Isaac-Davy Aronson
@idaronson.bsky.social
MS NOW producer / co-host, Déjà News pod with @maddow.bsky.social / maker of martinis
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Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
October 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
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I haven’t been able to form a sentence in like 10 minutes
December 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I haven’t been able to form a sentence in like 10 minutes
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It's here! "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order"
Episodes 1 and 2 are up today... Eps 3-6 coming from here on out on Mondays.
Free to listen on any podcast app.
(For no ads and early access to all episodes, it's $2.99/month for an MS NOW premium subscription...)
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
Episodes 1 and 2 are up today... Eps 3-6 coming from here on out on Mondays.
Free to listen on any podcast app.
(For no ads and early access to all episodes, it's $2.99/month for an MS NOW premium subscription...)
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
News Podcast · Series ·
podcasts.apple.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It's here! "Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order"
Episodes 1 and 2 are up today... Eps 3-6 coming from here on out on Mondays.
Free to listen on any podcast app.
(For no ads and early access to all episodes, it's $2.99/month for an MS NOW premium subscription...)
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
Episodes 1 and 2 are up today... Eps 3-6 coming from here on out on Mondays.
Free to listen on any podcast app.
(For no ads and early access to all episodes, it's $2.99/month for an MS NOW premium subscription...)
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
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An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Bolsonaro White House hedges on Trump’s curious claim about his call with Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro
Did the Republican president talk to Bolsonaro as the Brazilian plotted to escape? Trump said yes, but the White House isn’t so sure.
www.ms.now
November 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II:
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
- Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future”
- Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier
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absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed
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My new podcast!
"Burn Order" - 6 episodes.
Free to listen on any podcast app, or online.
First 2 episodes come out for everyone on Monday 12/1.
MSNBC Premium subscribers get them early -- this Friday 11/28.
Listen to the trailer here and follow the series...
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
"Burn Order" - 6 episodes.
Free to listen on any podcast app, or online.
First 2 episodes come out for everyone on Monday 12/1.
MSNBC Premium subscribers get them early -- this Friday 11/28.
Listen to the trailer here and follow the series...
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order
News Podcast ·
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My new podcast!
"Burn Order" - 6 episodes.
Free to listen on any podcast app, or online.
First 2 episodes come out for everyone on Monday 12/1.
MSNBC Premium subscribers get them early -- this Friday 11/28.
Listen to the trailer here and follow the series...
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
"Burn Order" - 6 episodes.
Free to listen on any podcast app, or online.
First 2 episodes come out for everyone on Monday 12/1.
MSNBC Premium subscribers get them early -- this Friday 11/28.
Listen to the trailer here and follow the series...
podcasts.apple.com/me/podcast/r...
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every week we get to friday and i think
well maybe next week will not be so weird
well maybe next week will not be so weird
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
every week we get to friday and i think
well maybe next week will not be so weird
well maybe next week will not be so weird
“What could the little man do—since he so passionately desired to exercise authority and neither this nor any other sane state would give it to him—but use his trick of gathering together luckless fellows to overturn the state and substitute a mad one?”
Gideon Lewis-Kraus on Rebecca West’s “The Crown Versus William Joyce”
The writer took on the trial of Lord Haw-Haw, a British Fascist who became a mouthpiece for the Nazis, and who prefigured the reactionary toadyism of our own era.
www.newyorker.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“What could the little man do—since he so passionately desired to exercise authority and neither this nor any other sane state would give it to him—but use his trick of gathering together luckless fellows to overturn the state and substitute a mad one?”
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This is really something. Trump/GOP efforts to rig midterms running into serious trouble
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This is really something. Trump/GOP efforts to rig midterms running into serious trouble
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The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
Noem and Lewandowski "ordered ICE officials to buy 10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines that they said would be used to boost deportation flights—and for their own travel...
...Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn’t own the planes. The planes also don’t have engines."
...Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn’t own the planes. The planes also don’t have engines."
"CBP have been forced to later release many people they have taken in, finding out they are US citizens or have legal protection from deportation. Noem said recently no citizens had been arrested, but at least one citizen has sued the admin for arresting him twice..."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Infighting at DHS Is Complicating Trump’s Deportation Push
White House pressure to speed up the pace of deportations has led to internal discord in the Department of Homeland Security over tactics, people familiar with the matter said.
www.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Noem and Lewandowski "ordered ICE officials to buy 10 737 jets from Spirit Airlines that they said would be used to boost deportation flights—and for their own travel...
...Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn’t own the planes. The planes also don’t have engines."
...Spirit, which filed for bankruptcy for a second time in August, didn’t own the planes. The planes also don’t have engines."
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Quite a photo
President Trump is seen in the Oval Office after a man collapsed during a White House event.
The event on lowering the costs of weight loss drugs resumed after an attendee collapsed, prompting administration officials to pause the event and usher reporters out of the room.
nbcnews.to/47KinRo
The event on lowering the costs of weight loss drugs resumed after an attendee collapsed, prompting administration officials to pause the event and usher reporters out of the room.
nbcnews.to/47KinRo
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Quite a photo
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Media sneering about "anti-Trump" politics reflects a deeper inability to acknowledge that he's really unpopular. To some journos, "anti-Trump" codes as "delusional Resistance doesn't grasp Trump's mystical connection w/Real American People."
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Media sneering about "anti-Trump" politics reflects a deeper inability to acknowledge that he's really unpopular. To some journos, "anti-Trump" codes as "delusional Resistance doesn't grasp Trump's mystical connection w/Real American People."
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
h/t @jamellebouie.net
newrepublic.com/article/2027...
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After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
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Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI
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The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.
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BREAKING: NY Board of Elections says more than 2 MILLION votes have been cast in the NYC election - the highest number since 1969.
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 AM
BREAKING: NY Board of Elections says more than 2 MILLION votes have been cast in the NYC election - the highest number since 1969.
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In Opinion
Dick Cheney became a fierce critic of Donald Trump after the Capitol insurrection — but by then, it was too late, Ron Suskind writes. “Mr. Cheney had done as much as anyone in history to undermine Americans’ trust in their institutions and leaders, including Mr. Cheney himself.”
Dick Cheney became a fierce critic of Donald Trump after the Capitol insurrection — but by then, it was too late, Ron Suskind writes. “Mr. Cheney had done as much as anyone in history to undermine Americans’ trust in their institutions and leaders, including Mr. Cheney himself.”
Opinion | The Tragedy of Dick Cheney
He tried to warn Americans about Trump, but they had already learned not to believe him.
nyti.ms
November 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In Opinion
Dick Cheney became a fierce critic of Donald Trump after the Capitol insurrection — but by then, it was too late, Ron Suskind writes. “Mr. Cheney had done as much as anyone in history to undermine Americans’ trust in their institutions and leaders, including Mr. Cheney himself.”
Dick Cheney became a fierce critic of Donald Trump after the Capitol insurrection — but by then, it was too late, Ron Suskind writes. “Mr. Cheney had done as much as anyone in history to undermine Americans’ trust in their institutions and leaders, including Mr. Cheney himself.”
This is so true. That bureau did a singularly amazing job during that time.
There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died.
That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time.
www.cato.org/commentary/q...
That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time.
www.cato.org/commentary/q...
Damn... this one is rough.
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This is so true. That bureau did a singularly amazing job during that time.
"...when it comes to 2026, I worry more about the limits of my imagination than about the hazards of speculation."
Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way
Our election system is reaching a breaking point.
www.theatlantic.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"...when it comes to 2026, I worry more about the limits of my imagination than about the hazards of speculation."
"Considered on the basis of its lie-per-word ratio, Trump’s screed was almost impressive in its audacity."
Trump scraps trade talks with Canada after being triggered by a television ad
Nine years after Hillary Clinton warned voters about the dangers those who are “provoked by a tweet,” Trump threw a tantrum over a Canadian TV commercial.
www.msnbc.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Considered on the basis of its lie-per-word ratio, Trump’s screed was almost impressive in its audacity."
Also, not the point, but do they know what the payroll of the entire U.S. military is? $130 million will barely buy lunch.
This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
October 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Also, not the point, but do they know what the payroll of the entire U.S. military is? $130 million will barely buy lunch.
"When you’ve been living the impunity lifestyle for 10 months, it grows on you. Things occur to you that wouldn’t have occurred to you before, even to a predatory malefactor overflowing with insatiable appetites."
Trump Moves Into Full Twilight Zone ‘Anthony’ Phase talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Trump Moves Into Full Twilight Zone ‘Anthony’ Phase
Yesterday, for me, was a mixed visual and reported tableaux. There were...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"When you’ve been living the impunity lifestyle for 10 months, it grows on you. Things occur to you that wouldn’t have occurred to you before, even to a predatory malefactor overflowing with insatiable appetites."
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October 22, 2025 at 1:16 AM