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Using my power for good. Fan of The Rachel Maddow Show / Democrat / Runner / Hiker / Politics / Volunteer / Liberal Calling all Maddow fans! I am @inthebasement on twitter. Oregon/Sometimes California - From Nebraska

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1h
If Pete Hegseth looks at what transpired aboard the USS Lincoln and thinks the real problem is with “a few folks in the media,” his relationship with reality is badly broken. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Even now, Hegseth tries to blame news organizations for the USS Lincoln scandal
If the secretary looks at what transpired aboard the carrier and thinks the real problem was “the media,” his relationship with reality is badly broken.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 18h
An estimated 81 U.S. military aircraft and drones have been destroyed or damaged during the conflict with Iran at a cost of up to $3.3 billion.
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US has lost up to 81 aircraft and drones in conflict with Iran
The report from the Congressional Research Service estimated the cost of the lost and damaged aircraft was between $1.9 billion and $3.3 billion.
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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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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wages are at all-time lows, and profits at historic highs, as a percent of GDP. The backlash against A.I. is a backlash against unchecked inequality. My @nytopinion.nytimes.com Chart:
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/w...
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Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon (Gift Article)
The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/w...
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Superpowers Race to Put Nuclear Reactors on the Moon (Gift Article)
The United States wants a reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists say the danger is great.
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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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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Kill. Bury. Print. - Montclair Film Festival
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Maddow Fans @maddowfans.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rachel Maddow in conversation: Surviving Putin's prison youtu.be/1HYm07a4T5k?...
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Rachel Maddow in conversation: Surviving Putin's prison
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 03/10/2026
Even without runaway superintelligence or malicious intent, current AI systems risk triggering nuclear war by amplifying human cognitive blind spots, speeding up escalation spirals, and overwhelming decision-makers with a firehose of information during high-stakes crises.
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AI doesn't need 'superintelligence' or evil intent to start a nuclear war
Even without runaway superintelligence or malicious intent, current AI systems risk triggering nuclear war by amplifying human cognitive blind spots, speeding up escalation spirals, and overwhelming…
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨 ON THE AIR @connectwithjacob.bsky.social
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Maddow Fans @maddowfans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'WE'RE GOING TO REPORT ON IT': New Maddow doc details small town newspaper taking on corrupt sheriff youtu.be/20tFc1IYkDs?...
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'WE'RE GOING TO REPORT ON IT': New Maddow doc details small town newspaper taking on corrupt sheriff
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A free press is an important tool against a government entity trying to consolidate power. And it's a tool that scales, from local sheriffs to presidents.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump White House official app is fraught with trackers. The White House app covertly collects excessive user data and shares it with third-party trackers while sidestepping federal security rules. For example, the app includes scripts to monitor a user's location several times per minute.
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White House Drove Users to Official App Fraught With Trackers
The White House app became the App Store’s most downloaded news app after the president barred three news outlets.
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Hunter @huntrgathrr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congrats, Rach! Rachel Maddow’s ‘Kill. Bury. Print.’ Wins 2026 David Carr Award From Montclair Film Festival variety.com/2026/tv/news... #Maddow
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Rachel Maddow’s ‘Kill. Bury. Print.’ Wins 2026 David Carr Award From Montclair Film Festival
Rachel Maddow's ‘Kill. Bury. Print.’ Wins 2026 David Carr Award From Montclair Film Festival
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An unfettered free press is “the antibiotic that cures authoritarianism.” - @maddow.bsky.social.
Maddow on tv screen points pointedly toward camera. next to her is a photo of the White House and the words “human oversight.”
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm hoping it'll eventually end up on msnow to watch... like maybe over Thanksgiving or something, like they've done in the past...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s up! Our new film “Kill.Bury.Print” is streaming now on Peacock #KillBuryPrint trailer here: youtu.be/ZLfo4At-stg?... and here’s a clip:
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gather 'round the campfire..... it's #Maddow Time....
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, about that steel mill promise…
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'8th Wonder of the World":
Trump Speaks in Wisconsin at Foxconn Groundbreaking
The FoxConn factory is slated to open in 2020 and is expected to be massive, meant to produce LCD screens for televisions and computers
By Mary Ann Ahern and Sandra Torres • Published June 28, 2018 • Updated on June 28, 2018 at 5:28 pm
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What happened to Foxconn? A look at the $1.2 billion spent and where it all went
It was supposed to be a giant manufacturing plant that would spur the growth of "Wis-con Valley.
Instead, it's a mostly-abandoned stretch of four lane roads and barren fields.
By Bennett Haeberle, Nathan Halder, Rich Moy, and Katy Smyser • Published June 3, 2025 • Updated on
June 5, 2025 at 6:02 pm
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Even as profits soar, corporate tax payments are down 25% this year thanks to Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. One of the main beneficiaries? Big Tech — which is using the tax breaks to help fuel its AI boom as it spends a fortune on the midterm elections. Remember this...
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/o...
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Opinion | The Mean Girls Presidency (Gift Article)
Our government is being run by a clique of middle-aged guys.
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And no commercials interrupting?
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Are we assured that there will be no CNN anchors interrupting & talking over the Farm Aid coverage? Otherwise, it's better just to watch on youtube.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23/09/2026
The CDC raised its benchmark for levels of the Covid virus in wastewater, adjusting a key metric for assessing the disease’s transmission. As a result, officials may now classify a level that once counted as high transmission as moderate instead.
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Why the CDC edited a key Covid metric, and what it says about the state of the virus
Covid infection counts are increasing in more than half the country.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23/09/2026
Former President Obama, while speaking at an event at Colgate University, said that banning the press from the White House during his tenure is "unimaginable."
