A Disturbing Gun Case Further Reveals the Peril of January 6
Capitol Police officers detain protesters outside the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021.Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last month, the Justice Department unsealed the latest case involving gun charges against an alleged participant in…
Trump Continues to Glorify the January 6 Insurrection
Still image from a GB News interview with Trump, broadcast December 1, 2021. Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Soon, a year will have passed since thousands of enraged Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, many of them brutally attacking law enforcement agents,…
Twitter’s New Privacy Policy Is Making It Harder to Spread Warnings About Online Fascists
Stephanie Keith/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Tuesday, Twitter rolled out an update to its privacy policy that bans people from posting certain “images or videos of private individuals without their consent.” Many journalists and researchers immediately lambasted the new so-called “private…
January 6 Committee Subpoenas Roger Stone and Alex Jones
Roger Stone walks to his hotel with Oath Keepers after speaking at Freedom Plaza on January 5, 2021.Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Monday, the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol…
Kyle Rittenhouse Didn’t Break the Law. That’s Terrifying.
Adam Rogan/The Journal Times/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Kyle Rittenhouse and Gaige Grosskreutz—two young men who were both foolishly armed—faced off, for a split second, in the middle of a street in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 25, 2020, Wild West style.…
Donald Trump Continues to Stoke a Domestic Terrorism Movement
Trump shown on video screens before his speech at the White House, January 6, 2021Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The attack on American democracy that took place on January 6, 2021, is not just harrowing history of almost a…