Kiera Butler
Senior Editor and Reporter at Mother Jones
Senior editor/reporter at Mother Jones focused on how purveyors of disinformation target communities of women, as well as the merry mix of antivax + politics.
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2 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Kiera Butler
A couple of years ago, Andrew Isker, a pastor and father of six, made a big decision. He would move his family away from Minnesota, where six generations of his ancestors had lived before him, to a rural community in Tennessee. Leaving his home state wasn’t easy, he told Tucker Carlson on Carlson’s YouTube show in March. But he had no choice; the progressive excesses of Governor Tim Waltz simply had become too much to bear.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Kiera Butler
On Tuesday, thousands of staffers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta received early morning emails asking them to resign. The centers affected included those working on reproductive health, chronic disease, occupational safety, birth defects, smoking, tuberculosis, asthma and air quality, accidental and intentional injury, and prevention of violence and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.
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3 weeks ago |
jill.substack.com | Rabia Mushtaq |Lexi McMenamin |Kiera Butler |Jonathan Cohn
Photo by Sincerely Media on UnsplashHappy Monday and welcome Monday Reads! Here are some fine reads from around the web, plus what you might have missed from the newsletter and elsewhere these past few weeks. Jill Filipovic is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Four Afghan girl guitarists escaped the Taliban. Will they be forced back?by Rabia Mushtaq in Al JazeeraStudents Are Getting Swept Up By ICE Under Trump.
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3 weeks ago |
motherjones.com | Kiera Butler
Last Thursday night, I attended a cocktail party in the penthouse apartment of an Austin, Texas, highrise. Through floor-to-ceiling glass windows, we watched dusk settle over the rainy sweep of the city, from the bars below us to the university campus, to the downtown skyline, studded with construction sites. As the first guests began to trickle in, the conversation turned to the ethics of gene-editing embryos to create custom babies.
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Kiera Butler
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