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BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
CDC employees walked out in show of support for their pushed out leaders, chanting "USA not RFK." Livestream here: www.instagram.com/firedbutfigh...
"Anger can turn into activism... Activism can turn into pressure on elected officials and that pressure can turn into laws. It's not hopeless at all." Watch Jen Psaki's powerful remarks on turning anger over today's tragedy in Minneapolis into action against American gun problem.:
"Four other longtime top CDC officials submitted their resignations, according to letters reviewed by NBC News: " www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
Tsk.
Here is Rachel's interview with @pkrugman.bsky.social about tonight's breaking news of Donald Trump attempting to fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve Board. youtu.be/hWWKo6VSXbs?...
"Ask yourself why." Red states contributing National Guard troops to Trump's military occupation of Washington, D.C. have cities with higher crime rates than D.C.
"It's clearly punitive": Attorney for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Simon Sandoval Moshenberg, explains how the Trump administration is using the threat of deportation as leverage in their criminal prosecution of Abrego Garcia.
. @msnbc.com made a long cut of @govpritzker.illinois.gov 's speech earlier today about Trump's plan to send the U.S. military to police Chicago that Rachel played some of tonight at the top of the show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR0_...
Here's @velshi.com 's Saturday monologue on how U.S. economic policy rewards the elite at the expense of the working class. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcqc...
Over the course of three days, Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, former Republican Gov. Chris Christie, and Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser told the public the truth. Each faced threats from Trump soon after. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
"If Trump wants people to stop marveling at his degrading weakness when it comes to the Russian president, he’ll have to start avoiding embarrassing displays like these..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
Passed one of these on the road this weekend. It's pretty clear that New Mexico is winning at license plates.
You can tell it's Maddow Monday because the round-up of Rachel's BlueSky posts in the newsletter is a mile long. link.msnbc.com/join/5ck/rac...
"We hold the power, whatever our partisan preferences, to defend checks and balances and the rule of law. We cannot lose that power unless we surrender it." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
Few charts show our current American weakness like this one. The minute Trump came into office, Putin knew he had the green light to do whatever he wanted and kill as many innocent civilians as he wanted.
“But Congress passed laws after Katrina to protect Americans and FEMA from inadequate leadership, inaction, and unpreparedness, but I don’t think Congress realizes how many of those laws have been broken, been violated.” www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Watch what they do... “Instead of providing this office with more capacity and more resources to do exactly what the executive order says — to make sure that everybody speaks English — they are doing the total opposite,” Garibay said. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Worth a read. 🔽 Given that the Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 that the Trump Administration has denied immigrants their constitutional due process right, one would think that would be good and sufficient reason for local city & state governments not to assist in that endeavor, no?
We shared a bit of this last night, but here is Rachel's coverage from last night of the new Pew poll's really bad news for Trump: youtu.be/w-fdTtSh0Ts?...
Donald Trump’s meeting with Putin was maybe not “historic” in the way he was hoping for. As former U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul points out, “That was one of the most disastrous moments for American diplomacy that I know of in my lifetime and maybe in the history of our country." Watch:
Rachel Maddow lays out three different avenues Donald Trump is following to manipulate the administration of elections in the United States so that his control of the government is assured through the coming 2026 midterms. Watch: youtu.be/sMT4OP9ULeQ?...
. @vermontgmg.bsky.social explains that Trump is less likely to undermine democracy by cancelling elections outright, but will instead engage in manipulations of the electorate and the administration of elections to preserve his power.
The country is really against this president, by large and increasing numbers.
"I'm not going to be part of that process that gives [Trump] more reinforcement to harm my community and my people." Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier is being held in the State Capitol for refusing to comply with a Republican demand that she allow herself to be chaperoned by police.
COMING UP! We'll hear from Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier after this commercial break!
This is step one in how we lose free and fair elections. It’s not that Trump will “cancel” the midterms. It’s just everyone has to vote in person, and urban downtowns will be filled with ICE checkpoints and intimidating National Guard troops to “double check” that only citizens vote.
"Even in the annals of Mr. Trump’s erratic presidency, the Anchorage meeting with Mr. Putin now stands out as a reversal of historic proportions." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/u...
"Protesters booed Stefanik both times she went to the podium to speak. There was a call for Stefanik to hold a town hall that echoed through the crowd, even when local speakers took their turns at the podium." www.mynbc5.com/article/elis...
"A Texas lawmaker found herself effectively stuck in her seat Monday, planted on the House floor after refusing to sign a political "permission slip"—a GOP-mandated form requiring Department of Public Safety escorts for Democrats who broke quorum over redistricting." www.chron.com/politics/art...
