There was a story you probably missed last week about Nikki Haley. Or at least, I hope you missed it. The Republican presidential hopeful recently celebrated her daughter’s wedding, the New York Post reported, but there was a catch—some people on the internet had rude things to say about the photo she posted: Most comments offered congratulations to Haley and her growing family. Still, other posters were sharply critical of the off-white dress worn by the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the UN in the Trump administration. The sources for this backlash are as follows:...…There was a story you probably missed last week about Nikki Haley. Or at least, I hope you missed it. The Republican presidential hopeful recently celebrated her daughter’s wedding, the New York Post reported, but there was a catch—some people on the internet had rude things to say about the photo she posted: Most comments offered congratulations to Haley and her growing family. Still, other posters were sharply critical of the off-white dress worn by the former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the UN in the Trump administration. The sources for this backlash are as follows:...WW…

Fight disinformation: for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. for the last few years, Laiken Jordahl, a staffer for the Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Arizona, would head into the desert with a backpack and an iPhone to film the encroaching progress of Donald Trump’s wall. His videos, viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Twitter, captured an unrelenting march of devastation: mountainsides blasted to bits; forests of ancient cacti toppled over; roads and floodlights blighting fragile wilderness; indigenous land desecrated. But in...…Fight disinformation: for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. for the last few years, Laiken Jordahl, a staffer for the Center for Biological Diversity based in Tucson, Arizona, would head into the desert with a backpack and an iPhone to film the encroaching progress of Donald Trump’s wall. His videos, viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Twitter, captured an unrelenting march of devastation: mountainsides blasted to bits; forests of ancient cacti toppled over; roads and floodlights blighting fragile wilderness; indigenous land desecrated. But in...WW…

Fight disinformation: for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.of January 6, hours before a right-wing mob attacked Congress, leaving five people dead and halting the peaceful transfer of presidential power for the first time in the nation’s history, Josh Hawley arrived at the Capitol early. A group of demonstrators who had answered the president’s call to “stop the steal” cheered when they spotted the 41-year-old first-term Republican senator from Missouri, tall and thin with a youthful swoop of hair. Hawley glanced in their direction with a look of...…Fight disinformation: for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.of January 6, hours before a right-wing mob attacked Congress, leaving five people dead and halting the peaceful transfer of presidential power for the first time in the nation’s history, Josh Hawley arrived at the Capitol early. A group of demonstrators who had answered the president’s call to “stop the steal” cheered when they spotted the 41-year-old first-term Republican senator from Missouri, tall and thin with a youthful swoop of hair. Hawley glanced in their direction with a look of...WW…

Fight disinformation: for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. of protests swept the United States this spring in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, one of the first monuments to come down was across from a Bruegger’s at the baggage claim at Dallas’ Love Field. It was a 12-foot bronze of a man with a pistol holstered on his hip and a cowboy hat on his head, lowering his left hand to appeal for calm. His name was E.J. Banks, and he was a Texas Ranger.What precipitated the removal, in early June, was an excerpt, in , from a new history of the...…Fight disinformation: for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. of protests swept the United States this spring in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, one of the first monuments to come down was across from a Bruegger’s at the baggage claim at Dallas’ Love Field. It was a 12-foot bronze of a man with a pistol holstered on his hip and a cowboy hat on his head, lowering his left hand to appeal for calm. His name was E.J. Banks, and he was a Texas Ranger.What precipitated the removal, in early June, was an excerpt, in , from a new history of the...WW…

Fight disinformation: for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.off as a joke. On the last episode of Saturday Night Live before the 2018 election, Pete Davidson was rifling through headshots of candidates when he got to the 35-year-old retired Navy SEAL from the Houston area. “You may be surprised to hear he’s a congressional candi­date from Texas and not a hitman in a porno movie,” he said, as a photo of the Republican—short wavy brown hair, trim beard, eye patch—flashed across the screen. Davidson started to laugh. “I’m sorry, I know he lost his eye in...…Fight disinformation: for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.off as a joke. On the last episode of Saturday Night Live before the 2018 election, Pete Davidson was rifling through headshots of candidates when he got to the 35-year-old retired Navy SEAL from the Houston area. “You may be surprised to hear he’s a congressional candi­date from Texas and not a hitman in a porno movie,” he said, as a photo of the Republican—short wavy brown hair, trim beard, eye patch—flashed across the screen. Davidson started to laugh. “I’m sorry, I know he lost his eye in...WW…