@lbarronlopez.bsky.social
White House Correspondent for MSNBC. Formerly PBS News Hour, CNN. Proton email: LBL714@pm.me Signal: LBarron07.01
Senators gave themselves a tailor-made ticket to court to sue federal gov for damages
But Americans who’ve been arrested/detained by fed immigration agents, or suffered collateral damage, have no effective, direct legal path to sue federal gov or individual fed agents
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“The main thing is that you control everything by controlling money. So Trump controls universities by threatening their grants, their tax-exempt status. It’s all financial stuff when you get down to it, and that was something that [Viktor] Orbán pioneered.”
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A House Republican told MSNBC “our oversight is not being maximized” due to the shutdown. The House Republican was “skeptical” that Trump would seek congressional authorization if the president escalates to land strikes.
29.10.2025 00:31 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0One House Democrat said the administration has provided “nothing” on the identities of who has been killed, their direct links to narcotics trafficking groups and no explanation of the administration’s long-term strategy in the campaign.
29.10.2025 00:30 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0New from @msnbc.com: Pentagon officials are expected to brief House Armed Services Committee on Thursday about US military strikes against alleged drug boats, five lawmakers told us.
Officials expected to brief include legal counsel to Joint Chiefs, officers overseeing special operations
Many of the companies donating funds for the 90k sq ft ballroom have business before the federal gov, some (like Google) face DOJ lawsuits, others would need federal approval for mergers
The WH has not provided the amount of each donation made by donors
A group of Senate Dems led by @warren.senate.gov want answers from the nonprofit entity managing $$ from big companies funding Trump’s $300M ballroom
Is the entity responsible “facilitating corrupt access to and favor-seeking from President Trump” they write
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A veteran and federal worker was fired amid the government shutdown. @lbarronlopez.bsky.social interviews Doug Jackson who says: “This does feel like a betrayal.”
FULL INTERVIEW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuY2...
I asked Tom Homan as he walked past reporters on White House North Lawn: “Did you take the $50k cash in a bag?”
Homan: “Give me a break”
The “suggested” OOO language sent via the Chief Human Capital Officer of SBA goes on: “Every day that Senate Democrats continue oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.”
01.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Furloughed SBA employees were sent similar email, suggesting they blame Dems in their out-of-office reply, per an email obtained by MSNBC
“I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill…” SBA advised employees to say
In 2016, when Trump made racist comments that Judge Gonzalo Curiel couldn’t do his job because of his Mexican heritage, then Speaker Paul Ryan called it “the textbook definition of a racist comment”
GOP today when President Trump posts racist AI video of a sombrero on Hakeem Jeffries
Multiple fed employees tell me they think it’s a Hatch Act violation
Some are also waiting on lists of who will be furloughed. Typically, sources said, those are lists they’d have by now
New w/ @alivitali.bsky.social: SSA, SBA, HHS, and other fed employees all got same message from their agencies blaming Democrats for looming shutdown:
"..Any lapse in appropriations forced by Congressional Democrats.."
"Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution..."
New, and a big deal: Based on updated data and changes made by the Trump administration, we now estimate that ACA enrollees would see their out-of-pocket premiums increase by 114% if enhanced premium tax credits are allowed to expire.
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BREAKING: Oregon sues Trump over plan to deploy National Guard
@lbarronlopez.bsky.social has the latest
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Joining 1A on WAMU at 10:20am ET to talk about this story, ongoing ICE operations in DC and conditions in detention facilities across the country
Tune in here: the1a.org/talk-1a/
“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.”
That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.
Trump's deportations divert FBI agents off child predator cases
@kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men."
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...
NEW: FBI Director Patel was at Rao’s the night of posts about a person in custody in Charlie Kirk’s shooting www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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One teen is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in Colorado, injuring two before shooting himself
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Three teens have been hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, authorities said Wednesday.
https://to.pbs.org/3VK0r3I
by my count, this makes seven confirmed no true bills from grand juries, plus three other felony cases dismissed (two gun cases, one assault of a federal officer), plus two cases downgraded from felony assault on federal officers to misdemeanor
05.09.2025 19:19 — 👍 1961 🔁 531 💬 42 📌 28ICE said one of countries Abrego claims removal fear of is Costa Rica. But in filing to reopen Abrego’s immigration case, first reported by MSNBC last week, Abrego’s lawyers sought to designate Costa Rica as country of removal bc CR offered refugee status/assurances not to deport him to El Salvador
05.09.2025 23:56 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"We hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini, Africa,” ICE’s principal legal advisor Charles Wall wrote to Abrego’s lawyers
ICE said Abrego has claimed he fears persecution or torture in "at least 22 different countries.” Abrego’s lawyers didn’t dispute fear of removal claims
New: ICE notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers today that the Trump admin now plans to deport him to Eswatini, Africa, according to an email ICE sent to Abrego’s counsel that MSNBC obtained.
ICE says Abrego’s fear claim that he’d be persecuted and tortured in Uganda “is hard to take seriously”
BREAKING: DC's elected attorney general is suing Trump over the National Guard takeover: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
31.08.2025 14:15 — 👍 4720 🔁 1427 💬 116 📌 133@lbarronlopez.bsky.social shares her new reporting on the humanitarian crisis inside a Virginia ICE field office following Trump's DC federal takeover "This takeover has left them feeling as though they don't really have a home anymore"
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