Tuesday, October 21, 2025 |
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TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS |
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Donald Trump's critics have accused him of making a mess at the White House. As he destroys part of the East Wing, those assessments have now become literal. |
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| As former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's prison sentence begins, there's a lesson for Republicans who lashed out after Donald Trump's criminal indictments. |
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As former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's prison sentence begins, there's a lesson for Republicans who lashed out after Donald Trump's criminal indictments. |
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| Donald Trump pardoned Jan. 6 criminals back out onto the streets. Quite a few of them got arrested again, including one who threatened to kill Hakeem Jeffries. |
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Donald Trump pardoned Jan. 6 criminals back out onto the streets. Quite a few of them got arrested again, including one who threatened to kill Hakeem Jeffries. |
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| Paul Ingrassia's odds of being confirmed as the next head of the Office of Special Counsel were poor. A leaked text chat made matters vastly worse for him. |
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Paul Ingrassia's odds of being confirmed as the next head of the Office of Special Counsel were poor. A leaked text chat made matters vastly worse for him. |
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WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR |
- Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
(Aaron Rupar shares video)
- "Every Dem should be posting like this"
- "Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?
Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom."
(Oliver Willis shares Elizabeth Warren)
- "Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..."
(New York Times)
- "A more soporific set of headlines would be hard to write."
That's what I told @sulliview.bsky.social about 2 stories that NYT put atop its Sunday front page, while it reduced No Kings coverage to 2 tiny photos below the fold and a story on Page 23.
'Who cares?' About 7 million people, that's who - Media coverage of Saturday's 'No Kings' protests included the New York Times's shrug
(Mark Grueskin shares Margaret Sullivan)
- "See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue"
- Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."
(Laura Bassett reacts to video shared by Aaron Rupar)
- "Brent Holdridge, a California man who was sentenced to 60 days in jail on a misdemeanor charge stemming from Jan. 6, was arrested again in May in connection with a string of alleged thefts of industrial copper.
Zachary Alam, who was sentenced to eight years in prison by a federal judge who called him "by far the loudest, the most combative and the most violent of the rioters," was also charged again in May, accused of breaking into a house outside Richmond, Va.
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the far-right Proud Boys, was briefly detained in February on assault charges after scuffling with a protester during a bizarre news conference he held outside the Capitol.
And Matthew W. Huttle, an Indiana carpenter who was sentenced to six months in prison in connection with Jan. 6, was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy in January after he resisted arrest during a traffic stop."
(New York Times)
- "An upstate New York man pardoned by Trump after taking part in the attack on the Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, was charged last week with a new crime: threatening to assassinate Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, at an event in New York City..."
(New York Times)
- Rachel seems particularly partial to the pun signs.
What were your favorites from Saturday?
(MaddowBlog)
- "This is the No Kings era — Trump just happens to be living in it. Join us tomorrow to discuss what's next: [LINK]"
(Indivisible with video of Ezra Levin talking to Jonathan Capehart last night)
- "MAGA mouthpieces aren't happy with the renovation conversation."
(The Daily Beast)
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(Christopher Webb)
- Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
(Wall Street Journal)
- "If the legacy media's coverage of #NoKings disappointed, get you a pro-democracy publication that covered protests from DC to Florida to Texas to Portland, and capped off the day with a 2-hour live event"
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(Tim Dickinson)
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