OpenSea’s NFT Platform Is Rife with Racist Content
Mother Jones illustration; Sheldon Cooper/SOPA/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When the NFT trading platform OpenSea agreed to meet with representatives from Color of Change, staffers at the civil rights advocacy group assumed that meant that the largest and most prominent business in the…
Team Biden Just Offered an Italy-Sized Area of the Gulf of Mexico to Big Oil
The sale of lease 259 could lead to the extraction of more than 1 billion barrels of oil and 4.4 trillion cubic feet of gas over 50 years.Guardian Graphic This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An enormous swathe of the Gulf of Mexico, spanning an area the…
New York Grand Jury Just Voted to Indict Tump
Mother Jones; Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A grand jury in Manhattan voted to indict former president Donald Trump on charges related to his 2016 payoff of adult film star Stormy Daniels, as part of an effort to keep an alleged affair…
A Federal Judge Just Struck Down Obamacare’s Prevention Treatments
Pacific Press/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A federal district court judge in Texas has gutted a core healthcare protection that Americans have enjoyed for more than a decade: a government mandate guaranteeing cost-free preventative services. Under the ruling, cancer screenings, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)…
My Video Responding to Racist Comments Went Viral. Let’s Talk About It.
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The generations-old debate over reparations for the descendants of enslaved Black people has fascinated me for my whole adult life. I’ve been to town halls, film screenings, and public hearings on the topic. Recently, my fascination…
How the FBI Used “Cop City” Protests to Snoop on Activists in Chicago
Environmental activists hold a rally and a march through the Atlanta Forest. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last summer, a “Chicago Against Cop City” Twitter account was created and began sharing information about a campaign unfolding some 700 miles away. Its first tweet, posted…