- Shawn McCreesh, Tyler Pager and Hamed Aleaziz @ The New York Times: Katie Zacharia Is Ousted After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary
Ms. Zacharia was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.
- Giulia Carbonaro @ Newsweek: Americans Told To Use New Trump Coins at Liberal Businesses
U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach is challenging Americans to "get a roll of Trump dollar coins," a newly minted gold-colored $1 coin featuring the president’s portrait, and spend them at their "favorite liberal coffee shop."
- Zachary Leeman @ Mediaite: Kid Rock Lumps Abdul El-Sayed in with 9/11 Terrorists, Ft. Hood Shooter By Saying They Were All ‘Assimilated’ in US
Kid Rock lumped Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in with literal terrorists on Friday during a wild rant on Fox News.
- Curtis M. Wong @ HuffPost: Trump Dubs Himself A 'Freaking Genius' For Passing Cognitive Test
When the president successfully recited five words, he said the test’s administrators were astonished.
- Brittany Gibson @ Axios: Trump's MAGA allies openly discuss martial law
MAGA activists are pushing for President Trump to resort to extraordinary measures — including martial law — if they believe the midterm elections are "rigged."
- Garrett Graff @ Doomsday Scenario: Trump's Tyranny, Part I: ICE's Reign of Terror
We’ve already gotten used to a level of fascism, authoritarianism, and corruption that would be unthinkable and shocking to us just a decade ago.