- Marin Scotten @ The New Republic: Trump’s DOJ Makes Shocking Settlement With Michael Flynn
The Justice Department is forking over tons of taxpayer dollars to President Trump’s former national security adviser.
- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: Mike Johnson Announces, ‘We Have Created a New Award’ To Give Trump: ‘This Beautiful Golden Statue’
Congressional Republicans created an award to give to President Donald Trump on Wednesday.
- Farrah Tomazin @ The Daily Beast: Even Top Proud Boys Goon Thinks Trump Is Doomed
The gloomy election outlook came as MAGA loyalists gathered for the latest Conservative Political Action Conference to consider the future of the movement.
- Hope Pisoni @ Uncloseted Media: How a Former Blogger Became the New Leader of America's Anti-Gay Marriage Movement
Katy Faust is the leader of the Greater Than Campaign, a new effort of at least 47 anti-LGBTQ groups to overturn Obergefell.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: The Charlie Kirk Conspiracists Are INSIDE the House
When Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned from the Trump administration last week over the Iran war, it stirred up no shortage of debate among conservatives over how the war was going. But Kent wasn’t done. Since then, he has sparked an additional, more explosive feud over an even hotter issue in the MAGA civil war: the killing of Charlie Kirk.
- Molly Olmstead @ Slate: The MAGA Pastor Who Sold COVID-Vaccine Religious Objection Forms Is Running for Congress
Markwayne Mullin’s appointment kicked off a political reshuffling in Oklahoma. This Christian nationalist is trying his best to take advantage of it.