How People of Color Can Be Pawns for White Power
Mother Jones; LM Otero/AP; Wikimedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Being white is extremely alluring to a certain kind of not white person. I realized this when a relative once proudly told me that Persian people, of which half of my family is, were technically…
She Was on the Front Lines of Whale Conservation. Now She’s on the Front Lines of War.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The first time I spoke with Olga Shpak, I made the mistake of beginning as I often do when interviewing researchers: by asking for some basic biographical information. “I used to be a scientist,” she said, not sounding bitter,…
Trump Mocked E. Jean Carroll Live on CNN. The Audience Laughed.
Michael Conroy/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Yesterday, a federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. As soon as journalist Kaitlan Collins mentioned the verdict during this evening’s CNN town hall with the former president, the audience…
Santos Indictment Leaves Many Lies, Mysteries, and Scandals Unaddressed
AP/Alex Brandon Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Thirteen criminal counts later, there’s still a lot we don’t know about George Santos. Where did the more than $700,000 he loaned his most recent campaign come from? Were some of the top donors to his 2020…
George Santos’ New “Mission”: Freeing an Accused Fraudster Who Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Alex Wong/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Game recognizes game. And the far right scene in New York City is kind of a small world. So it’s weird, but not particularly surprising, that just days before being indicted on…
Did Elon Musk Unleash Racist Dog Whistles to Woo Tucker Carlson?
Clive Mason/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Elon Musk got on his own website on Saturday and started dog-whistle posting. In a series of reply tweets, he highlighted for his millions of followers thinly veiled racist tweets about Black people doing crime against white…