An Uprising Is Still Possible, Even if We Can’t Meet in the Streets
Jeff Roberson/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.How do you have a mass revolt without a mob? Prof. Frances Fox Piven is the 87-year-old “intellectual guru of activist progressives”—so sayeth the New York Times. Her work, she explained to me, is about “uprisings that sometimes occur when there’s…
“The Workers Are Being Sacrificed”: As Cases Mounted, Meatpacker JBS Kept People on Crowded Factory Floors
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On her phone, Crystal Rodriguez keeps a photo of her father hooked up to a ventilator. Nurses at the hospital sent her the image after he’d spent close to a month in the intensive care unit at UCHealth Medical Center of the…
Armed Protesters Stormed the Michigan Statehouse This Afternoon
A group of protesters on the steps of the Michigan state Capital on April 15, 2020.Daniel Mears/TNS via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As local lawmakers in Michigan gathered at the state Capitol building in Lansing on Thursday, they were met by hundreds of demonstrators—many carrying…
Donald Trump Just Went on TV and Compared COVID-19 to a Campfire, We Think
Jabin Botsford/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.At an industry roundtable on Wednesday, Trump set out to assure Americans that soon the country will reopen, the coronavirus will disappear, and things will be just as they were three months ago. And then he took questions. “Without a vaccine,…
They’re Spraying Bleach Water Over a Mexican Border City to Stop the Spread of Coronavirus
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Local government officials in the border city of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, are dropping bleach water from helicopters in an attempt to eliminate coronavirus—despite health officials advising against it. Univision reported Sunday that the city’s mayor, Armando Cavada, is having sodium hypochlorite sprayed…
Trump Seems to Think Talking About Testing Is Just a Favorite Media Pastime
Stefani Reynolds/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.At an industry roundtable on Wednesday, President Donald Trump once again doubled down on the claim that the state of coronavirus testing in the United States is all well and good—and that complaining about it is just a favorite media…