Ian Gordon
@idgordon.bsky.social
Editorial director for teams and coverage, @MotherJones.com. Immigration, Latin America, sports, and serial commas. Dadfluencer.
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weird to say but 1924 is still I think underexamined as a lodestar for some of America's worst people
Every bit of @timothypmurphy.bsky.social's historical look at the Border Patrol's spiritual founder rings true today
The Border Patrol is an engine of crisis—and has been since the beginning
As the troubled law enforcement agency turns 100, meet the forgotten cowboy-congressman who pushed it into existence.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
weird to say but 1924 is still I think underexamined as a lodestar for some of America's worst people
“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, haha bitches, I got a new scooter!” @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social had me hooked from the jump:
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, haha bitches, I got a new scooter!” @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social had me hooked from the jump:
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🎯🎯Must read piece on how John Roberts created the conditions for Trump’s rise and has enabled his criminality at every turn by @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🎯🎯Must read piece on how John Roberts created the conditions for Trump’s rise and has enabled his criminality at every turn by @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"It should come as little surprise, then, that Trump and Stephen Miller, who oversees the administration’s mass-deportation campaign, have turned the U.S. Border Patrol inward, deploying its green-uniformed agents to cities and states around the country."
NEW Every State is a Border Patrol State — why the Trump admin wants border agents to take over the mass deportation campaign and deliver the arrest numbers ICE has missed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com
The Green Machine
Why the Border Patrol–not ICE—is taking over Trump’s mass-deportation campaign
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November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"It should come as little surprise, then, that Trump and Stephen Miller, who oversees the administration’s mass-deportation campaign, have turned the U.S. Border Patrol inward, deploying its green-uniformed agents to cities and states around the country."
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I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
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So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
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How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes.
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/
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This story also has one of the most memorable quotes I've ever been told.
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This story also has one of the most memorable quotes I've ever been told.
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
"[Robinson] said she’d recently told a friend concerned for her safety for speaking out that she has “three big dogs and a revolver” and that her address is '123 I Wish A Motherfucker Would.'"
If you're wondering, "Who is this Clay Higgins dude who voted against releasing the Epstein files?," @nlanard.bsky.social has you covered:
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November 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If you're wondering, "Who is this Clay Higgins dude who voted against releasing the Epstein files?," @nlanard.bsky.social has you covered:
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I wrote about how an Iraq-war era military contractor ended up as a mall cop cracking down on a protest encampment in Minneapolis the summer after the George Floyd protests. This is the story of Nathan Seabrook and long arc of the war on terror. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How a mercenary became a Minneapolis mall cop
After the George Floyd protests, a former military contractor named Nathan Seabrook brought the war home.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I wrote about how an Iraq-war era military contractor ended up as a mall cop cracking down on a protest encampment in Minneapolis the summer after the George Floyd protests. This is the story of Nathan Seabrook and long arc of the war on terror. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kill your darlings, but also if these are your darlings there are deeper issues to resolve
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Kill your darlings, but also if these are your darlings there are deeper issues to resolve
"waivered" is killing me, bill
Bill Belichick: “I have not and will not pursue any NFL head coaching vacancies.”
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"waivered" is killing me, bill
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If anyone wants to take absurdly glamorous photos of me while I talk about my most regrettable situationships I AM available
November 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If anyone wants to take absurdly glamorous photos of me while I talk about my most regrettable situationships I AM available
Congrats to Bill Pulte for being named this week's Washington Main Character (Non-Epstein Division)
Bill Pulte is really having a week
The revelations against the Trump loyalist keep piling up.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Congrats to Bill Pulte for being named this week's Washington Main Character (Non-Epstein Division)
They're raising undergrad tuition at my alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
For out-of-staters, it's going up 10%—or $4,320 per year.
For in-state students, it's going up 3%—or *$211 per year.*
For out-of-staters, it's going up 10%—or $4,320 per year.
For in-state students, it's going up 3%—or *$211 per year.*
UNC BOT approves proposed in-state tuition increase for class of 2030, now awaits UNC System approval
The proposed rates will be submitted to the UNC System Office in early December and will be reviewed by the UNC Board of Governors in early 2026.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
They're raising undergrad tuition at my alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
For out-of-staters, it's going up 10%—or $4,320 per year.
For in-state students, it's going up 3%—or *$211 per year.*
For out-of-staters, it's going up 10%—or $4,320 per year.
For in-state students, it's going up 3%—or *$211 per year.*
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It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos
The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jesus Christ: "Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces."
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In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation
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November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Jesus Christ: "Ultimately, between the money she made from her interactions with men and in the food services industry she was able to save up enough money to get braces."
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"With the penny’s demise, coin enthusiasts’ worried eyes now turn toward its longtime associate, the nickel. Its purchasing power has also shrunk to nearly nothing, and it costs more than a dime to make."
The Penny Dies at 232
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November 13, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"With the penny’s demise, coin enthusiasts’ worried eyes now turn toward its longtime associate, the nickel. Its purchasing power has also shrunk to nearly nothing, and it costs more than a dime to make."
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Meanwhile, on X
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Meanwhile, on X
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
someone stop adam silver, man
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
someone stop adam silver, man
@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social has provided absolutely vital reporting on Trump’s deportation campaign. Here’s another can’t-miss story:
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social has provided absolutely vital reporting on Trump’s deportation campaign. Here’s another can’t-miss story:
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Well... at least we know where Red Panda is tonight...
November 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Well... at least we know where Red Panda is tonight...
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with @nlanard.bsky.social we ran the numbers on where Mamdani-mentum peaked—and checked back on the neighborhoods where Democratic support cratered in 2024 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Democrats collapsed here last year. How’d Zohran do?
New York's mayor-elect launched his campaign by talking to non-voters and Trump supporters. Some of them even came along.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
with @nlanard.bsky.social we ran the numbers on where Mamdani-mentum peaked—and checked back on the neighborhoods where Democratic support cratered in 2024 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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jesus christ
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
jesus christ
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"She enthusiastically complimented my bangs and I was later disturbed to discover that she’d been arrested in 2022 for breaking into the apartment building of a New York City councilmember and vandalizing his office building with homophobic messages." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
My night with Sliwa superfans
At the Republican watch party, there was one point of political agreement: Andrew Cuomo sucks.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
"She enthusiastically complimented my bangs and I was later disturbed to discover that she’d been arrested in 2022 for breaking into the apartment building of a New York City councilmember and vandalizing his office building with homophobic messages." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I checked in with Curtis Sliwa. He still doesn't care what you think.
"Everybody loves Curtis,” the failed Republican candidate told me a couple hours ago, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
New @motherjones.com:
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"Everybody loves Curtis,” the failed Republican candidate told me a couple hours ago, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
New @motherjones.com:
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I checked in with Curtis Sliwa. He still doesn't care what you think.
"Everybody loves Curtis," the failed Republican candidate said, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I checked in with Curtis Sliwa. He still doesn't care what you think.
"Everybody loves Curtis,” the failed Republican candidate told me a couple hours ago, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
New @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"Everybody loves Curtis,” the failed Republican candidate told me a couple hours ago, despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
New @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...