Kristi Noem generated more scandals over the past year than a typical administration would muster in four—but what reportedly got her fired was “pointing the finger at her boss,” Jonathan Chait argues.
Kristi Noem’s ouster was the result of “unfortunate leadership failures” and self-promotion that “overshadowed and distracted” from Trump’s immigration agenda, an administration official told Nick Miroff, Michael Scherer, and Russell Berman:
Story with @michaelscherer.bsky.social @russellberman.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump said he didn’t approve Noem’s $220M ad campaign. But she told this story more than a year ago at a CPAC dinner
"They had all been buried within a 20-by-20-foot area near the toe of the avalanche debris, under as much as eight feet of snow." Read Josh Partlow's definitive account of the deadliest avalanche in Calif history @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Read the great Josh Partlow on the avalanche that stunned the nation
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NEW: President Trump is expected to endorse John Cornyn over Ken Paxton in the Texas GOP primary runoff, three people briefed on the deliberations told @ashleyrparker.bsky.social and @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
"The DHS records obtained and analyzed by The Post show that the program was first cut to 47 days in August and further reduced in September to 42 days. Since then, all trainings have been on a 42-day schedule, the records show." www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
NEW: Trump is pursuing war in Iran without congressional approval, with little appetite among his base for another regime-change operation in the Middle East, and with allies in the region having discouraged it, @nancyayoussef and @JonLemire write.
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“But there’s a problem with the idea that Trump can simply rerun his 2024 campaign and expect the same result: Over the past two years, many of his most popular issues have turned into political liabilities” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The whistleblower docs seem to confirm what @nickmiroff.bsky.social reported in @theatlantic.com, that ICE cut training hours for ERO officers "roughly in half, partly by eliminating Spanish-language courses"
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
Kristi Noem Watch: a shut down threat is bringing more attention to the DHS secretary’s record
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... with @nickmiroff.bsky.social @michaelscherer.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: Volodymyr Zelensky makes his pitch to Donald Trump, telling Simon Shuster that a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine could cement Trump’s legacy—and, if it happens soon, help him in the midterms. Read more:
"a campaign against blue cities ... has burned through the president’s political capital faster than the money could be spent. ICE is now flush with cash right at a moment when public backlash is turning the agency into a pariah." @nickmiroff.bsky.social
NEW Trump has burned through much of his immigration political capital before ICE could scale up its mass deportation tools. Now he wants a “softer” tune to stop the agency from becoming a pariah, and to shift attention from Minneapolis to his border record www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
“We had the best writers in the country and did more with less, and we knew it with a swagger.” Sally Jenkins pays tribute to The Washington Post’s Sports section:
I spent 18 years at The Washington Post. Among the reporters who lost jobs today were dear colleagues who risked their lives to get the story, and who worked tirelessly to get the story right. We're all worse off without them. Heartbreaking to see this great institution so cheapened and diminished.
"The Post is all of our “we”—the journalists fighting for it, the ones competing against it, those of us in the diaspora, and especially the community that counts on it and the nation that turns to it." Thank you @ashleyrparker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
It takes all of us to make The Washington Post. Every section works together to create this authoritative, entertaining, worldwide news report.
So, Jeff Bezos, #SaveThePost.
“Police in Minnesota have said they support the removal of violent criminals from the community. But the federal govt’s actions have soured relations in a way that, for some, makes future coordination on immigration enforcement unlikely” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... via @toluseo.bsky.social
"A five-alarm fire": Election officials are unnerved by the federal government’s raid on Fulton County election offices, with some comparing it to an occupation, @sfifz787.bsky.social @yvonnewingett.bsky.social report.
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Masterful profile of Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara, and a city under siege by @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Extremist groups such as the Proud Boys have been oddly quiet during Trump’s nationwide ICE operations, Ali Breland reports. “We’ve kind of gotten what we want, right?” Enrique Tarrio, the group’s leader, told Breland.
SCOOP: The war within DHS is not going away. Noem raised concerns Monday to POTUS about pace of wall construction under CBP’s Rodney Scott. Scott sent a memo to his agency saying he was in charge. DHS GC rescinded it Wednesday. W @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
NEW: “I mean, is this a Fort Sumter?” Tim Walz asked
@isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social today. “It’s a physical assault,” Walz told him. “It’s an armed force that’s assaulting, that’s killing my constituents, my citizens.”
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BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post.
Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost
DHS is celebrating an ICE hiring spree that officials say achieved a “120% Manpower Increase.” But @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports that most of those new hires are not ready to be deployed. theatln.tc/Iggj1gnq
NEW: Training for new deportation officers at the ICE academy has been cut to 42 days. Not much time to practice de-escalation tactics www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
