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Melania Trump Says Hell No to Barron Serving as a GOP Delegate
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Barron Trump’s political debut has been shelved—for now—after his mother, Melania Trump, effectively rebuffed an invitation for her 18-year-old son to serve as a delegate at the GOP convention this summer.
The Founder of Mother’s Day Mostly Cared About Her Own Mother
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It seems like such a simple idea: a day to honor the women who bring life into the world. But how do we square the ideal of celebrating and supporting mothers with the reality of how lawmakers and courts have acted to undermine maternal health and rights in the post-Dobbs era? Or make sense of all the money Americans spend annually on this one day—a purported $33.5 billion in 2024, according to the National Federation of Retailers, including $7 billion on jewelry and $3.2 billion on flowers—when so many mothers can’t afford food, housing, or health care?
Why RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm and Other Parasites Deserve Your Respect
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect Periwinkle snails on the shores of Long Island. “I used to pluck them off the rocks and put them in buckets and...
Steve Bannon Still Isn’t in Prison, but He’s a Little Closer
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Steve Bannon’s odds of going to prison ticked up on Friday when DC’s Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal of his 2022 conviction for contempt of Congress. But more than 18 months after a federal district court judge sentenced the former Donald Trump adviser to four months behind bars for blowing off subpoenas from the House’s January 6 committee, Bannon has not yet exhausted his legal options.
Virginia Board Votes to Rename Schools Back to Honoring Confederate Military Leaders
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. After the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, dozens of schools bearing names that honored Confederate figures renamed themselves. The move came against a flood of similar efforts aimed at addressing the nation’s stark racial disparities—at least on paper.
Modern-Day Lessons From Hiroshima
Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial of Our Land here.
Moms for Liberty Accuses Schools of Antisemitism. The Irony Is Rich.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Moms for Liberty, the most prominent group in the right-wing movement against “woke” public schools, is well known for its crusades against LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum and anti-racism initiatives in classrooms. Since 2021, the group, which counts 130,000 members, across 48 states, has claimed—at school board meetings, conferences, and on social media—that left-wing teachers are turning students into social justice warriors.
How My Campus Avoided a Horrible Protest Showdown
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. How—in a world that increasingly feels like it’s under unmanageable stress—can we maintain the sense of community, and the actual communities, that we need to both help alleviate and survive those stresses? It’s a question that our country has been asking at least since January 6, with no great answer. How, to give just one tiny instance from this week’s news, do you deal with a former president trying to intimidate his jurors? And it’s a question that many of the nation’s colleges have been asking these past few weeks, as one campus after another struggles to figure out how to handle the protests connected to the unbearable tide of news from Gaza.
Dobbs Has Created a Health Care Apocalypse
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung spent four years in medical school, four years in an OB-GYN residency, and three years in a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship learning how to care for high-risk pregnant patients. In her decade-plus of medical training, she learned that in some cases, the only rational and responsible option for medical intervention is an emergency abortion. In July 2021 she moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and discovered she was the sole provider in her area trained to perform second-trimester dilatation and evacuation abortions for patients who needed them to survive.
More Than a Million Adults Have Legal Guardians. Seven States Won’t Let Them Vote.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last month, the Department of Justice released new guidance reaffirming disabled people’s right to vote, and the ways that their voting rights are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act. “For too long,” the release from the department’s Civil Rights Division says, “many people with disabilities have been excluded from this core aspect of citizenship” and “prevented from voting because of prejudicial assumptions about their capabilities.”
A Nurse on the Scene Inside Rafah’s Last Maternity Hospital
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. At the last maternity and neonatal hospital in Rafah, the devastation has already arrived. “There is no safe place in Gaza from a healthcare perspective—and beyond,” Bridget Rochios, a certified nurse-midwife from California volunteering at Al-Helal Al-Emirati Maternity Hospital told me.
Report: Trump Promised to Scrap Climate Laws if US Oil Bosses Donated $1 Billion
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump dangled a brazen “deal” in front of some of the top US...
Can Michael Flynn Help Put a January 6 Rioter in Congress?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. During his visit to West Virginia Wednesday for a screening of his eponymous new movie, former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn took some time to make a big plug for Derrick Evans, the January 6 rioter who pleaded guilty to a felony, served a three-month sentence, and now is running for Congress in West Virginia. During a Q&A after the show, Flynn explained how he decides whether to endorse political candidates seeking his support.
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