Thursday, October 15, 2026
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TODAY'S TOP MADDOWBLOG POSTS
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Seven months ago, the president argued that higher gas prices were a good thing. As part of his closing midterms message, he’s trying it again.
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Taken together, it’s hard not to get the impression that the president doesn’t exactly hold his most loyal followers in high regard.
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Taken together, it’s hard not to get the impression that the president doesn’t exactly hold his most loyal followers in high regard.
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If voters are basing their election decisions on the president’s recent announcements, they might want to read the fine print on his deceptive boasts.
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If voters are basing their election decisions on the president’s recent announcements, they might want to read the fine print on his deceptive boasts.
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Confronted with evidence of his own failure on the nation’s most pressing issue, the president apparently couldn’t think of anything coherent to say at all.
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Confronted with evidence of his own failure on the nation’s most pressing issue, the president apparently couldn’t think of anything coherent to say at all.
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Hot off the presses!
Just received my author copy from the publisher -- can't believe it's almost ready to be out in the world 🥹
Pub date is Tuesday, November 10th -- pre-order details and book tour dates and locations here.
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OTHER STORIES ON OUR RADAR
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this is bananas:
Congressman threatens reporter with potential criminal charges for recording him
(Rachel shares ABC News on Rep. Andy Harris's meltdown(s))
putin doles out the evan gershkovich treatment now for a japanese journalist:
Russia detains Japanese journalist, alleging espionage
(Rachel shares Washington Post)
"The 33-page complaint, filed Monday in the Middle District of Florida, details how the former Congressman used two of his friends, now-convicted ex-Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, and former Florida GOP House member Christopher Dorworth, to coordinate the recruitment of young women whom they supplied with drugs in order to facilitate sexual encounters..."
Ex-Florida congressman Matt Gaetz accused in suit of sex trafficking young women
(Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald)
"A federal judge ruled that top Trump administration officials spread "entirely false information" to justify firing a former top official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of “outrageous government conduct.""
(USA Today)
"Marshall’s efforts in 2024 to secure the earmark sought to balance the needs of the refuge and farmers in his home state. But in doing so, he took action that experts said could boost his property’s value and posed a conflict of interest for the Republican senator. The measure also collided with Marshall’s strong opposition to earmarks, often called pork-barrel spending, to fund lawmakers’ pet projects. "
(Associated Press)
"An ethics watchdog organization filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Jared Kushner and the White House, seeking to bar the president’s son-in-law from acting as a political envoy unless he’s confirmed by the Senate and files public financial disclosures."
(Washington Sun)
"A computer error caused a backlog of hundreds of thousands of voter registrations in Texas, sending election workers scrambling to process them before early voting starts on Monday, county election officials said.
The backlog of nearly 600,000 applications stemmed from a glitch in software run by the Texas Department of Public Safety, according to a lawsuit filed last week by voting rights groups. They accused the agency, as well as the secretary of state, who serves as Texas’ chief election officer, of failing to to maintain a reliable online voter registration system."
(New York Times)
"The Department of Justice’s new demand that California election officials prevent an unverified federal list of alleged noncitizens from voting or face legal action “appears to be a plausible threat that DOJ will attempt to engage in warrant-based ballot seizure,” Democrats said in a new court filing overnight. "
(Democracy Docket)
"It’s horrible to have to type these words, but the president of the United States is throwing Vladimir Putin a lifeline. He is turning the American government against Ukraine, funding Russia and — perhaps worst of all — playing directly into Putin’s theory of victory."
(New York Times)
"Absent from the list is Trump himself, who has said that he is helping to pay for the project. “It’s being paid for a hundred percent by me and some friends of mine,” he said last year, days after demolition began on the old East Wing."
Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom
(Washington Post)
White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia Was an Affiliate Marketer for a Fitness MLM — Trump's newly installed press secretary tells WIRED that in the early 2010s, she promoted a product for a company then called Beachbody, which she described as “sort of a pyramid scheme.”
(Wired)
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NEW YORK CITY ADDED TO THE 'SOLD OUT' LIST
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229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
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