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2026-09-21 · Mother Jones · Politics

Trump’s Desperate for TV Cameras Until They Tell the Truth

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2026-11-02 · Mother Jones · Politics

Haley Stevens Turned Michigan’s Senate Race Into a Soap Opera

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2026-11-01 · Mother Jones · Politics

Haley Stevens Abandons Fellow Democrats in Opposition to Abdul El-Sayed

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2026-10-28 · Mother Jones · Politics

Trump’s Visa Crackdown Has an Exception: His Friends

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2026-09-20 · Mother Jones · Politics

Trump Wants to Make His Triumphal Arch a Killing Machine

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2026-09-20 · Mother Jones · Entertainment

Which Side Is Ed Sheeran On?

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2026-08-24 · Mother Jones

🔮 That’s despite claiming that he would not play a role in Trump’s second administration. assertive

2026-08-24 · Mother Jones

🔮 But Kristen, a New York Liberty season-ticket holder, later saw online that there would be a large gathering for trans rights and told me it was “really meaningful” that so many other folks held similar feelings of support. assertive

2026-08-25 · Mother Jones

🔮 On Monday afternoon, President Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the US would impose all-encompassing sanctions on countries and institutions that conduct business with Iran, in an apparent attempt to end the war after most viable military options have failed. assertive

2026-08-26 · Mother Jones

🔮 Small and medium-sized businesses directly affected will be able to apply for a further $5 million through Canada’s business development bank, and the Canadian government has set aside $2 billion for medium-sized and large firms, more than half a billion dollars for retraining workers whose industries are affected by tariffs, and a one-year extension on temporary employment insurance benefits Canada already issued in response to the start of Trump’s trade war with Canada last year. mixed

2026-08-31 · Mother Jones

🔮 On Sunday, President Trump said that NBC News’ Meet the Press host Kristen Welker will be “reported” to the Federal Communications Commissions for “rebuke or punishment,” claiming she said that the candidates he endorsed had “mixed results” in this election cycle—despite the FCC having no such jurisdiction. assertive

2026-08-31 · Mother Jones

🔮 According to Google, Maps users in Canada still see “Lake Ontario” while those outside the US and Canada will see both names: “Lake Ontario (Lake America).” assertive

2026-09-03 · Mother Jones

🔮 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on AI use for elementary and middle school students on Wednesday. assertive

2026-09-04 · Mother Jones

🔮 The company is also throwing money into data centers, offering up to $105 billion to help OpenAI lease an Ohio data center, which is still under construction but is expected to be the world’s largest. assertive

2026-09-10 · Mother Jones

🔮 The Trump administration announced an arrangement with Venezuela last week that would see the US take control of 65 billion barrels worth of oil fields and a significant share of the country’s production of 800,000 barrels of oil per day—the latest development after an American strike on Caracas abducted the country’s president Nicolás Maduro in January. assertive

2026-09-10 · Mother Jones

🔮 “Countries will fall. assertive

2026-09-10 · Mother Jones

🔮 The current guidelines do not present explicit, quantifiable rules for what is considered remediation by a “reasonable” time—it’s something that both Microsoft and the customer will “engage in good faith” to come up with. assertive

2026-09-11 · Mother Jones

🔮 Will OpenAI comply? assertive

2026-09-12 · Mother Jones

🔮 In one instance, Ben Williamson, the FBI’s assistant director for public affairs, tells Patel via text message that the FBI should not respond to a post making fun of the director from what looks like a troll account on X with a handle referencing the r-word slur. assertive

2026-09-13 · Mother Jones

🔮 His proposed legislation, the Protect College Sports Act, would allow the NCAA to unilaterally enforce its own rules on issues like revenue sharing with college students and athletes transferring between schools. assertive

2026-09-15 · Mother Jones

🔮 “I think what’s most important is [to] not have a weaponized FBI, and I will endeavor every single day to make sure we have no one there that is doing that.” mixed

2026-09-17 · Mother Jones

🔮 On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that ExxonMobil is close to signing its own deal with Venezuela, which could be completed as early as the end of this month and include more than 50 billion barrels in oil reserves (Venezuela says it has about 300 billion barrels in total reserves). assertive

2026-09-18 · Mother Jones

🔮 Many may have felt like they could only manage to look after themselves and, if they’re lucky, immediate family members. assertive

2026-09-20 · Mother Jones

🔮 Ed Sheeran opened his Philadelphia show Saturday night by admitting to “making mistakes”—maybe not quite the apology some people were hoping for. assertive

2026-09-20 · Mother Jones

🔮 Trump added in his Sunday post on Truth Social that the planned “Triumphal Arch” near the National Mall would “have the rapid ability to use large numbers of drones, plus Snipers, on both the roof and plaza areas.” The president first proposed building the arch last October to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary. assertive

2026-09-21 · Mother Jones

🔮 President Donald Trump, who loves a media hit, may no longer get his moments of glory on television after major news networks ABC, CBS, Fox News, and NBC announced on Monday that they would pause TV coverage of presidential events. mixed

2026-09-23 · Mother Jones

🔮 Federal agencies are required to follow federal standards unless it would “adversely affect national security,” as the Post reports and as multiple items of congressional legislation establish. mixed

2026-09-25 · Mother Jones

🔮 1,600 more staff are expected to be laid off throughout the rest of the fiscal year—cuts, according to the company’s July announcement, that would likely affect Blizzard. assertive

