Trump’s Commerce Department Just Hired a Lawyer With Ties to White Nationalists
Jared Taylor, second from left, appears alongside Richard Spencer and other white nationalists during a panel in 2016. Taylor was represented in court by attorney Adam Candeub, a new hire in the Commerce Department.Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump…
Facebook Just Revealed Its Secret Strategy for Taking Down Hate Groups
Josh Edelson/ZUMA Wire For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The members of Northwest Front have been called the “worst racists” in America, amid stiff competition. On Wednesday, Facebook told Mother Jones that it had used a new enforcement strategy to take down a network of Northwest Front accounts…
A Former Coast Guard Lieutenant Gets 13 Years After Plotting to Kill Liberals
Hasson’s weapons stockpile.Maryland U.S. District Attorney/AP On Friday, Christopher Hasson, a 50-year-old Maryland man, was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison for various drug and gun charges after drafting a hit list targeting popular left-leaning media personalities and Democratic politicians. Hasson, a former Coast Guard lieutenant who described himself as a white nationalist, was…
Ahead of Richmond Rally, Apple and Google Are Letting Nazis Use This App to Coordinate
Anti-racist activists gather on the one year anniversary of the Charlottesville alt-right rally.Cory Clark/NurPhoto via Getty Neo-nazi and fascist groups have been posting antisemitic and racist messages and calls for violence on the encrypted messaging app Telegram in advance of a massive gun rally in Richmond, Virginia, on Monday that far-right extremists are expected to…
Memo by Secret Memo, the University of Texas Kept Segregation Alive into the 1960s
Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas Sixty-six years ago, Marion Ford, an ambitious Houston teenager who had been set to become one of the first African American undergraduates at the University of Texas, received a terse letter returning his $20 deposit to room in an all-Black…
The Best TV Show About Racism Was a Comic-Book Fantasia. Here’s How “Watchmen” Did It.
HBO On the day HBO’s Watchmen resurrected a race war, a producer brought a priest onto the set in Georgia to pray with cast members. This was going to be the show’s opening sequence, a depiction of the Tulsa massacre of 1921. White people in Klan attire, on horseback. Black folks getting gunned down indiscriminately.…