How People of Color Can Be Pawns for White Power
Mother Jones; LM Otero/AP; Wikimedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Being white is extremely alluring to a certain kind of not white person. I realized this when a relative once proudly told me that Persian people, of which half of my family is, were technically…
Did Elon Musk Unleash Racist Dog Whistles to Woo Tucker Carlson?
Clive Mason/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Elon Musk got on his own website on Saturday and started dog-whistle posting. In a series of reply tweets, he highlighted for his millions of followers thinly veiled racist tweets about Black people doing crime against white…
Gov. Ron DeSantis Restricts Chinese Citizens From Buying Land in Florida
AP /Rebecca Blackwell Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) signed a bill banning Chinese nationals from buying land in Florida. He hopes the bill will go toward “counteracting” the “malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party in Florida,” according to…
Report: Trump Wants to Hire Laura Loomer, a Racist Who Lost Elections
AP Photo/Kathy Willens Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, the New York Times reported that former president Donald Trump would be interested in hiring Laura Loomer, despite the concern of potential backlash. Staffers anticipated pushback because Loomer is a bigot. There is no other way to…
“Racial Intolerance” and “Hate” Are No Longer Banned on Coinbase
Mother Jones; Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto/Getty; Spencer Platt/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Using Coinbase to facilitate racism and hate is apparently no longer against the cryptocurrency platform’s rules under little-noticed revisions the company made to its terms of service several years ago. Until August 2021, the “Prohibited…
Memphis Police Department Disbands Unit Whose Members Brutally Killed Tyre Nichols
Protesters marching on Saturday in Memphis, Tennessee.Gerald Herbert/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Memphis Police Department has disbanded the so-called Scorpion Unit whose members abused and fatally beat Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, earlier this month. Those five officers have now been…