Wigmaniac
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Lover of wigs. Devotee of The Rachel Maddow Show.
#FlipYourWigGOTV
#FlipYourWigGetOutTheVote
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International Wig Day/Month is coming up in March, so it's time to get working on those videos. Just some details about the videos: You can plug your shows while doing it. You could say the shows will "flip your wig" and take it off. 1/
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Jon Cooper
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Jon Ossoff really tells it like it is. Love this! 💙
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Rachel Maddow
3 days ago
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Nebraska law enforcement veterans form coalition to counter 'federal overreach'
Equality Before the Law said in a news release that it was formed out of a concern that when federal actions are allowed to override local priorities, it erodes public trust, makes the job of law enfo...
https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/nebraska-law-enforcement-veterans-form-coalition-to-counter-federal-overreach/
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Rachel Maddow
2 days ago
that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Agencies in talks with Trump, family to resolve $10B lawsuit over tax leaks
President Trump and his family are suing federal agencies over leaks of their tax information. Court filings say they’re in talks to find a solution instead of heading to trial.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/17/trump-tax-leak-lawsuit/
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Rachel Maddow
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"As illiberal strongmen have discovered in other contexts... after a while, voters, especially moderates, become exhausted by constant messages of fear, hatred, and vituperation..."
foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/12/h...
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Why Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Party Lost
The opposition’s stunning victory offers lessons for U.S. Democrats—and a warning for Trump’s allies.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/12/hungary-election-viktor-orban-fidesz-peter-magyar-tisza/
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Rachel Maddow
2 days ago
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Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say
One attorney wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke a detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone.”
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/04/13/alligator-alcatraz-lawsuit-pepper-spray-phones/
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Rachel Maddow
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"In addition to filling the courtroom gallery and two additional overflow rooms, hundreds of protestors rallied outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Baltimore before the case was set to be heard..."
marylandmatters.org/2026/04/15/h...
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Hundreds rally against ICE as judge agrees to block detention center construction - Maryland Matters
A federal judge on Wednesday limited further construction on a planned Washington County immigration detention center, saying the government's plans for the facility and its impacts on the environment...
https://marylandmatters.org/2026/04/15/hundreds-rally-against-ice-as-judge-agrees-to-block-detention-center-construction/
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Rachel Maddow
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Pushback leads Homeland Security to compromise on some warehouse detention centers for immigrants • Stateline
Some of the Trump administration’s controversial new warehouse immigration detention centers are getting scaled back and postponed as states and cities fight back and new Homeland Security Secretary M...
https://stateline.org/2026/04/17/pushback-leads-homeland-security-to-compromise-on-some-warehouse-detention-centers-for-immigrants/
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Rachel Maddow
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"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military...
www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
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Rachel Maddow
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"Over the past several months, our community has built a blueprint that other communities can use when federal agencies attempt to move detention infrastructure into their neighborhoods..."
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Today in Baltimore, We Proved This Fight Is Working
DHS went to court to defend their ICE warehouse plan and walked away with a judge openly laughing at their argument.
https://blog.hagerstownrapidresponse.com/p/today-in-baltimore-we-proved-this-fight-is-working
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Rachel Maddow
about 20 hours ago
And they remain mystified as to why it's so hard for them to find real lawyers who will work for him... Eastman: disbarred Giuliani: disbarred Chesebro: disbarred Clark: facing possible disbarment Ellis: law license suspended
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Trump avoided punishments for his post-2020 abuses, but many of his lawyers did not
For the attorneys who helped fuel the president’s efforts to remain in office, the consequences have been severe. Take John Eastman, for example.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-avoided-punishments-for-his-post-2020-abuses-but-many-of-his-lawyers-did-not
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Rachel Maddow
about 20 hours ago
Very normal stuff. "Aides kept the president out of the room as they got minute-by-minute updates because they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful... "At one point Trump mused he should award himself the nation’s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears
The president’s impulsive style has never been tested in a sustained military conflict, and he’s been ruminating on Jimmy Carter’s failure in Iran.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-public-bravado-private-fear-59814dca?mod=hp_lead_pos7
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Rachel Maddow
about 20 hours ago
Oh. He marveled. "Some of the president’s advisers were caught off guard that tanker traffic would grind to a halt so quickly after the bombing began... "Trump has since marveled at the ease with which the strait was closed..."
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears
The president’s impulsive style has never been tested in a sustained military conflict, and he’s been ruminating on Jimmy Carter’s failure in Iran.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-public-bravado-private-fear-59814dca?mod=hp_lead_pos7
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Rachel Maddow
about 19 hours ago
Last month, Trump's DOJ inexplicably dropped the prosecution in the largest ($20 billion!) Iran sanctions violations case ever:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/n...
Now one month later, they're bragging about how they're going to so so so sooooo prosecute Iran sanctions:
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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about 19 hours ago
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Rachel Maddow
about 19 hours ago
"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..."
www.eenews.net/articles/oil...
