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Staff writer @theatlantic.com covering immigration and the Department of Homeland Security. Tips? Signal: NickMiroff.78

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 2h
NEW: Trump says the steep drop in violent crime is the result of his immigration crackdown. But a comparison of FBI data and ICE stats doesn’t show that. More @theatlantic.com with Jack Rodriquez-Vars www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Problem With Trump’s Crime Claims
The president says that his immigration crackdown is behind falling crime rates. The numbers don’t back that up.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Phenomenal reporting + a heartbreaking story by @caitlindickerson.bsky.social about the children who remain behind when their parents are deported www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/09/2026
Exclusive: The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was hired last year and was not wearing his body camera, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. theatln.tc/S5VS6fih
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/09/2026
Exclusive: The ICE officer who shot a Venezuelan man in Austin was hired last year and was not wearing his body camera, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.
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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
SCOOP: the ICE officer who shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez in Austin wasn't wearing his body cam. The officer is a new recruit hired by the agency last year 🔽 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The ICE Officer in Austin Wasn’t Wearing a Body Cam
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/09/2026
Hunted by ICE, some Haitians in the U.S. are fleeing across the northern border to seek safety in Canada, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. He travels the secret routes through forests that some are taking to escape deportation:
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The Northern Passage
Hunted by ICE, Haitians flee across the border to hide in Canada.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW sneaking across the border through the forest into Canada has become a last resort for Haitians who have lost TPS and fear ICE arrest and deportation. Our story from Quebec @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Northern Passage
Hunted by ICE, Haitians flee across the border to hide in Canada.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Don't miss this wild story from the "woollier fringes of America’s public lands" by @theatlantic.com's Josh Partlow www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The Growing Lawlessness in California’s Forests
Two frog biologists were kidnapped in the woods. More bizarre situations may come.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 01/09/2026
Exclusive: Prior to his resignation, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll took his concerns about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership directly to President Trump, Nancy A. Youssef, Missy Ryan, and Michael Scherer report:
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Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot
The Army secretary told Trump about problems in the Army and his friction with Hegseth, then resigned.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 31/08/2026
This year’s El Niño cycle is likely to be the strongest ever recorded—and its already-increased water temperatures could have irrevocable effects, Joshua Partlow reports.
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This El Niño Will Be Unlike Any in the Past Eight Decades
Die-offs and floods have started already, a prelude to supercharged storms and droughts.  
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
SCOOP: after 2 fatal shootings in July, ICE quietly changed use of deadly force rules to keep officers from returning to street until they’re cleared by investigators. Story @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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ICE Has Quietly Changed Its Deadly-Force Rule
Officers under investigation can no longer return quickly to the streets.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: ICE has enacted a new rule keeping officers involved in deadly-force incidents off the streets until the completion of an investigation, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. Officers had previously been allowed to return to their job in as few as three days. theatln.tc/QACHhjbW
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In Tapachula, @theatlantic.com's Kevin Sieff finds a city that "looks and feels the way towns in northern Mexico along the U.S. border once did—a dumping ground for those expelled from the United States and a gathering place for those snagged on their way north." www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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A Reverse Ellis Island
A city at the southern tip of Mexico has become the place where migrants’ dreams go to die.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/08/2026
A Mexican influencer was killed last week in Culiacán, a city in Sinaloa that had momentarily flickered back to life amid a bloody cartel turf war. Kevin Sieff, who was nearby when it happened, reports on the battle for Sinaloa and a surge of violence:
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What I Saw In Sinaloa
The U.S. is trying to destroy Mexican cartels. But so far, a turf war has only deepened.
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.
More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/08/2026
Three years ago, DHS created an independent statistics office—but its director just quit. Despite agency pledges for greater transparency, Trump’s immigration crackdown “continues in a fog of fake numbers and statistical subterfuge,” @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:
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The Man in Charge of Immigration Data Just Resigned
The Department of Homeland Security has stopped releasing timely, reliable statistics on immigration enforcement.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW the gap between the importance of immigration in our national politics and the woeful availability of ICE data has grown even wider with the resignation of DHS’s top statistician. An issue that unites advocates and restrictionists alike. Story @TheAtlantic www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Man in Charge of Immigration Data Just Resigned
The Department of Homeland Security has stopped releasing timely, reliable statistics on immigration enforcement.
