“This Place Rules” Is a People’s History of January 6
Mother Jones; Youtube Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The 25-year-old documentarian Andrew Callaghan has been pissing off reporters lately. In his new HBO documentary, This Place Rules, Callaghan chronicles the events leading up to January 6, 2021, via dozens of man-on-the-street interviews with outlandish…
Hero of 2022: Dwight Garner Whose Evisceration of Jared Kushner’s Book Is Perfection
Mother Jones; Macmillan; Broadside Books There is a kind of genius in writing the savage review. Sometimes they become assessments of an artist that endure long after the works critiqued have faded from popular memory. The former New York Times chief book critic Michiko Kakutani (once called “the Queen of Mean”) described The Discomfort Zone, a…
Donald Trump’s NFT Sale Is the Weirdest Thing on Social Media Today
TRUTH Social Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump told his followers earlier this week that America needed a superhero and promised that a “major” announcement was forthcoming. The big reveal, it turns out, was that Trump is selling a collection of 45,000 non-fungible…
We Found the Guys Behind the Hunter Biden Porn That Elon Musk Won’t Shut Up About
Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On the evening of October 24, 2020, a guy who goes by the name Wenyang tweeted a picture of Hunter Biden. Hunter was facing a mirror in what looked like a hotel room, with his penis…
At GOP Rallies in Arizona, the Media Is the Enemy and Kari Lake Is Its Conqueror
Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake greets supporters at a campaign rally at the Dream City Church on November 07, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. John Moore/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the final days of the election, the Republican candidates in Arizona have…
All the Twitter Teams Elon Musk Has Cut (So Far)
GDA via AP Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After a lengthy period of “will he or won’t he,” that’s gone on since last April, Elon Musk finally bought Twitter for the hilarious price of $54.20 per share—$44 billion total—a much higher price than…