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3 weeks ago | 
motherjones.com | Abby Vesoulis |Abby Vesoulis ReporterBio
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 | 
motherjones.com | Abby Vesoulis |Abby Vesoulis ReporterBio
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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Mar 10, 2025 | 
motherjones.com | Abby Vesoulis |Abby Vesoulis ReporterBio
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 | 
motherjones.com | Abby Vesoulis |Abby Vesoulis ReporterBio
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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Feb 14, 2025 | 
motherjones.com | Abby Vesoulis |Abby Vesoulis ReporterBio
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has begun filing motions to dismiss court cases the agency brought against businesses accused of discriminating against transgender and nonbinary employees. Federal court records show the EEOC filed to dismiss four cases related to gender identity late this week.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
motherjones.com | Abby Vesoulis |Abby Vesoulis ReporterBio
Following the 2008 global financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was established by Congress to reign in the subprime lending schemes and other bad practices that spurred the market implosion. Now, President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Russ Vought—who was confirmed as director of the Office of Management and Budget but also appointed by Trump as the acting head of CFPB—are attempting to dismember the financial watchdog.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
motherjones.com | Abby Vesoulis |Abby Vesoulis ReporterBio
“When I am back in the White House, we will use every tool, lever, and authority to get the homeless off our streets,” Donald Trump said in a Spring 2023 campaign video. In June 2024, the US Supreme Court made this promise much easier to keep by overturning a lower court’s decision on criminalizing homelessness. Grants Pass, Oregon, where the case originated, had been punishing the unhoused with fines ranging from $295 to $1,250 and 30 days in jail.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
motherjones.com | Abby Vesoulis |Abby Vesoulis ReporterBio
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has temporarily halted investigations into the complaints of workers who say they were targeted based on their gender identity or sexual orientation, three current and former EEOC staffers tell Mother Jones. EEOC managers communicated this instruction to senior employees in recent days, according to these sources, who asked to remain anonymous to avoid retaliation.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
motherjones.com | Abby Vesoulis |Abby Vesoulis ReporterBio
Republicans scrambled on Wednesday to thwart a democratic effort to subpoena Elon Musk, literally rushing into a hearing to prevent the world’s richest man from providing answers about his dismantling of the federal bureaucracy. After House Oversight Committee chair Rep.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
motherjones.com | Abby Vesoulis |Abby Vesoulis ReporterBio
If you searched “transgender” on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website on January 19—the day before President Donald Trump took office—you’d find helpful information about HIV, gender-affirming resources, and the high rate of diabetes among the LGBTQ+ community.
