No Vaccine? No Problem! Florida Wants Your Unvaccinated Kids In School During a Measles Outbreak
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Amid an ongoing measles outbreak in Florida, public health officials are bending the rules of quarantine for unvaccinated children. At Manatee Bay Elementary School in Broward County, Florida, six children have tested positive for measles, a respiratory virus so…
Georgia Senate panel OKs bill to erase personal information of judges from public records
During a State of the Judiciary address on Feb. 7, Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs referenced the need to pass a law restricting public records containing home addresses and other personally identifiable information of judges. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder A state Senate Committee Wednesday advanced a bill endorsed by Georgia’s top judiciary and…
Latest bill targeting strip mining near Okefenokee receives mixed reaction from environmentalists
An Alabama-based company first announced in 2019 that it intended to mine for titanium, staurolite, and zircon near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Getty Images A south Georgia lawmaker whose district borders the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge has filed a new bill calling for a three-year moratorium on new surfacing mining permits in areas of…
SCOTUS Ducks High School Diversity in Admissions Case
Justice of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito attend a private ceremony Justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O’Connor before public repose in the Great Hall at the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023.Pool Via Cnp/CNP via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and…
Nikki Haley Refuses to Drop Out, Even as She Prepares to Lose South Carolina
She’s…still running.Jim Lo Scalzo/EFE/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Nikki Haley is…still running. Even if she’s almost certain to lose her home state. That’s essentially the summary of a speech the former South Carolina governor delivered Tuesday in Greenville, South Carolina, ahead of the…
RFK Jr. Super-PAC Puts Promoters of Conspiracy Theories on the Payroll
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A songwriter who produces rap songs with conspiracy theories about Covid; an academic who has championed debunked and bizarre notions about 9/11, the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, the 2020 election, and other public events; a polygraph examiner who…