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What a completely different era this is for Christianity and politics in America. Even in the overtly anti-Catholic periods of US history, it's impossible to picture a US president doing something akin to this. What do you think he's saying here? How will it be taken?

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Retweets, replies, comments—having my back out loud means more than you know because predators thrive in silence. cjr.org/feature-2/wesl… 4/5

Trump’s image of dead ‘white farmers’ came from Congo, not South Africa One of the many falsehoods in his Oval Office performance yesterday cnn.com/2025/05/22/afr…

NEW from me: #SkinnyTok influencer Liv Schmidt is making $100k a month from the Skinni Societe, a group of girls encouraging each other to starve themselves to lose weight. I joined the group and confirmed at least 15 members who are still in high school. Here’s what else I saw:

Just weeks before the disastrous tornado in St. Louis, Trump slashed nearly $1B in disaster aid meant for Black and low-income neighborhoods capitalbnews.org/st-louis-torna…

“Judges Weigh Taking Control of Their Own Security Amid Threats” — because the Marshals answer to Trump, per this extraordinary scoop from The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/us-news/law/tr…

NBC is the latest journalistic outlet to send a reporter to Sudan in a desperate effort to find an audience that will care about the largest ongoing war in the world — 12 million refugees, millions in need of food aid, etc etc nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna2…

Records show that senior State Department officials in both D.C. and Gambia coordinated with Starlink execs to coax, lobby and browbeat Gambian government ministers to help Musk. One official said Gambia is under “maximum pressure” to yield. propublica.org/article/trump-…

Deputy Director Dan Bongino said the FBI will reexamine the leaked Supreme Court draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the discovery of cocaine at the White House. wapo.st/3FaJsTP

AmeriCorps volunteers get paid an average of $18K a year to help this country’s most vulnerable. They were cut — and it went nearly unnoticed. washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05…

NEW: Within Pete Hegseth’s divided inner circle, a ‘cold war’ endures A deep dive on who the defense secretary has left in his inner circle, where personality conflicts, raised voices, and paranoia are all common. MORE ⬇️

“There’s a cold war that exists in between flash points,” said one person, recounting numerous instances when tempers have flared among key figures on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s team. “It’s unsettling at times.” washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Morale is sinking in the VA as workers fear looming cuts. “The veterans now check in and ask us how we are doing” “There’s some cracks starting to show” “Fearful, paranoid, demoralized” washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

I spoke with numerous current and former officials for this story. Many spoke with a sense of exasperation, especially when I raised an enduring clash between two of Hegseth’s senior advisers: Eric Geressy and Ricky Buria.

Trump administration to ask agencies to cut ties with Harvard nbcnews.com/politics/trump… via @nbcnews

NEW: HHS cancels funding for Moderna to develop vaccines to combat bird flu. This is the same technology that Trump hailed for saving lives during pandemic with Operation Warp Speed. ⁦Rachel Roubein⁩ and me. washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05…

The little-known court that blocked Trump's tariffs has broad authority over trade. Read Tobi Raji on the U.S. Court of International Trade. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

In 2007, Kari Lake won two Emmys for reporting in Cambodia. Now, as a government official, she’s tasked with dismantling Voice of America and Radio Free Asia — the two most important independent news sources in the increasingly authoritarian country. New for The Washington Post: