- Jane C. Timm @ NBC News: Whistleblower says USPS system Trump ordered for mail ballots is flawed and untested
An executive order from Trump, which is stymied in the courts, required the U.S. Postal Service to rapidly build a complex system to vet mail ballots.
- Mehdi Hansen @ The Guardian: The media’s Hasan Piker obsession is letting Republican Mike Rogers off the hook
Mike Rogers isn’t merely campaigning alongside a controversial supporter. His campaign put an extremist on its faith leadership team.
- Daniel Villareal @ LGBTQ Nation: Pete Hegseth’s pastor says he would have fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War
“What kind of moral man are you if you were willing to fight for a side that enslaves and tortures people?”
- Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: Colorado GOP Gov. Nominee Tells Wild Exorcism Story About Fighting ‘Satan In Person’
To hear him tell it, Victor Marx has done many, many incredible things. Over his years as a Christian nationalist leader, author, and self-described “high risk missionary,” the Republican Party nominee for governor in Colorado has boasted of having personally rescued thousands of people from conflict zones and attaining multiple black belts in various martial arts. After Marx launched his political career last year, these claims have been extensively questioned. Yet, even with all of these dubious heroics, there is probably no wilder part of Marx’s mythos than his stories about performing what most people might call exorcisms and engaging in “demonic warfare.”
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Christian Nationalist preacher claims his ministry has raised “over 50 people” from the dead
Andrew Wommack has never offered evidence for his extraordinary “miracles”—but he expects followers to believe every word.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Why MAGA Is Celebrating Milo’s Deportation
Right-wing media was rocked last Thursday when news broke that ICE agents had detained pro-Trump commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on an expired visa. Within hours of the story coming out, Yiannopoulos was on a plane back to his native United Kingdom, and the Department of Homeland Security had tweeted out a decidedly unglamorous mugshot. Yiannopoulos’s decade-long reign as one of the American right’s leading provocateurs was over.
- Jennifer Bowers Bahney @ Mediaite: ‘Great Member of Congress!’ Speaker Johnson Says He’s Still Backing Congressman Accused of Domestic Violence
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Monday that he still supports Rep. Max Miller, (R-OH) despite the severe domestic abuse allegations against the Ohio congressman.
- Gregory Royal Pratt @ The Chicago Tribune: Bovino was under internal investigation by Border Patrol when he retired, newly released records show
Former Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino retired while under internal investigation for his conduct during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis and Chicago, records released last week by the federal government show.
