Thursday, October 08, 2026
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TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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In a normal political environment, this would be about the time the ambassador scheduled a one-way flight out of Athens.
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“I don’t know what the term means anymore,” the vice president said, before proceeding to give it a try anyway.
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“I don’t know what the term means anymore,” the vice president said, before proceeding to give it a try anyway.
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Rehabilitating Richard Nixon serves several purposes for the current president — and it undermines our collective understanding of America’s past.
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Rehabilitating Richard Nixon serves several purposes for the current president — and it undermines our collective understanding of America’s past.
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With time running out in his Senate race, the Texas Republican intends to make cuts to social insurance programs — and Americans will have to “suck it up.”
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With time running out in his Senate race, the Texas Republican intends to make cuts to social insurance programs — and Americans will have to “suck it up.”
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OTHER STORIES ON OUR RADAR
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Mainers to walk 76 miles to protest Susan Collins
(Spectrum News NECN)
"The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted.""
ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
(NPR)
"The document says Washington was “grateful” Lithuania supposedly found a panel framing the US as a foreign information threat “reprehensible and surprising” and welcomed its decision to limit involvement in the conference.
That panel – called “USA as a FIMI threat: adapt, acknowledge, push back”, with the acronym FIMI referring to “foreign information manipulation and interference” – took place on Wednesday. It explored how Europe’s disinformation community could rebuild resilience without Washington, and is the first time the conference appears to have entertained the idea that the US could be a disinformation actor in Europe."
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
(The Guardian)
“We have to suck it up”: Ken Paxton privately suggests cutting federal benefit programs to reduce national deficit — In a conversation that has been leaked in pieces to multiple publications, the GOP Senate nominee called for “reasonable cuts to mandatory spending,” which is driven by Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
(Texas Tribune)
"A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme."
(The American Prospect)
"“I saw the dead body of Osama bin Laden with my own eyes, knowing that together, we had delivered justice for America,” he wrote. What Rogers had seen was a photograph."
Mike Rogers has spent years exaggerating his counterterrorism experience and role in the bin Laden raid
(Detroit Metro Times)
"Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership told agents nationwide on Tuesday to increase immigration arrests by 1,000 more people daily, returning to a previous goal of 3,000 daily arrests, according to two sources familiar with the verbal directive."
(CNN)
- "The photo raises further questions about possible White House links to the pro-Russian politician. President Trump on Wednesday distanced himself from two top political advisers after the New York Times reported they had traveled to Republika Srpska last week to assist Dodik's pro-Russia party in Bosnian elections."
Photo shows top Trump aide's daughter with pro-Russia politician in Bosnia
(CBS News)
- FLASHBACK: At Fox, U.S. Ambassador Guilfoyle endorsed criminal investigation into Clinton “pay-for-play” claims
(Media Matters)
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