TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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Karoline Leavitt referred to specific words and phrases and characterized them as beyond the pale. They’re the same words and phrases the president has used.
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“Why is Pete Hegseth spending your taxpayer dollars to give Kid Rock ‘joy rides’ on Apache helicopters?” one Democratic lawmaker asked.
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“Why is Pete Hegseth spending your taxpayer dollars to give Kid Rock ‘joy rides’ on Apache helicopters?” one Democratic lawmaker asked.
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If you’re an American planning to get a passport and don’t want the president’s face on it, you might want to hurry.
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If you’re an American planning to get a passport and don’t want the president’s face on it, you might want to hurry.
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If the president was waiting for a payout from his IRS lawsuit, a federal judge suggested he might need to start lowering his expectations.
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If the president was waiting for a payout from his IRS lawsuit, a federal judge suggested he might need to start lowering his expectations.
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WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR?
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- "The math only adds up if you're trying to build a police state." Miles Taylor, former DHS chief of staff, tells Rachel Maddow that the system of immigration prisons that Donald Trump wants to assemble is much bigger than the stated purpose of the prisons; unless Trump has some other use in mind.
(Rachel shares a clip from last night's show)
- McHenry, Illinois --
Anti-Ice protest ‘Communities not Cages’ draws more than 100 protesters to Route 31 in McHenry
(Lake & McHenry County Scanner)
- "U.S. Army Sgt. José Serrano Arosio walks past Camp East Montana during the protest against ICE detention centers in El Paso on April 25, 2026. His wife is being detained down the street at an ICE processing center for deportation."
(El Paso Times photo gallery)
- El Paso, Texas --
El Pasoans join national protest against ICE detention centers
(El Paso Times)
- Hundreds protest in Romulus against proposal to convert warehouse into ICE detention center
(Michigan Advance)
- Glenwood Springs, Colorado --
"Local residents and advocates have been protesting the ICE facility in Glenwood Springs for months, pressuring the city, the building’s condo owners association and the facility’s landlord to remove ICE from the center..."
(Western Slope Trellis)
- "State law requires a city/county to provide a 180-day notice and hold public hearings before allowing the reuse of a facility for immigration detention.
"Advocates say they had no opportunity to raise concerns at public hearings before ICE began using the new site."
ICE quietly opens another detention center in a former California prison
(CalMatters)
- "Unsafe conditions, intimidation, medical neglect and delays in legal assistance prompted the hunger strike among hundreds of detainees at North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan...
"Advocates gathered Sunday outside North Lake in solidarity..."
Reported hunger strike renewed at Michigan ICE detention center
(Axios)
- "More recently, the state’s top election official, Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, disclosed in February that his office had shared publicly available voter‑roll data with federal authorities so the names could be screened against citizenship databases. The federal government returned a list of individuals flagged as potential noncitizens, which Hoskins’ office then asked county clerks to review.
But clerks in several of Missouri’s largest counties, including St. Louis and St. Charles, said most individuals flagged by the federal screening were U.S. citizens, many of them naturalized. Smaller counties reported similar conclusions. In Miller County, Clinton Jenkins, the Republican clerk and head of the state clerks association, said none of the people reviewed in his county had voted illegally.
“It looks like if you have too many vowels in your name, you show up on a list,” Jenkins told Reuters, suggesting that some of the names appeared to belong to people of Latino and Hispanic heritage. Hoskins did not respond to requests for comment."
(Reuters)
- This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life:
"AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..."
Expert quits US HIV role, rebukes Trump's global health approach
(Rachel shares the New York Times and Reuters)
- For all the studious, self-serious, resource-sucking attention on every utterance from the president, I'm surprised this one very unique, very consistent tic of his hasn't had more attention:
"The president wouldn’t disclose his latest chat with the Russian leader. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it happens with some regularity."
(Rachel shares Steve's post)
- Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known — U.S. bases and equipment across the Middle East came under attack — including from an Iranian F-5, despite American air defenses — and repairs could cost billions of dollars.
(NBC News)
- San Antonio, Texas --
Community members rally against planned ICE detention facility on San Antonio’s east side
(KENS 5)
- Socorro, Texas --
Protest targets planned immigration center in Socorro
Protest against immigration detention centers in Borderland
(KTSM and KTSM 9 News video)
- Rochester, New York --
Local protestors speak out against ICE detention center expansions across U.S.
(Local WROC video on YouTube)
- Salt Lake City, Utah --
"Protesters gathered outside the Governor’s Mansion, voicing their opposition to the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to create a mass ICE detention center at a warehouse southwest of Salt Lake City International Airport..."
(Gephardt Daily)
- Romulus, Michigan --
"Hundreds of protesters marched about 1.5 miles from Romulus Middle School to the warehouse on Cogswell Road to protest the Trump Administration's plans to build an immigration detention center in a warehouse near Detroit Metro Airport..."
(The Detroit News)
- Marietta, Georgia --
"We're absolutely and unequivocally opposed to ICE buying up warehouse space and turning them into human concentration camps..."
(CBS News Atlanta)
- Gainesville, Florida --
Protesters rally on University Avenue against ICE detention
(Rachel shares local coverage from The Gainesville Sun)
- "More than 250 people turned out. They held handmade signs with messages that read, “Ban warehouse detention camps” and “This is not okay.” A tuba player joined the protesters as cars drove by and honked in support..."
(ABC15)
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