Wednesday, September 02, 2026
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TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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Ahead of the midterm elections, the president isn’t even being subtle about his scandalous politicization of disaster aid.
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The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.
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The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.
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Key GOP voices are apparently convinced: It’s China, not reality, driving opposition to data centers. That’s quite a message for the midterms.
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Key GOP voices are apparently convinced: It’s China, not reality, driving opposition to data centers. That’s quite a message for the midterms.
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GOP officials tend to go out of their way to overlook other scandal-plagued Republicans. With Rep. Chuck Edwards, things were ... different.
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GOP officials tend to go out of their way to overlook other scandal-plagued Republicans. With Rep. Chuck Edwards, things were ... different.
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OTHER STORIES ON OUR RADAR
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- "Voters in Independence have successfully recalled a councilman after his vote to approve a multibillion-dollar data center.
District 1 Councilman John Perkins was recalled during a special election on Tuesday, with unofficial final results showing over 68 percent of voters in the district supported the recall."
(KMBC)
- "Top U.S. Postal Service officials tasked with issuing new regulations on mail voting expressed concerns in internal meetings about how the rules they were drafting could delay or block ballots from reaching large swaths of eligible voters for the upcoming midterms, but the rules moved forward anyway, ProPublica has learned."
(Pro Publica)
- "The third-most populous county in Texas will have nearly a third fewer polling places this November after Republican county commissioners dramatically reduced the number of polling locations in Tarrant County.
Tuesday’s 3-2 party-line vote to approve the measure did not come without a fight.
For more than three hours, hundreds of protesters gathered outside a courthouse to decry voter disenfranchisement ahead of the upcoming November elections in one of the most politically important swing counties in Texas."
(MS NOW)
- "He added that all the turnover pointed to a question senators would be asking when they got back to Washington: “Where is the leadership?”
“We’ve had some very good generals that are no longer there that we respected,” Rounds said.
But some GOP lawmakers went beyond just lamenting the turnover. Some put the responsibility squarely on Hegseth.
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. — a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general — told reporters that Driscoll “reflects a view of many of us that the secretary has gone overboard on the firings, the redlines, with no explanation given.”"
(MS NOW)
- Hegseth Targets 7 More Officers as His Frustrated Army Secretary Quits — The defense secretary’s cuts, which have hit about 10 percent of the military’s top officers, are dividing the Pentagon, officials said.
(New York Times)
- "The top Pentagon official overseeing military artificial intelligence policy, who reaped profits earlier this year of up to $24m selling his private investment in Elon Musk’s AI company, has now sold his holdings in another AI company for between $5m and $25m, according to records seen by the Guardian. (Federal financial records show ranges of dollar values rather than specific figures.)"
(The Guardian)
- Republicans aren’t exactly flocking to Trump’s midterm convention — “I can't control what the president's going to say at the convention, but I can control where I'm at,” one battleground member said.
(Politico)
- "Volunteers said that in some cases, ICE agents gave people a chance to prove their legal status, but when that took too long, agents rounded up everyone they could."
Several people released after Memphis ICE raid as questions linger over tactics
(NewsChannel5)
- "Private landowners, ranch owners and eco-tourism business owners who will be impacted by any construction weren't invited to the meeting."
"Like pissing in the wind": Local concerns bulldozed by Trump's border wall plan
(Axios)
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Rachel and the gang are getting out of the studio heading to Arlington, Texas on Saturday, September 26th to hang out with the MS NOW audience.
This forthcoming Membership experience will bring MS NOW fans closer to our hosts and to each other, with real-time connections and exclusive content you can't get on-air.
Each ticket, with prices starting as low as $30, includes a special offer for one year of free access to MS NOW's new membership experience.
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"Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America’s Most Consequential Institution"
comes out November 10 but you can pre-order now.
See MS.NOW/DepartmentOfFate for links and options to pre-order.
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