# gerrymandering (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover gerrymandering. Page: Feed: --- ## [Trump Just Used a $500 Million Clean Steel Grant to Fund a Coal Furnace](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-clean-steel-grant-coal-biden-inflatiion-reduction-act-miallocation-congressional-funding/) _2026-08-26 · Maria Gallucci · Mother Jones_ This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A $500 million Biden-era grant to decarbonize steelmaking has been refashioned by the Trump administration to upgrade a coal-fueled blast furnace in southern Ohio. On Friday, Cleveland-Cliffs confirmed that the US Department of Energy had changed the scope of the previously awarded… ## [Memes and Machine Guns: How Brandon Herrera Built a Path to Congress](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/memes-and-machine-guns-how-brandon-herrera-built-a-path-to-congress/) _2026-08-26 · Kiera Butler · Mother Jones_ If you want to get acquainted with Brandon Herrera, the gun influencer currently favored to win a tight congressional race in South Texas, his YouTube channel offers many opportunities. You could feast your eyes on his most-watched video, with 13 million views, wherein he uses a rifle and head and torso ballistics models to recreate \[…\] ## [Did the Lindsay Clancy Trial Need to Happen?](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/lindsay-clancy-trial-prosecution-motivations-mental-health/) _2026-08-26 · Inae Oh · Mother Jones_ Over the course of nearly a month, Lindsay Clancy has stood trial for the January 2023 killings of her three young children, a catastrophic tragedy that has riveted the country. The scenes unfolding in Judge William Sullivan’s courtroom in Plymouth, Massachusetts, have been excruciating. “I can’t do this,” Clancy sobbed at one point, as testimony \[…\] ## [The Supreme Court’s Security Upgrade Fits the World It Helped Make](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/supreme-court-security-police-us-marshals/) _2026-08-26 · Pema Levy · Mother Jones_ The Supreme Court may be deferential to President Donald Trump and the legal arguments put forward by his Justice Department. But when it comes to their own physical safety, the justices seem to view the administration with appropriate skepticism. The court is now ditching the longtime protection of the executive branch’s US Marshals Service, and \[…\] ## [The Cult and Corruption of Cryptocurrency](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/ben-mckenzie-cult-corruption-cryptocurrency-sbf/) _2026-08-26 · Reveal · Mother Jones_ Ben McKenzie might seem like an unlikely choice to launch an investigation into the complicated world of cryptocurrency. But the television actor known for shows like The O.C. and Gotham did exactly that. Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. His documentary film, Everyone Is Lying to You for \[…\] ## [Canada Is Spending Billions to Help Its Workers Survive Our Tariffs](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/canada-us-trump-carney-tariff-aid-package-small-business/) _2026-08-25 · Alex Nguyen · Mother Jones_ On Tuesday, Canadian officials announced funding to back businesses, workers, and industries, as they implement dollar-for-dollar counter-tariffs on the US in response to the Trump administration’s newly imposed 50 percent tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian imports. Senior members of Canada’s government announced a support package worth $7.5 billion Canadian dollars, or about \[…\] ## [Deal/No Deal, Trump’s Iran Contradictions](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/deal-no-deal-trumps-iran-contradictions/) _2026-08-25 · David Ritsher · Mother Jones_ On March 9, President Donald Trump said the war in Iran was “very complete, pretty much.” That was Day 10 of the conflict. Now it’s nearly Day 180. After Trump and Israel launched “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran on February 28, the president predicted a quick military victory and said “there will be no deal \[…\] ## [SCOTUS Hands Trump a Temporary Win in His Crusade to Restrict Mail Voting](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/scotus-hands-trump-a-temporary-win-in-his-crusade-to-restrict-mail-voting/) _2026-08-24 · Ari Berman · Mother Jones_ The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily handed President Trump a key victory in his crusade to restrict mail-in voting. The unsigned opinion by the court’s conservative majority, issued over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, said it was too soon for states to challenge Trump’s executive order from March 2026 severely restricting mail-in voting because \[…\] ## [Maybe Trump’s Iran Sanctions Will Work This Time](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/bessent-trump-iran-sanctions-secondary-oil-d-day-uae/) _2026-08-24 · Alex Nguyen · Mother Jones_ On Monday afternoon, President Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the US would impose all-encompassing sanctions on countries and institutions that conduct business with Iran, in an apparent attempt to end the war after most viable military options have failed. Bessent described the plan, dubbed Operation Economic Outcast, as an “economic D-Day,” in reference \[…\] ## [It Just Got Way Easier to Sue Fossil Fuel Companies Over Climate Change](https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/08/it-just-got-way-easier-to-sue-fossil-fuel-companies-over-climate-change/) _2026-08-24 · Rachel Santarsiero · Mother Jones_ Deadly heatwaves in May smashed records in the UK, France, Spain, and parts of North Africa. