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Ian Gordon

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Editorial director for teams and coverage, @MotherJones.com. Immigration, Latin America, sports, and serial commas. Nutmegger. Work: igordon@motherjones.com Signal: idgordon.325 Proton Mail: idgordon@proton.me

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 36m
“The problem here is not the fact the Trumps are affiliated with a bank. It’s the fact that Donald Trump can fire the bank regulator if the bank regulator doesn’t do what he says.” Latest from @russchoma.bsky.social:
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Why Trump’s crypto business wants to become a bank
Sen. Elizabeth Warren decries the first family’s latest crypto play as a “clear conflict of interest and corruption.”
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 52m
The bot gave an accurate response… but nobody thought to ask it, "Would Venezuelans also celebrate if we left the rest of Maduro's government in power and struck oil deals with them?"
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 4h
spent a bunch of time in Iowa trying to figure what the deal with Rob Sand really is www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Rob Sand says he isn’t trying to turn Iowa blue. It just might happen anyway.
In a midterms wave fueled by resistance and revenge, the Democratic candidate for governor is singing a different tune.
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 6h
tom verducci www.si.com/mlb/yankees-...
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Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 5h
when in doubt: don't make people learn a new guy.
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Maddie Oatman @moatmanjourno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you read one piece on Min Jin Lee's new novel American Hagwon, make it @inaeoh.bsky.social 's: "To hear Lee condemn the racial stereotyping of Asian Americans with such blunt rigor, in a living room sumptuously bedecked with books, was deeply satisfying." www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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The education of Min Jin Lee
In her latest book, the novelist tackles dislocation and familial sacrifice to ask: Is elite schooling always a passport to a good life?
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Steve Bannon has never felt more validated
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To speed up mass deportations, the Trump administration didn't just launch raids—it stripped $200M+ from nonprofit legal aid groups, bringing them to the brink of collapse. Here’s how immigrant legal defense barely survived the campaign to kneecap them:
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First Trump came for immigrants. Then he came for their lawyers.
How legal aid groups survived the administration's attacks—barely.
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Kyle Paoletta @kpaoletta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today in @motherjones.com, my year-long investigation into how the Trump administration pulled over $200 million from the non-profits that provide legal aid to migrants. The ensuing scramble sent several organizations reeling, while others remained steadfast: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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First Trump came for immigrants. Then he came for their lawyers.
How legal aid groups survived the administration's attacks—barely.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With tens of millions of dollars in funding withheld, the bottom quickly fell out of a number of organizations. Lawyers cut clients adrift. “They were like, ‘No new clients’—and not only no new clients, but ‘No consultations, no pro se workshops, and withdraw from every single pro bono client.’”
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First Trump came for immigrants. Then he came for their lawyers.
How legal aid groups survived the administration's attacks—barely.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Immigration law is infamous for its impossible hours and laughable salaries, but since early 2025 lawyers have been tested by the federal government’s efforts to target them—and their budgets. The ensuing chaos nearly broke them. Don't miss the latest from @kpaoletta.bsky.social:
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First Trump came for immigrants. Then he came for their lawyers.
How legal aid groups survived the administration's attacks—barely.
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Bonesito @bonesito.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When someone accuses me of going to a Hawks game.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My mom died a couple of months ago, and today I found this while helping my dad clean out some old stuff
A photo of a book I made for my mom for Mother’s Day in 1989. The cover is titled, “Me and My Mom.”
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Damn, who is writing headlines these days?!
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
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Julia Lurie @julialurie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICYMI - our podcast ep about the mood effects of hormonal birth control is out! This was a personal one for me, and it was SUCH a treat to work on it with the inimitable Nadia Hamdan revealnews.org/podcast/repr...
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Is your IUD making your depression worse? What we still don’t know about women’s reproductive health
The research is clear: Some people experience depression and other mood effects on hormonal birth control. So why is it so hard to talk about?
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Salute to a real 82-0 secret weapon www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
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Bob Pettit, who starred at LSU and then in NBA, dies at 93
Bob Pettit, who was named an All-Star in each of his 11 NBA seasons and was one of the greatest scorers and rebounders in league history, died, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame said Thursday.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Final Sunset - the final game in Connecticut Sun history tonight (on NBA TV)
Young fan in orange Aneesah Morrow Sun shirt holding the sign with yellow/orange/red hand painted sunset bands
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"There’s a joke in the world of male contraceptives: They’ve been five years away for the past 50 years." @julialurie.bsky.social has more on the gels, implants, and nonhormonal pills being tested today:
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Is male birth control finally coming?
Inside the long-overdue push to develop more contraceptives for men.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pay-to-play schemes were a way for private equity firms to tap into public pension funds. They may soon be back, reports @h-lev.bsky.social:
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The SEC wants to scrap a key anti-corruption rule targeting private equity
Pay-to-play schemes were a way for firms to tap into public pension funds. They may soon be back.
