North Carolina’s Protest Crackdown Now Includes a Ban on N95s
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Are You Better Off Than Four Years Ago? OMG You Have Got to Be Kidding Me.
Here’s Trump four years ago. At his daily briefing that day, April 5, he said the federal government had stockpiled 29 million doses of hydroxychloroquine. “What do you have to lose?” he said.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN…
Is It Illegal For the White House to Fight COVID Misinfo? Up to SCOTUS.
Modeling of Omicron strain of the virus (blue) and red blood cells National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On March 18, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the federal government overstepped its bounds by asking social…
The Internet’s Favorite Supplement Titan Appears to Be Taking Cues From a Psychic
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If anti-vaccine influencers had a king, it would be Dr. Joseph Mercola, the osteopathic physician whose supplement empire has netted him a tidy fortune of $100 million. Mercola has been a power broker in alternative medicine circles for years—as…
A Major Polling Firm Has Signed Up to Help Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Campaign
Mother Jones illustration; Adam Davis/EFE/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In early December, John Zogby, a prominent American pollster, appeared on Sky News Australia, as he occasionally does, to chat about the latest developments in the US presidential campaign. He noted that it was…
RFK Jr. Aided by GOP and Trump PAC Donors
CJ Gunther/EFE/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a swanky fundraiser for his presidential campaign last month in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, much of the news focused on the anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist‘s celebrity guest: musician…