Jim Jordan Unpauses His Speaker Campaign
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, arrives for the Republican caucus meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Update, October 19, 2:47 pm ET: Never mind, apparently he’s going to try…
Release the Kraken! Sidney Powell Just Pleaded Guilty in Georgia Election Trial and Agreed to Testify.
Sidney Powell’s plea deal is bad for Rudy Giuliani.Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Sidney Powell, the former Donald Trump attorney who is charged along with the former president and 17 others in an election subversion case in Georgia, pleaded guilty Thursday to six misdemeanor…
“Attacking Health Workers Is a War Crime”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 1996, when Leonard Rubenstein became the executive director of Physicians for Human Rights, the war in the former Yugoslavia had just ended. PHR, a US-based advocacy group, prepared a report on the brutal attacks on Kosovo Hospital in…
Coal Communities Fear Exclusion From Environmental Justice Initative
Belle Ayr Mine near Gillette, Wyoming Mead Gruver/AP This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Officials from declining coal communities in Wyoming worry that the Biden administration’s environmental justice agenda is hurting their ability to compete for billions of dollars in federal clean energy and infrastructure grants,…
Steve Bannon and Alex Jones Have a Bizarre Conspiracy Theory About the Israel-Hamas War
zz/STRF/STAR MAX/IPx via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.There’s nothing like war to bring out the crazy in the crazy far-right. As the Israeli military pummeled Gaza and created a humanitarian crisis in response to Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians, Steve Bannon and…
The Corrosive Impact of Unconditional US Support for Israel
Palestinians walk next to the buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Bureij refugee camp in Gaza on Wednesday.Hatem Moussa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last week, a BBC anchor asked former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy about Israel’s rationale for its devastating siege on Gaza,…