FAST READS with Molly Jong-Fast 02/07/2025
Welcome to FAST READS with Molly Jong-Fast.
Please check out my latest Vanity Fair article: Project 2025 Is Here.
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On FASTPOLITICS – Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone examines the media's reaction to Trump’s shock-and-awe legislation strategy. Eoin Higgins details his new book, Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left. The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson details Trump’s many assaults on the rule of law.What's the Matter with Kansas author Thomas Frank examines why Democrats fear embracing populism. Historian Thomas Zimmer parses the inner workings of why Trump and Musk are rushing through their demolition of government institutions. Harvard’s Theda Skocpol examines what helped shape the right’s urge to dismantle government.
My Recommended Reads For The Week:
- The Guardian: Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
- The Washington Post: CIA Offers Buyout to Entire Workforce as Part of Trump Makeover. By Joel Schectman
- The Huffington Post: FBI Agents Who Worked Jan. 6 And Trump Cases Sue Justice Department. By Brandi Buchman
- Stateline: Red states create their own DOGE efforts to cut state government. By Kevin Hardy
- Executive Functions at Substack: The Trump Executive Orders as “Radical Constitutionalism”. By Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith
PROJECT 2025: I made this documentary Also I’m not going to rewatch it because it’s going to make me depressed youtu.be/5ZA0iSTVqMc?...
Thanks for reading!
-Molly-