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It’s wild that the man Trump has installed to run the most powerful military in the world is connected to a network of Christians who believe in biblical domination of the world. Here’s a thread on the Christian nationalism surrounding Pete Hegseth. First, meet the TheoBros:

Why would Peter Hegseth want to purge women from combat? Look no further than his spiritual mentor, Doug Wilson, and their ideas about "biblical masculinity." Read ‪@kieraevebutler.bsky.social‬'s full story here: https://bit.ly/3UM5Yd4 📹: @samveep.bsky.social

And here is @samveep.bsky.social busting Donald Trump's history of promising voters money, and then never delivering. www.youtube.com/shorts/UGQM8...

Your deadbeat president is never giving you $5,000.

Rep. Max Miller initially declined to talk to me after a court hearing yesterday regarding his child custody case. But while his lawyer was speaking, Miller interrupted to deliver what sounded like a veiled threat against Sen. Moreno. Watch for yourself. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yesterday @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social and I spent hours in the courtroom with Ohio GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno, his daughter Emily, and her ex-husband, Rep. Max Miller. Following the hearing we were speaking with Miller's attorney before he intervened with some very choice words for his ex-family-in-law.

👀 Congressman Max Miller suggests he has dirt on his ex-father-in-law Senator Bernie Moreno in a rare interview with @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social after a custody hearing in Cleveland on Wednesday. WATCH:

At the rally outside Barclays Center hosted by Trans Safety Alliance NYC before the NY Liberty vs. Indiana Fever game tonight. About 100 folks are here as anti-trans attacks targets women's basketball—a league with no openly trans women players.

NEW: Regarding the claims that Rep. Max Miller withheld his toddler's "blue bunny," I have some new screenshots suggesting there was a pattern of Miller not giving the bunny back. There were pleas from multiple people on multiple dates. (Thread: 1/8)

New reporting from @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social with video by me on the Max Miller scandal. Check it out

NEW: Police Footage Shows Rep. Max Miller Downplaying His Daughter’s Broken Collarbone. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Why did Maine dems back a guy with a Nazi tattoo, sexts, and racist Reddit posts? Everyday Americans are often willing to overlook discretions for a candidate who isn't "looking down on them." My conversation with Musa al-Gharbi on why wokeness is a dead end. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Babe wake up they’re gooping the drones www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hey, @samveep.bsky.social & I won a Telly for this video report on a $25K payment Kash Patel got from a Ukrainian American Russian filmmaker who was part of a Kremlin-funded propaganda operation. Check it out. We still don't know where the money came from. (Giuliani got $100K from the same source.)

Just dropped the biggest and baddest thing I’ve ever worked on: 22-minutes documentary into how science is rewritten by corporations and we pay the cost. Hope you queue it up for your night and give it a watch!

Beyond proud to announce that we've won a Webby Award for our coverage of ICE's Minneapolis takeover. Between January 7 and February 3, we deployed reporters to Minneapolis and brought back indelible footage. 🧵

We're nominated for a Webby People's Voice Award for our Instagram feed, where millions saw our reporting on Minneapolis, Christian nationalism, surveillance tech, the Golden State Killer, and so much more! VOTE FOR US NOW: wbby.co/58990N

Using the r-word is just bad. Democrats should have higher standards for themselves than Trump when it comes to using a slur that MANY disabled people find offensive. Looking at you, Graham Platner. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

SPOTTED: Donald Trump makes an appearance at No Kings in DC. 📹 : Marianne Szegedy-Maszak

The article that keeps on giving:

the trump administration is taking a lot of inspiration from nazi propaganda. my new video looks at some of the most egregious examples from their feeds—and I think it's helping prime everyday people to cheer on even more awful things.

The US government won't stop sharing Nazi propaganda. This past year, official social media accounts from the Department of Homeland Security, the White House, and other government agencies have adopted a distinct voice online. But if you look closer, a pattern emerges.

