A GoFundMe Raises Half a Million Dollars for a Teen Girl Who Was Ordered to Pay $150,000 to Her Rapist’s Family
JohanJK/iStock/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this week, an Iowa judge ordered a teenage girl who survived human trafficking by killing her rapist to pay the man’s family $150,000. Outraged, people around the country began sending her donations—and they’ve already raised more than…
DeSantis Flying Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard Is Part of a 60-Year-Old Segregationist Playbook
A Venezuelan migrant reacts as he is led onto a bus on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On May 22, 1962, Victoria Bell and her 11 children, ranging in age from two to 14,…
Trans Kids Finally Scored a Victory in Texas
Cristina Moliner/iStock / Getty Images Plus Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Transgender kids in Texas have dealt with a lot of BS over the past several months. Back in February, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the state’s child welfare agency to consider sending children to…
Northern California’s Killer Algae Bloom Was Like a “Wildfire in the Water”
Piles of dead yellow-fin goby on the shores of Lake Merritt, Oakland, California, September, 14, 2022.Courtesy of Damon Tighe This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Lake Merritt, in the center of Oakland, California, is a tidal estuary connected to the Pacific Ocean. It usually teems…
Ron DeSantis Says He’ll Double Down on Martha’s Vineyard Stunt
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, having dominated the past several news cycles by flying Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard without notice—a move his critics depict as a particularly cruel attempt to “own the…
DeSantis Flying Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard Is Part of a 60-Year-Old Segregationist Playbook
A Venezuelan migrant reacts as he is led onto a bus on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On May 22, 1962, Victoria Bell and her 11 children, ranging in age from two to 14,…