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On her Monday night broadcast, Rachel Maddow opened with what she called a Presidents’ Day “present” for history lovers: a federal judge ordering the Trump administration to restore references to slavery at the President’s House site in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park. Maddow walked viewers through the fraught history of the long-lost home where George Washington and John Adams once lived, "— while Adams was not a slaveholder, George Washington was," said Maddow. She then blasted Trump’s effort to scrub that truth from public view. In a stinging ruling that invoked George Orwell's 1984, a George W. Bush appointed judge declared the government cannot, “assemble and disassemble historic truths” at will. The injunction forces the administration to put the slavery exhibits back, delivering what Maddow gleefully framed as a court-ordered restoration of reality.

Last year, President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address since retaking the White House was met with vocal opposition from Democratic lawmakers, but next week on Tuesday, Democrats have a new plan to push back against the president with an unprecedented “break with tradition,” The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Last March, Democratic lawmakers were seen sporting signs with labels like “False” and “Save Medicaid” to protest Trump’s first State of the Union since retaking office, and Rep. Al Green (D-TX) was ejected from the chamber after interrupting the president’s address.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) tried to score points Monday by blasting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) ahead of a planned trip to Nashville, but instead got scorched in return. Blackburn, who’s running for governor, accused Newsom of turning California into “the most unaffordable [state] in America” and warned Tennesseans against his radical leftist policies. Newsom shot back, calling out Tennessee’s violent crime rate and highlighting California’s higher incomes, longer life expectancy and overall quality of life. “Time to turn Tennessee blue,” he added. The clash comes as Newsom ramps up his national profile, openly criticizing Trump abroad. "Donald Trump is temporary. He'll be gone in three years," Newsom said at a summit over climate policy in the U.K., adding that California will be "stable and reliable." Newsom is visiting Tennessee to meet with former Californians who have moved there.

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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may have been disbanded months ago, but some of the staffers who were on board by billionaire Elon Musk to make good on his promise to dramatically slash government spending are reportedly still hard at work at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

According to Politico’s Sophia Cai, the “task of overhauling the federal workforce continues" despite reports the fact that DOGE came up woefully short of its goals, with the Wall Street Journal reporting it had a negligible impact.

Federal judges are losing patience with the Trump administration as they lock up pregnant and nursing women as part of their immigration sweeps — and refuse to be pinned down on whether or not they've changed a federal policy that limits this.

According to Politico, "courts are being confronted with harrowing stories about women being separated from their nursing infants or housed in cramped and ill-equipped ICE facilities while pregnant, in conditions that threaten their health and have, in some cases, been followed by miscarriages. That crystallized over the weekend in Massachusetts, when Djeniffer Benvinda Semedo, a Cape Verdean national who is six months pregnant, was rushed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for emergency care. The woman claimed that ICE held her in a temporary holding facility for three days, exacerbating her medical distress."

President Donald Trump's alleged vengeance campaign against his political enemies has thus far flopped as his at times under-qualified loyalists fail to secure indictments, and new reports are emerging about the latest fiasco.

Federal prosecutors failed to persuade a single grand jury member that there was probable cause to indict six Democratic lawmakers who produced a video reminding military service members they were duty-bound to disobey unlawful orders, and The New Republic's Greg Sargent reported that even prosecutors weren't sure what law they might have broken.

A “workout” video posted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to X late Tuesday was greeted by gales of laughter and no small measure of disgust and bafflement on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday morning.

With no introduction, the video of the controversial RFK Jr. and aging rocker Kid Rock taking off their shirts and exercising, with Rock’s “Bawitdaba” from 1999 as a soundtrack, was shown, before the “Morning Joe" producers cut to the panel, most of whom were laughing.

CNN's Audie Cornish challenged a conservative political operative to address whether President Donald Trump's administration was imposing right-wing ideology on the media.

Panelists on "CNN This Morning" discussed late night-talk show host Stephen Colbert's feud with his own network CBS, which he claimed had barred him from airing an interview with Democratic Texas senate hopeful James Talarico because network lawyers had warned him it went against federal "equal time" rules, and conservative activist Terry Schilling downplayed the move.