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The mass shooting in #Odessa is the second major gun massacre in Texas this month, and the fourth in the past two years, following Sutherland Springs, Santa Fe High School, and the Walmart in El Paso motherjones.com/politics/2012/…
Also in the past two years, Trump to the NRA convention: “You came through for me, and I am going to come through for you.” nytimes.com/2017/04/28/us/…
Four weeks ago, Mitch McConnell refused to call the Senate back in session after the mass shootings in Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton because, as he put it, that would just lead to lawmakers “scoring points and nothing would happen.” time.com/5648354/mitch-…
Ivanka Trump canceled a trip to Colorado, while President Trump—who gave another big speech at the NRA annual convention less than 2 weeks ago—has said nothing publicly yet about America's latest deadly school shooting denverpost.com/2019/05/07/iva… #STEMshooting
Trump has had a lot to say publicly since yesterday's school shooting in Colorado, just nothing about the school shooting in Colorado politico.com/story/2019/05/…
Although Trump apparently has zero to say about the deadly Colorado school shooting, he's tweeting enthusiastically this morning about casino policies and how he manipulated the federal tax system for "sport" in the 1980s and '90s 
The NRA's ongoing meltdown, explained motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Amid the ongoing meltdown, it's interesting that the NRA's extensive ties with convicted and sanctioned Russian agents are getting so little attention. It's also a story about the NRA money trail, with potentially big consequences motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
On Friday, the New York attorney general "sent letters instructing the NRA and affiliated entities, including its charitable foundation, to preserve relevant financial records. Some of the NRA's related businesses also received subpoenas" nytimes.com/2019/04/27/us/…
Consider the cumulative effect going back 4 years.
Person at a Trump campaign rally: "We have a problem in this country, it's called Muslims...when can we get rid of them?"
Trump: "A lot of people are saying that...we're going to be looking at that."
Person at a Trump campaign rally: "We have a problem in this country, it's called Muslims...when can we get rid of them?"
Trump: "A lot of people are saying that...we're going to be looking at that."
Think Trump's enduring stance on white supremacist terror hasn't had a serious impact on America and the world? Think again. This investigation is already outdated since we published it last July—the mass shooting at the Pittsburgh synagogue, among others. motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
Long ago @MotherJones reported extensively on the brewing dangers of Trump tacitly but consistently embracing the hateful far right. It's painful to know that America elected him anyway, and to know the subsequent carnage. motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
At this point many have warned that Trump is going to get more people injured or murdered with this rhetoric but he just won’t stop. I’m going to tweet this investigation every time he does it motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Trump’s latest attack uses a fresh version of his hyperbolic incitement: “the most vicious and corrupt Mainstream Media that any president has ever had to endure”
Again tonight Trump continues attacking the constitutionally protected free press over factual reporting he doesn’t like—and he continues to demonize journalists as ‘the enemy.’
His dangerous incitement is only leading to one very dark place.
His dangerous incitement is only leading to one very dark place.
For real, CNN? vox.com/2019/2/19/1823…
“It’s extremely demoralizing for everyone here."
“People are generally confused...very bizarre.”
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“People are generally confused...very bizarre.”
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In order to get hired by Sessions, Isgur "paid her respects in the Oval Office—a cordial visit during which she told Trump she was on board with his agenda and would be honored to serve him, according to several people with knowledge of the meeting." washingtonpost.com/politics/ready…
Paul Manafort is going to spend a long time in prison
Robert Mueller, meanwhile, has now established publicly that Manafort is at the heart of the Trump-Russia investigation — so good luck with a pardon motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Manafort "intentionally made multiple false statements to the FBI, the [Office of Special Counsel] and the grand jury concerning matters that were material to the investigation" motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
The spouse of the Trump White House **communications director** is pushing anti-vax lies that are bringing back one of the most horrible infectious diseases known to mankind. Does Bill Shine also believe this dangerous garbage? The WH press should ask him.
