The Trump Indictment: Another Sign the GOP Is Addicted to Trump
Chuck Burton/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.How long is this going to last? The Republican Party just cannot stop excusing Donald Trump’s wrongdoing. It happens again and again. Trump engages in serious misconduct, and the base of the GOP and most of its…
The Federal Indictment of Donald J. Trump: Historic…and Wild
Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The federal indictment of Donald Trump and his valet Waltine Nauta on 38 counts of retaining and withholding national security information, conspiring to obstruct justice, and lying to the FBI that was unsealed today is historic…and wild.…
Santos Indictment Leaves Many Lies, Mysteries, and Scandals Unaddressed
AP/Alex Brandon Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Thirteen criminal counts later, there’s still a lot we don’t know about George Santos. Where did the more than $700,000 he loaned his most recent campaign come from? Were some of the top donors to his 2020…
Autopsy: “Cop City” Protester Shot by Police Had 57 Gunshot Wounds, No Gunpowder on Hands
Members of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán’s family stand during a news conference in Decatur, Ga. Alex Slitz/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday the DeKalb County Medical examiner released the autopsy results for Manuel Paez Terán, the 26-year-old protester who was killed by…
The Accountant Who Wants to Take On the Police
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One night in late January, Los Angeles’ brand new controller, Kenneth Mejia, zipped up an official windbreaker with a city seal on the left breast, and walked out of City Hall to police headquarters. Mejia, an athletic 32-year-old with…
Greg Abbott Wants to Pardon the Man Convicted of Killing a Racial Justice Protester
LM Otero/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he wants to pardon a man found guilty of murdering a racial justice protester in July 2020. The man, Daniel Perry, was found guilty on Friday nearly three years after he shot…