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Isaac-Davy Aronson

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MS NOW producer / co-host, Déjà News pod with @maddow.bsky.social / maker of martinis

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 04/10/2026
DOGE thought it could just walk in and take over the United States Institute of Peace—until chief security officer Colin O’Brien decided to block their way.
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Essay | Exclusive | Michael Lewis on the Lone Security Guard Who Resisted DOGE
In an exclusive excerpt from “Blockers,” the inside story of the high-stakes D.C. standoff where security chief Colin O’Brien fought off DOGE operatives.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This sounds like every parent's dream for their children.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The folk protest music scene is back
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Trump-tied group bought a house for former Greenland politician, Danish report says
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 15/09/2026
Quite a recent pattern: - GOP candidate in Fla. marched alongside neo-Nazis - Husted fires aide over Nazi photo - Collins fires aide over swastika images - State Dept hires speechwriter whom DeSantis fired over video with Nazi imagery - Trump rewards Paul Ingrassia, who said he has a “Nazi streak”
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Republican state legislative candidate marched alongside neo-Nazis, adding to pattern
As a rule, state House candidates’ backgrounds tend not to generate national headlines, but once in a while, there are important exceptions.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
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Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
you can be arrested if you give water to people waiting on line to vote
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW and NEW! With the launch of MS NOW's cool new Membership app comes new cool stuff from Rachel! Today she shares her thoughts on what it means that Trump's CIA director made a rare trip to Moscow. This Monday she'll be chatting with Members live. Go to ms.now/membership to get involved.
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Maddow on Trump’s ‘unrelenting devotion to Putin’
Rachel Maddow shares her take on CIA chief John Ratcliffe's recent trip to Russia.
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Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I cannot believe how much of my life was spent arguing about this.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So thrilled to learn that our podcast Burn Order has won an Edward R. Murrow award! Thank you to the Radio Television Digital News Association @rtdna.bsky.social If you haven't listened to Burn Order yet, you can listen for free here, get transcripts of episodes, etc: www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
yes but does this include the new helipad construction g elliott the people love a new helipad
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Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Same!
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Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"It is a bleak view of the world, a kind of male doomerism in which a meaningful life can be found only in the domination and exploitation of others."
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The Masculinity Scam
The manosphere’s campaign strategy
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"The goal of this regime is to scare us out of resisting.... Our job is to show up and be brave anyway." Great article from Daniella Jiménez, Renée Bartlett-Webber, and Ellie Prickett-Morgan at Mother Jones. Worth your time: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The architecture of resistance: America’s year of mobilizing against ICE
Ordinary people launched a movement against Trump’s secret police. They’re still at it.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I wrote in my 2021 book REIGN OF TERROR that we had yet to see the final form of the War on Terror. Events this week, from ICE in Maine to Marco Rubio's attempt designate the left as a foreign terrorist organization, have me thinking that we're getting a preview.
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The War on Terror Approaches Its Final Form
ICE executes the nonwhite while the White House and State Department look to declare the U.S. left a Foreign Terrorist Organization. We've been heading here since 9/11
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.
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Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Bill Murray as Phil Connors: ...AGAIN
ALT: Bill Murray as Phil Connors: ...AGAIN
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 14/07/2026
A story in three parts: 1. Trump positions the US as a mercenary force, illegally charging protection money in the Strait of Hormuz, upending centuries of foreign policy 2. Sycophants call it a masterstroke 3. Trump discovers he can’t execute his plan and abandons it in embarrassing fashion
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One day later, Trump abandons his plans for legally dubious tolls on Strait of Hormuz
The president said his radical policy would “begin immediately.” Perhaps that wasn’t his best choice of words.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
On my way, Clacton.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
when it zoomed out I gasped
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Slaughter will lead to a constitutional crisis in 2027, because the President will try to fire the entire federal government, one way or another. The Democrats should be fully prepared here.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Maddow: Advice on DEFIANCE in the age of Trump
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 15/06/2026
Markwayne Mullin said he might deploy ICE agents to local voting precincts — to respond to things such as bomb threats. But what are they going to do? Detain the bomb for weeks in squalid conditions before deporting it to a country it’s never been to before? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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The problem(s) with Mullin’s answer on ICE agents at local voting precincts
The administration keeps confronting opportunities to make clear it won’t deploy ICE agents to polling places. It also keeps leaving the door wide open.
