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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The original sin of today's AI models is how they were created—by feeding them everyone's content, with utter disregard for the people that made it. Time to stand up for humans. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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We’re suing ChatGPT—and Trump just got involved.

Guess whose side he's on.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our fearless editor-in-chief, @clarajeffery.bsky.social, will be moderating this amazing event tonight. Bay Area folks, there are still a few tickets available! www.tixr.com/groups/kqed/...

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On Friday, our nonprofit newsroom filed a motion asking a court to stop OpenAI from stealing our content. But before we even filed, the Trump administration intervened on behalf of OpenAI. Why? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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ChatGPT took our stories. We’re suing.

Guess whose side he's on?

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There is no scenario in which this kind of message should ever have to be written

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Everyone who is talking about this story should be reading Abby‘s original version. She actually read through over 1000 pages of court documents, and she did it first. And shamefully, some large outlets have chosen to not credit her (@nytimes.com)

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It's challenging to report on family violence with care and rigor, let alone in a high-stakes political campaign. @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social did a powerful job bringing this story to light, the NYT followed 10 days later, and now Sen. Moreno has weighed in on X. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

As kids' book sequels go, may I instead recommend the wonderful sequel to the classic "Go the Fuck to Sleep," which has me all in my feelings www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/go-t...

An image of the cover of the book "Go the F**K to College"

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A man with a troubled history, including many accusations of violence, kills a young father in broad daylight. With one set of characters, this is a crime story that enrages law-and-order advocates. With another, it's our tax dollars at work. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's amazing how Trump managed to take this from what would have been a sad but somewhat "you was a bit robbed" loss into "not even blatant corruption can save you." The team and everyone deserved so much better.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I'll be at Manny's in SF on Tuesday (5/19) talking with @motherjones.com cofounder Adam Hochschild and the great @jamilsmith.bsky.social about independent, ferocious journalism in the face of lies, propaganda, and corruption—in the 70s and right now. Please come! www.eventbrite.com/e/mother-jon...

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Mother Jones: 50 Years of Investigative Journalism and Press Freedom

Journalism faces political attacks and declining revenue, yet San Francisco’s Mother Jones celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2026.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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Mother Jones: 50 Years of Investigative Journalism and Press Freedom

Journalism faces political attacks and declining revenue, yet San Francisco’s Mother Jones celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2026.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

My colleague @markfollman.bsky.social has been investigating mass shootings—and the powers invested in blocking action to prevent them—for 14 years now, but this is the first time he asked a chatbot for instructions toward committing one. Incredible investigation: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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ChatGPT gave me chilling advice—as I simulated planning a mass shooting

I asked about imitating the Uvalde attacker, defending against police gunfire, and more—everything short of directly stating intent to kill.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

10 years ago, @motherjones.com prevailed in a massive lawsuit brought by a billionaire political donor—a preview of the legal war against the media that's been playing out ever since. Remembering Gary Bostwick, a great First Amendment champion who helped us fight it: www.legacy.com/legacy/gary-...

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Late to post, but this is such a lovely piece from former @motherjones.com Mother Jones editor Doug Foster, who shadowed Jesse Jackson on the campaign trail in 1987 and is now sharing what he couldn't share back then. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Twenty years later, on election night in November 2008, we stood in Chicago’s Grant Park, waiting for the Obama family to appear so a newly elected president—the first Black chief executive—could claim his victory. Nearby, Reverend Jackson clutched a small American flag and wept unashamedly. Watching him, I was carried back to the weeks we spent together on the campaign trail in 1987. During our final conversation on the road, in an unusually guarded off-the-record moment, Jackson admitted: “I know what my job is. It’s to bang on the door. Kick at the door. Bang on the door harder and push harder still. Someday, someone else will walk through it.”

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Time to rewatch The Handmaid's Tale.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Support independent media. It's the only way you can be sure a billionaire won't wreck the journalism to advance his agenda. secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I've tried to raise my kids to stand up for what's right, and it's hard now not to fear what might happen to them when they do.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

When I lived in Minneapolis, KARE11 News was a lot of fish and weather. Right now it's a brave reporter in a gas mask documenting anger and fear www.kare11.com/watch

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Good interview with @lizkellynelson.com, but missing mention of the newsrooms and journos who have been pushing on this for years, like my amazing @motherjones.com colleagues who racked up 66M video views last year with solid reporting and innovative creator partnerships www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

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Pivoting to Creator: An interview with Liz Kelly Nelson.

An interview with Liz Kelly Nelson, who wants to help journalists navigate the independent creator economy.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The bravery of the people—and particularly the women—of Minnesota is really giving me heart this weekend. This is the state that welcomed me as a new immigrant and that has always been capable of a particular American kind of decency.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

God help US travelers and service members as we cement precedent that you can can snatch anyone, on any pretext, so long as your military is big enough

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Kevin Drum was the first journalist to really get into the ties between lead and crime rates (not just serial killers) and I think it is one of the most important articles we’ve ever done www.motherjones.com/environment/...

