- Zack Beauchamp @ Vox: The alt-right won
Trump’s call to ban “Third World” immigration proves it.
- Malcolm Ferguson @ The New Republic: Trump Calls Ilhan Omar “Garbage” as His Team Breaks Out in Applause
Donald Trump went on a particularly racist tirade about the Democratic representative. And his entire Cabinet enjoyed it.
- Makena Kelly and Vittoria Elliott @ Wired: DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
- Isaac Schorr @ Mediaite: Highbrow Conservative Organization Had Students Dine With Alex Jones
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a highbrow educational organization for conservative students with a long history of intellectual activism, invited students to a dinner with Tucker Carlson and Alex Jones this past spring that its president, Johnny Burtka, described as being “unforgettable.”
- Brian Kaylor @ Public Witness: Pentagon Preachers Proclaim a Lord of War
The most significant way Hegseth’s establishing his faith is with monthly Christian prayer services held at the Pentagon during work hours. Far from interfaith events, the gatherings have been sectarian and evangelistic. And in a hierarchical structure like the military, when the Secretary of War invites people to come to an event and speaks during it, such an invite might not seem very voluntary.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Here Come the Nick Fuentes Clones.
Given Fuentes’s popularity, it was probably only a matter of time before an outlet asked itself: Rather than tying ourselves into knots about this, what if we instead just got our own Nick Fuentes?
