Dissent Is Growing: US Officials Sign Letter Protesting Biden’s Israel Policies
President Biden meets with President Joko Widodo of Indonesia in the Oval Office on Nov. 13, 2023.Al Drago/Pool CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.More than 400 federal officials sent President Joe Biden a letter today protesting his support for Israel and demanding he call…
Sen. Joe Manchin Won’t Seek Reelection in 2024
Stefani Reynolds/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia will not run for reelection next year. The conservative Democrat called the choice—which he shared the news of in a video he posted to X—”one of the toughest decisions of my…
Glenn Youngkin Spent Millions and Republicans Still Lost in Virginia
David McNew/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After months of interviews, TV appearances, and hype, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin—and his vision of himself as the new standard bearer of how to win as a Republican—ran into a problem: He lost. On Tuesday, Youngkin’s dreams…
Trump Wants Credit for All the Abortion Bans. He Also Doesn’t Have a Policy.
STAR MAX/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As we were all reminded during an especially horrendous town hall last week, Donald Trump is not a shy man. His thoughts, much like his policies, tend to flow unvarnished, regardless of how misogynistic, delusional, and contradictory…
A Problem for DeSantis: Reports Say He Has No Rizz
Brian Cahn/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former President Trump is a twice-impeached sexual abuser, who possesses a unique ability to make people laugh—unfortunately or fortunately, to use his verbiage. He made that clear at a CNN town hall last week, when he had an audience of…
Gov. Ron DeSantis Restricts Chinese Citizens From Buying Land in Florida
AP /Rebecca Blackwell Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) signed a bill banning Chinese nationals from buying land in Florida. He hopes the bill will go toward “counteracting” the “malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party in Florida,” according to…