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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 · 21h
"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 · 20h
“'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 · 20h
"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 · 20h
"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 · 19h
"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 · 19h
“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 · 18h
"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 · 18h
"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 · 16h
"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 · 16h
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 · 16h
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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
🇦🇺 AUSTRALIAN DOCS IN GAZA: “70-80% of our patients are kids and pregnant women… It’s a nightmare… bombing after bombing… We’re making this video because we could die at any moment… Can someone please stop this terror and horror?” Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRReCVY/
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
If you agree that Kennedy needs to resign, then one thing you can do right now is contact your Members of Congress--its takes literally like a minute: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Demand Kennedy Resign
Contact Congress today!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025
Neil Young brought it at Farm Aid. One of the greatest rock n rollers of all time.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
He barely won the popular vote, and he would lose if he ran today. The counties he won are much smaller in average population, so this stat is meaningless. And he gets terrible press because he’s a terrible leader.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We launch @meidascanada.ca on Labour Day. Upcoming Meidas Canada/Resistance Town halls. Sept 5. NORTH RUSTICO PEI Sept 6. CHARLOTTETOWN Sept 11 OSHAWA(Local 222 Hall) Sept. 12 PORT ELGIN Lakeshore Centre Sept 13 OWEN SOUND Harmony Centre Sept 23 U OF REGINA Oct 15 PETERBOROUGH Oct 23-25 BC
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NPR @npr.org · 30/08/2025
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
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Hurricane Katrina forced changes at FEMA. Trump is rolling them back
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
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WDIV Local 4/ClickOnDetroit @clickondetroit.com · 22/08/2025
A federal judge has put a stop to further expansion of the immigration detention center built in the Florida Everglades and dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz, ordering that its operations wind down within two months.
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A judge has ordered 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Florida to wind down operations. What happens now?
A federal judge has halted further expansion of the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida Everglades.
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woody4.bsky.social @woody4.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
What!! Is this for real?!!! Fuck yaaa!! This is so great!!! @charlieangus104.bsky.social
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/08/2025
JUST IN: A federal judge has ruled Alina Habba’s appointment as Special Attorney for the District of New Jersey is unlawful. Judge Brann: “I conclude that she is not [lawfully performing the functions and duties of U.S. Attorney].” Her actions since July 1 may be void.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/08/2025
Trump and JD Vance are vile predators who thrive on chaos. Trump’s a convicted felon, lifelong fraud, liar, loser, predator. MAGA idiots must be called out strongly. Stand up for communities, LGBTQ, and diversity—because when you don’t, they erase history and come for you.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/08/2025
Brett Meiselas: People are looking for real fighters—authentic fighters. Somebody who can harness the anger that so many of us are feeling about these freaks who have taken over our government. The person who can harness that anger—that’s who will be the next nominee in 2028 for the Democrats
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/08/2025
Read the full story:
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Judge Orders “Alligator Alcatraz” Shut Down in 60 Days
Federal ruling halts expansion and requires dismantling of controversial migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/08/2025
JUST IN: Judge Kathleen Williams orders “Alligator Alcatraz” shut down within 60 days — and blocks Trump & Florida from admitting any new detainees.
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David Blight @dblight.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
See new essays in New Republic. I have gathered and edited eleven essays by historians on teaching and writing history in the time of Trump. We are fighting back! I'll be on MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell tonight at 10 to talk about the special issue of TNR. newrepublic.com/series/67/tr...
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Trump Against History
How is Trump changing our sense of who we are? We asked eminent Yale historian David W. Blight to round up some colleagues to consider the question. Here’s what they had to say.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
TONIGHT: @dblight.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
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Trump May Wish to Abolish the Past. We Historians Will Not.
Commentary from the heads of two prominent historical associations on Trump’s recent executive order on “radical indoctrination” in schools.
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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastwordmsnow.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
TONIGHT: @kenvogel.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.