"Bring back our childhood diseases" -- because everyone catching measles is a good thing! -- may be the most fucking insane thing I've ever seen anyone tweet cnn.com/2019/01/26/hea…
With Darla Shine trashing CNN coverage of a measles outbreak and official state of emergency as "fake," will @Acosta @kaitlancollins or other WH press ask Bill Shine about it? Does the Trump admin agree America should "bring back our childhood diseases"? thedailybeast.com/darla-shine-wi…
Trump clearly wants to remind everyone about "some very fine people" he stood up for who marched around with torches in Charlottesville chanting "blood and soil" and "Jews will not replace us"
Here's how much Trump cares about putting a stop to anti-Semitism in America motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
It's hard to do much about the scourge of anti-Semitism when you fold it into your own campaign motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
NRA-RUSSIA NEWS: We uncovered evidence that top NRA leaders embraced Russian agent Maria Butina even as she worked to arm anti-American thugs abroad motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
The NRA told us they had no clue about Maria Butina’s activities hostile to US national security interests. But all the evidence we gathered—blog posts, social media, video of the violent newsroom takeover—has been publicly available for years. motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
How does the “freedom loving” NRA explain its top leaders embracing a Russian national who actively worked against US national security interests? motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Here’s a prediction: While lots of folks keep buying into Roger Stone as the ever loyal tough-guy diabolical genius, in the end he’s gonna flip like a cheap burger served at a Trump White House football party
Stone’s arrest Friday may well have been just the start in terms of charges he could face nyti.ms/2S3Voft?smid=n…
Oh look, Roger Stone is already beginning to crack wsj.com/articles/roger…
The biggest news today, of course, is evidence of unnamed senior Trump campaign officials conspiring with Roger Stone to aid and abet a Russian attack on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Mueller: “a senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact Stone about any additional releases and what other damaging information [WikiLeaks] had regarding the Clinton Campaign.”
So who directed Stone? Did Trump himself know?
The answers are not going to be good.
So who directed Stone? Did Trump himself know?
The answers are not going to be good.
“Mueller is making clear he has specific evidence of the decision-making process inside the Trump campaign and that someone—who goes unnamed in the indictment but whose name Mueller surely knows—directed ‘a senior Trump Campaign official’ to contact Stone” wired.com/story/roger-st…
Of course Trump is caving on his idiotic border wall! — not only because he's driving the country into an abyss and everyone knows it, but because he doesn't want America to now focus on the indictment of a top campaign adviser who conspired in a Russian attack on our democracy
Hey, they elected Trump to bust all the norms of the presidency, right? So why not also be super late for his own humiliating concession speech
Of course Trump is just gonna go on and on here once again with his anti-immigrant demagoguery. He knows Coulter and Limbaugh are watching, and he's scared of them.
Curious what evidence @ggreenwald & @greta have that feds tipped off CNN to Stone’s arrest? Last night CNN reporters were talking all about the unusual Thursday grand jury, lots of signs Stone could be on deck. What do TV news orgs do when they think big news is coming?—hi Greta
Left, right, or anything in between, baseless claims and bogus conspiracy theories aren’t going to keep the truth from emerging about Donald Trump, Julian Assange, and all the others
An update from Glenn, correcting the record. More of this needs to happen on Twitter.
TV networks should offer Trump prime time only with their pre-approval of his script, and subject to a 10-second delay and agreement they can cut him off if he lies on air. (Shortest presidential TV address in history!) nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/…
This is an opportune moment for TV execs to show some spine. Trump is gonna keep calling them all partisan and 'fake news' no matter what they do on this! So they should reject his request unless he agrees, verifiably, to not lie
Moreover, if the TV networks let Trump interrupt prime time to tell the American public that there is a 'national emergency' on the US-Mexico border, then the TV networks will be complicit in hyping a phony national emergency
Who could’ve ever predicted Trump would ignorantly careen from one self-made crisis to the next? The Republican Party owns this unmitigated disaster and they’d better start finally trying to fix it, and fast.
IMO, it'll take a lot of dumb luck for Trump—and major misfortune for the country—for him to last even another year. He should fly off to Mar-a-Lago as planned, and tweet his resignation en route.* Time to face the music already.
(*Obviously he won't do this. Congress must act.)
(*Obviously he won't do this. Congress must act.)
