It’s Pardons for Dollars as Trump Era Draws to a Close
Mykola Tys/SOPA Images via 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.From CNN: President Donald Trump is preparing to issue around 100 pardons and commutations on his final full day in office Tuesday, according to three people…
Twitter Just Suspended QAnon-Boosting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Erin Scott/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.Twitter has temporarily suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), after the newly sworn-in member of Congress repeatedly posted allegations of election fraud on Sunday morning. Greene’s…
Cash for Clunkers Is Back!
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.Check this out: The incoming administration is embracing some of California’s most pioneering initiatives, such as programs for rapidly decarbonizing the electricity grid and tuition-free college, as well as more obscure,…
A Disproportionate Share of COVID-19 Vaccines Are Going to White People
Scott Eisen/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.Since the start of the pandemic, deep racial inequities in US society have led to people of color being infected and dying of the coronavirus at higher rates than white people.…
Deplatforming Trump Is Already Having a Huge Impact
Jeff Swensen/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.It’s been nine days of relative calm since Twitter cut off a major spigot of election misinformation from President Donald Trump’s account—setting off a chain of suspensions across Facebook,…
How State Capitals Are Bracing for Possible Violence Ahead of Biden’s Inauguration
A Minnesota State Trooper stands guard on the steps of the Capitol building in Saint Paul on January 16, 2021. Tim Evans/NurPhoto/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.Pro-Trump supporters storming the US Capitol on January 6 was something…