Clint Hendler

It is really a low water mark to be at war with the one of the worst regimes on Earth and manage to come away as the callous and undignified party.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide

A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people.

The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images from the site:

" But if the yearning Talarico taps into wasn’t real, your relatives would not have sent you his videos. For decades, Democrats have longed for messengers, real and imaginary, who can defuse the power of the Christian right. At the apex of the Moral Majority, Aaron Sorkin wrote the West Wing’s Jeb Bartlett as a spiritual foil who quoted Leviticus chapter-and-verse to hypocritical Bible-thumpers. George W. Bush’s real-life successor wrote a bestselling memoir named for the sermon that changed his life. The West Wing, for its part, ended with the only fantasy more persistent than beating a bunch of theocrats at Bible Bonkers—a Democrat rising from obscurity and turning Texas blue."

The Texas Senate primary is today. Here's my profile of James Talarico, a new twist on something old: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

"It’s hard to know how much Stonepeak makes off this misery..."

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BREAKING: Shackled migrants trapped on deportation plane stuck in blizzard Migrants, agents and guards stuck on the Omni jet are being provided with heat and food, according to NH state representative.

BREAKING: Shackled migrants, federal agents and ICE-contracted guards have been stuck on an ICE deportation plane since 1 a.m. Monday, confirms NH state rep and aviation journalist @wandrme.paxex.aero.

My story:
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Reform UK suspends by-election campaign activist over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts EXCLUSIVE: Adam Mitula, Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside, has been assisting Matt Goodwin's Gorton and Denton by-election campaign

So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.”

When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?

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I spoke with 18 people who've known Florida Republican Congressman Cory Mills. Nearly everyone, I found, dislikes him.

As one Army veteran who served with Mills put it, “I wouldn’t piss on him if he was on fire."

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ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going.

Things are changing, y’all.

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The moment when Bianca, a US Postal worker in Minneapolis, found out her coworker's route served Alex Pretti's home

I’m a Minneapolis postal worker. This is what I saw. Come rain, shine, tear gas, or ICE shootings, postal worker Bianca Sonnenberg is delivering the mail.

Bianca shared her story about delivering mail the day Pretti was killed with @motherjones.com

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Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.

This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.

Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

What being a billionaire scion taught JB Pritzker about standing up to one Few national Democrats have pushed back as forcefully against Trump’s authoritarian crackdown. There’s a reason for that.

spent some time in Chicago, and also at a very nice library at Yale, trying to understand JB Pritzker www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DeLauro to pressing clergy: 'I will not vote to abolish ICE' The Connecticut U.S. representative found herself at odds with faith leaders.

This link has been updated to include our broadcast audio. Listen to hear some of the back and forth between DeLauro and the faith leaders, including DeLauro's simple declaration: "If the vote comes up, I will not vote to abolish ICE. I am telling you that."

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Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"

For some, freedom of speech is already gone Foreign-born academics are afraid to speak their mind in Donald Trump's America.

For many in the US, free speech is no longer a reality. In interviews with foreign-born academics, I repeatedly encountered fear that even mild criticism of the government (DJT) could cause problems, and that green cards and even citizenship wouldn't matter.

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Stephen Miller • @StephenM •9h If you want to combat fraud, crime and illegal immigration, reach out. Patriots needed. X Chad Mizelle @chad_mizelle •9h If you are a lawyer, are interested in being an AUSA, and support President Trump and anti-crime agenda, DM me. We need good prosecutors. And DOJ is hiri... 1.5K せて3.5K 14K ill 383K 企 t7 Stephen Miller reposted Chad Mizelle ® @chad_mizelle •9h If you are a lawyer, are interested in being an AUSA, and support President Trump and anti-crime agenda, DM me. X We need good prosecutors. And DOJ is hiring across the country. Now is your chance to join the mission and do good for our country. 999 LT1.5K 4.5K ill 1.2M 企

This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.

Wild: (Microsoft) Xbox Live banned Epstein for being a sex offender in 2013, but Microsoft founder Bill Gates kept making appointments with him

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

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College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

What women said "Melania" director Brett Ratner did to them The First Lady’s documentary premiere marks the return of a director accused of sexual violence by six actresses in 2017.

Sexual violence allegations left Brett Ratner desperate for a gig. Trump delivered.

CT service plaza workers begin bargaining after historic unionization Workers at Connecticut’s 23 Service Plazas on I-95, I-395, and Route 15 have started bargaining with their employer, Applegreen, for better pay. They unionized months ago.

"It's the first time that fast food workers in our state have been unionized, something we'd only seen in states like California or New York. So, this is a huge moment for us. This has been a half-decade-long fight for our members" @32bjseiu.bsky.social www.wshu.org/connecticut-...

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

Here we go

America has two major parties:

One party exists to serve the demented whims of our Nazi Pedophile Mad King.

One party isn’t sure whether to fund his lawless goons who are shooting legal observers in the face.

We need to end the two party system.

the chairman of NYC FC's ownership group just joined Trump's "Board of Peace." Brooklyn FC just signed Peter Mangioni. soccer never really lets you just tune out the news.

Meet the Minneapolis neighbors standing up to ICE by the thousands Local resistance is "growing exponentially," says Defend the 612's Andrew Fahlstrom.

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