USDA Conservation Grants Prop up Agribusiness as Usual
Inside view of a hog operation in Farmville, NC. Gerry Broome/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Every year, the US Department of Agriculture spends billions of dollars propping up large-scale farming of commodities like corn and soybeans. These crops in turn suffuse the…
5 Ways the Trumps Allegedly Tried to Conceal Financial Fraud
AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.New York Attorney General Letitia James recently filed a $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump and his adult children, alleging the family had deliberately misled banks, insurance companies, and tax authorities about the…
CPAC Hastily Deletes a Pro-Russia Tweet
The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC), Matt Schlapp, delivers the welcome speech at the CPAC conference in Budapest, Hungary, this May.Szilard Koszticsak/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s mostly surprising that it took this long. CPAC has deleted a tweet that…
Brazilians Go the Polls and Democracy Hangs in the Balance
Former president Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva during the closing rally of his presidential campaign in São Paulo. Allison Sales/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During a vacation earlier this year, a stranger, who later said he was a real estate agent, approached me…
Trump Says McConnell Has “DEATH WISH” In Menacing Post
Evan Vucci/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This weekend, former president Donald Trump did his best to remind us why he is banned from major social media platforms. In a post on Truth Social targeting Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trump declared, “He has…
The NFL Is What We Thought It Was
John McCall/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last Sunday, Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was forced to exit the game in the second quarter of Miami’s game with the Buffalo Bills after what looked to anyone watching like a serious blow to the…