TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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Six Trump-backed candidates have lost this month. How does he explain these embarrassing setbacks? With a series of unpersuasive excuses.
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As the Pentagon takes steps to control the newspaper in spite of its tradition of independence and civilian leadership, senators are demanding answers.
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As the Pentagon takes steps to control the newspaper in spite of its tradition of independence and civilian leadership, senators are demanding answers.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed Democratic special election victories as “anomalies.” That would be easier to believe if they didn’t keep happening.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed Democratic special election victories as “anomalies.” That would be easier to believe if they didn’t keep happening.
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The Center for American Progress highlighted crime statistics the White House didn’t like. The president wants an apology — or he’ll ask for $5 billion.
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The Center for American Progress highlighted crime statistics the White House didn’t like. The president wants an apology — or he’ll ask for $5 billion.
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OTHER STORIES ON OUR RADAR
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this is no way to run a lemonade stand, let alone the american government.
what a humiliating and destructive mess...
"The filing provides the most detailed account yet of the events surrounding her firing, and reveals how the government haphazardly responded to social media claims made by Musk and others during the early, harried days when DOGE exerted extensive power across the federal government. The statement from Comans alleges that senior officials at FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security knew she had not authorized the payments even as the administration publicly blamed her for them."
Elon Musk posted, and she lost her job. Now, she seeks to clear her name.
(Rachel shares the Washington Post)
- "A 78-year-old Colorado priest has been in ICE detention for almost a year. He is now malnourished, in a wheelchair, has a persistent cough, and with chest pain. The only treatment he gets is cough medicine."
(Independent Catholic News)
- "The decision by Trump to dissolve USAID — once the world’s largest humanitarian donor — gutted maternal and neonatal care, decimated nutrition programs for millions of pregnant women and children, and left scores of birthing centers devoid of equipment and medicine..."
(Associated Press)
- "Politicians from both parties and judges should be prepared to push back forcefully against any attempt Trump and his allies make to interfere with the 2026 elections. If he succeeds in perverting the results, he will be emboldened to take similar steps in 2028..."
Trump’s Election Meddling Erodes Our Democracy
(New York Times)
- "The professor worried about how to discuss Joan of Arc, who was burned at the stake for, among other reasons, cross-dressing.
"He removed two weeks of study about Vikings. He said Viking mythological poems often featured gender-changing gods like Loki and Odin..."
A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul
(New York Times)
- "The grievance system in immigration detention is designed to offer a safe channel to report violations of detention standards and seek redress, without fear of retaliation. It's often the only recourse for people to submit complaints about detention issues, including mistreatment, unsanitary conditions, medical neglect and sexual assault. But an NPR review of documents, available data and interviews with experts has found the system — which in the best of times was a complex patchwork — barely operates and even at times backfires for those using it. It is one of the few remaining safeguards for immigrants in federal custody after the Trump administration effectively dismantled other oversight offices."
(NPR)
- "President Trump has opened a new front in his campaign to intimidate political foes, threatening a prominent liberal think tank with a $5 billion defamation lawsuit over a report concluding that his deployment of the National Guard to cities across the country has had little effect on reducing violent crime."
(New York Times)
- Trump Administration Attacks Bar Association’s Power to Accredit Law Schools — Move escalates feud with nation’s premier legal organization
(Wall Street Journal)
- "But the list the Homeland Security Department shared with Nevada is incomplete — it doesn’t even include names — and is nearly impossible to verify, according to files released by the secretary of state’s office. Nevada officials have requested more information, but the department has not yet offered it."
Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It.
(New York Times)
- Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment — Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion.
(Pro Publica)
- "Many of Trump's proclamations about the status of the Strait of Hormuz, his policies, and the war's aims have had "zero correlation" to how many barrels are leaving the waterway, he said."
Oil markets are tuning out Trump's "truths"
(Axios)
- Ships passing through Hormuz hover in single digits, data shows
(Reuters)
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