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Rob Boston: New York Times columnist unmasks racism of Christian Nationalism
"It’s always interesting when a conservative Christian learns that Christian Nationalists can be, well, nasty people.
The latest person to figure this out is David French, a former writer for the National Review who’s now a columnist for The New York Times. In a recent gut-wrenching piece, French writes about being driven out of his church, which is affiliated with the conservative Presbyterian Church in America, after a barrage of online attacks on him and his wife.
French’s cardinal sin is that he’s not a fan of Donald Trump and has publicly said so. Some members of his church and online trolls attacked him for that, but a faction went much further and unleashed a fusillade of racist assaults on French and his wife because they had adopted a 2-year-old girl from Ethiopia in 2010."
#davidfrench #christiannationalism #nyt #americansunited
https://www.au.org/the-latest/articles/french-nyt-cnracism24/?utm_source=blogdigest&utm_medium=email&sourceid=&emci=1d63853b-eb24-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&emdi=e7c63bf8-272b-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&ceid=3729163# -
Liz Hoffman: Key senator, Ron Wyden, criticizes Mnuchin’s #TikTok bid, ties to Gulf money
"Sen. Ron Wyden, the chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, sharply criticized former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and his ties to money from the Middle East, in his effort to buy TikTok from its Chinese owner.
Mnuchin told CNBC last week that he’s assembling a group of investors to buy the platform after the House overwhelmingly passed a bill forcing it to either be sold within six months or banned from app stores. The White House has urged the Senate, where the bill has powerful backers and opponents in both parties, to move quickly."
“I don’t see how America will be any more secure if the next owner of TikTok is a MAGA Trump crony backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund,” Wyden told Semafor.
#Mnuchin
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/18/2024/senator-ron-wyden-criticizes-mnuchins-tiktok-bid-ties-to-gulf-money -
Natalie Whiting, Alex Barry and Theckla Gunga: How the ‘second Amazon’ became a battleground: Tensions are growing along a pristine river system on Australia’s doorstep
#rainforests #papuanewguinea #sepik #logging
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-09/how-the-second-amazone-became-battleground-sepik-png/102062130 -
Dana Milbank: Mike Johnson needs a cognitive test
"On Tuesday night, after House Republicans lost a closely watched special congressional election in New York, longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned them that the result was 'a rejection of House Republican chaos' and a House majority that 'gave voters nothing to vote for.'
'Tonight is the final wakeup call for the @HouseGOP,' he posted on X. 'If they ignore or attempt to explain away why they lost, they will lose in November as well.'
On Wednesday morning, House Republicans attempted to explain away the loss."
#GOP #newyork #2024election #tomsuozzi #uspolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/16/mike-johnson-house-speaker-border-security-ukraine