Florida Just Passed a Six Week Abortion Ban
Pro-choice protesters in Tampa in January.Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Florida legislature on Thursday approved a ban on abortion after six weeks gestation, before many women know they’re pregnant. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign the bill into…
Why Rutgers Faculty Are Striking for the First Time in 257 Years
Noah Lanard/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday morning in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Martin Gliserman, a silver-haired English professor wearing his cap and gown, looked to be an elder statesman of the picket line. But despite having taught at Rutgers for…
How MAGA Conspiracies Infected Autism Groups
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.By any measure, Stephanie Seneff is an accomplished scientist. A senior researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, she’s been a leader in the emerging field of computer response to human speech. After earning…
The Biden Administration’s Revolutionary Electric Cars Proposal
I’ve got mixed feelings on these bad boys.Dominick Sokotoff/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If you’re not driving an electric car yet, you probably will be soon. (Provided, of course, that you drive a car at all.) The Environmental Protection Agency just proposed two…
Justin Pearson, Tennessee Democrat Expelled for Gun Control Protest, Is Reinstated
George Walker/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Days after Nashville officials unanimously voted to reinstate Rep. Justin Jones, one of two Black Democrats expelled last week for participating in a gun control protest, the Shelby County Commission on Wednesday voted to reappoint Justin Pearson…
The Shocking Lack of Science in the Ruling Banning a Common, Safe Abortion Drug
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday night, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk rolled back the FDA’s authorization of mifepristone, the first drug in the standard two-part medication abortion protocol. The ruling is an unprecedented judicial act: A federal court overruling the long-standing scientific…