Okay, so you wanna do a general strike? Here's some real, practical advice on how to make it happen, from conversations with various Minnesota organizers. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

me: uploads a clean and clear audio file of an interview in english adobe:

Totally normal headline you see every day in functioning democracies around the world…

Hard to say how many showed up for Alex Pretti’s vigil, but easily hundreds if not thousands. After community activists and leaders spoke at the park where they gathered, everyone marched to the site of Pretti’s killing. Streets just filled with people demanding ICE out.

Minneapolis has a song just for Kristi Noem.

“If Minnesota falls, everything falls. We’re done as a nation.” Fury. Grief. Anguish. Locals on the frontlines of Trump’s attack on Minneapolis are speaking out following the killing of another one of their neighbors. We’re on the ground with @samveep.bsky.social tracking the aftermath.

Our @samveep.bsky.social is at the scene where 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis. Read his heartbreaking dispatch from on the ground.

“We’re furious that our neighbors are getting kidnapped and murdered in the streets,” a protester named John told me. “This is supposed to be America, the land of the free, and this is not freedom.” I spoke Minnesotans who showed up where Alex Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents:

I was just supposed to follow clergy leaders as they did a pilgrimage from George Floyd Square to Renée Good’s memorial. But then when we got back to the landing spot, we found out an observer had been attacked by ICE agents who had been tailing the religious leaders. From me today in Minneapolis:

the protect the children crowd is real quiet

New video from our team shows a horrifying ICE attack on a woman who says she is disabled and was just trying to get to her doctor's appointment.

The high schooler at the heart of the current case knows that the battle at the court is about much more than whether she can play track and field with her friends. “It’s just one part of a plan to push transgender people like me out of the public life entirely.”

In the aftermath of the ICE killing of Renée Good, Trump's admin smeared her as a “domestic terrorist." That’s despite video evidence to the contrary. Today, we joined the Manhattan thong for one of many dozens of protests held around the country this weekend. We asked protesters: What did you see?

I spoke with noturtlesoup17.bsky.social who is on the ground in Minneapolis for @motherjones.com. She's been one of the country's most prominent chroniclers of ICE escalation. We'll be featuring more of her work over the coming weeks and months. Give her a follow. www.youtube.com/shorts/7otLE...

A disgusting development in the story of the aftermath of Renee Good’s death. From @katieherchenroeder.bsky.social: Grok unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Good in a bikini—the woman who was killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis.

Grok unhesitatingly fulfilled an X user’s request to put a bikini onto the body of ICE shooting victim Renee Nicole Good. The chatbot, launched by Elon Musk, has been making deepfakes of a lot of other women, too. My latest in @motherjones.com: 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

shocker: there's a trump-supporting billionaire who could make a shit ton of money off of the attack on venezuela

Billionaire hedge funder Paul Singer, whose firm acquired oil giant Citgo at a bargain price, has much to gain from Nicolás Maduro’s ouster. On Fox News Saturday, Trump made clear that one of the motivations for Saturday’s attack was to increase the production and export of Venezuelan oil.

On Tuesday, the Israeli government announced that it would suspend the aid work of several humanitarian organizations that provide lifesaving aid to Palestinians in Gaza living through what Amnesty International and other groups labeled as a genocide.

I was scrolling TikTok last night and imagine my jumpscare when this is pushed into my feed??? TikTok is selling N*zi gear now I guess.

this is just a crazy story and further proves how much power the tech bros have over the world

A somber scene of reflection and outrage outside the Bondi Pavilion where an impromptu vigil is taking place. Prayer, intense grief, amongst Sydney’s Jewish community.

PTFO collaborated with @msjpauly.bsky.social and @motherjones.com on an investigation into Riley Gaines. Riley’s messaging about trans athletes involves “predatory men” and “sexual assault.” But there’s an important story multiple ex-teammates at Kentucky want you to know: youtu.be/iKUl8lkuGOc?...

I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes. So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/

NEW @motherjones.com: When a 16-year-old accused Russell Brand of rape, Megyn Kelly begged conservatives to condemn him. Now, with Epstein, she’s claiming it’s not quite fair to call him a a pedophile because he was “into the barely legal type” of minors. ⬇️ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...