A Peter Thiel-Linked Startup Is Courting New York Scenesters and Plotting a Libertarian Paradise
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this summer, I showed up uninvited at a midtown Manhattan music venue, where a startup named the Praxis Society was holding an event as part of a weeklong series to promote its flagship product: a free-market Mediterranean city-state…
Pennsylvania Senator Wants Fracking Wastewater Classified as Hazardous
A shale gas well in St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania.Keith Srakocic/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Katie Muth knew it would be a long shot. This January, the Pennsylvania state senator reintroduced three pieces of legislation aimed at closing loopholes in the laws governing how the…
Georgia GOP state senator rallies allies in call to punish Fulton DA over 2020 election indictments
Demonstrators gather outside the Georgia Capitol to call for a special session to investigate Fulton DA Fani Willis. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder One group of Georgia state lawmakers is calling for a special legislative session to defund, investigate, impeach or otherwise punish Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after she charged former president Donald Trump and…
Bookman: More evidence for Tooth Fairy than Georgia 2020 election fraud
Columnist Jay Bookman opines that unlike the widespread belief by Georgia Republicans that the state’s 2020 election was rife with fraud, there is at least some evidence for the existence of the tooth fairy. Getty Images According to a poll conducted last month by the University of Georgia, 63% of Georgia Republican voters still claim…
Fulton 19 DA predicts four-month trial, 150 witnesses. Judge rejects co-defendant severance.
Fulton County Superior Judge Scott McAfee hears motions from attorneys representing Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell in Atlanta on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool Two defendants charged in the Fulton County 2020 election interference racketeering case are set to go to trial on Oct. 23 after a judge on Wednesday…
Peter Navarro’s Contempt Trial Is Short and Sweet—and He’ll Probably Lose
Former Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro speaks to the media as he leaves federal court on Aug. 11, 2022. Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Peter Navarro’s trial for contempt of Congress started on Wednesday, and his lawyer quickly made a…