- Hafiz Rashid @ The New Republic: Fed Chair Jerome Powell Rings Every Alarm Bell About DOJ Investigation
This could be the beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve’s independence.
- Nikki McCann Ramírez @ Rolling Stone: MAGA’s Response to ICE Killing Woman in Minneapolis: She Deserved It
“I can believe that her death is a tragedy, while also recognizing that it’s a tragedy of her own making,” J.D. Vance said of Renee Nicole Good.
- Eric Levitz @ Vox: Trump’s menacingly dishonest response to the Minnesota ICE shooting
Trump is telling us he doesn’t care why Renee Good died.
- Ewan Palmer @ The Daily Beast: Egomaniac Trump, 79, Gives Himself a Deranged New Job Title
The president’s imperial ambition is on display in the latest Truth Social message.
- Jon Michael Raasch @ The Daily Mail: Sordid 'twink' scandal explodes inside GOP
24-year-old aide's secret life rocks Senate race... as poisonous views are finally exposed.
- Posting Through It: Elon Musk’s Grok is Victimizing Women and Children feat. Kat Tenbarge and Ashley St. Clair
On this two-part episode, Mike and Jared explore how Grok, the AI chatbot built into Elon Musk's platform X, generates and distributes child sex abuse material and revenge porn. They're joined by Kat Tenbarge, an independent journalist who covers tech. Kat explains the history of "deepfakes" and how Musk's platform fits into a pattern of men manipulating tech to exploit women. After that, the guys speak with former MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair, who has a child with Musk. Ashley recounts how she and others have been victimized by Grok's nonconsensual generation of sexually explicit images.
- Art Jipson @ The Conversation: What is Christian Reconstructionism − and why it matters in US politics
Christian Reconstructionism is a theological and political movement within conservative Protestantism that argues society should be governed by biblical principles, including the application of biblical law to both personal and public life.
