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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"A pseudo-democratic fiscal basketcase, whose only apparent foreign policy objective is domination for the gratification of its president’s slapdash vanity... "Trump’s world — a world of transaction and submission — is not the only world we all have to live in..." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...
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Opinion | Canada Said No to America. It Will Reverberate Far Beyond Its Borders.
Mark Carney has chosen suffering, but he did what Canadians elected him to do.
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gailnason.bsky.social @gailnason.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
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Don't Boo... VOTE!!!!
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: Trump, who failed to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence, now seeks Iran deal he ripped up www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEki...
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gailnason.bsky.social @gailnason.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
For my grandchildren. Hudson Mass.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Both Denmark and Iran made preparations to repel a ground invasion from the United States during the past month. 32 more months of this shit.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 25/03/2026
For Michael Flynn, the corrupt pardon he received wasn’t enough. He wanted a payout, too, claiming federal law enforcement subjected him to malicious prosecution when they charged him with crimes he’d twice pleaded guilty to. Thanks to Trump’s DOJ, he’ll now get a taxpayer-financed check.
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Trump’s Justice Department agrees to financial settlement with Michael Flynn
The financial settlement with Ashli Babbitt’s family was indefensible. The payout to Trump’s former national security adviser is worse.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE warns all immigrants to ‘lie low’
Tania Warner says she has documents showing she is in the US legally, but immigration agents were not swayed
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Politico @politico.com · 25/03/2026
Lawmakers are introducing a bill to ban Congress and the president from trading in certain prediction markets. The ban would also extend to: Lawmakers' dependents and spouses, senior congressional staff, political appointees, the VP and senior executive branch employees.
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Lawmakers introduce bill to prohibit members of congress, president from prediction market trading
The bill comes amid an uptick of bipartisan legislation focused on prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth... "It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
“What's happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if execs think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America and we don’t enjoy bullshit like this.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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‘I ultimately had to comply’: ‘60 Minutes’ EP faces fallout after Bari Weiss shelves story
CBS News postponed a “60 Minutes” segment about El Salvador’s CECOT prison one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Hundreds protest Trump’s move to dismantle NCAR, a premier climate and weather hub
The Saturday protest comes as Colorado senators are holding up a government spending bill in an attempt to ensure NCAR gets funded.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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ICE Agents Break Into Women’s Bathroom: “Pull Your Pants Up!”
Remember when Republicans pretended to care about men in women’s bathrooms?
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
“’Twas grace hath brought me safe thus far... and grace will lead me home...” www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | New documentary shows Andrew Young's singular role in MLK's circle
The 93-year-old Young had a role in Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle that was different than everybody else’s, but no less necessary.
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gailnason.bsky.social @gailnason.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com Your documentary was wonderful. I’m 78 those were my times. The research must have been exhausting. It was so moving I cried at its reminder of shame at the bigotry then and unfortunately again. You have given a blueprint of what we need to do.
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Debbie Rock @djrock.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Happy No Kings Day, America. It couldn't happen at a better time.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
"It's very much in our generation's muscle memory." Bill McKibben points out the roots of activism for many older Americans and why they play such a strong role in anti-Trump activism.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
#NoKings ad for Dubuque, Iowa 🤣🔥
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
The war zone in Portland is out of control.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 04/07/2025
This 4th of July, I hope Americans of good will can take a moment to pause, reflect, and remember when NPR tweeted the Declaration of Independence and some Trump followers thought it was anti-Trump “propaganda.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...
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Some Trump supporters thought NPR tweeted ‘propaganda.’ It was the Declaration of Independence.
Some Twitter users reacted angrily to the thread, accusing NPR of spamming them or pushing an agenda.
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 13/09/2025
🔺NEW: Intelligence suggests that foreign-based anti-government activists are using platforms such as Telegram to target the tanaiste and his family
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Gardai suspect extremists behind threats against Simon Harris
Intelligence suggests that foreign-based anti-government activists are using platforms such as Telegram to target the tanaiste and his family
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 13/09/2025
The Supreme Court just greenlit ICE racial profiling in LA. @profmmurray.bsky.social says we are moving “dangerously close” to “real tyranny” #Velshi
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The shadow docket ruling Melissa Murray says brings us ‘dangerously close’ to ‘real tyranny’
The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority this week effectively greenlit racial profiling during ICE sweeps in Los Angeles, undermining the Fourth Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches. Individuals can now be targeted if they “look” like they don’t belong—a move Melissa Murray calls “after-the-fact justice.” She warns we are “moving dangerously close" into real tyranny and explains how Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence plays “fast and loose with other people’s lives,” ignoring the Constitution’s commitment to individual dignity and rights.