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"About five million people in the country have already lost SNAP benefits — the government’s primary anti-hunger tool — because of the Trump/GOP bill... One retiree in Ohio described SNAP benefits as a 'lifeline.' Her benefits dropped in March from $250 to $44" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Is Starting to Bite Before the Midterm Elections
The tax cuts in President Trump’s signature achievement were the Republicans’ answer to voters’ economic struggles, but its health care and food assistance cuts are taking a toll.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
very excited and grateful for this! “Kill. Bury. Print.” premieres this Sunday Sept 27 on Peacock! trailer here: youtu.be/ZLfo4At-stg variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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Rachel Maddow’s ‘Kill. Bury. Print.’ Wins 2026 David Carr Award From Montclair Film Festival
Rachel Maddow's ‘Kill. Bury. Print.’ Wins 2026 David Carr Award From Montclair Film Festival
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
THIS! #maddow
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donaldkortum.bsky.social @donaldkortum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have never seen Cocktail Wars but tomorrow night (9/22) they will feature Rachel Maddow. As a mixologist she is no dilettante.
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Lynne Perednia @perednia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the many, many reasons why the Kennedy Center matters #maddow youtu.be/MfEb9Sb6Ge8?...
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Aretha Franklin's awesome tribute to Carole King: Kennedy Center Honors 2015
YouTube video by Antlin Notes
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's #Maddow Time !
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #NationalParks #giftlink www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/c...
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How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks (Gift Article)
Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
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MS NOW Public Relations @msnowcomms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@ms.now statement on its journalists being denied access to the White House grounds:
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is so insane I cannot believe this is real. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Huh, I guess the whole strategy of cable news outlets not asking the Trump White House hard questions and failing to push back on weak answers in order to preserve their access to the Trump White House wasn't much of a great strategy.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Breaking exclusive: New images obtained from a service member show the real truth about what happened in Kuwait: Iranian strikes destroyed America's base. Meanwhile, Trump just banned CNN, Politico, and MS Now from the White House, and the Pentagon is lying about the true death toll from Iran.
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Major Update: Exclusive Videos Expose Army Base Destruction as Trump Bans Major Media Companies and Buries the Real Death Toll
Good afternoon.
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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 14/09/2026
The Bulletin's September magazine asks: What went wrong with the internet, and how do we fix it, particularly during the rise of AI?
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How to fix the internet
September 2026 Bulletin Magazine
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14/09/2026
Most Americans can expect to pay significantly more each month for health insurance next year, whether they get it through work, the Affordable Care Act or Medicare.
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Your health insurance bills are about to go up
The premium increases stem in part from rising healthcare costs, including higher prices for medical care and expensive prescription drugs.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court prevented a U.S. Postal Service regulation concerning mail-in ballots from going into effect, casting a decisive blow against President Donald Trump’s hopes of exercising federal control over the midterm elections.
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Supreme Court says Trump cannot enforce new mail-in ballot regulation
The decision means a Postal Service measure that could lead to ballots not being sent to voters won’t be in effect for this November’s midterm elections.
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Someone who can read this.... tell us what the 6 movies are.... thanks!
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨 ON THE AIR from our *brand new* Los Angeles studio! @connectwithjacob.bsky.social
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Nebraska Examiner @nebraskaexaminer.com · 10/09/2026
A Flatwater Free Press and New York Times investigation found Pillen Family Farms has long taken on undocumented laborers. The governor is running for reelection with President Donald Trump's endorsement. From Yanqi Xu/Flatwater Free Press via Nebraska Examiner buff.ly/xllbHbU
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Gov. Pillen backs ICE crackdown. His company employs undocumented workers. • Nebraska Examiner
A Flatwater Free Press and New York Times investigation finds Pillen Family Farms has long taken on undocumented laborers.
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Military Times @militarytimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Iran attack on base in Jordan damaged American military aircraft, US official says
Iranian strikes damaged one A-10 Thunderbolt II and eight F-15s this week on the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#immigration #ICE #Nebraska #NeGov #maddow #Pillen
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Omaha World-Herald @owhnews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Pillen’s family business, a major pork producer, has long used undocumented labor even as he seeks reelection aligned with Trump’s anti-immigration agenda, a Flatwater Free Press/New York Times investigation finds.
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Gov. Jim Pillen backs ICE crackdown. His company employs undocumented workers
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 10/09/2026
The United States is facing an imminent “strategic disaster” as Yemen’s Houthis inch closer to capturing a major oil trade “chokepoint,” The Guardian reported Thursday, a development that could soon open a “second front” in President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran.
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US facing imminent ‘disaster’ as ‘serious’ development unfolds in Iran war: report
The United States is facing an imminent “strategic disaster” as Yemen’s Houthis inch closer to capturing a major oil trade “chokepoint,” The Guardian reported Thursday, a development that could soon open a “second front” in President Donald Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran.Multiple news out...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10/09/2026
NEW: U.S. diesel prices have hit an ALL-TIME HIGH of $5.97/gallon. Remember: higher diesel prices mean higher delivery and heating costs. Your energy bill, your groceries, packages at your door— all of it will cost more. Donald Trump’s war with Iran did this.
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Bad link....
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The Notorious Basement @inthebasement.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Free to read! Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #giftlink #giftarticle #ICE #Nebraska #immigration www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u...
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As He Backs ICE Crackdown, Nebraska Governor Employs Undocumented Workers (Gift Article)
Gov. Jim Pillen’s family business is one of the nation’s largest pork producers. As he seeks re-election, he has aligned himself with President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda even though his farms have...
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