Literally Unbelievable

• Jasper Craven @ Politico Magazine: Pete Hegseth’s Crusade to Turn the Military into a Christian Weapon

• Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon has embraced an aggressive form of Christianity that is at war with the military’s nonpartisan and pluralistic culture.

• Julie Ingersoll @ The Conversation: Why the religious beliefs of Trump defense pick Pete Hegseth matter

• The roots of Hegseth’s version of Christianity are worth a look as he heads into confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate in January 2025. 

• Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump’s effort to move the Jan. 6 goalposts is literally unbelievable

• When a Justice Department investigation discredited a key Jan. 6 conspiracy theory, Donald Trump cynically tried to tweak the absurd underlying claim.

• Stuart A. Thompson @ The New York Times: I Traded My News Apps for Rumble, the Right-Wing YouTube. Here’s What I Saw.

• On Nov. 18, about two weeks after the election, I deleted my news apps, unsubscribed from all my podcasts and filtered all my newsletters to the trash. And for the next week, from early morning till late at night, I got all my news from Rumble.

• Alice Herman and Karen Goll @ The Guardian: ‘Mama bears are rising up’: the rightwing Christian entrepreneur aiming for a takeover of local US government

• Jenny Donnelly, multi-level marketer turned rising star on the Christian right, wants to fight against LGBTQ+ inclusion and abortion rights.

• Anthea Butler @ The Philadelphia Inquirer: Trump’s religious supporters not only see him as a leader, but as God’s man. That should give us all pause.

• Everything Trump will do in this new administration, including his promise of mass deportations, tariffs, destroying the Department of Education, and retribution, will have religious overtones.

• Tim Dickinson @ Rolling Stone: Extremist Shock Jock Stew Peters Arrested for DWI

• The hateful conspiracy theorist, with ties to Trump nominees, was arrested after allegedly flipping an ATV in Minnesota.