- Associated Press
Malaysia minister says terror suspect who killed 2 police officers acted on his own
The young man who attacked a Malaysian police station and killed two officers was a recluse and believed to have acted on his own, despite suspected links to the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group, the country's home minister said Saturday. The man stormed a police station in southern Johor state near Singapore in the early hours of Friday with a machete. Home Minister Saifuddin Nasution called it a “lone wolf attack,” based on the initial investigation, and said there was no threat to the wider public.
- MSNBC
Alito offers strikingly petty excuse for upside-down flag, affirms pro-Trump bias
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito not only doubled down on blaming his wife for flying an upside-down American flag over their house shortly after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, but reportedly further explained that it was part of a spat with an anti-Trump neighbor. Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate Magazine, and Elie Mystal, justice correspondent for The Nation, talk with Alex Wagner about Alito's repeated debasement of the Supreme Court's integrity and the necessity of congress
- MSNBC
Butker commencement speech spotlights religious war on women's freedom, even Taylor Swift's
A commencement speech at conservative Catholic Benedictine College by football kicker Harrison Butker resonated nationally as its anti-diversity, anti-LGBTQ, traditional roles for women themes are seen as encroaching on public life for Americans who in large proportion do not support religion-based rollbacks of social progress. Leah Litman, law professor at the University of Michigan, talks with Alex Wagner about why a speech at a small college became a national flashpoint.
