The Trump Files: Watch Donald Nominate Eminem for President
Mother Jones illustration; Shutterstock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This post was originally published as part of “The Trump Files“—a collection of telling episodes, strange but true stories, and curious scenes from the life of our current president—on August 5, 2016. Donald Trump didn’t speak at the…
Defend History. Tear Down the Confederate Statues.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters. After the Civil War, Edward Virginius Valentine returned from Europe to his hometown of Richmond, Virginia—the former Confederate capital—and began using his training in classical sculpture to enshrine the myth of the Lost Cause. Over the next few decades Valentine made…
A New State Department Report Cements Mike Pompeo’s Twisted View of Human Rights
Jim Loscalzo/CNP/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last July, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched an advisory panel to help the US practice “a moral foreign policy … grounded in [a] conception of human rights.” Crucially, its mission, Pompeo explained, would include reining in a dangerous proliferation of “new”…
“So Shower Heads, You Take a Shower, the Water Doesn’t Come Out. You Wanna Wash Your Hands, the Water Doesn’t Come Out…Dishwashers, You Didn’t Have Any Water…In Most Places of the Country, Water Is Not a Problem. They Don’t Know What Do With It. It’s Called Rain,” Says Trump
Trump: So shower heads, you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You wanna wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out… Dishwashers you didn’t have any water… In most places of the country, water is not a problem. They don’t know what do with it. It’s called rain pic.twitter.com/rx96mCFsae — Acyn Torabi (@Acyn)…
A Grab Bag of Goodness
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Roll the dice, flip a coin, form a single-file line to the left, keep 6 feet apart, fix your face masks (over your mouth and nose—it’s not a chin guard), and apply hand sanitizer before partaking in the good-news grab bag that…
Trump Takes Charge of COVID-19 Data
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump White House has ordered that all COVID-19 data going forward should be filtered through the Trump White House before we’re allowed to see it: I had hoped it was a glitch, but no…The @CDCgov hospital capacity dashboard has gone dark.…