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Oil company founded by DOE chief Wright paid no US taxes last year
Liberty Energy made $193 million last year and received more than $10 million back in tax benefits, according to a nonprofit analysis released on Tax Day.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/oil-company-founded-by-doe-chief-wright-paid-no-us-taxes-last-year/
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Rachel Maddow
about 19 hours ago
"Dear America" letters from people who work at the besieged US Department of Housing and Urban Development:
dearamericaletters.org
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Rachel Maddow
about 17 hours ago
"Trump Administration officials declined to explain the reason for the reversal..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/b...
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Help for Medicare Advantage Patients Who Lose Doctors Is Shelved, for Now
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/business/medicare-advantage-enrollment-networks.html
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Rachel Maddow
about 17 hours ago
"Ms. Ross-Mahé, age 86, was greeted at the airport by her three adult children. She was still dressed in her prison wear — orange shoes, sweatpants and a gray sweater — covered in stains and holes... "She was in a state of physical shock...
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...
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Rachel Maddow
about 17 hours ago
"Top staffers were figures with connections to GOP politics who hadn’t worked in the arts, including one spouse of a Republican party leader whose longest professional experience was working as a marketing and events manager at a Toyota dealership in Ireland..."
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/04/inside-kennedy-center-shutdown-drama/686801/
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Nora Dunn
about 19 hours ago
Gen Z Protests Around the World: Success or Epic Fail?
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/w...
New York Times points out that massive protests haven't made meaningful change. I take umbrage with that. Consistent protests inspire people and put pressure on politicians. Why else would they try to stop us?
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Gen Z Protests Around the World: Success or Epic Fail?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/world/asia/gen-z-protests-success-fail-nepal-morocco-bangladesh.html?smid=bs-share
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Nancy Giles
2 days ago
Why leadership looks like. Thank you, Senator Elizabeth Warren! And thank you
@annstrussell.bsky.social
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Rachel Maddow
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4 days ago
"The Trump administration cut the agency deeply last year, leaving some forecasting offices short-staffed... “You’re missing data from the Four Corners region, the northern Plains, part of the central Plains, and that’s where the storms were developing,” he said..."
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'We are missing data': NWS weather balloon changes scrutinized as tornados hit Midwest
For much of Monday, the agency didn't anticipate a tornado threat for Kansas City — then five hit that evening. Did a change in weather balloon launches leave forecasters in the dark?
https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/tornadoes/tornadoes-kansas-concerns-changes-national-weather-service-rcna331826
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Mindy Furano
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Joe Pesci as a gyno telling the patient they have more than one uterus
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Happy 5 year Bleep-A-Versary to the time
@maddow.bsky.social
got bleeped on her show. When I was watching it real time, I was getting ready to go out and thought she had written "shitshow" into her teleprompter, and they knew when to bleep her. She later cleared it up.
#Maddow
#PsakiBriefing
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Rachel Maddow Gets Bleeped
YouTube video by Wigmaniac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSnwQrBNzrc
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Rachel Maddow
7 days ago
PA last month said the two Trump prison camps they want to put there can't be hooked up to water or sewer (and therefore can't open).
www.pa.gov/agencies/dep...
Now MD says Trump the prison camp they're trying to put near Hagerstown can't get sewer either:
www.projectsaltbox.com/p/maryland-o...
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Maryland Orders Washington County to Freeze Sewer Expansion for Planned ICE Detention Center
A state environmental order bars the county from expanding its sewer system, the latest obstacle in a legal fight over the federal government's plan to detain immigrants in a warehouse there
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/maryland-orders-washington-county
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Rachel Maddow
6 days ago
youtu.be/DKI860vxbSU?...
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Books & Records
YouTube video by Adeem the Artist - Topic
https://youtu.be/DKI860vxbSU?si=aMQqLCuveYkVHlHL
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Love went Rachel plays the DJ. Great song with relevant lyrics.
#Maddow
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BTW, this Wednesday is the 5 year anniversary or "Bleepiversary" of
@maddow.bsky.social
getting bleeped on her show(by accident, of course).
@maddowblog.bsky.social
#Maddow
#LastWord
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Rachel Maddow Gets Bleeped
YouTube video by Wigmaniac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSnwQrBNzrc
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MaddowBlog
6 days ago
Maddow: All the people who came out to protest at Stonewall when the Trump administration pulled down the pride flag, "today you won."
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Perfect way to go to commercial. Democracy and freedom in action.
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Sorry, I'm late, glad to be here for another
#MaddowMonday
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Rachel Maddow
8 days ago
👋🏻
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Rachel Maddow
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Held in Federal Custody, a Baltimore Man Injured in an ICE Arrest Has Gone Eight Days Without Treatment
Lawyers for Ever Alvarenga Rios say his wounds have gone untreated since his release from a hospital into federal custody.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/p/held-in-federal-custody-a-baltimore
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Rachel Maddow
9 days ago
"The judge concluded his opinion with an unusually sharp rebuke of the Trump administration: 'Suppression of political speech is the mark of an autocracy, not a democracy — as the Framers recognized when they drafted the First Amendment'...”
