The UAW Is Going After One of the Big Three’s Key Money Makers
A United Auto Workers members picket near a Stellantis parts-distribution center.Mike Stewart/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The United Auto Workers Union is ramping up its unprecedented strike against the nation’s three major automakers and hitting one company where it hurts: pickup trucks. On…
Sugarcane Burning Is a Plague on These Black Floridians
A sugar cane field burning near Canal Point, Florida. Friends of the Everglades This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Christine Louis-Jeune knew she was home when she saw ash falling from the sky and onto her windshield. She hadn’t been back to her central Florida hometown…
Twenty-Three Journalists Have Been Killed Covering the Israel-Gaza War
Palestinians work to help victims amid debris following and apparent Israeli airstrike on a building in in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on October 22, 2023.Naaman Omar/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Roshdi Sarraj, a reporter who co-founded a Palestinian media company, was killed Sunday in…
George Santos Suggested the Chinese Communist Party Kidnapped His Niece. Huh?
George Santos on October 18.Allison Bailey/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this year George Santos, the fabulist congressman facing federal fraud charges, took up the cause of exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui, a fellow fabulist who is also facing federal fraud charges. Guo,…
Sidney Powell Is Apologizing to Georgians. Why Stop There?
Sidney Powell made false claims about an an extraordinary amount of people during this Nov. 19, 2020 press conference.Tom Williams/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, we learned Thursday, agreed to write a letter of apology to citizens of the…
Stop Messaging Me, a Black Journalist, About White Irish “Slaves”
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.I create videos about race and history for a living, which results in being inundated with racist comments, dog-whistles, instances of historical revisionism or apologia, and other stupid stuff. Every time I broach the subject of…