TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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So, how was the acting director of national intelligence’s first week on the job? Painfully predictable.
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Nearly four months after stepping away from his congressional duties, the New Jersey Republican explained the illness that kept him away.
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Nearly four months after stepping away from his congressional duties, the New Jersey Republican explained the illness that kept him away.
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The president is looking for public gratitude in the wake of failure. He is likely to wait a long while.
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The president is looking for public gratitude in the wake of failure. He is likely to wait a long while.
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Does Congress’ top Republican realize that Trump has pursued public ownership stakes in private companies, too?
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Does Congress’ top Republican realize that Trump has pursued public ownership stakes in private companies, too?
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WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR?
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- "Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned."
(Mark Joseph Stern is good to read on days like today)
- "This time, in addition to recalibrating the balance of power between itself and the president, Congress must also pursue Supreme Court reform — both to restore the proper limits on the court’s power and to prevent the court from blocking the badly needed reforms to the presidency."
(New York Times)
- "White House officials last year secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million for the construction of the East Wing ballroom in an unusual arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs, according to a copy of the agreement obtained by The Washington Post."
(Washington Post)
- Trump begins construction of unannounced White House helipad
(Washington Post)
- "Enjoying this press tour so far."
"AVC: A lot of Heidecker’s work is focused on this kind of mocking portrait of American right-wing masculinity. What do you see as the overall satirical target of the new InfoWars?
We live in the final boss of this hyper-masculinized grift economy. It’s not even masculinized. It’s this performative, over-the-top GI Joe-style grift economy, where everything you put in your body is a temple, even though you end up looking like a fucking bowling ball. The most insane, over-the-top stupid shit. And we live in that world. We live in the endgame of this where we have a Health And Human Services Secretary that carries around sauerkraut in a fucking Ziploc bag everywhere he goes. The guy eats the ingredients to diarrhea every day, because that’s what he read on a blog."
(Ben Collins shares some of his AV Club interview)
- Donald Trump's idea of "The worst of the worst".
ICE arrests Catholic nun from the Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy congregation while she was on her way to Sunday Mass.
South Texas lawmakers scramble to intervene with ICE to get her released.
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To be crystal clear here -- the nun was **wearing her habit** and walking to Sunday mass when ICE arrested her and hauled her off.
(Rachel shares Texas Public Radio and also the AP)
- "Federal judges have so far ruled in 178 cases, and they have sided with immigrants 94% of the time, ordering the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to release them from custody or give them a bond hearing."
(Injustice Watch)
- if you have enjoyed how trump/republicans' "big beautiful bill" sent your health insurance premiums skyrocketing...
then you'll love what the bill is about to do to your student loans, starting wednesday:
(NBC News)
- Another ICE threat visit: How did agents track down this critic on his vacation?
(Syracuse.com)
- University of Tennessee to pay $1.9M to professor fired over Charlie Kirk comment
(Knox News)
- "the ferris wheel shut down"
"the ice cream melted"
"a display of the Confederate flag was removed"
"almost-empty or understaffed booths"
"limited food options"
"no lines to get in, the lawn fairly void of people"
"entertainers outnumbered guests at points..."
(Rachel shares NOTUS)
- "The nation’s bedrock water protection law — the Safe Drinking Water Act — singles out oil and gas injection of wastewater as a particularly urgent threat to drinking water. And it requires oil states to draft specific regulations to protect public water wells.
Oklahoma, however, has not always followed its own rules."
(Pro Publica)
Follow Rachel on Bluesky here.
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Rachel Maddow reports on a protest march from the site of the Crystal City Internment Camp where Japanese-Americans were held during World War II, to the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, and shares the remarks of Dr. Satsuki Ina, a survivor of Japanese incarceration. Protesters are calling for the troubled immigration camp at Dilley, Texas, where kids are being held along with their families, to be closed.
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Rachel Maddow talks with Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer, authors of "On Courage: How to be a dissident in an age of fear," about "the central question of how to live right as an American citizen right now," and the variety of ways people can throw sand in the gears of authoritarianism to preserve democracy.
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"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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