- Dan Friedman and Amanda Moore @ Mother Jones: Top Prosecutor Spoke at Event Attended by January 6 Seditionists Who Are Appealing Their Convictions
US Attorney Ed Martin compared January 6 rioters to Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.
- Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Amid turmoil, Trump heads to Florida for a golf event (again)
After setting much of the global economy — and retirement accounts — on fire, taking a golf trip isn’t a great look for Trump.
- Zachary Leeman @ Mediaite: ‘He Doesn’t Give a F**k’: White House Official Tells Washington Post Trump Has Reached Peak ‘Not Giving a F**k’
President Donald Trump has reached the “peak of not giving a fuck,” one White House official told The Washington Post for a lengthy report on what went on behind the scenes leading up to the president’s massive tariff announcement this week.
- Jennifer Bendery @ HuffPost: GOP Confirms Anti-Voting Rights Extremist To Protect Americans' Voting Rights
Harmeet Dhillon, an election denier and legal adviser to Trump, will now lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
- Mara Richards Bim @ Baptist Global News: A visual guide to the elected officials who fly Christian nationalist flags at the Capitol
I ended up spending six hours walking a total of 19 miles through the six office buildings at the Capitol. I walked by every single elected official’s office to document exactly which of them fly these flags.
- Matt Gertz @ Media Matters: Trump's decision to upend his national security team at the behest of conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer is a five-alarm fire
President Donald Trump’s abrupt apparent removal of the general who oversaw U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at the reported behest of the MAGA influencer Laura Loomer, a notorious bigot and conspiracy theorist, is a five-alarm fire for national security and good governance.
