Nick Miroff

YouTube video by Drug Enforcement Administration DEA Administrator Cole speaks exclusively with Fox News about DEA's 'Fentanyl Free America' campaign

DEA chief Terry Cole says price of cocaine in Puerto Rico and the DR is up as a result of boat strikes and emerging threat is Hells Angels biker gangs trafficking fentanyl from Canada www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFBt...

Pentagon Report: Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages The inspector general finds that the defense secretary violated his department’s policies.

NEW: Hegseth risked endangering troops with his Signal messages about planned air strikes in Yemen, the Pentagon's Inspector General has concluded.
Reporting via @shaneharris @nancyayoussef Missy Ryan @vmsalama and @S_Fitzpatrick
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The $7,500 Self-Deportation The Trump administration is spending millions to entice people to leave.

The Trump administration is spending millions to entice people to leave the country. So far, about 35,000 people have taken up the offer—at a cost of $7,500 per self-deportee, Nick Miroff reports.

Venezuela agrees to deportation flight scheduled for tomorrow.

DHS’s $7,500 Self-Deportations What the Trump administration is spending to entice people to leave

SCOOP: Despite a $200M ad campaign, only about 35k have signed up to “self-deport” via CBP Home so far.

DHS claims more than 1.6 million have left since Trump took office, but the department is treating demographic estimates as enforcement data www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A Counterproductive Counter-Narcotics Campaign The Trump administration’s lethal strikes on suspected traffickers may compromise, not advance, America’s battle against cartels.

The Trump administration’s military strikes off South America may be undercutting the U.S.’s long-standing campaign against more powerful drug cartels in Colombia and Mexico, experts tell Missy Ryan and Marie-Rose Sheinerman.

Ukraine Says It Won’t Give Up Land to Russia Ukraine’s chief negotiator, in an exclusive interview, says conceding sovereign territory is off-limits in peace talks

Exclusive: Surrendering land to Russia to end the war is off-limits, Zelensky’s chief negotiator tells Simon Shuster. “As long as Zelensky is president, no one should count on us giving up territory.”

Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right? How an outsider, once ignored by the public-health establishment, became the most powerful man in science

Read Michael's masterful cover story @theatlantic.com here www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Chilling quote re vaccines from pediatrician Paul Offit in this RFK profile @michaelscherer.bsky.social: “I don’t think there is any way to regain that trust other than have the viruses do the education, and the bacteria do the education, and then people will realize they paid way too high a cost."

No response yet from DOJ on this but Abrego’s attorneys have already flagged it for Judge Xinis.

See @rparloff.bsky.social ticktock of the hearing below

Costa Rica says it would accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting U.S. The statement from a Costa Rican official conflicts with what the Trump administration told a federal judge about its attempts to deport the undocumented immigrant

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Costa Rica says it would accept Kilmar Abrego García, contradicting U.S. court statements

SCOOP via @mariasacchetti.bsky.social

A DMZ for Ukraine Trump’s peace plan envisages a divide like the one that splits the Korean peninsula.

Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine envisages a DMZ like the one that divides the Korean peninsula, Simon Shuster and Jonathan Lemire report.

“It’s like the world is shattering around us,” one diplomat told them after hearing the details.

This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents

The Ghislaine Maxwell Emails The longtime Epstein associate reveled in her privileges after the Trump administration moved her to more comfortable surroundings.

NEW a cache of emails from the longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell shows her prison conditions improving dramatically as a crisis grew for Trump, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports.
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The Green Machine Why the Border Patrol–not ICE—is taking over Trump’s mass-deportation campaign

NEW Every State is a Border Patrol State — why the Trump admin wants border agents to take over the mass deportation campaign and deliver the arrest numbers ICE has missed www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... @theatlantic.com

Why ICE Agents Mask Themselves | KQED We talk about what masking means for public trust in law enforcement.

🎙️ON AIR:

We're talking to Atlantic staff writer @nickmiroff.bsky.social about what masking means for public trust in law enforcement.

❓Do you think it’s ever justifiable for federal agents or law enforcement officers to wear face coverings?

📻 Listen:

The Administration’s Favorite Statute Federal prosecutors have charged more than 100 people with Section 111 violations. Was their crime anything more than opposing Trump’s immigration policies?

In recent months, the Justice Department has filed charges under 18 USC 111 against more than a hundred immigrants, anti-ICE protestors, and random passers-by—accusing them of "assaulting, resisting, or impeding" federal officers

Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Deliberations Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?

In the trial of the Sandwich Guy, 12 D.C. residents found themselves trying to do their jobs as fairly and impartially as possible. Ashley Parker spoke with one of the jurors on how the group came to its decision:

An Interview With the Man Behind Trump’s Current Immigration Crackdown Podcast Episode · The Daily · 11/12/2025 · 40m

I interviewed Greg Bovino, the man empowered to oversee Pres. Trump's immigration crackdown:

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Veteran ICE officials @nickmiroff.bsky.social spoke with view the use of masks as an unquestionably negative development. But it’s not going away anytime soon, Miroff reports: https://theatln.tc/acMM0axK

Why the Democrats Finally Folded This is how the government shutdown was always going to end.

Critics couldn’t fathom why Democrats would abandon a seemingly winning hand in the government shutdown, but “this is how the government shutdown was always going to end,” Russell Berman and Jonathan Lemire report.

Hundreds of Thousands of Anonymous Deportees Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.

Most of Trump’s deportation campaign is inaccessible because after arrests are made, it is moving quickly, far from public view. For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about @caitlindickerson.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Why They Mask Veteran ICE officers know face coverings are a bad look. But they’re not coming off anytime soon.

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The Deportees Whose Stories We’ll Never Know Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.

As Trump’s deportation campaign continues, thousands of detainees with no criminal record are being detained. But “for every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about,” Caitlin Dickerson reports.

The Missing Kayaker What happened to Ryan Borgwardt?

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.

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New York’s Unlikeliest Mayor Zohran Mamdani surprised everyone, including President Trump.

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 … For President? He’d like you to keep an open mind.

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:

Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and others have taken over homes that until recently housed senior officers.

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