Mona Jones

Mona Jones

@mojonz.bsky.social

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Retired postal worker. Iowan. Feral crone. 1 son, 1 grandson, 2 cats. Woke af.

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Lots of talk about political violence today. THIS is deadly political violence. A society that refuses to provide health care for its people while always finding money for war is a violent dystopia. I took this picture in Des Moines, IA Friday afternoon.

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GOP AR-15 pins to be worn upside down today.

Too true! Seriously. Google it.

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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again. anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...

Yep.

I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

Yes. Omg, yes.

this is the right wing movement we get with a little migration and inflation. what does it look like when climate change really starts to bite

Has Hubert Humphrey entered the chat yet?

We are doomed. Just saying.

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Will it be ever thus?

Thank you for the link, Cats of Yore. I wish I could have donated a million €.

Please consider supporting animal rescue efforts in Gaza if you can. Sulala is doing their best to help the starving and injured animals there. 💔 Sulala website: sulalaanimalrescue.com GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-s... You can also donate here: animalsaustralia.org/appeal/donat...

Sulala Animal Rescuesulalaanimalrescue.com Welcome to Sulala Animal Rescue Sulala Society is the first and only animal rescue in the Gaza Strip. It was founded by Mr. Saeed Al Err, a man with great love for animals. Unable to bear seeing poor ...

I read it, and it was definitely worth my time. I'm really glad I live in Iowa or I might be walking into the sea rn.

This, from @rickperlstein.bsky.social, is very much worth your time. prospect.org/politics/202...

My Political Depression Problem—and Oursprospect.org Granular study of the ever-more-authoritarian right didn’t demoralize the author as much as reaction from the left.

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People will point to something and say “see voting doesn’t do anything” and it’s literally just the consequences of Republicans winning elections

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Senate Democrats consider it poor manners to bring politics into Congress.

Dick Durbin doing nothing to try to hold the Supreme Court accountable and Schumer co-signing an invite to a genocidal prime minister who wants Trump to win is a reminder that, even setting aside principles, Democrats are not good partisans.

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perpetual problem of Dems expecting voters to understand the dangers of the Republican party without ever acting as if they are dangerous. Press coverage is often bad but even I agree it isn't the press's job to make the case Dems won't make themselves.

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The bipartisan assault on HigherEd has no capacity, nor intention, to close schools with multibillion dollar endowments or D1 football teams. The goal is to close institutions that serve first-generation, Pell Grant eligible, etc.: Institutions that are levers of labor power.

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For like a decade now, Teen Vogue has consistently done a better job of getting things right more than The Atlantic or the NYT or a whole ton of other publications

Cops Don't Belong at Campus Protestswww.teenvogue.com The police are making it abundantly clear they're not there to protect students. But that’s also not news.

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Can’t think of a more American moment than “now that I won $200 million, I can finally afford decent healthcare.”

Cheng “Charlie” Saephan and his wife will split the prize evenly with a friend who chipped in $100 to buy a batch of tickets with them. They are taking a lump sum payment, $422 million after taxes. He says he will be able to “find a good doctor for myself.”

Winner of $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is an immigrant from Laos who has cancerapnews.com One of the winners of a historic $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot last month is an immigrant from Laos who has had cancer for eight years and had his latest chemotherapy treatment last week.

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The skin-crawlingly creepy and submissive baby voice that hollowed-out MAGA zombie Kate Britt adopted last night for her freakshow SOTU response was no accident. It's the voice that tells fellow fundamentalists that she knows her place. jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie...

The Fundie Baby Voicejesspiper.substack.com As soon as Senator Katie Britt started speaking, I knew exactly who she is. She is so many of the pastor's wives and Sunday School teachers I knew growing up in an Evangelical church. Be sweet. Obey.

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A few days ago I met a pal, an OB-GYN who is working at a service that sends abortion pills (mifepristone and misoprostol) to women who need them in states that ban abortion. She asked me to help spread the word about how to use the service, and asked me to ask you guys to pass on the info. 1/6

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While I have your attention: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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I’ve been covering the “He Gets Us” Jesus PR campaign since 2022. I was the first or at least one of the first to expose it as a right-wing evangelical recruitment effort, though RD and I didn’t get credit when bigger outlets picked the story up religiondispatches.org/behind-the-i...

Behind the Inclusive-Sounding Ads of this $100 Million PR-Blitz-for-Jesus it's the Same Old Conservative Christian Fantasyreligiondispatches.org This month, a $100 million advertising campaign and website have been launched nationwide to help a particular figure rebrand. In the current climate, just who, do you think, might warrant such a mass...

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As we roll into Valentine’s Day, and with Easter looming- it’s time for my annual PSA- these kill cats. Period, full stop. Lily pollen is insanely toxic and will destroy their kidneys in 18 hours. If you have cats- THROW LILIES AWAY. 1/

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Those slick, hip ads for Jesus you're seeing are part of a bait-and-switch effort funded by the decidedly unhip owner of Hobby Lobby. They are part of his Christian Nationalist, authoritarian and anti-pluralistic political project. www.texasobserver.org/he-gets-us-c...

'He Gets Us' Ad Sponsors Don’t Believe in the Jesus They’re Sellingwww.texasobserver.org The campaign's "gentle savior" image is cynically designed to attract those who are normally repelled by their right-wing views.

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This story is from 2013. Eleven years ago right wing Republicans killed a Congressional plan for immigration reform because they recognized that racist scaremongering about "invading hordes of immigrants" played really well with their disproportionately white base of voters. Nothing has changed.

Iowa, the 29th state to enter the Union, sent food and supplies for the Union army. It also proudly provided 76,242 soldiers and officers, 13,001 of them died. HOW DARE Governor Reynolds align Iowa with this New Confederacy? Shame on you, KimReaper.

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More people have been killed by gender reveal parties than have been assaulted by trans women in bathrooms.

Gender Reveal Parties are now one of the greatest threats to our society

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"That’s because what conservatives on the court are quietly trying to do is pull off the biggest judicial power grab since 1803, when it elevated itself to be the final arbiter of the Constitution in Marbury v. Madison."

We Are Witnessing the Biggest Judicial Power Grab Since 1803www.thenation.com During a major hearing this week, the conservative justices made clear they’re about to gut the federal government’s power to regulate—and take that power for themselves.

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It was just days ago that Greg Abbott was lamenting that Texas can’t shoot migrants at the border: bit.ly/41VjOJA

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar says three migrants are dead near Eagle Pass park after Border Patrol was denied access by soldiers deployed to border by Greg Abbott: www.texastribune.org/2024/01/13/h...

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar says three migrants are dead near Eagle Pass …www.texastribune.org Texas officers took control over Shelby Park against the city’s wishes on Wednesday and have since blocked U.S. Border Patrol agents from entering.