- Daniel Hampton @ Raw Story: Todd Blanche buried by avalanche of ex-DOJ employees urging Senate to torpedo nomination
More than 1,200 former Justice Department employees have signed a letter urging senators to reject Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general, a roster of names so long it fills 59 pages.
- Eric Lipton and David Yaffe-Bellany @ The New York Times: Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin
A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money while sophisticated traders did better.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump administration scraps AC recommendations following GOP freakout over Mamdani
Why did the Department of Energy scrap its website with indoor-temperature guidance? It’s a funny story, actually.
- Charles McCrary @ The New Republic: The Ultimate Goal of the Right’s “Religious Liberty” Crusade
A new report from Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission makes clear that this issue is just a stalking horse for a much broader political project to transform America.
- Zachary Pleat, Kayla Gogarty, Hanne MacDonald & Jack Winstanley @ Media Matters: Right-wing media intensify conspiracy theories about birthright citizenship as a threat to American elections: “A huge national security risk”
The Supreme Court’s affirmation of birthright citizenship renews right-wing media’s accusations of Chinese election interference.
- Christopher Matthias @ Talking Points Memo: When You Hear ‘Remigration,’ Know That It Means Ethnic Cleansing
Back in 2018, a 19-year-old neo-Nazi going by the name “ThomasRyan” wrote in a private Discord server that a “vast remigration program” in the United States was the “best outcome we can stand to look at.” There was no mistaking what ThomasRyan meant by “remigration,” a term only he and his ilk were using at the time. It meant the forced removal of non-white people from the U.S., a process ThomasRyan imagined would begin with the U.S. government escorting “willing” non-white people to their “ethnic homelands.” The “unwilling” — that is, immigrants and U.S. citizens who refused to leave the country that is their home — would be rounded up in chains so the government could “dump them” somewhere abroad.