TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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Over just three days, the country has confronted several presidency-defining scandals — and the week isn’t over yet.
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Given the recent pattern, it’s tough to ignore the pay-to-play appearances in an administration for which corruption allegations have become the norm.
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Given the recent pattern, it’s tough to ignore the pay-to-play appearances in an administration for which corruption allegations have become the norm.
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Hell hath no fury like a Republican senator scorned by his own party’s president.
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Hell hath no fury like a Republican senator scorned by his own party’s president.
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When the president uses the word “violence,” he often means it as a synonym for stuff he doesn’t like.
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When the president uses the word “violence,” he often means it as a synonym for stuff he doesn’t like.
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OTHER STORIES ON OUR RADAR
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- Iran rebuilding military industrial base faster than expected, already producing drones, according to US intel
(CNN)
- "SCOOP: Markwayne Mullin met with airline and travel executives at DHS last week and told them he's serious about plan to pressure sanctuary cities by cutting CBP screening at intl airports after World Cup. Execs have warned economic impact would be "devastating" "
(Nick Miroff shares his reporting in The Atlantic)
- "Here's how the corruption works:
Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump
Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it
Friday: FDA changes the policy"
(Senator Chris Murphy shares the New York Times)
- US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say
(The Guardian)
- "The manager, David Schutzenhofer, who has run the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster since 2006, is a private citizen with no known training in engineering or architecture."
Manager at Trump’s N.J. Golf Club Helped Plan Reflecting Pool Repairs
(New York Times)
- "For each arrest, six American-born workers lost a job, and four undocumented workers lost one."
Trump’s Deportations Are Costing Americans Jobs, Study Finds
(New York Times)
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Rachel interviews civil rights legal titan Sherrilyn Ifill in Philadelphia!
Thursday, June 25 at 7pmET
Part of MS NOW Live's We the People: America 250, Country at a Crossroads event.
Tickets and more at MS.NOW/America250
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Rachel has a new book!
"Department of Fate: The Promise, the Power, and the Collapse of America’s Most Consequential Institution"
comes out November 10 but you can pre-order now.
See MS.NOW/DepartmentOfFate for links and options to pre-order.
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