- Ximena Bustillo @ NPR: Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS chief, names Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her
President Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and said Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma would replace her.
- Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: Pseudoscientific Push to Frame Abortion as a ‘Water Quality’ Issue Rears Its Head in Iowa
About an hour into the Republican gubernatorial debate in Iowa earlier this year, Adam Steen, who is one of the leading candidates in the primary, made an eye-popping claim. “We need to decimate the chemical abortions,” Steen said. “You talk about water quality, what’s happening in our water because of that, those chemical abortions that are coming through there.”
- Claire Heddles @ The Miami Herald: ‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat
The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”
- Rodney Kennedy @ Baptist Press: Who will tell Trump’s he’s not God’s anointed?
Someone has to tell Trump, “You ain’t God’s anointed.” You can have the anointing, and you can have it taken away from you. I am not saying Trump ever was God’s anointed — I’m saying at least 84% of evangelicals believe Trump was anointed by God to be president.
- Willa Pope Robbins @ Mediaite: Florida Gov. Candidate Says His Campaign Was Banned From Waffle House After Tucker Carlson Interview
Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback, a Republican, announced on Wednesday that his campaign has been banned from every Waffle House in the state.
- Marco Margaritoff @ HuffPost: CPAC Chair Makes Cold-Blooded Remark About Dead Iranian Schoolgirls
Matt Schlapp appeared to suggest during a heated debate Wednesday that the scores of young girls killed after the U.S. and Israel struck Iran are better off dead.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Carlson vs. Loomer: LET. THEM. FIGHT.
The prominent right-wingers are going after one another’s money.
- Ari Berman @ Mother Jones: These Far-Right Conspiracists Are Pushing Trump to Take Control of Voting
Election deniers are lobbying the president to declare a national emergency.