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Politico @politico.com · 13/09/2025
Our Dasha Burns explores the life and political legacy of Charlie Kirk, along with the broader impact of political violence in the U.S.. "I think this moment is a really big test," she says on this week's episode of #theconversation. Full episode out now: pod.link/1111319839
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 05/09/2025
Turns out firing the ref doesn’t change the score. July was expected to deliver 70k+ new jobs (which would have been very low). Instead: just 22k. And the revisions are worse: May added 79k (a bit more than first reported) but in June the economy LOST 13k jobs. AND unemployment ROSE to 4.3%
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 16/07/2025
A study found that children who consume lots of artificial sweeteners, and who have certain genes, are at more risk of starting puberty before the age of eight
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Artificial sweeteners linked to premature puberty in children
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
"The parts of NOAA, the parts of the parent of the National Weather Service, that have been cut the most are the researchers. So the people that are working to make our science, moving it forward, those positions are being cut." Watch Rachel's interview with @ericholthaus.com : youtu.be/gLKE45W6Jqc
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Devastating Texas floods highlight stakes of vital weather services amid reckless Trump cuts
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“CoreCivic has repeatedly shown that it is incapable of running a humane facility. Now, the company flouts city approval to move forward with an ICE center based on false promises.” In filings, the city argued the company previously ran an “absolute hell hole” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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A private prison firm wants to detain immigrants in this Kansas town. Its residents are pushing back
Residents of Leavenworth are organizing against CoreCivic’s efforts to reopen a problematic prison
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Trump screws active-duty servicemembers out of $80m they were due to be reimbursed after bank scam: apnews.com/article/navy...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dismisses $95M overdraft case vs. Navy Federal Credit Union
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, led by President Trump’s administration, has dropped a case against Navy Federal Credit Union.
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 06/07/2025
Why did the floods catch Texas by surprise? Questions raised over forecasters’ ability to keep pace with climate change, and whether cuts to the federal workforce may have contributed to the disaster
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Why did the floods catch Texas by surprise?
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 06/07/2025
Defunding Planned Parenthood leaves patients with nowhere to go for “basic healthcare like getting vaccinated & prenatal & postnatal care,” says @michelebgoodwin.bsky.social. “The cruelty is the point,” adds Amanda Zurawski. “To take away access to healthcare; they've made that very clear.”
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The dangerous anti-abortion victory buried in Trump’s megabill
The Atlantic called the president’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” the biggest anti-abortion victory since Roe v. Wade was overturned. That’s because the mega-bill includes a provision that will bar Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid reimbursements – not just for abortion but for any health service they provide. Michele Goodwin, Professor of Constitutional Law & Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law is among the many experts warning that this defunding will have a devastating impact on reproductive healthcare, saying in many of the communities served by Planned Parenthood, “there’s no other place for [patients] to go. There's no other clinic, there's no other county provider, and we are talking about basic health care, like getting vaccinated or even getting prenatal care and postnatal care.” Amanda Zurawski, a reproductive rights activist who nearly died after being denied an abortion under Texas’ ban, says stories like hers used to be shocking but are becoming so commonplace, as access to reproductive care is rolled back, that no one notices them anymore. “We're seeing [lawmakers] coordinate these orchestrated efforts to restrict access, you know, in more sinister and unfortunately creative ways, and it's working. And I think we have to really stay vigilant, and we have to keep an eye on our elected officials,” Zurawski says. 
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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 06/07/2025
Almost every "right, privilege & liberty” Americans have cherished for 250 years is under attack, warns fmr. federal Judge J. Michael Luttig. “We have no leader and we have no leadership.” Just electeds who “have followed like lemmings those who would walk this country off a cliff toward tyranny.”
