- David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: ‘Racial Profiling’: Border Czar Blasted for Claim ICE Can Detain for ‘Personal Appearance’
President Donald Trump’s hand-picked border czar, Tom Homan, is facing backlash from legal and political experts after asserting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents do not need “probable cause” to detain individuals—and can do so based on factors like “personal appearance.”
- Josephine Walker @ Axios: Governors accuse Trump admin of stalling disaster recovery
Multiple governors say they're being increasingly pushed to scrounge for disaster recovery money without the support they traditionally rely on from the federal government.
- Nathan Taylor Pemberton @ The New York Times: Trolling Democracy
If you want to know where Republican politics is heading, look at the memes. Since the start of its second term, the Trump administration and its G.O.P. surrogates have been crashing out online.
- Asawin Suebsaeng and Ryan Bort @ Rolling Stone: The DOJ’s Epstein Memo Is Tearing the Trump Administration Apart
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are not happy with AG Pam Bondi's handling of the investigation into the convicted sex offender.
- Media Matters: Steve Bannon calls Jack Posobiec a “sap” for his part in the Trump DOJ's Epstein binder stunt
Posobiec was one of 15 right-wing influencers involved in the Epstein PR blitz in February, and is quoted at the time as saying “more and more pieces of this” would be coming.
- Samuel Benson @ Politico: Mike Lee Can’t Stop Throwing Social Media Grenades. His Church Isn’t Happy.
The Utah senator’s online persona has further damaged his already frayed relationship with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
