Why Deep Sea Mining Is So “Deeply Destructive”
Brisingid sea stars are found in deep sea areas rich in critical minerals.Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Few people know the deep ocean as intimately as Lisa Levin, an ecologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Not content with…
George Santos Cashed In Big With Followers of Indicted Chinese Billionaire Miles Guo
Mother Jones; Francis Chung/Politico/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When George Santos, the indicted but still-in-office Republican congressman from Queens, New York, recently filed the campaign finance report for his reelection effort, there was something unusual about it: Of about 50 total contributors, the…
Far-Right Influencers Don’t Know What to Do About Threads
Mother Jones illustration; Nicole Hester/Ann Arbor News/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The rapid ascent of Threads has forced a key question facing any potentially successful social platform: “What’s the far-right going to do with this one?” And with 100 million users joining in just…
Amazon Got a Perfect Score on Disability Inclusion—From a Group It Helps Fund
An Amazon fulfillment center in North Las Vegas, USGabe Ginsberg/SOPA Images/Zuma Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, nonprofit organization Disability:IN released its annual “Best Places to Work” Disability Equality Index, which grades how well companies prioritize and accommodate disabled employees. One company that earned a…
The Disastrous Oppenheimer Movie You’ve Never Heard Of
Mother Jones/MGM Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The famed physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, so-called Father of the Atomic Bomb and alleged national security risk, has been portrayed in fictionalized film and TV dramas for more than 75 years, long before director Christopher Nolan placed…
Choose Your Fighter: Elon Musk vs. Mark Zuckerberg
Mother Jones illustration; Eliot Blondet/SIPA/AP; Jeff Bottari/Zuffa/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One of the dumber news stories of the past few weeks has been the talk of a fight—presumably live, televised, and in a cage—between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. I don’t blame…