- Michael Hirsh @ Politico Magazine: ‘Beyond My Wildest Dreams’: The Architect of Project 2025 Is Ready for His Victory Lap
Paul Dans, the ousted director of Project 2025, says he’s delighted that Trump is implementing his agenda after all.
- Malcolm Ferguson @ The New Republic: Trump Border Czar Openly Brags About Defying Courts on Deportations
Tom Homan says he’ll ignore judges as much as he wants.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump says he’s invalidating some Biden pardons, claiming power he doesn’t have
Donald Trump doesn’t have the authority to invalidate Joe Biden’s pardons. The Republican is apparently simply asserting the right anyway.
- Janna Brancolini @ The Daily Beast: Oath Keepers Leader Begs Trump to Go Bigger With His J6 Pardons
Stewart Rhodes complained that without a full pardon he can’t own a gun, vote, or receive veterans benefits.
- Robert Downen @ The Texas Tribune: In Texas, Christian right grows confident and assertive
Emboldened by court rulings and election victories, the Christian right is outspoken as it pushes its moral views through the Texas Legislature.
- The Throckmorton Initiative: DEI Madness at the Department of Defense
Someone, apparently at the DoD, added the letters “dei” in front of medal of honor to make the website fail. This appears to be a racist attack at the memory of Charles Rogers. If you search for Charles Calvin Rogers on the DoD site, you get the same link but when you click it, you come to this same page. Rogers’ page has not been moved to another place on the DoD website; it has been sabotaged.
- Frances Vinall @ The Washington Post: Oklahoma proposes teaching standards suggesting 2020 election ‘discrepancies’
A new social studies agenda approved by the education board would require high-schoolers to review baseless claims related to President Trump’s 2020 election loss.