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Luke Russert

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Author of NYT/WSJ bestseller 📘 “Look For Me There.” Emmy Award Winner 📺 Host & Creative Director “MSNBC 🦚 Live” Traveler—72 📍Countries 🗺️ #BillsMafia 🦬 https://www.lookformethere.com

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hi! I’m seeing a lot of folks take measure and beginning to process their own lives against what’s happening in the 🇺🇸. Sometimes you need a reset, to listen to that impulse for self-discovery, to process grief or other trauma. I hope my book can help www.barnesandnoble.com/w/look-for-m...

Look for Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself|Paperback

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Updated with new afterword from the author. In Look for Me There, Luke Russert traverses terrain both physical and deeply personal. On his journey to some of the...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 58m

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

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The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 10h

As economy stalls, autocrat sends troops to opposition stronghold, calls for jailing freely elected leader of Illinois territories. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 13h

Literally never prosecuted a single case and now is going after the former head of the FBI.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 14h

James Comey pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges that were demanded by President Donald Trump and secured by one of his former personal lawyers, who has never prosecuted a case before.

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James Comey pleads not guilty to indictment secured by Trump loyalist

Former Trump personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan obtained the indictment sought by the president. Now she needs to prove the case.

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 1d

'I was for it before I was against it and the thing that says it doesn't really exist...'

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Breaking news: Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration argues, adding that a law Trump signed guaranteeing back pay to furloughed workers in 2019 does no such thing.

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office says

Federal workers may not be entitled to backpay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up ten...

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 2d

BREAKING: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker threatens to withdraw from the National Governors Association if the organization doesn't speak out against Trump's use of the National Guard in U.S. cities.

Watch Gov. Pritzker discuss with Rachel Maddow:

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 2d

That’s why Kornheiser and Wilbon gods. They’re actually smart, well read and enlightened.

Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 2d

They are actively trying to start some variation of a civil war.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

NEWSMAX: The Insurrection Act. Is that going to be formally invoked?

TRUMP: If you take a look at what's been going on in Portland, it's been going on for a long time, that's insurrection

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 2d

I occasionally log back on for sports news and I'm met with videos of murders, stabbings etc. It's a God awful hellscape that is normalizing what was and should be remain a dark underbelly not consumed by the general public.

Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 3d

He was great on SNL tonight

Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 4d

Bad Bunny during his SNL monologue: “Our footprint, our contribution in this country — no one will ever be able to remove it, or erase it.”

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 5d

On Saturday, October 11th, don’t miss the chance to attend “MSNBCLIVE ‘25,” our live community event featuring more than a dozen of our hosts in New York City centered on the pressing issues facing Americans today.

Buy your tickets today: msnbc.com/live25

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 5d

“One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/amp/post/ice...

ICE in Chicago news: Agents raid South Shore apartment building; Donald Trump says city could become military training ground | abc7chicago.com

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 5d

You can read about an American citizen grabbed from his bed at night with no warrant and no access to a lawyer here ca.news.yahoo.com/ice-agents-r...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

"It was heartbreaking to watch," said a neighbor who described seeing "buck naked" children getting separated from their mothers during the raid on a South Side apartment building

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 5d

Enduring image for our horrific reality.

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 6d

Taylor Swift is on a helluva run.

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MSNBC Public Relations @msnbcpr.bsky.social · 7d

Get tickets to @msnbc.com's live community event, “MSNBCLIVE '25: This Is Who We Are,” on Oct. 11 today.

Learn more at msnbc.com/msnbc-live-25 ⬇️

MSNBC LIVE ‘25: This is Who We Are

MSNBC’s most trusted journalists come together on-stage, in-person for our annual live fan event, MSNBCLIVE ‘25.

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MSNBC Public Relations @msnbcpr.bsky.social · 7d

"So much news has happened in the last year, so we’re catering the program to meet this particular moment that we’re in. What remains the same, however, is the importance of community." MSNBC Live's Lauren Peikoff on "MSNBCLIVE '25."

Read via @tvnewser.bsky.social.

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5 Questions for… MSNBC’s Events EP Lauren Peikoff

Peikoff previews MSNBC’s last event under the NBCU umbrella.

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 7d

Remember the GOP controls the trifecta and for the umpteenth time cannot control their far right flank or WH interference. On its face, it’s embarrassing when the party controlling everything can’t pass timely legislation because their leadership is so weak.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 8d

BREAKING: Government shuts down as Trump and Congress can’t reach spending deal
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Federal government shuts down after Congress fails to reach spending deal

Despite having a Republican-controlled House and Senate, President Donald Trump blamed Democrats, who sought to secure health care protections.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 8d

BREAKING: The government will shut down after Congress failed to reach agreement. Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries responds on @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social.

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 8d

Thankfully it appears the generals saw this for the performative theater that it is—but it’s scary energy coming from Commander in Chief.

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 8d

You’re not Chicken Little if this totally terrifies you. 🇺🇸

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 9d

Another serious allegation that a D led House could call a Select Comt to investigate.

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 9d

“Sources familiar with the probe told MSNBC that the FBI felt duty-bound to begin investigating Homan after Calderas told agents in an unrelated investigation that Homan was willing to influence which companies would win federal contracts in a second Trump administration in exchange for money.”

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 9d

MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

How Tom Homan wound up ensnared in an FBI contracts-for-cash sting

A former associate of Trump’s border czar allegedly proposed a $1 million scheme last year that put FBI agents on Homan's trail.

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 9d

It’s so embarrassing. Trump has made everything UFC with the worst WWE storylines. Thankfully the World Cup & Olympics are “woke” sports so it shouldn’t bleed too much into those—IF we still can host…

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d

“.. the lasting memory of this Ryder Cup threatened not to be a single swing of the club so much as the ugly backdrop: galleries that drifted from partisan into venomous ..”

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Luke Russert @lukerussert.bsky.social · 12d

Let’s make the cutoff 1492 www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to rule on its plan to end birthright citizenship

The Justice Department wants the justices to issue a final decision on whether the contentious proposal seeking to reinterpret the Constitution's 14th Amendment is lawful.

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