TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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Precious few officials have stepped down and spoken out in recent months. It makes Marc Rosenblum’s exit that much more notable.
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As recently as 2024, the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy had 15 employees. In 2026, it has two.
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As recently as 2024, the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy had 15 employees. In 2026, it has two.
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The American president could accept his own team’s findings, but he wants to double-check with the suspected Russian war criminal and former KGB agent.
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The American president could accept his own team’s findings, but he wants to double-check with the suspected Russian war criminal and former KGB agent.
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Some might argue that if the strikes curtail the drug trade, then it will be worth it. Except that’s wrong, too.
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Some might argue that if the strikes curtail the drug trade, then it will be worth it. Except that’s wrong, too.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE BONUS CLIP!
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Rachel Maddow points out that under the Trump administration, nothing can be taken at face value. So when the Consumer Product Safety Commission decides it wants to collect emergency room patient data, what might seem like a basic idea warrants a closer look. And looking more closely reveals that the data the Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to collect is remarkably personal and well beyond the scope of product safety. Why?
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WHAT'S ON RACHEL'S BLUESKY RADAR?
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- Top homeland security official resigns, citing "brazen corruption," as well as the Trump Administration's "war on immigrants... war on feds... war on facts":
(Wired)
- "If this is what being under control looks like, I don’t want to see an outbreak that’s out of control..."
RFK Jr. says the cyclospora outbreak is ‘under control.’ It’s not.
(FoodFix)
- tell me more about conservatives and small government.
trump administration now demanding that hospitals hand over "personally identifiable medical records of all patients who seek help at their emergency rooms..."
(Rachel shares CNN)
- Protesters Condemn Fatal ICE Shootings, Oppose New North Carolina Detention Center — Gov. Josh Stein criticized the proposal on Friday, saying the facility was not state-owned and that he had not approved the agreement
(L.A. Times)
- Protesters in Twin Falls call for transparency over ICE flights at local airport — Community members gathered in Twin Falls Sunday night as part of a nationwide movement calling for more information about flights connected to ICE.
(KTVB)
- ‘It feels like it never ends — the evil’: Pasadena demonstrators protest ICE shootings
(L.A. Times)
- “Price and availability have not been noticeably affected.”
Deadly U.S. boat strikes have failed to curb cocaine supply, Pentagon and DEA officials say — The president says Operation Southern Spear has virtually ended drug trafficking by sea. Pentagon and DEA analysts have concluded otherwise.
(Washington Post)
- "As Florida Attorney General, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation. And the Attorney General did so without placing any of the safeguards or guardrails her office would typically require to make sure the money was properly spent.
These funds were intended to expand Medicaid for children in Florida, but instead they ended up in the bank accounts of a pair of political action committees..."
Florida Senator Ashley Moody faces renewed scrutiny over her role in Hope Florida scandal
(CBS News)
- "There is little evidence that the nonprofit has provided the civics education it claims. And Adams and his nonprofit have engaged in a pattern of questionable financial arrangements, including paying Adams and his mother more than half its recent annual revenue, while raising much of its money through a sweepstakes operation that has promised donors a chance to win $1,000,000 — a prize FLAG’s records show no evidence of ever paying."
This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.
(ProPublica)
- Trump Is Pushing Nuclear Energy. His Family and Supporters Could Benefit.
(New York Times)
- More than 1 million children lost access to food benefits after Trump bill passed — Analysis finds more than 4 million Americans lost Snap benefits, or food stamps, from July 2025 to March 2026
(The Guardian)
- "When it comes to grasping for taxpayer money, shameless corruption and sheer moral repugnance, none who came before can hold a candle to Donald Trump Jr. He has cemented his position as perhaps the most distasteful and ethically compromised presidential relative in American history — and his father isn’t even halfway through his second term."
(MS NOW)
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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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