Hunter Biden Threatens to Sue Steve Bannon and Exiled Mogul Guo Wengui
Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui in 2018.Don Emmert/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A lawyer for Hunter Biden has threatened to sue Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese mogul closely linked to Steve Bannon, over Guo’s role in disseminating material reputedly copied from Biden’s laptop. In…
Republicans Swing and Miss on Hunter Biden and Twitter
Mother Jones; Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.House Republicans spent much of their first big oversight committee hearing Wednesday attacking Twitter for denying American voters the chance to look at Hunter Biden’s penis. The lawmakers’ pro-dick-pic position was probably inadvertent. But that is…
Why Twitter Was Right to Suppress (Some of) the Material From Hunter’s Laptop
Hunter Biden boards Air Force One with the president on Feb. 4, 2023.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Shortly before Election Day in 2020, Steve Bannon was bragging about his success with the “laptop from hell.” He and his allies had been spreading…
Drowning in Day Care Costs? Under This New Bill, Many Families Would Pay $10 a Day.
Children play at the new Branford Childcare Center in Los Angeles, California on Monday, June 13, 2022.Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The average cost of day care in the US exceeds $10,000 annually for one…
Shoot Down the Balloon, You Coward! (And Please Also Donate $35 to Republicans.)
Mother Jones; Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette/AP; Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Joe Biden seems to be pretty unhappy about the suspected Chinese spy balloon flying over Montana. His administration signaled this by postponing Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to Beijing—less…
The IRS Over-Audits Black People. Why Won’t the GOP Say Anything?
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At first I figured the Republicans would be all over this. I guess I figured wrong. I’m referring to the bombshell working paper that made headlines earlier this week, in which a team of academic and…