“Change Y’all Lives Out There”: Watch Jacob Blake’s Powerful Message From His Hospital Bed
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.It’s been two weeks since Jacob Blake was shot in the back by Kenosha, Wisc., police officer Rusten Shesky, reinvigorating an uprising against police brutality and racism that has swept the country since the death of George Floyd…
Employees Say DeJoy Pressured Them to Make GOP Contributions
Pool/Abaca via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.I predict that before long our postmaster general is going to rue the day he met Donald Trump: Louis DeJoy’s prolific campaign fundraising, which helped position him as a top Republican power broker in North…
Report: Louis DeJoy Used Bonuses to Reimburse Employees for Donations to GOP Campaigns
Pool/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.A bombshell investigation in the Washington Post is shedding new light Trump appointee Louis DeJoy’s rise to prominence as a Republican fundraiser prior to his May 2020 appointment as US Postmaster General. According to the report, DeJoy pressured employees…
A Federal Judge Stopped Trump from Scaling Back the Census
Robyn Beck/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.For more than a year, President Donald Trump has been attempting to undermine the 2020 census, pushing legal boundaries to ask respondents about their immigration status and exclude undocumented immigrants, even as the bureau struggled to mount its…
The New York Times Has Published Parts of a Remarkable Diary From a Dachau Survivor
August 25, 2020, Dachau, GERMANY: Dachau Concentration Camp. Nazi camp of prisoners opened in 1933. Sculpture International Monument, 1968, by Nandor Glid .Album/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, The New…
College Campuses Opened for Business, Now Scores of Students Have Covid-19
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.The decision to re-open college campuses has been among the most contested battles in how to properly manage the coronavirus pandemic. Weeks into the fall semester, it’s becoming clearer by the day that schools are not…