Far-Right Influencers Don’t Know What to Do About Threads
Mother Jones illustration; Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The rapid ascent of Threads has forced a key question facing any potentially successful social platform: “What’s the far-right going to do with this one?” And with 100 million users joining in just…
Giuliani Sweats Disbarment as Lawyers Who Lied for Trump Finally Face Consequences
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani at a Nov. 18 2020 press conference at Republican National Committee headquarters.Rod Lamkey/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Two and a half years after January 6, lawyers who helped former president Donald Trump use lies about election fraud to try…
Far-Right Influencers Defended an Accused Fraudster. They Had Help.
Mother Jones; Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In MAGA world, Karoline Leavitt is a rising star. A former Trump White House staffer, she won national notice last year when, at just 25 years of age, she captured the GOP nomination for a New…
MAGA Groups Claim Schools Are Too Woke to Teach Reading Correctly
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ten years ago, Marilyn Muller began to suspect that her kindergarten daughter, Lauryn, was struggling with reading. Lauryn, a bright child, seemed mystified by the process of sounding out simple words. Still, the teachers at the top-rated Massachusetts public…
Ohio Staters Grapple With Bill That Stifles Climate Speech
State Sen. Jerry Cirino, the bill’s lead sponsor, on the Ohio Senate floor.Ohio Senate This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Keely Fisher chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Ohio State University because she wanted to learn about climate change from a world-class faculty. Now one…
Did Mailchimp Censor J.D. Vance?
Former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance, (R-Oh), at the East Palestine Fire Department in the aftermath of the Norfolk Southern train derailment Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio.Matt Freed/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Monday, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance accused the…