Donald Trump Stoops to Lowest Low Yet With Violent Post of Biden
Frank Franklin II/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s attacks on President Joe Biden have become familiar, but on Friday they reached a new level of terrifying. The former president posted a video on his Truth Social platform featuring a truck with an…
Anti-Vax Influencer Stew Peters Has a New Fixation: “The Jews”
/Stew Peters Network Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In October, I wrote about how bounty-hunter-turned-far-right-livestreamer Stew Peters was using the conflict in Gaza as an excuse to indulge in flagrantly antisemitic rhetoric. Back then, Peters mostly used coded language, ranting about “Zionists” and the…
German Reporters Just Unveiled a Far-Right Deportation “Masterplan”
German police at a 2023 rally hosted by AfD, a far-right political party.Helmut Fricke/dpa via Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Over the past few years, the far-right has made strides across the world. In Europe alone, Italy has elected a member of the country’s…
We’re in an Epidemic of Right-Wing Terror. Won’t Someone Tell the Press?
In These Times/Shutterstock Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This article first appeared in InTheseTimes magazine’s special issue on the spread of the far Right. “Violence is a part of America’s culture,” the Black Power militant H. Rap Brown once said. ”It is as American…
Let’s Watch Greg Gutfeld Justify Why a Civil War Is Necessary in the United States
Evan Agostini/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“Elections don’t work,” Greg Gutfeld explained, as the co-host of “The Five” and Fox News’ answer to Jimmy Kimmel descended into a dorm room caliber monologue that attempted to justify why a civil war in the United States may…
Massive Changes Could Be Coming From the Vatican. Conservative US Catholics Are Mad as Hell.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This week, hundreds of delegates from around the world began a monthlong meeting as part of Pope Francis’ “Synod on Synodality”—a gathering to discuss the future of the Catholic Church. It could radically change the religion. The group is considering groundbreaking alterations…