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Locals didn’t think Roundup was being sprayed near Lake Tahoe. So @natethecurious went to find out. Nate dug up maps from the Forest Service's website, and headed to a spot where one of them indicated spraying might already be happening. Public uproar has echoed across the Tahoe area since April, when our yearlong Mother Jones investigation revealed that, in California, the fastest-growing use of glyphosate—the main ingredient in Roundup—is to spray forested areas, including this massive new project around Lake Tahoe. As the public outcry grew over the past few weeks, news begin circulating on social media that the Forest Service was backing off. “They cancelled the plan!" one person wrote. "People showed up to meetings, called our representatives and it’s finally cancelled. OUR VOICES MATTERED ON THIS ONE.” But that wasn't true. At Sierra-at-Tahoe, Nate stood on a mountainside that clearly had been doused in glyphosate. The plants around him were nearly all dead—killed with the controversial herbicide, which the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer has deemed a probable human carcinogen—and that a 2020 report from the US Environmental Protection Agency said likely harms 93 percent of endangered species. You can read Nate's full report at
Mother Jones117,943 views • 16 days ago
When Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis, he says he was detained and shackled for hours. “We're turning into something that I can't even begin to respect, and something that I literally went to war—or they told me I went to war—to fight against,” he says. Since he was arrested, he’s continued protesting. Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie spoke to Austin outside the Whipple Federal Building, where ICE is based. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
Mother Jones544,628 views • 4 months ago
Did Hasan Piker just soft endorse billionaire Tom Steyer? “Tom Steyer could be a very interesting governor for the state,” the prolific streamer and political commentator said. He and Garrison Hayes sat down to talk about politics and his perspective on the 2026 gubernatorial race in California. His top pick—for the time being at least—might surprise you. “I talked to Tom Steyer, I interviewed him, and, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think he's the most interesting candidate with viability right now,” said Piker. Find the full interview on our YouTube channel or at
Mother Jones150,721 views • 1 month ago
The recent Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais effectively killed the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. And it represents the life's work of Chief Justice John Roberts. Here's how Roberts has been steadily working for more than 40 years to destroy the country's most important civil rights law:
Mother Jones70,168 views • 1 month ago
A panel of federal court judges just issued a stunning rebuke to the Roberts Court. They found that an Alabama congressional map green-lit by the Supreme Court intentionally discriminated against Black voters. That means the state will have to use a map with two majority Black districts this November, preserving a Democratic seat in the US House. And get this: the three-judge panel that rebuked the Supreme Court was made up of all Republican appointees.
Mother Jones17,947 views • 11 days ago
She said she was headed to a doctor's appointment. Federal agents still attacked her. Earlier today in Minneapolis, journalist Amanda Moore (amanda moore 🐢) documented a tense, chaotic federal operation near 34th Street and Park Avenue. The scenes unfolded amid a broader surge of federal immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities following the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer last week.
Mother Jones130,004 views • 4 months ago
Rep. Ilhan Omar tears into Trump with a defiant protest: "You have killed Americans!" The confrontation began after Trump scolded Democrats for not standing and applauding during a portion of his speech during which he claimed that the “first duty of the American government is to protect American cities, not illegal aliens.”
Mother Jones91,347 views • 3 months ago
There's a dark truth behind Trump's tariffs: Absolute control.
Mother Jones300,577 views • 1 year ago
ICE has been authorizing officers to forcibly enter homes without judicial warrants—a reversal of longstanding guidance to protect people's constitutional rights. Senior reporter Samantha Michaels found a family in Memphis that experienced this in November. Six kids were home with their mother, all US citizens, when federal agents bust into the room. Read the story here:
Mother Jones72,909 views • 4 months ago
When Trump announced he was sending in ICE to—supposedly—help deal with the hours-long airport security lines caused by the partial government shutdown, journalist Amanda Moore (amanda moore 🐢) set out to learn what the agents were really up to. As it turns out, the answer was often: not much.
Mother Jones38,084 views • 2 months ago
A prickly exchange between Pete Hegseth and a reporter last month was notable, considering that the current Pentagon press pool is almost entirely made up of right-wing outlets who typically provide overwhelmingly pro-Trump coverage. It was inevitable, then, that one day those reporters and influencers and others in the MAGA-flavored press would be called upon to cover an actual news event that does not always reflect favorably on the president. With the invasion of Iran, that day has arrived.
Mother Jones31,274 views • 1 month ago
Kentucky congressman Thomas Massie has always been a pain. Over the past year, the MIT-educated engineer has been the lone Republican in Congress willing to challenge the president. That defiant streak may end up costing him his seat. Trump wants him out, forcing Massie into a primary against his hand-picked candidate. But if Massie pulls this off, we may see other congressmembers standing up to Trump. Read more:
Mother Jones13,531 views • 21 days ago
“We were just trying to get him medication… But he was already gone.” Last week, the internationally renowned Indigenous chef Sean Sherman told reporter Nate Halverson that federal agents detained one of his employees on his way to work. The agents said his co-worker matched the description of someone they were looking for, and asked for documents to confirm his identity. By the next day, Sherman said, his employee was already out of Minnesota. He was discovered to be in Texas. “Our employees are not criminals,” Sherman told Nate in the Twin Cities. “They don’t have police records and they’re just here to come to work. We’re literally a nonprofit trying to serve healthy indigenous food to people. We shouldn’t have to worry if we’re going to have guns pulled on us on the way to work at all, but this is our reality.” Sherman said his team tried to intervene. “We were just trying to get him medication,” he added. “But he was already gone. And like, how do we get his medication to Texas now?” Sherman also pointed to a troubling historical resonance at Fort Snelling—the area where people are now being brought and detained in the Twin Cities: This is not the first time it has been used as a detention site. Fort Snelling is where Dakota prisoners following the 1862 Dakota uprising were brought and detained before being forcibly relocated down the river to the Crow Creek Reservation in what is now South Dakota. “It’s just more salt in the wound,” Sherman said.
Mother Jones57,690 views • 4 months ago
Donald Trump is “making fun of people for being Hispanic or dark-skinned or different colors,” says 10 year old, August. "Why is he talking to other people if he's orange?!” Hear from the kids at the No Kings protests—and from the parents who decided to bring them.
Mother Jones92,129 views • 7 months ago
Nazi-era fears about gender gave rise to sex testing. Now, the policy is resurfacing. On March 26, the International Olympic Committee announced that all athletes competing in women’s sports will be required to undergo genetic eligibility testing. Claiming to be concerned with “fairness” and “the protection of the female category,” the IOC aims to ban transgender women from future Olympic games by screening for the SRY gene, which is usually found on the Y chromosome. The 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles will be the first games with this policy in effect. For queer historian and writer Michael Waters, the IOC’s announcement elicited a feeling of déjà vu: The institution has employed similar gender verification rules before—only to abandon them amid public backlash. In his 2024 book, The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports, Waters traces the history of trans athletes in the early 20th century, showing how a World War II–era moral panic around gender expression directly informs today’s anti-trans attacks. Mother Jones' Schuyler Mitchell spoke with Waters about his book, the history of sex testing in international sports, and how the IOC’s latest policy marks a return to a discriminatory model of gender surveillance that draws from a dark eugenic past. Find the full interview here:
Mother Jones30,593 views • 2 months ago