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Far-Right Activist Tied to Jailed Chinese Fraudster Joins Team Trump. He’s Not Alone.
Guo Wengui and Steve Bannon in 2018.Don Emmert/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Miles Guo, an exiled Chinese billionaire best known for his ties to Steve Bannon, is in a Brooklyn jail awaiting sentencing following his conviction for orchestrating a massive fraud scheme.…
Read MoreTrump Nixing Conservation Rule in Favor of Drilling and Mining on Federal Lands
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.Chris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published on the substack Public Domain to which you can subscribe here. At an all-handsmeeting of Interior Department employees on April 9, Secretary Doug Burgum stressed that managing and protecting federal public lands “must…
Read MoreWe Asked You to Share Protest Photos. Wow, You Delivered.
A protester in front of the White House in Washington, DC, on Saturday. Demonstrators also gathered in other major cities across the country.Aashish Kiphayet/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This weekend, national protests broke out once again to demand an end to creeping…
Read MoreThis Easter, Let’s Denounce the Christian Zionism That Helps Destroy Palestine
This weekend, in a rare occurrence, Christians of all denominations will be celebrating Easter at the same time as Eastern and Western Christian calendars coincide. Yet, as has become an undeniable reality for many Christian Palestinians, the only thing we share in common between our Easter and the Easter of many Christians in the West…
Read MorePowerful Scenes From This Weekend’s Anti-Trump Protests Reveal Resistance in Action
Thousands of anti-Trump protesters took to the streets as part of a nationwide protest to condemn the Trump administration. Marchers gathered at the New York Public Library in Bryant Park and made their way to Central Park.Syndi Pilar/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.…
Read MoreCritics Slam Trump’s Plan to Fill Federal Government With “Political Cronies”
Around 50,000 career civil servants would be reclassified as “at-will” employees and lose civil service protections.
Read MoreProtesters Nationwide Take to the Streets, Condemn Trump’s Authoritarian Agenda
Tens of thousands took to the streets across the United States on Saturday in a scathing indictment of Donald Trump’s mounting pile of attacks. These protests came just two weeks following the “Hands Off” protests that brought out millions of people across the country to the streets in coordinated actions, denouncing the administration’s attacks on…
Read MoreSafety Is a Practice We Enact Together: Building Solidarity Under Trump 2.0
Since President Donald Trump’s return to office, his administration has issued a series of executive orders escalating the U.S.’s demonization of trans people, migrants, and activists against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A key strategy of the White House appears to be controlling the mobility of these groups and removing them from public life — whether…
Read MoreLabor Was Crucial in Building Public Health Institutions Trump Wants to Destroy
The Biden administration supervised the largest repeal in social benefits in U.S. history upon declaring the COVID-19 pandemic over. The Trump administration appears to be surpassing that feat, rapidly winding down the project called the United States. The fallout includes the health of the American people. In recent weeks, we’ve seen billions slashed from state…
Read MoreFar-Right Activist Who Vowed “Retribution” Lands Role at the FCC
Gavin Wax at the 112th New York Young Republican Club gala in New York on December 15, 2024.Jason Alpert-Wisnia/Sipa via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. For the past six years, Gavin Wax has held court as the president of the New York…
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