Recommended Reading: Trump's Dual Threat and Leaked Documents
Recommended Reading: Trump's Dual Threat and Leaked Documents
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: David Kurtz, Hamish McKenzie, Parker Molloy, Dean Obeidallah, Jessica Valenti, and Jim Wallis
This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
writes that “Trump’s child-like fascination with the military as a way to shore up his own insecurities ignores all of that history and tradition and the laws that help preserve them. He would come into office perturbed that he hadn’t made full use of the military his first time round and determined not to be thwarted from doing so this time. It’s a particular flavor of the Trump threat that we haven’t encountered before in our history and which we may not be sufficiently prepared for: It threatens the military as we know it and civilian life.”
writes that “it is the journalist’s burden to resist the pressures of antagonists in pursuit of the truth. At its best, this kind of journalism is a service to us all. Its practitioners need and deserve all the protections that their right to the freedom of the press and freedom of expression can offer.”
writes that “it's time we stop treating the rights and well-being of transgender and non-binary youth as political footballs. The data is clear: anti-trans laws are harming young people at an alarming rate. These are not abstract policy debates—they have tangible, devastating effects on real lives.”
writes that the pardoned Mark and Patricia McCloskey and the execution of Marcellus Williams “perfectly sums up MAGA. After all Donald Trump has defended white MAGA criminals--from the gun touting McCloskey couple who Parson’s pardoned to Trump’s Jan 6 terrorists—but has demonized people of color with lies that they are committing crimes.”
writes that “one of the anti-abortion movement’s biggest weaknesses is their opposition to IVF. Remember what happened when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that frozen embryos were ‘extrauterine children’? I do! The backlash was immediate. Since then, Republicans and anti-abortion groups have been doing their best to pretend to support IVF in order to avoid voters’ ire.”
writes that “there is a movement afoot all across America. A growing number of very diverse Christians are confronting the white Christian nationalism that is supporting Donald Trump. The message is clear: this distorted false religion vs. Jesus. So many of the attacks on others made by Trump and his enthusiastic white evangelical and charismatic supporters are antithetical to the teachings of Jesus.”
