Michael Scherer

Doomsday-Prepping for Trump’s Third Term Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.

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...

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

Exclusive: Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role and is expected to retire soon, sources tell Nick Miroff.

Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

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...

Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)

Defendants, together with their employees, agents, and anyone acting in concert with them, are ENJOINED from destroying or altering evidence related to the fatal shooting involving federal officers that took place in or around 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis on January 24, 2026, including but not limited to evidence that Defendants and those working on their behalf removed from the scene and/or evidence that Defendants have taken into their exclusive custody.

A federal judge issues a restraining order against the feds, barring them from "destroying or altering evidence"

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Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

Tonight’s game in Minnesota has been postponed to prioritize community safety.

F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns

Breaking NYT:

The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

I cited three different betting markets that all have the same odds.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people.

Judge William Young ends his order protecting noncitizen students targeted for deportation for their activism or speech with this quotation.

It’s by Ronald Reagan, who appointed him to the bench four decades ago.

Doomsday-Prepping for Trump’s Third Term Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.

Donald Trump keeps teasing a third term, a constitutional impossibility. One former Democratic strategist thinks Trump is almost certain to try. And he is trying to invent new leverage to stop it. Would you like to play a game? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trump Casually Denigrates NATO’s War Dead The president has revised history when it comes to the sacrifices of America’s allies.

NEW: After Trump disparaged allies' sacrifices for NATO, one Danish soldier who served in Afghanistan told @isaacstanbecker, “We were on the front lines, the same as the Americans. That was our job.”
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Doomsday-Prepping for Trump’s Third Term Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.

Betting money puts the odds of constitutional collapse in the U.S. at about one in 25--a wager of 3 or 4 cents on Polymarket pays out $1 if Trump wins a third term in '28. This strategist has created a game that assumes the odds are 20 times higher. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Doomsday-Prepping for Trump’s Third Term Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.

Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

🏴 Doomsday-Prepping for Trump's Third Term

Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.
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Doomsday-Prepping for Trump’s Third Term Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.

The former Democratic strategist Dmitri Mehlhorn has given up on electoral politics—and now he’s using fiction to game out what to do if Trump tries to maintain power with the threat of force, Michael Scherer writes.

Doomsday-Prepping for Trump’s Third Term Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.

Donald Trump keeps teasing a third term, a constitutional impossibility. One former Democratic strategist thinks Trump is almost certain to try. And he is trying to invent new leverage to stop it. Would you like to play a game? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Doomsday-Prepping for Trump’s Third Term Dmitri Mehlhorn has created a fictional world to game out constitutional collapse.

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...

Atlantic Across America Florida

Join us for "Atlantic Across America" and a panel in Feburary on national security with me, Missy Ryan, Vivian Salama, and Nancy Youssef in Miami! You can register here:

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America’s Crimea Moscow lets it be known how it feels about Trump’s threats against Denmark.

By making a nakedly imperialist claim on the territory of a faithful American ally, Trump has made it far easier for the Kremlin to justify Russia’s imperialist claim on Ukraine, writes @shustry.
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“.. was even labeled a “priority target,” a designation DEA reserves for suspects believed to have a “significant impact” on the drug trade ..”

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Half of LinkedIn thought leaders are writing content with AI Ten rules for maximizing your grindset! #1: Let a bot do your work for you

Robots talking to robots. www.theregister.com/2024/11/28/l...

From Stopping Osama bin Laden to Killing Renee Good Two decades after its founding, the Department of Homeland Security has become exactly what its critics feared.

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...

The Purged Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.

Here are 50 of the 300k civil servants purged by Trump. "A portrait of the void that will haunt American life."

The woman trying to get seeds to Sudan, the woman modernizing our tsunami warning system, the top investigator of Chinese counterintelligence... www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Robyn’s “I Don’t Think So, Honey.” 🍯

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

How Democratic Disagreement Helped Elect Donald Trump One democratic candidate, two presidential campaigns.

NEW: Future Foward, the super PAC backing Kamala Harris, thought her campaign made strategic errors that may have cost her victory. Harris strategists felt the same about Future Forward. Inside the breakdown w/
@ashleyrparker.bsky.social

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Washington may ban sales of farmed octopus • Washington State Standard A bill to ban the possession and sale of farmed octopus in Washington advanced out of a House committee on Wednesday.

A bill to outlaw the sale, possession, transport, and distribution of farmed octopus in Washington advanced out of the state's House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washi...

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

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