Don’t Try Serving Ken Paxton With a Subpoena, Unless You Want to Get Shot
Rod Lamkey/CNP via ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton isn’t just running for a third term while under indictment for securities fraud—he’s running from process servers too. On Monday morning, according to an affidavit filed in federal…
CDC Loosens Requirements on Masking in Health Care Settings
Utrecht/Action Press/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention quietly updated its masking policy and removed its recommendation for universal masking in health care settings, The Hill reports. The new guidelines say that health care facilities in…
A Jury Just Found the Insurrectionist Underwear Model Guilty On All Charges
Model and Capitol riot defendant John Strand at a Teen Choice Awards gift suite on Aug. 9, 2014. Casey Rodgers/Invision for Nestle Crunch Girl Scout Candy Bars/AP Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On his website, the international underwear model, “influencer,” and January 6…
After Pressure From Borrowers, Biden Is Poised to Deliver Even More Student Debt Relief
Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2006, Congress ended a controversial program that allowed married couples to combine their student debts into a joint loan. No new spousal consolidation loans were originated after that, but the borrowers who had previously combined their…
J.D. Vance’s Flip-Flop on the Nazi March in Charlottesville
Joe Maiorana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, which was organized by white supremacists and neo-Nazis to celebrate white nationalism and that led to the tragic killing of counter-protester Heather Heyer, became an…
Italy’s New Leader Is a Very Weird, Tolkien-Obsessed Right-Wing Extremist
Italy Photo Press/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Early polls out of Italy following its Sunday election suggest that Giorgia Meloni, an ultra-conservative leader known for her opposition to gay rights and immigration, will become its first female prime minister—and the most extreme right-winger…