https://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3lupo463z7c2jNEW: Venezuelans deported by the Trump administration say they were tortured during their months inside El Salvador’s megaprison. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/07/inside-cecot-mega-prison-el-salvador/683646/?gift=j8n6Bjgg-nhjktK6K-3q9tOGPNFY6D0L-mkOwxyD_qg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share24 Jul 2025 13:43 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3lupo463z7c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3lukurccqkk2pNEW: 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. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/07/trump-border-patrol-gregory-bovino/683617/?gift=j8n6Bjgg-nhjktK6K-3q9h4Fxy47XQHV0Bf4-WNlEIs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share22 Jul 2025 15:59 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3lukurccqkk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3lpouoiemek2dElon 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. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/elon-musk-doge-opponents-dc/682866/21 May 2025 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpouoiemek2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3loyqefpqbc2s"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." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/immigration-deportations-trump-popularity/682777/12 May 2025 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3loyqefpqbc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3lo4zzyeirc2hNEW: Signalgate was the national security adviser’s most glaring mistake. But his problems ran deeper, @theatlantic.com reports. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/mike-waltz-trump-fired/682660/01 May 2025 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo4zzyeirc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3lnuxa4edg22dRead 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. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/trump-second-term-comeback/682573/28 Apr 2025 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnuxa4edg22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3lnnmimv6h222SCOOP: 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. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/kilmar-abrego-garcia-plan-reversal/682594/25 Apr 2025 16:13 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnnmimv6h222https://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3lnloapsu2c2pNEW 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. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/national-security-council-fiasco/682595/24 Apr 2025 21:39 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnloapsu2c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3lmx6p23wsk2y“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." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/ice-deportation-funding-increase/682480/16 Apr 2025 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmx6p23wsk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3lmuvaznrus27Trump said that mass deportations would focus on unauthorized immigrants with serious criminal records. That hasn’t happened, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social writes: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-deportation-expansion-migrants/682460/15 Apr 2025 20:13 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmuvaznrus27https://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3llfj33tut22oNEW: 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. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-hegseth-waltz-signal/682220/28 Mar 2025 00:00 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3llfj33tut22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3llbrzhyfec2rNEW: “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. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/26 Mar 2025 12:29 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3llbrzhyfec2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3llalfffyls2rThe president is privately upset with the sloppiness of his advisers. Publicly, he’s focused on attacking the press, @jonlemire.bsky.social reports. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-signal-jeff-goldberg-texts/682175/26 Mar 2025 00:58 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3llalfffyls2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3ll5o64pmzs2gNEW: 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. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/united-states-trump-fear/682159/24 Mar 2025 21:10 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll5o64pmzs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3ll5j7jwps22gThere's never been a better time to subscribe to The Atlantic. accounts.theatlantic.com/products/ https://accounts.theatlantic.com/products/24 Mar 2025 19:41 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll5j7jwps22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3ll5644aesc2mA 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 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=j8n6Bjgg-nhjktK6K-3q9pk9FIrUGLkumOhk_QfoXdE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share24 Mar 2025 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll5644aesc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/griffwitte.bsky.social/post/3lkstz4ybns2gStephen 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. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/stephen-miller-presidency/682097/?gift=j8n6Bjgg-nhjktK6K-3q9lkZu7yUULkEmNDW2Sa7Pj8&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share20 Mar 2025 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:2bvknf5aucsiowgier44b4ng/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkstz4ybns2g