1/ Today is #GivingTuesday, and I'm here to remind you why you should support @MotherJones with a tax-deductible donation. Last year I proved that contra to fundraising CW, that Tweeps are generous. Ever little bit helps! secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/7M…
@MotherJones 2/ We've been fundraising this whole year to make sure we can keep growing sustainably, without boom and bust layoffs that dog journalism——but #GivingTuesday is key to our ability to keep bringing you smart, fearless journalism.
@MotherJones 3/ Anyway, last year Brian, our membership guy, insisted I couldn't raise money via Twitter. I won my bet, so now he's challenged me to find just 300 people who'll give $5 a month. He made me my own link so he can track. secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/7M… I need your help to beat Brian!
@MotherJones 4/ You can also use that link to give in any way you like, but the $5 a month people are just extra awesome. secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/7M…
@MotherJones 5/ Did you know that there are 25% less newsroom jobs than a decade ago? In newspapers, the number is 45%. Meanwhile @MotherJones staff has more than tripled. And that's all thanks to reader support #GivingTuesday pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019…
@MotherJones 6/ I just want you to know that somebody just slacked me with a fact-checking question. And yes, it's 3X since 2007, which is the ~same time frame as the start of the Pew analysis.
@MotherJones 7/ So let's discuss some big projects that reader support has allowed us to do. Massive undercover projects, like when @shane_bauer worked as a private prison guard motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
@MotherJones @shane_bauer 8/ We started a special project into mass shootings and the gun industry in 2012. We have a massive database, hundreds of stories, and helped expose the connection between the NRA, Russian spy Maria Butina, and the Trump administration: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
@MotherJones @shane_bauer 9/ We've hired two immigration reporters, @nlanard and @Fer_Echavarri, and just yesterday our new data journalist @cynduja published a huge investigation into how the Trump administration is going after legal immigration too, specifically H1-B visas motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
@MotherJones @shane_bauer @nlanard @Fer_Echavarri @cynduja 10/ Another big story we recently published exposed how the US Marshals Service is helping to prop up private prisons and shoddy local jails in a effort to find beds for immigrant pre-trial detainees—with deadly consequences motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
@MotherJones @shane_bauer @nlanard @Fer_Echavarri @cynduja 11/ After the 2016 election, we noticed that the counties where Trump had the biggest margins were also those most ravaged by the opioid epidemic. So we put @julia_lurie on the beat full-time. She's produced amazing work that's helped inform new policies motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
@MotherJones @shane_bauer @nlanard @Fer_Echavarri @cynduja @julia_lurie 12/ We've dug deep into Trump's finances, breaking big stories on things like this mysterious loan that could be evidence of tax fraud: motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
@MotherJones @shane_bauer @nlanard @Fer_Echavarri @cynduja @julia_lurie 13/ When the Miami Herald reported that the owner of the massage parlor where Robert Kraft was arrested attended Mar-a-lago, we dug deeper and found she and other Chinese nationals had been peddling access to him: motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
@MotherJones @shane_bauer @nlanard @Fer_Echavarri @cynduja @julia_lurie 14/ I was waylaid by various things today give this thread the attention I'd hoped to give it but I would at least like to shout out Kostadis and others who've really elevated these drives of mine. It's a time to stand with whatever you care about
