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Monster of 2024: Food Delivery Customers. Get Your Own Damn Food!

Mother Jones illustration; Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress/Getty The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past...

31.12.2024 5

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How a Fantasy Oil Train May Help the Supreme Court Gut a Major Environmental Law

A train transports freight on a common carrier line near Price, Utah. Rick Bowmer/AP The state of Utah has come up with its share of boondoggles...

18.12.2024 10

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Enjoy Your Air Travel This Thanksgiving. Next Year Will Likely Be Much, Much Worse.

People wait in a TSA checkpoint line at Orlando International Airport on November 19, 2022, in Orlando, Florida. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via AP...

22.11.2024 10

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Pete Hegseth Is Ready to Bring the Culture War to the Pentagon

Evan Vucci/AP Photo Some of the nation’s legendary “great men”—leaders like George Marshall and Clark Clifford—have served the country as defense...

14.11.2024 5

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Donald Trump, Candidate of Retribution, Is on the Verge of Returning to Power

Alex Brandon/AP Former President Donald Trump was poised to return to the White House for a second time, ending Tuesday evening on the brink of...

06.11.2024 8

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The Front Row Joes Ponder What May Be Their Last Trump Rally

Supporters arrive at an election night watch party for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in West...

06.11.2024 8

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Musk Gave $1 Million to the PAC of QAnon Promoter Who Allegedly Photographed Sex in GOP Office

Mother Jones illustration; Michael Swensen/Getty; Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty; Getty In August, former President Donald Trump called the billionaire...

01.11.2024 4

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Anyone Can Access GOP Voter Data on Turning Point’s Canvassing App

Mother Jones illustration; Turning Points; Getty Before I could knock on the door of the house in rural, upstate New York, a big, burly man dressed...

29.10.2024 2

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Republicans and Democrats Believe Their Candidate Will Win—By a Lot

Ted Soqui/SIPA/AP/Sipa via AP Images Good news, patriots! American voters have finally found something they can agree about: Their candidate is...

17.10.2024 1

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Barbara Kingsolver Gets Why Rural Voters Love Trump

Pulitzer-prize winning author Barbara Kingsolver Evan Kafka/Barbara Kingsolver On Friday, the Pulitzer-prize winning author Barbara Kingsolver is...

11.10.2024 8

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MAGA Church Plans to Raffle a Trump AR-15 at Second Amendment Rally

Hyung Jin ''Sean'' Moon during the 2023 Rod of Iron Festival Zach Roberts/NurPhoto via AP In July, former President Donald Trump was nearly...

09.10.2024 10

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Trump Can Thank Far-Right Extremist Ammon Bundy for His Housing Policy

Mother Jones illustration; Anna Moneymaker/Getty; Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/AP; Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty During the vice...

07.10.2024 1

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JD Vance Says His “Mamaw” Had Eight Miscarriages. His Policies Deny Women Like Her Lifesaving Care.

JD Vance speaks to supporters during a campaign event at the Northwestern Michigan Fair grounds. Scott Olson/Getty One in every ten pregnancies in...

01.10.2024 10

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An Election in Two Schedules: Veep Edition

Democratic vice presidential nominee and Governor TIM WALZ speaks at a debate watch party at the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Arizona. Gage...

29.09.2024 3

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January 6er Joins RFK Jr. on the National Mall This Weekend

Conservative activist Brandon Straka who was sentenced to probation after Jan 6th holds a performance at CPAC Texas, wearing an orange jumpsuit and...

28.09.2024 1

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