Texas Has Been Investigating the Briggle Family Because of Their Trans Son. Here’s Their Story.
Adam Briggle and his sonCourtesy of the Briggles Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In September 2016, Adam and Amber Briggle nervously prepared their Dallas-area home for a special dinner guest: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. The Briggles were nervous because Paxton, a…
Twitter Made Me Do the Unthinkable: Defend Tulsi Gabbard
Mary Altaffer/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Daily Beast yesterday published an article that immediately electrified liberal Twitter. The headline: “Accused Russian Agent Gave to One Politician: Tulsi Gabbard.” A lot of accounts with blue waves and Ukrainian flags in their…
I’m a Cop With a Trans Daughter. Lawmakers Want Me to Arrest the Doctors Who Saved Her Life.
Mother Jones illustration; Photo courtesy of David Fuller Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said it was child abuse to give transgender teens gender-affirming health care like puberty blockers or hormone therapy. Now, Alabama lawmakers are on…
Ukrainian Refugees Are Being Embraced by Europe. Why Weren’t Syrians?
Women and children wait to board a bus heading to Przemysl after fleeing Ukraine.Visar Kryeziu/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On March 3, a Spanish TV station filmed several guards beating and kicking an African migrant as he climbed down a border…
The GOP’s Four Biggest Lies About Joe Biden and Fossil Fuels
Rep. Jim Jordan is among the Republican lawmakers trying to mislead the public about the Biden administration and its actions.Graeme Jennings/AP This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Republican lawmakers and right-wing media have responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by waging a misinformation campaign about the Biden…
Democratic Senators Also Don’t Get Why Biden Is Still Using a Cruel Trump-Era Border Policy
Asylum seekers wait to be processed by border patrol, in Yuma, Arizona.Katie McTiernan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.More than a year has passed since President Biden decided to continue enforcing a Trump-era border closure policy that claimed…