Lawmakers Spoke Up For an Indicted Chinese Mogul. Campaign Cash Followed.
Mother Jones illustration; NFSC; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The New Federal State of China, a conspiracy theory-promoting group launched in 2020 by Steve Bannon and exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui, who the Justice Department has indicted for…
The Clean Energy Transition Is “Vulnerable to Abuse by Malicious Actors”
Adam Nir/Unsplash This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Across the United States, more and more companies are pledging to zero out their greenhouse gas emissions using “voluntary carbon offsets”—credits that represent some amount of climate pollution that’s either prevented or removed from the atmosphere. These credits, bought and…
Voting Rights Are Still Under Assault. Sen. Raphael Warnock Has a New Plan to Protect Them.
Mother Jones illustration; Anna Moneymaker/Getty; Paul Hennessy/SOPA/LightRocket/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Since the 2020 election, GOP-controlled state legislatures have enshrined Donald Trump’s Big Lie by giving partisan actors unprecedented control over how elections are run and how votes are counted. According to the…
Another Indictment! Trump Told Aides to Delete Security Footage in Coverup Attempt
Mother Jones; Ludovic Marin/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former President Donald Trump told a maintenance worker at his Mar-a-Lago club to “delete security camera footage at the Mar-a-Lago Club to prevent the footage from being provided to a federal grand jury,” a new…
How Florida Undermined the “Benefits” of Newly Free Black People
Mother Jones illustration; Wikimedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Upon learning that Florida’s new K-12 curriculum standards require teaching middle-schoolers that enslaved people “developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” I tweeted, facetiously, “Hey, this slavery thing sounds swell!…
The Latest Congressional Hearing on UFOs Was Full of Wild Claims
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, former intelligence official David Grusch, and retired Navy Commander David Fravor, testify before a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on UFOs.Nathan Howard/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, a House Oversight subcommittee held a highly anticipated hearing on “unidentified…