The Supreme Court Delivered a Big Win to the Biden Administration on Immigration
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visits Texas border. Michael Gonzalez/Gett Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, the US Supreme Court delivered a ruling that allows the Biden administration to reinstate a policy that sets priorities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regarding arrests and…
No Labels Exposed: Here’s a List of Donors Funding Its Effort To Disrupt the 2024 Race
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.No Labels, the political outfit preparing to run a “unity” ticket in 2024 that Democratic strategists and Never-Trump Republican operatives fear will siphon votes from President Joe Biden, is what’s known as a dark-money group. Unlike…
Ron DeSantis Has Launched a New Battle in His War to Control Public Universities
Shawn Thew/EFE via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Gov. Ron DeSantis is, famously, on a crusade to transform Florida’s education system into one that projects his own ideology. What’s taken up fewer national headlines is that one of the institutions standing in the way…
Meet the Internet Gamblers Who Won Big Betting on the Submarine’s Fate
Mother Jones illustration; OceanGate/ZUMA; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Before debris was discovered on Thursday, Titan, the submersible that took tourists to view the wreckage of the Titanic, the looming tragedy was fodder for widely-enjoyed, if often macabre, internet content. Some Twitter users ripped…
Blame the Supreme Court for America’s Decade of Voter Disenfranchisement
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As a Black teenager growing up in Wilson, North Carolina, in the 1950s, Milton “Toby” Fitch Jr. wanted to swim in the Olympic-sized pool on the prosperous East side of town—a pool that only white people could use. Like…
Atlanta Residents Could Soon Vote on Cop City
Protesters gather outside Atlanta City Hall ahead of a council vote over whether to approve public funding for the construction of “Cop City,” a proposed police and firefighter training center.Arvin Temkar/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, an Atlanta city clerk approved a…