Alexei Navalny Calls for Worldwide Protests to Demand End to War
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny looks at a camera while speaking from a prison via a video link.Denis Kaminev/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Russian dissident and persistent thorn in Vladimir Putin’s side Alexei Navalny on Wednesday called on Russians to take…
Pro-Putin Disinformation on Ukraine Is Thriving in Online Anti-Vax Groups
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve seen how conspiracy theories can overlap and collide. I’ve documented how anti-vaccine groups embraced QAnon disinformation about liberal elites conspiring to unseat Trump, and how white nationalists find willing audiences for…
She Escaped From Ukraine. Now She’s Haunted by Guilt About Those She Left Behind.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Olha Martynyuk had purchased a plane ticket to Switzerland for Wednesday, February 23. The 36-year-old professor of the history of science and technology at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute had long planned the three-week working vacation in Basel…
Biden’s Fresh Pitch for Prosperity: Fund My Agenda, Dammit
Shawn Thew/Pool/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As I described earlier this evening, the first section of President Joe Biden’s speech tonight, in which he forcefully rebuked Vladimir Putin, generated some bipartisan support from a bitterly divided Congress. But as Biden moved…
Biden Rallies Congress With a Furious Rebuke of Putin in His First State of the Union
President Biden forcefully denounced Vladimir Putin during his first State of the Union address, outlining further steps to damage the Russian economy and declaring that, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the European Union this week, “Light will win over darkness.” “Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the…
ACLU Sues Texas Over Investigation of Parents With Transgender Child
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.Eric Gay/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal, an LGBTQ civil rights organization, filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of a Texas family that says it is being investigated by the state…