Facebook Accidentally Tells the Truth
Xinhua via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. BuzzFeed has dug up a memo written a couple of years ago by Facebook vice president Andrew “Boz” Bosworth. He now says he never believed any of it and wrote it just to be provocative. Here’s an excerpt: The ugly truth is…
Jeff Sessions Won’t Appoint a Second Special Counsel—For Now
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks in Sacramento, California earlier this month.Randy Pench/TNS via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Thursday declined to appoint a second special counsel, who would be charged with investigating matters related to a series of 2016 probes related to Hillary Clinton…
The Attorney for Stephon Clark’s Family Alleges Officers Who Shot Him Violated Department Policy
Demonstrators protest the police killing of Stephon Clark in New York City on March 28.Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ben Crump, the civil rights attorney representing the family of Stephon Clark, tells Mother Jones he believes the Sacramento police officers who shot Clark, unarmed in his grandmother’s…
Here’s What Donald Trump Could Do If He Really Wants to Stop Amazon’s Abuses
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Trump ramped up his attacks against Amazon on Thursday, tweeting that he has long had “concerns” about the online retailer, even before the election. His apparent beef is that Amazon does not pay enough taxes, (supposedly) uses the US Postal Service at the nation’s expense, and drives other…
50 Years After DC Burned, the Injustices That Caused the Riots Are as Urgent as Ever
Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For a moment, the peace seemed to hold. It was the evening of April 4, 1968, and Martin Luther King Jr. had just been killed by a gunman in Memphis. An angry crowd had gathered at 14th and U streets NW, the nexus…
Why Devin Nunes and His Local Paper Suddenly Can’t Stand Each Other
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Capitol Hill in April 2017.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For nearly two decades, Rep. Devin Nunes had enjoyed an amiable relationship with the Fresno Bee, the largest local paper near his district in California’s Central Valley. That ended…