- Ryan Bort @ Rolling Stone: Republicans Confirm MAGA Conspiracy Theorist as FBI Director
The Senate has bowed to Trump by confirming his problematic nominees for high-level positions, most recently Kash Patel.
- Gabriel Sherman @ Vanity Fair: “They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress
With the president smashing norm after norm, even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making.
- Emine Yücel @ Talking Points Memo: Trump’s DC US Attorney Nom Targets House Dem, Expanding Effort To Stifle Trump Admin Criticism
Acting Washington, D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin is escalating his psuedo-investigations of what he describes as purported threats to billionaire Elon Musk, the staff of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and other federal workers by now demanding information from a House Democrat.
- Steven Monacelli @ The Texas Observer: ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
- Angry White Men: BlazeTV Contributor: ‘AOC Is Puerto Rican. Ilhan Omar Is Somalian. Go Away. Like, You’re Not Part Of The Club’
On Sara Gonzales Unfiltered, BlazeTV contributor John Doyle claimed that representatives who inform undocumented immigrants of their rights have committed “treason.” Doyle, an avowed white nationalist, also said that Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should “go away” because of their heritage.
- Miles Bryan @ Vox: The Christian nationalist legal scholar behind Trump’s purges
Russell Vought and his radical philosophy, explained.
