Miami Baseball Team In Lockdown After COVID-19 Outbreak
TNS via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Who could have predicted? Less than a week in, the 2020 Major League Baseball season has already reached its first crisis point, with the Miami Marlins stuck in Philadelphia and forced to postpone their home opener in Miami on…
After Two Days of Golfing, Trump Touts His “Strong Focus” on Coronavirus
The little boy from Queens was finally set to take the mound. And not just any mound! The mound at Yankee Stadium! Generations of boys like him had only dreamed of being under the bright lights in the House that Ruth Built (an earlier version of)! But this would be his day, not theirs; his…
There Is a Lot Going on in This Trump Tweet. Let’s Try to Unravel It.
President Donald Trump returned to Twitter this afternoon with a missive jam-packed with information, yet completely opaque in their connections to each other. As you can see, there’s a lot going on here: So the Washington Post is running the Reagan Foundation, and RINO Paul Ryan is on the Board of Fox, which has been…
Joe Biden Is a Nazi, Says Person Wearing Swastika Mask
On this day in 1951, the Disney film Alice In Wonderland premiered in London. But it is us, you and me, who live in the real wonderland, friend! Bizarre, through-the-looking-glass stuff going on in our lives! Up-is-down shit, you dig? Not only has it been raining cats and dogs all year, but also the cats…
Why Are Republicans Being Such Assholes?
Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The $600 bonus unemployment payments put in place in March expire today, and let’s get this out of the way up front: the main reason for extending them is because there are millions of Americans who are out…
The Election Is in 100 Days. If It Were Held Today, Trump Would Lose.
President Donald Trump walks to the Rose Garden for a press conference at the White House on July 14, 2020. Tasos Katopodis/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.President Donald Trump blazed into Sunday with a strong assessment of his campaign’s standing, just 100 days until…