TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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As the dust settles on the debacle, it’s worth sparing a thought for the top federal prosecutor in the nation’s capital, whose record keeps getting worse.
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Team Trump is apparently comfortable rolling back the clock, not because firing squads have become more sanitary, but because it just doesn’t seem to care.
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Team Trump is apparently comfortable rolling back the clock, not because firing squads have become more sanitary, but because it just doesn’t seem to care.
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It’s really not the DOJ’s job to tell private litigants “enough is enough” because the president doesn’t want to be inconvenienced by the legal process.
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It’s really not the DOJ’s job to tell private litigants “enough is enough” because the president doesn’t want to be inconvenienced by the legal process.
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When Trump wasn’t talking about his ballroom, he was criticizing those who dare to disagree with him.
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When Trump wasn’t talking about his ballroom, he was criticizing those who dare to disagree with him.
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WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR?
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- "This is part of a broader national campaign led by Indivisible, with similar billboards going up near detention sites across the country..."
(Hagerstown Rapid Response)
- "Opponents of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Maryland put their fight on a new billboard.
"The sign posted on Dual Highway in Washington County reads, 'ICE Camp is planned 5.6 miles ahead." It adds, “Not in our community'..."
(NBC Washington)
- "The experience stunned Ms. Ross-Mahé, who previously supported President Trump...
“I didn’t think these things existed,” she said of the immigration facilities she was held in. “I thought when we arrested them, we would treat them properly. It really shocked me.”
...
"When Ms. Ross-Mahé, 85, opened the door, they pushed inside, saying they were the immigration police, she said in an interview. They handcuffed her and took her to an unmarked car before driving her to a jail cell. She was still in her bathrobe, pajamas and slippers, she said.
“I didn’t know what was happening to me really,” she told me in France this week, in her first interview since being deported after a 16-day incarceration. “It was very humiliating. My hair had not even been combed. I was just getting out of bed.”
After her arrest on April 1, Ms. Ross-Mahé was swallowed into the country’s sprawling immigration detention system, where, she said, she was chained by her wrists and ankles to other inmates and loaded onto buses and a plane “like a potato sack.” After two weeks in detention in Alabama and Louisiana, she said, she feared she might die."
(New York Times)
- “I personally have always been a fan of libraries,” said Senator Capito, a Republican whose panel writes the annual bill to fund the Institute...
“So, that’s what he does, he proposes, and then we look at it and make our own decisions,” she said.
Trump’s budget would gut local libraries and museums. Congress is not on board.
(News from the States)
- "The OLC opinion could make voter-suppression efforts, for example, harder to detect. He said in an interview that encouraging Presidential staffers to draft memorandums in lieu of sharing screenshots 'is a great way to rewrite history'...”
White House loosens rules for preserving presidential records
(Washington Post)
- Congress members join protest against ‘oligarch’s dinner’ for Trump thrown by Ellisons — Paramount Skydance CEO fetes administration as it weighs $110bn merger with CNN parent WarnerBros Discovery
(The Guardian)
- “I knew it was risky to speak out, but my responsibility to Stripes and the First Amendment was paramount,” she said
The troops, Ms. Smith said in the interview, “deserve to have the unfiltered news, not what the Defense Department wants them to hear.”
Pentagon Fires Stars and Stripes’ Advocate for Independence
(New York Times)
- The push to block ICE's plans to expand detention centers is fueling a coordinated national day of protests on Saturday.
- Organizers tell Axios that one of the most mentioned reasons demonstrators attended the No Kings protests was their opposition to immigration enforcement, and Saturday's Communities Not Cages events expect to harness that energy.
- Key protester demands include making the administration cancel warehouse detention plans and encouraging communities to reject any public funding, approvals, or local resources for expanding detention of migrants.
- They're also calling for transparency and community consent before any detention-related plans proceed.
(Rachel shares Axios)
- "What money they have raised has largely come from the pharma industry, whose clout in Washington Kennedy has decried for decades.
"Almost ninety percent of donations came from just 10 entities, half of whom have ties to the drug industry..."
The groups backing RFK Jr. are running low on cash
(Politico)
- "Noem has continued to use the waterfront Coast Guard Commandant's house in Washington, D.C. since Trump ousted her from DHS in early March...
"The current Coast Guard commandant, Adm. Kevin Lunday, has told associates he plans to move into the house imminently..."
(Wall Street Journal)
- "At No Kings, I said something to the effect of, “silent businesses, complicit institutions, and cowardly politicians keep failing us.”
I was thinking about Delta Air Lines, our airport authority, and, well, many of our local politicians.
Minnesota deserves better."
- "Good morning. I watched a livestream of a local airport commission meeting earlier this week. What I saw was, well, what we've been seeing in blue areas for decades now -- public outcry vs. so-called public servants. "
(Nick Benson shares Gillian Brockell with a link)
- "Lutheran pastor James Erlandson told the commissioners he was among 100 faith leaders arrested at the airport in January, “while praying for Delta to find the courage to use their power and speak out ... before any of us even knew that they were transporting children.”
“Just treatment for immigrant families and workers and our neighbors detained by ICE should take priority over profits,” he told them."
(Gillian Brockell)
- "Imaginary talks cancelled, so they will need to be reimagined for the Monday markets and stock bets."
(Mark Thompason)
- “Hundreds of residents have packed council meetings to voice their disapproval of the planned facility... One meeting saw over a thousand attendees...
'You lose every battle that you choose not to fight,' Mayes said. 'Today, the state of Arizona is choosing to fight.'
Arizona AG sues Trump over Surprise immigration detention warehouse
(AZ Mirror)
- “To settle this, it would be great if the White House would release the case files and any FBI recordings of Homan’s meetings with undercover agents posing as businessmen...”
(MaddowBlog)
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