Abby Vesoulis
National Politics Reporter at Mother Jones
National Politics reporter at Mother Jones magazine. Previously: TIME magazine. Signal: abbyvesoulis.09 Proton: [email protected] 📥
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3 weeks ago |
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On Friday afternoon, thousands of veterans who fought wars on behalf of the United States descended on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to fight something else: cuts proposed by the Trump administration. Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has moved to slash and burn the federal workforce—and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is no exception.
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3 weeks ago |
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The Democratic Party has commissioned a taco truck to serve free lunch outside the Republican National Committee’s DC headquarters beginning at noon on Tuesday. The giveaway is not just to mark taco Tuesday, says a Democratic National Committee staffer who tipped Mother Jones off about the free grub. The food is also meant to get under the skin of President Donald Trump, who has recently become associated with the acronym TACO—shorthand for Trump Always Chickens Out.
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1 month ago |
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In early April, Tracy Baton helped organize a “Hands Off!” rally protesting President Donald Trump in downtown Pittsburgh that was attended by more than 6,000 people. But she wasn’t just angry at the president—she was also incensed by her state’s Democratic senator, John Fetterman. So was the crowd. “Fetterman?” one speaker yelled from a stage near the steps of City Hall. The term is Pittsburghese for “jerk.”“It means you’ve broken the social contract,” says Baton, a 62-year-old social worker.
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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In Afghanistan, where millions are starving, the France-based NGO Action Against Hunger operates clinics treating severely malnourished children with individualized nutrition plans and feeding tubes. For now.
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Mar 3, 2025 |
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It’s not surprising a national legal nonprofit would allege in late 2023 that NASCAR had a diversity problem: Of the 42 drivers on the entry list for the 2024 Daytona 500, for example, only one was Black and zero were women. But that wasn’t the diversity issue that America First Legal (AFL)—a group founded by Stephen Miller, a senior Trump official and a mastermind of the infamous child-separation immigration policy—had in mind.
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