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Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"The Gilders’ Studio has flown in Gilders from around the Country!"
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Trump leans into the $5 million no-bid contract to coat horse statues in gold
On the president’s renovation agenda, we’re seeing a rhetorical convergence that’s both unexpected and oddly bipartisan.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Only took him ten years to figure it out bsky.app/profile/sahi...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Recap of the Broadview 6 grand jury: — WEEK 1: Government tries to indict protesters for impeding a police car. Jurors ask why the cop isn't being charged for driving into them instead. No bill. — WEEK 2: Government presents same exact argument. Jurors aren't having it. [continued in next skeet]
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 09/06/2026
For just under $12,000, you too can buy a Trump-branded gold “medallion,” “designed” by the president, celebrating the UFC’s White House event. This is not to be confused with Trump-branded shoes, guitars, Bibles, watches, digital trading cards, or phones. #grift www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Trump-branded UFC ‘medallions’ go on sale ahead of scheduled White House match
For just under $12,000, you too can buy a coin, “designed” by the president, celebrating the UFC Freedom 250 event.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
They seem like they’re really enjoying themselves!
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Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
"we’re left with a ceasefire featuring quite a bit of firing, alongside a burgeoning peace deal that lacks both peace and a deal."
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/04/2026
Sam Alito asking an extended hypothetical question about whether members of an Iranian sleeper cell would get U.S. citizenship is only lending further support to my theory that season 5 of '24' pickled the brains of an entire generation of Republican voters
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Trump gives Russia yet another pass, says it’s ‘fine’ for Putin to break Cuba oil blockade" www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
They think everyone else is a clout seeker as void of moral commitments as they are. Not that these moral commitments are always good, mind you. But they can’t even imagine their existence, for better or worse.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/03/2026
Lol the Department of WAAARRRR featured Smedley Butler on its blog today. You’ll never guess which big parts of his story they leave out! www.war.gov/News/Feature...
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Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Wow that takes some effort
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Really appreciate the amount of on-the-ground coverage of #NoKings via @statesnewsroom.com, whose feed and homepage are shining a light on protests happening all across the country.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Scenes in Italy: www.politico.eu/article/ital...
In Naples, about 50 prosecutors and judges gathered to open champagne and sing Bella Ciao, the World War II anti-fascist partisan anthem. Activists, students and trade unionists spontaneously marched to Rome’s Piazza del Popolo chanting “resign, resign.”
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Adina M. Yoffie @adinayoffie.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
It was about protecting Division III high school girls volleyball.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
it’s not like we couldn’t have seen this coming (more than a year ago)… youtu.be/sedx7rkSOMc?...
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Rachel Maddow on Kristi Noem: Five things to know about Trump's pick for homeland security secretary
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Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
A couple years ago on the Déjà News pod, @sifill.bsky.social told me and @maddow.bsky.social that Trump tapped into (white) people’s desire “to be free of the requirements of decency.” And that has lived in my head ever since.
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Podcast Episode · Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News · June 26, 2023 · 42m
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran
The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.
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Isaac-Davy Aronson @idaronson.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Oh ok
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Lawmakers say US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone
Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Patrol drone.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
After huge local pushback and protest, there will be NO massive trump prison camp in Merrimack New Hampshire: www.wmur.com/article/ice-...
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Plan for ICE detention center in Merrimack has been scrapped, governor says
After two months of speculation, protests and public debate, the Department of Homeland Security is moving on from plans for an immigrant detention facility in Merrimack, WMUR was first to report on T...
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