A Massive Leak Spotlights the Extremism of an Anti-Trans Medical Group
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Michelle Cretella had a problem. In 2018, Cretella, then-president of the American College of Pediatricians, was speaking to the group’s board of directors about a reputation crisis she’d been trying to shake for years, ever since the Southern Poverty…
Montana GOP Just Passed an Aggressive Law to Thwart Climate Science
A helicopter crew battles a wildfire in northwestern Montana, August 2022. Don & Melinda Crawford/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Montana Republican lawmakers have passed legislation that bars state agencies from considering climate change when permitting large projects that require environmental…
With a Softball Interview of Trump, “The Messenger” Launches by Legitimizing Extremism
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Democracy dies in the darkness—so goes the slogan of the Washington Post. It can also perish when authoritarianism is normalized with a thousand nicks. A new website called the Messenger demonstrates how such normalization is becoming ever more…
Trump’s Republican Rivals Are Funneling Money to Daniel Penny
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at an event in Iowa last month.Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After Daniel Penny was charged on Friday with manslaughter for choking Jordan Neely to death on the F train, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) tweeted a…
A Problem for DeSantis: Reports Say He Has No Rizz
Brian Cahn/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former President Trump is a twice-impeached sexual abuser, who possesses a unique ability to make people laugh—unfortunately or fortunately, to use his verbiage. He made that clear at a CNN town hall last week, when he had an audience of…
North Carolina Became an “Abortion Destination.” That’s In Danger.
Bob Karp/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Saturday, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after 12 weeks. But this is far from the end: The Republican supermajority in the state legislature…