TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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The upper chamber took an unprecedented step by passing the resolution, rebuking the president on the Iran war.
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Two years ago, Trump said improving U.S. “respect all over the world” was his top priority. There’s new evidence that he’s failing spectacularly.
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Two years ago, Trump said improving U.S. “respect all over the world” was his top priority. There’s new evidence that he’s failing spectacularly.
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The more the president struggles with basic elements, the more his dubious story becomes literally unbelievable.
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The more the president struggles with basic elements, the more his dubious story becomes literally unbelievable.
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The president was supposed to sign the only bipartisan accomplishment of his second term. Then he changed his mind for a deeply unfortunate reason.
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The president was supposed to sign the only bipartisan accomplishment of his second term. Then he changed his mind for a deeply unfortunate reason.
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OTHER STORIES ON OUR RADAR
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- "Nancy Lacore, a former Navy admiral who was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, won the Democratic nomination for the First Congressional District of South Carolina."
(New York Times)
See also: Jen Psaki's interview last night, during which Lacore learned the AP had called the race for her.
- “Given the signals that we’ve received from this administration, all of the ways they have acted to intervene in elections and to insert DOJ in election processes in a way that is inappropriate, we would be foolish to not be prepared,” she said. “So we are prepared."
(NBC News)
- "The remarks caused a political row in Italy, where Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government has repeatedly said it did not authorise the use of Italian territory for direct military action against Iran."
Italy rebukes NATO's Rutte over remarks on US use of bases in Iran war
(Reuters)
- Rocked by the Iran war, the UAE sours on Trump: ‘We got played’ — Across the Persian Gulf region, the president was viewed as a pro-business ally, but his decision to wage war on Iran and his erratic conduct have tarnished his image.
(The Washington Post)
- "A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote.
The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston effectively converts a preliminary injunction she issued a year ago, in which she temporarily blocked many of Trump’s efforts to overhaul elections, into a permanent ban."
(Associated Press)
- "Tuesday’s vote marked the first time since the enactment of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 that both chambers of Congress have approved a concurrent resolution directing a president to end a military conflict. The House passed the measure this month after Republican leaders who had tried to block it were unable to keep the party unified in opposition."
(New York Times)
- "Donahue’s abrupt departure, after just 18 months in his role, is another sign of the upheaval. He was widely seen as one of the Army’s rising stars—a legendary Delta Force leader who was considered a top candidate for Army chief of staff or even chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—having distinguished himself in wars of the past two decades. But Hegseth has sought to oust anyone who doesn’t fit his idea of a military leader, including those involved in the calamitous American exit from Kabul under President Biden—no matter how well they performed there."
(The Atlantic)
- Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows — In April, Hegseth said the flu shot would be optional for military personnel.
(ABC News)
- "Since Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, the federal government has taken an aggressive approach to industrial policy, negotiating stock ownership or profit-sharing agreements with at least 19 companies. None have yielded returns, either because the government hasn’t issued regulations to transfer the profits or because it would require selling stock that the administration wants to hold onto as it tries to prop up specific companies.
“They haven’t made a penny off of any of this stuff yet,” said Scott Lincicome, the vice president of general economics at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute. “They keep saying they’re going to, but it really only works under a scenario that, at this point, is highly speculative, if not unlikely.”"
(Politico)
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Toward the end of his remarks at the opening of the new Obama Presidential Center, former President Barack Obama told the history of the "arc of the moral universe" quote popularized by Martin Luther King, Jr. but spoken originally by Boston abolitionist Unitarian minister Theodore Parker.
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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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