- Peter Baker @ The New York Times: For Trump, Domestic Adversaries Are Not Just Wrong, They Are ‘Evil’
The president’s vilification of political opponents and journalists seeds the ground for threats of prosecution, imprisonment and deportation unlike any modern president has made.
- Josh Kovensky @ Talking Points Memo: Fire, Brimstone, and Hegseth: Idaho Christian Nationalists Establish a DC Beachhead
They're bringing an aggressive, very MAGA brand of Christian government to the nation's capital.
- Jonathan Larsen: White House Bible Study Teaches that Jews Killed Jesus
The preacher who leads Bible studies for cabinet secretaries at the White House — and in both chambers of Congress, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) — said in one of his lessons this month that “Israel … executed the Messiah.”
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Evangelicals lose their minds after Chip and Joanna Gaines cast gay couple on reality show
"Back to the Frontier" has sparked right-wing outrage for treating two gay dads as... normal people.
- Ailia Zehra @ AlterNet: Fox hosts pilloried for 'super racist' segment 'calling themselves Nazis'
Fox News commentators Greg Gutfeld and [Lisa] Kennedy [Montgomery] have sparked outrage on social media after the two casually embraced the term "Nazi" during an on-air exchange Tuesday — prompting criticism for normalizing extremist language.
- Media Matters: Charlie Kirk complains of “young women that are infected with the Jezebel spirit that had no interest in getting married or having children, that wanted to be the boss of the relationship”
"It was not full of young women that are infected with the Jezebel spirit that had no interest in getting married or having children, that wanted to be the boss of the relationship. Young men seek to have some sort of relationship that is scriptural in nature. More people were Christian. Our nation is now more secular."
