- Adam Gabbatt @ The Guardian: A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter
Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow.
- Megan O’Matz and Jennifer Smith Richards @ ProPublica: These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has been clear about her desire to shut down the agency she runs. She’s laid off half the staff and joked about padlocking the door. She calls it “the final mission.” But the department is not behaving like an agency that is simply winding down. Even as McMahon has shrunk the Department of Education, she’s operated in what she calls “a parallel universe” to radically shift how children will learn for years to come.
- Sally O’Driscoll and AC d’Adesky @ Resisting Project 2025: Meet the Enemy: Project 2025 is bad enough – but wait till you see what the shadow groups behind it want to do. Behind the Mask lays it all bare.
Longtime LGBTQIA+ journalist and activist Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out releases a huge Who’s Who list of Christian right groups and leaders – to help progressives fight back.
- Noah Robertson and Tara Copp @ The Washington Post: Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations
The inquiry, resulting in a smattering of disciplinary action so far, follows an extraordinary Pentagon directive aimed at silencing criticism of the slain activist and Trump supporter.
- Steve Neavling @ Detroit Metro Times: Michigan Republican pushing pornography ban linked to porn site, records show
Rep. Schriver appeared in a porn and hookup site seeking “fetish” and “groupsex,” according to data breach.
- Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: Candace Owens Says Charlie Kirk ‘Came to Me’ in a Dream and Told Me ‘He Was Betrayed’
Political commentator Candace Owens claimed on Tuesday that the late Charlie Kirk visited her in a dream over the weekend and told her “he was betrayed.”
- Greg Sargent @ The New Republic: Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
Stephen Miller has a theory about this political moment. As President Trump expands his lawbreaking and dictatorial rule, the powerful MAGA disinformation apparatus—at Miller’s direction—is supercharging public attention to the debate over Trump’s conduct in a way that’s designed to deeply polarize it.