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Pentagon violated court order to restore press access, judge rules
Senior U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman also admonished the Trump administration, saying suppressing political speech is the “mark of an autocracy, not a democracy.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/09/judge-pentagon-press-access/
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Rachel Maddow
9 days ago
"Each day of the trial, the courtroom filled with community members. Current and former students and colleagues, members of the California Faculty Association from various universities and students who had heard about the case all came to show support..."
www.huffpost.com/entry/jonath...
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Trump Admin Dealt Another Blow In Court After Protester Found Not Guilty
California philosophy professor Jonathan Caravello, who was accused of tossing tear gas in the direction of federal agents, faced up to 20 years in prison.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jonathan-caravello-not-guilty_n_69d801e6e4b048dba44c0d5f?ncid=APPLENEWS00001
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Rachel Maddow
8 days ago
all over the world, these guys are just exact xerox copies of each other. in this case, "istvan" is pronounced "JAYR-id"
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Viktor Orbán’s son-in-law defends fortune as Hungary’s elite face backlash
Prime minister has been accused of favouring family and friends, but István Tiborcz insists he does not benefit
https://www.ft.com/content/156c3ab4-9998-411d-b1bd-60b51482d9d3?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Rachel Maddow
7 days ago
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ICE wanted to build a detention centre - this small farming town said no
Residents say they support the administration's immigration agenda - but not its plans to build a detention centre in their backyard.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cje47vy0w3ko
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7 days ago
Well put.
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Rachel Maddow
7 days ago
Normal stuff here, very normal: "As the president threatens to wipe out Iran and attacks the pope, even some former allies and advisers are questioning whether he has grown increasingly unbalanced, describing him as 'lunatic' and 'clearly insane'..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...
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Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/us/politics/trump-mental-fitness-25th-amendment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.alA.j2TQ.WAkd7r9wubaS&smid=url-share
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Rachel Maddow
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Long Island, New York:
www.newsday.com/long-island/...
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ICE detention center proposed for Holtsville draws outraged protesters
About 100 people gathered on Barretts Avenue to protest the plan on Sunday. Brookhaven Town opposes it.
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/proposed-holtsville-ice-detention-center-pxo6xv0k
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Rachel Maddow
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Goshen (Orange County) New York:
midhudsonnews.com/2026/04/13/d...
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Dozens protest ICE detainees at Orange County Jail
GOSHEN – For years, Orange County has had a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house illegal immigrants with criminal records temporarily at
https://midhudsonnews.com/2026/04/13/dozens-protest-ice-detainees-at-orange-county-jail/
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Rachel Maddow
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"Oregon's Democratic Governor Tina Kotek signed eight bills into law defending immigrant rights, as the Trump administration ramps up federal immigration enforcement..."
ktvz.com/news/governm...
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Oregon governor signs slew of bills protecting immigrants amid federal crackdown
By Mia Maldonado, Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM, Ore. -- Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek signed eight bills into law Thursday defending immigrant rights as the Trump administration ramps up federal immigratio...
https://ktvz.com/news/government-politics/2026/04/10/oregon-governor-signs-slew-of-bills-protecting-immigrants-amid-federal-crackdown/
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Rachel Maddow
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"She is from British Columbia but moved to Texas in 2021 when she married her American husband. The family was driving home from a baby shower when they were stopped at a border patrol checkpoint. She and Ayla, who has autism, were fingerprinted and detained..."
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Canadian mother held by ICE with daughter, 7, speaks out on families ‘suffering greatly’ in detention
Tania Warner and her daughter were detained in Texas facilities deemed ‘unsafe and degrading’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/ice-canadian-mother-daughter-texas
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Rachel Maddow
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"The only way to lose in a fight against Trump is to try to appease him... Those who "stand up for themselves and resist the ridiculous attempts at intimidation have prevailed..."
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Federal judge rejects Trump’s dubious defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal
The demise of the president’s case is a demonstration of the benefits of fighting back — and of the folly of appeasement.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/judge-dismisses-trump-wall-street-journal-epstein-case
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After picking fight with pope, Trump promotes image panned as ‘blasphemy’
The president’s offensive against the pope, followed by the image presenting himself as some kind of American Jesus, represented quite the one-two punch.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/after-picking-an-ugly-fight-with-pope-trump-promotes-image-panned-as-blasphemous
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Nancy Giles
7 days ago
#SeattleRising
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Nancy Giles
7 days ago
will he actually have to shoot someone on Fifth Avenue to be removed from office?
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Nancy Giles
7 days ago
Clearly he just watched “60 Minutes.” What a deranged waste of a human being.
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