- Colby Hall @ Mediaite: Trump Blames Tragic Death of Rob Reiner and Wife on ‘TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME’
President Donald Trump seized on a shocking and still-developing report about the deaths of filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Reiner, using the moment to settle political scores rather than acknowledge the gravity of the allegations.
- Liz Lykins @ The Roys Report: Pastors accuse Greg Locke of spiritual abuse, financial mismanagement
Two married pastors at Greg Locke’s central Tennessee church have resigned, claiming the founding pastor created a spiritually abusive and manipulative culture.
- Josh Kovensky @ Talking Points Memo: New York’s Young Republicans Beg for More, But Fret About a ‘MAGA Civil War’
One year in, and the club of young Republicans that touts itself as the most MAGA of them all isn’t happy. They’ve gotten what they’ve wanted, and it still isn’t enough. If last year’s iteration of their annual gala was a preview for what life under a second Trump administration would be — ubiquitous authoritarian gestures, Christian nationalism ascendant, and a growing global far-right front with Washington at the center — then this year’s event showed how even some of the president’s most die-hard supporters are pushing for even more.
- Sophia Cai @ Politico: The lawyer behind Vought’s bureaucracy crackdown
The Trump administration’s boldest moves against the bureaucracy share a common thread: Mark Paoletta’s signature.
- Warren Throckmorton @ Baptist Press: Is it time to retire the term ‘Christian nationalism’?
As if exasperated by a quarrel during Thanksgiving dinner, columnist Michael Sean Winters pleads with whoever will listen: “Can everyone please stop talking about ‘Christian nationalism?’”
- Anna Merlan @ Mother Jones: In Her New Media Ascent, Erika Kirk Whitewashes Her Husband’s Legacy
In recent appearances, Charlie Kirk’s widow has hardly been asked about Turning Point USA’s right-wing mission.
- Ali Breland @ The Atlantic: I Watched 12 Hours of Nick Fuentes
The white-supremacist influencer is laying the groundwork to go even bigger.
- Greg Sargent @ The New Republic: Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will Miller’s sadistic designs go?
- Jason Wilson @ The Guardian: ‘Just disgraceful’: outcry as Heritage thinktank appoints far-right figure to key post
Scott Yenor, who has offered views on women, marriage and LGBTQ rights, helped to found secretive fraternal order.
- Anna Maria Barry-Jester and Brett Murphy @ ProPublica: Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera
Trump officials were told that cutting aid to South Sudan would exacerbate a deadly cholera epidemic. They did so anyway.
