A Sweeping New Lawsuit Blasts ICE Over “Horrific, Inhumane” Conditions in Immigration Detention
Mother Jones illustration; DRA Legal; Getty Jose Segovia Benitez has a tattoo of the Statue of Liberty on his chest. He served two tours oversees as a US Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he was honorably discharged in 2004 after being hit by an explosive device. When he went back home to Long Beach,…
Conservative Report on Facebook Provides No Information At All
Carsten Rehder/DPA via ZUMA Sen. Jon Kyl released his interim report today on whether Facebook is biased against conservatives. Ali Breland and Pema Levy describe it here, summing it up with, “Kyl’s report did not find any evidence of conservative bias at Facebook.” OK, sure, but there has to be more than that. I mean,…
Are Boys Getting Dumber While Girls Get Smarter?
A new study has been published with some startling news: pregnant mothers who drink fluoridated water have babies with lower IQs. More accurately, they have baby boys with lower IQs. But if they have a girl, their baby will have a higher IQ. Here’s the basic table: A 1 milligram increase in maternal urinary fluoride…
Four Mass Shootings Have Been Thwarted Since the El Paso Massacre, Authorities Say
Mother Jones illustration; Eline van Nes/Zuma; Getty In the two weeks since the gun massacre in El Paso, Texas, federal and local authorities have thwarted four additional threats they said could have resulted in mass attacks. All four of the alleged plotters—in Nevada, Connecticut, Florida, and Ohio—were heavily armed young white men. At least three…
Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Still Feels Unbelievable. According to an Expert, It Isn’t.
Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP More than a week after Jeffrey Epstein’s shocking death, which on Friday the New York City medical examiner concluded was a suicide by hanging, it still feels somewhat unbelievable. Even if you’re not in the camp of Trumpian conspiracies, there are a slew of legitimate questions about the the…
“God Told Me To Fight”—Inside the Battle to Stop Another Petrochemical Plant in “Cancer Alley”
Mother Jones illustration; Alejandro Davila Fragoso/Earthjustice Sharon Lavigne has lived all of her sixty-seven years in St. James Parish, Louisiana. She can tell you about a time when the fig and pecan trees in her neighborhood produced plenty to eat and to sell, and when her grandfather caught fish and shrimp in the Mississippi River.…