TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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As the dust settles on Monday’s stunning announcement, we’re left with a taxpayer-financed scheme that looks an awful lot like a heist.
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The governor had plenty of time to come up with a defense for his decision. The fact that he pitched transparent nonsense points to an awkward conclusion.
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The governor had plenty of time to come up with a defense for his decision. The fact that he pitched transparent nonsense points to an awkward conclusion.
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When it comes to the president’s assurances about plans for charitable donations, his track record has gone from bad to worse.
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When it comes to the president’s assurances about plans for charitable donations, his track record has gone from bad to worse.
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The president often brags about how “tough” he is with the Russian president. The evidence proving otherwise is increasingly overwhelming.
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The president often brags about how “tough” he is with the Russian president. The evidence proving otherwise is increasingly overwhelming.
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WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR?
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- Trump Bought Stock in Drugmaker as His Government Boosted Its Obesity Drugs
(KFF Health News)
- Connecticut, Wednesday May 20
Protest Planned Ahead Of Trump’s CT Visit For Coast Guard Graduation
(CT News Junkie)
- Indiana:
Statewide protests target ICE detention at Miami Correctional Facilit
(WANE)
- “That does not, to me, sound like a charitable purpose...”
California calls this company a charity. It’s the landlord for an ICE detention center
(KPBS)
- "The town's lawsuit says that the price ICE paid for the Social, Circle, Georgia warehouse was more than five times the property’s previously assessed value..."
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"The DHS inspector general is now looking into ICE’s purchase of mega-warehouses around the country as part of a newly announced audit examining whether DHS met the need for new detention space in a “cost-effective manner.”"
Atlanta suburb sues DHS over planned ICE facility that could hold 10,000 people
(NBC News)
- Vance out there putting *all* the Dem ad makers out of work.
- "JD Vance: "If you want to rebuilt the American dream for the next generation, vote against the crazy leadership in Washington DC""
(Helen Kennedy shares an Aaron Rupar video)
- "She had envisioned the end of her senior year as a celebration. Instead, she has spent months waging a stubborn campaign against the planned ICE detention center near her school..."
(Washington Post)
- "A scale of family separations that far eclipses that of the first Trump administration’s 'zero tolerance' policy in 2018, when about 5,500 children were removed from their parents..."
Over 100,000 Family Separations in Deportation Push, Report Estimates — The Brookings Institution suggests that federal statistics are an undercount because immigrant parents are not being asked about or not disclosing their American children.
(New York Times)
- "State prosecutors charge an ICE agent with assault in the January shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis"
[Link]
(Joyce Vance shares New York Times)
- this would be an excellent time for donald trump to *not* have installed the host of a youtube show called "erection connection!" as the person charge of infectious disease policy for the united states of america.
In Ebola outbreak, a number of Americans in the Congo believed to have had exposure to suspected cases — CDC says it supporting partners who are ‘actively coordinating the safe withdrawal’ of individuals ‘directly affected by this outbreak’
(STAT News)
- "Neither former President Barack Obama nor Joe Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office..."
Trump's more than 3,700 trades astonish Wal Street insiders
(Bloomberg)
Follow Rachel on Bluesky here.
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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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