Wednesday, September 23, 2026
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TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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When making a list of the incumbent president’s biggest foreign policy fiascoes, this one will rank near the top.
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Two days after the White House launched the online endeavor, public interest in the “unfiltered” video stream dwindled to effectively zero.
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Two days after the White House launched the online endeavor, public interest in the “unfiltered” video stream dwindled to effectively zero.
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The president blurted out a policy position he likely didn’t understand, only to be contradicted a day later by one of his Cabinet secretaries.
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The president blurted out a policy position he likely didn’t understand, only to be contradicted a day later by one of his Cabinet secretaries.
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The security costs to protect the controversial health services secretary have reached $17 million a year, up from $10 million.
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The security costs to protect the controversial health services secretary have reached $17 million a year, up from $10 million.
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RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office — Cost of health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026
(Wall Street Journal)
The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
(ProPublica)
ICE has detained women’s college basketball player with ACL injury for over a month
(USA Today citing the Courier Journal)
"78% of those responding to the survey by Gallup and the Charles F. Kettering Foundation for its Democracy for All Project say government officials must always follow laws and the Constitution. But just 28% trust that political leaders will be held accountable if they don't."
(Axios)
"DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle claims that it underpaid delivery workers in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday.
The agreement, which officials descibed as the largest worker settlement in city history, also requires the company to submit to a new monitoring system to ensure compliance with delivery worker pay laws in the city."
(Associated Press)
"The concern over federal interference at the polls has led to a wave of unprecedented action by civil rights groups, unions and political organizations, including multiple lawsuits, Freedom of Information Act requests and public service announcements to voters about what to watch for on Election Day. And many are specifically ringing alarm bells over the possible involvement of the U.S. military, particularly the National Guard."
(NPR)
Bessent ‘inadvertently’ failed to report at least $100K of JPMorgan stock — An inspector general review found no "knowing violation" of federal ethics law.
(Politico)
"“A toaster is a wedding gift,” the senator said in a social media post. “A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else. Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden’s foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now.”" Republican Senator Urges Congress to Investigate Donald Trump Jr.
(New York Times)
"James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
Trump brushed off McCrery’s concerns, they said, and the president countered that no building codes apply to White House construction.
“I am the code,” Trump said."
(Washington Post)
‘I Was Sold a Bill of Goods’: Americans and the Distrust Election
Americans have a pervasive sense they are being lied to. That has created an unpredictability in politics unseen since Donald Trump said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters.
(New York Times)
- "Former members who spoke to the Guardian also allege that teenage girls and young women were sexually exploited at Midtown, where they were regularly pressured and coerced into “dating” and having sex with multiple men who were also Midtown members – sometimes decades older than them. In at least one case, a former member said she believes that what happened to her could be described as sex trafficking."
Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’
(The Guardian)
- ‘Best MAGA event’ featuring Kid Rock and Dog the Bounty Hunter canceled after bleak ticket sales revealed
(Entertainment Weekly)
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