Oklahoma Is Trying to Put Trump Bibles in the Classroom
AP Photo/Nati Harnik Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In June, Oklahoma’s Trump-supporting top school official, Ryan Walters, ordered the state’s schools to teach the Bible in class—and this week, his department put in a $3 million proposal to buy 55,000 Bibles for Oklahoma…
Trump Blames Migrants, Not the Climate Crisis, for FEMA Funding Issues
St. Petersburg’s Shore Acres neighborhood on September 27, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.Mike Carlson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) agency didn’t have enough funding for the rest of…
Report: Elon Musk Has Been Funding Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Mastermind
Elon Musk speaking at the symposium about antisemitism, organized by the European Jewish Association, in Krakow, Poland.STR/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Long gone are the innocent days when media outlets claimed the independence and nuance of the politics of Elon Musk. Now,…
Princeton Praised a Professor for Winning a MacArthur. What About Its Probe Into Her Pro-Palestine Support?
Mother Jones illustration; photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Julio Cortez/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As congratulations poured in for the recipients of this year’s MacArthur Award, Dr. Ruha Benjamin, a professor of African American studies at…
GOP Senate Candidate Larry Hogan Says His Democratic Foe Is Awful. He Once Praised Her as “Great.”
Mother Jones; Nathan Howard/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Larry Hogan, the former governor of Maryland, has a tough task. As he now runs for the US Senate, he claims to be a reasonable, non-Trump Republican, hoping to win over Democrats and independents…
One Month From Election Day, Helene Has Snarled the North Carolina Voting Process
MelissSue Gerrits/Getty Images/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are battleground states, and then there’s North Carolina. Former President Donald Trump won the state by 1.3 percent in 2020, his lowest margin of victory in any state, and polls now show Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris within just…