My own little tin-foil bonnet:

[annabanana]

I want Rachel Maddow to have a security detail, and I want someone watching her food. She has been fearless in covering the malfeasances of this maladministration and has the audience to make them genuinely uncomfortable.

I fear that tRumps Russkie buddies might endeavor to "do him a large".

Get Well Soon Rachel, and watch your back.

[FM123]

1. Not even joking anymore

Whenever journalists get too close to exposing the truth, sometimes they become targets themselves. I think that three men went "missing" in China looking into Ivanka's
Factory over there?

[justiceischeap]

3. Rachel suffers from cyclical depression

And she's said it can really effect her on-air performance. That could be why she's out at the moment. Just a guess.

[Mrs. Overall]

4. She tried to do her show last Thursday and had a fever and was terribly congested...

She barely made it through the hour.