- Kate Riga @ Talking Points Memo: Senate Republicans Shrug As Unelected Musk Seizes Their Power
In the early days of the second Trump administration, those “practical limits” are not to be found in Congress, where most Republican senators, to hear them tell it, are delighted with Musk’s unprecedented appropriation of the legislature’s power of the purse.
- Nicole Narea @ Vox: Elon Musk’s secretive government IT takeover, explained
Musk’s growing influence over the government’s digital infrastructure raises concerns about privacy and overreach.
- Jason Kandel @ Law & Crime: ‘Retribution is inevitable’: Proud Boys leader plans to defy judge who stripped group of trademark in fight with vandalized Black church
The far-right Proud Boys extremist group has lost control of its trademarked name, which has now been handed over to a historically Black church in Washington, D.C., that members of the group vandalized in 2020.
- Angry White Men: Joel Webbon: Indigenous People ‘Lived In Tents,’ ‘Worshiped Demon Gods,’ And ‘Used Drugs’
In a Feb. 2, 2025 sermon, racist, antisemitic, anti-LGBTQ, and misogynistic Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon declared that “there were no civilized people” in America when white Christians arrived. He also said that Indigenous people “lived in tents,” “worshiped demon gods,” and “used drugs.”
- Edith Olmsted @ The New Republic: Republican Congressman Issues Unhinged Call to Deport Ilhan Omar
Representative Ilhan Omar’s Republican colleagues are once again calling for her to be deported because they don’t understand U.S. law.
