On Ukraine, It’s Hard to Tell Fox News and 4Chan Apart
Atilgan Ozdil/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images, edited by Mother Jones Last week, as President Donald Trump was battered by headlines detailing a whistleblower allegation that he sought Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election, right-wing media outlets rallied to support him by pumping out stories downplaying the revelations. “Democrats Wrote to Ukraine in May 2018, Demanding It Investigate…
Midwest Farmers Continue to Support Trump, Part 234
The Washington Post tells us today, for about the hundredth time, that Midwest farmers are fed up with President Trump. Between his tariffs and his ethanol exemptions and his inability to make a deal with China, farmers are losing patience with a president they eagerly supported at first. But I’ll save you the trouble of…
Trump Proposed Shooting Migrants to Prevent Them From Crossing the Border
Alex Brandon/AP President Donald Trump once pitched fortifying the border with a snake-filled trench, creating an electrified wall with spikes, and reportedly suggested officers shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down, according to an excerpt from a new book written by New York Times reporters Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael Shear. He talked about…
It’s Not Kale, It’s You
Y’all stop hating on kale.Rawpixel/iStock/Getty Remember the kale craze? Well, according to Amanda Mull over at the Atlantic, it’s over. And what’s more, Americans pretty much always hated the thick-leaved green, even way back in the mid-2015s, when it was common to see bearded men out and about in “Eat More Kale” t-shirts. Mull notes that Google…
A Federal Judge Just Ruled That Harvard Admissions Don’t Discriminate Against Asian American Students
Charles Krupa/AP A federal judge in Boston on Tuesday ruled that Harvard University did not discriminate against Asian American students, rebuffing for now a challenge to the use of race in university admissions that could ultimately reach the Supreme Court. In a 130-page ruling, US District Court Judge Allison Burroughs concluded that Harvard’s admissions process “passes…
Trump’s Tweet About Civil War Was Just What the Far Right Oath Keepers Wanted to Hear
Trump gives a speech in front of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.Andrew Harnik/AP In yet another presidential first, this week Donald Trump warned of an impending civil war in the United States—via Twitter, of course. On Sunday night, Trump paraphrased Robert Jeffress, a baptist-preacher-turned-Fox-News-pundit, tweeting: “If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which…