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Inae Oh Pulling hazard duty to get to the bottom of why anybody would be attached to RFK Jr: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Inae Oh Pulling hazard duty to get to the bottom of why anybody would be attached to RFK Jr: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The notion of RFK Jr. and sex appeal is risible, nauseating, and deeply upsetting. It disgusts me too!
But some prominent women seem to love him with an unmatched ferocity. How can this be? I look into what ails them:
But some prominent women seem to love him with an unmatched ferocity. How can this be? I look into what ails them:
The inexplicable sex appeal of RFK Jr.
How can such ferocious desire be attached to this man? Two memoirs by the women who love him offer some clues.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The notion of RFK Jr. and sex appeal is risible, nauseating, and deeply upsetting. It disgusts me too!
But some prominent women seem to love him with an unmatched ferocity. How can this be? I look into what ails them:
But some prominent women seem to love him with an unmatched ferocity. How can this be? I look into what ails them:
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In 2021, @nlanard.bsky.social came back from a hunger strike of taxi drivers and told me that a politician who had just turned 30 might be the future of politics in NYC. Here's a look back at a pivotal moment in Mamdani's rise
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The moment that made Mamdani
How a 15-day hunger strike foreshadowed his campaign.
www.motherjones.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
In 2021, @nlanard.bsky.social came back from a hunger strike of taxi drivers and told me that a politician who had just turned 30 might be the future of politics in NYC. Here's a look back at a pivotal moment in Mamdani's rise
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
November 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It is worth saying that putting “Africana studies” in scare quotes as if it’s a ridiculous concept is not a political argument. It’s just racism. “Africa is not worthy of a major” is the implication. Yeah dude you’re just racist. (From Gerard Baker at the WSJ today)
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
www.wsj.com/opinion/mamd...
“Our culture is built to eternally forgive men, generally, and white men of means, especially, for their mistakes.”
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on Platner and the bone-headed calls from Dems to forgive a wee bit of racism now and then is very, very good.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on Platner and the bone-headed calls from Dems to forgive a wee bit of racism now and then is very, very good.
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“Our culture is built to eternally forgive men, generally, and white men of means, especially, for their mistakes.”
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on Platner and the bone-headed calls from Dems to forgive a wee bit of racism now and then is very, very good.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social on Platner and the bone-headed calls from Dems to forgive a wee bit of racism now and then is very, very good.
"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" is a GAUNLET of a film and performance by Rose Byrne.
I talked to brilliant writer + director Mary Bronstein about our mutual love for Conan, the cosmic shitshow of motherhood, and the rare thrill of watching a REAL middle-aged woman's face on a giant screen.
I talked to brilliant writer + director Mary Bronstein about our mutual love for Conan, the cosmic shitshow of motherhood, and the rare thrill of watching a REAL middle-aged woman's face on a giant screen.
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” invites you to look directly at a woman's rage
Mary Bronstein’s new film is a shot-out-of-a-cannon rejoinder to the message that suffering women should “tough it out.”
www.motherjones.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" is a GAUNLET of a film and performance by Rose Byrne.
I talked to brilliant writer + director Mary Bronstein about our mutual love for Conan, the cosmic shitshow of motherhood, and the rare thrill of watching a REAL middle-aged woman's face on a giant screen.
I talked to brilliant writer + director Mary Bronstein about our mutual love for Conan, the cosmic shitshow of motherhood, and the rare thrill of watching a REAL middle-aged woman's face on a giant screen.
"When politicians say 'able-bodied,' it’s a roundabout way of downplaying the challenges faced by people who have been left behind, yet deemed capable enough to contribute to capitalism.
But their language fails to hide the true message: The state does not want to help you."
But their language fails to hide the true message: The state does not want to help you."
The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge
How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused
www.motherjones.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"When politicians say 'able-bodied,' it’s a roundabout way of downplaying the challenges faced by people who have been left behind, yet deemed capable enough to contribute to capitalism.
But their language fails to hide the true message: The state does not want to help you."
But their language fails to hide the true message: The state does not want to help you."
One wind farm in Texas had been supplying enough clean energy to power thousands of homes.
