“I Was Very Disappointed to See Propaganda Being Pumped into My Living Room”
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Judy Jones was watching the 11 p.m. news on her local NBC affiliate, WPBN, one evening when she saw her first “Terrorism Alert Desk,” a news segment that’s run daily across all TV stations owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group. Jones, a retired nonprofit director…
Middle-Age Death Rates Have Skyrocketed in Some States
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Via Eric Topol, here’s an interesting chart from a new report in JAMA. It shows how the probability of death during middle-age has changed from 1990-2016 in all 50 states. In the country as a whole, there’s been a 1.7 percentage point decrease in the…
Epic Series of Rage Tweets Probably Coming Tomorrow From the Leader of the Free World
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump delivered an epic rant today about the FBI raid of his lawyer’s office, calling it a “disgrace,” a “witch hunt,” an “attack on our country,” and “a whole new level of unfairness.” He also declared, yet again, that he was pissed off about…
Where Did Michael Cohen Get $130,000 to Pay Stormy Daniels?
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The FBI raided Michael Cohen’s home and office today, seizing records related to Cohen’s payment of $130,000 to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign. Susan Simpson has a question: Something I’d love to see a reporter ask Trump Org about: 1) Cohen formed EC LLC…
If Scott Pruitt Gets Fired From the EPA, This Coal Lobbyist Will Take His Place
Andrew Wheeler at his Senate confirmation hearing.Alex Edelman/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Senate is about to confirm the man who would take over the Environmental Protection Agency should Scott Pruitt step down. Andrew Wheeler, an energy lobbyist who has worked for the Senate’s biggest climate…
A Texas Oil Giant Wants Justin Trudeau to Help It Build a Controversial Pipeline Through Canada
Rick Madonik/The Toronto Star/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by National Observer and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Texas-based energy giant Kinder Morgan is appealing to Ottawa to take “preemptive action” to force British Columbia to stand down in its intent to oppose the building…