- Jim Newell @ Slate: Kristi Noem Is Out. A Guy Who Tried to Start a Literal Fistfight at a Senate Hearing Will Take Her Place.
That’s not even the wildest thing about him.
- Gabby Birenbaum @ The Texas Tribune: Rep. Tony Gonzales drops reelection bid amid pressure over affair scandal
The San Antonio Republican was pushed into a runoff in the primary for his border district. Speaker Mike Johnson and other GOP members had called on him to exit the race.
- Richard Fausset @ The New York Times: A Candidate for Georgia Straight From the Marjorie Taylor Greene Playbook
Colton Moore, who hopes to win a special election on Tuesday to replace Ms. Greene, has the same flair for the dramatic and the ultra-MAGA persona, but he lacks one thing: a Trump endorsement.
- Media Matters: Disappointed with Trump, Nick Fuentes calls for a “dictatorship” to “take over this country”
“Trump actually is maybe the single biggest obstacle right now. ... Did he in any way meaningfully make America great again? No.”
- Logan M. Davis @ The Colorado Reporter: Secret ICE Detention Facilities Exist Around Colorado, Data Shows
Data obtained by the Deportation Data Project via Freedom of Information Act request, and analyzed by the Colorado Times Recorder, though, shows that the agency’s footprint of detention facilities in Colorado is much wider than previously thought, including small, nondescript holding facilities like the one in a strip mall in Glenwood Springs. While some of these locations are listed in agency documentation as field offices or sub-offices, federal data reveals in no uncertain terms that they double as detention facilities, housing thousands of detained Coloradans in the last year alone.
- Willa Pope Robbins @ Mediaite: Trump Says ‘I Guess’ When Asked if Americans Should Fear Iranian Attacks: ‘Like I Said, Some People Will Die’
President Donald Trump acknowledged that Americans should fear Iranian reprisals in the U.S., claiming in an interview that “we expect some things.”
