Behold the Return of the Amazing New Zealand “Owl Parrot.” Look at It Dance!
Kākāpō Recovery/New Zealand Government It’s Sunday, and before we begin another long week, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate some good news we discovered after going down a fascinating recent Twitter hole: the kākāpō, the world’s fattest parrot, long on the verge of extinction, is making a glorious comeback. Fluffy and flightless, these…
Another Miami Herald Bombshell Spotlights Epstein’s Extreme Privileges in Florida Lockup
Jeffrey Epstein appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2008.Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post/AP/File Women’s underwear. Twenty-two tubes of toothpaste. And lots and lots of coffee. These were among the commissary purchases that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein made about a decade ago while serving a 13-month stint in a Palm Beach jail for soliciting…
A Fox News Contributor Just Took Fawning Over Trump to a Whole New Level of Ridiculous
Mother Jones illustration/Fox News Donald Trump was the oldest person to ever be sworn in as president. Today he’s 73, a handful of years shy of the average life expectancy for American men. In a clip that’s bound to boost his ego, a Fox News contributor on one of his favorite shows this weekend fawned…
Mass Shootings Are an American Epidemic. We Are Relentlessly Investigating the Culprits.
Mark Helenowski/John Locher/Mother Jones/AP When twin gun shootings rocked America earlier this month, killing 31 people in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Mother Jones did what Mother Jones does: We marshaled resources and flew a reporter to El Paso, and we connected breaking news trends to our extensive history of investigating this epidemic, the…
Superstorm Sandy Was One of the Worst and Best Things to Happen to Rockaway Beach
People enjoy an afternoon along Rockaway Beach on a hot summer day on August 22, 2017.Spencer Platt/Getty This story was originally published by CityLab and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last year, right before Memorial Day, the business owners of Rockaway Beach got a terrible shock. New York City officials abruptly declared that…
Michael Flynn Just Pulled Out of a QAnon-Connected Fundraiser
Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn leaves the federal courthouse following a status hearing in Washington on July 10, 2018.Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, pulled out of a fundraiser for his legal defense fund that was organized by a supporter of the bizarre conspiracy theory known as…