- Fred Kaplan @ Slate: Trump Just Gave the Military an Extremely Sinister Mission
The U.S. president just told military leaders that one of their main missions soon will be to defeat “the enemy from within.”
- Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: Trump Posts Deranged AI Video of Chuck Schumer Calling Democrats ‘Just a Bunch of Woke Pieces of Sh*t’
President Donald Trump raised eyebrows on Monday after he posted a bizarre, AI-generated video of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) calling Democrats “a bunch of woke pieces of sh*t.”
- Adam Downer @ The Daily Beast: Charlie Kirk’s Far-Right Foe Turns Fire on His Widow
Nick Fuentes can’t stop hating Turning Point USA even after Charlie Kirk’s death.
- Aaron Zitner @ The Wall Street Journal: Douglas Wilson Wants the U.S. to Be a Christian Republic. MAGA Is Listening.
The incendiary pastor calls for taking away women’s right to vote and barring non-Christians from holding office. Pete Hegseth and Tucker Carlson are among his fans.
- Edith Olmstead @ The New Republic: Illiterate Republicans Have Reignited a January 6 Conspiracy Theory
It is spreading because of a widespread lack of reading comprehension skills, apparently.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Texas Board of Education brings on Christian liar David Barton to rewrite Social Studies standards
The GOP's favorite Christian pseudo-historian will get to sabotage history classes across the state—and beyond.
- Adam Kinzinger: Naming Fascism Is Not Violence
How a new right-wing tactic tries to silence critics—and why Americans must keep speaking plainly.