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Did My IUD Make My Depression Worse? After Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie had her IUD removed, she was surprised to find that she felt happier and calmer than she had in years. 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/reproductive-health-hormonal-birth-control-side-effects-menopause-women/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #US

“Near a Breaking Point:” Trump Is Failing Firefighters in an Intense Burn Season This story was 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/fire-service-breaking-point-trump-failure-wildfire-deaths-dangers-firefighter-risks-season/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #Trump

What Else Is the Pentagon Hiding From Us? More US military personnel have reportedly died during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has shared publicly, the latest and most serious evidence of the Trump administration’s ongoing cover-up around disastrous military failures in that conflict. In a Washington Post report released Friday, six US officials with knowledge of internal Defense Department data on […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/pentagon-dod-hegseth-trump-iran-casualties-military-deaths/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Kash Patel Again Denies Firing Iran Experts Before Iran War In an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel did little to acknowledge the continuing fallout around the firing of agents for their role in investigating President Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents—even though they were experts in tracking Iranian threats. Several outlets have reported that at least a […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/fbi-kash-patel-iran-fired-agents-intelligence-senate/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Data center wastewater is under the microscope—and that scrutiny could mean cleaner water. Communities are pushing back, and new oversight is forcing a responsible path forward. Read more → https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/meta-data-center-rare-bacteria-backlash-waste-water-contamination/ #MotherJones #Investigative #Environment

Trump Orders Americans to Call Lake Ontario Lake America President Donald Trump on Thursday followed through on a threat to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” issuing an executive order to “Make the Great Lakes Even Greater” amid a collapsed trade deal with Canada, further escalating tensions between the two former allies. The lake in question has been known as Lake Ontario since the […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-lake-america-ontario-executive-order-canada-tariffs/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

40 Acres and a Lie Part 3 The loss of land for Black Americans started with the government’s betrayal of its “40 acres” promise to formerly enslaved people—and it has continued over decades. 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/40-acres-and-a-lie-part-3-update/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #US

Once More Cassidy Had the Deciding Vote. Once More He Folded. Early Saturday morning, the Senate voted to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the official role after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) caved and publicly backed President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer the day before. Blanche was confirmed on a narrow 50-49 vote, with almost all Republicans aligning with the president. The two exceptions were […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/once-more-cassidy-had-the-deciding-vote-once-more-he-folded/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Public AI could be our shared utility, not Big Tech's cash cow. This interview offers a blueprint for community-owned, open-source AI that empowers everyone—from Africa to Europe. Read more → https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/what-ai-regulation-and-ownership-could-be/ #MotherJones #Investigative #Politics

What Is the White House Hiding in Its Minerals Deals? Today, the consumer protection watchdog group Public Citizen released a report detailing the Trump administration’s secretive web of critical minerals deals around the world. The report, exclusively shared with Mother Jones, shows that the number of deals the administration has publicly claimed to have does not match up with the number of countries known to […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/what-is-the-white-house-hiding-in-its-minerals-deals/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

The Deaths ICE Doesn’t Count Prisciliano Trejo Ricano spent his 29th birthday on July 10 in Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center. In the privately-run facility that can hold about 1,900 detainees at a time, Trejo Ricano felt “like a number or like a placeholder.” Two days later, in a Facebook post from July 12, Trejo Ricano, who was born in Mexico, […] 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/the-deaths-ice-doesnt-count/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #US

This Judge Figures Using the Misleading Recycling Symbol is Probably Free Speech This story was 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/judge-william-hayes-ruling-misleading-recycling-symbol-arrows-free-speech/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #US

Michigan’s Primary Reckoning for the Democrats No congressional candidate in Democratic history ever had as much outside money dumped on them in one primary as Abdul El-Sayed. But El-Sayed has now survived the onslaught in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary. Barely. The Bernie Sanders-endorsed champion of Medicare for All defeated Rep. Haley Stevens by about a 1-point margin on Tuesday, according to […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/michigans-primary-reckoning-for-the-democrats-donavan-mckinney-will-lawrence-abdul-el-sayed/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Inside a Mass Shooter’s Harrowing History With ChatGPT Editor’s note: This story discusses suicide and sexual violence. Read part 1 of our investigation into AI chatbots and violence here and part 2 here. On the morning of April 17, 2025, Phoenix Ikner was using ChatGPT to prepare. Over nearly three hours, the Florida State University student asked OpenAI’s popular chatbot eight questions about […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/08/openai-chatgpt-fsu-mass-shooting-chat-logs/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

New York Tackles the Myth That Solar Is Swallowing Farmland This story was 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/new-york-myth-solar-farmland-agrivoltaics-misinformation-alexantra-fasulo-john-rich-white-house/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #NewYork

Oh Look, Another Far-Right Extremist at the Pentagon I’ve written before about how US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ties to an ascendant Christian nationalist movement. Specifically, he attends a church in the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), a denomination founded by Idaho pastor Doug Wilson, who has said that women’s suffrage was “a mistake” and suggested that homosexuality should be […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/justin-overbaugh-oh-look-another-far-right-extremist-at-the-pentagon/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

Does the Washington Post Want Democracy to Die in Darkness? The Washington Post sure seems bent out of shape over wealth taxes. And I suppose that makes sense, given that the once-storied publication is owned by one of the five richest dudes on the planet, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who put the kibosh on the paper’s 2024 endorsement of Kamala Harris, proceeded to kiss the ring […]... 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion-wealth-taxes-unrealized-gains-taxation-democracy-dies-darkness/ #News #USNews #MotherJones

I Like Baseball Now. Admittedly, I don’t know much about baseball—but I do know that watching the first home run of the Women’s Professional Baseball League on Saturday night was incredibly cool. You have to watch the New York Heights’ Denae Benites smash it out of the park during a rain-filled game against the Los Angeles Queens: I love […] 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/i-like-baseball-now/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #NewYork

A Battle Over Rock Climbing Exposes a Bigger Crisis in America’s Wilderness This story was 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/08/a-battle-over-rock-climbing-exposes-a-bigger-crisis-in-americas-wilderness/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #US

How Can US Factories Get Cleaner Heat? These Ideas May Help. This story was 🔗 https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/07/how-can-us-factories-get-cleaner-heat-these-ideas-may-help/ #News #USNews #MotherJones #US