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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.
Fox’s Racist, Sexist Attacks on Kamala Aren’t Landing. Yet.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “Cackling,” “ho,” “ditsy,” “bimbo,” “DEI Vice President.”. These are the classy terms right-wing media has used to caricature Kamala Harris over the last four years....
In the US, Counting The Dead In Gaza Has Become A Gruesome Political Game
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On July 5th, The Lancet, one of the most famous medical journals in the world, published a letter from researchers with estimates of the death toll in Gaza from Israel’s nine-month invasion.
Extreme Heat Is Coming for Your Rail Commute
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. One of the iconic sensory experiences of riding a train is actually the sound of ingenuity. As steel railroad tracks heat up, they grow: Eighteen hundred feet of rail expands by more than an inch for every 10 degrees Fahrenheit of temperature increase. So rails used to be laid down in sections — each between 30 and 60 feet long — with small gaps.
Project 2025 Is Twisting Disability Rights Law to Attack Abortion
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s guidebook for Republican control of the presidency and Congress, is, unsurprisingly, coming for abortion rights. But in a new twist, they want to use a key disability rights law to do it.
The Teamsters Boss Is Courting Trump—Despite His Anti-Labor Record
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Teamsters union general president Sean O’Brien is set to speak at the Republican National Convention next week—the culmination of several months of courting former president Donald Trump despite his anti-labor record.
A Right-Wing Mogul Is on Trial for a Massive Fraud Scheme. He Blames China.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Lawyers for Guo Wengui—the exiled Chinese mogul on trial in New York for allegedly stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from investors in business ventures he launched—rested their case this week with a seeming non-sequitur.
Peter Singer Is Through With America
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In a Princeton University lecture hall one morning last December, Peter Singer, one of the world’s most influential—and controversial—living philosophers, offered his Philosophy 385 (“Practical Ethics”) students a brief overview of their upcoming final. The registrar, he noted, had scheduled the exam for the following Sunday evening. This, he proclaimed, “seems unethical.”
Awash in Consumer Waste, Germany Tries Encouraging a Culture of Reuse
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. René Heiden pulls two glass yogurt jars off the shop shelf, and lists the nearby supermarkets in which they can be returned once empty. His Berlin grocery shop avoids single-use...
Republicans Preview the Voter Suppression Policies They’ll Enact if Trump Wins
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In April, when he was at risk of being toppled by hardline conservatives, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago and endorsed Donald Trump’s false claims of rampant voter fraud.
More Democrats Yell (Respectfully) That Biden Should Reconsider Staying in the Race
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Amid a make-or-break week for President Biden’s embattled presidential campaign Speaker Emerita of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday appeared to carefully join the chorus of top Democrats urging the president to reconsider his defiance as questions continue to swell over his fitness for office.
The Problematic Chemicals Fueling America’s Electric Vehicle Revolution
This investigation was reported in collaboration with The Examination, The Post and Courier, Columbia Journalism Investigations, and RTBF, and co-published in partnership with Mother Jones. Propulsion without the need for petroleum: That’s the lithium-ion battery’s promise. Backed by government incentives across the globe, lithium-ion batteries are hailed as...
Why Smashing the Administrative State Is a Disaster for Reproductive Rights
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It turns out the most consequential reproductive rights case before the Supreme Court this past term—arguably, the most significant since the overturn of Roe v. Wade—wasn’t the religious right’s attack on the abortion drug mifepristone, or the battle over whether the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act requires hospitals to provide emergency abortion in states with strict bans. It was a fight over who should pay to monitor commercial fishing boats so they don’t deplete the herring population off the Atlantic coast.
The GOP’s “Softened” Abortion Platform Is A Ruse
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. coverage of the Republican Party platform in major news outlets lately—the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News, for example—you may come away with the impression that the GOP has “softened” its stance on abortion.
Trump Again Demonizes Migrants for “Poisoning Our Country”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump called into Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Monday night, where the two talked about the biggest topic in political media: Joe Biden’s shockingly bad performance at the recent presidential debate and the future of Biden’s reelection bid. After about 10 minutes, however, Hannity teed up a familiar dark theme for Trump. It was time to talk about the border.
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