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We're going big with a new Mother Jones Corruption Project, because we realized so many of today's stories come down to corruption: a system that is consistently manipulated by those with wealth and power. We aim to hire, build a team, and do time-intensive reporting to understand how we got here and how we might get out, publishing a major series of investigations in the summer of 2020. If you like how that sounds, please read the plan and join us with a tax-deductible donation so we can go all in.
"Corruption Isn’t Just Another Scandal. It’s the Rot Beneath All of Them": That's where we explain why Mother Jones is going big with a new Corruption Project. We aim to hire, build a team, and do time-intensive reporting to understand corruption as a pattern, not just isolated incidents. If you like how that sounds, help us go all in with a tax-deductible donation today.
This is a photo of a D train headed downtown, taken from the northbound platform (I was on my way to the Bronx to visit this cat and his servants). Thanks to the miracle of the internet, I can tell you that this is an R68 car built by Westinghouse-Amrail around 1986. It is 75 feet long and 10 feet wide. Fascinating, no?