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Yvonne Wingett Sanchez @yvonnewingett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Newly freed from prison, Tina Peters is dining with Donald Trump, planning a girls’ trip with Roseanne Barr, and making election denial into a full-time job, @yvonnewingett reports www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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MAGA’s Most Famous Prisoner Is Free
Newly out of prison, Tina Peters is back to trying to prove election fraud.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/07/2026
The push to shut down ICE facilities in blue states has potential to backfire for immigration activists, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports. He explores why the keep-ICE-out approach has downsides that Democrats rarely acknowledge:
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The Problem With Shutting Down ICE in Blue States
Trump officials are happy to ship immigrants elsewhere.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/07/2026
Markwayne Mullin, Donald Trump’s improbable choice to lead DHS, was brought in to restore normalcy to the president’s immigration enforcement—but Mullin is quickly learning that normalcy isn’t what Trump’s base wants, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.
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Bull Rider
How Markwayne Mullin went from Indian Country to Trump’s immigration enforcer
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 24/07/2026
A luxury development planned by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump on an Albanian island has spurred an international anti-Trump uprising, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports: theatln.tc/qKeOrp4V
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mullin swears that he and Trump are “on the same page” on ICE. “But for a secretary whose views on the department he leads are still vague, the phrasing posed a question: What page are they on, exactly?” Essential reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The Secretary of Homeland
How Markwayne Mullin went from Indian Country to Trump’s immigration enforcer
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/07/2026
Markwayne Mullin, Donald Trump’s improbable choice to lead DHS, was brought in to restore normalcy to the president’s immigration enforcement—but Mullin is quickly learning that normalcy isn’t what Trump’s base wants, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.
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Bull Rider
How Markwayne Mullin went from Indian Country to Trump’s immigration enforcer
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NEW: our deep dive @theatlantic.com on Markwayne Mullin’s improbable journey from rural Cherokee Country to the top of MAGA world and Trump’s mass deportation campaign www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Bull Rider
How Markwayne Mullin went from Indian Country to Trump’s immigration enforcer
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/07/2026
Donald Trump overruled ICE’s memo telling officers to suspend vehicle stops after pushback from the MAGA base left the president worried about looking weak, officials told @jonlemire.bsky.social and @nickmiroff.bsky.social.
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Inside Trump’s Reversal on ICE
Attacks from immigration hard-liners had the president worried about looking weak.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14/07/2026
The ICE officer involved in the fatal shooting of a man in Maine was hired by the agency this year and has worked in law enforcement since 2017, a senior official tells @nickmiroff.bsky.social.
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The Shooter in Maine Was a New ICE Recruit
The agency’s second killing in as many weeks prompted an abrupt policy change on vehicle stops.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
NEW Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed amid a shift in ICE “targeted enforcement” tactics that has officers doing more vehicle stops—and shooting. ICE’s ERO division lacks a vehicle pursuit policy & veteran officials told me officers need more training www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Another Fatal ICE Shooting
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo of Houston is the latest person to be killed by officers shooting into cars.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the latest person to be killed by ICE agents shooting into cars. @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports on the incident in Houston and on immigration officials’ increased targeting of people in vehicles:
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Another Fatal ICE Shooting
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo of Houston is the latest person to be killed by officers shooting into cars.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/07/2026
Americans were once members of a proudly literate society, but today, reading has declined across age groups, gender, and education levels. For The Atlantic’s August issue, @rosehorowitch.bsky.social explores the reading collapse—and its effects on civilization: theatln.tc/Q0QJpF8U
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 03/07/2026
This year’s July 4 fireworks show on the National Mall will have the kind of security usually reserved for presidential inaugurations and Super Bowls, @nickmiroff.bsky.social, Sarah Fitzpatrick, and Shane Harris report.
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Washington Is Turning Into a Fortress For the Fourth
Trump’s Independence Day blowout will bring a security blitz.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/06/2026
Before President Trump insisted on changing the color of the Reflecting Pool, he was fixated on another paint job, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:
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Trump’s Other Paint Job
Before he botched the Reflecting Pool, the president wanted the border wall black.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/06/2026
Before President Trump insisted on changing the color of the Reflecting Pool, he was fixated on another paint job, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:
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Trump’s Other Paint Job
Before he botched the Reflecting Pool, the president wanted the border wall black.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/06/2026
Before President Trump insisted on changing the color of the Reflecting Pool, he was fixated on another paint job, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:
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Trump’s Other Paint Job
Before he botched the Reflecting Pool, the president wanted the border wall black.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23/06/2026
America’s interest in talking about climate change is at an ebb, Joshua Partlow reports. He visited one Oregon town to learn more of the country’s ambivalence:
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Is It Warm Out There?
