When Tekashi 6ix9ine, the rapper and former gang member, finished serving a three-month sentence at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center, he left carrying a peculiar souvenir. He showed it off to two friends who were waiting outside the jail to collect him: it was a homemade SpongeBob SquarePants figurine with a jagged series of lines—not unlike a heartbeat monitor, or a mountain range—scribbled on it. This was, 6ix9ine explained, the autograph of Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela. The signature was also dated, in Spanish, “2.º Abril.” “Look, one of one,” 6ix9ine said, holding up the SpongeBob, which, he later explained, another inmate had meticulously crafted, folding six hundred pieces of paper and sewing them together, over the course of two weeks. “Maduro signed it,” he said, proudly, before adding, “Venezuela forever.”

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Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

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ICE smashed her car windows on the way to the doctor. Now she's fighting back. Aliya Rahman is one of hundreds of people filing personal injury claims against federal agents.

Breaking: Aliya Rahman, a disabled woman who was dragged from her car and detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis, is filing a tort claim acainst the agency. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Graham Platner apologizes for using the r-word After reporting by Mother Jones, the democratic senate candidate offered a mea culpa.

I was the first to report on this Monday in an article. Platner's campaign team has still not responded directly to me, one of the handful of openly disabled disability reporters on staff at a publication in the US. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

You Can Never Let Them Think They Have A Chance | Defector I don’t remember the first time someone hit on me as a reporter. I believe this is because my brain has come to treat these events as unremarkable. For any woman in journalism, they pile up over the y...

I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about.

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The Chappell Roan harassment campaign is plain old misogyny The artist faces online backlash not for any wrongdoing but because she's a woman.

Roan demonstrated more moral courage than many powerful people in her decision to leave a talent agency after reports revealed the exec’s ties to Ghislaine Maxwell.

Yet she received far more social backlash over a non-event than praise after taking a material risk for the sake of her principles.

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Jorginho Frello has released a new statement, now clarifying that Chappell Roan had nothing to do with the security guard that approached his child.

He states that the bodyguard was present at the hotel on behalf of another artist, not Chappell Roan.

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

American soccer culture is a guy wearing a Tottenham shirt sadly walking around the farmer’s market

Today more than ever.

After Trump's threat that a "whole civilization will die tonight," I asked the White House about concerns Trump is considering using nuclear weapons.

They directed me to Trump's post. Their follow-up stated: "Only the President knows where things stand and what he will do."

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

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You don't have to love Afroman to like police accountability He kidded with Trump. He made homophobic jokes. That's not why cops terrorized his family.

Afroman does not need to be an undeniably good person for people to embrace the outcome of the case: a measure of accountability for institutional wrongdoing.

Say gay: feminist magazine reclaims Charlie Kirk-style campus tours after Florida DEI cuts Florida restricted teaching around sex, gender and race. Lux is now giving students a forum for these issues

after Charlie Kirk died pundits like Ezra Klein praised his "hard conversations" with students.

under the higher ed backlash he helped start, the real hard-to-have conversations are about gender, race, sexuality, protest.

the feminists touring colleges with academic bans: @us.theguardian.com

Fair Pay Feels Good In A Place Like This | Defector Half an hour into the Nitehawk Workers Union’s winter rally, 50 or so people had gathered across the street from the Nitehawk Prospect Park Theater to chant, hold signs, and shiver on a Friday too col...

For @defector.com, I wrote about the Nitehawk Workers Union, "saving movie theaters," and why humans respond to other humans defector.com/fair-pay-fee...

Read @inaeoh.bsky.social on the politics of maternal ambivalence… and the apparent lack thereof in the pronatalist wing of the Trump admin:

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ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

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THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Opinion | North Carolina's elections offer more hope that 2026 is the year of the progressive Katelyn Burns: Progressive candidates in the pivotal swing state walloped several centrist incumbents who collaborated with Republicans on culture war issues.

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Writing this was personal for me: Much of the rationale behind the directive was the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action at Harvard and UNC (my alma mater!). By presenting Asian Americans as facing discrimination in the admissions process, it unjustly generalized our cultural identities.

The endless pursuit of equality through college admissions The new documentary “Admissions Granted” examines the different ways Asian Americans are impacted by the battles over affirmative action.

Actually wrote a bit about that framing in my very first article for Mother Jones. I interviewed Hao Wu and Miao Wang, the directors of the documentary "Admissions Granted," exploring the story and arguments behind the case and how it contributes to the ongoing erasure of historical inequities.

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Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

An excerpt from a Mother Jones interview with historian Behrooz Ghamari about the protests in Iran: Question: In the introduction of your new book, you mention how geopolitical issues are integrated into issues of social justice and civil liberty. That idea reverbates throughout the book. How does it apply to the Iranian government and protests there today, as well as in other countries targeted by the West? Ghamari: Substantively, we don’t see anything different. The same acts happened in Vietnam, the same acts happened in Chile, but the powers that be tried to hide it. The difference today is it’s out in the open. The Iranian government actually showed body bags of people who were killed in the protests. It reminds one of 19th-century colonialism, which was justified by ideas such as the white man’s burden. Destruction is the price of progress. You see that in Gaza and Minneapolis. Everyone who wants to see change needs to face this politics of brutality.

Back in January, I spoke with historian Behrooz Ghamari about the people protesting in Iran and the government's violent suppression of them. The devastation is out in the open, and "everyone who wants to see change needs to face this politics of brutality." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We now know what Trump's "locker room banter" looks like The locker room, in the mind of the president, is where misogyny is not only permitted but protected.

"Grab em' by the pussy" and Trump's call with the men's hockey team aren't the same. One is sexually violent, the other a lame dig.

But I argue here they share a familiar misogyny: That men are owed by women to accept insulting banter. That they are entitled to have their disrespect overlooked.