- Ian Millhiser @ Vox: The Supreme Court has finally had it with Trump’s plan to steal the midterms
The Supreme Court has finally had it with Trump’s plan to steal the midterms.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: The Latest Right-Wing Revolt Against Markwayne Mullin Is the Wildest Yet
Years of unsupported claims convinced MAGA that deporting Ilhan Omar would be easy. Now they’re demanding the DHS secretary get it done.
- Marc Cupato @ Axios: Baal out: Top diplomat's worry about pagan god elicits eye rolls
The second-most powerful man at the State Department put the brakes on a U.S. international exhibit featuring a bull statue because he worried it might look like Baal, a pagan god some associate with Satanic child sacrifice.
- Kathryn Wilkens @ Mediaite: Resurfaced Audio Catches Republican Candidate Calling Himself ‘Brown on the Inside, White on the Outside’
Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Marx described himself as “brown on the inside, white on the outside” in resurfaced audio published Monday by MeidasTouch.
- Josh Kovensky @ Talking Points Memo: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show
IRS sent 10 agents and three analysts to national effort to police "anti-capitalism" and "extremism on migration, race, and gender."
- Vittoria Elliot @ Wired: The Census Bureau Is Overrun With Staffers From a MAGA Think Tank
The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal funding based on population sizes.
- Joshua Kolb @ Slate: Trumpworld Has Found Its New Jeffrey Epstein
The specter of Jeffrey Epstein continues to haunt the Trump administration seven years after the sexual predator’s death. But the makings of the next Epstein-style scandal—one that ultimately could be even more damaging for Trump and MAGAworld—appears to be unfolding right now. The Tate brothers, Andrew and Tristan, are alleged to be sex predators on a level approaching Epstein and with perhaps even more political clout with Donald Trump.
- Sanjana Karanth @ HuffPost: Trump Baselessly Claims Assassination Attempt Was ‘Democrat Plot’ Against Him
Without evidence, the president startlingly accused former President Joe Biden and his FBI of bungling the investigation into the 2024 shooting.
