Report: After Promising to Halt Bomb Shipment, Biden Moving to Send $1 Billion More in Weapons to Israel
Mother Jones; Lenin Nolly/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After officials repeatedly warned that they would consider stopping the flow of weapons to Israel if it pressed forward with a ground invasion into Rafah, the Biden administration announced it would nonetheless attempt to…
Trump Wants to Deport Pro-Palestine Protesters—and GOP Lawmakers Are Filing Bills to Make It Happen
Mother Jones; Matt Rourke/AP; John Lamparski/NurPhoto/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey on Saturday, former President Donald Trump made many questionable comments. He called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “Fat Alvin.” He claimed migrant children “don’t speak English.” And…
UN Officials Describe “Absolutely Catastrophic” Conditions in Gaza
Displaced Palestinians from Rafah arrive in Khan Yunis after Israel’s evacuation order.Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Humanitarian officials are warning of increasingly dire conditions in Rafah as the Israeli army orders tens of thousands of civilians to evacuate the city in advance…
Biden Has Signed a $1.2 Trillion Spending Bill to Avert Government Shutdown
President Joe Biden speaking on Wednesday in Arizona. Darryl Webb/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This weekend, President Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion spending bill to avert a potential government shutdown. The Senate passed the more than 1,000-page bill early Saturday morning, with…
“A Shimmering Stunt”: The Problem With US Airdrops of Food Into Gaza
U.S. Army soldiers loads pallets of humanitarian aid in the cargo bay of a U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules aircraft. The food aid will be airdropped to Palestinian refugees trapped by the Israeli war against Hamas.Sra Lauren Jacoby/Us Airforce/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news…
How the Biden Administration Kneecapped the Most Essential Aid Group in Gaza
Mother Jones; Yuri Gripas/Cnp/CNP/Zuma; Omar Ishaq/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In mid-January, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations’ agency responsible for Palestinian refugees—known as UNRWA—received the names of 12 employees who had allegedly participated in the October 7 attack by Hamas.…