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What Was the Plan Behind This Fake CDC Website?
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr attending Trump’s March 4 address to Congress.Win McNamee/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A fake website meant to look like a CDC webpage was put up sometime this month and quickly taken offline, but…
Read MoreThe IRS Is Reportedly Nearing a Deal to Share Confidential Tax Data With ICE
Undocumented immigrants, who contribute nearly $100 billion in taxes each year and help fund benefits like Social Security and Medicare while remaining ineligible to receive them, are expected to soon lose the privacy afforded to them by a long-standing Internal Revenue Service policy as the IRS nears a deal with the Trump administration to help…
Read MoreTrump Threatens 20 Year Sentences for Tesla Saboteurs
President Donald Trump and members of his administration are describing a small number of vandalous actions taken against Tesla properties as “domestic terrorism,” threatening participants with exceptional prison sentences and the possibility of cruel and unusual punishment. Tesla is owned by “Department of Government Efficiency” head Elon Musk, who was also Trump’s largest donor during…
Read MorePro-Palestinian Cornell Student Momodou Taal Is Targeted Again for Deportation
The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to target free speech on college campuses and one doctoral student at Cornell University who was involved in pro-Palastinian protests on campus now finds himself targeted for deportation once again. Momodou Taal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Africana Studies at Cornell University who is a…
Read MoreMass Protests in Turkey After Trump Ally Erdoğan Imprisons Political Rival
International outrage and charges of “viciousness” and “outright autocracy” have followed Sunday’s imprisonment of Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s top political rival, the popular Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is seen as Erdogan’s likeliest opposition challenger in upcoming national elections. The corruption charges levied against İmamoğlu, a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), are…
Read MoreLegal Advocacy Groups Rebuke Trump Memo That Threatens Law Firms and Lawyers
Legal advocacy groups have issued a sharp rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump’s directive aimed at holding “accountable” law firms and lawyers that, according to him, “engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States.” “Accountability is especially important when misconduct by lawyers and law firms threatens our national security, homeland security, public…
Read MoreEd Martin Is Trampling the Rule of Law. And He Won’t Shut Up About It.
Mother Jones illustration; Chris Lee/TNS/ZUMA; Jim Loscalzo/Pool/CNP/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Elon Musk ordered a government-wide email blast directing federal employees to list their recent accomplishments, most senior officials paused to consider their options. In the Justice Department, US attorneys around…
Read MoreFossil Fuel Execs Urge Canada’s Leaders to Follow Trump’s Lead, Declare Energy Emergency
Ata Ojani/Canada’s National Observer Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Oil and gas executives in Canada are calling on Canadian federal leaders to take their cues from…
Read More“Send Them to Jail”: GOP Officials Keep Saying Trump Can Arrest People for Protesting
Donald Trump speaks at the South Carolina Tea Party Convention in January 2016.Willis Glassgow/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, he made a solemn pledge. “After years and years of…
Read MoreReport: The White House Easter Egg Roll Is for Sale
Next month’s Easter Egg Roll will be sponsored by whichever corporations are willing to drop a minimum of $75,000, according to a new CNN report.White House/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The White House is offering a new corporate sponsorship opportunity-slash-potential-ethics-catastrophe: The annual…
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