Ida’s Aftermath Show Just How Risky Petrochemical Production Is in a Hurricane Zone
Jake Bittle/Grist Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story was originally published by the Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 72 hours after Hurricane Ida made landfall, plumes of dark black smoke were still rising from four towers…
Lauren Boebert’s Path to Reelection May Be Getting Harder
Rep. Lauren Boebert, right, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene during a press conference in June.Rod Lamkey/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The path to reelection for Lauren Boebert, the far-right Republican congresswoman from Colorado, could soon become a lot harder. A new…
TikTokers and Coders Are Trying to Spam This Texas Anti-Abortion Site Into the Ground
Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Users are flooding a website designed for reporting people who violate Texas’ new anti-abortion laws with fake tips. The website was set up by Texas Right to Life to help enforce the…
The QAnon Shaman Just Pleaded Guilty
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The closest thing QAnon has had to a mascot has pleaded guilty Friday to obstructing Electoral College certification of the 2020 presidential election on January 6. The image of Jacob Chansley wearing…
Heeding Steve Bannon’s Call, Election Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the GOP—and Reshape America’s Elections
Scott Olson/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This story was originally published by ProPublica. One of the loudest voices urging Donald Trump’s supporters to push for overturning the presidential election results was Steve Bannon. “We’re on the point of attack,” Bannon, a…
The Texas Abortion Ban Didn’t Pass in a Vacuum
Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Senate Bill 8, the Texas law that effectively bans abortions in the state by criminalizing any procedures after six weeks, is a bad law, not just in the sense that it accomplishes a bad thing—by…