- Alexander Willis @ Raw Story: Supreme Court deals devastating blow to Trump in major citizenship rights case
The Supreme Court dealt a devastating blow to President Donald Trump’s agenda Tuesday after ruling 5-4 against his efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship, a constitutional right long targeted by far-right figures.
- Kate Riga @ Talking Points Memo: Supreme Court Lets Red States Force Trans Girls to Play on Boys’ Teams
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that neither Title IX nor the Equal Protection Clause forbids schools from keeping trans girls off of girls’ sports teams, an inflection point in a years-long campaign by the right, particularly the Trump administration.
- Laura Meckler @ The Washington Post: Trump-backed ‘Freedom Trucks’ tell a sanitized story of the country’s founding
At a time of fierce debate over how to teach American history, the mobile exhibits weigh in squarely on one side of the argument.
- Mehdi Hasan @ The Guardian: Why is Elon Musk boosting an anti-immigrant film loved by the far right?
Elon Musk has long described himself as a “centrist”. He likes to pretend that he hasn’t changed his views; it’s the Democrats who have lurched to the left. He’s merely a free speech advocate; a self-styled “moderate” resisting the excesses of the “woke mind virus."
- Alex Kaplan @ Media Matters: Election deniers reach a fever pitch calling for a “national emergency” declaration so Trump can give himself “king-like powers” over the midterms
After President Donald Trump issued an executive order at the end of March aimed at stopping supposed fraud with mail-in ballots, election deniers have urged Trump to declare a national emergency to allow a federal takeover of election processes. On June 24, Trump echoed those calls and suggested that passing a bill to supposedly combat election fraud is a “national emergency.”
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Ben Shapiro Hired a Debater to Fight Groypers. It Backfired Badly.
The internet is a vicious place, even when…er, *especially* when…you’re fighting vicious people.
- The Throckmorton Initiative: More Great Moments in Christian Nationalist History: George Washington the Healer
Tim Barton exaggerates George Washington's religiosity for Josh Howerton.
