The Police Failed, Says a Texas Congressional Report on Uvalde Mass Shooting
A family member of a shooting victim, is greeted by a friend after a city council meeting on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.AP Photo/Eric Gay Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In a new report, a Texas Congressional committee criticized…
Meet Abortion Bans’ New Best Friend—Your Phone
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Let’s say you’re like me: a person between the ages of 18 and 50 with a uterus. Imagine you work a job that pays the bills, but you don’t have as much time off as you’d like,…
Jacob Frey Is a Liar
Mother Jones illustration; Alex Kormann/Star Tribune/AP, Chris Tuite/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last Friday Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey announced a moratorium on no-knock warrants, the tactic that led to officer Mark Hanneman shooting and killing Amir Locke. It was the second…
Minneapolis Police Killed Amir Locke in a No-Knock Raid—After the City Promised to Ban Them
The scene outside an apartment building in downtown Minneapolis, where police killed Amir Locke in a no-knock raidRichard Tsong-Taatari/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Early on Wednesday morning, a Minneapolis police officer working as part of a SWAT team shot and killed…
A Look Back at 2021 in Photos, If You Can Bear It
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Whatta year! Wooooo boy. Phew. Is it over yet? Here in the (very small, one-person) Mother Jones photo department, we naturally tend to think visually. As such, we rounded up a few dozen photos that stuck with…
White Fear Is Always the Best Defense
Stephen B. Morton/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On February 23, 2020, Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old unarmed Black man, was out for a jog in Satilla Shores, Georgia, when he was chased by three armed white men in vehicles. They confronted him,…