- Sarah Fitzpatrick @ The Atlantic: Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash
The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.
- Josh Kovensky @ Talking Points Memo: Gorka Fumes Against the Left in New Counterterrorism Strategy
Sebastian Gorka released a new counterterrorism strategy on Wednesday, singling out “violent left-wing extremists,” “extreme transgender ideologies,” and “violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”
- Lauren Stiller Rikleen @ The Contrarian: The Justice Department’s Appalling Grift Store
Settlements with the president's friends and the possibility of payouts to him are an affront to every taxpayer.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: MAGA Influencers Find a Medicare Fraudster They Love
The strange campaign to secure a pardon for a guy who pleaded guilty to health care fraud.
- Luke Winkie @ Slate: What’s It Like to Spend Your Life in the Internet’s Craziest Corners? Ask Will Sommer.
He chronicled the last era of internet conspiracy theories. We’re not ready for the next one.
- Greg Sargent @ The New Republic: Angry Trump Spirals as Poll Shows Him Losing to Pope Badly
As Trump keeps attacking Pope Leo, a scholar of religion explains how MAGA persuaded Trump that he’s a more hallowed figure than the pope—and why that’s resulting in a total fiasco for him.
- Robert P. Jones @ Redeeming Democracy: Theatre of the Absurd
The Trump Administration's "Anti-Christian Bias" Report.
