Gregory Bovino is back in Chicago area, a video from WalMart in Cicero posted to social media shows

EXCLUSIVE: Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

DEA chief Terry Cole says price of cocaine in Puerto Rico and the DR is up as a result of boat strikes and emerging threat is Hells Angels biker gangs trafficking fentanyl from Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFBt...

NEW: Hegseth risked endangering troops with his Signal messages about planned air strikes in Yemen, the Pentagon's Inspector General has concluded. Reporting via @shaneharris @nancyayoussef Missy Ryan @vmsalama and @S_Fitzpatrick www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The Trump administration is spending millions to entice people to leave the country. So far, about 35,000 people have taken up the offer—at a cost of $7,500 per self-deportee, Nick Miroff reports.

Venezuela agrees to deportation flight scheduled for tomorrow.

SCOOP: Despite a $200M ad campaign, only about 35k have signed up to “self-deport” via CBP Home so far. DHS claims more than 1.6 million have left since Trump took office, but the department is treating demographic estimates as enforcement data www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Trump administration’s military strikes off South America may be undercutting the U.S.’s long-standing campaign against more powerful drug cartels in Colombia and Mexico, experts tell Missy Ryan and Marie-Rose Sheinerman.

Exclusive: Surrendering land to Russia to end the war is off-limits, Zelensky’s chief negotiator tells Simon Shuster. “As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory.”

Chilling quote re vaccines from pediatrician Paul Offit in this RFK profile @michaelscherer.bsky.social: “I don’t think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost."

No response yet from DOJ on this but Abrego’s attorneys have already flagged it for Judge Xinis. See @rparloff.bsky.social ticktock of the hearing below

Costa Rica says it would accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting U.S. court statements SCOOP via @mariasacchetti.bsky.social

Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine envisages a DMZ like the one that divides the Korean peninsula, Simon Shuster and Jonathan Lemire report. “It’s like the world is shattering around us,” one diplomat told them after hearing the details.

This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents

NEW a cache of emails from the longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell shows her prison conditions improving dramatically as a crisis grew for Trump, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com

NEW Every State is a Border Patrol State — why the Trump admin wants border agents to take over the mass deportation campaign and deliver the arrest numbers ICE has missed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to Atlantic staff writer @nickmiroff.bsky.social about what masking means for public trust in law enforcement. ❓Do you think it’s ever justifiable for federal agents or law enforcement officers to wear face coverings? 📻 Listen:

In recent months, the Justice Department has filed charges under 18 USC 111 against more than a hundred immigrants, anti-ICE protestors, and random passers-by—accusing them of "assaulting, resisting, or impeding" federal officers

In the trial of the Sandwich Guy, 12 D.C. residents found themselves trying to do their jobs as fairly and impartially as possible. Ashley Parker spoke with one of the jurors on how the group came to its decision:

I interviewed Greg Bovino, the man empowered to oversee Pres. Trump's immigration crackdown: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Veteran ICE officials @nickmiroff.bsky.social spoke with view the use of masks as an unquestionably negative development. But it’s not going away anytime soon, Miroff reports: https://theatln.tc/acMM0axK

Critics couldn’t fathom why Democrats would abandon a seemingly winning hand in the government shutdown, but “this is how the government shutdown was always going to end,” Russell Berman and Jonathan Lemire report.

Most of Trump’s deportation campaign is inaccessible because after arrests are made, it is moving quickly, far from public view. For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about @caitlindickerson.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

NEW @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

As Trump’s deportation campaign continues, thousands of detainees with no criminal record are being detained. But “for every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about,” Caitlin Dickerson reports.

