Joel Zapata @ Texas Observer: The Real Lesson Behind Texas’ New Bible Curriculum Requirements
Going forward, students will learn that life circumstances are beyond their power to change. They will learn that their place and the place of others in the economy and larger society should not be questioned.
Sophia Tesfaye @ Salon: MAGA’s influencer class is breaking Trump’s White House
As the failure of Trump’s domestic agenda demoralizes his base, the defining currency of MAGA has shifted from ideology to access.
Mark Jacob @ Stop the Presses: Trump and prediction markets are building a society of suckers
The convicted felon in the White House loves shadowy financial schemes that benefit insiders.
Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Sharon Lerner @ ProPublica: Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe
Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance.
Jim Carroll @ Flux: Renewed ICE killings are inevitable result of mass deportations rooted in incendiary claims of immigrant invasion
The stakes are nothing less than the question of who belongs in this country, and who should ultimately count as a real American.
Jonathan V. Last @ The Bulwark: Truth Social Legalizes Insider Trading
Donald Trump is an innovator in the field of corruption and Truth API is something we’ve never seen before: A device that legalizes insider trading and turns Trump’s Truth Social account into something like a Bloomberg terminal.
Greg Sargent and Ryan Enos @ The New Republic: Trump’s Rage at Journos Boils Over—and Even Fox Is Rattled
Donald Trump is essentially saying, “Look, the next time I give remarks that are designed to sow distrust in our elections, you damn well better carry it, otherwise the full weight of the federal government is going to bear down on you.”
Scot Nakagawa @ The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook: They Are Not Coming for ‘Illegal Immigrants’
What’s happening to immigrant communities right now isn’t immigration enforcement. It is a campaign of systemic terror, operating on multiple simultaneous fronts, designed to make 13.7 million people - and the families, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and communities attached to them - feel that no corner of their life is safe.
Steven Beschloss @ America, America: Pressing Delete Won’t Eliminate the Truth
From ICE agent crimes to climate change, Jan. 6 and hunger in America, the Trump regime is working to deny the public knowledge to confront its crimes and failures.