“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” invites you to look directly at a woman's rage Mary Bronstein’s new film is a shot-out-of-a-cannon rejoinder to the message that suffering women should “tough it out.”

"If I Had Legs I'd Kick You" is a GAUNLET of a film and performance by Rose Byrne.

I talked to brilliant writer + director Mary Bronstein about our mutual love for Conan, the cosmic shitshow of motherhood, and the rare thrill of watching a REAL middle-aged woman's face on a giant screen.

The deceptive phrase behind Trump's Medicaid purge How the idea of “able-bodied” is abused

"When politicians say 'able-bodied,' it’s a roundabout way of downplaying the challenges faced by people who have been left behind, yet deemed capable enough to contribute to capitalism.

But their language fails to hide the true message: The state does not want to help you."

Trump's war on wind power has one very big exception The president's sons are using scarce clean energy to mine for bitcoins.

One wind farm in Texas had been supplying enough clean energy to power thousands of homes.

"But now it will be sending all that electricity to Eric Trump’s bitcoin machines instead" -- just as Dad declares war on wind power construction for everyone else!

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Eight years in the making, Samin Nosrat's new cookbook arrives right on time Can a cookbook reveal the ingredients for a good life? Nosrat's latest offers a guide.

There are many ways to take in Samin Nosrat's much-anticipated new cookbook! But for me, it arrives as a gorgeous antidote to these soul-sucking times, a practical guide to an intentional life + the daily ask of what makes a good life. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Project 2026: Trump's plan to rig the next election From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favo...

Trump's takeovers of America's largest cities are about much more than deportations and supposed "crime." Advocates worry that they preview the plan for the 2026 midterms: the military at polls + ICE citizenship checks at the ballot.

Read @ariberman.bsky.social's latest:

Talks Between Adams and Trump Adviser Center on Saudi Ambassadorship

Perfect casting. Masterful. I am in awe.

The Forever-35 Face The face-lift is better than ever, and everybody wants one. Deep inside the uncanny world of the surgically ageless.

Wall-to-wall absurdity in this!! But this quote—"This is gonna be so subtle and fabulous for school drop-off.”—broke me, now has me googling local options for a facelift :((((

Like, remember this?!?! www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/n...

Trump's retribution tour threatens to go after Bridgegate, a notorious retribution scheme His campaign is careening toward its logical extreme, no matter how obvious the irony.

my hot take is that Bridgegate *should* get re-investigated, its cartoon mob villains studied and poked in a lab to explain today's never-ending Bridgegates

And Just Like That, And Just Like That … Is Dead And I’m actually really sad about it.

"And Just Like That … was a state of mind, and that mind was in a coma."

Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names. Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

"Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began."

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.

"They look very hungry" and a familiar American excuse Trump seemed to admit that children in Gaza are starving. He's just the latest politician to pretend he can't do something about it.

"You can't fake that" is a shockingly crass way of describing mass starvation.

But look a little closer, and Trump's remarks are just a variation on an American theme: Yes, we see the starving kids but we won’t do anything about it.

Same goes for Dems who condemn but still won't say Israel.

“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say "People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses."

“Walking corpses”: Israel's blockade starves Gazans, aid groups say

“People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses.”

Here's a rundown on what to know @motherjones.com. Be warned that the latest images we have from Gaza are disturbing.
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No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their four months in CECOT.

"The female guards would count to 20 as they administered the beatings, and if the prisoners complained or cried out, they would start again...Tito Martínez, one of the inmates, recalled that a prison nurse was watching. 'Hit the piñata,' she cheered."

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard

“For infants, we have virtually no baby formula. Children are being given 10% dextrose (sugar water), which has no nutritional value ... When an international colleague tried to bring baby formula into Gaza, Israeli authorities confiscated it.”

The Year in ‘Sensitive Content’ (Published 2023)

"I am not a survivor or a responder. I’m a witness, or a voyeur. The distress I am feeling is shame."

I think about this piece often, but especially this week.

We are starving My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.

"I crawled on my hands and knees through a crowd... I had to collect whatever had fallen to the ground — lentils, rice, chickpeas, pasta, even salt. My bones ache from being stepped on, but I have to do it for my children. I can’t bear the sound of their hunger"
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Why This AI Influencer Is Going Viral at Wimbledon (Yes, You Read That Right) Mia Zelu uploaded an Instagram carousel of herself seemingly at Wimbledon; however, the post isn't what her nearly 200K followers think because she's an AI-powered social media influencer.

AI not beating the allegations that it's fucking stupid

You know this American man! We all do :((((( www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

That middle school ass wipe who thought racist jabs were fun? The misbehaving young fellas shrugged off as "boys will be boys" ??

A similar juvenile cruelty animates ICE agents as they torment immigrants in t-shirts and ugly-fitting jeans. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The plainclothes goon squad The aesthetics of ICE—puff-chested and average bro—do more than shroud Trump’s immigration cops in secrecy.

They look like divorcees who wander America's dead malls.

But while the look of ICE agents is easy to mock, their accessible masculinity is helping excuse and normalize institutionalized terror.

I take a look at how ICE's bro aesthetics fit into MAGA's larger cultural project.

The plainclothes goon squad The aesthetics of ICE—puff-chested and average bro—do more than shroud Trump’s immigration cops in secrecy.

an enlivening piece from @inaeoh.bsky.social on the aesthetics of ICE www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.

I haven't been a regular late-night viewer in forever. But as a kid, the genre was the biggest influence in shaping my news sense.

Killing the Late Show franchise to lick Trump's boots marks a dark new chapter for the culture at large: the art we consume, watch, read. We should all be disturbed.

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

We are the fucking worst. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

What $100 billion in new ICE funding looks like The staggering increase is difficult to process. These numbers will help.

$100 billion in new ICE funding is about to get unleashed thanks to this bill. Come process that crushing figure with me.

"“The president was wonderful, as always,” Mr. Burchett said in the video. “Informative, funny, he told me he likes seeing me on TV, which was kind of cool.” Representative Byron Donalds, Republican of Florida, is shown in the video, too. “Did you show them what he signed for you?” Mr. Donalds asks Mr. Burchett. “Yeah, he signed a bunch of stuff,” Mr. Burchett said. “It’s cool.”"

these people respect their constituents about as much as they respect themselves. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?

For more on the tacky aesthetics that link Bezos-Sánchez to Trump-world, read @inaeoh.bsky.social on what's happening to the faces of the ruling class.

“Over the top, overdone, ridiculous,” is how one New York plastic surgeon described it.

YouTube video by CNN Mayor Bloomberg attaches home AC unit to car

happy primary day everyone. it's a hot one!!!!!

GROSS ENTITLED MEN!!