House Republicans Descend Into a Flame War of Open Letters and Obscene Tweets
Matt Gaetz and Nancy Mace are running out of friends.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Things are getting wild on Nancy Mace’s Twitter account. The South Carolina congresswoman—an on-again-off-again Trump ally who once told the only funny joke about January 6—was one of the…
Oklahoma Teachers Don’t Know If It’s Legal to Teach “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”Apple TV+ Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After a screening of Martin Scorsese’s slow-drip drama Killers of the Flower Moon in New York earlier this month, an agent with the film’s promotion team asked…
Tom Emmer Didn’t Help Trump Steal the 2020 Election. It’s Payback Time.
Matthew Putney/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After Republicans finally dethroned Jim Jordan as their speaker of the House nominee Friday, GOP eyes turned to Rep. Tom Emmer. The Minnesota congressman seemed like the natural choice: He engineered his party’s successful effort to retake…
Military Supplies, Border Security, and (Much Less) Aid: Biden Pushes $106 Billion Spending Bill
President Joe Biden addressing the nation from the Oval Office on Thursday.Yuri Gripas/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Biden administration is asking Congress to approve a $106 billion proposal that would mostly benefit Ukrainian and Israeli war and defense efforts. The administration wants…
How Donald Trump and Jared Kushner Overlooked the Key to Middle East Peace
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with then-President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa, and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan after signing the Abraham Accords in September 2020.Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On September…
Trump Ally Kenneth Chesebro Pleads Guilty in Georgia Fake Electors Case
Sidney Powell and Kenneth ChesebroFulton County Sheriff’s Office/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of the fake electors plot Donald Trump used to try to steal the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in Fulton Country, Georgia, Friday to a felony count of conspiracy…