Why Pete Buttigieg isn't the villain in the East Palestine crash

The GOP wants an Ohio train crash villain. It's not Pete Buttigieg.

VIEW IN BROWSER MSNBC DAILY Understand today's news VIEW IN BROWSER MSNBC DAILY Understand today's news Feb. 25, 2023 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT The U.S. and other allies marked one year since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine with continued pledges of support, including the Biden administration's announcement of another $2 billion in military aid. President Biden also made a surprise visit to Kyiv for the first time since the invasion began. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Fox News' Tucker Carlson exclusive access to 41,000 hours of surveillance footage from the Jan. 6 riot, sparking concerns among media outlets and lawmakers.    Missed something? Don't worry. Here are our select columns and videos from the week. And don't forget to check out MSNBC.com for more.  EDITOR'S PICKS HAYES BROWN Why Pete Buttigieg isn't the villain in the East Palestine crash  Republicans think the transportation secretary didn't do enough after the train derailment. There's just one problem with that. Read more. MICHAEL MCFAUL The U.S. has a bigger stake in the Ukraine-Russia war than critics understand Putin is playing a long game, expecting the collective West to eventually lose interest. We cannot allow that to happen. Read more. ZEESHAN ALEEM Tucker Carlson is about to make the GOP's response to Jan. 6 look like child's play  McCarthy turning over the footage to Carlson tells us a great deal about the ongoing evolution of the right in the direction of authoritarianism. Read more.   REV. DR. WILLIAM BARBER, JONATHAN WILSON-HARTGROVE  Here's the ultimate truth about Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'national divorce' myth   Far too many Americans accept the premise that we are a country divided between red states and blue states. Read more.  STEVE BENEN Trump's proposed plan for ending the war in Ukraine will make you glad he's not in office Trump appears to believe the war can be ended by getting leaders into a room and hopefully thinking of something. Read more. ZEESHAN ALEEM Twitter, Facebook and Instagram once had a decent tool to fight misinformation. It's gone. Blue checks have changed from a trust-building tool to a new battleground for culture wars. Read more. HAYES BROWN China used to be Russia's junior partner. Ukraine changed that. Moscow and Beijing are less committed to each other than their rhetoric before last year's invasion suggested. Read more. BLACK HISTORY, UNCENSORED 'Black History, Uncensored' is a ReidOut Blog series that highlights work by Black creators targeted by GOP bans.   White fragility and willful ignorance of Black history have always posed an obstacle to the truthful teaching of America's past and present. But we haven't seen conservatives this rabid — and coordinated — in their effort to hide these truths since the post-Civil War Redemption era.   Here, we explore works Republicans want to keep under wraps.   The heaviness of Kiese Laymon  Jerry Craft's cartoons are nightmare fuel for some conservatives  Why right-wingers want Isabel Wilkerson's work removed from bookshelves MORE FROM MSNBC MSNBC Films presents "When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story," a new four-part series from TIME Studios. It provides unprecedented access, including interviews with Giuliani's own son Andrew, and explores the former prosecutor and mayor's rise to power, fall from grace, and how little he changed in between. The first episode traces Giuliani's journey from Brooklyn to the Southern District of New York and his failed first race for mayor that set him on a road to controversy.   Watch tonight at 10pm Eastern on MSNBC, and streaming on Peacock. This Black History Month, "Into America"  celebrates the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with a special mini-series, "Into America presents Street Disciples: Politics, Power and the Rise of Hip-Hop." Hosted by Trymaine Lee, the series explores how our country's political and economic forces shaped half a century of hip-hop, and how over time, hip-hop shaped the country. The first episode details how the concrete jungle of New York in the 1970s led to the birth of hip-hop.  Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts. 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 PRIVACY | CONTACT | UNSUBSCRIBE PRIVACY | CONTACT | UNSUBSCRIBE