WHAT'S ON RACHELS' BLUESKY RADAR? |
- Trump's unauthorized Venezuela attack won't help Americans | Donald Trump still hasn't provided justification as to how it makes our lives better in a moment when millions of Americans are seeing their health care
(USA Today)
- "His physical signs of aging are becoming more evident to some of his closest advisers. His skin is so delicate that Pam Bondi caused his hand to bleed when she nicked him with her ring while giving him a high-five at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee..."
(Wall Street Journal)
- "In churches and school gymnasiums, direct action trainings are attracting hundreds of attendees each night. They teach people how to read judicial warrants, and contribute to a repository of data for legal challenges by recording agents' conduct. Participants learn whistle codes for summoning crowds and receive links to rapid-response clearinghouses."
... "Protests are just part of it. The movement is also hiding immigrant families without permanent resident status from discovery, secretly ferrying immigrant children to and from school and delivering meals to families laying low at home. They stand guard outside mosques, collect cars abandoned after sudden arrests, locate people in immigration jail and help get them attorneys." (Minnesota Star Tribune)
- "One of the undercover agents remarked to Homan as he made the hand-off: 'We both know there's no CAVA in that bag'..."
(MS NOW)
- "Regional offices abruptly disappeared in a rushed reorganization. New policies were rolled out only to be canceled or changed, prompting confused customers to jam the phones and the website, which crashed repeatedly..."
How Social Security has gotten worse under Trump (Washington Post)
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RACHEL'S FIRST THOUGHTS ON VENEZUELA |
"All of the purported explanations for what's happened here don't stand up to logical scrutiny." We'll get the latest on Venezuela and Rachel's thoughts on the matter tonight, but in case you missed it, Rachel was on with Ali Velshi Saturday morning in between Donald Trump's rambling phone call to the Fox morning show and his more formal address from the White House. While new details and developments have happened, many of the themes Rachel addressed in her initial reaction remain relevant. You can watch that discussion with Ali on YouTube here. |