2026-09-27 · Mother Jones

🔮 On Sunday afternoon, Ireland is set to play a soccer match against Israel amid widespread public calls and protests in the country to boycott the game due to Israel’s violent conduct in Gaza, which a UN report found to be a genocide. assertive

2026-09-27 · Mother Jones

🔮 In the same September 16 announcement, the startup said it would now report and investigate “misalignment,” meaning when the actions of AI systems go against human intentions. mixed

2026-10-05 · Mother Jones

🔮 This fall, Hollywood will release four movies on tech executives: Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial, on CEO Sam Altman’s tumultuous time as the head of OpenAI; Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Reckoning, on the investigation into Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissing its platforms’ negative impacts on young users and inciting violence and hate speech; the all-encompassing Musk, by documentarian Alex Gibney, on the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s family life, corporate controversies, and engagement in right-wing politics; and You Can See Everything, an unsettling documentary in which directors Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim follow Elizabeth Holmes, who invited them to film her in the weeks before she began serving her federal prison sentence for defrauding investors at the now-defunct health tech company Theranos. If the 2010s brought the first major wave of examining Silicon Valley leaders, such as relatively human depictions of Zuckerberg with The Social Network and multiple movies on longtime Apple CEO Steve Jobs—they largely paint pictures of difficult, ambitious individuals who may have burned a few bridges to achieve the remarkable—this recent group represents an opportunity, as I wrote in September, to rethink that perspective. assertive

2026-10-06 · Mother Jones

🔮 A former AI researcher played by Jason Schwartzman, presented as a prophet who sees the future of the tech with clarity, tells Sutskever that it could lead, if not to total human extinction, at least to life under AI subjugation. assertive

2026-10-11 · Mother Jones

🔮 “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals and for some reason he never does,” Trump said on Saturday, suggesting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not done enough to broker a peace deal with Russia. assertive

2026-10-13 · Mother Jones

🔮 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced shortly after that the execution would be livestreamed. assertive

2026-10-13 · Mother Jones

🔮 She has been a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well,” Zacharia said. mixed

2026-10-18 · Mother Jones

🔮 The five-minute conversation took place in Caro, Michigan, where a man who identified himself as “Tommy” asked from the audience: “Will you disavow the Muslim Brotherhood?” assertive

2026-10-18 · Mother Jones

🔮 Construction to create “one of the Best and Most Spectacular Golf Courses anywhere in the World” at East Potomac Park would start on November 15, the president wrote on Truth Social. assertive

2026-10-20 · Mother Jones

🔮 Elon Musk’s SpaceX and AI giant Anthropic have said they will give billions of dollars in shares to the public as general sentiment around the technology’s economic and societal consequences continues to plummet. assertive

2026-10-21 · Mother Jones

🔮 In the five-minute confrontation that has now gone viral, the young man, who the Handbasket first identified as Thomas “Tommy” Teepell, asked El-Sayed if he would “disavow” the Muslim Brotherhood. mixed

2026-10-22 · Mother Jones

🔮 The problem is reaching a level where banks have been forced to scale up their investment of resources into preparing for breaches and restoring customer access as quickly as possible—which, given other recent developments in AI-powered cybersecurity breaches, might not have been a bad idea anyway. mixed

2026-10-26 · Mother Jones

🔮 President Donald Trump ramped up his Islamophobic remarks against Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a Sunday campaign rally in Michigan, hurling everything from unfounded “jihadist” accusations to suggestions that an El-Sayed victory would mean canceling Christmas. assertive

2026-10-26 · Mother Jones

🔮 The AI giant Anthropic disclosed its initial public offering filing with the SEC on Monday in what is expected to become one of the largest stock debuts in history. mixed

2026-10-27 · Mother Jones

🔮 The issue may prove to be a deciding factor in many races, as Democrats would need to flip four seats each in both the US House and Senate to build a simple majority. mixed

2026-10-29 · Mother Jones

🔮 There was Serena Williams, Charlize Theron, Matthew McConaughey, Jimmy Kimmel, and even a closing set from my fave Charli XCX , including her song “Apple,” which she introduced to the crowd as a song “about generational trauma.” assertive

2026-10-29 · Mother Jones

🔮 “Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch,” Judge David Carter wrote in a 26-page ruling. assertive

2026-11-01 · Mother Jones

🔮 On Monday, the Trump administration asked Washington state to remove any ballots from more than 400 people it claims may be noncitizens. assertive

2026-11-01 · Mother Jones

🔮 Michigan’s Democratic leaders condemned Stevens’ decision in a tight race which could determine control of the US Senate next year. assertive

2026-11-02 · Mother Jones

🔮 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who had endorsed Stevens in her primary race against El-Sayed before she was narrowly defeated in August, called the move “a despicable betrayal” on social media Sunday. Former House speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Stevens chose to “dangerously betray Michigan families’ healthcare, freedoms and future with her horrific endorsement.” Chair of the Michigan Democratic party, Curtis Hertel, wrote on social media Sunday that Stevens is not a current member of the party, “nor will she be in the future.” assertive

2026-11-04 · Mother Jones

🔮 El-Sayed, an epidemiologist and public health administrator pushing “Medicare for All” and endorsed early in the race by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), ran a campaign that was a key test for Democrats—could a more progressive, less-established candidate win against a Trump-endorsed, long-serving Republican member of Congress? mixed