Pro-Bernie Nevada Dems and the DNC Are in a Voter Data Feud
People wait to vote at Reed High School in Sparks, Nevada on November 3, 2020. Scott Sonner/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Nevada State Democratic Party officials are fuming over a draft proposal from the Democratic National Committee that would allow the…
I Was Sexually Harassed by a Co-worker. My Boss Let My Harasser Stay to “Keep an Eye” on Him.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In 2016, Kelley Smith was looking for a job when a former colleague connected her with Ed Damiano. A prominent professor and biomedical engineer at Boston University, Damiano co-founded a biotech company called Beta Bionics and he…
Baristas in Buffalo Just Formed the First Starbucks Union in the United States
Joshua Bessex/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In a watershed moment for the recent wave of pandemic-inspired labor organizing, workers at a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, voted today to form the coffee chain’s first union in the United States. Despite months…
Just Shut Up and Testify Already, Mark Meadows
Pool/Abaca via Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Wednesday, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, announced that his committee would move to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in…
Who Poured $1 Billion Into Trump’s Media Empire? We Might Never Know.
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Former President Donald Trump’s media company scored a coup over the weekend, announcing it had landed $1 billion in investment. But the public might never know who has funded Trump’s media dreams,…
January 6 Committee Threatens Mark Meadows With Contempt
Alex Edelman/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol plans to move forward with contempt proceedings against Mark Meadows, Trump’s fourth and final chief of staff. For the past week, Meadows has…