TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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As MS NOW’s Catherine Rampell summarized, “I think few people in American history have done more to screw over farmers than Donald Trump.”
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The defense secretary has spent most of his tenure drifting from one culture war priority to another. Evidently, he hasn’t gotten to the end of his list.
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The defense secretary has spent most of his tenure drifting from one culture war priority to another. Evidently, he hasn’t gotten to the end of his list.
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After critics raised concerns that the Trump loyalist would turn the DNI’s office into a partisan tool, the president gave them more reason to worry.
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After critics raised concerns that the Trump loyalist would turn the DNI’s office into a partisan tool, the president gave them more reason to worry.
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There’s new data that shows the presence of National Guard troops has had no meaningful effect on violent crimes in the nation’s capital.
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There’s new data that shows the presence of National Guard troops has had no meaningful effect on violent crimes in the nation’s capital.
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OTHER STORIES ON OUR RADAR
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- Tell me more about Trump/Republican family values…
House bill rolls back food aid for pregnant women, children
(Washington Post)
- NEEDS MORE CAPITAL LETTERS THOUGH THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
- Andrew Boutros, the U.S. Attorney for Illinois' Northern District who inappropriately cajoled grand jurors in the Broadview 6 case, is now out here Trump posting.
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(Rachel shares Ben Collins)
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"Elderly Black people protested in soaring temperatures. Some told me they had marched many times before, over decades. Parents carried small children who had overheated and fallen asleep, fanning them as their brown limbs dangled from their arms. White Americans showed up, too, joining the largely Black rally with signs that said, “No Jim Crow Maps.”"
(New York Times)
- "More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group."
(Washington Post - full story)
- "But our allies are not only less willing to rely on and trust America. They are also coming to see America as a threat. Association with America is now a risk that needs to be taken into account and, if possible, reduced."
(The Bulwark)
- "First, musicians dropped out one after another; now, according to information obtained by *Der Spiegel*, no heads of state are expected to attend either: The White House's plans for the major celebration marking the U.S. 250th anniversary are baffling."
(Der Spiegel via Google Translate)
- "The Pentagon is expected to cancel a plan to send Tomahawk missiles to Germany partly because officials are concerned Russia will view it as an escalation, a startling reversal of a long-planned agreement with one of America’s biggest allies."
Pentagon likely to cancel missile deal with Germany over fears of Russia
(Politico)
- "President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully barred applicants from 39 travel‑ban countries from receiving decisions on asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Friday."
(Reuters)
- "The Department of Homeland Security has awarded more than $19.4 billion in contracts in the past six months — compared with $2.1 billion from 2016 to 2024. Most of it has gone to two firms that have ties to the White House and the Republican Party, according to a Washington Post analysis."
(Washington Post)
- "The Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts, according to a former senior Social Security executive.
The previously unreported plan, which the Social Security Administration said was not carried out, would have used one of the government’s most consequential identity databases to effectively erase people from the financial system, potentially cutting them off from wages, banking, government benefits and other services."
(Washington Post)
- "A Lawfare study reveals that almost one in 16 insurrectionists subject to the president’s clemency order has been arrested for and charged with—and in the vast majority of cases convicted of—other crimes, at least some of which were actively enabled by the clemency actions."
(Lawfare)
- Screwworm In Texas Cattle Could Drive Up Beef Prices—After DOGE Axed Prevention Efforts
(Forbes)
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This is how a prosecutor of ORGANIZED CRIME sees Trump's corruption
Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade talks with Rachel Maddow about her acclaimed new book, "The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government," in which she draws upon her experience prosecuting fraud and organized crime to understand how to defeat Donald Trump's style of intimidation and inflicting pain on others to dominate them and get what he wants.
NOTE: This is a full length interview with Barb McQuade about her new book that did not air on TV and was not a special live ticketed event. We published it this morning just for the internet.
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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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