- Alex Nguyen @ Mother Jones: Trump Just Gave Himself a $1.8 Billion Slush Fund to Reward His Friends
And the public may never know who their money was spent on.
- Jon Wertheim, Aliza Chasan, Andrew Bast, and Jessica Kegu @ CBS News: Suspected insider accounts net $2.4 million on Polymarket Iran war bets with 98% win rate, firm finds
Nine connected Polymarket accounts have raked in more than $2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. military actions in what digital detectives from the data analytics firm Bubblemaps have identified as a potentially egregious case of insider trading.
- Sarah Posner @ Talking Points Memo: Trump’s Evangelical Allies Gather in DC for Prayer Marathon, Push to Further Erode Church-State Divide
Speakers cast America as ‘morally rotten’ and sinful while embracing the ‘Christian nationalist’ label.
- María Teresita Armstrong-Matta @ Raw Story: Reports attest Trump's 'Rededicate 250' event drew in small crowds
President Donald Trump's free eight-hour Rededicate 250 prayer event held at the National Mall in D.C. Sunday drew a notably sparse crowd, with Reuters photos capturing numerous empty seats.
- Steven Waldman @ Religion News Service: Christian nationalists need to look again at their religious DNA
The ancestors of today’s Christian nationalists weren’t the leaders of Christian America — they were the heretics.
- Warren Throckmorton: Donald Trump's Rededicate 250 is Religious Kayfabe
The Christian worship performance scheduled for the National Mall is a religious show.