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Legal Patchwork Leaves Many US Renters Vulnerable to Extreme Heat
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. made clear, extreme heat is here, and it’s poised to get worse in the coming years. Due to soaring temperatures, more and more people are also at risk for severe health...
Even Republicans From DC Get Behind Trump at the GOP Convention
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The last official anti-Trump resistance within the GOP went out with a whisper in Milwaukee on Monday night at the Republican convention. During the official roll call, representatives from every state from California...
Anti-Abortion Firebrands Are Celebrating the Trump-Vance Ticket
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. After former President Trump announced on Monday that he had picked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate, anti-abortion advocates appear to be celebrating—and they have good reason to. Vance has...
This Woman Drove Straight to Milwaukee After Watching Trump Get Shot
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Reneé White, 57, was standing on the bleachers right behind former President Donald Trump in the “tight shot” for the campaign cameras on Saturday afternoon in Butler, Pennsylvania. It was a long day waiting in the baking heat and White, who had traveled from Newland, North Carolina, was decked out in a pale “Tiffany” blue “Mean Tweets” T-shirt and a matching Make America Great Again t-shirt she picked up from Bedminster, Trump’s golf club in New Jersey. (The color was an ode to the former First Lady, Melania, she said.) She enthusiastically cheered on her candidate, as she has done at more than 30 previous rallies.
The Republican National Convention is all about the man who isn’t there.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Republican National Convention, which kicked off Monday in Milwaukee, is a super-powerful magnet for anyone with even a passing connection to conservative politics. To enter the Fiserv Forum downtown, I first had to pass by Erik Prince and Kari Lake. Ron Johnson flits about, fending off fans. As I spoke with delegates in the concourse during the afternoon session, Jason Chaffetz periodically passed by, like a small piece of space junk orbiting the Earth. I’ve seen conservative influencers and candidates I’ve forgotten about. I just saw Mike Lindell. But one person is conspicuously missing. Has anyone seen Mike Pence?
RNC Official: Nothing In Our Platform Says We Won’t Ban Abortion Nationwide
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last week, after the Republican National Committee adopted its latest party platform, major news outlets—including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and even Fox News—reported that the GOP had “softened” its stance on abortion, since the platform did not explicitly call for a national abortion ban.
Aileen Cannon Threw Out the Trump Documents Case—Just Like Clarence Thomas Wanted
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court announced that former presidents are immune from prosecution for possibly all official acts undertaken while office. This new rule, the majority said, was critical to preserving the separation of powers in our democracy. Justice Clarence Thomas, characteristically, went further. The real threat to democracy was not an unaccountable president but, rather, the very existence of the special prosecutor who was leading the case.
J.D. Vance Is Trump’s Running Mate
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former President Donald Trump on Monday unveiled Sen. J.D. Vance as his vice presidential running mate. “After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others,” Trump posted on Truth...
For Christian Nationalists, the Trump Shooting Proves He Was Anointed by God
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the hours after the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump Saturday evening at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, X became an even more chaotic space than usual, incandescent with posts from Americans of all political persuasions trying to make sense of what happened—and what it portends for the upcoming presidential election. I was watching one group in particular: the ascendant Christian nationalists who have, in the last 48 hours, become even more convinced that the event proves that Trump has been anointed by God. But their observations were wide-ranging, and here are a few of the recurring themes I’ve noticed.
The GOP Convention Kicks Off in a City Where Republicans Don’t Want People to Vote
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last month, Donald Trump reportedly called Milwaukee, host of this week’s Republican National Convention, a “horrible city.” He later tried to walk back the comments, saying, “I love Milwaukee,” but Trump’s initial comments revealed how the demonization of Milwaukee, a majority-minority city where 60 percent of Black voters in Wisconsin live, has been a central strategy of state and national Republicans.
Texas Leaders Worry Bitcoin Mines and Big Data Will Crash the Power Grid
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cheryl Shadden cannot sleep. The 61-year-old nurse, who works at hospitals giving patients...
Officials Would Like the Secret Service to Explain Itself
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Trump, there is renewed focus on the role of the Secret Service in protecting candidates on the campaign trail—and many questions about its response to Saturday’s shooting.
Attempted Trump Assassination Triggers a Flood of BS
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It is hardly surprising that a political movement that has as its godhead a convicted felon and inveterate liar who attempted to overturn an election and incited a violent assault on the US Capitol to retain power would within nanoseconds exploit the assassination attempt at a Donald Trump rally that left one attendee dead. But the utter brazenness of this effort has been stunning. Before crucial details were known—who’s the shooter? why did he do this?—MAGA was out in full-force to blame President Joe Biden, Democrats, and progressives for this shooting by stirring up anti-Trump sentiment. Leading the way in unhinged right-wing responses, Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) called for Biden to be arrested for “inciting an assassination.”
Plagued by Developers and Rising Seas, a Historic Black Community Embraces Conservation
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At high tide, the marsh alongside Seafood Road disappears under an inscrutable mirror of water. Then, as it drains, reeds resurface and begin to trace hundreds of paths through the marsh, etched by generations of subsistence fishing.
Condemnation Pours Out After Trump Rally Shooting. So Do Heated Allegations.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Officials on both sides of the aisle expressed shock, condolences, and condemnation after an attack at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania left the former president bloodied and at least one spectator dead, according to a statement from the Secret Service. The alleged shooter was also reportedly killed, and two spectators were critically injured, officials said.
Donald Trump Is Rushed Off Rally Stage After What Sounded Like Gunshots
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Secret Service personnel surrounded Donald Trump and rushed him off stage on Saturday after his rally speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, was interruped by a series of three popping sounds that may have been gunshots. As the popping began, Trump winced and touched his right ear, as though struck by a projectile, before ducking down. Several subsequent popping sounds, similar but quieter, could then be discerned. The source is, as yet, unclear.
Biden Urges “Every American” to Read Project 2025’s “Blueprint for the Second Trump Term”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Speaking to a crowd in Detroit, Michigan, on Friday, President Joe Biden made an impassioned plea to voters with a message that largely centered on Donald Trump’s failings—and the threat of another term under his predecessor.
Meta Just Removed the Guardrails From Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram Accounts
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Over the years, Donald Trump has hardly been a responsible social media user: He’s railed against the “fake news media” while disseminating actual fake news, referred to his impeachments as a “scam” and a “hoax,” repeatedly undermined the integrity of the 2020 election, fueled an attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and spewed so much Covid misinformation that we built a timeline of it. He has used his social media accounts to impugn powerful women, and to viciously attack officials he dislikes, often resulting in threats of violence against them. In March, he shared a video on Truth Social depicting Joe Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck, employing a messaging tactic experts refer to as “stochastic terrorism.”
Such a Devastating Hurricane This Early Is a “Big Wake-Up Call,” Experts Say
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The poignancy was unmistakable: Prognosticators at Colorado State University amended their already miserable seasonal tropical cyclone forecast on Monday precisely as Hurricane Beryl was filling Houston’s streets with floodwater and knocking out power to more than 2m homes and businesses.
FEMA Aims to Tighten Restrictions on Building in Flood-Prone Areas
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When the Federal Emergency Management Agency spends millions of dollars to help rebuild schools and hospitals after a hurricane, it tries to make the community more resilient than it was before the storm. If the agency pays to rebuild a school or a town hall, for example, it might elevate the building above the floodplain, lowering the odds that it will get submerged again.
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