Conservatives Should Take Protests of Confederate Statues Seriously
Icon Sportswire/Icon SMI via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As near as I can tell, the most common reaction from most high-profile, movement conservatives to the toppling of Confederate statues is . . . sarcasm. Hey, how about toppling statues of Margaret Sanger? Burn! Why aren’t…
This Shady Company Got a Coronavirus Relief Loan. Its Largest Shareholder Is Brad Parscale.
Brad Parscale at Trump’s Tulsa rally.Win McNamee/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.CloudCommerce, a company with a close relationship with Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale, received $780,680 from the Paycheck Protection Program, part of the federal government’s effort to protect small businesses during the coronavirus…
ICE Tells Foreign Students to Leave the Country if Their Schools Are Going Online-Only
President Donald Trump speaking in Washington, DC, on Saturday during a July 4 event.Patrick Semansky/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump administration is giving a draconian choice to foreign students at schools that plan to offer only online courses this fall: Quickly transfer to a school…
A Judge Handed the Standing Rock Tribes a Big Win in Their Dakota Access Pipeline Fight
A water protector prays as he and others defend a sacred site near Turtle Island against the Dakota Access Pipeline near the Missouri River at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in 2016.Joel Angel/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.After four years locked in legal struggle over the…
The “Better Call Saul” Cast Is Raising COVID Relief, Making Music, Painting, and Growing Gardens
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.There’s a little-known show you’ve never seen, in entertainment obscurity, called Better Call Saul, a spinoff of the littler-known Breaking Bad. If you’re one of the tens of people who’ve heard of these up-and-comers and seen an episode or two, you’ll be…
Michael Flynn Is Flat Out Nuts
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This is fucking nuts: The man Trump appointed to the most sensitive national security position in US government and a current martyr/hero of the Trumpist right just posted a video of himself taking the QAnon oath. https://t.co/w5dyHCUEwz — Radley Balko (@radleybalko) July…