- Lisa Riordan Seville, Andy Kroll, Katie Campbell and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons @ ProPublica: Who Is Russell Vought? How a Little-Known D.C. Insider Became Trump’s Dismantler-in-Chief
Reporter Andy Kroll explains Vought’s rise from a congressional staffer to the man piloting everything from Trump's layoffs and agency closings to his shutdown strategy, controlling the fate of trillions of dollars and millions of federal workers.
- Leigh Kimmins @ The Daily Beast: Trump Suddenly Doesn’t Want to Be a King as Massive Protests Loom
President Donald Trump insists he’s no monarch—just hours before thousands of protesters plan to remind him of that fact.
- John Pavlovitz @ The Beautiful Mess: Hitler Has Entered the Chat... and JD Vance and the Republicans are Happy to See Him.
Well, in case you weren’t keeping track, we’re in the “Nazis are fine” portion of Republican Americans’ moral collapse.
- Greg Sargent @ The New Republic: Trump Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Top Official Suddenly Resigns
As the head of the military’s Southern Command steps down, Adam Smith, the top Armed Services Committee Democrat, sheds new light on the departure—and on Trump’s appalling secrecy about the bombings.
- Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: RFK Jr. Warns Teenagers Now Have Less Sperm Than 65-Year-Old Men
Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned on Thursday that teenagers now have less sperm and testosterone than 65-year-old men.
- Noah Lanard @ Mother Jones: Trump Could Soon Make America’s Refugee Program a Tool for White Nationalism
The White House is considering a plan to overhaul refugee admissions in favor of right-wing whites.