"But now it will be sending all that electricity to Eric Trump’s bitcoin machines instead" -- just as Dad declares war on wind power construction for everyone else!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"But now it will be sending all that electricity to Eric Trump’s bitcoin machines instead" -- just as Dad declares war on wind power construction for everyone else!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's war on wind power has one very big exception
The president's sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for bitcoins.
www.motherjones.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
One wind farm in Texas had been supplying enough clean energy to power thousands of homes.
"But now it will be sending all that electricity to Eric Trump’s bitcoin machines instead" -- just as Dad declares war on wind power construction for everyone else!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"But now it will be sending all that electricity to Eric Trump’s bitcoin machines instead" -- just as Dad declares war on wind power construction for everyone else!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
There are many ways to take in Samin Nosrat's much-anticipated new cookbook! But for me, it arrives as a gorgeous antidote to these soul-sucking times, a practical guide to an intentional life + the daily ask of what makes a good life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Eight years in the making, Samin Nosrat's new cookbook arrives right on time
Can a cookbook reveal the ingredients for a good life? Nosrat's latest offers a guide.
www.motherjones.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
There are many ways to take in Samin Nosrat's much-anticipated new cookbook! But for me, it arrives as a gorgeous antidote to these soul-sucking times, a practical guide to an intentional life + the daily ask of what makes a good life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump's takeovers of America's largest cities are about much more than deportations and supposed "crime." Advocates worry that they preview the plan for the 2026 midterms: the military at polls + ICE citizenship checks at the ballot.
Read @ariberman.bsky.social's latest:
Read @ariberman.bsky.social's latest:
Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election
From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...
www.motherjones.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Trump's takeovers of America's largest cities are about much more than deportations and supposed "crime." Advocates worry that they preview the plan for the 2026 midterms: the military at polls + ICE citizenship checks at the ballot.
Read @ariberman.bsky.social's latest:
Read @ariberman.bsky.social's latest:
Perfect casting. Masterful. I am in awe.
Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship
www.nytimes.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Perfect casting. Masterful. I am in awe.
Wall-to-wall absurdity in this!! But this quote—"This is gonna be so subtle and fabulous for school drop-off.”—broke me, now has me googling local options for a facelift :((((
The Forever-35 Face
The face-lift is better than ever, and everybody wants one. Deep inside the uncanny world of the surgically ageless.
www.thecut.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Wall-to-wall absurdity in this!! But this quote—"This is gonna be so subtle and fabulous for school drop-off.”—broke me, now has me googling local options for a facelift :((((
my hot take is that Bridgegate *should* get re-investigated, its cartoon mob villains studied and poked in a lab to explain today's never-ending Bridgegates
Trump's retribution tour threatens to go after Bridgegate, a notorious retribution scheme
His campaign is careening toward its logical extreme, no matter how obvious the irony.
www.motherjones.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
my hot take is that Bridgegate *should* get re-investigated, its cartoon mob villains studied and poked in a lab to explain today's never-ending Bridgegates
"And Just Like That … was a state of mind, and that mind was in a coma."
And Just Like That, And Just Like That … Is Dead
And I’m actually really sad about it.
www.vulture.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"And Just Like That … was a state of mind, and that mind was in a coma."
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Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.
Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers
Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.
"Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began."
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
"Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began."
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
"You can't fake that" is a shockingly crass way of describing mass starvation.
But look a little closer, and Trump's remarks are just a variation on an American theme: Yes, we see the starving kids but we won’t do anything about it.
Same goes for Dems who condemn but still won't say Israel.
But look a little closer, and Trump's remarks are just a variation on an American theme: Yes, we see the starving kids but we won’t do anything about it.
Same goes for Dems who condemn but still won't say Israel.
"They look very hungry" and a familiar American excuse
Trump seemed to admit that children in Gaza are starving. He's just the latest politician to pretend he can't do something about it.
www.motherjones.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"You can't fake that" is a shockingly crass way of describing mass starvation.
But look a little closer, and Trump's remarks are just a variation on an American theme: Yes, we see the starving kids but we won’t do anything about it.
Same goes for Dems who condemn but still won't say Israel.
But look a little closer, and Trump's remarks are just a variation on an American theme: Yes, we see the starving kids but we won’t do anything about it.
Same goes for Dems who condemn but still won't say Israel.