Trump’s first summit with Putin was a national embarrassment. His second was even worse. With high stakes, the Republican didn’t just fail by objective metrics, he also failed by his own metrics. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
US Senator Jon Ossoff has launched an investigation into the abuse of women and children in US immigration detention, citing among other reports, the WIRED story below: www.ossoff.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
"Despite all of the recent chatter about Trump’s alleged frustrations with Putin, the White House continues to deliver for the Kremlin." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
I spent the week tracing how HHS Secretary RFK Jr. canceled $500 million in mRNA research and reporting on a(nother) very chaotic week inside HHS. Let me introduce you to the fringe doctors, anti-vaccine activists, and MAHA operatives behind the mRNA “debacle.” www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...
MSNBC’s chart-topping original podcast “Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra” is honored to be recognized with an Edward R. Murrow Award. Listen to both seasons now wherever you get your podcasts. MSNBC.com/Ultra
"Legal experts agree, a sale to The Onion is more likely now that Infowars' fate has shifted to Texas state court." www.npr.org/2025/08/13/n...
they fired people contributing to cancer research
The Air Force and Navy are poised to cancel two nearly complete projects worth about $800 million because they want Salesforce and billionaire Peter Thiel's Palantir, to have a chance to win similar projects. The result could be a costly do-over. www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
"I will not authorize the usage of the Maryland National Guard for any mission that I do not deem mission critical or mission aligned." Gov. Wes Moore throws cold water on Trump's notion of deploying the National Guard to Baltimore.
Watch the core of Rachel's A Block thesis last night: youtu.be/_LPDhSQBKMQ
Given how strangely charitable Donald Trump is to a wide variety of criminals, does anyone really think his military takeover of Washington, D.C. is about crime?
Watch the full video: youtu.be/NlGEpmyFmEk
Dr. Michael Osterholm cuts to the chase on why cutting mRNA research funding is such a dangerous idea.
Folks who subscribe to the newsletter already saw it, but in case you're not on that list, Rachel recorded an extra segment last night that we didn't have time to air. Watch it here: youtu.be/mNWg7XBzM0o (The newsletter sign-up is MSNBC.com/MaddowNewsletter)
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass @mayor.lacity.gov describes to Rachel Maddow how public attention helped discourage Donald Trump's terrorizing street snatchings in her city. "When people gathered, they backed away on many occasions."
The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.
Trump vowed to punish Russia on Friday (July 8). He failed to follow through — repeating a failure from January, March, and May. But now, Trump isn’t just failing to punish Putin, he’s also finding new ways to reward him. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
He LOST. YOU win. (You knew he wanted YOU to pay his lawyers and his legal bills, right?)
👀 Steve raises a few additional points of note:
Huh. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phb8...
new piece from on the 60th anniversary of the voting rights act, and what the law has meant for american democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
That an unqualified, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is behaving like an unqualified, anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist is painfully predictable. But the fact remains that 52 Senate Republicans were given an opportunity to protect Americans from RFK Jr. — and they failed spectacularly.
. @governor.ny.gov points out how the good government idea of independent redistricting commissions puts her state at a disadvantage against Republican states with the freedom to manipulate their districts to their own political advantage.
However Donald Trump wants to fight against data, he can't make the underlying truth go away. Americans see what he's doing.
There are still tickets available to the MSNBCLive event in New York City. Saturday, October 11. The event will feature Rachel and lots of your favorite MSNBC goobers and also, apparently... dancing?!? See msnbc.com/live25 for tickets.
BREAKING: Yeonsoo Go, Perdue University student and daughter of NYC Episcopal priest, has been released from ICE custody this evening.
Tonight! New York Governor Kathy Hochul will be Rachel Maddow's guest. 9pm ET on MSNBC @governor.ny.gov
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Reminder of where that retrofit taxpayer money was originally budgeted: youtu.be/NhwpYiA7Q0w
Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.
So... how are things going at Trump's stripped-down FAA?
Following the money on Donald Trump’s immigrant prison camp spending spree will take you to some unexpected places.
Investigations are under way into why there were naked women on a TV screen in the office of Oklahoma schools superintendent Ryan Walters during an executive session of the school board.
Roy Cooper's other distinct qualification as he enters the race for Senate is that he has very deep experience working with very hostile Republicans. Here's Rachel's full interview with former Governor Roy Cooper: youtu.be/jqVsY9DhAxA
Breaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency announced a proposal to rescind the landmark legal opinion that underpins virtually all of its regulations to curb climate change.
What a graph
"We knew that we had accomplished something, getting health insurance to people who had never had it before. Now, Washington Republicans are going to strip it away." Roy Cooper explains why health insurance is key to his legacy and his campaign for Senate. @roycoopernc.bsky.social
"Carson said the images caught her eye during the meeting. “And I was like, ‘Those are naked women,’” she said." www.oklahoman.com/story/news/e...
