Tennessee Republicans Expel Two Democratic Lawmakers Who Joined Gun Control Rally
George Walker IV/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Tennessee’s House of Representatives on Thursday expelled two Democratic members who participated in a gun control protest following the mass shooting at a Nashville grade school. Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson have been stripped of…
Revenge-Obsessed Donald Trump Is Pushing the Right to New Levels of Retribution Rage
Mother Jones; Rebecca Blackwell/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump loves revenge. Who says so? He does. For years before he became president, he gave speeches touting the value of vengeance and its critical role in his own personal success. And now, as…
Alleged Fraudster Guo Wengui’s Social Media App Was a Big Security Risk, Ex-Employees Say
Mother Jones; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Early last year, around 30 engineers at the social media company Gettr received a WhatsApp audio message from Guo Wengui, a wealthy Chinese exile with deep ties to US right-wing politics. Guo, who has since…
At the Dive Bar Next to the Trump Protests
Facebook Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, as a crush of media convened in Collect Pond Park to report on Donald Trump’s imminent arrest, a woman in police officer costume stood smiling, draped in fake hundred dollar bills to represent the hush money…
Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story was published originally by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. In late June…
It’s Time to Harden the Schools. No, Really.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last month, in the wake of the school shooting in Nashville that killed six people, Congressman Tim Burchett (R.-Tenn.) said in an interview that went viral, “If you think Washington is going to fix this…