- Perry Stein and Jeremy Roebuck @ The Washington Post: FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home
The search came as part of an investigation into a government contractor accused of illegally retaining classified government materials.
- Sarah Ewall-Wice @ The Daily Beast: Trump Flips the Bird in Angry ‘F*** You’ Blast After Pedo Slur
The president can be seen in video giving the middle finger.
- Brian Kaylor @ Public Witness: At Labor Prayer Service, Alveda King Tells Government Employees to Work (Without Complaining) or Don’t Eat
Alveda King wants employees of the U.S. Department of Labor to see themselves as doing God’s work. The rightwing anti-abortion activist and niece of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. added during the second monthly DoL prayer service that workers shouldn’t complain, and she criticized people who aren’t religious.
- Alex Kaplan @ Media Matters: QAnon community declares vindication as Trump’s Labor Department pens multiple posts echoing QAnon phrases
QAnon influencer: “The U.S. Department of Labor’s official account is Q posting. … This is not debatable now. If you like it, cool. If you don’t like it, too bad. It’s happening.”
- Eric Levitz @ Vox: The Trump administration can’t stop winking at white nationalists
The government is recruiting ICE agents with (literal) neo-Nazi propaganda.
- David Gilbert @ Wired: Trump Doesn’t Need the Proud Boys Anymore
In a world where ICE agents are shooting US citizens on the street, the need for militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys to support far-right interests has evaporated.
- Robert Downen @ Texas Monthly: This Texas Church Became a Political Machine. Now It’s Going National.
With a prayer house across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court building, leaders of the Fort Worth–based Mercy Culture Church are taking their spiritual battle to Washington, D.C.
