I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows’ Book. It’s Damning.
Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Mark Meadows, call your publisher. It seems that Donald Trump’s final White House chief of staff left out some critical information in The Chief’s Chief, his new book chronicling his 10 months as Trump’s number-one…
Climate Change Is Killing the Crappy Fake Lake of My Youth
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Ogden, Utah, is a long way from the beach. To the west is the Great Salt Lake, a huge salty body of water, but one so stagnant, buggy, and smelly that no one would want to swim…
“It’s Not Over and They Have to Fix What They Did”: An Afghan Refugee Demands the US Not Forget Her Family
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Weeda has had to leave her home twice in the past few years, each time without saying goodbye to her friends or family. The second time was this fall, when the 25-year-old Afghan arrived…
The Amazon Warehouse in the Backyard
An Amazon warehouse in Fontana, California. Alex Welsh/The Guardian and Consumer ReportsThis story was originally published by the Guardian in partnership with Consumer Reports, and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last year, with little warning, a new Amazon delivery station brought the rumble of semi-trailer trucks and delivery vans to Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood. The warehouse, located within…
Customs and Border Agents Spied on Journalists—the Latest Sign They Are Out of Control
Federal agents outside the Mark Hatfield Courthouse in Portland, Oregon on. July 4th, 2020.Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Many Americans are likely unaware that Customs and Border Protection, a Homeland Security Department division with more than 60,000 employees, is engaged…
800,000 People in the United States Have Died of COVID-19
An art installation no the National Mall commemorating all Americans who have died of COVID-19 on September 24, 2021. Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When the United States hit 100,000 COVID-19 deaths in May of 2020, it was a…