Thursday, January 22, 2026 |
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TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS |
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So many Republicans see the president as infallible that even inconsequential slip-ups must be denied in Orwellian fashion. |
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| Any suggestion that there's a substantive agreement appears to be wrong. As the president has admitted, the details don't exist yet. |
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Any suggestion that there's a substantive agreement appears to be wrong. As the president has admitted, the details don't exist yet. |
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| Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration's then-chief data officer, filed a whistleblower complaint in August. He was right. |
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Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration's then-chief data officer, filed a whistleblower complaint in August. He was right. |
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| The president was given an opportunity to knock down one of the dumbest ideas about his 2020 defeat. True to form, he did the opposite. |
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The president was given an opportunity to knock down one of the dumbest ideas about his 2020 defeat. True to form, he did the opposite. |
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WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR? |
- US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties
- "Trump's Board of Peace has now officially been recognized as an international organization, according to the White House."
(Anne Applebaum shares Saint Javelin)
- "Breaking WaPo:
The recent death of a detainee at an immigrant detention camp in Texas has been officially deemed a homicide, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday by the El Paso County Office of the Medical Examiner."
(Kyle Griffin shares Washington Post)
- "'Our operations are lawful, targeted and focused on individuals who pose a serious threat to this community,' Bovino said..."
Again, Liam is **five**. Five years old.
- Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he's only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.
gofund.me/be8a1b2ab
(Rachel shares Jason Chavez)
- This comes just after the president publicly demanded that ICE should start showing the public how terrible the people are who they're grabbing and arresting.
In this case, his name is Liam. He's five years old.
5-year-old boy among four students detained by ICE, according to school leaders
(KARE11)
- this is pretty incredible:
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(MS NOW YouTube)
- "Thao, who has been a U.S. citizen for decades, said that as he was being detained he asked his daughter-in-law to find his identification but the agents told him they didn't want to see it.
Instead, as his 4-year-old grandson watched and cried, Thao was led out in handcuffs wearing only sandals and underwear with just a blanket wrapped around his shoulders.
Videos captured the scene, which included people blowing whistles and horns and neighbors screaming at the more than a dozen gun-toting agents to leave Thao's family alone.
Thao said agents drove him "to the middle of nowhere" and made him get out of the car in the frigid weather so they could photograph him. He said he feared they would beat him. He was asked for his ID, which agents earlier prevented him from retrieving.
Agents eventually realized that he was a U.S. citizen with no criminal record, Thao said, and an hour or two later, they brought him back to his house. There they made him show his ID and then left without apologizing for detaining him or breaking his door, Thao said."
(Associated Press)
- Dire consequences in Florida of Trump/Republicans' federal decision to eliminate ACA subsidies:
Cutting off HIV+ Americans from the medications **they're currently taking** that are keeping them alive.
(WTXL)
- Thousands to lose access to HIV drugs with new cuts
(Fox13)
- "I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin' insane—on about eleventy different levels.
Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons."
- "ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.
It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!"
(Steve Vladeck shares Aaron Reichlin-Melnick)
- "McGovern: Well, he said a lot of crazy shit today. I think it's time to take the keys away from grandpa. He doesn't seem like he's all there."
(Acyn with video)
- "In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing.
At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!"
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See ICE protests around country sparked after Minnesota shooting death
(USA Today)
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Special coverage tonight! This morning, former special counsel Jack Smith will be testified to Congress about his investigations into Donald Trump. Tonight, Rachel and the gang will break down that testimony in extended special coverage from the long desk. Tonight at 8pmET |
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