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Kristi Noem’s Book Includes a Fake Story About Her Meeting Kim Jong Un
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. After it emerged recently that Gov. Kristi Noem recounts a graphic, disturbing story in her forthcoming book about killing her puppy with a gun, the Republican from South Dakota defended the violence as a “tough decision” she had to make. The dog, she wrote, had attacked some chickens.
Sen. Tim Scott, a Rumored VP Pick, Backs Trump’s Election Denial
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As the November election approaches, several of Donald Trump’s vice presidential contenders have taken part in what seems to have become an unofficial loyalty test: question the legitimacy of an election that does not end with Trump winning.
Native Hawaiʻians Seek Self Determination After 2023’s Lāhainā Inferno
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On the evening of August 8, hours after a wildfire ravaged West Maui, Maui County’s top emergency management official, Herman Andaya, texted his secretary to ask about the status of other fires across the island.
Reproductive Rights Advocates Close in on Abortion Ballot Measures in Missouri and South Dakota
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters. In South Dakota,...
Mystery Group Announces $5 Million Fund to Pay for Reports of Election Fraud. What Could Go Wrong?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Saturday, Fox News reported the launch of the Fair Election Fund, an apparently right-wing nonprofit that says it has a $5 million budget aimed at exposing election fraud. The project promises to...
California Police Are Using a Controversial Tactic After Someone Dies in Their Custody
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Bruce Praet is a well-known name in law enforcement, especially across California. He co-founded a company called Lexipol that contracts with more than 95 percent of police departments in the state and offers its clients trainings and ready-made policies.
Oil and Gas Production Is Booming. So Are Its GOP Donations.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published by Capital & Main. August Pfluger, an Air Force veteran and member of the House, representing a small district in West Texas, isn’t exactly a household name on the national political scene, with little press coverage in the last two months outside a recent Fox News appearance.
Orangutan Spotted Treating His Wound With a Medicinal Herb
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The high intelligence levels of orangutans have long been recognized, partly due to their practical skills such as using tools to crack nuts and forage for insects. But new research suggests the primate has another handy skill in its repertoire: applying medicinal herbs.
TikTok’s Raw Milk Influencers Are Going to Give Us All Bird Flu
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. If you go on TikTok or Instagram, you’ll see legions of wellness influencers promoting the benefits of unpasteurized “raw” milk, which hasn’t been heated to kill off illness-causing microorganisms. Raw milk is risky business at the best of times, and despite what some influencers claim, there are no nutritional benefits to drinking it, according to the CDC. But it’s now also a vector for H5N1, the new bird flu spreading through cows.
The Weird Story of Ohio Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno’s $3.4 Million Car
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. To say the Aston Martin Vulcan is a luxury vehicle would be like saying Jeff Bezos is well-off. In other words, a vast understatement. The two-door, two-seater with a cherry-red carbon-fiber body can reach a max speed of 208 miles per hour and go from 0-60 miles per hour in 2.9 seconds. Vulcans are a symbol of opulence more rarified than the imperial Fabergé eggs created for the Romanov family dynasty: 43 of those eggs are known to still exist in the world, but only 24 Aston Martin Vulcans do. And beginning in 2015, Bernie Moreno—now a Republican candidate for US Senate in Ohio—was the proud owner of one of them for a period of time.
How the Right Turned Protest Into A Criminal Enterprise
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. America’s police forces are at war with college students. Inspired by students who set up encampments on Columbia University’s lawn, more than 90 college campuses across 40 states have set up similar actions to protest their schools’ investments in Israel. Some have set up camps, while others have staged sit-ins or occupied buildings, but nearly all have been confronted by highly militarized police departments brought in by administrators. At least 2,200 people have been arrested so far, according to the Appeal, and not all of them are students. Texas state police attacked and arrested a photojournalist after falsely claiming he pushed an officer. Another 28 people were arrested by Georgia police at Emory University last week, including an economics professor who was violently assaulted after questioning an officer’s conduct.