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America's Real Criminal Element Is Lead

The hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and the maybe even the ADHD epidemic.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Very short🧵: At the start of 2025, I reflected on Zivilcourage—a German word that, to me, describes how everyday people can be more powerful than soldiers in battle. It's not about heroism, but small acts of standing up. Refusing to laugh at a cruel joke, blowing a whistle, walking a kid to school.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

A huge thank you to everyone pitching in to help us make our end of year deadline, when donations to @motherjones.com and @revealnews.org are being 3x matched. This support is the one and only reason we can stay fiercely independent as others bend the knee. secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Really leaning into appeasement with this selection about.fb.com/news/2025/12...

A screenshot of news outlets included in Meta's new AI partnership including Fox News, The Daily Caller, and the Washington Examiner

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Go Oakland bus driver patiently explaining the finer points of Prop 50 to fellow passenger so she can vote with confidence. Democracy is alive

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Some day, perhaps this can become the home of a truth and healing commission. wapo.st/3WjyJv8

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Are you disappointed by news coverage of the rallies this weekend? Do you wish a great podcast had gone out to really share the voices and sounds of that day? @alletson.bsky.social has you covered with this amazing episode of More To The Story from @revealnews.org. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Al Letson at No Kings: Hope, Fury, and Inflatables

Podcast Episode · Reveal · 10/22/2025 · 24m

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This is almost meta "irony is dead"

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

I came off the DL to check out the big march in little San Leandro, California. Michelle Doppelt had already taken off her inflatable unicorn costume, but was looking forward to bringing him out again for the next protest. "We have to have fun and keep up hope," she said.

A protester with a sign saying "Honk for Democracy"

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

@revealnews.org host @alletson.bsky.social and dozens of my colleagues are covering No Kings rallies all over the country. There are inflatables, giant copies of the Constitution, flags, and a lot of joy. And if, like me, you're on the DL today, @motherjones.com will have updates for you all day!

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

A lot of casual secession talk is some version of "let's throw the rest of the country [note: most of which did not ask for this either!] to the wolves". @clarajeffery.bsky.social smartly flips that into "let's use the power that we ACTUALLY HAVE to make change." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This. We need to confront and name the dangers. But I grew up around people who remembered Germany in 1935, and Italy in 1923. They could not have imagined the rights that we have—and must use.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I was wondering what happened to Defund the Police www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

For some relief and hope this weekend, I highly recommend @timothypmurphy.bsky.social's excellent profile of a fighting Dem, www.motherjones.com/politics/202...; and @pemalevy.bsky.social's great look at former federal workers who maintain "alt" agency accounts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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How to survive a Republican power grab

Texas Democrat Greg Casar spent his summer fighting for his job—and plotting a progressive revival.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I've been thinking about why the Jimmy Kimmel moment was such a gut punch, and it's partly because the government pressure for corporate self-censorship is so obvious. It's the logical continuation of the Paramount settlement–but also a significant escalation. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Good night and good luck

Why corporate media—including CBS owner Paramount—is bending the knee.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

If you find yourself looking for something to do to protect freedom of the press and expression in this country, I urge you to support newsrooms that are not caving or compromising. We can stay strong, but only when you have our back. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY. secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The delightful @tonymartignetti.bsky.social invited me on his Nonprofit Radio podcast—we talked about the IRS going after Mother Jones in the 1980s (MoJo prevailed), this scary moment for nonprofits (and nonprofit media), and why not all is lost. tony.ma/NonprofitRad...

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Social media plus tragedy amplifies the worst. Look at someone you love and remind yourself that there is much more good in people than digital road rage would have you believe.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This is a smart piece by @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social that applies to DC, but also more widely. Protest and resistance don't necessarily take the form of big marches, but that's what we (and media in particular) have conditioned ourselves to expect. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The resistance is active in DC—you’re just not looking closely enough

It's not massive protests on Pennsylvania Avenue, but happenstance hecklers and Nextdoor posts.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @nlanard.bsky.social first broke the story of Neri Alvarado and others sent to El Salvador for their tattoos celebrating love and family. Now they're sharing the stories of families who went through this four-month ordeal. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"We were kidnapped"

On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This is a must-read story—even if you vaguely know about Canary Mission, you'll learn a lot.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Trump doesn't need to censor corporate media. It's enough to threaten their bottom line. There is no better illustration of why we need (and need to support) independent newsrooms. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Good night and good luck

Why corporate media—including CBS owner Paramount—is bending the knee.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I can't stop thinking about this image either, and none of us should.

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Monika Bauerlein @monikab.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

"We can celebrate the imperfect start of our national enterprise, despite the dark turn it has taken. As we do so, we ought to keep in mind a fundamental fact: There are more of us than them.... The question is whether the majority can triumph." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A July 4 reflection

There are more of us than them.

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