Thanks to the FCC, Christmas Comes Early for Pro-Trump Sinclair Broadcast Group
Ron Sachs/CNP/ZUMA Wire Christmas came early for Sinclair Broadcast Group, the pro-Trump local television goliath. On Thursday, the Republican-led Federal Communications Commission voted on a series of actions that would eliminate regulations for local media ownership while approving a new TV broadcast standard developed by Sinclair. Both decisions will likely result in a major windfall for the…
Trump Slams Al Franken for “Really Bad” Groping Photo, Remains Silent on Roy Moore
Ting Shen/ZUMA President Donald Trump, who faced a long string of sexual harassment allegations during the 2016 election, swiftly denounced Sen. Al Franken less than one day after a woman accused the senator of forcibly kissing and groping her in 2006. Trump’s Thursday tweets came amid his deafening silence regarding Roy Moore, the Republican Senate…
Hillary Clinton on Trump’s Election: “There Are Lots of Questions About Its Legitimacy”
A year after her defeat by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton says “there are lots of questions about its legitimacy” due to Russian interference and widespread voter suppression efforts. In an interview with Mother Jones in downtown Manhattan, Clinton said Russian meddling in the election “was one of the major contributors to…
A Small Town in Pennsylvania Has Been Ripped Apart by a New Gas Plant
Fog shrouds the Lackawanna Energy Center construction site in Jessup, Pennsylvania.Jamie Smith Hopkins/Center for Public Integrity This story was originally published by the Center for Public Integrity in collaboration with StateImpact Pennsylvania. The biggest new natural-gas power plant in a state awash with them is taking shape on a mountain ridge overlooking the community it…
Why We’re Still in the Dark About Facebook’s Fight Against Fake News
Mother Jones illustration Just hours after the mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas earlier this month, conspiracy theories connecting the perpetrator, Devin Kelley, to far-left antifa groups started spreading rapidly online. What first began as speculation on Twitter started becoming a commonly accepted theory after being shared by some of the most high-profile conspiracy theorists on the right, including Mike Cernovich…
Congress Timidly Complains About the War in Yemen
Hani Al-Ansi/DPA via ZUMA I failed to note this a couple of days ago, but it’s worth posting about: In a rare exercise of its war-making role, the House of Representatives on Monday overwhelmingly passed a resolution explicitly stating that U.S. military assistance to Saudi Arabia in its war in Yemen is not authorized under…