- Anna Merlan @ Mother Jones: MAGA Has a Playbook to Steal the Midterms. They’re Using it in California.
As Democratic candidates surge, the president and his allies baselessly cry fraud.
- Sarah Posner @ Talking Points Memo: What the Pentagon’s Snub of Mormons Was Really All About
It’s hard to imagine why such a new classification system was even necessary, other than being another step in Hegseth’s march to his personal brand of Christian supremacy.
- Sean James @ Mediaite: MLK’s Niece Brawls With House Democrat in Hearing — Rants About SPLC ‘Killing the Babies and Cutting the Penises Off’
Alveda King got into it with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) over whose “slush fund” was more rotten — President Donald Trump’s, as Raskin believed, or the one the Southern Poverty Law Center used to conduct abortions and trans surgeries on kids, as King argued.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Kash Deploys the FBI Into the MAGA Civil Wars
Not content going after just Democrats, the nation’s top law enforcement agency is now investigating right-wing critics of the president.
- Media Matters: Laura Loomer: “Maybe we need another 9/11”
Loomer: “Maybe, just maybe, it's not such a great idea to allow for Muslims to be involved in our political process in America."
- Jonathan Larsen @ Salon: Bill Pulte’s family has ties to “The Family,” secretive Christian org with vast political influence
The new acting national intelligence director’s grandfather was close with Fellowship Foundation leader Doug Coe.
