Laura Barrón-López

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.”

Furloughed 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..."

ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...

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.
www.kff.org/affordable-c...

BREAKING: Oregon sues Trump over plan to deploy National Guard

@lbarronlopez.bsky.social has the latest

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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.

President Trump's deportations are diverting FBI agents off child predator cases Officials warn that President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is leaving domestic terrorists, including online extremists who prey on children, unpoliced.

Trump's deportations divert FBI agents off child predator cases

@kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Fired By The Post The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.

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...

FBI Director Patel was at Rao’s the night of posts about a person in custody in Kirk’s shooting FBI Director Kash Patel was dining at Rao’s in New York on Wednesday night after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, two sources familiar with his whereabouts

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...

1 dead after student shoots 2 schoolmates, himself at Evergreen High School One teenager is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in the Jefferson County foothills Wednesday, injuring two before shooting himself, authorities said.

One teen is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in Colorado, injuring two before shooting himself

Three people critically wounded in suburban Denver high school shooting, authorities say The shooting happened around midday at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, about 30 miles west of Denver, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said.

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

ICE 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

"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”

D.C. sues Trump administration over 'illegal deployment' of National Guard in Washington "None of this is lawful," the suit from D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says.

BREAKING: DC's elected attorney general is suing Trump over the National Guard takeover: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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...

@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"

“Chantilly has become this black box where people are being sent after they are being arrested in the streets of D.C.
It is an office; it is not intended to detain people”

ACLU’s Sophia Gregg said DHS' denial “conflicts with the information provided to ACLU-VA from an ICE officer” at Chantilly. ACLU "heard directly from people there" & families that ppl are "only provided 1 meal per day, no showers" & there are "hot temperatures" in holding rooms & "illness spreading”

DHS denied accounts from attorneys. A senior DHS official said no detainees are staying at Chantilly "for seven days or over the legal limit." They said Chantilly is at 37% capacity, "nowhere near maximum capacity," ppl are getting 3 meals a day, showers, legal representation

Chantilly is a main processing facility for those arrested by ICE during Trump's DC crackdown. ACLU attorney Sophia Gregg told @msnbc.com: Conditions are "rapidly degenerating" & "ICE is holding up to 80 people in a single room for more than a week at a time" w/no access to lawyers

“They just give us one burrito with water,” an undocumented immigrant who was detained at Chantilly for an entire day told me. He & his dad were arrested during 2nd week of Trump's DC takeover. His father spent ~6 days at Chantilly, which a holding facility, not equipped for long-term detention

Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days "The situation is getting worse by the day," warns Amy Fischer, an organizer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid. "It is an office; it is not intended to detain people."

NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com
- 1 meal a day = a single burrito
- some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete
- Some held as long as 7 days
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

One big difference between DC and any other city: “There is no circumstance in which the president can unilaterally use the National Guard, the active-duty armed forces or even federal civilian law enforcement to engage in ordinary policing and crime control in a city like Chicago or Baltimore”

How Trump deploys the guard, the duties they perform on the ground are where legal lines could be crossed.

“Enormously broad discretion is not infinite discretion. And as broad as all of these authorities are, there are lines that can be overstepped,” said Joseph Nunn, counsel at Brennan Center

“To say that we’re protected by the Posse Comitatus Act is a fallacy — scary,” said retired Rear Adm. Jim McPherson, who served as the Army’s undersecretary during Trump 1.0
It’s a charge that can only be brought by a DOJ U.S. attorney. “What U.S attorney is going to do that?”