Increasing Workloads and Stagnating Pay—Hotel Workers Are Fighting Back
Members of the UNITE HERE Local 26 hospitality union protest outside the Park Plaza hotel in Boston, MA on September 1, 2024. Jason Bergman/SipaUSA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Around 10,000 hotel workers went on strike over Labor Day weekend, picketing for better…
GBI arrests father of Apalachee High shooting suspect, Colin Gray now charged with murder
Students wait to be picked up by their parents after a school shooting took place on September 4, 2024 in Winder. Four fatalities and multiple injuries have been reported and a suspect is in custody according to authorities. Megan Varner/Getty Images The father of Colt Gray, the suspect in Wednesday’s Apalachee High School shooting, has…
Georgia lawmakers reconsider bills to hold adults accountable for firearm safety
Sen. Emanuel Jones, a Decatur Democrat, described Thursday the Senate firearm safety study committee that he chairs this fall as coming up with law and policy changes that better protect young people from rising gun violence. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder Gun safety advocates representing nonprofits, law enforcement, and mental health specialists met Thursday morning in a…
New Indictment Alleges Conservative Media Company Took Millions of Kremlin Cash
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges that a Tennessee-based media company which played home to several prominent right-leaning online commentators was secretly a Russian government-backed influence operation. The company is accused of receiving nearly…
Trump Is Finally Admitting He Lost the 2020 Election
Trump has taken to saying he lost the 2020 election “by a whisker”…even though it was a lot more than that.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It only took four years, but former President Donald Trump appears to be finally admitting that…
Project 2025 Backers Push Propaganda About the Trump Shooting
Mother Jones; Heritage Foundation; Rebecca Droke/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Just hours after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, high-profile allies of the ex-president began promoting unfounded conspiracy theories and blaming President Joe Biden and Democrats,…