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh saw April temperatures soar to 113-122 degrees Fahrenheit. A late spring heat dome in the US marked the hottest March on record, and in a 1,000-year July storm, parts of Texas were left reeling after \[…\] ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gtywwClojpsB) _2026-08-24 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [This Palantir Billionaire’s Passion Project is Criminalizing Homelessness](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/joe-londsdale-cicero-institute-homelessness/) _2026-08-22 · Sophie Hurwitz · Mother Jones_ Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of the weapons-tech company Palantir, is also a major force behind the Trump administration’s policy of pushing unhoused people toward incarceration. Lonsdale, a longtime critic of “housing first” policy—which proposes that homelessness be solved by supplying those in need of housing with somewhere to live—argues that fining and arresting people for \[…\] ## [Federal Judge Strikes Down Trump’s 75-Country Visa Ban](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/federal-judge-strikes-down-trumps-75-country-visa-ban/) _2026-08-22 · Sophie Hurwitz · Mother Jones_ This January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed consular officers to refuse to process immigration visas for people from 75 countries because, he said, those immigrants would be more likely than others to “extract wealth” or “take welfare and public benefits” from the US. Since January, people from those 75 countries—all located in Africa, Latin America, \[…\] ## [A Natalie Harp Conspiracy Theory (Not Really)](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/natalie-harp-donald-trump-rumors-conspiracy-theory-oan-russia/) _2026-08-22 · David Corn · Mother Jones_ A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. It’s very easy to be a conspiracy-monger. Let’s give it \[…\] ## [In the Wake of a Toxic Disaster, Roseland Parents Still Struggle to Keep Their Children Safe](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/roseland-louisiana-smittys-toxic-disaster-explosion-families-children-health-safety-cancer-alley/) _2026-08-22 · Adam Mahoney · Mother Jones_ This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a young boy in the 1960s, almost every weekend Elbert McGee walked a half-mile with his father through the wooded streets of Roseland, Louisiana, to the Tangipahoa River. There, he learned to swim and fish for bass, crappie, and the \[…\] ## [40 Acres and a Lie Part 3](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/40-acres-and-a-lie-part-3-update/) _2026-08-22 · Reveal · Mother Jones_ 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. Subscribe to Mother Jones podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app. Today, researchers are unearthing the details of Black land loss long after emancipation. “They lost land \[…\] ## [The Fight Over Spraying Roundup in California’s Forests Has Only Gotten Bigger](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/the-fight-over-spraying-roundup-in-californias-forests-has-only-gotten-bigger/) _2026-08-22 · Reported by Nathan Halverson, Video by David Ritsher · Mother Jones_ This video was created in partnership with PBS NewsHour. The record amounts of glyphosate being sprayed in California’s forests—revealed in a yearlong Mother Jones investigation in April—has continued to attract national attention and fuel public debate. In Lake Tahoe, community members have flooded meetings and organized rallies to stop the US Forest Service from spraying \[…\] ## [Partisan’s Exit Suggests DOJ Is Getting Better at Politicized Prosecutions](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/ed-martin-blanche-doj-justice-department-political-prosecutions/) _2026-08-21 · Dan Friedman · Mother Jones_ Ed Martin, a trench-coat donning former “Stop the Steal” advocate whose work at various senior Justice Department jobs was charactered by brash, bumbling efforts to use the department to punish critics of President Donald Trump, is leaving DOJ, Trump announced Friday. “Ed is now leaving to go outside to fight Legal Battles for the upcoming \[…\] ## [Flock Execs Are Taking Credit For Catching Bad Cops Now](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/flock-camera-abuse-technology-license-plate-misconduct-sidhu/) _2026-08-21 · Sophie Hurwitz · Mother Jones_ Flock Safety is having a hard month. The surveillance technology company, which has sold more than 120,000 automated