“Pegasus can infect your phone with no sign of intrusion and extract everything on it — every email, text, photo etc. It can watch via your phone’s camera and listen via the microphone, even if your phone is turned off.” nytimes.com/2023/05/22/w... #maddow #Velshi #lastword #BigBrother

For better or for worse, you cannot defeat human nature. Every authoritarian strongman has tried and failed. People always find a way. #Maddow

"The biggest fear of a surveillance regime is how it chills free speech." #Maddow

This is the kind of thing that scares people into not speaking out, which gives the illusion that there is agreement and acquiescence with the ruling power. Don't let them intimidate us. They only have power if we let them. #Maddow

This Pegasus story was the most terrifying thing Rachel told us that year. #Maddow

I didn't think V For Vendetta would be a training film, but here we are. #Maddow

The people have power. If they didn't Jimmy Kimmel would be off the air. #maddow

I am so f*cking proud of the people of Chicagoland for taking on these incompetent clowns. This is what bravery looks like. This is what resistance sounds like. #Maddow

"For every private company that goes along with what this administration wants, there will be consequences and backlash every time they look at their bottom line." #Maddow

"Why is protest important in an authoritarian government? When it comes to your rights, use them or lose them. It is harder to take rights away from free people when those people regularly exercise those rights. We are still in the process here. Nothing is inevitable." #Maddow

Have any of the other people who were shipped off to the prison in ES been returned, besides Abrego Garcia? So much else has been in the news since then, but we can't let that one go. #Maddow

Taking bets right now that the Chicago event with Rachel and Tim Snyder will sell out in under a week. We need you both!! #Maddow

The protests will keep growing as more and more people -Lose healthcare -Get fired -Struggle to vote -Need banned medication -See armed troops in town -Have neighbors abducted -Need gov services that closed -Can't afford food -Get doxed or targeted -Realize they were lied to #Maddow #LastWord

A king is only a king if we bow down. #Maddow #LastWord

I can't help but wonder, how about the protests in Puerto Rico, Guam, and other U.S. territories? Did those get any coverage? #Maddow #LastWord

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

Love all these clever signs!!!! #Maddow

"Acute Democratic backsliding episode" sounds like a political seizure. I can't decide whether that feels more or less scary than some other terms I've heard recently. #Maddow

YES SHORT HAIRED PROFESSORS!! TEACH ME ABOUT SUCCESSFUL MOVEMENTS FOR CHANGE!!!! #Maddow

River is feeling hopeful after watching Rachel! Image: River the black cat watches Rachel Maddow on a laptop while lounging on a red blanket. #Maddow

"Successful movements establish and maintain momentum. They're able to get people into positions to influence powerful decision makers." #Maddow

"There is a big protest movement in this country. A growing, sustainable, peaceful, movement." #Maddow

These red state governors getting scared of grandmas and unicorn costumes, calling the national guard and hiding in their mansions, just... What are you *really* afraid of, guys?? #Maddow

YES RHODE ISLAND REPRESENT!!!!! SMALL AND MIGHTY AND CRANKY!!! #Maddow

Go Oklahoma, wow!!! #Maddow

Maryland is always off the hook, Rachel. And we like it that way! #Maddow

I like this alphabetical state rundown of the protests. No dictators! #Maddow

"Florida never disappoints! Depending on how you think of disappointment, anyway." 🤣 #Maddow

Hello beautiful #Maddow minions!!! Bravo to everyone who had a great Saturday outdoors with thousands of their new friends. 💗🐸

Why does this Cascade commercial think they need to explain how a dishwasher works?? In 2025?!!? #Maddow

Feeling very proud as a Presbyterian right now. 💗 #Maddow

"Pushback of any kind, one way or another, always works." #Maddow

"If you want courage to spread, then you have to spread it yourself." Ezra Levin #Maddow

"If your first amendment rights are threatened, and you don't show up because you're afraid, then you already don't have first amendment rights." Ezra Levin #Maddow

"This is why the resistance to every authoritarian regime on Earth focuses on the corruption and self-dealing of the so-called strong man and his cronies. They make sure THEY get very very rich, and everyone else just has to make do. The one thing they are serving up is repression." #Maddow

Hello lovely #Maddow minions!! Sending you hope and deep breaths today. Stay strong.

"Giant, cowardly corporations are subject to pressure from the administration. But they are also subject to pressure from the American people." #Maddow

SINCE WHEN ARE ICE AGENTS A VULNERABLE GROUP??? #Maddow

The thuggish ICE dudes with their noses sticking out of masks always remind me of Yubaba from Spirited Away. Image: frame from an animated film showing a humanoid character wrapped up in a dark sheet, with just puffy white hair, eyes, and a large nose showing above the wrap #Maddow

"Tell me, why do you think that has not been utilized?" Because it's bleeping illegal!! #Maddow

What. The. Actual. F*CK???? Attacking a pastor who is harming no one?? #Maddow

"This is what happens when you are pursuing very unpopular policies using very unpopular political means. The polls turn against you." #Maddow

Does "I'll have to ask DOJ" mean "I'm not actually in charge or aware of what's going on"? #Maddow

And now that the gov is shut down, there aren't park rangers to take the statue down again.... Darn! #Maddow

Alright Sen. Whitehouse, let's get schooled!! Talk to me! #LastWord

The incompetence would be laughable if it wasn't so harmful. #LastWord

"How high do you have to be to think that communism has been around for thousands of years??" Well this is the same guy who was talking about airplanes in the revolutionary war, so... #Maddow #LastWord

I'm encouraged to have heard Leader Jeffries speaking in compelling sound bites ("end the cuts, lower the costs, save healthcare") and making noises like they'll actually stand up to the disasters Rs are trying to shove through. Let's see them follow this through. #Maddow #LastWord

Lawrence, don't let the distractor-in-chief derail what you really need to be talking about and what matters. Don't play his game. #Maddow #LastWord

The fastest hour of the week is gone already!! Love you #Maddow minions, stay strong and speak up. 💗