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,…
DC Mayor Responds to Months-Long Migrant Busing By Declaring a Public Emergency
Migrants get off bus from Texas within view of the US Capitol.Stefani Reynolds/AFP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser declared a public emergency in response to the buses of migrants arriving from Texas and Arizona to the Nation’s…
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In May, during an Aspen Institute conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the audience, “I want the Republican Party to take back the party, take it back to where you were when you cared about a woman’s right to…
Rubio Blasted Clinton for Her Emails. Now He Says Trump’s Theft of Top-Secret Records Is No Biggie
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is one of the US officials who shares the mission of safeguarding the nation’s most important secrets. The committee is responsible for…
Report: Rick Scott Blew It
Senator Rick Scott speaks during CPAC Texas 2022 conference at Hilton Anatole in Dallas on August 5, 2022. Photo by Lev Radin/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Over the last two years, the National Republican Senatorial Committee has had an…
Alaska Just Elected Its First Native Representative
Peltola, 49, is Yup’ik, which is Alaska’s largest indigenous community.Mark Thiessen/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Representative-elect Mary Peltola just made history. With a 51-49 upset victory over ex-governor Sarah Palin, confirmed Wednesday by the state’s Division of Elections, Peltola has won Alaska’s sole…