- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Ryan Walters is resigning, ending his disastrous reign over Oklahoma's public schools
The far-right superintendent of public schools will soon lead a right-wing group that fights teachers' unions.
- Matt Gertz @ Media Matters: Donald Trump is the greatest threat to our free speech rights
The president’s new comment demolishes the pathetic argument some elements of the right have pushed over the last week.
- Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck @ CNN: Trump State Dept. nominee tried to erase thousands of tweets, many inflammatory
Jeremy Carl, a top Trump State Department nominee, deleted thousands of social media posts, many demonstrating a history of inflammatory commentary— including incendiary posts about race, claims that “peaceful coexistence” with Democrats is impossible, and even a call for a political opponent to face the death penalty.
- David Edwards @ Raw Story: Alex Jones sports Hitler mustache in shocking broadcast: 'It had a wild effect on women'
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said he was conducting a "social experiment" by sporting a mustache in the style of Adolf Hitler — and claimed that it made him more attractive to women.
- Melissa Gira Grant @ The New Republic: The Right’s Baseless Project to Link Trans People With Extremism
It did not take long, after Charlie Kirk was killed on September 10, for Kirk’s defenders to pin his death on trans people. It didn’t matter that there was no evidence that Kirk’s killer was trans, just as it hadn’t mattered in prior shootings over the last several years, when right-wing influencers and elected officials accused mass shooters of being motivated by their trans identities—even if they were motivated by something else, or weren’t trans.
