Donald Trump Stoops to Lowest Low Yet With Violent Post of Biden
Frank Franklin II/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s attacks on President Joe Biden have become familiar, but on Friday they reached a new level of terrifying. The former president posted a video on his Truth Social platform featuring a truck with an…
In “Quiet on Set,” Justice Isn’t So Simple
Dan Schneider accepts the lifetime achievement award at the 2014 Kids’ Choice Awards in Los Angeles.Matt Sayles/Invision/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As a kid, I spent countless hours watching The Amanda Show, a sketch comedy series starring Amanda Bynes that aired on Nickelodeon…
New Jersey’s County-Line Ballot Is Almost Dead
Seth Wenig/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction that will force New Jersey to redo its controversial ballot design, known as the county-line ballot, a move that could fundamentally alter elections in a state long rife…
A GOP Official and Election Denier Voted Illegally Nine Times. That’s Not Even the Worst Part.
Mother Jones illustration; Hyosub Shin/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/ZUMA; Anthony Behar/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s easy to see the glaring hypocrisy of Brian Pritchard, the Republican official in Georgia and outspoken election denier, who was found guilty this week of voting illegally nine times.…
Wall Street Journal Marks One Year Since Evan Gershkovich’s Arrest in Russia
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on April 18, 2023.Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Today marks one year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was…
Ruben Gallego’s Battle Against Kari Lake Could Decide the Fate of the Senate—And Our Democracy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. n the afternoon of January 6, 2021, as election deniers armed with Tasers and tomahawks overran the US Capitol, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) handed his colleague and close friend Eric Swalwell a pen. “Here,” he said to the…