Mike Huckabee Is Now Peddling Climate Misinformation to Children
Kiichiro Sato/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Beverly Grimmett thought the kids magazines she saw stacked on a coworker’s desk this spring were perfectly innocent, until she picked one up. “My stomach turned,” Grimmett said. The guides were decorated in bright colors and cheerful cartoons,…
Court Allows Tennessee Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors to Take Effect Immediately
Teens from various areas of Kentucky gather in front of the Kentucky Capitol Annex building on March 29, 2023, to protest against SB150 which would ban gender-affirming health care for transgender teens. Marcus Dorsey/Lexington Herald-Leader/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news…
The Groundbreaking Youth-Led Climate Trial in Montana Is Coming to an End
Young plaintiffs in a climate lawsuit seen outside the Lewis and Clark County courthouse, June 12, 2023, in Helena, Mont.Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A groundbreaking climate trial came to an early close on Tuesday as lawyers…
The Supreme Court Just Handed Native Families a Huge Victory
Mother Jones; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, the landmark 1978 legislation aimed at preventing Native foster children and adoptees from being separated from their families and tribes. The ruling in Haaland v.…
Legislatures Passed 550 Anti-Trans Bills So Far This Year
Janeen Jones, Center for Public Integrity; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story is published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative reporting newsroom. Hundreds of anti-transgender bills proposed in state legislatures are sold as measures to protect minors—such…
The GOP Is Flirting With This Hungarian Autocrat’s Generous—And Exclusionary—Family Benefits
Mother Jones; Getty; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Hungary, the landlocked Central European country of about ten million people, has become an unusual role model for US conservatives, with Tucker Carlson describing it as a place “with a lot of lessons for the rest…