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I knew this would happen. It’s one of the first pieces of advice I give in my next book – IF YOU CAN, PLEASE LIVE IN A HOUSE BEFORE YOU RENOVATE. You need to experience it, have a few months of “day in a life” so you aren’t trying to guess your future behaviors. But we wanted to stay in this fully done mountain house while we renovate and since…
Tea Party Patriots National Coordinator Jenny Beth MartinChip Somodevilla/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. Under Jenny Beth Martin’s direction, Tea Party Patriots has sprawled into a dark-money network where millions of dollars in often anonymous donations slosh around with little transparency. Tea Party Patriots Action Founded 2017 In 2019, this…
New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps.Uncredited/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It’s December 2025, the end of a difficult year. Just a few months earlier, a massive hurricane destroyed dozens of homes in your town, even…
Erich Schlegel/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. During a trip through Texas last month, I found myself waiting in the security line at the state capitol. In order to enter, I had to pass through a metal detector. But to my left there was a separate line: it allowed Texans…
Being aware of BIPOC experiences, rape culture, and being an ally By Shivani Jeet, Contributor I think examples of rape culture are telling women they need to use the buddy system, carry weapons with them, or warning women against walking home alone at night and to take the safest path home. April is considered to be sexual assault awareness month and typically, many sexual assault survivors and women’s advocates start…
This was yet another heartbreaking week and we were reminded (not that we needed it) that very little has changed since last June. All of our words feel insufficient. So for a moment of rest and maybe a little joy, here is this week’s link up with an important resource for us all at the end. Carmeon, you know, the newest Design Star, is currently partnering with an incredible non-profit…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) on the House steps on Wednesday, March 10, 2021. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters. UPDATE, 7:57 p.m.: After pushback, the American First Caucus has been, according to CNN, scrapped. Congress might be getting a new caucus. What makes this one different?…
Shoppers at every large Tesco store in the UK can now donate food items to help people in their community each time they visit. Tesco is installing more Than 250 new food donation points across the UK so that customers can now donate to Foodbanks in the Trussell Trust’s network or those groups supported by FareShare at all of its Superstores and Tesco Extra stores throughout the country. The new…
Oh my god SHOES! Welcome to another fashion post where we show you the REAL things we’ve bought and love in REAL LIFE on REAL bodies! And this time we’re chatting shoes, guys. A few weeks ago we were in a team meeting and Caitlin told us how she can’t stop buying statement shoes (and this was at the time where she could hardly walk due to back issues). Then…
Photo of Dan Crenshaw by Gage Skidmore A response to his victimhood analysisBy Matthew Fraser, Opinions Editor Arguing against economic bailouts by using political sadism seems like a bad idea. There has long been a section of the conservative right that loathes the “Welfare Queen”: a fictionalized woman, usually black, who failed her way through life, pumps out some kids, and seeks to live the rest of her days on…