“Clown Show”: The GOP Describes Its Own Impeachment Process
Mandel Ngan/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“New Low.” “Pathetic.” “Clown show.” On Thursday, during the impeachment inquiry hearing for President Joe Biden concocted by the GOP amid a potential government shutdown, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) used Republican’s own words against them. The nation…
We’re Living in a Kevin McCarthy Doom Loop
Here we go again.Lenin Nolly/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For the second time in three days, a group of far-right House Republicans on Thursday blew up a short-term plan to fund the government, setting fire to efforts to avoid a government shutdown at…
DeSantis Administration Recommends Against Boosters, Right as Florida Tops Nation for COVID Hospitalizations
Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last Wednesday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration advised residents in his state under the age of 65 to not get the newly approved COVID-19 booster. It was only days later that new data came in: It showed…
A Peter Thiel-Linked Startup Is Courting New York Scenesters and Plotting a Libertarian Paradise
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this summer, I showed up uninvited at a midtown Manhattan music venue, where a startup named the Praxis Society was holding an event as part of a weeklong series to promote its flagship product: a free-market Mediterranean city-state…
Donald Trump Was Just Arrested, Fingerprinted, and Photographed in Georgia RICO Case
Mother Jones illustration; Fulton County Sheriff’s Office; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump surrendered Thursday to Fulton County authorities after being charged with conspiring to overturn Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. Trump, who is facing 13 felony counts in the case, including violation…
Ron DeSantis Defends Florida’s New Guidelines Suggesting Slavery Benefited Black People
Charlie Neibergall/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a Sunday interview with NBC News, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stood by a new provision in the state’s education guidelines that implied freed African-Americans benefited from chattel slavery, claiming it would teach students that enslaved…