Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as a part of Climate Desk. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the […] More
Mother Jones illustration; Hendell123/Wikimedia Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. One blazing hot morning last week, Stacy Efrat pulled into the parking lot of Walton High School in Marietta, Georgia, to attend freshman orientation with her 14-year-old son a week before the […] More
Police arrested trans internet star “Chris Chan” this weekend for allegedly raping his 80-year-old mother. The National File reported: Christine Chandler, born Christopher Chandler and better known as his Internet moniker Chris Chan, has been arrested following reports that he admitted to engaging in sexual intercourse with his 80-year-old mother, who is widely believed to […] More
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Early one May morning, I escaped Tucson’s unrelenting grid and drove south through Pima County on Arizona’s state Route 83, into the heart of the Madrean Sky Islands, an almost mythical landscape of shadowy, isolated peaks […] More
Rick Bowmer/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. On Saturday, Florida recorded 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, breaking its one-day record for new cases. But even as the state swells with fresh infections, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis remains hellbent on his war […] More
Matias J. Ocner/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Having raised more money than anyone else in the Republican Party so far this year, new filings show Donald Trump is flush with cash. Absolutely swimming in it. But even as the money […] More
Bill Clark/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. As Republicans move full steam ahead with their disinformation campaign to completely rewrite the events of January 6, over in the real world, the threat of subpoenas for some of the most high-profile Trump […] More
Health officials say Afghanistan is fast running out of oxygen as a deadly third surge of COVID worsen.Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part […] More
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. The federal eviction moratorium ends today, and housing rights advocates and tenants around the country worry that anywhere between hundreds of thousands and millions of people will be thrown onto […] More
A mother in Oklahoma has been arrested and charged with child neglect after authorities discovered that her 12-year-old daughter had given birth to a child by a 24-year-old man. Desiree Castaneda (mugshot pictured above, left) was taken into custody on Thursday by the Tulsa Police Department in the state of Oklahoma. The 33-year-old was officially charged […] More
Empty desks and chairs at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, on Thursday. Yichuan Cao/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. Some good news if you’re an office worker who can’t stand your boss, commuting, or both: Your odds of returning to […] More
President Donald Trump arrives to speak in the White House Rose Garden on November 13, 2020.Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. President Donald Trump pressured top Justice Department officials to say that the election was corrupt so that he and […] More
