A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

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Media sneering about "anti-Trump" politics reflects a deeper inability to acknowledge that he's really unpopular. To some journos, "anti-Trump" codes as "delusional Resistance doesn't grasp Trump's mystical connection w/Real American People." h/t @jamellebouie.net newrepublic.com/article/2027...

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

BREAKING: NY Board of Elections says more than 2 MILLION votes have been cast in the NYC election - the highest number since 1969.

Here we go!

In Opinion Dick Cheney became a fierce critic of Donald Trump after the Capitol insurrection — but by then, it was too late, Ron Suskind writes. “Mr. Cheney had done as much as anyone in history to undermine Americans’ trust in their institutions and leaders, including Mr. Cheney himself.”

This is so true. That bureau did a singularly amazing job during that time.

"...when it comes to 2026, I worry more about the limits of my imagination than about the hazards of speculation."

"Considered on the basis of its lie-per-word ratio, Trump’s screed was almost impressive in its audacity."

Also, not the point, but do they know what the payroll of the entire U.S. military is? $130 million will barely buy lunch.

"When you’ve been living the impunity lifestyle for 10 months, it grows on you. Things occur to you that wouldn’t have occurred to you before, even to a predatory malefactor overflowing with insatiable appetites."

christ almighty what is this guy doing www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

I'll be doing an (atypically-timed!) Rachel Maddow Show tonight -- Friday night -- at 8PM Eastern on MSNBC. Then right after, at 9PM, it's the premier of our new documentary: "Andrew Young: The Dirty Work"... See you then!

and another thing: im not mad. please don't put in the newspaper that i got mad

Announcing a good ol’ fashioned Teach-In in Washington, DC on Sunday, October 26th. We’ll convene for a series of lectures, stories, and conversations to celebrate and stand up for the work of history and museums. Shoutout to @natedimeo.bsky.social for bringing this idea to us. See you in DC!

"In unison." Amen. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I couldn’t be more proud of this team! 🥹 If you haven’t listened yet, Ultra Season 2 is available for free and in full here: www.msnbc.com/msnbc-podcas...

It is pretty galling that the Supreme Court spent four years telling Biden "you can't do that without Congress" then allowed Trump to seize a once-unthinkable amount of power from Congress within nine months and concentrate law-making authority almost entirely in the executive branch.

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

The president of the United States is considering changing American naval policy based on an NBC WWII doc series, scored by Richard Rodgers, that aired when he was 6 years old.

“Obviously, the particular characteristics of an individual, how they look. How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said to the reporter, a tall, middle-aged man of Anglo descent..." chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Trump/MAGA are trying to gaslight us into believing that anti-Jimmy Kimmel America is vast and deep, that MAGA's grip on the culture is unshakable, that mobilization is futile. But this episode has demonstrated the opposite. Let's not forget it. Thoughts on this: newrepublic.com/article/2008...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Breaking character: Ken White has a fantastic post about how "free speech culture" undermines free speech. It's something I've thought about a lot before, but Ken knows way more about it than I do and explains it really well. www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...

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The rapidity with which the GOP went from “the government shouldn’t pick winners and losers” to “the President should decide who hosts late night shows” should probably shape how future historians write about the pre-Trump GOP.

When your anti-vax Health Secretary stacks the vaccine committee: "Some members seemed confused about the data they were being presented. After their vote on the program that provides free vaccines for children, some members asked what they just voted on." wapo.st/3K9OBNV

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

"Schmitt, like Vance before him, presents this vision of the United States as a novel rebuke to liberal ideology. But truth be told, theirs is the stale orthodoxy of those blinkered devotees of human aristocracy, who reject the faith of the founders — and the work of those who made it real..."

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Truly one of the oddest things I’ve ever read.

Man, it's like gifting the President with a flying bribery palace can't even buy a country sovereignty anymore.

Once Donald Trump gets the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law – what comes next?

One of my favorite movies is Clear and Present Danger, in which a president launches a secret war on the drug cartels. It’s a *secret* war because it’s *illegal*. (1/3)

For the history buffs, a Déjà News addition from @idaronson.bsky.social : The Epstein scandal isn’t the first time a country has been consumed by a saga of wealth, criminality and political connections. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Crime is happening somewhere! I scrolled by a carjacking snuff film that looked eerily like Russian dashcam footage but was labeled as "Deep Baltimore." But where I am? Lol no. No crime happening here. Anyway we must stop the crime that is constantly, vaguely happening in any and all elsewheres.

Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.

Brandy's reporting on HHS/the CDC has been so consistently good, and I just want people to recognize what is implicit in her doing so well on this story, which is that her expertise is "misinformation, extremism and the internet" and this is the black hole eating our public health infrastructure.

The weirdest thing about AI promotion is trying to sell us on offloading BEING HUMAN.

heads up -- this is very well done. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.