New from @msnbc.com: Pentagon officials are expected to brief House Armed Services Committee on Thursday about US military strikes against alleged drug boats, five lawmakers told us. Officials expected to brief include legal counsel to Joint Chiefs, officers overseeing special operations

A group of Senate Dems led by @warren.senate.gov want answers from the nonprofit entity managing $$ from big companies funding Trump’s $300M ballroom Is the entity responsible “facilitating corrupt access to and favor-seeking from President Trump” they write www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

A veteran and federal worker was fired amid the government shutdown. @lbarronlopez.bsky.social interviews Doug Jackson who says: “This does feel like a betrayal.” FULL INTERVIEW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuY2...

I asked Tom Homan as he walked past reporters on White House North Lawn: “Did you take the $50k cash in a bag?” Homan: “Give me a break”

Furloughed SBA employees were sent similar email, suggesting they blame Dems in their out-of-office reply, per an email obtained by MSNBC “I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill…” SBA advised employees to say

In 2016, when Trump made racist comments that Judge Gonzalo Curiel couldn’t do his job because of his Mexican heritage, then Speaker Paul Ryan called it “the textbook definition of a racist comment” GOP today when President Trump posts racist AI video of a sombrero on Hakeem Jeffries

New w/ @alivitali.bsky.social: SSA, SBA, HHS, and other fed employees all got same message from their agencies blaming Democrats for looming shutdown: "..Any lapse in appropriations forced by Congressional Democrats.." "Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution..."

New, and a big deal: Based on updated data and changes made by the Trump administration, we now estimate that ACA enrollees would see their out-of-pocket premiums increase by 114% if enhanced premium tax credits are allowed to expire. www.kff.org/affordable-c...

BREAKING: Oregon sues Trump over plan to deploy National Guard @lbarronlopez.bsky.social has the latest www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Joining 1A on WAMU at 10:20am ET to talk about this story, ongoing ICE operations in DC and conditions in detention facilities across the country Tune in here: the1a.org/talk-1a/

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Trump's deportations divert FBI agents off child predator cases @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

NEW: FBI Director Patel was at Rao’s the night of posts about a person in custody in Charlie Kirk’s shooting www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

One teen is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in Colorado, injuring two before shooting himself

Three teens have been hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3VK0r3I

by my count, this makes seven confirmed no true bills from grand juries, plus three other felony cases dismissed (two gun cases, one assault of a federal officer), plus two cases downgraded from felony assault on federal officers to misdemeanor

New: ICE notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers today that the Trump admin now plans to deport him to Eswatini, Africa, according to an email ICE sent to Abrego’s counsel that MSNBC obtained. ICE says Abrego’s fear claim that he’d be persecuted and tortured in Uganda “is hard to take seriously”

BREAKING: DC's elected attorney general is suing Trump over the National Guard takeover: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@lbarronlopez.bsky.social shares her new reporting on the humanitarian crisis inside a Virginia ICE field office following Trump's DC federal takeover "This takeover has left them feeling as though they don't really have a home anymore"

“Chantilly has become this black box where people are being sent after they are being arrested in the streets of D.C. It is an office; it is not intended to detain people”

NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com - 1 meal a day = a single burrito - some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete - Some held as long as 7 days www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

Trump can send the National Guard any place he wants, say retired military “It’s absolutely legal…that’s the thing that’s very disturbing, a reasonable president has never done this,” said Randy Manner, former acting vice chief of NGB. “It doesn’t make it right. It makes it legal”

News: Kilmar Abrego Garcia's counsel filed a motion to reopen his immigration case in Baltimore today, per copy obtained by @msnbc.com Morion states: When Trump admin brought Abrego back in June, he “was paroled back into the United States following his unlawful removal to El Salvador”

DHS notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers Friday that the Trump admin may deport Abrego “to Uganda no earlier than 72 hours from now,” according to emails sent by DHS to Abrego’s counsel and obtained by @msnbc.com

SCOOP The White House said EJ Antoni—Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics—went to the Capitol on Jan 6th after seeing it on the news But a now-deleted Twitter account bearing his name shows someone deeply enmeshed in far-right election conspiracies www.wired.com/story/twitte...