Grim talk aside, I'm optimistic for 2019. I see our system mostly proving resilient—DOJ, courts, the press. Painfully slow, but no quick fix exists. The exception, of course, is the fully GOP-controlled Congress. But Trump is about to lose that protection racket. cc @djrothkopf
NEWS on MARIA BUTINA: The Russian agent said in a talk five years ago that she had a "signed cooperation agreement" with the National Rifle Association motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Several people who attended Butina’s 2013 talk in Israel confirmed to @Motherjones and @TeamTrace that they remembered the Russian agent highlighting her connections with the NRA (though not specifically her alleged formal agreement) motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
My colleagues @mikespiesnyc @uri_blau and I obtained the slides Butina used for her 2013 talk in Israel, which don’t mention the NRA by name but refer to “signed cooperation agreements” with foreign groups motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Trump tweeted ‘ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE’ again tonight and CNN’s offices in New York were just evacuated because of a bomb threat motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Read this powerful thread responding to Trump's tweet tonight, from a Capital Gazette photojournalist whose colleague was murdered in the mass shooting in June
Trump either still doesn't realize his words have consequences, or he doesn't care.
“You’re the enemy of the people, and we’re going to kill every fucking one of you,” said the caller who repeatedly threatened the Boston Globe in August motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
“You’re the enemy of the people, and we’re going to kill every fucking one of you,” said the caller who repeatedly threatened the Boston Globe in August motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
This is just Trump's latest gambit to make it all about his craven war-of-distraction on the free press.
But fortunately for the country—and unfortunately for Trump and his family—he can't stop the freight train that's now barreling straight at him.
But fortunately for the country—and unfortunately for Trump and his family—he can't stop the freight train that's now barreling straight at him.
Sweet Jesus, Sarah. Everyone watched the "young White House intern" aggressively try to grab the mic from Acosta, who reacted to her respectfully. But why not go with the Liar in Chief's playbook, right? "That footage you're seeing is not what's happening"
Gotta say, today feels like we're hitting a whole next level of toxic desperation from the Trump White House. And not without good reason — Trump will soon face existential danger, and he knows it.
Apart from confirmation of the grisly details, the whole world knows what the Saudis did to Jamal Khashoggi. Trump continues to take a bone saw to the global reputation of the United States. (Not to mention further debasing the Supreme Court with this Kavanaugh line.) Disgusting.
As Trump gives cover to the Saudis for the barbaric murder of a journalist who lived in America and worked for the Washington Post, this one seems worth re-upping
Pompeo, in other words: ‘We await their fall guys’
“My assessment from these meetings is that there is serious commitment to determine all the facts and ensure accountability, including accountability for Saudi Arabia’s senior leaders or senior officials”
“My assessment from these meetings is that there is serious commitment to determine all the facts and ensure accountability, including accountability for Saudi Arabia’s senior leaders or senior officials”
Trump continues to dismember the reputation of the United States with a bone saw
Whenever barbaric dictators deny their involvement in evil, Trump just believes them — the Saudis, Putin, Kim Jong Un. He admires their authoritarianism. Does anyone doubt that, given the chance, Trump would choose to be more like them?
It's also just ugly farce for Trump to publicly accept Saudi leaders' blanket denials about Khashoggi when US intelligence already knows the crown prince ordered an operation to go after him washingtonpost.com/world/national…
A lot of the American press needs to change how it’s responding to the epic dangers of the Trump era. Here’s how. na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…
At @MotherJones we will continue to work relentlessly to expose and document the ways in which Trump poses a serious threat to democracy motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
@MotherJones The American media also needs to grasp that the serious dangers posed by Trump’s behavior include danger to the American media itself motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
The NRA really badly wants this story to go away. Instead, we've kept adding to it. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
We found video of an NRA leader who went to Moscow and offered to collaborate with a group set up by alleged Russian spies. You can watch it here. motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Watch this NRA leader praise an accused Russian spy and international criminal: “It’s a great honor for me to be here today, partly because over the last three years I've hosted Alexander Torshin at the National Rifle Association annual meetings.” motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Trump says white supremacist terror is fake news. But at least 15 chilling attacks and 2 bomb plots since his campaign prove otherwise. motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
2/ What has Trump done about right-wing terror since Charlottesville almost a year ago? “We have gotten no indication from the administration that they have so much as lifted a finger,” says a top US senator. motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
3/ Trump didn’t just keep quiet about a new law directing him to confront white supremacist groups—he soon went back to retweeting hateful anti-Muslim content motherjones.com/crime-justice/…
