Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: MAGA Rallies Around Andrew Tate
Despite the serious sex trafficking charges facing the influencer and his brother, Trump supporters are going to bat for them.
Russ Choma @ Mother Jones: Instant Access to Trump’s Thoughts Now Costs $100,000 a Month
Truth Social—where the president often moves markets—is offering faster access at a very high price.
Michelangelo Signorile @ The Signorile Report: The people whose lives Trump sees as disposable
Sgt. Angel Rampersad lost her life in the Iran war. She was an immigrant and a queer woman, among the kind of people treated as second class citizens in America under this regime.
Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Focus on the Family has advice for estranged parents. An apology isn’t part of it.
The conservative Christian ministry refuses to acknowledge how James Dobson’s abusive teachings drove countless children away from their parents
Susan J. Demas @ Lincoln Square: The Ritual Humiliation of Usha Vance
She bet on the dark side of America — the MAGA side — surmising that it was smarter to let her husband ascend because voters would accept a doughy, mediocre white guy over a brilliant Hindu attorney.
Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims @ Popular Information: A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s Corruption
The fact that one of the president’s top foreign policy advisors is receiving large, ongoing financial payments from the Saudi government is unquestionably relevant to the story. Nearly all major media coverage of the US-Saudi nuclear agreement ignored Kushner’s financial conflicts…
Nick Miroff @ The Atlantic: The Secretary of Homeland
Trump seeks the removal of millions of immigrants from U.S. cities and communities, and Mullin was brought in to do that more quietly and cheerfully than his predecessor.
Ariana Figeroa @ Ohio Capitol Journal: Thousands of immigrant kids risk losing legal aid after Trump administration delays funds
As many as 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children are at risk of losing their federally funded legal representation due to the Trump administration withholding appropriated funds
Spencer MacNaughton @ Uncloseted Media: At Alliance Defending Freedom’s Summit, Church and State are One
I believe the political power players who attended this year’s summit know this. They know they are endorsing an organization whose members have essentially called for the illegalization of most—if not all—forms of queer behavior and presentation.