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“I feel like I’m grieving my mother” Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

“It was so sudden and unexpected. It felt like she never really had a chance.”

07.03.2026 03:00 👍 137 🔁 50 💬 4 📌 0
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New York is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam AG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo.

NY Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.

07.03.2026 02:00 👍 898 🔁 264 💬 23 📌 9
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Trump to mass death: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The president's shruggy nihilism extends to Iranians, US soldiers, and you.

Trump's shruggy nihilism extends to Iranians, US soldiers, and you.

07.03.2026 01:00 👍 235 🔁 77 💬 11 📌 3
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Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.

After Trump was reelected, he quickly pardoned anti-abortion activists convicted of harassing and threatening clinic patients and staff. Federal investigations into bomb threats against clinics suddenly vanished.

@kbeccaandrews.bsky.social reports on a newly emboldened abortion protest movement:

07.03.2026 00:10 👍 197 🔁 100 💬 10 📌 4
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Iran, the US, and the making of a new Middle East Author and journalist Davar Ardalan has seen Iran up close before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. On this week’s “More To The Story,” she examines how the US-Israeli military strikes are once a...

US-Israeli strikes in Iran have ushered in a new and unpredictable era in the Middle East.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” author and longtime journalist Davar Ardalan examines how the conflict is spreading—and what might be next for Iran.

06.03.2026 23:55 👍 35 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
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How to Leak to Us The Center for Investigative Reporting—home to Mother Jones and Reveal—has a long track record of fairly and responsibly reporting sensitive stories and breaking high-impact news that changes the…

Mother Jones is America’s oldest investigative news outlet. We are an independent newsroom (meaning we don’t have any corporate owners), and are accountable only to you, our readers.

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06.03.2026 23:33 👍 201 🔁 79 💬 5 📌 0
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ICE wants to turn warehouses into detention centers. The suburbs are fighting back.

“Most of our pickleball group is here,” said Marion Atwater, a 73-year-old in a navy visor and puffer jacket. “We did not bring our paddles, but we are here with our signs.”

Read more here: https://bit.ly/40jJek3

06.03.2026 22:32 👍 707 🔁 200 💬 12 📌 11
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A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future “This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

"This isn't a border checkpoint. This is your neighborhood. ICE is now running facial recognition on phones — stopping people on the street, scanning faces in real time. What happens when the algorithm is wrong?"

06.03.2026 22:01 👍 173 🔁 88 💬 10 📌 4
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Trump to mass death: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The president's shruggy nihilism extends to Iranians, US soldiers, and you.

In the week since launching Operation Epic Fury, Trump’s war without an apparent endgame has killed 787 Iranians.

When asked whether Americans should be concerned about the possibility of retaliatory attacks here in the US, Trump said:

"I guess."

06.03.2026 21:47 👍 237 🔁 100 💬 38 📌 10
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New York is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam AG Letitia James will head an "independent assessment" of what happened to the Blind Rohingya refugee who Border Patrol dumped in Buffalo.

New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.

06.03.2026 21:02 👍 6014 🔁 1794 💬 117 📌 100
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Iran, the US, and the making of a new Middle East Author and journalist Davar Ardalan has seen Iran up close before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. On this week’s “More To The Story,” she examines how the US-Israeli military strikes are once a...

Author and journalist Davar Ardalan has seen Iran up close before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

On this week’s “More To The Story,” she examines how the US-Israeli military strikes are once again reshaping the country.

06.03.2026 20:47 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump to mass death: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The president's shruggy nihilism extends to Iranians, US soldiers, and you.

Unlike Hegseth, who appears drunk on performance as he thirsts for death, Trump’s thoughts on death here are eerily relaxed. such insouciance might not be new when it comes to America’s thirst for war.

But carrying it so openly and inelegantly is something else entirely.

06.03.2026 20:12 👍 249 🔁 70 💬 19 📌 9
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Violent. Anti-Abortion. Anti-Trans. Tweets from Trump's new DHS pick preview more of the same. Sen. Markwayne Mullin new role would grant him leeway to control how detained immigrants receive reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin's new role could grant him leeway to control how detained immigrants receive reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare.

06.03.2026 19:49 👍 154 🔁 68 💬 20 📌 13
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Trump to mass death: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The president's shruggy nihilism extends to Iranians, US soldiers, and you.

The president’s shruggy nihilism extends to Iranians, US soldiers, and you.

06.03.2026 19:08 👍 269 🔁 105 💬 21 📌 6
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These far-right conspiracists are pushing Trump to take control of voting Election deniers are lobbying the president to declare a national emergency.

