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luv Everyone. To be decent, is what good life is about! Mel Brooks, though, is not one to give in to sadness, despair, “Just be kind. That’s enough advice for anybody,” he says. “It’s so easy to hurt people. Don’t.”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"It’s not naive... to believe in our national sense of honor; and to expect our leaders to behave with dignity, integrity, civility, and humility." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Admiral McRaven: Public Execution Is Shameless and Ignoble
A government livestream of Nidal Hasan’s killing would put America in extremely poor company.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“A White House spokesperson told MS NOW that Susie Wiles had no knowledge of her daughter’s work 'Susie does not discuss work matters with her daughters,' they said'...” www.ms.now/news/trump-w...
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How Trump World is profiting from far-right allies who deny genocide
Susie Wiles’ daughter’s firm and two Trump strategists are being paid to help pro-Putin Serb nationalists or their would-be business partners.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"Pima Resists ICE, or PRICE, the opposition group that was formed in response to MTC purchasing the empty Marana facility last summer, organized the press conference to call on town leaders to slow or block the opening of the facility..." tucson.com/news/local/g...
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Grijalva, activists say Marana ICE facility is not final
A lack of federal oversight is forcing local governments and community members to implement their own guardrails on immigration detention centers in their communities, Rep. Adelita Grijalva says.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Anti-ICE demonstrators jam DHS tip line, chalk messages on Williston building
Demonstrators continued their week of protests Thursday at the Department of Homeland Security building in Williston
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“If you’re going to mail your ballot, you better do it right away,” he said. “Don’t wait.” www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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‘Mail early’: Election officials urge voters to return ballots ASAP to avoid potential Postal Service delays
Postal Service cutbacks could lead to more ballots being rejected.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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How low can he go? Pew Research poll finds Trump’s approval down to just 30%.
When Trump’s second term began, roughly 1 in 20 voters who supported his candidacy disapproved of his job performance. Now, it’s 1 in 3.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
ha!! www.ms.now/news/a-gop-p...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The federal judge considering potential sanctions in the “Broadview Six” case made discovery requests to the US attorney’s office Friday, demanding any written communications with anyone outside the office regarding “investigatory or charging decisions”... www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/09/b...
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‘Broadview Six’ judge requests US attorney’s office communications, including Boutros email
The federal judge considering potential sanctions in the controversial “Broadview Six” made her first formal discovery requests to the U.S. attorney’s office on Friday.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23h
"There is no excuse for this and you know why I’m furious right now,” the judge said. “I was hearing from plaintiff’s side that this was going to happen and I said ‘no’ repeatedly, ‘I trust the government.’ I trusted you all repeatedly to not do what you have done...” www.ms.now/news/you-did...
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‘You did your absolute worst’: Judge blasts government after she says it defied her on D.C. golf course case
A livid U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes called an emergency hearing after the government flouted warnings to notify the court before cutting down more than 10 trees at East Potomac Golf Course; it cut d...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21h
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Video shows chaotic ICE arrest in Harrison that left family screaming, crying on sidewalk
The entire ordeal lasted just 1 minute and 28 seconds but left the family behind, screaming and crying.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Attorneys for David Hearn call for probe into Reflecting Pool vandalism case
In a letter to the inspectors general of the Justice and Interior departments, Hearns’ lawyers demand answers as to who is responsible for the “gross incompetence, negligence, and misconduct.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"In my 65 years of living, I've never seen the city in such an uproar..." deceleration.news/san-antonio-...
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'March Will Not End Tomorrow': San Antonio Immigration Protest Resists New ICE Facility
Community organizers and local elected leaders join vigil outside 640,000-square-foot warehouse slated to house thousands amid growing ICE violence and deportation enforcement pushback.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good stuff from my co-host on the Déjà News podcast, the great Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social ... www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Watergate revisionism is Trump’s latest attempt to turn history upside down
Rehabilitating Richard Nixon serves several purposes for the current president — and it undermines our collective understanding of America’s past.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan. “releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...
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Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says
If carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Dozens of protesters arrived before 8AM to deliver cards with handwritten 'tips,' encouraging ICE employees to find other jobs. On a side door, someone wrote: “You can say no,” and “God is watching you”... www.sevendaysvt.com/news/protest...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“It’s really fundamentally about whether or not people with disabilities can live, work, go to school, make all the decisions about how you spend your day and you spend your life with..." 19thnews.org/2026/10/disa...
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The federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promise
Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson won a victory that gave people with disabilities the freedom to choose where they live. That legacy is now under threat.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“ICE is operating outside the limits of its legal authority, and the people of Fresno are paying the price…” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...
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Off-Duty ICE Agent Is Shot and Arrested After Sleeping on Lawn in California
A woman found the agent asleep on her lawn early Friday, and her 72-year-old father shot the agent after he assaulted her, the police said.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today in DC: "Beginning Saturday, crews will start another major round of cutting at the historic public golf course. The first phase contains 169 trees marked for removal. The Trump Administration says as many as 529 could eventually come down..." www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
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More than 500 trees may be removed from D.C. golf course Trump wants to redesign
Beginning Saturday, National Park Service crews will start another major round of cutting at East Potomac Golf Links, according to a new filing in federal court.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Putin’s destruction of trust in independent reporting was deliberate and effective... aimed at getting people to feel helpless. 'Doing nothing stems from believing no one... Because if you don’t trust anyone, you don’t do anything one way or the other'..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/m...
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‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile’ Review: What Is Truth?
The second half of Julia Loktev’s epic chronicle of independent journalists in Russia is essential viewing.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Footage taken by protesters shows the massive tree crashing down as border agents look on..." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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They sat atop a ‘grandmother’ tree for months. Border agents knocked it down.
