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…
White Nationalists Are Big Fans of Elon’s “White Genocide” Tweets
Joel Saget/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Elon Musk made his most brazen overture to white nationalists yet on Monday, tweeting about the “white genocide” conspiracy theory in South Africa. In response to a video of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters party posted by…
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…
Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville Isn’t Convinced That White Nationalists Are Racist
Francis Chung/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Update: After facing a barrage of criticism, Tuberville appears to have finally acknowledged that white nationalists are, indeed, racist. Tommy Tuberville, after a day of back-and-forth over his white nationalist comments to @kaitlancollins, tells reporters: “White nationalists are…
Anarcho-Tyranny: How the New Right Explains Itself
Rafa Goicoechea Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The same day Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged Daniel Penny with manslaughter for choking to death Jordan Neely—a homeless man who’d been acting in a way Penny perceived as threatening—Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) recorded a podcast.…
Nikki Haley Says She’s “Inclined” to Pardon the Man She Called “Incredibly Reckless”
Meg Kinnard/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Republican queen of flip-flopping is at it again. Shortly after Donald Trump became the first former US president to get indicted on federal charges, Nikki Haley joined prominent Republicans to rail against the charges. “The…