Jeff May or May Not

No wonder he doesn't "give a damn" if you're paying more at the pump. HE is making a fortune.

These guys can't take tough questions from women:

like I said, Vance is the big loser of 2026: www.contrariannews.org/p/who-has-al...

NEWS --> Dems are planning novel ways to wield power of the purse against Trump's corrupt prosecutions of critics like Ilhan Omar if they win House. Reps Pramila Jayapal and Jamie Raskin tell me a range of aggressive tactics will be deployed. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

Administration has a real data manipulation problem: - DHS exaggerates immigrants who’ve left US - Patel's FBI pads crime stats - IRS hides tax cut data until after midterms - Census excludes immigrants www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

My latest from MSNOW: The Republican Parties of Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona show this is your party on Trump. A decade ago, each of these parties were dominant. Now, they are getting their ass whipped. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Newsletter is up. Turns out, I don’t like ads. I don’t like campaign ads mocking rape victims. I don’t like AI ads. Uhh, like and subscribe… because i don’t like ads :)

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

Just disgusting: Sen Elissa Slotkin made routine comments about the need for a Dem Congress to impose real accountability on the Trump administration, especially mid-tier enablers, and MAGA ginned up a two-minute hate over it. But she's 100% correct. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

The E15 policy might seem obscure, but let’s not miss the forest for the trees: At his latest campaign rally, Trump told Kansans he’s prepared to hurt the state on purpose if he dislikes how they vote in the Senate race. How is this not a scandal? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Striking: Dems growing optimistic about sweeping all four of the big House races in South Texas. If doable, that's seismic. DCCC's Madison Andrus tells us on the pod that internal polling has Trump -23 in TX-28, which he won by 10 points. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

This is exactly the kind of ad I've been begging Dems to run. "Republicans are perverts who want to do genital inspections on middle school girls" is not only a great message, it's the truth!

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

Collins has been atrocious in debates because her self image of independence has collided with her record as a Trump stooge:

As polls show two-thirds of Americans agreeing that Trump is using his office to enrich himself, JD Vance keeps saying, “I’ve not once seen evidence that Donald Trump has enriched himself.” It suggests the VP is either remarkably unobservant or deliberately unobservant. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The golf course fight is just the latest example of Trump acting like the law doesn't apply to him, and DoJ lawyers just lying to judges. When Dems have power, everyone involved has to be investigated, sanctioned, and potentially disbarred. My latest at MS NOW: www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Ten years ago today. In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine...

El Sayed shows what a superb candidate he is. CBS and Jan Crawford show their stripes.

Let me be specific: Donald Trump is an f-ing traitor. He is in cahoots with Putin and Russia to break our democratic ally, Ukraine, which makes all of us less safe. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

I called Trump’s deal with Putin “a deepening betrayal” on Monday. Now it’s clear he’s a despicable traitor with blood on his hands as Ukraine’s civilian deaths mount—and who’s making all of us less safe. www.americaamerica.news/p/another-be...

It’s a go-to tactic Trump has utilized for years: The minute an ally runs into trouble or becomes inconvenient, he pretends to barely know them. Kimberly “she, I guess, dated my son a long time ago” Guilfoyle has joined the sizable club. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Crucial from @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com: Trump's implosion is enabling Dems/libs to reach lots of new voters. "It’s an opportunity to plant long-term seeds about the vision we want." Dems like Ossoff/Talarico are meeting this antifascist moment. Our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2165...

It’s possible the White House hired Katie Zacharia because it didn’t know about her crackpot social media history. Or maybe it knew and didn’t care. Or maybe Team Trump hired her *because of* her record of pushing utterly bonkers nonsense. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The president of the United States is a puppet of the war criminal and thug who rules Russia, writes David Rothkopf.

It's not news. But the consequences are growing more grave daily. My latest.

"There is no excuse for this and you know why I’m furious right now,” the judge said. “I was hearing from plaintiff’s side that this was going to happen and I said ‘no’ repeatedly, ‘I trust the government.’ I trusted you all repeatedly to not do what you have done...” www.ms.now/news/you-did...

