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Insulin Prices Are Deadly High—But Mutual Aid Is Keeping Diabetics Alive
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Since May 2021, Rebecca Dotson has navigated type II diabetes with the help of mutual aid. Without the right resources—monitoring devices, insulin, and other medications—unmanaged diabetes can, at worst, kill people; it can also lead to expensive hospital stays and complications including amputations. Insulin is seven to 10 times more expensive in the United States than abroad, on average, which can be disastrous for uninsured and underinsured people.
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Justice Alito.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. During the contentious confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018, a self-appointed Christian apostle named Dutch Sheets issued an urgent call for prayer on his website. Sheets is a leader in an enigmatic charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which calls the faithful to fight a spiritual war for Christian control of the United States government. He urged his readers to ask God to grant them “a majority of Justices who are Constitutionalists, literalists (meaning they believe the Constitution is to be taken literally, exactly as it is written) and who are pro-life.” He added, “Let’s also boldly ask Him for another vacancy on the Court soon—I feel strongly in my spirit another is coming quickly. We should be offensive in our prayers, not just defensive and reactionary.”
America’s Top 100 Donors Heavily Favor Trump and the Republicans
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump may have lost in the Manhattan court where a jury recently convicted him of 34 felonies, but there’s one place he and his party appear to be winning: in the race to snag major cash from the richest families in America.
An Investigation: Is Trump Like Jesus?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is known for many things: talking about a “Jewish space laser“; white supremacy; political violence; having a lawyer who was rude to Mother Jones in court; and possessing a seemingly bottomless fealty to former President Donald Trump.
Meth-Addict Fish, Aggro Starlings: How Human Drugs Are Harming Animals
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From brown trout becoming “addicted” to methamphetamine to European perch losing their fear of predators due to depression medication, scientists warn that modern pharmaceutical and illegal drug pollution is becoming a growing threat to wildlife.
59 Years Ago SCOTUS Guaranteed Access to Birth Control. Now, That and Much More Is Under Threat.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Friday marked the 59-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, the case that confirmed the right of married people to use contraception. That decision established the right to...
Alaska’s Vast Boreal Forest and Its Species Face a Reckoning
This story was originally published by Grist in partnership with The Virginia Quarterly Review and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the first flush of an Arctic spring, the boreal forest begins to stir, emerging from a silvered quiet. Icicles shatter like glass. Meltwater babbles, braiding in puddles and then in deltas. Snow drops in clumps from the branches of black spruce. Saplings remain crooked from a long wait, as if Dr. Seuss had drawn springtime.
Alex Jones Is Liquidating His Assets to Pay Sandy Hook Families
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones started the process of liquidating his assets on Friday, taking the initial steps toward paying the $1.5 billion he owes families of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. Jones runs the popular Infowars media platform, where he repeatedly described the shooting, which killed 20 first-grade students and six teachers, as a “hoax.” Families of victims filed defamation suits against Jones and Infowars, and while Jones eventually conceded in court that the shooting was real, it was too late to save him from legal action. Courts in Texas and Connecticut awarded the families massive damages.
Mexico’s Next President Is a Climate Scientist—and a Fossil Fuel Supporter
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Mexico’s President-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, an energy engineer and physicist by training, has published widely on the energy transition and greenhouse gas emissions as an environmental scientist. She has co-authored a UN climate report, and as Mexico City mayor, she installed solar power on a city market and electrified public transportation routes.
Obscure Court System Doles Out Billions in Public Money to Private Interests
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than $100 billion of public money has been awarded to private investors in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) courts, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet. The controversial arbitration system which...
Steve Bannon Is Going to Jail
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Steve Bannon is going to jail. US District Judge Carl Nichols—a Trump appointee in Washington, DC—ordered Bannon to start serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress by July 1. The ruling comes after the onetime Trump aide’s attempt to appeal his 2022 conviction was rejected by a federal circuit court. Nichols had previously allowed Bannon to remain free pending appeal.
What Happens to a Dream Deferred?
On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama stood in the Rose Garden of the White House to announce a massive change in immigration policy. For years, Congress had been unable to pass legislation to protect from deportation the so-called Dreamers, undocumented youth brought to the United States as children. In 2001, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) first introduced a bill that would have granted them a path to citizenship. But, a decade later, the Dream Act had failed—again.
A Running List of Who Trump Has Called to Prosecute
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For all his efforts to evade transparency and, instead, offer a steady stream of lies, Donald Trump has always been brutally honest about one thing: his penchant for revenge. This lust has, over...
You Don’t Want to Tell Voters That You Can’t Govern
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The United States, as a rule, is not very good about pricing in negative costs, in part because the people responsible for those costs get very upset when you try. The federal gas tax—which is supposed to pay for infrastructure repairs necessitated by gas consumption—has not been raised in 31 years, so everyone else has to cover the balance. Gun violence costs in excess of $229 billion a year and the only people who aren’t on the hook for that are the people who make guns. The enormous societal costs of asthma and respiratory ailments are largely shouldered not by the people and corporations who poison the air, but invariably by kids who breathe it in. Inhalers, hospital bills, rent—a lot of things are more expensive here, because of all the other things that are cheap.
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