NEW Trump has burned through much of his immigration political capital before ICE could scale up its mass deportation tools. Now he wants a “softer” tune to stop the agency from becoming a pariah, and to shift attention from Minneapolis to his border record www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“We had the best writers in the country and did more with less, and we knew it with a swagger.” Sally Jenkins pays tribute to The Washington Post’s Sports section:

I spent 18 years at The Washington Post. Among the reporters who lost jobs today were dear colleagues who risked their lives to get the story, and who worked tirelessly to get the story right. We're all worse off without them. Heartbreaking to see this great institution so cheapened and diminished.

"The Post is all of our “we”—the journalists fighting for it, the ones competing against it, those of us in the diaspora, and especially the community that counts on it and the nation that turns to it." Thank you @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

It takes all of us to make The Washington Post. Every section works together to create this authoritative, entertaining, worldwide news report. So, Jeff Bezos, #SaveThePost.

“Police in Minnesota have said they support the removal of violent criminals from the community. But the federal govt’s actions have soured relations in a way that, for some, makes future coordination on immigration enforcement unlikely” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... via @toluseo.bsky.social

"A five-alarm fire": Election officials are unnerved by the federal government’s raid on Fulton County election offices, with some comparing it to an occupation, @sfifz787.bsky.social @yvonnewingett.bsky.social report. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Masterful profile of Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara, and a city under siege by @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Extremist groups such as the Proud Boys have been oddly quiet during Trump’s nationwide ICE operations, Ali Breland reports. “We’ve kind of gotten what we want, right?” Enrique Tarrio, the group’s leader, told Breland.

SCOOP: The war within DHS is not going away. Noem raised concerns Monday to POTUS about pace of wall construction under CBP’s Rodney Scott. Scott sent a memo to his agency saying he was in charge. DHS GC rescinded it Wednesday. W @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

NEW: “I mean, is this a Fort Sumter?” Tim Walz asked @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social today. “It’s a physical assault,” Walz told him. “It’s an armed force that’s assaulting, that’s killing my constituents, my citizens.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost

DHS is celebrating an ICE hiring spree that officials say achieved a “120% Manpower Increase.” But @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports that most of those new hires are not ready to be deployed. theatln.tc/Iggj1gnq

NEW: Training for new deportation officers at the ICE academy has been cut to 42 days. Not much time to practice de-escalation tactics www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Betting money puts the odds of constitutional collapse in the United States at about one in 25. Armed with AI doomsday preppers have begun to game out what happens if Trump seeks a third term. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"The outrageous seizure" of @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's records "chills speech, cripples reporting, and inflicts irreparable harm." Anything less than immediate return "would license future newsroom raids and normalize censorship by search warrant" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NEW “Trump Derangement Syndrome, in many ways, has been replaced by Trump Exhaustion Syndrome: The populace notes the latest indignity, and then returns to business as usual," @ashleyrparker.bsky.social writes of the president's first year back in office www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

After 9/11, George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security to prevent future terror strikes. @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports on how DHS shifted from defending the country against foreign terrorists to deploying agents on American streets:

NEW Calls to ‘Abolish ICE’ are back, and some Democrats don’t like it, via @elainegodfrey.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Terrorism is such a powerful label, @tomwarrickac.bsky.social told me. “Applying that to Renee Good just defies the average American’s understanding of what that term ought to mean.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

NEW: How the Department of Homeland Security, founded to prevent another 9/11 terrorist attack, has turned into the partisan political tool its critics always feared www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“We have done so much for America”: Denmark fought alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now, as Trump eyes Greenland, the families of fallen soldiers have a message for him. Don’t miss this one from @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Madison Sheahan, the 28-year-old former political aide to Kristi Noem who was installed as ICE deputy director in March, is stepping down, per memo to staff. Sheahan is preparing a run for Congress in Ohio, two current officials told me.

Hannah Natanson is an extraordinary reporter, writer and human being. If you haven't read her story from December about the work she's been doing, you should. Sharing with a gift link: wapo.st/4b0PjIG

New polls show support for ICE sinking even lower after Good's killing. A long-running problem for the agency, well known to veteran officials, is that most Americans tend to recoil when they see what street-level immigration enforcement actually looks like www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump has been emboldened Despite his low poll numbers, the president and his advisers believe that the Venezuela strike reignited his political momentum - and underscored the lack of concrete limits on his ability to wield power at home and abroad www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

TOMORROW: Webcast w/ our Doris Meissner, Muzaffar Chishti, @colleenputzlkav.bsky.social & @kathleenbush.bsky.social, along with @nickmiroff.bsky.social of @theatlantic.com, to assess the immigration actions taken during the 1st year of the 2nd Trump term bit.ly/Trump2firstyr

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to journalists @nickmiroff.bsky.social and @msepic.bsky.social and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins about what the fatal shooting of Renee Good might mean for the future of ICE. ❓What questions do you have about the president's immigration agenda? 📻 Listen:

ICE officer Ross would have gone to the hospital for a mandatory blood test after shooting Renee Good, in addition to whatever treatment he needed. After our story published Friday, one ICE veteran told me about another reason officers tend to seek medical care. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

NEW On the streets of blue cities like Minneapolis that the front lines of resistance to Trump & his deportation campaign, protesters face jumpy feds and a volatile mix of vehicles, guns, cell phone cameras and masks www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis by an ICE officer appears destined to aggravate the nation’s already-raw divisions over immigration enforcement, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

Our profile on The Wrath of Stephen Miller—the man who is the pulsing human id of a president who is already almost pure id. W the great(s) @michaelscherer.bsky.social + @nickmiroff.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The deadly shooting in Minneapolis by an ICE officer appears destined to aggravate the nation’s already-raw divisions over immigration enforcement, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

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

Stephen Miller is now acting as an accelerant for the president’s most incendiary impulses and shaping the lives of individual Americans in nearly every realm, @AshleyRParker, Michael Scherer and @nickmiroff.bsky.social report.

If the Jan 6 anniversary fills you with disgust, and you'd rather not think about it, at least take a few mins to read this one from @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

NEW @theatlantic.com how Trump could take Greenland—and end NATO. Must-read reporting from @shaneharris.bsky.social + @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social + @jonlemire.bsky.social theatlantic.com/national-sec...

EXCLUSIVE: In an interview with @michaelscherer, Donald Trump threatened Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, with a fate worse than Maduro’s; defended regime change in the country; and expressed renewed interest in the U.S. seizing Greenland. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Trump wants to hit cartel targets in Mexico, and the success of the Maduro capture puts more pressure on Sheinbaum to adjust her red lines www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Mexico is doing everything it can to pacify President Trump and maintain its sovereignty—but one U.S. strike against cartels could change all that, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

Mexico is doing everything it can to pacify President Trump and maintain its sovereignty—but one U.S. strike against cartels could change all that, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

Being a GOP member of Congress in the Trump era is pretty miserable, @elainejgodfrey and @russellberman report www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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.