Article Sanity – Feb 26th
Neeraj Shrivastava, Stephen Diehl & Ridhima Kohli
For Trump’s opponents, a model
for finding their fight to stop him
Jon Ralston, founder and CEO of the Nevada Independent, and author of the newly published “The Game Changer: How Harry Reid remade the rules and showed Democrats how to fight,” talks with Rachel Maddow about how the Democrats’ best political tactician and savviest fighter in living memory would have handled stopping Trump and retaking power before it’s too late.
Is that really Rachel?
What is the deal with these YouTube accounts full of fake A.I. of Rachel Maddow’s voice talking about Russia and Ukraine (mostly)?
Maddowblog
Cell phone videos are protecting Americans — and eroding our privacy
Even when constant documentation is justified, such as to track ICE abuses, recording as a survival strategy reshapes public life.
Kaivan Shroff
Congress still has a panel on ‘weaponization’ of government, if it dares to use it
If Jim Jordan and the GOP are genuinely interested in how the federal government is being weaponized, I can point them in a few directions.
On multiple fronts, Team Trump tries to exert greater control over media outlets
The administration doesn’t just want to criticize parts of the media, it also wants to control parts of the media — even if that means exceeding legal limits.
By threatening France with a tariff on wine, Trump gives away the game
Remember the pretense that the White House’s tariffs policy was the result of “emergency” conditions? That’s gone now.
When it comes to welfare fraud, Trump’s condemnations are selective and capricious
The president cares deeply about fraud in social aid programs — except when he doesn’t.
‘Unabashed bigotry’: GOP’s Tuberville sparks backlash with anti-Muslim messages
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said the Alabama Republican’s anti-Muslim message represents “a stain on our Congress.”
Trump’s weird text to Norway’s prime minister renews 25th Amendment talk
The last time the president confronted chatter about the 25th Amendment, it was in the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6.
More Maddow