license plate reader cameras to some 6,000 police departments across the US, is up to its neck in cancelled contracts—at least 34 since the start of 2026—and public backlash. Dozens of police officers have lost their jobs \[…\] ## [Florida’s GOP Has a Very Short Playbook: Call Everyone a Socialist](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/florida-moody-donalds-nixon-senate-governor-gop-election-socialism/) _2026-08-21 · Laura C. Morel · Mother Jones_ In a bright red power suit, Ashley Moody, the former Florida attorney general who nabbed the state’s GOP Senate nomination in Tuesday’s primary, strolled onto the stage of Florida Republicans’ “Victory Rally” on Thursday and did not waste time attacking her opponent, state Rep. Angie Nixon. “If I told you last year that Florida would \[…\] ## [MAHA and the Midterms](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/maha-and-the-midterms-series-rfk-jr-glyphosate-maga-zach-lahn/) _2026-08-21 · Mother Jones and the Food & Environment Reporting Network · Mother Jones_ When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. jumped on Donald Trump’s bandwagon in 2024, he brought with him the wellness-obsessed, vaccine-rejecting, food-label-reading Make America Healthy Again voters—who’ve been credited with helping Trump take back the White House. But there are signs the MAHA–MAGA alliance is wearing thin, from squabbles over inaction to a tense stand-off over regulating \[…\] ## [Try Before You Buy, Risk-Free (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/nU8JgzZPczVD) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Free trial hosting plus refunds processed in 12-24 hours, guaranteed. ## [To Miami’s Chagrin, Warming Seas Are Driving a Bumper Crop of Sargassum](https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/08/miami-beaches-sargassum-seaweed-algae-caribbean-mexico-warming-oceans-climate-change/) _2026-08-21 · Sara Sneath · Mother Jones_ This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dealing with seaweed is the bulk of Chris Bumpus’s job during the summer. As chief of conservation for Miami-Dade county’s parks, recreation and open spaces department, Bumpus is in charge of cleaning sargassum off 17 miles \[…\] ## [Why Cancer, Not Affordability, May Be the Biggest Issue in Iowa’s Midterms](https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/08/cancer-rates-iowa-maha-pesticides-herbicides-glyphosate-farming-agriculture-midterm-elections-issues/) _2026-08-21 · Chris Stein · Mother Jones_ This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In Iowa, one of the key battleground states in November’s midterm elections, just about every political candidate agrees on one thing: Something must be done about the state’s rising rates of cancer. The midwestern state has the second-highest rate of cancer nationwide \[…\] ## [Native American Leaders Denounce Record Glyphosate Spraying on National Forests](https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/08/maidu-native-groups-denounce-record-glyphosate-spraying-national-forests-california-bayer-forest-service/) _2026-08-21 · Nate Halverson · Mother Jones_ As Stephen Young stepped into the woods about an hour drive from Mt. Lassen volcano in northeast California, the forest began communicating to him in an unspoken language learned from his years collecting plants. The tree-shaded March air felt cool against his cheek, and he could sense the moisture of the forest’s understory hanging in \[…\] ## [Adventures in Unplugging](https://www.motherjones.com/media/2026/08/digital-detox-golden-door-brick-meta/) _2026-08-21 · Paula Mejía · Mother Jones_ I’m not sure when my smartphone began to feel like an albatross, when my unease about relying on it devolved into full-blown anxiety that I was ­frittering away my life on this tiny screen. As if reading my mind, ­purported solutions to this digital malaise began ­appearing on the very device that caused my angst, \[…\] ## [Trump’s Minions Say He’s Mulling New Tax Breaks—They’re Mainly for the Rich](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-considering-new-tax-breaks-rich-wealthy-capital-gains-index-inflation-home-sales-exclusion-deficits/) _2026-08-20 · Michael Mechanic · Mother Jones_ Donald Trump apparently wants to cut taxes for the rich yet again. Is this some kind of twisted midterms strategy? Hard to say. But as Timothy Noah points out in The New Republic, the current and former National Economic Council directors Kevin Hassett and Larry Kudlow were on Fox News last week talking about two \[…\] ## [Republicans Are Realizing That No One Wants Data Centers](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/gop-memo-republican-senate-data-center-ai-elections-trump/) _2026-08-20 · Sophie Hurwitz · Mother Jones_ The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a memo Tuesday suggesting that, if incumbent Republican Ohio Sen. Jon Husted loses his upcoming election against former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), the Republican Party’s position on data centers is to blame. The memo, as Axios