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...

UPDATED ICE is referring hundreds of immigrant children to federal shelters from the US interior, not from the border. Among them are parents separated from their children, an issue raised at a Senate hearing today: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

"What they did wasn’t warranted. I know for an absolute fact I did nothing wrong." George Retes, a U.S. citizen and Army veteran swept up in an ICE raid, spoke with Conor Friedersdorf: https://theatln.tc/70IO4a9F 📸: Carlos Jaramillo for The Atlantic

The early picture of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin is complicating many assumptions, @shaneharris, @isaacstanbecker, and @vmsalama report. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

NEW: Kavanaugh's opinion on racial profiling this week made street-level ICE checks sound like a breeze. But the agency hasn't set clear guidelines for US citizens and others with legal status who want to quickly end an encounter with an officer www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Kamala Harris in The Atlantic today, on how Biden treated her—and the “recklessness” of those who didn’t tell him he should drop out

Trump has defunded successful community-violence-intervention programs in favor of a crime-fighting philosophy that seems drawn from the 1980s, when no-tolerance policies helped quadruple the nation’s incarcerated population, @ToluseO reports: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The maximum-security penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, is the latest entry in Donald Trump’s casting call for a fearsome prison of his own, Nick Miroff reports.

NEW: DHS has opened an ICE detention center at Louisiana's Angola state prison, the latest stop in Trump search for a scary lockup www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Homeland Security has now put up its new final rule meant to allow USCIS — the agency typically evaluating immigration applications and granting benefits — to now have armed special agents as well

With this week's air strike in the Caribbean, Trump has pushed the military further outside its traditional mission and into a realm once reserved for law enforcement, @nancyayoussef + @Missy Ryan + @JonLemire + @shaneharris report: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

RIP Peter Spring, who found solace and redemption in New Orleans after Katrina, through music and pure kindness. Will always treasure working on this with you @jmooallem.bsky.social

NEW: I went to an ICE job fair in Texas this week and spoke to 15 applicants. Here's snapshot of who is joining Trump's deportation force, and why they're signing up: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE, spending aggressively and taking an even more confrontational approach with critics and opponents, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. https://theatln.tc/OH59S1s1

Flush with cash and soaring with hubris, Trump appointees are supersizing ICE, spending aggressively and taking an even more confrontational approach with critics and opponents, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

NEW: Trump officials are showing off their new ICE billions with a flashy new phase of the mass deportation campaign, inviting recruits to reverse US "cultural decline" and fast-tracking academy training to more than double the number of officers on US streets www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

How Laura Loomer "the proud, defiant, extremist troll," became one of the most influential public figures in Trump's America. Brilliant work and a story for our times, from @michaelscherer.bsky.social @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Newly released figures show that over the past three months, CBP officials have been searching more phones and other devices than ever before www.wired.com/story/phone-...

After rushing to shut down the government-funded media outlets she was tapped to lead, Kari Lake is now trying to force many of her own employees -- journalists on J-1 visas -- out of the country, Toluse Olorunnipa reports @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I know it's true, and yet it's staggering to see this information compiled in one list. My (now former) Washington Post colleagues who have left since November 1. Doesn't include a few of us who left in October. There are nearly 100 names here. Generations of talent. www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

Seems normal and fine www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration tell Gisela Salim-Peyer that they were tortured during their months inside El Salvador’s megaprison.

The opinion from Xinis "took on the now familiar tone of a judge angered and exasperated by what she called the Trump administration’s “troubling history” of disregarding court orders, “defiance and foot-dragging” and “persistent lack of transparency.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Gregory Bovino is in charge of Trump’s immigration crackdown in L.A. The performative qualities that made him a sometimes-mocked figure within CBP are the same ones that landed him a starring role in the deportation campaign, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

NEW: our profile of Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official running the immigration raids on the streets of Los Angeles, and what his role portends for next phase of Trump's propaganda-driven deportation campaign @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Sligo Creek in Silver Spring near Colesville Rd. Never seen it this high.