Election deniers are lobbying the president to declare a national emergency.

06.03.2026 19:01 👍 126 🔁 63 💬 13 📌 4
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Violent. Anti-Abortion. Anti-Trans. Tweets from Trump's new DHS pick preview more of the same. Sen. Markwayne Mullin new role would grant him leeway to control how detained immigrants receive reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, Trump’s next pick for Homeland Security secretary, consistently uses his social media to share anti-abortion and anti-trans content.

And his new role could grant him leeway to control how detained immigrants receive reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare.

06.03.2026 18:28 👍 148 🔁 81 💬 22 📌 7
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Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.

“I have a bomb, I have a bomb. Don’t let anyone in or out of the clinic, or I’ll set it off.”

After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.

06.03.2026 17:39 👍 320 🔁 143 💬 15 📌 7
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“I feel like I’m grieving my mother” Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

Since its creation in 2012, DACA has allowed hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants to live and work in the United States without being subject to deportation.

DACA recipients have generally been spared from immigration enforcement—until now.

06.03.2026 17:00 👍 87 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 1
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"Demand is so great that programs to mentor attorneys to file habeas cases are emerging...

“I’m on all these listservs where people are saying, who can help me in Arizona, who can help me in Mississippi, and people are stepping up and helping each other...”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

05.03.2026 20:25 👍 4843 🔁 1535 💬 62 📌 48
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In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?

"American politics, like our faces, may never recover."

Read @inaeoh.bsky.social on the stagecraft that defined Kristi Noem's tenure, and what happens when extreme aesthetics are embraced for political conformity.

06.03.2026 15:30 👍 112 🔁 20 💬 9 📌 1
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Google’s sneaky trick to sidestep an Iowa county’s data center zoning rules Just convince a nearby city to annex the land.

Google’s sneaky trick to sidestep an Iowa county’s data center zoning rules [via @insideclimatenews.org]

06.03.2026 15:08 👍 113 🔁 64 💬 10 📌 7
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Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.

North Carolina is one of the last Southern states to allow abortions past 6 weeks of pregnancy.

@kbeccaandrews.bsky.social reports from a Charlotte clinic that has turned into a “destination spot” for protesters from all over the country.

06.03.2026 15:00 👍 99 🔁 31 💬 7 📌 2
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Evangelicals love Donald Trump for many reasons, but one of them is especially terrifying End Times.

“If it brings the end of the world, it brings the end of the world. They’re ready. They can’t wait for the Rapture to happen."

If you want to understand the nuances of Trump's self-created crisis in Iran, revisit @smencimer.bsky.social's deep-dive into our End Times president.

06.03.2026 14:48 👍 169 🔁 68 💬 37 📌 13
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“I feel like I’m grieving my mother” Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

“In a single moment, nearly 30 years of my life were taken away from me."

A mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

06.03.2026 14:09 👍 96 🔁 52 💬 7 📌 8
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A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future “This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future

06.03.2026 13:30 👍 93 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 5
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Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.

After Trump was reelected, he quickly pardoned anti-abortion activists convicted of harassing and threatening clinic patients and staff. Federal investigations into bomb threats against clinics suddenly vanished.

@kbeccaandrews.bsky.social reports on a newly emboldened abortion protest movement.

06.03.2026 13:00 👍 170 🔁 93 💬 4 📌 5
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“I feel like I’m grieving my mother” Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

Last month, 22-year-old Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

Before the officers could handcuff her, Maria Estrada Juarez asked if she could hug her daughter one last time.

06.03.2026 03:00 👍 205 🔁 86 💬 7 📌 5
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Ron DeSantis just keeps ordering more executions Signs of suffering and documented problems haven't slowed the Florida governor's execution spree.

Signs of suffering in Florida’s executions have not deterred Gov. Ron DeSantis from writing a record number of death warrants.

06.03.2026 02:00 👍 114 🔁 48 💬 12 📌 6
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A wave of quittings reveals the AI industry’s gloom and doom What's behind the existential terror seizing Silicon Valley?

“The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else on the planet. They believe it’s too powerful to stop and too important to abandon."

06.03.2026 01:00 👍 110 🔁 43 💬 13 📌 5
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"Downright disgraceful”: Gillibrand demands evacuation plan for Americans stranded in war zone Exclusive to Mother Jones: The senator says the administration has no plan to evacuate citizens after launching strikes on Iran.

Trump “has essentially told the thousands of citizens who are stuck in the Middle East because of a war he started that they are on their own,” the New York senator told Mother Jones.

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