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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
As ICE wreaks havoc on our communities, @repdangoldman.bsky.social is and I are leading the charge to fight back. Together, we’re demanding accountability and transparency. It’s time for an end to this rampant lawlessness.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/08/2025
#ICYMI: We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not of legitimate concern to the public.” W/ @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org
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Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public
We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
SCOTT JENNINGS: *tries to say Dems started the gerrymandering and do it more* (because this is what they need people to believe) *sees a Princeton study that says the opposite* SCOTT JENNINGS: “I don’t give a rip what they say.” 🤔 Again: Dems would pass fair maps today. Republicans won’t.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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Cost of latest tariffs for small businesses? $200 billion
There are more than 236,000 small business importers in America. If they maintain imports at the same levels, they face a significant annual tariff tax under the country-level tariffs announced July 3...
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/08/2025
Remember in 2016 when Bill Clinton bumped into Attorney General Loretta Lynch on a tarmac in Phoenix, and that story of INSANE IMPROPRIETY dominated the news cycle for a week? Now we have POTUS, VP, AG, and FBI Epstein strategy meetings. www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/p...
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Top Trump officials will discuss Epstein strategy at Wednesday dinner hosted by Vance | CNN Politics
Top Trump administration officials will gather at the vice president’s residence Wednesday evening as they continue to weigh whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Deputy Attorney Gen...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/08/2025
Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 07/08/2025
That last part though. 🇺🇸
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It’s mind boggling how many additional people this administration is killing. “I have been in this business for over 50 years on the front lines of public health…And I can say unequivocally that this was the most dangerous public health decision I have ever seen made by a government body.”
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Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says
Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/08/2025
This is straight up fascism. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...
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Cornyn Says F.B.I. Will Help Find Texas Lawmakers Who Fled State
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 07/08/2025
Toyota has reported its profit plunged 37% in the April-June quarter and it lowered its full year earnings forecasts, largely because of President Donald Trump's tariffs.
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Toyota reports a 37% drop in profit, cuts its forecast due to Trump's tariffs
Toyota has reported its profit plunged 37% in the April-June quarter and it lowered its full year earnings forecasts, largely because of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
A professor had a $2.4 million grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected
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A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected
Jaime Slaughter-Acey said it was ‘heartbreaking’ to discover her study on Black maternal health was cancelled after the Trump administration’s NIH cuts
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Beacon Poll shows Marsha with a commanding lead over Rose Rep. Rose (who met his wife when she was a teen and he was in his 40’s, gave her a scholarship… anyway you get it) has a lot of money and can self-fund, but this is a big hill to climb
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
ARIZONA: Exactly what people said would happen is happening. This is what @GovBillLee, Sexton and the @TNGOP have inflicted upon Tennessee with their privatizer pals. This is our future. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Leaked draft reports show the Trump administration is planning to eliminate or downplay accounts of prisoner abuse, corruption, LGBTQ+ discrimination and other alleged abuses. @mradamtaylor.bsky.social @hannahnatanson.bsky.social @johnphudson.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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U.S. plans to ease human rights criticism of El Salvador, Israel, Russia
Leaked draft reports show the Trump administration is planning to eliminate or downplay accounts of prisoner abuse, corruption, LGBTQ+ discrimination and other claims.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/08/2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford: "President Trump wants to hurt the American people, and that's exactly what he's doing."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/08/2025
Doug Ford on impressions of Trump in Canada: "He's probably the most disliked politician in the world in Canada."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Flag: Republican John Cornyn says the FBI has agreed to his request to help track down the Texas state Democrats who left the state to block a severely gerrymandered congressional map.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/08/2025
As a Justice Department official, Emil Bove “behaved like someone who still believed that the president was his client,” Brendan Ballou argues. “Trump and his allies might come to regret appointing such a transparent partisan to the federal bench.” theatln.tc/yRqNOiw8
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woody4.bsky.social @woody4.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
@maddow.msnbc.com @maddowblog.msnbc.com
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
And this is how it's done.
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Texas Dems Offer Fiery Response After Abbott Threatens To Arrest And Expel Them For Leaving The State
That is how you do it 👏🏼
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