- Nikki McCann Ramirez and Charisma Madarang @ Rolling Stone: Senate Confirms Trump Lawyer Emil Bove Amid Whistleblower Claims
Bove has been accused of engaging in deception in order to carry out Trump’s agenda.
- Angry White Men: Christian Nationalists Defend Proposed Whites-Only Community
White supremacists are (once again) attempting to build a whites-only community, this time in Arkansas. Known as Return to the Land, this private membership association advertises itself as a community for “traditional views and European ancestry.” On Monday, Christian nationalists Joel Webbon and Wesley Todd interviewed the group’s co-founder, Eric Orwoll, and defended their plan.
- Edith Olmstead @ The New Republic: MAGA Official Says Everyone Investigating Him for Porn Should Resign
Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters had an interesting response to being investigated for accidentally playing porn at work.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Right-wing influencer allegedly helps oust a National Security Agency leader (again)
Far-right activist Laura Loomer keeps exercising enormous influence over Team Trump, successfully lobbying for firings across multiple agencies.
- Will Sommer @ The Bulwark: Dan Bongino, an Emotional Wreck, Throws QAnon a Bone
The administration still has FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s extreme social-media posting habit to rely on as a way to get the faithful back in line.
- Mother Jones: The Bible Says So…or Does It?
On this week’s “More To The Story,” religious scholar and TikTok star Dan McClellan examines how some Christian nationalists use—and often abuse—the Bible to gain political power.
