QAnon’s Chief Enabler Ran a Website Where He Brushed Off Concerns About Pedophilic Content
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The QAnon conspiracy has always stood on a morbidly ironic contradiction: “Q,” the pseudonymous poster who claimed to be a government insider batlling elite liberal pedophiles, infamously became a phenomenon by posting on 8chan, a website where users…
Hazing, Fighting, Sexual Assaults: How Valley Forge Military Academy Devolved Into “Lord of the Flies”
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On a chilly evening in September 2020, Jordan Schumacher solemnly patrolled the grounds of Valley Forge Military Academy, near his wit’s end. Weeks earlier, the school’s top brass had elevated the 20-year-old college sophomore to the…
Stranger Dangers: The Right’s History of Turning Child Abuse Into a Political Weapon
Tom Williams/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.At some point between the ’80s and now, leaving children unattended in public became unthinkable. To let children as old as, say, 10 walk by themselves became grounds to investigate parents for neglect. As a…
Why Josh Hawley Is Smearing Ketanji Brown Jackson as Soft on Pedophilia
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.There is a big red button with the word “pedophile” scrawled on it that certain kinds of reactionaries like to press when things aren’t going the direction they want. For example: In July 2017, I…
Florida Advised Against Covid Vaccines for Kids. This Pediatrician Is Appalled.
Floriday Governor Ron DeSantis signs bills to limit COVID-19 vaccine mandates.Ivy Ceballo/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Monday, Florida surgeon general Joseph Ladapo announced that the state would no longer recommend Covid vaccines for healthy children. This change in…
ACLU Sues Texas Over Investigation of Parents With Transgender Child
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal, an LGBTQ civil rights organization, filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of a Texas family that says it is being investigated by the state…