Migrants’ DNA Is Fueling a Massive Expansion of the FBI’s Genetic Database
Teresa Canino Rivera/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ever since the Trump administration scaled up DNA collection from migrants in federal custody, immigration officials have been pouring massive quantities of genetic data into the FBI’s national law enforcement database. New submissions to CODIS—short for…
Climate Spending Bonanza Doing Little to Help Indigenous Communities
Indigenous and human rights leaders participate in the 15th session of the 2016 U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.Bebeto Matthews / AP Photo This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Indigenous peoples are largely being excluded from trillions in global spending to mitigate climate change, with governments…
Autoworkers Staged Their First Big Strike in the 1930s. Here’s How They Won.
A scene from the sit-down strike at GM’s Fisher Body No. 1 plant in Flint, Michigan, which began on December 30, 1936, and lasted 44 days.UAW Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, leaders of the striking United Auto Workers vowed to expand their…
A Brief History of Politicians Shooting, Flamethrowing, and Generally Using Deadly Weapons in Campaign Ads
A still from a 2014 ad created for Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska). Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Over the weekend, a partial lie spread online. In Missouri, on a dark night, two Republican state senators brandished flamethrowers, while encircled by iPhone-wielding spectators, and burned empty boxes…
Climate Protesters Arrested en Masse at Federal Reserve Bank
Monday’s action was organized by a coalition of groups including New York Communities for Change and Extinction Rebellion NYC.Matthew Rodier/Sipa USA/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One day after the largest climate march since the start of the Covid pandemic, hundreds of climate activists blockaded the…
J.D. Vance Really Wants You to Believe He Supports Striking Auto Workers
Then-Senate candidate J.D. Vance, left, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) at a campaign rally in Ohio last year.Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After the UAW went on strike last week, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) took to social media to declare, “Auto workers…