- Robert Downen @ The Texas Tribune: Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes
Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in Dallas-area GOP politics.
- Katherine Stewart @ The New Republic: America’s Christian Right Is Coming to the U.K.
The Christian nationalist movement has undertaken a vast worldwide expansion. Hello, London? Texas calling.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Latest Trump pardon shows just how much the rules have changed (for the worse)
The president’s habit of handing out pardons like party favors was a scandal in his first term. It’s worse now.
- Chrissy Stroop @ Religion Dispatches: With Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Board, Christian Right Dream to Wrestle Public Schools into Submission in Sight
It’s critical to understand that beneath the surface, the new Trump-Musk duumvirate is pursuing the same authoritarian Christian agenda as the old Trump administration—and they’re doing so more aggressively than ever.
- Michael Luciano @ Mediaite: ‘Send Them to Jail’: Sen. Tuberville Demands Pro-Palestine Demonstrators Be Locked Up
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said people who protest Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza should be jailed.
