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…
DeSantis Flying Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard Is Part of a 60-Year-Old Segregationist Playbook
A Venezuelan migrant reacts as he is led onto a bus on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On May 22, 1962, Victoria Bell and her 11 children, ranging in age from two to 14,…
DeSantis Flying Migrants to Martha’s Vineyard Is Part of a 60-Year-Old Segregationist Playbook
A Venezuelan migrant reacts as he is led onto a bus on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/ZUMA Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On May 22, 1962, Victoria Bell and her 11 children, ranging in age from two to 14,…
The Chinese Exclusion Act May Be in the Past, But Racism Still Drives Most Immigration Policies
German federal police officers guide a group of migrants between Austria and Germany.Kerstin Joensson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited the immigration of workers from China for 10 years, became law in the United States. It was the…
Violent Far-Right Extremism Is Fueling Mass Shootings in America
An investigator works at the scene of the Buffalo mass shooting.Matt Rourke/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The massacre at a Buffalo supermarket on Saturday that left 10 people dead and three others injured was the latest in a repugnant trend…