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Two days before staffers at the US African Development Foundation (USADF) refused to let DOGE staffers enter the door to their offices, Donald Trump...
On Donald Trump’s first day in office, the Department of Defense announced a spate of hires, including 26-year-old Kingsley Wilson, who will serve...
On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi boasted that she had “declassified and publicly released files” related to the crimes of the dead and...
Jack Posobiec, a far-right activist, podcaster, and early booster of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, has been lucky at least twice. In April 2017,...
Unelected bureaucrat Elon Musk spent his weekend pushing the federal workforce into further chaos, masterminding a bizarre email sent out through the...
Amid their energetic vandalism spree across the federal government, the White House and Elon Musk’s DOGE team have focused special and virulent...
Amid their energetic vandalism spree across the federal government, the White House and Elon Musk’s DOGE team have focused special and virulent...
As the United States Agency for International Development remains paralyzed after the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s attempts to murder it,...
Much like a gremlin fed after midnight, Elon Musk is staying up late and causing mayhem. As Musk-backed cuts and changes continue to spread across...
This week, the FBI’s Office of Integrity and Compliance issued a memo ordering that posters mentioning diversity should be taken down. The memo,...
In December, the Los Angeles County Public Health Department reported that five house cats had died after drinking raw milk. Four of their bodies...
Former President Joe Biden’s last-minute, preemptive pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci had an obvious and clearly stated purpose: protecting the elderly...
Over the weekend, TikTok very briefly died in the United States before being reborn some 12 hours later, bearing a jaunty new banner. “As a result...
Since the Los Angeles wildfires broke out on January 7, a strain of online panic has painted the city as functioning a lot like The Purge, the horror...
As wildfires continue to burn all around Los Angeles, influencers have emerged to promote sales of their own, highly specific solutions to the crisis....
For the last two mornings, I’ve woken up from broken sleep in my house on Los Angeles’ east side in a blind panic, the smell of smoke permeating...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma As Big Tech scrambles to placate Donald Trump before he reassumes office, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday...
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Trump tour a Texas assembly plant in 2019. Jay Janner/Zuma Axios reported on Friday that Apple CEO Tim Cook will donate $1...
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma In his litany of complaints about the federal government, Elon Musk has reserved special ire for the Federal...
Mother Jones illustration; Getty In the lead-up to Donald Trump’s second inauguration, professional conspiracy peddlers are hard at work finding...
Bob Daemmrich/Zuma After a grueling hearing that stretched over two days, a federal bankruptcy judge declined to approve the sale of Infowars to...
Mother Jones illustration; Andy Kropa/Invision/AP For the past month, Vice co-founder and CEO Shane Smith has had a remarkable number of questions,...
Mother Jones illustration; NOAA/Zuma In 2016, Jarrod Fidden, an Australian entrepreneur living in Ireland, announced that he’d launched a dating...
Carol Guzy/Zuma In recent days, an invitation from people affiliated with American Values 2024, a super-PAC that supported Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s...
Mother Jones illustration; Lev Radin/Zuma Of the many absurd things Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said over the years—about vaccines, about 5G...
Pete Hegseth itnerviews Donald Trump in 2017. Weekend Fox News host Pete Hegseth has already been an exceedingly controversial choice as Donald...
Alex Jones speaks outside of the Dirksen building on Capitol Hill in Washington in September 2018. Jose Luis Magana/AP On Thursday afternoon, a...
Robin Rayne/Zuma Public health experts, physicians, and scientists responded with fury and disgust to the news that Donald Trump will nominate...
Dominic Gwinn/Zuma Conspiracy mega-site Infowars, whose founder and main host Alex Jones has become the face of monetized suspicion in America, has...
Bob Daemmrich/Zuma The court-ordered auction of conspiracy kingpin Alex Jones’ company Infowars took place on Wednesday. By late morning Texas...
Jen Golbeck/SOPA/Zuma At an event late last week in Arizona, anti-vaccine activist and Donald Trump transition team member Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
Mother Jones illustration; Getty In the days following Donald Trump’s clear win, conspiracy theories about how votes were tampered with or how the...
Researchers are investigating the source of the messages. Mother Jones illustration The day after Election Day, predominantly Black recipients in...
Jen Golbeck/SOPA/Zuma The elites of the anti-vaccine, “medical freedom” world saw the presidential election unfold at a hotel watch party in West...
Jen Golbeck/SOPA/Zuma There’s no overstating how good election night was for Elon Musk. With Donald Trump’s victory, Musk—already the richest...
Bill Ackman speaking in June. Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan/Getty Something unusual happened the other week, when podcasting megastar Joe Rogan sat...
Matt Rourke/AP The FBI issued a warning on Election Day about a hoax video that purports to be a news clip relaying a warning from the agency...
A 2015 peace march attended by members of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie. Sarah Crosby/Erie Times-News/AP Cliff Maloney is the founder of...
Customers in a Springfield, Ohio Haitian restaurant. Jessie Wardarski/AP A video purporting to show recently arrived Haitian immigrants illegally...
Jen Golbeck/SOPA Images/Zuma In the days leading up to the election, the firehose of lies, half–truths, dumb memes, inflammatory political claims,...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally. Mother Jones illustration; Michael M. Santiago/Getty “Don’t you want a...
Steve Helber/AP Days after helping launch a clearly false claim about vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, a disinformation peddler with a huge...
Instagram In 2020, as for so many people, things shifted for Jessica Reed Kraus. A southern-California based lifestyle blogger who got her start...
Angelina Katsanis/TNS/Zuma In recent days, a number of news sites that rely heavily on aggregation have posted stories about Minnesota governor and...
FEMA workers in Asheville, North Carolina Madeleine Cook/FEMA/Planet Pix via Zuma The scale and depth of the lies about Hurricane Helene have been...
Michael Brochstein/Zuma The news that New York Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted came as a surprise to precisely no one. For one thing, federal...
Briana Sanchez/Zuma A Texas bankruptcy judge ruled on Tuesday that a plan to sell the assets of Alex Jones’ company Free Speech Systems, the parent...
Supporters of Nick Fuentes wait to hear him speak in Detroit this June. Adam J. Dewey/NurPhoto/AP Nick Fuentes is a white supremacist, an...
Mother Jones; X.com The most striking thing about Lauren Chen, in hindsight, is how she managed to be everywhere. Until earlier this month, when...
Gripas Yuri/Abaca/Zuma In the week following the presidential debate, Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene have all...