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,…
Ron DeSantis Says He’ll Double Down on Martha’s Vineyard Stunt
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, having dominated the past several news cycles by flying Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard without notice—a move his critics depict as a particularly cruel attempt to “own the…
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…