No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their four months in CECOT.

NEW: Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their months inside El Salvador’s megaprison.
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The Hype Man of Trump’s Mass Deportations Gregory Bovino has taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to the streets of California.

NEW: Read @nickmiroff.bsky.social on the CBP chief who's taken his aggressive tactics and propaganda videos from the southern border to the streets of California.
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Musk Is Becoming the Latest Government Employee to Lose His Job As the tech billionaire’s 130-day stint in government comes to a close, he has turned potential allies into irritated foes.

Elon Musk blew into Washington all Cybertrucks and chain saws, ready to destroy bureaucracy. @ashleyrparker.bsky.social + @michaelscherer.bsky.social capture how he failed to understand government or to build alliances -- and is now quietly reducing his hours. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Immigration Pendulum Is Swinging Once Again Trump was elected, in part, on a pledge to crack down on immigration. But he may be overinterpreting his mandate.

"Whenever public attention on immigration shifts from the border to U.S. streets, support for aggressive enforcement tends to erode," @nickmiroff.bsky.social writes. "It happened during Trump’s first term. It’s happening even faster now."
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Mike Waltz Wasn’t MAGA Enough for Trump Signalgate was the national security adviser’s most glaring mistake. But his problems ran deeper.

NEW: Signalgate was the national security adviser’s most glaring mistake. But his problems ran deeper,
@theatlantic.com reports.
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‘I Run the Country and the World’ Donald Trump believes he’s invincible. But the cracks are beginning to show.

Read every word of this big Trump piece by
@ashleyrparker.bsky.social and
@michaelscherer.bsky.social. You won't find a more definitive account of his years in exile, his unlikely resurrection and his first months back in the White House.
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How the Trump Administration Flipped on Kilmar Abrego Garcia Officials were developing a plan to get him back to the United States. Why did they stop?

SCOOP: U.S. officials discussed how to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. and how to keep him safe from attacks in prison, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. Then the White House dug in.
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Inside the Fiasco at the National Security Council Firings and leadership challenges have destabilized an institution that has little margin for error.

NEW from @theatlantic.com: The disorder at the NSC stems from Trump’s impatience with process, disregard for the law, and insistence on loyalty in place of expertise. They also said it reflects the president’s distrust of Mike Waltz.
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Trump’s Mass-Deportation Campaign Hasn’t Really Started Yet The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.

“Republican lawmakers are now preparing to lavish ICE with a colossal funding increase,” writes @nickmiroff.bsky.social. It will pay for the “social and demographic transformation of the U.S. that immigration hard-liners have long fantasized about achieving."
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They Never Thought Trump Would Have Them Deported The administration’s drive to carry out the largest campaign in history has ensnared people who didn’t see themselves as targets.

Trump said that mass deportations would focus on unauthorized immigrants with serious criminal records. That hasn’t happened, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social writes:
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Why Trump Won’t ‘Produce a Scalp’ After the Signal Debacle As senior officials deny wrongdoing, rank-and-file national-security personnel warn of a damaging double standard.

NEW: As senior officials deny wrongdoing, rank-and-file national-security personnel warn of a damaging double standard after the Trump administration's Signal debacle, Isaac Stanley-Becker and @jonlemire.bsky.social report.
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

NEW: “People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.”
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen.
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Trump Goes After the Messenger The president is privately upset with the sloppiness of his advisers. Publicly, he’s focused on attacking the press.

The president is privately upset with the sloppiness of his advisers. Publicly, he’s focused on attacking the press,
@jonlemire.bsky.social reports.
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The United States of Fear For anyone who’s in the president’s crosshairs—or who could be—it’s the dominant emotion of Trump’s second term.

NEW: Two months into Trump’s second term, fear is taking hold across broad cross sections of American society—quieting those who might otherwise be motivated to speak out, Isaac Stanley-Becker reports.
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

A story you'll need to read to believe: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on the Houthis in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic,
@JeffreyGoldberg
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Stephen Miller Has a Plan The White House point person on immigration is pursuing a strategy that is bedeviling his opponents and could provoke a constitutional crisis.

Stephen Miller, the White House point person on immigration, is pursuing a strategy that is bedeviling his opponents and could provoke a constitutional crisis, @nickmiroff.bsky.social and @jonathanlemire.bsky.social report.
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