QAnon Conference Organizer Won’t Answer Questions About Whether Michael Flynn Was Paid
/Sipa USA via AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Michael Flynn made some news this Memorial Day weekend. Not in a good way for a retired lieutenant general. Appearing at a “For God & Country” conference…
Four Months After Deadly January 6 Attack, National Guard Troops Are Leaving the Capitol
National Guard troops walking in the US Capitol in April.Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA via AP Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.More than 2,000 National Guard troops are packing up and leaving the Capitol Sunday, more than four…
The Wave of GOP Anti-Protest Bills Will Criminalize Protesters—and Sabotage Police Reform, Too
Jim Vondruska/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In the wake of the widespread George Floyd protests last year, Republican lawmakers across the country flooded the zone with so-called anti-riot bills. Last month, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron…
Doctor, Lawyer, Insurrectionist: The Radicalization of Simone Gold
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.When rioters broke into the US Capitol on January 6, chants of “Fuck the police!” “USA!” or “Treason!” echoed in the marble halls. When Dr. Simone Gold got inside the rotunda,…
The Organizer of a Series of Trump Boat Rallies Shouted “White Power” While Celebrating at the First
Boats at Tampa’s Trumparilla event.Ivy Ceballo/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Unless you’re from a certain slice of Florida—the Gulf Coast side near Tampa—you’ve probably never heard of Gasparilla, the city’s annual and well-attended…
How Brazil’s Far-Right Extremists Learned From Trump Insurrectionists on Parler
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro during a protest in favor of the government and against the lockdownAndre Borges/NurPhoto/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The day after Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s official account following the US Capitol…