- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Over 24 hours, Trump’s authoritarian-style vision comes into focus (again)
Every once in a while, the president has a day — a single, 24-hour period — in which his authoritarian vision comes into sharp relief.
- Tom Sanders @ The Daily Beast: Trump Insists He’s ‘Not a King’ as Massive Protests Loom
The president used the royal ‘we’ while dismissing claims he thinks of himself as a monarch.
- Syra Ortiz Blanes @ The Miami Times: Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio wants you to report undocumented people – and get paid for it
Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader from Miami who President Donald Trump pardoned for his participation in the Jan. 6 attack, wants citizens to take deporting undocumented immigrants into their own hands. Literally, he has an app for that.
- Kerry Howley @ New York Magazine: Could These Be Pete Hegseth’s Last Days in the Pentagon?
As war looms, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by his man?
- Katherine Kelaidis @ Vox: Donald Trump is building a strange, new religious movement
The old “religious right” is gone. The new one is weirder — and harder to fight.