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Judge Luttig: ‘No leadership' --‘Lemmings..who would walk the country off the cliff towards tyranny'
Former federal judge J. Michael Luttig joins Ali to discuss his powerful new piece, “The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom— and of Tyranny,” a reflection on the Declaration of Independence and its 27 “self-evident truths” about freedom and tyranny that apply today more than ever. Luttig warns that “almost every single right, privilege, and liberty,” Americans have cherished for almost 250 years is now “under attack,” and that power has dangerously “drifted away from the people to the government” itself. “The main problem and the main issue for America today is that we have no leader and we have no leadership,” he warns. “Our elected politicians…have followed like lemmings those who would walk this country off a cliff toward tyranny.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
"In April, the Trump Administration quietly lifted limits that had been placed on the wife of a Russian oligarch. Her husband, Boris Rotenberg, is a childhood friend of Putin’s and has been a central figure in his inner circle for decades..." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
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Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
"Trump also shuttered the KleptoCapture task force, a DOJ unit formed in 2022 to identify and seize assets of sanctioned Russian oligarchs. The unit coordinated investigations across agencies, leading to high-profile seizures of yachts, real estate, private jets..." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
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Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
“The question Trump and his team ought to face is simple: 'Why has American job growth slowed this year to a 15-year low?'” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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New U.S. jobs report shows 2025 is off to a discouragingly sluggish start
Over the first six months of the year, American job growth has slowed to a 15-year low. It's worth asking why.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood, incl girls still missing from a camp. In the time of climate change we need better weather prediction from fed’l resources, not the dramatic cuts Trump/Musk have imposed. joycevance.substack.com/p/when-the-c...
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When the Cuts Hit Home
I am not an alarmist.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: What you're feeling is the banality of cruelty from Trump and the Republican Party youtu.be/b0q-UoMwc3A?...
MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell with white text over his shoulder: the banality of cruelty
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
“The unspoiled land in question includes millions of acres of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho…” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...
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Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests
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MS NOW @ms.now · 30/06/2025
OPINION by Ja’han Jones: “Indeed, this administration has spent its opening months seemingly grooming the MAGA movement to be OK with blatant racism.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
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Trump’s second term is giving a green light to blatant racism
Even when compared with his first stint in the White House, Trump’s second administration seems far more permissive of overt expressions of bigotry.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 30/06/2025
The Republicans' tax breaks will cost trillions. According to a scheme called "current policy baseline," Republican insist the actual cost is zero. If that sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. It’s also something the parliamentarian might have a problem with, so they’re going around her.
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Republicans embrace a gimmick to pretend their tax breaks for the wealthy are free
The GOP tax breaks will cost trillions. According to a new Republican scheme, however, the cost is zero. If that sounds ridiculous, that's because it is.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 30/06/2025
OPINION by @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social: “Trump’s ATF has also canned former President Joe Biden’s zero tolerance policy for gun dealers who have committed violations such as selling a gun without a background check.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | How DOGE could amplify America's gun violence problem
DOGE is reportedly looking to revise regulations meant to control the flow of guns in a country with far too many of them.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 30/06/2025
Trump drops lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and Des Moines Register newspaper www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Trump drops lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and Des Moines Register newspaper
The lawsuit accused Selzer of fraud after she conducted a poll right before the 2024 election that showed Kamala Harris leading Trump in Iowa. He ended up winning the state.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 01/07/2025
As continued ICE raids and detentions spread fear throughout Los Angeles, NBC News' @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social met with volunteers from the community organization Unión del Barrio — a part of a large community self-defense coalition providing rapid response to the raids.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This whole story is insane
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
“In the last week, more than 200 veterans have volunteered to attend immigration hearings with Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan…”
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Hundreds of veterans volunteer to attend asylum hearings with Afghans
The effort began after a former Afghan interpreter was detained after his San Diego asylum hearing this month.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 26/06/2025
Trump deports man with one lung, no criminal record to CECOT in possible 'death sentence' Wladimir Vera Villamizar is among the more than 200 Venezuelans sent to El Salvador’s CECOT by the Trump admin. Just weeks before his deportation, his entire right lung was removed. David Noriega reports.
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Trump deports man with one lung, no criminal record to CECOT in possible 'death sentence'
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MS NOW @ms.now · 26/06/2025
Trump admin has done ‘extraordinary job’ of scaring people through mass deportations: Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social joins Katy Tur to break down the profound impact of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and how it has changed the politics around the issue. WATCH:
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Trump admin has done ‘extraordinary job’ of scaring people through mass deportations: Soboroff
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MS NOW @ms.now · 26/06/2025
The DOJ says definitively: Kilmar Abrego Garcia will be taken into ICE Custody for deportation proceedings as soon as he's out of federal custody
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"Dismantling the US Agency for International Development will cost more than $6 billion, including hundreds of millions needed to fight legal challenges over the shutdown and dismissal of thousands of its workers, according to a State Department draft assessment." news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
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USAID Shutdown Costs Top $6 Billion, Internal Estimate Shows
The estimate, included in a seven-page memo prepared for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, raises questions about how much President Donald Trump will ultimately save taxpayers by closing USAID and othe...
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