GUILTY: 4 Proud Boys, Including Enrique Tarrio, Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy
Mother Jones; Allison Dinner/AP, Paul Sancya/AP, Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A Washington DC jury has convicted four members of the far-right Proud Boys group of seditious conspiracy and other crimes for actions connected to the January 6, 2021, attack on…
Utah’s Suicide Pact With the Fossil Fuel Industry
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The GPS coordinates weren’t especially helpful last May as we drove across the remote Tavaputs Plateau in Utah’s Uinta Basin. Cell service was spotty in the vast expanse of land crosshatched with unpaved roads identified on the map only…
Bolsonaro Allegedly Falsified His Vaccination Status to Enter the US
Eraldo Peres/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Shortly after narrowly losing his reelection bid in the Brazilian elections last October, former President Jair Bolsonaro relocated to Florida. He spent months living a retiree’s American Dream—and avoiding a raft of criminal inquiries—before returning home in…
The Dobbs Leak Didn’t Wreck the Supreme Court—the Justices’ Scandals Did
Mother Jones illustration; Erin Schaff/New York Times/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One year ago, shortly after a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was published, Justice Clarence Thomas bemoaned that the leak had eroded public trust in the body. “I wonder how long…
Environmentalists Seek End to Plastic Industry “Hoax”
Baled plastic at the Brightmark chemical recycling plant in Indiana in July.James Bruggers This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The newest flashpoint in a political battle between environmental groups and the plastics industry over “chemical” or “advanced” recycling has to do with the kinds…
Greg Abbott Wants You to Know the Mass Shooting Victims Were No Angels
Eric Gay, AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, a man in Cleveland, Texas, killed five of his neighbors after they complained about him firing an AR-15 on his property late at night. On Sunday, with the shooter still at large and “zero…