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“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.”
Here's a rundown on what to know @motherjones.com. Be warned that the latest images we have from Gaza are disturbing.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.”
Here's a rundown on what to know @motherjones.com. Be warned that the latest images we have from Gaza are disturbing.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say
"People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses."
www.motherjones.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.”
Here's a rundown on what to know @motherjones.com. Be warned that the latest images we have from Gaza are disturbing.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.”
Here's a rundown on what to know @motherjones.com. Be warned that the latest images we have from Gaza are disturbing.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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"The female guards would count to 20 as they administered the beatings, and if the prisoners complained or cried out, they would start again...Tito Martínez, one of the inmates, recalled that a prison nurse was watching. 'Hit the piñata,' she cheered."
No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive
Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their four months in CECOT.
www.theatlantic.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"The female guards would count to 20 as they administered the beatings, and if the prisoners complained or cried out, they would start again...Tito Martínez, one of the inmates, recalled that a prison nurse was watching. 'Hit the piñata,' she cheered."
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“For infants, we have virtually no baby formula. Children are being given 10% dextrose (sugar water), which has no nutritional value ... When an international colleague tried to bring baby formula into Gaza, Israeli authorities confiscated it.”
I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard
A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“For infants, we have virtually no baby formula. Children are being given 10% dextrose (sugar water), which has no nutritional value ... When an international colleague tried to bring baby formula into Gaza, Israeli authorities confiscated it.”
"I am not a survivor or a responder. I’m a witness, or a voyeur. The distress I am feeling is shame."
I think about this piece often, but especially this week.
I think about this piece often, but especially this week.
The Year in ‘Sensitive Content’ (Published 2023)
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"I am not a survivor or a responder. I’m a witness, or a voyeur. The distress I am feeling is shame."
I think about this piece often, but especially this week.
I think about this piece often, but especially this week.
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"I crawled on my hands and knees through a crowd... I had to collect whatever had fallen to the ground — lentils, rice, chickpeas, pasta, even salt. My bones ache from being stepped on, but I have to do it for my children. I can’t bear the sound of their hunger"
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
We are starving
My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.
www.972mag.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"I crawled on my hands and knees through a crowd... I had to collect whatever had fallen to the ground — lentils, rice, chickpeas, pasta, even salt. My bones ache from being stepped on, but I have to do it for my children. I can’t bear the sound of their hunger"
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
www.972mag.com/hunger-gaza-...
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AI not beating the allegations that it's fucking stupid
Why This AI Influencer Is Going Viral at Wimbledon (Yes, You Read That Right)
Mia Zelu uploaded an Instagram carousel of herself seemingly at Wimbledon; however, the post isn't what her nearly 200K followers think because she's an AI-powered social media influencer.
people.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
AI not beating the allegations that it's fucking stupid
They look like divorcees who wander America's dead malls.
But while the look of ICE agents is easy to mock, their accessible masculinity is helping excuse and normalize institutionalized terror.
I take a look at how ICE's bro aesthetics fit into MAGA's larger cultural project.
But while the look of ICE agents is easy to mock, their accessible masculinity is helping excuse and normalize institutionalized terror.
I take a look at how ICE's bro aesthetics fit into MAGA's larger cultural project.
The plainclothes goon squad
The aesthetics of ICE—puff-chested and average bro—do more than shroud Trump’s immigration cops in secrecy.
www.motherjones.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They look like divorcees who wander America's dead malls.
But while the look of ICE agents is easy to mock, their accessible masculinity is helping excuse and normalize institutionalized terror.
I take a look at how ICE's bro aesthetics fit into MAGA's larger cultural project.
But while the look of ICE agents is easy to mock, their accessible masculinity is helping excuse and normalize institutionalized terror.
I take a look at how ICE's bro aesthetics fit into MAGA's larger cultural project.
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an enlivening piece from @inaeoh.bsky.social on the aesthetics of ICE www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The plainclothes goon squad
The aesthetics of ICE—puff-chested and average bro—do more than shroud Trump’s immigration cops in secrecy.
www.motherjones.com
July 21, 2025 at 12:17 PM
an enlivening piece from @inaeoh.bsky.social on the aesthetics of ICE www.motherjones.com/politics/202...