The Latest Injection of Trump Tweets Won’t Cure His Embarrassment
Chris Kleponis/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As Americans continued to roll their eyes at his comments about injecting disinfectant to kill the coronavirus, President Donald Trump mainlined a fresh dose of misinformation and grievance into his Twitter stream yesterday. First, he continued to try to relitigate…
Utah Was Really Into Trump’s Miracle Cure. Now It Wants Its Money Back.
Kevin E. Schmidt/Quad-City Times via ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Utah residents may be lukewarm on President Donald Trump—the president leads Democrat Joe Biden there by only five points, a shocking number in such a reliably red state—but Utah has proven to be an enthusiastic…
LA Times: New Data Reveals COVID-19 Is Killing Younger Black and Latino Californians at Higher Rates
A staff member for a St. John’s Mobile Clinic provided workers with free COVID-19 testing in Los Angeles this week.Ringo Chiu/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.An analysis published by the Los Angeles Times on Saturday reveals that Black and Latino Californians aged 18 to 64 are…
Trump Is Claiming Coloradans Are Showering Him With Thank You Notes for Ventilators
Michael Reynolds/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump was up early Saturday morning taking credit for sending a few ventilators to Colorado and thanking all the people in the state who allegedly sent him “thank you” notes for his benevolence. He also tagged Sen. Cory…
Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Bragged About Getting a Haircut to Look Good for Fox News
Didn’t want another bad hair day.Alex Brandon/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Rules. Who are they really for? Not the president’s director of the United States National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow, whose characterizations of the pandemic have been flagrantly bullish. You’ll recall he’s the one who urged…
Coronavirus Is Not Just a Health Crisis—It’s an Environmental Justice Crisis
A family leaves Sunday church services surrounded by chemical plants in Lions, Louisiana.Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. More than 50 years ago, despite a storm that was brewing…