NEW: Trump is tired of the Iran war, but Iran is not, @jonlemire.bsky.social reports:

For Adam Silver, who leads a business valued at roughly $200 billion, media engagements are rare. Tim Alberta convinced the bubble-wrapped NBA commissioner to sit down with him as the league entered a moment of institutional crisis:

In an Ohio Republican primary, former ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan’s candidacy will test how much the mass-deportation message can still drive GOP voters to the polls when Trump’s name isn’t on the ballot, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.

NEW Security at the correspondents’ dinner was largely successful—but the attack revealed vulnerabilities that can no longer be ignored, @shaneharris.bsky.social argues: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Thomas Massie is unafraid of Donald Trump, and the Kentucky Republican thinks he can embolden more people in his party to stand up to the president—if he can get reelected, @russellberman.bsky.social reports.

Montana Democrats thought an independent could help them take back the Senate—then their own party started fighting back, @michaelscherer.bsky.social reports.

This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Viktor Orbán has been ousted—and efforts by Washington and Moscow to prop the autocratic leader up give his defeat implications that extend far beyond Hungary, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Budapest.

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security snapped up an empty warehouse on the outskirts of Salt Lake City for $145.4 million—paying nearly 50 percent more than the property’s 2025 assessed value. @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports on ICE's spending spree:

Just before Kristi Noem left DHS her team massively overpaid for an empty Salt Lake City warehouse it plans to convert into an ICE detention center. "Crazy," one broker called the sale price. The deal--and 10 other warehouse purchases--are under investigation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Two decades after the intel failures of Iraq, Trump “disregards assessments that proved to be right, and the predictable comes to pass. There’s a failure of intelligence there too—just not the kind we’re used to seeing.” Read @shaneharris.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

While U.S. research struggles, a different pattern is emerging overseas, Ross Andersen writes. Is China on the verge of becoming the next scientific superpower?

NEW: DHS already has the money it needs to carry out Trump's immigration crackdown, and Markwayne Mullin has inherited a mass deportation apparatus in full-blown expansion mode www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Markwayne Mullin has been confirmed as head of DHS. @nickmiroff.bsky.social joins @hannarosin.bsky.social to discuss what the leadership change could mean for ICE:

Come to find out how ICE wound up in your security line, stay for the Pulp Fiction reference (and always read @nickmiroff.bsky.social ) slate.com/podcasts/wha...

A Serious Senate Debate About an Unserious Bill, with @russellberman.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

@nickmiroff.bsky.social: “When Trump first proposed the wall, in 2015, it was a blunt solution to a complex crisis at the border ... Now back in office and freed of his first-term limits, he has turned its completion—even through remote areas—into a vanity project.”

With $46.5 billion to spend, Trump has resumed construction on the border wall, even in remote areas with few illegal crossings, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports from Arizona’s San Rafael Valley.

NEW: Loaded with $$$ from the OBBB and freed from his first-term restraints, Trump is blowing up national-park land in Arizona to wall off the remote San Rafael Valley, one of the border’s last wild places www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

New: Under Kristi Noem, ICE purchased 11 large warehouses around the country that it plans to convert into megajails, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports—but senior DHS officials tell him they expect that effort to slow down and perhaps even pause:

NEW: with Kristi Noem out and mass deportations polling badly, ICE's $38 billion warehouse conversion plan is in trouble and DHS officials say a "pause" wouldn't be a bad thing www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trump’s nominee for homeland security secretary has one big thing going for him: He’s not Kristi Noem, @nickmiroff.bsky.social writes. Here’s what's at stake for Markwayne Mullin as the head of an agency in crisis:

Trump’s nominee for homeland security secretary has one big thing going for him: He’s not Kristi Noem, @nickmiroff.bsky.social writes. Here’s what's at stake for Markwayne Mullin as the head of an agency in crisis:

Kristi Noem generated more scandals over the past year than a typical administration would muster in four—but what reportedly got her fired was “pointing the finger at her boss,” Jonathan Chait argues.

Kristi Noem’s ouster was the result of “unfortunate leadership failures” and self-promotion that “overshadowed and distracted” from Trump’s immigration agenda, an administration official told Nick Miroff, Michael Scherer, and Russell Berman:

Trump said he didn’t approve Noem’s $220M ad campaign. But she told this story more than a year ago at a CPAC dinner

"They had all been buried within a 20-by-20-foot area near the toe of the avalanche debris, under as much as eight feet of snow." Read Josh Partlow's definitive account of the deadliest avalanche in Calif history @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Read the great Josh Partlow on the avalanche that stunned the nation www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

NEW: President Trump is expected to endorse John Cornyn over Ken Paxton in the Texas GOP primary runoff, three people briefed on the deliberations told @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"The DHS records obtained and analyzed by The Post show that the program was first cut to 47 days in August and further reduced in September to 42 days. Since then, all trainings have been on a 42-day schedule, the records show." www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

NEW: Trump is pursuing war in Iran without congressional approval, with little appetite among his base for another regime-change operation in the Middle East, and with allies in the region having discouraged it, @nancyayoussef and @JonLemire write. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“But there’s a problem with the idea that Trump can simply rerun his 2024 campaign and expect the same result: Over the past two years, many of his most popular issues have turned into political liabilities” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The whistleblower docs seem to confirm what @nickmiroff.bsky.social reported in @theatlantic.com, that ICE cut training hours for ERO officers "roughly in half, partly by eliminating Spanish-language courses"

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

Kristi Noem Watch: a shut down threat is bringing more attention to the DHS secretary’s record www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... with @nickmiroff.bsky.social @michaelscherer.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Volodymyr Zelensky makes his pitch to Donald Trump, telling Simon Shuster that a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine could cement Trump’s legacy—and, if it happens soon, help him in the midterms. Read more:

"a campaign against blue cities ... has burned through the president’s political capital faster than the money could be spent. ICE is now flush with cash right at a moment when public backlash is turning the agency into a pariah." @nickmiroff.bsky.social

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...

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