Abortion remains legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down two laws barring the procedure. “(The judges) affirm that abortion is health care and that people have a right to make their decisions about health care without government interference,” said reproductive rights activist Julie Burkhart in response to the ruling. “We know this fight is not over, but we are just so delighted that reasonable people in Wyoming were able to see that abortion is health care,” she said. “This is not a partisan issue.”

The heyday of the Department of Government Efficiency – DOGE – may be behind us, but the federal initiative once led by billionaire Elon Musk leaves a devastating legacy of mass layoffs, shuttered agencies, and a lack of transparency. MS NOW Producer Steve Benen says that DOGE has “been a failure in its own terms.” However, in terms of promoting the goals of Project 2025, DOGE succeeded to “break the inertia, speed these things up, normalize them, make them more acceptable,” according to Media Matters President Angelo Carusone.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in protest after the shooting death of Minneapolis mother Renee Good by an ICE officer. But communities are also resisting in other ways: “Know Your Rights” trainings, whistling and blowing car horns to alert neighbors of ICE’s presence, or simply filming and observing ICE encounters – actions which are all constitutionally protected. MN State Representative Aisha Gomez weighs in, telling Ali Velshi “We are in a critical moment for our country - for our democracy." Adding, "the sound of whistles and horns in my part of town in Minneapolis has become a siren sound.”

Donald Trump’s net worth has skyrocketed since assuming the presidency, as he and his family discard long-held ethical standards by striking deals in foreign nations, selling access to the Oval Office and doling out government contracts to friends. University of Toronto Professor of Philosophy Jason Stanley says, “It's intended to create a kind of authoritarian culture, a kind of acceptance that the leader should be super wealthy.”

Equal parts semi-autobiography, anti-war commentary, science-fiction exploration, and satire, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” centers on the infamous and brutal Bombing of Dresden during World War II. Vonnegut is one of those authors whose contributions to both literature and American culture are innumerable, and now his estate is at the center of a push to maintain the freedom to read. A group of best-selling authors, Utah students, the ACLU, and Kurt Vonnegut’s estate represented by his four children, are suing state officials in Utah over their book banning legislation.

One year after the Palisades fires burned nearly 24,000 acres, MS NOW Senior Political & National Reporter Jacob Soboroff reflects on reporting while his own neighborhood went up in flames. In his new book, “Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster”, Soboroff explores what the disaster teaches us about preventing future crises. He tells Ali Velshi he wrote the book to understand how it happened and whether it could happen again. “I think that you will see when you read this book, that it is very clear that it’s going to.”

Newly released footage from the smartphone of Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis, sheds new light on the shooting. Breaking down the footage with Ali Velshi, Pace University School of Criminal Justice adjunct professor and former NYPD Lieutenant Dr. Darrin Porcher calls the incident “a travesty” and says that Ross’s behavior goes against policing best practices. Porcher says that despite claims that Good was threatening Ross, “that’s not what I see in the video” and adds that the Trump administration is “drawing conclusions far too soon.”

Ali Velshi asks the former Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund where Trump's economy could go from here

Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan says the U.S.’s interest in Venezuela is primarily resource based, and that drug trafficking charges against Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro are a smokescreen for extracting oil from the country. In this way, Hasan says this move is similar to the U.S.’s invasion of Iraq. “The only difference between Donald Trump and his predecessors is that Trump is very open about it. He's very brazen about it.”