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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 06 > trump-freedom-250-pins-national-park-service

Trump administration tells federal employees to wear "Freedom" pins—or else

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1033+ words) This week only, every donation is doubled! Halfway through our Summer Membership Drive, we’re still well behind where we need to be. But there’s good news: This week, every donation will be doubled up, to $50,000. That means you can have…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 06 > american-news-media-trust-journalism-bias-scene-on-radio

American journalism is in crisis. But is the problem what we think it is, and what would a more democratic media even look like?

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (379+ words) The truth doesn’t take a summer break. We’ve been at it for 50 years: exposing the coverups and corruption that the powerful would rather keep buried. That fight for the truth continues, but it takes readers like you to make it…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 05 > anti-trans-measures-ballot-candy-joe-lombardo-collins-platner

Are anti-trans ballot initiatives being used as Republican “ballot candy”?

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (695+ words) Mother Jones illustration; Getty At a fundraiser in early January, Nevada Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo outright admitted to donors he wasn’t the most inspiring candidate. “I am not enough of a motor—uh, a motivator—as a governor candidate to…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 04 > federal-judge-rfk-jr-unsafe-leader-in-order-protecting-trans-youth-health-care

Federal judge calls RFK Jr. an “unsafe” leader in order protecting trans youth health care

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (362+ words) Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Press In a scathing ruling describing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as an “unserious” and “unsafe” leader, a federal judge in Oregon issued an order that will protect doctors and hospitals,…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2025 > 10 > chiles-salazar-transgender-conversion-therapy-scotus

SCOTUS wades back into the war on trans kids—and considers greenlighting conversion therapy

11+ mon, 6+ day ago   (824+ words) Mother Jones is powered by readers who care about the future of our democracy. If that’s you, we need your help—this week especially. It’s our spring membership drive, and our goal is 1,000 new donations to fund the urgent investigations…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 04 > transgender-gender-affirming-care-hhs-manhattan-institute-segm-leor-sapir-trump

Trump is about to drop a “nuclear weapon” on trans youth health care

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (899+ words) The rule would deliver an ultimatum to hospitals: Stop providing the treatments to trans kids or get kicked out of the federal Medicaid and Medicare programs. “I have learned that my original vision of what my child’s life would look…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 03 > trans-day-of-visibility-supreme-court-conversion-therapy-ruling

On Trans Day of Visibility, Supreme Court sides with conversion therapy

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (537+ words) Demonstrators with Human Rights Campaign stand outside as the United States Supreme Court is set to hear free speech challenge to a ban on conversion therapy, on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Oct 07, 2025 in Washington, DC. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 03 > markwayne-mullin-dhs-noem-tweets

Violent. Anti-abortion. Anti-trans. Posts from Trump’s new DHS pick preview more of the same.

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (351+ words) Markwayne Mullin talks with reporters outside the US Capitol after President Donald Trump selected him to be Department of Homeland Security secretary to replace Kristi Noem on Thursday, March 5, 2026. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Sen. Markwayne Mullin of…...

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motherjones.com > media > 2026 > 03 > plainclothes-movie-gay-cruising-arrests

A New Film Explores the Not-So-Distant History of Gay Cruising Arrests

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (563+ words) Among the 200 arrested last summer, at least 20 of the men were taken into ICE custody, the Gothamist reported. New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal told Out the arrests were “a rather frightening callback to a period that we thought had…...

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motherjones.com > politics > 2026 > 02 > kansas-anti-trans-id-law-avery-rowland

"They want me to hide or leave or disappear"

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (882+ words) Protesters in Manhattan, Kansas, gather in Triangle Park on Saturday, along with 16 other cities across Kansas, to support the transgender and nonbinary community.Luke Townsend/ZUMA Avery Rowland starts almost all of her days by posting a TikTok video beginning…...