- David Gilmour @ Mediaite: Trump Has Spent More Time Talking About His Construction Projects in 2026 Than Any Topic Except the Iran War, Study Finds
President Donald Trump devoted more of his public remarks this year to his construction projects than virtually any other major issue facing his administration — except the Iran war, according to a new analysis.
- Michael Mechanic @ Mother Jones: Elon Musk’s DOGE Promised Savings, But It’s Cost Us a Fortune
A new report from the Government Accountability Office misses the point entirely.
- Zack Beauchamp @ Vox: What happens if election deniers run elections?
Tom Tiffany said 2020 was stolen. Now he’s the GOP pick for Wisconsin governor. And there are others like him.
- Sean Lyngaas @ CNN: When they didn’t find fraud while testing a voting machine for the Trump admin, this cyber firm faced a wave of backlash
The Trump administration abruptly declined to renew a contract for a cybersecurity firm it hired to examine voting equipment in Puerto Rico after the company didn’t echo administration officials’ false claims of voter fraud, the firm’s executives said in their first extensive public remarks on the episode.
- Alexandria Jacobson @ Raw Story: 'God's money': White House enrages with vow that public cash belongs to evangelicals
A White House official called $4 billion in taxpayer funds being spent to address homelessness “God’s money — a move experts call an escalation of evangelical religious rhetoric coming from the Trump administration.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: The Charlie Kirk Murder Business Gets Its Crassest Spectacle Yet
Candace Owens, a manosphere lout, and $300,000.
- Susan Milligan @ The New Republic: Trump and the GOP Have Quietly Broken Their Big Promises on IVF
Forget the year 2024, when the Republicans claimed to be huge supporters of in vitro fertilization. Now, many are waging war on IVF and calling for women to have babies “naturally.”
- Colleen Scerpella @ The American Prospect: Right-Wing Activists Co-opt Environmental Laws to Fight ‘Abortion Pollution’
In their zeal to create a de facto national abortion ban, anti–abortion rights groups are claiming that medications like mifepristone poison the water supply.