One of my dogs seems to have just realized that the voice she hears me editing all the time is in fact MY voice, but it's not coming from me, it's coming from the computer. Folks, she is not happy.

The Supreme Court seems poised to hand Trump autocratic power by allowing him to fire independent agency officials for any reason

Breaking News: The Trump Administration is launching an operation targeting Somali immigrants in Minneapolis, according to an official and newly obtained documents.

Trump is now seeming to endorse execution for his perceived enemies — retweeting a post that called for the hanging of Democrats who told servicemembers to refuse illegal orders. He also claims the Dems are engaging in 'seditious behavior'.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says it will report on September's job gains and unemployment rate next week. That's the first of many overdue economic reports held up by the government shutdown. n.pr/4pfDNgw

When politicians say they don't like "political correctness," they are in fact just hoping to redefine what is considered correct under the current state of politics. It's about shifting the window of propriety to their standards.

Senator Johnson just voted to have *you* pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars for a routine collection of records.

We're only in the first period and there have already been three fights.

Breaking News: A former Illinois deputy was convicted in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a woman who had called 911. It was a rare instance of an American law enforcement officer being convicted in an on-duty shooting. nyti.ms/3LANx6c

Breaking on MSNBC: Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

ICE agents are seizing more people from jails in the Austin area, sometimes visiting the facilities multiple times per day as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement nationwide.

JUST IN: Judge Smith says the Trump administration is violating his order prohibiting FEMA from conditioning grants to states on their willingness to assist with immigration enforcement. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Groundwork Collaborative's Lindsay Owens says the impact of the cancelled health care subsidies may be even worse in Wisconsin than in other parts of the country. www.wuwm.com/rising-affor...

I have foolishly been spending time on Twitter again. Why? Because sometimes, I make bad choices. It's just bots, folks. Bots as far as the eye can see.

Is there any reliable app for MCTS? Like, a single one.

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Venezuela's Maduro signs decree granting security powers in case of military intervention reut.rs/3KkcUZI

Breaking News: President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu backed a plan demanding Hamas disarm and free Israeli hostages or face elimination. Earlier, Hamas said it was not consulted on the proposal or its terms. Follow live updates and see details of the plan.

President Trump was due to meet with congressional leaders today in a last-ditch effort to head off a government shutdown that could disrupt a wide range of services as soon as Wednesday reut.rs/3KpsNOu

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’ chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Trump says he’s authorized Hegseth to use “Full Force” against Antifa in “War ravaged” Portland

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

EXCLUSIVE: Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will halt abortions in October in response to the GOP budget "defunding" provision It's the first known PP affiliate to drop abortion services in the wake of the law:

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Now that summer is over, Chicago is still on track to have fewer homicides in 2025 than almost any other year since 2001. This is especially impressive considering that the five most violent years of the 21st century have all been in the past decade.

I don't see how this is going to change anything. Pastors, in spite of perceptions of the law, have already been advocating for candidates from the pulpit - both implicitly and explicitly. This has been a complaint among many Christians for years.

I’m genuinely not sure what journalists are for if they let easily disprovable lies go unrebutted in print like this. We might as well just read press releases.

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses: newrepublic.com/article/2006...

A totalitarian movement must never achieve its goals, as that would eliminate the need for the movement itself. Even in victory, new enemies must be created in order to justify further cruelty and domination.

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi’s family members were taken by the Taliban and beaten after DOGE and Elon Musk exposed his sensitive work for a U.S.-funded nonprofit. The White House and Elon Musk did not respond to requests for comment. My latest video for @propublica.org.

For now, racial profiling is explicitly legal in the United States. It's also explicitly illegal, but you know, it won't be prosecuted and SCOTUS says it's fine to do. So fair to say: racial profiling is now legal in the United States.

Recording the police isn’t violence. Don’t let officials get away with loud, incorrect claims to the contrary to diminish our First Amendment rights.

BREAKING: South Korea says it has reached a deal with the U.S. on the release of South Korean workers detained at a Hyundai plant in Georgia.

Donald Trump has declared war against the city of Chicago. He has declared a civil war.

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Why do we have so many fat people making fun of other fat people for being fat? Maybe we try some self-love instead of projection.

President Trump may have conceded it is easier to send troops into states where governors have asked for them, but Georgetown law professor Stephen Vladeck argues Trump could try to get around that.

A lot of research went into this one --- I've been reading old articles and legal filings to understand WTF happened to #Ohio: open.substack.com/pub/rachelco... #redistricting #gerrymandering

you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later

So we're at war with Venezuela. Got it.

Why are we parroting the "fight crime" narrative, when facts directly refute these claims? The President is hoping to invade another American city and assert unconstitutional, unchecked power over its people.

President Trump is preparing to ask the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that found many of his punishing tariffs to be illegal, claiming that any erosion in his power to wage a global trade war would inflict severe financial damage on the U.S.