NEW: Trump Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee was bystander outside Capitol on Jan. 6, White House says www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

President Trump's immigration policies are now pushing an already-strained court system to its limits. MSNBC White House Correspondent @lbarronlopez.bsky.social joins @anacabrera.bsky.social to report how the surge in ICE arrests is sending the system to the brink. www.msnbc.com/ana-cabrera-...

My first piece for MSNBC: Since taking office, President Trump has systematically chipped away at immigration courts. Fired immigration judges, immigration attorneys warn the court system is facing “total eradication,” “collapse.” “It’s never been like this before.” www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

A look at life for small group of refugees allowed in U.S. since Trump took office thank you, @lbarronlopez.bsky.social for all your PBS reporting! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Our @pbsnews.org conversation with Greg Rosen, who helped lead the massive Jan 6th criminal prosecution. He says Trump’s mass pardons … and the DOJ firings of officials who worked on the investigation send a “dangerous message” @lbarronlopez.bsky.social reports www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

A CBO analysis finds far deeper Medicaid cuts in the GOP budget bill than previous versions: 11.8M would become uninsured in the next decade & more than $1T in Medicaid cuts Our @pbsnews.org conversation @lbarronlopez.bsky.social with @larrylevitt.bsky.social @kff.org www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

With the big bill headed to the House, here’s a look at how many people could be affected by Medicaid changes & why claims of fraud and waste don’t reflect the real numbers of who will lose coverage. @larrylevitt.bsky.social with @lbarronlopez.bsky.social @pbsnews.org www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Reporter: “What do you think the future of DOGE will be and who is exactly in charge?” Former DOGE staffer: “I have no idea…To be honest, even when I was there, it was unclear who was in charge.” #WITAOD

"To be honest, even when I was there, it was unclear who was in charge" of the Department of Government Efficiency, former DOGE staffer Sahil Lavingia tells @lbarronlopez.bsky.social.

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

New from me, guesting on @brianbeutler.bsky.social's Off Message: RFK Jr. and Trump officials are embracing strategic ambiguity to balance anti-vaccine propaganda with responsible-sounding public health policy. That balance doesn't exist. open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

EXCLUSIVE: In their first broadcast interview since his release from ICE detention, Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri and his wife, Mapheze Saleh, spoke to @lbarronlopez.bsky.social about Khan Suri's release after nearly two months in a detention facility in Texas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4X...

An in depth look at Trump Inc and the billions of dollars that has flowed to the Trump family. And that was before “The Plane” … @pbsnews.org @lbarronlopez.bsky.social @schmitzmedia.bsky.social @SchmitzMedia t.co/OYaZgcMOyo

New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

"Let's start with—at Signalgate. Trump was really mad with Mike Waltz at that moment, but he didn't want to succumb to the media pressure," said @alexward.bsky.social. "And so he waited and waited and waited until a moment where he could claim some sort of strength, some sort of change."

Is there any amount of financial chaos that would convince President Trump to reverse course? "He's in the middle of a negotiating process right now with the world, and I think he's trying to project a very strong negotiating position," said @michaelscherer.bsky.social.

The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term have seen pushback from federal judges across the country on his deportation agenda.

Since April 1st, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has spent more than $500,000 on YouTube ads that threaten undocumented migrants with deportation and a ban on reentry. www.wired.com/story/dhs-yo...

AP is banned by Trump from WH pool, while this is happening:

I’ve personally viewed correspondence from a trade publication covering Washington warning that reporters are now ordered not to write the words “Musk” or “DOGE” & that the order is robbing stories of facts & context. Beyond Columbia & Paul Weiss it’s happening in quiet ways few even know about.

WH says they “will fight back” against judge order reinstating fired fed workers But at least 1 agency isn’t on same page. Energy Dept sent memo: "hereby rescinding the Notification of Termination During Probationary Trial Period" that workers received on Feb 13/14, per copy @pbsnews.org obtained

NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to offer reinstatement to thousands of fired probationary employees at the Departments of Defense, Treasury, Agriculture, Energy, Interior and Veterans Affairs. Judge Alsup is also demanding sworn testimony from a senior OPM official.