- Ian Millhiser @ Vox: The horrifying implications of today’s Supreme Court argument on trans rights
The Court appears likely to uphold bans on gender-affirming care, and may gut the rules barring all forms of sex discrimination in the process.
- Colby Hall @ Mediaite: Trump Announces He Will Attend Fox Nation’s Patriot Awards to Receive ‘Patriot of the Year’ Award
President-elect Donald Trump announced he would be in person to receive the “Fox Patriot of the Year Award” at Thursday night’s Patriot Awards in Long Island.
- Steven Monacelli and Tristan Lee @ Texas Observer: Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
- Logan M. Davis @ Colorado Times Recorder: Colorado-Based Christian Nationalists are Rewriting Recent History
With Trump returning to the presidency, though, Truth & Liberty no longer seems content to parrot Barton’s rewriting of the nation’s founding. Now, they are extending [David] Barton’s tactics to subjects far more recent – they are rewriting the history of the last four years, and they are doing it for the exact same reason they cling to their rewritten version of the founding: to justify what they plan to do next.
- David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: Pete Hegseth’s Mom Urges ‘Female Senators’ to Ignore Media Reports, Confirm Him as SecDef
Penelope Hegseth, the mother of Donald Trump’s current and embattled nominee for U.S. Secretary of Defense, appeared on the cable network where her son Pete works, to urge the U.S. Senate, and especially “female Senators,” to disregard media reports—which include allegations of sexual misconduct, excessive alcohol abuse, financial mismanagement of two veterans’ organizations, and tattoos suggesting a link to Christian nationalism. She insisted her son is a changed man and should be confirmed.
