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check out @xeni 's timeline -- the response to this https://t.co/p4jpaBxMDU is stunning and super interesting...
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 5, 2016
Dude ISIS is bombing Muslim people in Muslim communities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan how is ISIS Muslim no they're psychopaths
— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) July 3, 2016
Iceland’s football team arrive home. What a welcome this is. pic.twitter.com/fF3vl1mIhP
— SimonNRicketts (@SimonNRicketts) July 4, 2016
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) July 4, 2016
Trump responds to controversy over 'Star of David' tweet -- says it was a sheriff's star or plain star pic.twitter.com/aOG1deoRYR
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) July 4, 2016
Independence Day 2016
MaddowBlog will probably be pretty quiet today in honor of the 4th of July holiday. That said, I'll be around and may jump back in if there's a major, unexpected news development.
We'll return to a normal schedule on Tuesday morning.
Week in Geek: Jupiter or bust edition
This year's 4th of July will have a different kind of fireworks happening while you're lounging by the pool or grilling up some hamburgers. These fireworks will be more like particle showers as NASA's Juno spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter and is blasted charged particles swirling through the planet's magnetosphere.
Juno is the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter in thirteen years, since the Galileo mission ended in 2003. Juno's primary goal is to study Jupiter in the hopes of revealing more about how it most likely formed in the first place. As the largest planet in our solar system, scientists believe Jupiter was the first planet to coalesce and as such, it contains much of the original material of the disk the rest of the planets formed from. Juno carries instruments aboard that will enable scientists to probe Jupiter's interior structure, its atmosphere, and its magnetic field. Would you believe we still don't know what Jupiter's core is like? Or if it even has one at all!
This Week in God, 7.2.16
First up from the God Machine this week is a look at Pope Francis finding a brand new way to annoy social conservatives who are offended by the more progressive aspects of his ideology.
Pope Francis said on Sunday that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from homosexuals for the way they had treated them.Speaking to reporters aboard the plane taking him back to Rome from Armenia, he also said the Church should ask forgiveness for the way it has treated women, for turning a blind eye to child labor and for "blessing so many weapons" in the past.
The pope is known for having frank and lengthy conversations with journalists traveling with him, and that was apparently a doozy. One reporter, for example, noted the recent massacre in Orlando, leading Francis to stress his belief that gay people "should not be discriminated against. They should be respected, accompanied pastorally."
He went on to say, "I think that the Church not only should apologize ... to a gay person whom it offended but it must also apologize to the poor as well, to the women who have been exploited, to children who have been exploited by (being forced to) work. It must apologize for having blessed so many weapons."
A day later, Bill Donohue, the president of a conservative group called the Catholic League, and himself a fierce critic of the LGBT community, insisted that the pope's comments had been misconstrued.
"If a Catholic or Protestant or Jew or Muslim has offended a gay person, or anybody, of course they should apologize," Donohue told CNN on Monday. "But the idea of a blanket apology because you are a member of some demographic group, I mean, I don't know what church teaching is it that you have a problem with that maybe the church should apologize for?"
Asked if he'd apologize for his repeated criticism of LGBT Americans, Donohue responded, "No. As a matter of fact, I want an apology from gays."
Also from the God Machine this week:
Citations for the July 1, 2016 TRMS
Tonight's guests:
- Asif Islam, planning editor at the Dhaka Tribune
- Ayman Mohyeldin, NBC News Foreign Correspondent
- Malcolm Nance, a former U.S. counterterrorism and intelligence officer and author of "Defeating ISIS"
- Jonathan Capehart, OPinoin writer for the Washington Post
- Karent Tumulty, national political correspondent for The Washington Post
Tonight's links:
Friday's Mini-Report, 7.1.16
Today's edition of quick hits:
* An ongoing crisis in Bangladesh: "Attackers stormed a restaurant Friday night in Bangladesh's capital, taking about 40 people within the diplomatic enclave hostage and exchanging gunfire with police, killing four security personnel, officials said."
* An accounting on drones: "The Obama administration disclosed its long-awaited estimate Friday that between 64 and 116 noncombatants were killed in 473 counter terrorist airstrikes since January 2009, but officials pointedly declined to dispute much higher estimates of civilian casualties from outside groups."
* Mississippi: "A federal judge struck down Mississippi's controversial 'religious freedom' law late Thursday, hours before it was slated to take effect. If allowed to go forward, the law -- known as House Bill 1523 -- would have made it easier for individuals, organizations and private associations to deny services based on religious objections to one of three things: same-sex marriage, transgender rights and even extramarital sexual relationships."
* Florida: "A federal judge late Thursday night blocked parts of Florida's controversial abortion law within hours of its going into effect."
