Russians Used a US Firm to Funnel Funds to GOP in 2018. Dems Say the FEC Let Them Get Away With It.
The FEC found that a US gas company used funds from Russian oligarchs including Roman Abramovich, seen here in 2021, to donate to GOP candidates in 2018.Martin MeissnerAP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Federal Election Commission recently let a US company that was…
The Blob Delivers a Message: Shut Up About Ukraine
Congressional Progressive Caucus Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Chair, with Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) Mark Takano (D-Calif) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) in August. All four signed and later renounced the progressive letter on Ukraine.Graeme Sloan/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Amid the lingering freakout over the…
Pathos and Panic: Russians Are Mobilized for an Undeclared War
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: This essay is anonymous in order to protect the writer from potential reprisals. Russia is not at war, despite what you may have heard. Despite the mobilization of reservists, the stories and images of destruction and death,…
CPAC Hastily Deletes a Pro-Russia Tweet
The chairman of the Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC), Matt Schlapp, delivers the welcome speech at the CPAC conference in Budapest, Hungary, this May.Szilard Koszticsak/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s mostly surprising that it took this long. CPAC has deleted a tweet that…
Interrogations, Electric Shocks, Detention—This Is What Russian Occupation of Ukraine Looks Like
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When the Soviet Union still existed, Anatolii Harahatii made his career as a photographer in the small village of Savintsi in northeastern Ukraine. Snapshots of him as a younger, sharply dressed man appear on many surfaces in the cozy, one-story…
UN Investigators Just Issued Their First Report on Russian War Crimes in Ukraine. It Is Horrific.
Investigators work to exhume bodies from a mass burial site in Ukraine.Pavel Nemecek/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, investigators working for the United Nations delivered a sobering statement to the UN Human Rights Council detailing evidence of Russian war crimes committed as…