I Read Everything Elon Musk Posted For a Week. Send Help.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last January, not long after agreeing with an actual Nazi that western Jews have brought antisemitism upon themselves by welcoming “hordes of minorities” to their countries, Elon Musk took a quick trip to Poland. The billionaire chief of SpaceX, Tesla, and X laid a wreath at Auschwitz and then preceded on to a symposium in Krakow, where he told the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro that social media could have averted the Holocaust and bragged that he considered himself “aspirationally Jewish.” The tweet, he explained in a different interview, at a different symposium “might be literally the worst and dumbest post I’ve ever done.” But he did not take it down, nor has he moderated his views. If anything his descent into the online fever swamp has only accelerated.
Why Are Some Latinos Drifting to the Right?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On January 6, Gabriel Garcia—a first-generation Cuban American and former member of the Proud Boys—live-streamed his attempt to breach the Capitol. “How does it feel being a traitor to the country?” he screamed at police officers as he entered the building. Once inside the Rotunda, Garcia yelled “Nancy, come out and play!” as insurrections searched for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Democratic Lawmakers Blast Fossil Fuel Industry’s “Denial” and “Duplicity”
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The fossil fuel industry spent decades sowing doubt about the dangers of burning oil and gas, experts and Democratic lawmakers testified on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. The Senate budget committee held...
The Governor of Kansas Vetoed Four Anti-Abortion Measures. Republicans Rammed Them Through Anyway.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday, Kansas Republicans voted to override Democratic Governor Laura Kelly’s veto of four anti-abortion measures. Three bills—which will require doctors to gather and report information from patients about why they are getting an abortion; make it a crime to force someone to obtain an abortion; and allow people to receive tax credits for donations to anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers—will now become law. And a measure in the state budget reallocating $2 million to crisis pregnancy centers will also move forward, despite the governor’s opposition.
This Anti-Trans, Pro-Life Activist Was Pardoned by Donald Trump. Now She’s Working for RFK Jr.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is best known for his famous family name, his anti-vaccine activism, and his unexpected third-party run for president. He’s not particularly well known for his passion for criminal justice reform. And yet, next month, he’s scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Detroit stop on the New Dawn for Justice Criminal Reform Tour. The six-city tour’s website promises it “amplifies the collective voice calling for equitable and humane reform” and encourages “individuals from all walks of life to contribute to the reshaping of our justice system.”
Feds Get a Guilty Plea From Aide to Chinese Mogul Guo Wengui. That’s Bad for Steve Bannon.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A longtime lieutenant and criminal co-defendant of far-right Chinese fugitive mogul Guo Wengui has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges ahead of their upcoming trial. This development strengthens the position of federal prosecutors in a case in which they have called Steve Bannon, a vocal Guo ally, a “co-conspirator.”
The NYPD’s “Outside Agitators” Narrative Is an Excuse for Force
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The morning after the New York Police Department arrested pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University, the city’s mayor appeared satisfied. “This is not a department that was dealing with one production at a...
Trump Will Likely Face More Fines for Violating Gag Order
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former president Donald Trump will likely face additional sanctions for violating the gag order in his criminal case in New York City after a brutal contempt hearing Thursday morning. He had already been fined $9,000 on Tuesday for nine violations.
Cities Scramble for Trees That Can Adapt to a Changing Climate
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last fall, I invited a stranger into my yard. Manzanita, with its peeling red bark and delicate pitcher-shaped blossoms, thrives on the dry, rocky ridges of Northern California. The small, evergreen tree or shrub is famously drought-tolerant, with some varieties capable of enduring more than 200 days between waterings. And yet here I was, gently lowering an 18-inch variety named for botanist Howard McMinn into the damp soil of Tacoma, a city in Washington known for its towering Douglas firs, bigleaf maples, and an average of 152 rainy days per year.
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