Blog Profile / Political Mojo
| URL : | http://motherjones.com/mojo | |
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| Filed Under: | US Politics / Liberal | |
| Posts on Regator: | 4156 | |
| Posts / Week: | 35.2 | |
| Archived Since: | February 16, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
A Political History of The Cicadas
The "Great East Coast Cicada Sex Invasion of 2013" is upon us. After 17 years of feeding and living under the earth's surface, billions of "Brood II" cicadas will emerge this summer between Connecticut and Georgia, swarming in thick, forbidding billows of shed exoskeletons and raucous insect love-making. Show More Summary
State Department Forces Texas Law Student to Take Down Instructions for 3D-Printed Guns
Defense Distributed, the Texas-based company specializing in 3D-printed plastic firearms, took down its downloadable files on Thursday at the request of the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Control Compliance. The company...Show More Summary
Rand Paul Wants to Loosen Laws on Offshore Tax Evasion
Late Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) introduced a bill that would repeal part of a law aimed at fighting offshore tax evasion. The law, called the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, was passed in 2010 and is supposed to go into effect on January 1, 2014. Show More Summary
Want to Track Deaths Along the Border? There's an App for That.
Pima County, Arizona, has found a new tool in the quest to save lives along the US-Mexico border: data. On Monday, the county medical examiner's office and Humane Borders, a human rights group based in Tucson, unveiled the Arizona OpenGIS...Show More Summary
Koch-Linked Women's Group Takes Credit for Mark Sanford's Win
Soon after Mark Sanford, the former governor of South Carolina who resigned in disgrace in 2009, pulled off an upset win in his congressional race on Tuesday, a conservative group called the Independent Women's Voice boasted of its role in his victory. Show More Summary
Issa Tweets Story Saying Benghazi Testimony Will Yield No "Major Revelations"
This week, several top Republicans have claimed that a supposed White House administration cover-up of the September 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, would soon bring down the Obama administration, and on Wednesday, Rep. Show More Summary
Bills That Would Gut Wall Street Reform Overwhelmingly Pass House Committee
On Tuesday, three bills that would gut the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform bill passed the House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) in decisive fashion, with just six members of the 61-member committee voting against all of them. The three bills passed over serious objections from the Obama administration. Show More Summary
This Is How the NRA Lies to Gun Owners About Obama's Agenda
The National Rifle Association, which thwarted new background check legislation in Congress, recently mailed a "survey" to gun owners with 12 questions related to gun rights, gun laws, and politics. I use scare quotes above because this...Show More Summary
GOP Senator Wants the Feds to Register Their Guns
For the first time since it rejected a compromise on expanded background checks in April, the Senate will take up gun control again Wednesday afternoon. Sort of, anyway: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has proposed two gun amendments to aShow More Summary
Republicans Flood Immigration Bill With Ridiculous Amendments
Defying expectations, Congress is poised to take a serious shot at immigration reform. A bipartisan group of eight Senators has agreed on a bill. One of the GOP's brightest young stars, Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), has linked his political future to passage of the bill, and so far managed to wade through a flood of harsh criticism from the right. Show More Summary
Sexual Assaults in Military Keep Rising—And Nearly 90 Percent Never Report It
The number of servicemembers who reported being sexually assaulted rose consistently over the past four years, according to an internal Pentagon report released Tuesday, despite recent efforts by the Obama administration to address the problem. Show More Summary
4,693 People in America Died on the Job in 2011
Workplaces dangers have been in the news more than usual lately, from the deadly explosion at the West, Texas, fertilizer plant to the garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, where the death toll is now more than 700. In light of the...Show More Summary
FBI Agents Want Rep. Mike Rogers to Be Their New Boss. Here's Where He Stands on Civil Liberties
The FBI Agents Association, which represents thousands of active and retired FBI agents, announced Monday that it wants Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the chairman of the House intelligence committee, to be the next head of the FBI. If nominated by President Obama, Rogers would take over from Robert S. Show More Summary
House GOP Advances Fake Pro-Working-Mother Bill
In February, in the wake of their bruising loss at the polls in the 2012 presidential election, Republicans in Congress decided to launch a concerted effort to change their image and lure back a critical group of voters who abandoned the party in droves last year: women. Show More Summary
Lew Slams Wall Street Deregulation Bills
The House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) plans to vote on nine separate bills this week that have been presented as technical fixes to the sweeping 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. But these measures...Show More Summary
MoveOn, Sierra Club, and Daily Kos Spike Facebook Ads to Protest Mark Zuckerberg's Dark-Money Group
Nine big-name progressive groups, including MoveOn.org, the Sierra Club, and Daily Kos, announced Tuesday morning that will yank their current paid advertisements on Facebook or cancel future ad buys in protest of FWD.us, the dark-money...Show More Summary
Here's Why the Syrian Electronic Army Targeted Justin Bieber With Homosexuality Rumors
The Syrian Electronic Army, a loosely defined collective of hackers supporting the mass-murdering regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, are known for disrupting the social-media operations of news outlets, activists, and human rights groups. Show More Summary
America's 14 Most Pissed Off Comments on the TSA's Airport Body Scanners
Americans wishing to fly by plane have been subjected to full-body scanners, also known as "Advanced Imaging Technology" or "porno scanners" since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) rolled them out in airports in 2008.Show More Summary
Depressing Headline of The Day
Here it is: Here's an excerpt from the Stars and Stripes story: The chief of the [US] Air Force's sexual assault prevention and response branch was arrested this weekend and charged with sexual battery. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, of Arlington, Va., was arrested Sunday morning, according to the Arlington police. Show More Summary
Mark Follman on "Inside Story": The Power of the NRA
Two weeks after Congress killed off gun control legislation, the National Rifle Association declared victory in Houston at its annual national convention. In a speech, Wayne LaPierre extolled what he portrayed as a diverse crowd in attendance. Show More Summary