A Detailed Inventory of Everything the FBI Took from Mar-a-Lago
Jon Elswick/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Intermingled with top secret, secret, and confidential documents that federal agents seized from former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month were more than three dozen empty folders marked “classified,” according to a court filing unsealed today.…
Biden Asks Americans to Vote for Democracy—But Is Voting Enough?
Doug Mills/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A few hours before President Joe Biden delivered his fiery speech calling former President Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans” representatives of “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,” Trump went on a conservative…
Hospitalized, Bullied, and Denied Care: Texas’ War on Trans Kids
Mother Jones illustration; Unsplash; Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state officials in February to launch child abuse investigations targeting parents who helped their transgender kids get gender-affirming health care, a 14-year-old trans girl became so anxious…
Trump’s Social Media Business Is a Mess
AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s plan to exact revenge on Big Tech—and make billions by launching his own social media empire and taking it public—was always going to be a long shot. And while it’s not yet dead,…
Alaska Just Elected Its First Native Representative
Peltola, 49, is Yup’ik, which is Alaska’s largest indigenous community.Mark Thiessen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Representative-elect Mary Peltola just made history. With a 51-49 upset victory over ex-governor Sarah Palin, confirmed Wednesday by the state’s Division of Elections, Peltola has won Alaska’s sole…
Trump Stole Secret Government Documents. The Big Question Is Why.
Erin Schaff/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.We know what Donald Trump did: He absconded from the White House with classified and top secret documents that belonged to the US government; he mishandled these highly sensitive records in his Mar-a-Largo lair (see this photo);…