster than I imagined possible, it did happen here. The precise moment when and where in […]

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Right-Wingers Hope Taylor Swift Will Inspire a New Generation of Trad Wives

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You could say that Taylor Swift and NFL player Travis Kelce’s engagement, announced Tuesday in an Instagram post that has 17 million likes and counting, broke the internet. And right-wingers immediately started talking rings and talking cradles. News outlets sent push alerts. Celebrities and politicians sent their congratulations. “Taylor Swift engaged” was the number one […]

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Texas Flood Relief Took a Back Seat to Trump’s Redistricting Demands: “It’s a travesty.”

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In early July, flash floods along the Guadalupe River killed 138 people and caused an estimated $1.1 billion in damage, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in Texas history. But just a week later, Texas found itself whiplashed into another crisis altogether: […]

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How Trump’s FEMA Cuts Put You at Risk, According to Staffers

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In an urgent letter to Congress on Monday, more than 180 current and former workers at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) wrote to “sound the alarm” about the Trump administration’s handling of the agency and cuts to FEMA’s funding. The moves, they argue, have obstructed officials’ ability to respond to and protect the public […]

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Bridgegate, the Notorious Political Revenge Plot, Is the Latest Stop on Trump’s Revenge Tour

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More than a decade after “some traffic problems in Fort Lee” spun into a political mess for then-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, President Donald Trump is resurrecting the 2013 scandal known as Bridgegate in an apparent effort to target Christie just hours after he told ABC News that the president is unconcerned with the separation […]

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RFK Jr. Is Getting Personal Authority Over Who to Kick Off Medicaid

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Freddie Elmore hasn’t worked for around 20 years. Now, he’s trying to figure out how, and if, he can return to the workforce—not because he thinks he can do so while managing his health, but because he is concerned that he will lose Medicaid. To retain Medicaid coverage, Elmore, who lives with disorders including central […]

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Trump Stays Silent on Gaza’s Famine

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Two days after experts officially declared that a famine is unfolding in Gaza, President Donald Trump has yet to acknowledge the devastating new findings about the consequences of the US-backed war. On Friday, an analysis released by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)—a coalition of 21 organizations, including Save the Children, UNICEF, the World […]

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Trump Threatens to Invade More American Cities

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President Donald Trump’s DC takeover has proven to be broadly unpopular among residents and seemingly counterproductive. But the president has never been deterred by facts—and he is now setting his sights on additional cities where violent crime has already been falling. The Washington Post first reported on Saturday that the Pentagon has for weeks been […]

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Trump’s Military Occupation of DC Crashes Into Reality—Literally

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Watch out, Chicago drivers. A recent collision of a red-light-running, 14-ton, mine-resistant armored vehicle with an SUV on Capitol Hill isn’t the biggest news involving the federal takeover of Washington, DC, but it’s a tidy metaphor reflecting the counter-productive, heavily militarized, anti-crime display that President Donald Trump has embarked on. Overriding Washington, DC’s, democracy in […]

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Ghislaine Maxwell Absolves Trump, and Everyone Else, in DOJ Interviews

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Ghislaine Maxwell has delighted MAGA loyalists by asserting that she never saw the man she is hoping will spring her from a 20-year prison sentence “in any inappropriate setting” throughout the years he spent hanging out with the late convicted sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. But Maxwell, convicted of sex trafficking minors and conspiracy, […]

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A Baby Adopted, a Family Divided

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In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a documentary filmmaker, Leavitt, a wealthy Utah politician, told a startling story about how he went about getting physical custody of that child.  Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple […]

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America’s Mines Are Literally Throwing Away Critical Metals

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The United States is home to dozens of active mines. Some extract copper, while others dig for iron. Whatever the resource, however, it usually makes up a small fraction of the rock pulled from the ground. The rest is typically ignored. […]

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