Trump, Down in Polls and Busy Sabotaging the Postal Service, Is Already Trying to Create Doubt About 2020 Election
Kevin Dietsch – Pool Via Cnp/CNP via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As Donald Trump’s strategy of hobbling the US Postal Service to undermine mail voting comes into clearer focus, it might be easy to forget that the president is also going to great lengths…
Trump Rewrites Standards on Showerheads After Worrying About How They’ve Affected his Hair
Donald Trump.Oliver Contreras/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. The Energy Department proposed rolling back three-decade-old efficiency standards for showerheads Wednesday following President Donald Trump‘s repeated gripes about subpar water pressure while…
Michigan’s Postal Workers Say the Fix Is In
John Nacion/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.While President Donald Trump forthrightly acknowledged only yesterday that weakening the Post Office will help him obstruct mail balloting this fall, postal workers in the key swing state of Michigan say his mission has been clear for…
Friday Cat Blogging – 14 August 2020
Hilbert adores Marian. He follows her around all day, supervising her gardening, sitting on her keyboard, begging to be brushed at night, and just generally jumping into her lap whenever the opportunity presents itself. Here he is getting a glorious chin scritching while Marian is relaxing on the sofa. What more can a cat ask…
Seriously, We Should Get Rid of the Social Security Payroll Tax
Greg Sorber/Albuquerque Journal via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A couple of days ago I wrote that Donald Trump accidentally had a good idea when he proposed doing away with the payroll tax that funds Social Security. This prompted several readers to push back on the…
A Galaxy Eerily Like Our Own Has Been Found 12 Billion Light-Years Away. Without a Single Trump Hotel.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, scientists shared telescope images of a galaxy so many light-years away, and similar enough to our own, that its discovery challenges prevailing theories of galaxy formation. The bombshell finding “represents a breakthrough” that…