Big Tech Won’t Admit They Are the Only Game in Town
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifies remotely during a House Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Big tech companies love to say how, no matter how much the little guy criticizes their actions, the time and resources…
Obama’s John Lewis Eulogy: “Let’s Honor Him by Revitalizing” the Voting Rights Act
In 1965, John Lewis was brutally beaten by Alabama state troopers as he led a march advocating for the protection of Black Americans’ right to vote—an event that helped lead to the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In his gripping eulogy to Lewis at the late lawmaker’s memorial service Thursday, former President Barack…
In a New Ad, It’s AOC Vs. the Kennedys
Frank Franklin II/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) has premised his primary challenge to Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) on an argument about generational change. The 39-year-old Kennedy, the grandson of RFK and grandnephew of JFK, said he was in the “fight of my…
COVID-19 Can Cause Heart Problems Too
CDC/Planet Pix via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The more we learn about COVID-19, the worse it gets. This is from a recent study of recovered patients in Germany: CMR [cardiovascular magnetic resonance] revealed cardiac involvement in 78 patients (78%) and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60…
South Texas Hospitals Are Overwhelmed by COVID-19. But No One Is Being “Sent Home to Die.”
David J. Phillip/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last week, a small rural county in south Texas went from the poster child for good pandemic response to the entire country’s worst nightmare. In a widely-covered press conference, Starr County Health Authority Jose Vasquez announced that, like many hospitals…
In Attacking Amazon, Matt Gaetz Boosts a Terrorist Organization
Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.During Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing with CEOs from major tech, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) defended multiple homophobic, Islamaphobic, and anti-Semitic groups, including one that is a federally designated terrorist organization. Gaetz remarks came in the course of…