Stephanie Mencimer

Stephanie Mencimer

@smencimer.bsky.social

Senior reporter Mother Jones. Utah native. Send me tips at smencimer@motherjones.com or securely on Signal at smencimer.48 or smencimer@proton.me

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Ari Berman
@ariberman.bsky.social

By gutting the Voting Rights Act John Roberts has opened the door for Louisiana, a state whose population is a third Black, to have zero majority-Black voting districts Listen to my deep dive with @pemalevy.bsky.social on this week’s episode of @revealnews.org www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.comBecause of the Supreme Court, majority-Black voting districts are disappearing across the SouthBecause of the Supreme Court, majority-Black voting districts are disappearing across the South. What will that mean for November's election?

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Adam Klasfeld
@klasfeldreports.com

A "Scaramucci" is still the standard unit of measurement. All other press secretaries are measured against a Scaramucci, even those fired more quickly. There isn't any need to muck up the units with more metric v. imperial faultlines.

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Liberal Currents
@liberalcurrents.com

Half the Answer #106: Donald Trump is changing the landscape of Washington, and everything he touches turns to plaster and adhesive gold-colored filigree. All the while, D.C. is still under occupation by National Guard out-of-towners. Mother Jones reporter Stephanie Mencimer tells us what it's like.

liberalcurrents.comEverything's 'National Security' in Trump's Washington (Half the Answer #106, with Stephanie Mencimer)Donald Trump is changing the landscape of D.C., from East Potomac Park to the Kennedy Center to the 'Arc de Trump.'
Stephanie Mencimer
@smencimer.bsky.social

Spent some time with the protesters at the Kennedy Center Friday after the Trump admin officially closed the building.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

Trump's mindset when it comes to the Kennedy Center is that of an authoritarian toddler. If he can't have the toys he wants, he'll try to break them and make sure no one else can have them, either.

Stephanie Mencimer
@smencimer.bsky.social

The devastation just never stops.

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com

"For more than a year, the National Park Service has been quietly working to fulfill an unprecedented directive from Trump officials: Parcel off a corner of Yosemite National Park to give to a private developer." www.notus.org/agencies/tru...

notus.orgTrump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private DeveloperThe National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.
Stephanie Mencimer
@smencimer.bsky.social

"I met him in a gay bar."--Meet the FL GOP congressional candidate and January 6 participant who is campaigning to bring back "Judeo-Christian values" and has crusaded against LGBT Pride events because he says they promote "deviant sexual behaviors.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.comThe international underwear model who stormed the Capitol is now running for CongressFlorida’s most crowded GOP primary has two Trump-pardoned felons. John Strand is one of them.
Stephanie Mencimer
@smencimer.bsky.social

Florida congressional candidate and J6er John Strand says the "pride movement" promotes "deviant sexual behaviors." But back in his West Hollywood days, he worked at the Equinox booth at the Pride festival and modeled underwear targeted at gay men. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.comThe international underwear model who stormed the Capitol is now running for CongressFlorida's most crowded GOP primary has two Trump-pardoned felons. John Strand is one of them.

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Mother Jones
@motherjones.com

Trump’s track-record on DC renovation projects has been nothing short of disastrous. Just look at the Reflecting Pool. So, will his DC golf course renovation work out any better? To bring you the answer, @smencimer.bsky.social did some rainboots-on-the-ground reporting.

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Clara Jeffery
@clarajeffery.bsky.social

Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on a hospital roof. @h-lev.bsky.social & @acleek.bsky.social investigate American Healthcare System, the company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.comA for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.

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Andrew Beaujon
@abeaujon.bsky.social

“I’d take you upstairs, but there’s a lot of underwear on the floor": A date with Lindsey Graham in the mid-'90s. (The writer also went on a date with Mark Foley.) washingtonian.com/2013/06/14/f...

washingtonian.comFrom the Archives: How To Date a Congressman - WashingtonianElection Night 1994: The nation's voters control my future tonight. I sit in front of the television watching the returns. Pen in hand, I update my candidate checklist as percentages flash across the ...

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More Perfect Union
@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.

tomshardware.comMeta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rar...The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social

I'm gonna keep posting the fact that only $9 million (inflation adjusted) changed hands in Teapot Dome and it was the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate until it stops being relevant.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

A fund that includes Trump’s eldest sons among its investors has booked hundreds of millions of dollars in paper profits through a playbook that involves taking stakes in a steady stream of small, thinly traded public companies

bloom.bgTrump Sons Invested in Private Fund Making Millions on MicrocapsA fund that includes President Donald Trump’s eldest sons among its investors has booked hundreds of millions of dollars in paper profits through a lucrative playbook that involves taking stakes in a steady stream of small, thinly traded public companies.
Stephanie Mencimer
@smencimer.bsky.social

Today is the Utah primary. And it will be interesting! The red state will probably nominate a Democrat who will win in November now that it has eliminated partisan gerrymandering. That vote could help determine which party controls Congress. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/

motherjones.comUtah voters finally got a fair map. Republicans are making sure it never happens again.The GOP has a veto-proof supermajority, even though the state’s demographics have changed dramatically.

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Abby Vesoulis
@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social

Scoop with @dfriedman.bsky.social: Trump brought a statue of a slave owner out of storage & hired a contractor to build it a new pedestal in DC. Installing it took ONE day & cost $527K. The Gov't justified the high price tag w/ urgent need to finish by July 4. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.comTrump resurrected the statue of a slave owner. Its pedestal cost taxpayers $527k.Contracting documents obtained by Mother Jones indicate the price was nearly double the government's estimate.

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Hannah Levintova
@h-lev.bsky.social

Given the news that Trump has just appointed Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, it feels timely to revisit the three different episodes of financial impropriety by Pulte that I’ve reported on in the just last six months! Let’s recap:/1