Republicans Suddenly Want You to Get Vaccinated. They Hope You Listen to Their Pelosi-Bashing More.
Tom Williams/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Republican leaders who have spent the pandemic bucking mask mandates, railing against so-called vaccine passports, and largely sitting on the sidelines of vaccine outreach appear to be undergoing a strange and abrupt shift this week.…
Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.There have been many contributions to help make sense of the Republican obsession with critical race theory, a framework developed some 40 years ago to analyze the ways racism is endemic to our laws and policies. Conservatives…
A Postal Worker Filed Three OSHA Complaints about COVID Protections. She Got 6 Weeks in the Hospital Instead.
Alex Tai/ SOPA Images/ Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Last November, just as Minnesota was suffering through a…
Pelosi Rejects Two Big Lie Enthusiasts From Jan. 6 Commission
Caroline Brehman/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Though unprecedented, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s announcement on Wednesday that she would bar Reps. Jim Jordan and Jim Banks from the commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection made perfect sense. After all, the…
House Progressives Get Antsy Over Senate’s Lead Role in Infrastructure Debates
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in Washington on June 30, 2021.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) escaped the room where the Congressional Progressive Caucus met Tuesday…
How Trump and Conservative Media Are Cashing in on Disinformation
Brian Cahn/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.There is a transmission chain of disinformation on the right that is profitable both financially and politically. This week, Donald Trump supplied a text-book example. The former president sent out email soliciting donations for his…