Texans Can Sue Abortion Providers? Californians Will Sue Gun Makers, Governor Says.
Gavin Newsom at a Nov. 10 news conferenceSarah Reingewirtz/Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Texas lawmakers used an audacious strategy to get their controversial abortion law past the Supreme Court: empowering private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone who “aids…
An Election Conspiracy Theorist Responsible for Circulating Batshit Coup PowerPoint Spoke Several Times with Meadows and the Trump White House: Report
Mark MeadowsTom Williams/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Perhaps it should surprise no one that former President Donald Trump’s scrambling henchmen reviewed a literal, honest-to-god PowerPoint presentation with plans for a coup attempt in early January, as the president’s efforts to retain…
Pro-Bernie Nevada Dems and the DNC Are in a Voter Data Feud
People wait to vote at Reed High School in Sparks, Nevada on November 3, 2020. Scott Sonner/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Nevada State Democratic Party officials are fuming over a draft proposal from the Democratic National Committee that would allow the…
I Was Sexually Harassed by a Co-worker. My Boss Let My Harasser Stay to “Keep an Eye” on Him.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In 2016, Kelley Smith was looking for a job when a former colleague connected her with Ed Damiano. A prominent professor and biomedical engineer at Boston University, Damiano co-founded a biotech company called Beta Bionics and he…
Baristas in Buffalo Just Formed the First Starbucks Union in the United States
Joshua Bessex/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In a watershed moment for the recent wave of pandemic-inspired labor organizing, workers at a Starbucks in Buffalo, New York, voted today to form the coffee chain’s first union in the United States. Despite months…
Just Shut Up and Testify Already, Mark Meadows
Pool/Abaca via Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Wednesday, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chair of the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, announced that his committee would move to hold former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in…