Last year's live MSNBC event turned out to be hugely successful, so we're doing it again! Tickets are already on sale at msnbc.com/Live25 for this year's event on Saturday, October 11th in New York City. Come hang out with a giant roster of MSNBC hosts, including Rachel. We hope to see you there!
Wait a sec... we're going to re-post that MSNBC Live promo without that initial video frame with Roy Cooper. He won't be there. :)
Rachel Maddow reports what is known as of the top of this hour about the shooting in New York City:
Tonight! Fresh from announcing his run for the North Carolina Senate seat being vacated by Thom Tillis... Former Governor Roy Cooper will be Rachel Maddow's guest. 9pmET on MSNBC
Here's how it works: 1) Habba resigns as interim US attorney, ahead of a Friday deadline 2) Trump withdraws Habba's nomination to take the job permanently 3) AG Bondi appoints Habba First Assistant US attorney 4) Habba automatically becomes acting US attoreny bc of the vacancy.
NEWS: Trump has withdrawn Alina Habba's nomination to be US attorney in New Jersey, part of a multistep maneuver intended to keep her in the position as acting US attorney beyond an initial Friday deadline.
"Since then, Adrian Clouatre has made the four-hour drive from Baton Rouge to Monroe twice a week in order for the couples' 10-month old to nurse and their 1-year-old to see his mom." www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...
👀 So.... who's doing to be first assistant now? cc @maddow.msnbc.com
Watch the full video here: youtu.be/0UzgOiyKKLs
Rev. Al Sharpton explains to Rachel Maddow why the King family is concerned that Donald Trump, in his desperation to distract from his Epstein scandal, has truncated the review of Dr. King's documents before making them public.
Maybe you wouldn’t guess it based on the truck flags and hand-painted law signs, but people who strong disapprove of Trump outnumber the “strongly approve” MAGAs by a 2-to-1 margin according to new polling.
It really is understandable if bots that are meant to support Trump are having a bit of a meltdown when it comes to Trump and Epstein.
"Hundreds showed up Saturday to protest the possible reopening of a former women's prison in Dublin with a disturbing and notorious history." abc7news.com/post/japanes...
"Some troops became so disgruntled that there were several reports of soldiers defecating in Humvees and showers at the Southern California base where the troops are stationed, prompting tightened bathroom security." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...
"...with the MAGA movement split over the administration’s handling of files involving deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the accounts’ messaging has broken, offering contradictory statements on the issue and revealing the AI-fueled nature of the accounts." www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...
New from me: A previously unreported, AI-driven bot network on X has consistently supported MAGA figures and causes since last year. But with the movement fractured over the administration's handling of the Epstein Files, it's flooding conservatives' replies with contradictory messages.
Lake Dems was so proud to co-sponsor "Good Trouble Lives On" protests in Buffalo Grove, Highland Park, and Waukegan. It was a national day of action, and we were thrilled to help organize and engage across Lake County. Thanks to everyone who helped and showed up.
Today's the day! #Goodtroubleliveson Honor the legacy of John Lewis and show that we're here, standing up for civil rights and our democracy. Find your event: goodtroubleliveson.org
TODAY: We’re honoring the late Rep. John Lewis by taking to the streets, courthouses and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights and dignity for all. Find a Good Trouble Lives On event near you to march in peace and act in power: goodtroubleliveson.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.
I spoke to the CEO of a company that has a nearly $12 million contract to provide barriers to "Alligator Alcatraz." He told me that he didn't know his products were going to the facility. I offered to show him the contract. He declined to look at it. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contrac...
Maddow: "Whatever you think about the conspiracy theories around Jeffrey Epstein, the consternation and bewilderment that Trump has caused his own people, and his own movement, and his own strongest supporters on that issue is just a deeply, deeply, profoundly stupid political screw up."
"This points to something bigger: They want more people behind bars." Rep. Maxwell Frost reacts to news that ICE has taken away bond hearings for millions of undocumented immigrants. Watch Rachel's full interview with Rep. Frost: youtu.be/lm-KBYHj940
"If you feel embarrassed watching the president of the United States of America embarrass himself over and over and over again when it comes to his bootlicking relationship when it comes to Russia and Vladimir Putin, just imagine watching it from inside your career at the CIA." youtu.be/3bl6W40uIa8
Pop quiz! Can you identify this man? Watch: youtu.be/zqSBtfxmRlw
“I’m not sure why. … I wondered why HSI was effecting this arrest and not ERO,” he said. “I still don’t know.” www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Ossoff: Did anyone really think the sexual predator president who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein was going to release the Epstein files?
The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.