For decades, Rob sought to entertain and enlighten us with his television and film work and to improve the world with his activism.
@davidcorn1's hunch? Rob would have gotten a kick out of causing Trump to show his worst.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/rob-reiner-michelle-death-donald-trump/
Shootings like the one at Brown University are political inconveniences for Republicans.
And one of the most aggravating elements of the so-called debate over gun violence is the despicable falsehood pushed by conservatives:
They are coming to confiscate your guns.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/brown-shooting-providence-republicans-gop-nra-confiscate-guns-lie/
Gazans face "not just a humanitarian catastrophe but an ecological collapse"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/gaza-situation-humanitarian-crisis-ecological-collapse-disease-famine-winter-flooding-ceasefire
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/memphis-safe-task-force-trump-ice-crime-immigration-mass-deportations-287g/
A cast of Trump’s lesser-known political appointees and DOGE operatives cut programs in ways that guaranteed widespread harm and death in some of the world’s most desperate situations.
From our friends at @propublica:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/usaid-cuts-propublica-chloera-trump/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack
“This starts with the Jews, but it doesn’t end with the Jews.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/sydney-massacre-bondi-guns-hanukkah-vigil-memorial/
From marriage equality to early childhood programs, the filmmaker used his influence and his resources to fight conservative ballot measures in California.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/rob-reiner-donald-trump-charlie-kirk/
Rob Reiner was a mensch. In death, he showed us Trump’s a schmuck. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/rob-reiner-michelle-death-donald-trump/
Asked by a reporter about his crass statement regarding Rob Reiner's passing, Donald Trump offered an encore of his disgusting performance:
“I wasn’t a fan of his at all. He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned...He was very bad for our country.”
Read more: https://bit.ly/4aY7j6i
The president’s remarks about the murder of the filmmaker and his wife cast him as petty and callous.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/rob-reiner-michelle-death-donald-trump/
SCOTUS’s right-wing bloc sounds ready to axe independent federal agencies—and the precedents that guard them.
Oral arguments last week over the president’s power to remove commissioners of independent agencies made it clear where Republican-appointed justices stand.
Read more at MotherJones.com
Nothing is known yet about the Brown University shooter's motive or political beliefs. That's not stopping conservative influencers from blaming the tragedy on a “leftist activist.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/conservative-influencers-blame-brown-university-shooting-on-a-leftist-activist/
“This is just not who we are. We don’t carry guns, we don’t shoot each other.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/sydney-massacre-bondi-guns-hanukkah-vigil-memorial/
“The only people who make money are the people who usually get in before the coin is even launched.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/bill-pulte-fhfa-fannie-freddie-memecoin-zack-morris-fraud-charges-crypto/
“Russell Vought said that he wants to make our lives miserable and so knowing that…has really engaged a lot of people.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/trump-doge-layoffs-federal-unions-busting-resistance-strike-protest-collective-bargaining-rights/
There are sensitive ways to interview a bereaved person, and intelligent ways to interview the CEO of a powerful and socially consequential political organization.
When the two improbably overlap, as they do in the figure of Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, things become a lot more complicated.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/erika-kirk-bari-weiss-aaron-ross-sorkin/
Bill Pulte promoted a memecoin run by an influencer facing fraud charges
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/bill-pulte-fhfa-fannie-freddie-memecoin-zack-morris-fraud-charges-crypto/
In her new media ascent, Erika Kirk whitewashes her husband’s legacy
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/erika-kirk-bari-weiss-aaron-ross-sorkin
“Unfathomable.” Hanukkah massacre shatters Australia’s long-held pride in guns and safety
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/sydney-massacre-bondi-guns-hanukkah-vigil-memorial/