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@maddow.bsky.socialNew Trump rule set to go into effect Oct 22 -- may cause serious spike in prescription drug prices for millions of Americans:
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@maddow.bsky.social@maddow.bsky.socialIn August, Trump purchased between $1m and $5m in SpaceX bonds.
Two days later, he signed a memorandum setting out a new policy pledging US government support for space transportation companies:
@maddow.bsky.socialHarris County TX. He's hospitalized:
"ICE claimed the man ran in front of the agents' vehicle and was struck.
However, the surveillance video appears to show the SUV veering left through empty parking spaces before running the man over..."
@maddow.bsky.social"Alliances are not merely acts of charity toward strangers. They exist because countries learned that hostility becomes more likely when aggressors believe their victims will stand alone..."
@maddow.bsky.social"Texas schools are underfunded — hundreds have gone to four days a week..."
@maddow.bsky.social"People sometimes get involved in elections because they are skeptical of how they work. Then they discover that the problems they expected to find are not there..."
@maddow.bsky.social“There is no excuse for a mistake of this magnitude...”
@maddow.bsky.social"Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden, a hawkish Republican in a battleground district who has been a forceful supporter of the Iran war, said Saturday that he had no comment on the president’s deal with Mr. Putin..."
nytimes.comSome Republicans Reject Trump’s Move to Import Diesel Fuel From RussiaHigh diesel costs have posed a problem for Republicans in the midterms, but President Trump’s decision did not satisfy some candidates in key Senate races.
@maddow.bsky.social"The 2.25m barrels of diesel Putin offered Trump will have zero net impact on the world price of diesel. But accepting them will collapse the US-led sanctions regime on Russia—and align Trump with Putin against Ukraine's attacks on Russian energy production..."
theatlantic.comTrump Is an Easy Mark for PutinThe president’s diesel deal sells out Ukraine, and does nothing for Americans.
@maddow.bsky.social"The widespread effects of DOGE’s efforts—the cures that won’t be found; the vaccines that won’t be made; the food meant to save lives, left instead to rot..."
theatlantic.com‘Elon Is a Nuke’A new documentary makes the case that Elon Musk is a human of mass destruction.
@maddow.bsky.social"The whistleblower says FBI supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings..."
nbcnews.comFBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protestersThe former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.
@maddow.bsky.social"Footage taken by protesters shows the massive tree crashing down as border agents look on..."
washingtonpost.comThey sat atop a ‘grandmother’ tree for months. Border agents knocked it down.Activists occupied a cottonwood tree in Arizona for more than two months in a standoff with U.S. Customs and Border Protection contractors.
@maddow.bsky.social“'The recent decisions to shutter nearly complete offshore wind projects and to pay Total Energies hundreds of millions of dollars to renounce wind leases are an assault on logic and the American taxpayer,' he wrote...”
theguardian.comVeteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists
@maddow.bsky.social"Putin’s destruction of trust in independent reporting was deliberate and effective... aimed at getting people to feel helpless.
'Doing nothing stems from believing no one... Because if you don’t trust anyone, you don’t do anything one way or the other'..."
nytimes.com‘My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile’ Review: What Is Truth?The second half of Julia Loktev’s epic chronicle of independent journalists in Russia is essential viewing.
@maddow.bsky.socialToday in DC:
"Beginning Saturday, crews will start another major round of cutting at the historic public golf course. The first phase contains 169 trees marked for removal.
The Trump Administration says as many as 529 could eventually come down..."
washingtonpost.comMore than 500 trees may be removed from D.C. golf course Trump wants to redesignBeginning Saturday, National Park Service crews will start another major round of cutting at East Potomac Golf Links, according to a new filing in federal court.
@maddow.bsky.social“ICE is operating outside the limits of its legal authority, and the people of Fresno are paying the price…”
nytimes.comOff-Duty ICE Agent Is Shot and Arrested After Sleeping on Lawn in CaliforniaA woman found the agent asleep on her lawn early Friday, and her 72-year-old father shot the agent after he assaulted her, the police said.
@maddow.bsky.social“It’s really fundamentally about whether or not people with disabilities can live, work, go to school, make all the decisions about how you spend your day and you spend your life with..."
19thnews.orgThe federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promiseLois Curtis and Elaine Wilson won a victory that gave people with disabilities the freedom to choose where they live. That legacy is now under threat.
@maddow.bsky.social"Dozens of protesters arrived before 8AM to deliver cards with handwritten 'tips,' encouraging ICE employees to find other jobs.
On a side door, someone wrote: “You can say no,” and “God is watching you”...
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projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
@maddow.bsky.social“…most commonly carried out in a handful of countries including Iran, North Korea and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan.
“releasing video of executions is most often associated with extremist militant groups like the Islamic State...”
nytimes.comFort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon SaysIf carried out, the public execution of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan by firing squad set for Dec. 3 would be the first in modern U.S. history.