“I Was Ready to Pop a Bottle Open”: What Biden’s Executive Order Means for Trans Military Hopefuls
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Paulo Bautista started talking to military recruiters in early 2017, after years of dreaming of enlisting. But his plans were derailed a few months later by two early-morning Trump tweets:…
Let’s Examine the Ties Between the Timber Industry and Extremists
On Feb. 6, 2020, Timber Unity protesters showed up at the Oregon state capitol in Salem protesting a carbon cap-and-trade bill.Robin Loznak, Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In March, my colleague Ali Breland and I…
The Disinformation Pandemic Is Real. Fighting it Will Require Compassion.
Al Drago/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Trump is gone. But assessing the wreckage wrought by his lies has only just begun. Emerging, battered, from a year advising the former president, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s…
Unemployment Is . . . About As Bad As You Think It Is
Here’s a headline in Politico: Unemployment Is Much Worse Than You Think — Here’s Why. Anyone who wants full-time work but can only find part-time work, and those working full-time but earning too little to climb above the poverty line, should be considered functionally unemployed. I’ve begun to calculate this, which I’ve dubbed the True…
BlackRock Threatens to Shed Some of Its Massive Fossil Fuels Portfolio
Greenpeace activists at BlackRock headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany.Boris Roessler/DPA/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. BlackRock, the world’s biggest…
45 Republican Senators Just Voted to Ditch Trump’s Impeachment Trial
Rod Lamkey/CNP/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.As senators were sworn in for President Trump’s second impeachment trial on Tuesday, for incitement of insurrection, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wasted no time trying to scrap the process.…