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There may be no turning back this climate crisis
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (1327+ words) The 2024 Park Fire near Chico, California. David McNew/Getty The world is poised to overshoot the goal of limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as for the first time, a three-year period, ending in 2025, has breached the threshold. And…...
How Minneapolis taught America to fight back
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (269+ words) How Minneapolis Taught America to Fight Back'Mother Jones A protester sits in the street at West 27th Street and Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis in front of a large group of federal agents and Minneapolis police.Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Minnesota Star Tribune…...
Editor’s Note – Mother Jones
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (239+ words) This story has been removed. Following publication, we learned that the video that we were told was of a warrantless raid in Memphis was from another incident in a different city. As a result, we are no longer confident of…...
These Haitian meatpacking workers face deportation. They voted to strike anyway.
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (283+ words) Ted Genoways3 hours ago Workers at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado, cast their ballots in the UFCW Local 7 strike vote on February 4, 2026.Mary Anne Andrei This story was produced in partnership with the Food & Environment Reporting Network. The strike…...
Six vital lessons from Minnesota’s general strike
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (1406+ words) Every few months, you likely notice something: people on Instagram calling for a general strike. The posts will appear suddenly, evincing urgency but sparse in details. Their provenance is usually obscure. But the message is always clear. To resist Trump's…...
Illinois representative asks God to get Trump to "do what is right"
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (387+ words) US Representative Jonathan Jackson (L), Democrat from Illinois, speaks as President Donald Trump (R) listens during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC on February 5, 2026. During his address to God at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Rep....
Trump’s FBI raid could lead to a takeover of elections in Georgia’s largest county
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (1134+ words) On Monday, in a dramatic escalation of his administration's attempt to interfere in the midterm elections, President Trump called on Republicans "to take over the voting in at least 15 places." Trump's efforts "to nationalize the voting, as he put it,…...
The lessons of Kent State
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (1535+ words) Lawrence Roberts1 minute ago Left: A line of Ohio National Guardsmen, with rifles and gas masks, on the Kent State University campus as they prepare to disperse student protesters, Kent, Ohio, May 4, 1970; Right: US Border Patrol agents holding no less-lethal weapons…...
Health department will mine unverified vaccine injury claims with new AI tool
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (599+ words) United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy JrAaron Schwartz/Pool/CNP/ZUMA This story was originally published by WIRED'and'is reproduced here as part of the'Climate Desk'collaboration. The US Department'of Health and Human Services (HHS) is developing a…...
Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman"
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (738+ words) Madison Pauly7 minutes ago For at least two years, Trump had been promising to "get transgender out" of schools, women's sports, and the military. "It will be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders:…...