Progressives Win a Majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mother Jones; Morry Gash/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz won a critical seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, giving progressives their first majority on the court since 2008 and a pathway to challenging the GOP’s decade-plus stranglehold on…
John Fetterman On His Struggle With Depression: “I Was Indifferent” Towards Living
Sen. John Fetterman speaks to CBS Sunday Morning shortly before hospital discharge for clinical depression.CBS Sunday Morning Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) entered Walter Reed Hospital for clinical depression in mid-February. Six weeks later, he returned home on Friday. In…
Biden Proposes Raising Taxes on People Making Over $400,000 a Year to Fund Medicare
Patrick Semansky/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a proposal to raise taxes on Americans making more than $400,000 annually in order to continue funding Medicare, marking a new front in the White House’s efforts to position itself as…
GOP Bill Aims to “Cancel” Florida’s Democratic Party Over Past Pro-Slavery Stance
Steve Cannon/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A Republican lawmaker has filed a bill that, if passed, would, apparently, eliminate Florida’s Democratic Party. On Tuesday, Florida state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia filed the “Ultimate Cancel Act“—a bill that doesn’t mention the Democrats by name…
Biden: Those Three Aerial Objects We Shot Down Probably Aren’t Spy Balloons
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Biden on Thursday, in his most detailed remarks addressing the recent spate of aerial objects that were shot down over North American skies, said that there is no evidence tying the three unidentified objects to…
It’s Official: Ruben Gallego Is Taking on Kyrsten Sinema
Gage Skidmore/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s decision last month to leave the Democratic Party was, in no small part, an attempt at political self-preservation. The Green Party-candidate-turned-independent-turned-Democrat-turned-independent, who has angered Democrats in her home state—and pretty much everywhere—by opposing…