- Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck @ The Washington Post: Dan Bongino announces he is leaving FBI deputy director job in January
Bongino told colleagues more than a week ago that he would not be returning to Washington headquarters this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
- Erkki Forster @ The Daily Beast: Trump Rants Incoherently at 2X Speed in Bonkers TV Address
The billionaire president’s delivery grew frantic as his speech on the economy wore on, ending with him practically shouting.
- Anna Merlan @ Mother Jones: How Benny Johnson Went From BuzzFeed Plagiarist to MAGA’s Chief Content Creator
He says he did “some very bad things.” But in Trumpworld, that’s a plus.
- Nicholas Confessore and Julie Tate @ The New York Times: ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were currency.
- Warren Throckmorton: Tennessee Says Yes to Christian Nationalism
State partners with Turning Point USA to form clubs in every Tennessee school.
- Tess Owen @ Slate: Trad-Wife in Chief
Katie Miller, the wife of Trump henchman Stephen Miller, is trying to reinvent herself as a squeaky-clean model for MAGA women. People who knew her growing up saw someone far different.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Handpicked Kennedy Center board members vote to rename it the ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
The president’s obsession with self-aggrandizement and self-glorification is pitiful, and it’s getting worse.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friend Atheist: Oklahoma's Supreme Court overturns Ryan Walters' Bible-heavy Social Studies standards
The judges rejected a Christian Nationalist curriculum that downplayed systemic racism, spread election lies, and pretended the Bible was history.