reported, says that “the data center brand is the anchor” of Brown’s campaign. “He has made \[…\] ## [Trump Enraged South Korea to Please the North. It Didn’t Work.](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-south-north-korea-military-drills-ballistic-missiles/) _2026-08-20 · Alex Nguyen · Mother Jones_ North Korea launched several ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan on Thursday, according to South Korea’s military—just a day after the North dismissed Donald Trump’s seeming attempt at appeasement by cutting back on joint military training with South Korea. “The provocative, aggressive nature of the drills won’t change even though their duration and size \[…\] ## [Roger Stone Is Lobbying for a Vape Firm Accused of Illegally Marketing to Kids](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/roger-stone-lobbying-for-ecto-world-demand-vape-firm-accused-of-illegally-marketing-to-kids/) _2026-08-20 · David Corn · Mother Jones_ Ecto World, a Buffalo, New York–based company that distributes vape products and faces legal troubles, believed it needed an influential friend in Washington, DC. Over the past three years, officials in New York state and New York City have accused the firm of illegal business practices. In March, police in New York state seized more \[…\] ## [Trump Ordered to Release Billions in Resilience Grants for Disadvantaged Communities](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/judge-orders-trump-pay-billions-resilience-climate-grants-black-low-income-greenhouse-gas-reduction-sanitation-water-epa/) _2026-08-20 · Adam Mahoney · Mother Jones_ This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dominika Parry never stopped fighting for Jackson, Mississippi, residents even after the Trump administration terminated a multibillion-dollar program last year meant to help the Black city still reeling from a water crisis. For years, if water did flow out of \[…\] ## [What Does Trump’s Open Respect For North Korean Nukes Tell Iran?](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-north-korea-iran-nuclear-weapons-kim-jong-un/) _2026-08-19 · Alex Nguyen · Mother Jones_ President Trump hinted on Wednesday that his friendly relationship with North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong Un may owe a lot to the country’s strong nuclear capabilities. “He has 57 very powerful nuclear weapons. Should have never allowed it to happen,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “But he’s got them. I get along \[…\] ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/TtK4GNtQ1XSb) _2026-08-19 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [Administration Moves to Open National Forests to Roadbuilding, Drilling, and Logging](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-administration-rescinds-roadless-rule-protections-national-forests-drilling-logging-mining-roads/) _2026-08-19 · Mark Oliver · Mother Jones_ This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration said on Tuesday it plans to rescind the “roadless rule” that has protected old-growth forests in the US for 25 years, potentially opening up almost 45 million acres of national forests to road construction, drilling, and logging. Conservationists had feared… ## [Angie Nixon Goes on Trial in September. She Just Won Florida’s Senate Primary.](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/angie-nixon-alex-vindman-florida-primary-redistricting-gerrymander/) _2026-08-19 · Alex Nguyen and Sophie Hurwitz · Mother Jones_ Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon just defeated Alex Vindman, the presumed frontrunner, in the state’s Democratic Senate primary—even though Vindman raised roughly sixteen times as much money as Nixon. Nixon, 42, helped lead the fight against Republican-led redistricting in Florida that disproportionately supports GOP voters, who are mostly white. According to the Miami Herald, 86 \[…\] ## [A Texas Program Has Poured Billions Into Cancer Research. Ken Paxton Voted Against It.](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/ken-paxton-voted-against-cancer-prevention-resarch-institute-texas-funding/) _2026-08-19 · Tim Murphy · Mother Jones_ In early 2007, newly reelected Republican Gov. Rick Perry pushed an innovative response to a problem that was killing about 35,000 Texans each year. The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, funded with $3 billion in public funds, would support groundbreaking work at the state’s leading research institutions, while ramping up prevention efforts across \[…\] ## [How Trump’s Deportation Machine Deprives Deaf People of Their Humanity](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/how-trumps-deportation-machine-deprives-deaf-people-of-their-humanity/) _2026-08-19 · Julia Métraux · Mother Jones_ In February, an ICE agent directed Emilio, a Deaf man, to get onto a bus in southern Texas. By that point, Emilio had spent nine weeks in immigration detention and didn’t know what was going on. He asked for a sign language interpreter and told me he didn’t get one. It was only when he \[…\]