Trump’s support among voters who backed him in 2024: Jan 2025: 95% Jan 2026: 83% July 2026: 75% Oct 2026: 67% The more he lies about the strength of his support with the GOP base, the more relevant this shift becomes.

A brief timeline on the White House misappropriating public funds for propagandistic campaign ads: Oct 5: Trump says he’ll stop using taxpayer money Oct 6 –11: Trump doesn’t actually stop Oct 12: A federal judge tells Trump he has to stop Oct 13: Trump still doesn’t stop www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an abrupt attempt to force Ukraine to surrender and to save the Russian economy, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:

Loser. Traitor.

Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.

Trump keeps claiming that, out of his deep and abiding concerns about propriety, he deliberately decided not to go after Obama, Biden, and Hillary Clinton. He’s asking us to pretend we didn’t see the recent history that played out before our eyes. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Trump is increasingly brazen in politicizing federal disaster relief, explicitly tying approvals to campaign endorsements and elections. It’s one of the underappreciated scandals of his second term. Or as one governor put it yesterday, it’s “complete and total bulls---.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

All the sobbing and bellyaching does not seem very, well, high-T masculine, a major theme for a party marinating in toxic misogyny. Bullies who accuse their opponents of feminizing the country (especially the milit) and target trans kids seem ever so frail and helpless when things don't go their way

For years, even Democrats who liked Medicare for All assumed it was too unpopular to endorse. It’s time for them to reassess: The latest KFF poll found 66% public support for Medicare for All, an all-time high. (It’s even increasingly popular among Republicans) www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Data centers have come to serve as a stand-in for a host of issues — affordability, the outsized power of high-tech companies, soaring energy issues, Trump’s utter cluelessness, Republicans’ inability to cross their cult leader and the looming divide between the rich and everyone else.

Team Trump is effectively saying it misappropriated $11.5 million in taxpayer money, but they're promising not to misuse any *additional* funds. That’s nice, but there’s still the matter of the money that the White House already (and illegally) took from us. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

I really *want* Boulder, CO to win its SCOTUS argument against Suncor and Exxon over climate change. But the Supreme Court will never let that happen. In part because Boulder’s glorious, RIGHTEOUS argument… is also bullshit, legally speaking. My latest in @thenation.com

When Trump tried to bully Tom Cotton into submission by giving out his cell number, he offered timely evidence of a broader problem: Nearly six years into his presidency, this guy still has no idea how to work with Congress or advance legislative priorities. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

New Fox poll shows Trump coalition collapsing in Texas. GOP is sinking money into Iowa and Kansas. The horrors of Late-Stage Trumpism are creating space for a new anti-corruption, anti-cruelty politics to emerge. On the pod, @aselrod.bsky.social is brilliant on this: newrepublic.com/article/2161...

...when the much more straightforward strategy is to go to those voters and say "The Republicans you keep voting for? They think you're stupid, they lied to you, they conned you, they screwed up everything, and you should be ENRAGED at them."

Pressed on the latest awful job numbers, the White House’s Kevin Hassett said it’s unfair to emphasize one month’s data too much. Fine. Let’s talk about the bigger picture — and just how ugly US job creation has been since Trump returned to office. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Rs could have taken back tariff authority, cut off war funding, reined in ICE to, refused to confirm unfit Cabinet secretaries and a weak Federal Reserve chairman. And, most of all, they could have rejected the Big, Ugly bill. They didnt and now dread Trump coming to their district/state. KARMA

We’re officially a month away from the midterms. Now’s the time for Trump to get out around the country & campaign for Republicans in close races. I suggest he go to TX, OH, MI, GA, NC, SC, ME, IA, AK, KS, MS, & MN. 1/2

Loser

Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...

The Democrats’ midterm message: Republicans are offering more of the same. Speaker Mike Johnson’s midterm message: Yep, pretty much. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Was it funny to see the new White House AI chatbot, on its first day of operations, presenting the public with facts that completely contradicted Trump’s alternate reality and brazen lies? Actually, yes, it was. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Bright side: the risk isn’t catastrophic *and* existential