Trump’s Republican Rivals Are Funneling Money to Daniel Penny
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at an event in Iowa last month.Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After Daniel Penny was charged on Friday with manslaughter for choking Jordan Neely to death on the F train, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) tweeted a…
A Problem for DeSantis: Reports Say He Has No Rizz
Brian Cahn/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Former President Trump is a twice-impeached sexual abuser, who possesses a unique ability to make people laugh—unfortunately or fortunately, to use his verbiage. He made that clear at a CNN town hall last week, when he had an audience of…
North Carolina Became an “Abortion Destination.” That’s In Danger.
Bob Karp/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Saturday, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, vetoed a bill that would ban most abortions in the state after 12 weeks. But this is far from the end: The Republican supermajority in the state legislature…
Lawsuit Aims to Keep Fire Retardants Out of Waterways
Firefighters dropped retardant over Aliso Canyon during the Coastal Fire in Laguna Niguel, California, last May. Jeff Gritchen/Orange County Register/Getty via HCN This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a hot, dry August day in 2002, air tankers swooped over a small wildfire south of Bend,…
The DOJ Just Moved to Stop Florida’s “Sabotage” of Biden’s Border Plans
Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers, as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego.Gregory Bull/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Just hours before the pandemic-era immigration rule Title…
Some Real Revelations From Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via ZUMA Pres Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In this week’s New Yorker, JR Moehringer breaks all the rules of ghostwriting by ceasing to be invisible and asserting his hiding-in-plain-sight presence as the writer for Britain’s exiled Prince Harry’s blockbuster memoir Spare. Moehringer offers plenty…