Samantha Michaels
Senior Reporter at Mother Jones
Senior reporter at @MotherJones covering criminal justice. Send tips to [email protected]
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Samantha Michaels
The hits to science, and scientists, keep coming under the Trump administration. This week, the National Science Foundation (NSF), a government agency that funds research across the country, told staffers that “until further notice,” it will stop payments on grants it has already awarded for studies—and stop awarding new ones. That’s according to a scoop from the science journal Nature, which got its hands on an internal NSF email.
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1 month ago |
motherjones.com | Samantha Michaels
The immigrant families separated at the US-Mexico border during Trump’s first administration have gotten some bad news: Essentially, Trump’s second administration is taking away their lawyers and giving them new ones. The new ones work for the government. Put another way, the Trump administration, which has the power to deny immigrants’ applications to stay in the United States, will also be helping them fill out those applications.
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2 months ago |
motherjones.com | Samantha Michaels
A whistleblower who testified in Congress today is accusing the Trump administration of trying to “intimidate” her with help from the US Marshals Service, the law enforcement agency of the federal judiciary.
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Mar 26, 2025 |
motherjones.com | Samantha Michaels
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport 238 Venezuelans from the United States—sending them not to their home country, but to a prison in El Salvador notorious for its harsh conditions. The administration accuses them of belonging to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, but some of them deny the allegations, with witnesses and experts to back them up.
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Mar 19, 2025 |
lgbtqnation.com | Samantha Michaels
This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. Six days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Alishea Kingdom went to a medical appointment at the federal prison in New Jersey where she’s incarcerated. It was time for her to take the hormonal medication she’d been prescribed years before to treat her gender dysphoria.
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Proud of our newsroom for winning a National Magazine Award for general excellence, and so honored to have one of my stories included.
@sjmichaels and @markhelenowski were also recognized for their investigation and short film about a police force that chased a 17-year-old boy to his death, only mysteriously disband days later. https://t.co/a9BN7twDcK
Jacobus Verduin was a prisoner in Nazi Germany with an unusual approach to recovering from his trauma. His son learned from him and created a program in the US that's wildly successful at helping incarcerated men heal, leave prison, and never come back https://t.co/sYjDPzZiAR
A 12-year-old in Florida was raped repeatedly by her adoptive dad—police accused her of lying and sent her back to him. It was up to her to collect her own evidence and get him arrested. A must-read story about a broken system and an incredibly brave girl https://t.co/t0azQA5UPi
