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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h

Eswatini is Africa’s last remaining absolute monarchy.

In other words, it's just the kind of country—small, untroubled by democracy, and presumably eager to avoid a superpower’s wrath—with which the Trump administration has been eager to do business.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3h

Despite Alligator Alcatraz’s shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country—everything from the “Cornhusker Clink” to the “Speedway Slammer”

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h

With $75 billion from Congress and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 5h

Thanks, Congress.

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

Mother Jones has substantially more paid subscribers than Bari Weiss’ Free Press, so perhaps someone should put us in charge of a TV network.

Nice little TV network you got there

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

I am once again asking... does anyone in the Trump administration know what habeas corpus is?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

Chain-link cages. Flooded tents. Clouds of mosquitoes. Malfunctioning AC. Scarce food. Zero recreational time: Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz.

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

When it comes to Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point. But now anti-immigrant animus is being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

The Trump administration is “shrinking the courts because they don’t think they’re going to need them.”

“Fired for no reason”: Former immigration judges speak out against Trump’s assault on the courts

The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h

“I know some judges who had packed up their offices in anticipation of being fired.”

The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

“Fired for no reason”: Former immigration judges speak out against Trump’s assault on the courts

The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9h

“I don’t think, in health policy history, we’ve [ever] seen as big a projected increase in health insurance premiums.”

As the federal government enters the ninth day of its shutdown, soaring health care costs, the crux of the shutdown fight, are looking increasingly likely.

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 10h

Chain-link cages. Flooded tents. Clouds of mosquitoes. Malfunctioning AC. Scarce food. Zero recreational time: Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz. (1/x)

Inside the hell of Alligator Alcatraz

Despite shocking conditions and rampant “psychological warfare,” copycats are popping up around the country.

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 10h

Did you hear about the tiny company based out of a random house in Virginia that won $1.3 billion to build an ICE detention center?

How did it get that deal? Turns out a lot of the money is going to a bigger firm—whose owner is friendly with the Trump fam. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy.

A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the monarchy $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h

Trump’s war on wind power has one very big exception: His own sons.

Eric and Don Jr. have been using scarce clean energy to mine for bitcoins.

Trump's war on wind power has one very big exception

The president's sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for bitcoins.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h

As the federal government enters the ninth day of a shutdown sparked by Congress’ failure to pass a continuing resolution, soaring health care costs, the crux of the shutdown fight, are looking increasingly likely.

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h

When it comes to Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point, but anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

The new immigration dragnet is everywhere, rife with conflicts, and it’s only just begun.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

We take a look at ICE's skyrocketing expansion, the agency's failing standards, and where detention centers are planned for next. bit.ly/4nIoFrB

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11h

The influencers may seem harmless—until you consider them amid the erosion of women’s rights.

Trad Wives Are Thriving in the Post-Dobbs Era

The influencers may seem harmless—until you consider them amid the erosion of women's rights.

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The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 14h

Without action by January 1, premiums for 20 million people will more than double. This is the largest projected increase in insurance premiums in U.S. history.

@motherjones.com exclusive interview with TCF’s Jeanne Lambrew, an architect of the ACA.

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12h

Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13h

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

Nice little TV network you got there

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13h

A large new study confirms: Age and gender biases are deeply baked into what we see online

It's true: The internet skews the reality of women (and men) in the workforce

Age and gender biases are baked into what we see online, a large new study confirms.

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 13h

ICE’s detention state, by the numbers (1/x)

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

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Reveal @revealnews.org · 1d

“I am extremely pessimistic about what would happen if we allowed Silicon Valley to keep building the technology the way that they want to."

We sat down with @karenhao.bsky.social to talk about OpenAI's rapid rise on this week’s “More To The Story.”

Listen here: tinyurl.com/4v5by3wm

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