The Proud Boys Are Lapping Up the President’s Instruction to “Stand By”
A member of the neo-fascist group, the Proud Boys wears military gear at Delta Park in Portland.Photo by John Lamparski via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.When the president was asked to condemn white supremacists during Tuesday’s debate, Trump demured. Instead,…
Who Had Substantive Climate Discussion on Their Debate Bingo Card?
Paul Kitagaki Jr./ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Who expected a fairly substantive climate discussion in the first presidential debate, moderated by none other than a Fox News anchor? President Donald Trump too did not seem prepared. Asked point blank whether he believes in man-made…
Biden Disinformation Is Ripping Across Facebook the Same Day It Brushed Him Off
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.In advance of the first presidential debate, disinformation about Joe Biden is going massively viral on social media, just one day after the former vice president sent Facebook a letter laying out…
The Trump Files: When Donald Had to Prove He Was Not the Son of an Orangutan
Mother Jones Illustration/Shuttershock For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.This post was originally published as part of “The Trump Files“—a collection of telling episodes, strange but true stories, and curious scenes from the life of our current president—on June 23, 2016. Donald Trump has…
As COVID Surges in Wisconsin, Federal Judges Stay an Order to Extend Ballot Counting
Absentee ballots in Massachusetts on September 1, 2020.Sue Dorfman/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.A federal appeals court issued an order on Sunday temporarily suspending a lower court’s order that Wisconsin ballots postmarked by election day should be counted if they are…
Biden Warns Republicans, “Voters Are Not Going Stand for This Abuse of Power”
Joe Biden gives a speech in Wilmington, Delaware, on September 27.Andrew Harnik/ AP Photo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Joe Biden said Sunday that Republican senators should refuse to consider President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, until after Election Day,…