Tenet Media Shutters After Being Accused of Taking $10 Million in Covert Kremlin Funding
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A contributor for Tenet Media announced on Twitter Thursday night that the company has abruptly shuttered, one day after the Department of Justice unsealed an indictment that accused it of being covertly funded by employees of…
How Last Year’s Wildfires Reignited a Battle Over Water Rights on Maui
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Native Hawaiians have always understood the value of water. In the Hawaiian language, the word for fresh water is “wai”—and the word for wealth is “waiwai.” An essential asset, water was a resource Hawaiians shared, and they made…
The Feds Charged a Pro-Russian Pundit for Evading Sanctions. He Says They’re Trying to Silence Him.
Dimitri Simes at a news conference near Moscow in 2023.Vadim Savitsky/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Justice Department on Thursday charged Dimitri Simes, pro-Russian pundit and and former head of a Washington think tank, along with his wife, Anastasia Simes, with violating…
GOP Senate Candidate in Nevada Can’t Stop Shifting His Position on Abortion
Mother Jones; Leon Neal/Getty; Ty O’Neil/SOPA/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In June, Sam Brown, the GOP candidate for US Senate in Nevada and longtime abortion opponent, published an op-ed that said that if he were elected and a national abortion ban came…
Increasing Workloads and Stagnating Pay—Hotel Workers Are Fighting Back
Members of the UNITE HERE Local 26 hospitality union protest outside the Park Plaza hotel in Boston, MA on September 1, 2024. Jason Bergman/SipaUSA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Around 10,000 hotel workers went on strike over Labor Day weekend, picketing for better…
New Indictment Alleges Conservative Media Company Took Millions of Kremlin Cash
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A federal indictment unsealed on Wednesday alleges that a Tennessee-based media company which played home to several prominent right-leaning online commentators was secretly a Russian government-backed influence operation. The company is accused of receiving nearly…