America doesn’t seem to care.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/05/2026
At the Enhanced Games, where athletes were encouraged to dope, the sports seemed less like the main event and more like a Trojan horse for a broader business—selling supplements to the masses, @elcush.bsky.social reports from Las Vegas:
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The Olympics These Were Not
Athletes at the Enhanced Games were bigger—but not exactly better.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/05/2026
Today, a judge dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia. In 2025, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reported on how the Trump administration tried to build its case by cutting deals with felons and driving out federal prosecutors, rather than admitting it had made a mistake.
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Trump’s Running Tab in the Abrego Garcia Case
The administration is cutting deals with felons, driving out federal prosecutors, and threatening to abandon its criminal case—all to avoid admitting error.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
SCOOP: Markwayne Mullin met with airline and travel executives at DHS last week and told them he's serious about plan to pressure sanctuary cities by cutting CBP screening at intl airports after World Cup. Execs have warned economic impact would be "devastating" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Homeland Security’s Plan to Strong-Arm ‘Sanctuary’ Cities
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told travel executives he may target airports in cities that don’t help ICE.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/05/2026
The Secretary of Homeland Security has likened the World Cup security challenge to protecting “78 Super Bowls.” And the U.S., he made clear, isn’t entirely ready for any of them, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.
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78 Super Bowls
The World Cup will bring millions of visitors to the U.S. amid an “extremely high” threat level.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/05/2026
The Secretary of Homeland Security has likened the World Cup security challenge to protecting “78 Super Bowls.” And the U.S., he made clear, isn’t entirely ready for any of them, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.
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78 Super Bowls
The World Cup will bring millions of visitors to the U.S. amid an “extremely high” threat level.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 08/05/2026
NEW: Trump is tired of the Iran war, but Iran is not, @jonlemire.bsky.social reports:
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Trump Is ‘Bored’ With the War He Started
He wants out, but Iran could likely keep going for months.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/05/2026
For Adam Silver, who leads a business valued at roughly $200 billion, media engagements are rare. Tim Alberta convinced the bubble-wrapped NBA commissioner to sit down with him as the league entered a moment of institutional crisis:
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Adam Silver Goes to War
The mild-mannered NBA commissioner has overseen a time of peace and prosperity for his league. Until now.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/05/2026
In an Ohio Republican primary, former ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan’s candidacy will test how much the mass-deportation message can still drive GOP voters to the polls when Trump’s name isn’t on the ballot, @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports.
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The Candidate From ICE
A GOP primary in Ohio will test Trump’s mass-deportation push.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
NEW Security at the correspondents’ dinner was largely successful—but the attack revealed vulnerabilities that can no longer be ignored, @shaneharris.bsky.social argues: www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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The Correspondents’ Dinner Was a Security Success
But it’s time to rethink security at an event that is clearly so vulnerable.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/04/2026
Thomas Massie is unafraid of Donald Trump, and the Kentucky Republican thinks he can embolden more people in his party to stand up to the president—if he can get reelected, @russellberman.bsky.social reports.
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Can Thomas Massie Survive the Trump Barrage?
The president’s loudest GOP critic is trying to stay in Congress.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21/04/2026
Montana Democrats thought an independent could help them take back the Senate—then their own party started fighting back, @michaelscherer.bsky.social reports.
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In Big Sky Country, Big Political Intrigue
Montana Democrats thought they found a novel way to win control of the U.S. Senate—until the party faithful started fighting back.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is a big one. Stellar reporting from Sarah Fitzpatrick. To call it a must-read is an understatement: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job
The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/04/2026
Viktor Orbán has been ousted—and efforts by Washington and Moscow to prop the autocratic leader up give his defeat implications that extend far beyond Hungary, @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports from Budapest.
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Hungary Has Ousted an Autocrat
Viktor Orbán had support from Moscow and Washington, but not from his own people.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 08/04/2026
Last month, the Department of Homeland Security snapped up an empty warehouse on the outskirts of Salt Lake City for $145.4 million—paying nearly 50 percent more than the property’s 2025 assessed value. @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports on ICE's spending spree:
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The $97 Million Utah Warehouse ICE Bought for $145 Million
Trump wants industrial-size immigration jails, and money is no obstacle.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Just before Kristi Noem left DHS her team massively overpaid for an empty Salt Lake City warehouse it plans to convert into an ICE detention center. "Crazy," one broker called the sale price. The deal--and 10 other warehouse purchases--are under investigation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The $97 Million Utah Warehouse ICE Bought for $145 Million
Trump wants industrial-size immigration jails, and money is no obstacle.
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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Two decades after the intel failures of Iraq, Trump “disregards assessments that proved to be right, and the predictable comes to pass. There’s a failure of intelligence there too—just not the kind we’re used to seeing.” Read @shaneharris.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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The Real Intelligence Failure in Iran
A costly quagmire was predictable. Trump went to war anyway.
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