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Noah Lanard @nlanard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Current state of the race to replace Stefanik. Constantino is being sued for suggesting a fellow conservative may have sent a hitman upstate. One of 3 friends who attended his wedding was recently arrested for allegedly kidnapping one of the other 2. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Michael Kruse @michaelkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I would get flooded with bonuses and deposits. If you are in addiction, you are not going to say no.”
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At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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Matt Norlander @norlander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This one's for all the style guide + headline nerds ... ... ... OXFORD KARMA
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 19/09/2026
After reporter @julialurie.bsky.social had her IUD removed, she felt calmer and happier than she’d felt in years. She started to wonder: What do we know about how hormonal birth control affects mood? This week on Reveal. revealnews.org/podcast/repr...
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https://revealnews.org/podcast/reproductive-health-hormonal-birth-control-side-effects-menopause-women/
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Politico @politico.com · 18/09/2026
Breaking: Trump says he will ban reporters from POLITICO, CNN and MS NOW from the White House.
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Trump says he’s banning media outlets, including POLITICO, from White House
CNN and MS NOW are the other two outlets Trump announced can no longer send journalists into the White House.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Niche complaint, but the multiple 82-0.com redesigns have made it less fun and playable every time
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
yacht rock finally gets its due respect
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Did I grind some tape on the Gavin Newsom-Jake Tapper fly-fishing interview? I did.
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Jake Tapper goes fly fishing with Gavin Newsom
YouTube video by CNN
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“One of my critiques of American history and polite, middle-class white liberal society is this idea that violence is only an aberration of the norm. It’s only something carried out by the fringe or the extremes of society, when fundamentally, the American project is a project built by violence."
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The Proud Boys next door
"Homegrown" digs into American extremism—and argues it's far more familiar than we let on.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The documentary "Homegrown," which follows three Proud Boys ahead of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, "feels less like documentation of a historic event and more like access into a current reality—one that many people would rather dismiss as extreme," writes Lisa Armstrong.
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The Proud Boys next door
"Homegrown" digs into American extremism—and argues it's far more familiar than we let on.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Watch this great @timothypmurphy.bsky.social breakdown of the lies underlying Elon Musk's hype scam and the circular financing of AI data centers www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVRc...
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Billionaire Math Doesn't Add Up the Way Yours Does
YouTube video by Mother Jones
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Oh a promise he's made and broken a billion times and that would cost more than a TRILLION dollars?? Never gonna happen www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Your deadbeat president is never giving you $5,000
But the pledge reveals an increasingly frantic midterms strategy.
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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Memphis has been occupied by ICE for a YEAR....why aren't more people aware of it? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Memphis has spent a year under federal occupation. ICE would rather you didn't notice.
Watch as these officers arrest an activist for documenting from a reasonable distance.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Another must-read banger from @msjpauly.bsky.social, who also wrote the definitive Riley Gaines profile
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have some frustrations... www.offmessage.net/p/elon-musk-...
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I Am Going To Lose My F****** Mind
Can someone make the madness end? Or are we simply doomed to demented discourse and intolerable double standards and spineless opposition forever?
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“We chose as an agency to be more convenient rather than thorough. By doing so, there was a potential to put lives at risk and to jeopardize national security.” You don't say… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says
An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
no shit mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
Dialect map that says I "talk most like someone from Connecticut—about 62% of your answers match a typical resident"
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When I heard someone correctly pronounce "anathema" in a meeting when I was like 23, I must've done the hardest double-take of my life
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
NEW: I wrote about all the MAGA figures claiming to have had advance knowledge of, or helped cause, Milo Yiannopoulos' deportation, and what that tells us about power, influence and threats in the movement now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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What the deportation of Milo Yiannopoulos tells us about the state of MAGA
The saga goes to the heart of the disturbing nature of power, influence, and punishment in Trump’s America.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Really powerful reporting from the @ctmirror.org on the activists working to protect their community from ICE in Danbury, Connecticut ctmirror.org/2026/08/30/i...
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In Danbury, some are hiding from ICE. Others are following them.
Over the past year, members of Danbury Unites for Immigrants have prepared for the kind of worst-case scenario that played out last week.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026
Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.
An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW: More than a dozen local law enforcement agencies across the country have used opioid settlement money to procure Flock cameras and other AI-powered automated license plate readers, reports @schuylermitchell.bsky.social
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Police are spending opioid settlement funds on Flock cameras
Historic opioid settlements were supposed to be a lifeline for underserved communities. But much of that money is flowing to law enforcement.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
dearly hope that the publication of this story involved a discussion with legal about using a photo of a specific marmot in conjunction with criminal allegations www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
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Marmots Are Terrorizing California Hikers and Stealing Their Shoes
The cute but destructive rodents are criminal masterminds, easily circumventing humans’ meager defenses.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Following up on our big glyphosate investigation.... Watch the News Hour piece.
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The fight over spraying Roundup in California’s forests has only gotten bigger
“It seems like it’s poison that they’re putting into the woods,” one resort owner says in our collaboration with “PBS NewsHour.”
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Enes Kanter is an extreme loser people can choose to ignore. Royce White is an even *more* extreme loser who likewise.
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
this is everything
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
imagine thinking you could run on that dude. sheesh.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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