Activists occupied a cottonwood tree in Arizona for more than two months in a standoff with U.S. Customs and Border Protection contractors.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The whistleblower says FBI supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters
The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The widespread effects of DOGE’s efforts—the cures that won’t be found; the vaccines that won’t be made; the food meant to save lives, left instead to rot..." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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‘Elon Is a Nuke’
A new documentary makes the case that Elon Musk is a human of mass destruction.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Trump Is an Easy Mark for Putin
The president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden, a hawkish Republican in a battleground district who has been a forceful supporter of the Iran war, said Saturday that he had no comment on the president’s deal with Mr. Putin..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...
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Some Republicans Reject Trump’s Move to Import Diesel Fuel From Russia
High diesel costs have posed a problem for Republicans in the midterms, but President Trump’s decision did not satisfy some candidates in key Senate races.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“There is no excuse for a mistake of this magnitude...” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Pentagon raises official toll of troops who died during war with Iran to 21
The Post exclusively reported last month that the number of service members lost was greater than what the Pentagon was reporting in its public database.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"People sometimes get involved in elections because they are skeptical of how they work. Then they discover that the problems they expected to find are not there..." www.votebeat.org/national/202...
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How Monae Johnson went from MAGA darling to endorsing a Democrat
South Dakota’s Republican secretary of state once questioned vote-counting machines. Four years later, she is defending them and backing a Democrat to replace her.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Texas schools are underfunded — hundreds have gone to four days a week..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...
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Opinion | Republicans Are Worried About Gina Hinojosa. In Texas, I Saw Why. (Gift Article)
The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
"Alliances are not merely acts of charity toward strangers. They exist because countries learned that hostility becomes more likely when aggressors believe their victims will stand alone..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Tucker Carlson would have you forget the truth about Hitler. Don’t.
In a conversation with Jacob Rees-Mogg, the commentator played fast and loose with the historical record.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Harris County TX. He's hospitalized: "ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck. However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..." abc7.com/story/ice-ru...
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ICE agent strikes man with car during pursuit in Texas, authorities say: VIDEO
Surveillance video shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying ICE agents ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In August, Trump purchased between $1m and $5m in SpaceX bonds. Two days later, he signed a memorandum setting out a new policy pledging US government support for space transportation companies: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy
The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New Trump rule set to go into effect Oct 22 -- may cause serious spike in prescription drug prices for millions of Americans: www.usatoday.com/story/money/... apnews.com/article/drug...
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The cost of drugs from Canada is set to soar for millions of Americans because of a federal rule
Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access due to a new customs rule.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...
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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base
From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NBC News: "Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"The government is legally forbidden by a court order from converting the Roxbury site to a detention facility... But an NPR investigation has found signs that the facility is being used. The state's Office of the Attorney General is looking into similar reports..." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Detained immigrants at Georgia ICE facility launch mass hunger strike
At least 73 people estimated to have joined protest against prolonged detention and Folkston facility’s ‘violations’
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“We’re not going to just put our hands up and say, ‘Oh well, we tried.' When it opens, it’ll be even more important to pressure to close it. At that point, people are being harmed. We’re just going to keep making a stink of it. "We'll never go away until it’s closed." www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
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‘Shrouded in secrecy’: Louisiana's new ICE facility raises more questions than answers
Under the Trump administration's deportation blitz, ICE's new 'staging center' in Alexandria, Louisiana is run by the operators of Lasalle Corrections, a private, for-profit company with a history of ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"I take Utahns’ voting rights very, very seriously. They are sacred, and they ought to be protected, and they ought to be preserved, and they shouldn’t be mucked around with for political purposes.” www.newsfromthestates.com/article/utah...
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Utah’s top election chief says Trump admin’s ‘gamesmanship’ with voting keeps her up at night
Editor’s note: This story is part of We Vote Utah, a partnership between KUER, PBS Utah and Utah News Dispatch to cover Utah’s 2026 elections.The top election official in the red state of Utah has bee...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Driver-volunteers go to homes to drop off diapers, baby formula, toilet paper, groceries... "Drivers switch routes and cars, write addresses on paper, and carry a water bottle so they can drop the paper in water and obscure the addresses if stopped... kansasreflector.com/2026/10/02/t...
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Trump's immigration sweeps leave southwest Kansas communities looking for way forward • Kansas Reflector
DODGE CITY — Southwest Kansas communities reeling from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — which included random stops to check status — are looking for ways to recover as fear continues ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a really good piece by @natashakorecki.bsky.social at NBC News: "Many Latinos were better versed in the details of Salgado Araujo’s shooting death than in the names and backgrounds of those running for some of the highest-profile offices in their state..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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How the shooting death of a Houston father is igniting Latino politics in Texas
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed on his way to work by ICE agents, who said he used his vehicle as a weapon. An outraged community is demanding justice — and change.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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U.S. sends torture survivor back to Nicaragua, where he is immediately jailed again
Jeffrey Jarquín, a former Nicaraguan political prisoner who said he was tortured for opposing President Daniel Ortega, was jailed at Managua’s Modelo prison immediately after the U.S. deported him, ad...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kill. Bury. Print. - Montclair Film Festival
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The agency appears to regard the change as a customer experience improvement — as if interacting with a TSA agent who has been forced to stand in a crowded airport for hours on end will definitely be positive..." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
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Trump Administration Makes Life Worse For TSA Agents
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“There are always people who profit from war or government policies. The difference is that the people profiting should not be the people making the decisions to make that policy. And that is what is happening here...” www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...
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Jared Kushner’s company has large stake in firm with Israeli military links | CNN
At the same time Jared Kushner has negotiated in the war in Gaza, his company has held the largest stake in a firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns.
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