How People of Color Can Be Pawns for White Power
Mother Jones; LM Otero/AP; Wikimedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Being white is extremely alluring to a certain kind of not white person. I realized this when a relative once proudly told me that Persian people, of which half of my family is, were technically…
George Santos’ New “Mission”: Freeing an Accused Fraudster Who Tried to Overturn the 2020 Election
Mother Jones illustration; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty; Alex Wong/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Game recognizes game. And the far right scene in New York City is kind of a small world. So it’s weird, but not particularly surprising, that just days before being indicted on…
Did Elon Musk Unleash Racist Dog Whistles to Woo Tucker Carlson?
Clive Mason/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Elon Musk got on his own website on Saturday and started dog-whistle posting. In a series of reply tweets, he highlighted for his millions of followers thinly veiled racist tweets about Black people doing crime against white…
Bolsonaro Allegedly Falsified His Vaccination Status to Enter the US
Eraldo Peres/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Shortly after narrowly losing his reelection bid in the Brazilian elections last October, former President Jair Bolsonaro relocated to Florida. He spent months living a retiree’s American Dream—and avoiding a raft of criminal inquiries—before returning home in…
The Coming Tidal Wave of Right Wing Covid Lawsuits
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In late March, I watched as some 300 lawyers, doctors, and activists assembled in the aggressively beige conference wing of the Midtown Atlanta Hilton for the inaugural Covid Litigation Conference. A promotional flier promised that the event would “provide…
Here’s What You Need to Know Before the Fox News Trial on Monday
Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump chat at a golf tournament in July 2022.Seth Wenig/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Fox News luminaries will be taking the stand over the next six weeks, as Dominion Voting Systems’ landmark defamation case against the conservative media behemoth…