Are Police Helicopter Fleets Worth the Money?
Beni Benitez stands outside of his home in South Los Angeles, a neighborhood a few miles south of the Los Angeles Police Department’s helicopter landing site.Isabel Avila Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This piece was published originally by Capital & Main. Los Angeles’ police and sheriff’s departments…
Herschel Walker Once Said He Was the Target of Racism. Now He Claims It Doesn’t Exist.
Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign rally in Greensboro, Georgia, on November 29.John Bazemore/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Not too long ago, Herschel Walker said he had experienced racism, having been stopped and harassed by the police because he was a Black man.…
Illinois Is Poised to Pass a Huge Win For Workers
Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Illinois workers are on the verge of a historic win: a labor rights amendment to the state constitution that—among other things—would make the state the first to ban so-called “right-to-work laws” throughout its territory. The amendment, on the…
Tommy Tuberville Decries Reparations as Payments for “People That Do the Crime”
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on May 26, 2022. Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly /ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Saturday, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) implied Black Americans were “the people that do the crime” in comments railing against…
Trump Says McConnell Has “DEATH WISH” In Menacing Post
Evan Vucci/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This weekend, former president Donald Trump did his best to remind us why he is banned from major social media platforms. In a post on Truth Social targeting Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trump declared, “He has…
J.D. Vance’s Flip-Flop on the Nazi March in Charlottesville
Joe Maiorana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, which was organized by white supremacists and neo-Nazis to celebrate white nationalism and that led to the tragic killing of counter-protester Heather Heyer, became an…