On Tuesday morning, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced that a state grand jury had indicted 61 people allegedly connected to the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement, slapping a serious and shocking slate of RICO charges onto a decentralized movement that has sought to derail the construction of a massive …
Read More »Inside MTG and Kari Lake's 'Death Race' To Become Trump's VP
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kari Lake have been locked in what one source close to Donald Trump describes to Rolling Stone as a “death race” to become his 2024 vice presidential pick. In public, the far-right congresswoman from Georgia and the failed Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate are happy to present …
Read More »The Proud Boys Are Paying for Jan. 6. Are Trump and His Cronies Next?
Enrique Tarrio — the capo of the Proud Boys on Jan. 6 — has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for his part in the seditious conspiracy to block the peaceful transfer of power to President Joe Biden following the 2020 election.Tarrio’s two-decade sentence — the stiffest yet …
Read More »The Climate Crisis Could Mean the Twilight of the American West
I first visited the Grand Canyon in 1967 with two school friends and an elderly teacher who filled his summers by taking young students on long road trips, camping across the country. I mostly remember the color of the sky and the immensity of the chasm, with the Colorado River …
Read More »I Pled Guilty to Robert Mueller. Here's My Story
Sam Patten became briefly notorious during special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 U.S. presidential election when Patten pled guilty to failing to register as a foreign agent for a Ukrainian politician. An international political operative, Patten had worked on the same team in Ukraine …
Read More »Conspiracy Theory Kingpin Calls for Hunter Biden's Execution
Conspiracy theorist Stew Peters made a startling demand for public executions at the latest stop on the ReAwaken America tour — calling for the death of Joe Biden’s son Hunter as well as Dr. Anthony Fauci, whom Peters insisted should “hang from a length of thick rope until he is …
Read More »Jan 6. Jail Time: Proud Boys Cry Over the Consequences of Their Own Actions
A day of historic accountability for the crimes of Jan. 6 left a pair of rough-and-tumble Proud Boys in tears on Thursday. On Friday, a third Proud Boys convict choked up before he learned he’ll be spending a decade in behind bars. Only a fourth member of the infamous fight …
Read More »This Tattooed Biker DA Is Under Attack for Defending Abortion Rights in Texas
There are more than 250 district attorneys in the state of Texas, but only five of them agreed to sign a letter last year declaring their offices would not prosecute individuals who sought abortions. On Friday, the stakes go up for those bold enough to speak out against legislation they …
Read More »Texas Anti-Porn Law Blocked in Crucial Win for Free Speech Advocates
A Texas law designed to put strict controls on access to adult websites was blocked by a federal judge on Thursday, one day before it was to go into effect, in a decision that could prove a bellwether for similar legal challenges now playing out across the country. Since the …
Read More »Jacksonville Shooter Wanted Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly 'to be Killed On Sight,' His Writings Reveal
The man who shot and killed three Black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville on Saturday, identified in his writings a slew of other potential targets — including Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly. In two chilling passages from writings that Rolling Stone has reviewed, Ryan Christopher Palmeter — who …
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