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Donald Trump Found Guilty on All Counts in Hush Money Trial
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. A jury of Donald Trump’s peers has found him guilty on all 34 felony counts related to his 2016 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels. The historic verdict, announced Thursday afternoon, followed a six-week criminal trial—the first ever for a former US president.
How The GOP Learned to Hate Divorce, Again
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In April of 2023, right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder announced that he and his wife, Hilary, were divorcing—an event, he explained to listeners of Louder with Crowder, to which he did not consent. She “didn’t want to be married anymore,” he said, “and in the state of Texas, that is completely permitted.”
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When he authored the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade two years ago, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito may have taken away women’s right to abortion and ability to decide their destiny, while forcing many to endure near-death medical trauma. But one thing he will not tolerate is stopping a woman from flying a flag as she chooses—any flag, no matter how offensive. We know this, because he lives this commitment in his own marriage.
A New Documentary Goes Behind the Scenes of Christian Nationalism
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The new documentary Bad Faith, directed by Stephen Ujlaki and Christopher Jacob Jones, begins with footage familiar to many Americans: an army of insurrectionists adorned in stars, stripes, and military gear storming the Capitol to stop the certification of the 2020 election results. It was a watershed moment that left many Americans wondering how we got here. Bad Faith seeks to help answer that question by looking at a crucial reason why American democracy ended up at a precipice: the rise of Christian nationalism.
Brace Yourself for an “Extraordinary” Hurricane Season
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. an active hurricane season. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting the greatest number of named storms this hurricane season since the forecasts began in 1998. NOAA expects above-normal...
Israel’s Rafah Assault Continues With New Airstrikes on Tent Camps for Displaced Palestininans
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Amid global outrage over Israel’s devastating attack on a tent camp in Rafah that killed at least 45 displaced Palestinians, Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday reportedly hit another displacement camp killing at least 21 people.
Searching for Bill Walton
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday, Bill Walton, one of the greatest basketball players of his generation and a hippie prone to looping flights of verbal fancy, passed away at age 71 from cancer. A Grateful Dead...
The Border Patrol Is an Engine of Crisis—and Has Been Since the Beginning
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The National Border Patrol Museum, which sits inside a squat building on a decommissioned bombing range on the edge of El Paso’s Franklin Mountains, has a musty and scattershot feel, as if one of America’s most troubled law enforcement agencies has just emptied its pockets at the end of a long, hard century.
An Intriguing Source for the Metals We Depend on: Ocean Water
This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Can metals that naturally occur in seawater be mined, and can they be mined sustainably? A company in Oakland, California, says yes. And not only is it extracting magnesium from ocean water—and from waste brine generated by industry—it is doing it in a carbon-neutral way. Magrathea Metals has produced small amounts of magnesium in pilot projects, and with financial support from the Defense Department, it is building a larger-scale facility to produce hundreds of tons of the metal over two to four years. By 2028, it says it plans to be operating a facility that will annually produce more than 10,000 tons.
Royce White—Steve Bannon Protege Who Called Our Reporter a “Cuck”—Endorsed by Minnesota GOP for Senate
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2022, Royce White—a former first-round NBA draft pick and George Floyd protest leader—ran in the primary for Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District as a far-right Republican and disciple of Steve Bannon. White lost—badly. This is probably because he was hard to take seriously as a candidate. White’s campaign centered less on issues affecting Minnesota voters and more on incendiary comments about the Chinese Communist Party, women, and Jews.
For Industrial Emissions, These Bricks May Be a Game Changer. Yes, Bricks.
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Inside a cinder block office building perhaps best known for the Hindu temple and table tennis club next door, a startup company is testing what may be one of the hottest new developments in clean energy technology.
Jack Smith Asks Judge to Limit Trump’s Lies About the FBI
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Special Counsel Jack Smith is asking the federal judge overseeing the Mar-a-Lago documents case to make clear that former President Donald Trump is prohibited from making false statements that endanger law enforcement officers. Trump and his campaign have recently made several false and inflammatory claims about the FBI that Smith says have put federal agents and officials at risk.
Not All Votes Are Created Equal
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As any schoolkid might tell you, US elections are based on a bedrock principle: one person, one vote. Simple as that. Each vote carries the same weight. Yet for much of the country’s history, that hasn’t been the case. At various points, whole classes of people were shut out of voting: enslaved Black Americans, Native Americans, and poor white people. The first time women had the right to vote was in 1919. This week’s episode of Reveal is about a current version of this very old problem.
Louisiana Classifies Two Abortion Drugs as Controlled Dangerous Substances
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Louisiana enacted a first-of-its-kind law on Friday, classifying the two drugs used in medication abortions as controlled and dangerous substances. The law prohibits obtaining or possessing misoprostol and mifipristone without a prescription. The new classification will make obtaining a prescription more difficult.
These Young Alaskans Are Suing the State to Stop a $39B Gas Pipeline
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Eight young people are suing the government of Alaska—the nation’s fastest-warming state—claiming a major new fossil fuel project violates their state constitutional rights. The state-owned Alaska Gasline Development...
Inside the Fraud Trial for the Billionaire MAGA Backed To Take Down Communist China
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2017, the exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui began to remake himself in America as a dissident celebrity. In media appearances, tweets, and lengthy YouTube videos, Guo launched tirades against Chinese Communist Party corruption. They made him famous among extremely online Chinese emigres and won him prominence as an ally of Steve Bannon and other Trumpworld luminaries.
Texas Is Letting a Maternal-Mortality Skeptic Investigate Maternal Mortality
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Just a few years ago, maternal mortality was the rare reproductive justice issue that seemed to transcend partisan politics. In late 2018, Republicans and Democrats in Congress even came together to approve $60 million for state maternal mortality review committees (MMRCs) to study why so many American women die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Donald Trump—not exactly famous for his respect toward pregnant women and new mothers in his personal life—signed the bill.
Here Come the Russians, Again
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Trump Doubles Down, Seeking Fossil Fuel Cash at Private Houston Lunch
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump was continuing to ask fossil-fuel executives to fund his presidential campaign on Wednesday, despite scrutiny of his relationship with the industry. The former president attended a fundraising luncheon at...
This Supreme Court Term Was All About Undoing Democracy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court will wrap up a consequential term and issue decisions that are expected to undercut bedrock assumptions about each branch of government and create a new balance of powers—one that tips the scales toward an unassailable executive and an all-powerful judiciary. It began on Thursday, as the court gave states new leeway to discriminate against minority voters. The justices may soon add women’s right to healthcare to the list of privileges that a state may deprive its citizens, another step that would turn the clock back to a time when the Constitution viewed states rights as more sacrosanct than the rights of its people. Though the cases at issue address many different issues, a theme punctuating them all is that the Republican-appointed majority appears willing to do serious damage to American democracy.
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