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Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Ads Are Receiving Bipartisan Criticism President Donald Trump has become the subject of bipartisan pushback after another taxpayer-funded television ad aired during at least two Sunday NFL games. “We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country,” Trump says in the ad. “We will rout the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/trumps-taxpayer-funded-ads-are-receiving-bipartisan-criticism/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Germany Is Building a Digital Noah’s Ark for US Climate Data This story was 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/german-climate-computing-senter-backup-storate-us-climate-data-trump-administration-tampering-digital-repository/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #Climate

Prosecutors Are Revisiting Allegations of Gang Rape at Cornell #MotherJones https://twp.ai/E5FlDy

“They Really Did Screw Bernie”: Here’s What 2016 Can Teach Democrats Today First, a confession: Before I read long-time Democratic strategist Tad Devine’s new book, How the Democrats Screwed Bernie, I rolled my eyes at the prospect of yet another post-mortem on the 2016 election (which was admittedly also the first presidential election in which I was eligible to vote). Not even halfway through his second term, […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/they-really-did-screw-bernie-heres-what-2016-can-teach-democrats-today/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Is Male Birth Control Finally Coming? The summer of 2021 was supposed to be a joyful season of life for Mattie Quinlan: She had just gotten married and was settling down with her husband, Ryan, in Provo, Utah. The young couple, who had met during their mission trips with the Mormon church, wanted a big family—just not right away, which is […] 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/male-contraceptives-birth-control-gel-pill-iuds-hormones-depression/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #US

Trump-Appointed Judge Smacks Down EPA’s Termination of Clean Energy Grants This story was 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/trump-appointed-judge-epa-termination-clean-energy-grants-solar-for-all-ruling/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #Trump

The Bizarre Backstory of the Trump-Endorsed Sticker Mogul Who Could Be Headed to Congress Anthony Constantino, the Republican nominee in upstate New York’s 21st congressional district, is not subtle in his fealty to Donald Trump. Since 2024, the 43-year-old businessman has given the president a larger-than-life statue of himself, erected a “Vote for Trump” sign massive enough to be seen in satellite images, and dropped an album called “Thank […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/anthony-constantino-donald-trump-sticker-mule-congress-stefanik/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off “The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History” The world is freaking out about the dangers of artificial intelligence, and no wonder: Every day brings news of AI agents breaking out of containment, hacking their way through the internet, and conspiring to evade humans. And the AI companies are responding that a) their systems could kill us all within a few years, but […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/openai-chatgpt-microsoft-copyright-legal-case-documents-revelations/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Which Side Is Ed Sheeran On? Ed Sheeran opened his Philadelphia show Saturday night by admitting to “making mistakes”—maybe not quite the apology some people were hoping for. It was the star musician’s first performance since billionaire Robert Kraft pressured Sheeran and his team to remove Macklemore from his stadium tour over the rapper’s pro-Palestinian comments onstage. Sheeran, who seemed to […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/which-side-is-ed-sheeran-on/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Trump’s Desperate for TV Cameras Until They Tell the Truth 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. The four networks’ decision comes after Donald Trump banned CNN and other outlets “from the […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/trumps-desperate-for-tv-cameras-until-they-tell-the-truth/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Did My IUD Make My Depression Worse? After Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie had her IUD removed, she was surprised to find that she felt happier and calmer than she had in years. 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/reproductive-health-hormonal-birth-control-side-effects-menopause-women/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #US

“Near a Breaking Point:” Trump Is Failing Firefighters in an Intense Burn Season This story was 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/fire-service-breaking-point-trump-failure-wildfire-deaths-dangers-firefighter-risks-season/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #Trump

What Else Is the Pentagon Hiding From Us? More US military personnel have reportedly died during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has shared publicly, the latest and most serious evidence of the Trump administration’s ongoing cover-up around disastrous military failures in that conflict. In a Washington Post report released Friday, six US officials with knowledge of internal Defense Department data on […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/pentagon-dod-hegseth-trump-iran-casualties-military-deaths/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Kash Patel Again Denies Firing Iran Experts Before Iran War In an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel did little to acknowledge the continuing fallout around the firing of agents for their role in investigating President Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents—even though they were experts in tracking Iranian threats. Several outlets have reported that at least a […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/fbi-kash-patel-iran-fired-agents-intelligence-senate/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Data center wastewater is under the microscope—and that scrutiny could mean cleaner water. Communities are pushing back, and new oversight is forcing a responsible path forward. Read more → https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/meta-data-center-rare-bacteria-backlash-waste-water-contamination/ #MotherJones #Investigative #Environment

Trump Orders Americans to Call Lake Ontario Lake America President Donald Trump on Thursday followed through on a threat to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” issuing an executive order to “Make the Great Lakes Even Greater” amid a collapsed trade deal with Canada, further escalating tensions between the two former allies. The lake in question has been known as Lake Ontario since the […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-lake-america-ontario-executive-order-canada-tariffs/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

40 Acres and a Lie Part 3 The loss of land for Black Americans started with the government’s betrayal of its “40 acres” promise to formerly enslaved people—and it has continued over decades. 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/40-acres-and-a-lie-part-3-update/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #US

Once More Cassidy Had the Deciding Vote. Once More He Folded. Early Saturday morning, the Senate voted to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the official role after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) caved and publicly backed President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer the day before. Blanche was confirmed on a narrow 50-49 vote, with almost all Republicans aligning with the president. The two exceptions were […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/once-more-cassidy-had-the-deciding-vote-once-more-he-folded/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Public AI could be our shared utility, not Big Tech's cash cow. This interview offers a blueprint for community-owned, open-source AI that empowers everyone—from Africa to Europe. Read more → https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/what-ai-regulation-and-ownership-could-be/ #MotherJones #Investigative #Politics

What Is the White House Hiding in Its Minerals Deals? Today, the consumer protection watchdog group Public Citizen released a report detailing the Trump administration’s secretive web of critical minerals deals around the world. The report, exclusively shared with Mother Jones, shows that the number of deals the administration has publicly claimed to have does not match up with the number of countries known to […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/what-is-the-white-house-hiding-in-its-minerals-deals/ #News #USNews #MotherJones