That thing when you’re sick and curled up in bed and your kids come in and look at you like you’re going to die, and then your teenage son laughs and says, “that sucks”

How the AI oligarchy devoured America How the AI oligarchy devoured America.

1/ we have an incredible package out today on our AI overlords and how the entire world is being ravaged in their pursuit for domination www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How the American oligarchy went hyperscale The AI boom is fueling a literal and metaphorical power grab by tech billionaires—and forcing a reckoning.

JUST IN: America not doing great www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

An illustration of a permanent resident visa with a fishing hook editing through it on a pale yellow background. Below it reads: "The Scammers Profiting off Trump's Immigration Crackdown. Fake judges. Fake lawyers. Real deportations."

NEW: In March, a man who needed legal representation reached out to Maria Aguila’s law office in Jacksonville, Florida, asking to meet with an attorney.

There was only one problem: Aguila had never heard of this attorney. She is a solo practitioner who focuses on immigration and family law. 🧵

“Dying shoe company becomes compute provider” is easily the best bubble story we have seen so far

"ICE agent: The one thing you’ll always hear cops say is, One bad cop does something, and somehow it becomes a referendum on all cops. It’s the only profession where that happens. You don’t hear that a doctor got drunk and did surgery and killed somebody and have people saying every doctor in America is an [expletive]. We’re being painted with a broad brush. "

hmm I can think of another very large group of people that this applies to www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

Trump's SEC is going after fewer Wall Street crimes The agency released long-delayed data that confirmed a steep drop in enforcement.

I know there is a lot happening <gestures wildly at all this> but we should all be worried that America's main Wall Street watchdog quietly announced last week that it is prosecuting way fewer financial crimes: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Peter Magyar has offered a template which can be used, without too much alteration, in defeating populists worldwide

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Pope’s got him in hell (literally)

Senators demand Bill Pulte explain allegations from Mother Jones story Our reporting uncovered a strange donation made by Pulte's charity.

@dfriedman.bsky.social and I recently published a story about a mysterious donation by Bill Pulte's charity that might have been funneling money to help Donald Trump. Today @warren.senate.gov and @wyden.senate.gov are demanding answers from Pulte himself: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden sent a letter to FHFA boss Bill Pulte to demand info about a mysterious donation that raises questions about whether Pulte's nonprofit sent money to Donald Trump while disguising it as charity to the poor. The donation was first reported by @motherjones.com.

I needed just this

The Ben Bagdikian Fellowship Program

Every year we hire a few editorial fellows to do fact-checking and reporting. Great entry/early career gig that has helped populate pretty much every news org you've heard of: www.motherjones.com/careers/fell...

The Ben Bagdikian Fellowship Program

We're hiring Editorial Fellows in DC + SF! Applications due April 26.

This is already an indelible stain on our national history, culture, consciousness, influence, standing

And EVERY SINGLE member of the group that could STOP THIS immediately—the Republican members of the House and Senate—stands there in the dock of history's judgment, like quislings of other eras

She helped the authorities deport her abuser. Then they deported her back to him. Immigrants in her situation "were given a promise that they would be protected as long as they were vulnerable."

Immigrants who survived domestic violence were given a "promise that they would be protected as long as they were vulnerable and shared their story with the cops."

Then ICE deported them anyway. www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/u-visa-t-violence-against-women-act-ice-trump-deportation-lawsuit/

Mother Jones magazine March/April 2026 issue. Trumps War on History.

Mother Jones on the shelf

🚨 you can still get a copy of Mother Jones featuring the cover story I wrote with @dfriedman.bsky.social at Hudson News in Union Station!!

It’s not just Ms. Rachel.

The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention.

Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

(Love me some Calhoun too but recognize that is an extremely provincial take)

Have long loved me some Geno but that was a Calhoun move there

Who among us has not found ourselves at a Waffle House by mysterious means after a very long night

Read @davidcorn.bsky.social's succinct but thorough tour of the escalating intra-MAGA warfare. As he points out, the key point of contention here often seems to be... Jews.

Another mom talked about what happened when politicians visited Dilley:

One mom talked about Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old with the Spiderman backpack who was detained for ten days:

Several parents of young kids described a disastrous Christmas:

One mom said guards took away her 9-year-old daughter's crayons "for our security and so the children would not write more letters about the conditions at Dilley." She managed to keep two of her child's letters:

Punished for protesting, talking to the press, having a toothache: More Dilley horror stories A new batch of firsthand accounts from ICE's family detention center depict vindictive treatment.

We went through more first-hand accounts from Dilley, the only immigrant family detention center. It's the little details that really stick with me—Christmas "celebrations," a girl's letter asking for help, accounts of being hidden away during congressional visits www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Screenshot from text: When we took part in a peaceful protest here, one guard here told us that they were going to charge all of us with crimes for obstructing the law and then separate all the fathers and send them to a prison if we ever did another protest. They also said they were going to use the cameras to identify who was participating in the protests. After hearing these threats, we felt overwhelmed with fear. —33-year-old father of a four-year-old girl, on their 49th day at Dilley (February 11)

"When we took part in a peaceful protest here, one guard here told us that they were going to charge all of us with crimes for obstructing the law and then separate all the fathers and send them to a prison if we ever did another protest."

In the letter on the left, a 9-year-old writes, “Please help me get out of here. I want to study, I want to be free with my sister,” with the words “freedom” and “help” above her drawing. On the right, she writes, “We’ve been here four months but for me and my sister it seems like a year.”

One mother said CoreCivic staffers took away her 9-year-old daughter's crayons: "They said they were throwing away the crayons for our security and so the children would not write more letters about the conditions at Dilley." She kept two of her child's letters, though, and they're heartbreaking: