Legislatures Passed 550 Anti-Trans Bills So Far This Year
Janeen Jones, Center for Public Integrity; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story is published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative reporting newsroom. Hundreds of anti-transgender bills proposed in state legislatures are sold as measures to protect minors—such…
Joe Manchin Isn’t Ruling Out a 2024 Run for President
Stefani Reynolds/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The list of challengers to President Joe Biden’s bid for reelection keeps growing. On the right, we’ve got former president Donald Trump, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, a bunch of other long-shot…
The New York Times Just Published an Exposé of CNN’s Leadership Drama
Mario Tama/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.CNN can’t catch a break. On Sunday, the New York Times published an investigation into the cable news giant’s leadership woes. It’s the second major article prying open CNN’s inner workings this week after the Atlantic published a…
Hours After SpaceX Postponed a Liftoff, Elon Musk Boosted a Transphobic Tweet
Win McNamee/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Just hours after Musk’s space flight company, SpaceX, delayed the launch of a cargo capsule on Saturday morning, the billionaire launched something else: a needlessly bad tweet. At 2:17 am Eastern on Saturday, SpaceX announced on Twitter…
Tennessee’s Ban on Drag Shows Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
A bus at the Nashville Pride parade on June 25, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. Mickey Bernal/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A federal judge ruled late Friday that Tennessee’s law restricting drag shows is unconstitutional. The decision is a ray of sunshine during…
Biden Signs Debt Ceiling Deal, Averting Disaster
President Joe Biden addresses the nation on averting default and the Bipartisan Budget Agreement in the Oval Office on June 2, 2023 in Washington, DC. Jim Watson-Pool/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Joe Biden signed a debt ceiling deal on Saturday, averting…