* On a related note: "Less than a week after the Supreme Court's major abortion ruling in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, related restrictions across the country began falling like dominoes."
* California: "Gov. Jerry Brown this morning took swift action on a sweeping package of bills designed to keep the state's residents safer from deadly gun violence, signing a series of new restrictions on firearms owners into law while vetoing others."
* The latest mass-shooting was in Nevada: "A good Samaritan could not save a Las Vegas woman screaming for help as her gun-wielding estranged husband chased her from their home to two drug store parking lots in a chaotic murder-suicide that left a family of five dead, authorities said Thursday. The man gunned down his wife outside a business and killed their children, ages 9 to 15, at their apartment before shooting himself at the residence, police said."
Sarah Palin takes aim at 'RAT' (or 'Republicans Against Trump')
In one of her more infamous television appearances, former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) was asked for her take on the Bush Doctrine. At the time, the Republican didn't know what that meant -- Palin suggested at the time that "doctrine" and "worldview" are synonymous.
Eight years later, however, Politico reports that the Alaskan has a distinctly Bush-like message for Donald Trump's Republican skeptics: "You're either with us or you're against us."
"That gang, they call themselves Never hashtag, whatever, I just call 'em Republicans Against Trump, or RAT for short," the former governor of Alaska told attendees of the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, ahead of Trump's address. [...]"[T]he 'splodey heads keep 'sploding over this movement because it seems so obvious," she said. "[Colorado Republican Senate candidate] Darryl [Glenn] wins, Trump wins, America will win because voters are so sick and tired of being betrayed."
She added, in reference to Trump's GOP critics, "At such a time as this, you cannot be lukewarm. We're going to take our country back, and you are either with us or against us."
Palin went on to complain that Democrats want to give Americans "free stuff" -- a familiar, albeit ridiculous, phrase -- and that the Obama administration is responsible for "trillion-dollar deficits," which isn't even remotely accurate.
But watching the former vice presidential nominee today -- thanks again, John McCain -- we were reminded anew about the kind of political party that would nominate Donald Trump for the nation's highest elected office.
Trump's baffled: 'Why am I not doing better in the polls?'
Last weekend, Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's campaign chairman, appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" and expressed nothing but confidence about the state of the race. Chuck Todd noted recent polling showing Hillary Clinton leading and asked Manafort whether he'd concede that his candidate was trailing. "No," he replied, adding, "[W]e're confident that we are not behind the Clinton campaign."
Obviously, the polling evidence is readily accessible, but more to the point, Manafort doesn't appear to have convinced his boss. Politico had this report yesterday on Trump's appearance on Mike Gallagher's conservative talk-radio show.
"Well, you know, I really feel it, Mike. I go to Ohio, we were there two days ago, and Pennsylvania and near Pittsburgh and we -- I was in West Virginia, the crowds are massive. And you know, I walked out of one, and I said, 'I don't see how I'm not leading,'" Trump said, invoking the size of his crowds."We have thousands of people standing outside trying to get in, and they're great people and they have such spirit for the country and love for the country, and I'm saying, you know, 'Why am I not doing better in the polls?'"
First, the fact that Trump is even asking the question is notable, given the campaign's pretense that Trump is doing just fine in the polls. "I don't see how I'm not leading" is the sort of thing a candidate says when he knows that he's ... not leading.
Second, and more important, is the fact that the first-time candidate doesn't seem to understand the difference between having fans show up at public events and actually winning at the national and statewide level. Bernie Sanders also saw "massive" crowds, and as impressive as that was, the senator still came up short in the race for the Democratic nomination.
Friday's Campaign Round-Up, 7.1.16
Today's installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* While Vice President Biden said Bernie Sanders is "going to endorse" Hillary Clinton one of these days, the senator told MSNBC's Chris Hayes that he's not ready to do so.
* Donald Trump's campaign hired a new digital director on Tuesday. The campaign then parted ways with its new digital director yesterday.
* On a related note, Trump, who used to brag about not having a pollster, is getting ready to hire several new pollsters, and "will now have five polling firms working for him."
* In New York, where Donald Trump expects to compete, a new Siena poll shows Clinton with a huge advantage, 54% to 31%.
* Trump complained yesterday that he has, in fact, "forgiven my $50 million loan to my campaign," adding that this is now a "done deal." There's still no documentation to prove that, and his campaign hasn't substantiated the claim.
* Mitt Romney, for reasons that aren't altogether clear, continues to tell public audiences that his family is still pressuring him to run for president.
* A Loras Poll in Iowa shows Clinton leading Trump in the Hawkeye State, 48% to 34%.
* On a related note, the same poll found incumbent Sen. Chuck Grassley (R) with a narrow, one-point lead over Patty Judge (D), 45.8% to 44.5%. Most recent polling shows Grassley with a larger advantage.
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