ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Trump keeps insisting that his endorsements automatically dictate the results of elections, especially in Republican primaries.
And reality keeps telling a very different story.
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Camp East Montana was supposed to be the Trump administration's model for a new breed of large-scale, makeshift immigrant detention centers. Eight tumultuous months, 60 violations and three deaths later, ICE is preparing to close it. New from me: t.co/jOIIRAMJCo
🚨 More huge political news in Montana— it appears Sen. Steve Daines is no longer running for reelection. This comes comes two days after Rep. Ryan Zinke announced he’s out. New to this race: U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme. Independent candidate Seth Bodnar just got into the race this morning.
Neguse demolishes Noem (2/2)
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House says Spain has agreed to cooperate with US operations in Mideast after Trump threatened financial penalties.
MADRID (AP) — Spain's government denies cooperation with US operations in the Middle East, contradicting White House.
When the question is, “Is the United States currently at war?” and the answer is, “It depends on whom you ask,” there’s a problem.
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Trump’s “worst case scenario” in Iran — awful leaders in Tehran might be replaced by similarly awful leaders — reflects a woeful lack of imagination.
The fact that he doesn’t understand this makes a terrifying situation that much worse.
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The first set of polling locations in Texas have officially closed. Precincts will begin tabulating the votes and reporting results to county election offices.
Polls in Dallas County will remain open after a county judge granted an emergency petition to extend hours.
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Rachel is back tomorrow at 7pmET for special Tuesday primary coverage!
According to JD Vance, Trump launched a war because Iran was “committed to getting on that brink of a nuclear weapon.”
Read that sentence again and realize that this was the best he could come up with after thinking about the administration’s policy for three days.
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As this week got underway, and Pete Hegseth led a Pentagon briefing against a backdrop of war, what the nation needed to see was a capable defense secretary.
What Americans saw instead was a flailing former Fox News personality.
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The DA in Minneapolis is investigating Bovino and others.
"U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan’s order cites “numerous unlawful” failures by the U.S. government to return belongings to immigrants ordered released from detention, including their cash, cellphones, jewelry, driver’s licenses, passports and more."
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"When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran..."
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Senator Duckworth will be Rachel's guest tonight.
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*Of course* the initial round of polling shows weak public support for the offensive in Iran:
The public didn’t want another war, and Trump never even tried to make the case. The results were inevitable. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Wars are not supposed to be riddles.
The fact that the White House has initiated an international guessing game — about the war’s rationale, its goals, its scope, etc. — is itself a scandal for the ages. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Maddow: Who benefits from Trump's attack on Iran?
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Rachel @maddow.bsky.social will helm @msnowcomms.bsky.social 's live coverage at the top of the next hour.
JUST IN: A federal judge says the Trump administration has been “terrorizing” refugees — violating the promise America made to them when they fled persecution at home — by locking them up illegally. He blocked the policy for those in MN storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Clown show.
Hey, did you catch this programming note?
Rachel and the gang are back in special coverage mode next week for primaries in Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina.
Tuesday beginning at 7pm ET on MS NOW!
My team and I have been anticipating this for months. It is unconstitutional and illegal.
The media should note: Last time he issued an EO about voting, we sued and won. If Trump issues such an order we will sue again and we will win again.
The unanswered question for Team Trump on the Gabbard/whistleblower story:
If the intercepted messages re: Kushner really were just “gossip,” and what the foreign nationals were saying wasn’t true, why assert executive privilege to keep the relevant details from Congress?
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Years after claims about banning hamburgers, and on the heels of Trump claiming in 2024 that Dems would ban cows, Republican rhetoric about beef continues to be weird.
For example, one GOP senator is pitching alternate “proteins” for consumers struggling with high costs. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
The president who announced a new “war on fraud” is the same president who
- ran a fraudulent charity
- ran a fraudulent “university”
- oversaw a business that was found to have engaged in systemic fraud
- pardoned a bunch of people convicted of fraud
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