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Housekeeping Note, 10.6.22

I’ll be away from my desk today, but I plan to return to a normal publishing schedule on Friday, October 7.

By Steve Benen

I’ll be away from my desk today, but I plan to return to a normal publishing schedule on Friday, October 7.

Steve Benen

Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "Ministry of Truth: Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past."

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