- Julia Ainsley, Matt Dixon, Jonathan Allen and Laura Strickler @ NBC News: Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski
Some companies complained to the Trump administration that Lewandowski has stood to personally profit from the DHS contracting process. Lewandowski denies the allegations.
- David Edwards @ Raw Story: GOP lawmaker accused of assaulting girlfriend brags about '100% family rating'
Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) recently crowed about his "100% family rating" from the right-wing Family Research Council despite claims that he assaulted a former girlfriend and threatened to release nude photos of another.
- Cathy Young @ The Bulwark: About Those Women Fleeing the Misogynistic Right
RIGHT-WING MISOGYNY, often taking the form of antifeminist extremism, has created an extremely toxic climate among MAGA and “New Right” types—and some women have had enough. A long New York magazine feature article last week on women “defectors” from the right sparked a controversy about the extent of the misogyny problem—and, as often happens in such debates, the rebuttals dismissing the issue as made up tended to prove the case.
- Hannah Knowles @ The Washington Post: Republicans are ramping up attacks on Muslims — and getting rewarded
Past GOP leaders, including George W. Bush, spoke out against Islamophobia. Now it is going unchallenged.
- Eli Stokols, Ben Johansen, Jack Detsch, and Paul McLeary @ Politico: Inside the White House plan to sell the Iran war online
The administration is bucking decades of decorum by depicting the Iran war as a violent video game.
- Rachel Monroe @ The New Yorker: The New Faces of Christian Nationalism
Trump has hollowed out the Johnson Amendment, which prohibited churches from endorsing candidates. Mercy Culture, in Fort Worth, has sprung into action.
- Ali Velshi and Amel Ahmed @ MS Now: The group behind Project 2025 has a chilling new plan for America’s women
From the perspective of The Heritage Foundation, the freedoms fought and won by women aren’t progress; they are the problem.
- Shalom Goldman @ The Conversation: As Iran war expands, some conservative Christians interpret the conflict through biblical prophecies
As the American and Israeli war with Iran unfolds, some American Christians are speaking of the conflict in biblical terms, mapping end-time prophecies on to current events in the Middle East.
