Rachel Maddow's Blog, page 70
July 28, 2025
Trump’s new order gives feds sweeping new powers to violate medical privacy rights
Trump’s new executive order will mark a historic expansion of federal police power into services largely carried out by nonprofits and local governments.
Pentagon dysfunction leads to awkward new questions about Pete Hegseth
Pete Hegseth is obviously the defense secretary, but there's reason to wonder whether he's calling all the shots at the Pentagon.
As crisis conditions worsen in Gaza, Trump complains about a lack of gratitude
Asked about Gaza, Donald Trump expressed disappointment about not receiving sufficient thanks for the United States' aid shipments, which was bizarre.
Targeting Epstein's 'sweetheart' deal, Senate Republican forgets who was president in 2008
Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin tried to rope Barack Obama into Donald Trump's Jeffrey Epstein scandal. It went horribly awry.
SEC filings show some corporate leaders' true feelings about Trump's economy
In public, some CEOs like Nvidia leader Jensen Huang praise Trump, but their companies' SEC filings tell investors a very different story.
The incredibly high stakes of a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon
The Trump administration DOJ met with Ghislaine Maxwell in a Florida courthouse late last week where they spoke behind closed doors with Jeffrey Epstein’s former alleged enabler, who’s now serving a 20-year federal sentence for sex trafficking.
July 27, 2025
Trump announces trade agreement with E.U. to set tariffs at 15%
President Donald Trump met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and announced a new deal between the U.S. and E.U. that would set tariffs at 15%. Trump also announced that the E.U. would agree to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S.
Trump embraced Australia's harshest immigration policies. But there's one key difference.
From inhumane detention centers to sending migrants to other countries, Trump's cruelest policies were first used Down Under.
This vaccine achievement could be the next big target for RFK Jr.
For RFK Jr. and his antivax supporters and associates, aluminum adjuvants in some required children’s vaccines appear to be the next target.
The most striking thing about Trump's plummeting approval ratings
Trump ran on immigration and the economy. Polls show most Americans don't like how either are going.
