- Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski @ CNN: Trump’s pick to lead BLS ran Twitter account with sexually degrading, bigoted attacks
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay people, conspiracy theories, and crude insults aimed at critics of President Donald Trump.
- Kristian Monroe @ NPR: 'Founders Museum' from White House and PragerU blurs history, AI-generated fiction
A new history exhibit commissioned by the Trump administration has some historians perplexed, as the administration's pushback on arts and history raises questions about omitting marginalized voices in the nation's history.
- Emily Davies and Natalie Allison @ The Washington Post: How Stephen Miller is running Trump’s effort to take over D.C.
The deputy White House chief of staff has emerged as a key enforcer of the D.C. operation in the month since Trump federalized the local police department.
- Ian Millhiser @ Vox: The overwhelming evidence that the Supreme Court is on Donald Trump’s team
Welcome to the Supreme Court’s Calvinball era.
- Charlie Savage @ The New York Times: Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers
The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.
- Paul J. Becker @ The Conversation: An Arkansas group’s effort to build a white ethnostate forms part of a wider US movement inspired by white supremacy
In October 2023, a group calling itself Return to the Land established its first “Whites only community” in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. They followed that with a second enclave nearby in 2025.
