Top Chef Challenge 2022: Palatable Jellyfish
Jellyfish could be a plentiful food source, but finding appetizing ways to prepare them is not easy.Agostino Petroni This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a snowy January morning in 2022, I walk into Duo, an exclusive little restaurant in the heart of the southern Italian…
Matt DePerno Sought to Foreclose on His Clients’ Property. Now He Wants to Be Michigan’s Top Lawyer.
Mother Jones illustration; Jake May/The Flint Journal/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If Matthew DePerno wins his race to unseat Michigan’s Democratic attorney general in November, he’ll become the state’s top lawyer. He will have a staff of more than 500 people, and…
Prosecutors Cite Mother Jones to Debunk Claim by Oath Keepers’ Founder
Mother Jones illustration; Jared Ramsdell/Journal Inquirer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Justice Department prosecutors cited Mother Jones on Tuesday in the trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. The defense had argued that messages Rhodes sent to a woman whom he later claimed was a…
I Watched the Horrible Tina Peters Documentary Claiming the 2020 Election Was Stolen So You Don’t Have To
Thomas Peipert/File/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At the 59 minute mark of [S]election Code—the Mike Lindell-produced documentary on Tina Peters, the Colorado election official who tried to prove that the 2020 election was stolen—there’s a three shot sequence that has haunted me: an…
The Biden Administration Just Proposed a Rule That Could Change Work for Millions
Nam Y. Huh/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, the Department of Labor released a new proposal for determining whether independent contractors are employees, according to the New York Times. The measure would be a small but significant lowering of a Trump-era standard that could…
Nevada GOP Secretary of State Candidate Promises to Make Trump President in 2024
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Minden-Tahoe Airport on October 08, 2022 in Minden, Nevada. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At a rally for Nevada Republican candidates on Saturday, Republican nominee for secretary of state Jim Marchant…