I've been an editor for more than three decades. Of the thousands of pieces I've worked on during that time, this one is among the most astonishing. Please read. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

NEW New York City—a Democratic stronghold that Donald Trump called home for more than seven decades—has so far largely been spared the president’s wrath. With Zohran Mamdani's victory tonight, that's about to change, @jonlemire.bsky.social writes www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Rahm Emanuel has been a key player in nearly every major victory, defeat, negotiation, controversy, and innovation of the modern Democratic Party. In 2028, is he what Democrats need—or exactly whom they want to leave behind? @ashleyrparker.bsky.social reports:

A growing list of senior Trump political appointees—at least six by our count—are now living in military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest, via @michaelscherer.bsky.social @ashleyrparker.bsky.social Missy Ryan www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Bovino un-grounded

Extremely important reporting from @dgraham.bsky.social in The Atlantic’s latest cover story. (So important that we published it ahead of schedule.) Must-read, out today: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Reuters tracked one of the tankers in a "dark fleet" smuggling diesel into Mexico, following a paper trail that led through U.S. businesses and one of the world's deadliest drug cartels. This is a heck of a story. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Trump is trying to pick winners in the shutdown and protect "Republican programs" from the damage. It's not working, @theatlantic.com's Toluse Olorunnipa reports www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

NEW: In an administration that frequently invokes Christian ideas in government work, Pete Hegseth has gone further than anyone else. Missy Ryan reports on Hegseth’s swerve from Pentagon precedent when it comes to faith and duty. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Federal agents are staging a massive operation downtown near Canal street. Show of force with reportedly dozens of agents from agencies including ICE, FBI, IRS, DEA, etx

More than a third of the recruits at ICE's training academy are failing the personal-fitness test, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told Miroff.

SCOOP: more than a third of new recruits at the ICE training academy have failed the personal fitness test -- so many that the agency has had to start pre-screening new hires to weed out what one official called "athletically allergic candidates" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Zelensky went to Washington thinking he was getting Tomahawks. But he was undercut by Putin’s surprise call and summit invitation Zelensky hoped to build on momentum from Gaza deal to push for an Ukraine ceasefire. But once again he got little from Trump www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

What we're reading: @nickmiroff.bsky.social asks, “Can a deep-blue city fend off Trump’s ICE crackdown?” Read his dispatch from Chicago:

NEW of all the deep-blue sanctuary cities in America, Chicago is perhaps the biggest trophy for Trump's ICE crackdown. I spent last week with volunteer brigades and officials trying to fend off federal agents, and where everyone worries about escalating violence www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

NEW: John Bolton has plenty of evidence to argue he is being singled out for prosecution because he is a major Trump critic. But that doesn’t make the charges against him baseless, @shaneharris.bsky.social writes. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

@nickmiroff.bsky.social from Chicago: “I realized that no one from the federal government had gone to the building after the raid to check on the elderly Americans who lived there, to see if any of them needed help, or to apologize for handcuffing them in the middle of the night.”

NEW of all the deep-blue sanctuary cities in America, Chicago is perhaps the biggest trophy for Trump's ICE crackdown. I spent last week with volunteer brigades and officials trying to fend off federal agents, and where everyone worries about escalating violence www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

NEW: The Trump administration is portraying its boat-bombing campaign in the Caribbean as an anti-drug mission. The evidence suggests it's about a lot more, report @nancyayoussef, @giselasalimp and @JonLemire www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Social media clips of ICE arrests "have kept up the appearance of an ever-expanding campaign," Nick Miroff writes. But "ICE’s own data show that the agency’s buildup stalled over the summer":

NEW: ICE got $$$ in the BBB, but its own data show Trump crackdown lost momentum over the summer despite social media videos from Chicago, DC etc. Corey Lewandowski told me private detention companies tried to take advantage of DHS, ICE expansion back on track www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

New from the front lines of Portlandia, by The Atlantic's @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

The U.S. military’s openness to the press was never a favor to journalists, but an obligation to a country that asks its sons and daughters to volunteer for service. The Defense Department's new media policy puts that in jeopardy, Nancy Youssef writes. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

NEW: there aren’t “big bags of fentanyl” on the boats Trump is blowing up at sea www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...