Convicted Felon Rambles Through Greatest Hits of Grievances, Falsehoods, and Legal Nonsense
Julia Nikhinson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Speaking from his beloved Trump Tower in Manhattan—where nearly nine years ago he descended an escalator and launched his presidential campaign—Donald Trump on Friday rambled through a litany of complaints. Having just been found guilty on…
These Clergy Abuse Survivors Had a Chance to Find Justice. Then Their Diocese Filed for Bankruptcy.
Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Teresa Lancaster was a teenager in the 1970s, she was raped by a chaplain at her Catholic high school in Baltimore. But when she and another survivor, Jean Wehner, sued the chaplain and the diocese…
Oklahoma Takes a Step to Help Incarcerated Survivors of Domestic Violence
iStock / Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill that will allow courts to shorten the prison sentences of people who can prove they committed their crime because they were experiencing domestic violence—a significant reform in…
Trump Loses a Big Battle in His Lifelong War Against Accountability
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump has been in a war with accountability his entire adult life, and accountability has usually lost. In a New York City courtroom on Thursday, accountability triumphed, when a jury of his fellow citizens…
Donald Trump Found Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Trial
Yuki Iwamura/Pool/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. A jury of Donald Trump’s peers has found him guilty on all 34 felony counts related to his 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. The historic verdict,…
How the GOP Learned to Hate Divorce, Again
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In April of 2023, right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder announced that he and his wife, Hilary, were divorcing—an event, he explained to listeners of Louder with Crowder, to which he did not consent. She “didn’t want…