7 Ways Roger Stone Was Connected to the January 6 Attack
Mother Jones illustration; Ken Cedeno/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The night before the January 6 attack on Congress, Roger Stone danced on a stage in Washington’s Freedom Plaza to a rap song featuring his own money-raising slogan: “Roger Stone did nothing wrong.”…
Funding Social Security Is a Lot Cheaper Than Coddling Rich Retirees
Mark Felix/The Washington Post/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, the Social Security Administration announced its largest cost of living adjustment for beneficiaries in four decades, an inflation-driven raise of 8.7 percent that will take effect in January 2023. That increase matches the…
Jury Orders Alex Jones to Pay Sandy Hook Families Nearly $1 Billion
Briana Sanchez/Pool/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Alex Jones and Free Speech Systems, InfoWars’ parent company, have been found liable for Jones’ Sandy Hook lies—to the tune of nearly $1 billion. The conspiracy theorist had spent years claiming that the deadliest elementary school shooting in…
How Dr. Oz Boosted an Osteopath Who Became a Top Spreader of Covid Misinformation
Dr. Mehmet Oz and osteopathic physician Joseph Mercola.Mother Jones illustration; Eren Abdullahoglu/Depo Photos/Zuma; FX Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In February 2021, as the new vaccines that would tame the Covid pandemic were being released to the general public, an article sourced to an…
Top Chef Challenge 2022: Palatable Jellyfish
Jellyfish could be a plentiful food source, but finding appetizing ways to prepare them is not easy.Agostino Petroni This story was originally published by Hakai Magazine and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a snowy January morning in 2022, I walk into Duo, an exclusive little restaurant in the heart of the southern Italian…
Matt DePerno Sought to Foreclose on His Clients’ Property. Now He Wants to Be Michigan’s Top Lawyer.
Mother Jones illustration; Jake May/The Flint Journal/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If Matthew DePerno wins his race to unseat Michigan’s Democratic attorney general in November, he’ll become the state’s top lawyer. He will have a staff of more than 500 people, and…