Mother Jones

The reporting we cite

9 stories, each opening at its source.

• Mother Jones — Why the Pentagon Is the World's Biggest Single Greenhouse Gas Emitter (consumes more fossil fuel than most countries)
• Mother Jones — Who killed Rasheem Carter?
• Mother Jones — 'The Right-Wing Money Machine Behind the Anti-CRT Crusade,' April 2022
• Mother Jones — the pattern across casualty counts, base-damage concealment, and press restrictions
• Mother Jones (Jun 2026): Kushner's Affinity is entwined with the same Saudi/Qatar/UAE/Israel principals he engages as a U.S. diplomat on Iran and Gaza; Steve Witkoff parallels
• Mother Jones — how RFK Jr. falsely denied his connection to the Samoa outbreak
• Mother Jones — FirstEnergy bribery scandal documents on the DeWine/Husted dark money
• Mother Jones — what do Iran trade sanctions have to do with California pistachios? (2015)
• Mother Jones — the California couple who use more water than every home in LA combined (2016)

Where their work appears on this site

• The War Machine's Toxic Footprint →
• No Foul Play →
• Pistachios, Water, and Power →
• The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →
• The Fact Finder →
• What Happened to Bobby Kennedy Jr.? →
• Military Grift →
• Policing the Poor →
• Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
• Sowing Division →
• The Corporate State →
• Who Controls What You Get to Know →

How we graded the claims built on their work

9 FACT · 3 PROBABLY TRUE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.

1. 'Largest polluter' is true for institutions — not larger than whole nations.

   PROBABLY TRUE
   The War Machine's Toxic Footprint →

2. 'No foul play' — and the buzzards.

   FACT
   No Foul Play →

3. Era 5 — Algorithmic and 'grooming' panics (2010s to present)

   PROBABLY TRUE
   Sowing Division →

4. Every adjustment runs one way, and the press can't verify it — the pattern of a cover-up.

   PROBABLY TRUE
   The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →

5. Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump

   FACT
   Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →

6. Samoa, 2019: 83 dead — and where he fits, precisely.

   FACT
   What Happened to Bobby Kennedy Jr.? →

7. The Koch / DeVos / Mercer / Bradley culture-war infrastructure (2013 to present)

   FACT
   Sowing Division →

8. The money: FirstEnergy-linked dark money has flowed toward Husted for a decade.

   FACT
   The Fact Finder →

9. The press has been ordered not to check — and the war's physical damage is being hidden too.

   FACT
   The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →

10. The public count is lower than the internal one: at least 22 dead, versus 14 posted.

    FACT
    The Casualty Count: The Pentagon's Disappearing Iran-War Dead →

11. The war on Iranian pistachios: a 241% tariff, an embargo, and a lobby that likes it that way.

    FACT
    Pistachios, Water, and Power →

12. Their orchards use more water than every home in Los Angeles — but they do NOT own most of California's water.

    FACT
    Pistachios, Water, and Power →