Florida Lawmakers Pledge to Pass Abortion Ban Following Texas’ Model
Abortion rights supporters gather to protest Texas SB 8.Joel Martinez//The Monitor via AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It’s already happening. Just hours after the Supreme Court’s refused to block an extreme Texas abortion law, Florida Senate President Wilton Simpson says state…
Why Facebook Won’t Stop Pushing Propaganda
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Joyce Jones’ Facebook page is almost an archetype of what the social network is supposed to look like: Pictures of her kids, her kids’ friends, her sports teams, her kids’ friends’ sports teams. Videos of her husband’s…
Mississippi Urges Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in during a confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Oct. 12, 2020.Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Thursday, the state of Mississippi filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down…
Under Trump, Presidents Got More Power to Fire Agency Heads. Biden Just Used It.
Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Friday, Joe Biden fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, a Trump administration appointee who had clashed with congressional Democrats and disability rights activists. Originally appointed by Donald Trump in 2018, Saul’s term was set…
Dark Money Is About to Get Much Darker
Charles Koch, chief executive officer of Koch Industries, in 2019.AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The conservative Supreme Court majority ruled in favor of the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity on Thursday, holding that…
The Supreme Court Just Voted to Uphold Obamacare
Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Obamacare is here to stay. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Republican attorneys general suing to overturn the Affordable Care Act lacked standing. It was a…