🚨Today’s dispatch of the Lunchtime Lowdown: Is your Venmo activity private?  5 stories, every lunch. Stay smart. 📰⏰ #NewsRoundup usnews.com/news/national-…

Change is afoot at the Smithsonian Institution after a striking executive order by President Trump. What impacts will this decision bring? Explore the details: usnews.com/news/national-…

Sen. Cory Booker breaks record with marathon 24-hour speech on Senate floor to protest Trump policies cbsnews.com/news/cory-book…

Sat down with Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock to discuss the American Family Act he introduced yesterday to permanently expand the child tax credit. For U.S. News & World Report usnews.com/news/national-…

🚨Today’s dispatch of Midday Must-Reads: Trade war confusion, Bukele takes DC and more. 📰⏰ usnews.com/news/national-…

For the 2nd month in a row, the Dept. of Homeland Security did not provide what used to be a routine update of deportations data Under Biden admin, Customs & Border Protection updated total # of people removed & returned by CBP & ICE each month when released border arrivals data

An account linked to Pope Leo XIV contains posts from before he was elected that signal his immigration views – and potential disagreements with the Trump administration. usnews.com/news/world/art…

I caught up with Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett outside the House chamber last week to talk about her Oversight bid, how Dems can meet the moment and more. For U.S. News & World Report usnews.com/news/national-…

Deeply reported look at Americans not in the federal government and far from DC but still collateral damage in Trump's war on the government. usnews.com/news/national-…

"Deportation Flights Reach Highest Level Under Trump So Far" This The New York Times table shows an important fact--most people deported from the US interior are nationals of Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala & Honduras We wrote about this in our MigrationPolicy Inst ICE explainer, links below

Filled in for Olivier Knox in the U.S. News & World Report Decision Points newsletter yesterday and wrote up a glossary of some oft-discussed, yet oft-confused immigration terms: usnews.com/news/u-s-news-…

Lawmakers outraged over Padilla's forcible removal from Noem press conference cbsnews.com/news/alex-padi…

Holy moly this dude is the real deal #Reds

A record low number of migrants came to the US-Mexico border in June, dating back to 1960s levels. But it's equally as notable that Mexicans & Central Americans again represent the vast majority of arrivals--as they did prior to 2022. More MigrationPolicy Inst takeaways here⬇️

Blogged about the #Reds and Nick Krall's trade deadline approach. Of course, as I was getting ready to publish, news broke that the team traded for Ke'Bryan Hayes. But my points still stand -- and more needs to be done in the next 24-plus hours: paintitredblog.com/2025/07/30/the…

Scoop: A group of Democrats in Congress is seeking to stop DOGE employees from moving into permanent positions in the federal government, penning a letter asking for more information on DOGE's presence within agencies after Elon Musk's exit. cbsnews.com/news/democrats…

Shoutout to Billy Gil for indirectly helping me with the lede of my latest #Reds blog post. This team exhausts me. paintitredblog.com/2025/08/09/in-…

Still wrapping my head around the Reds deadline: -Made a bad offense worse -Took on an underwater contact to do it -Traded a real prospect to do it -Blocked your closest bat at AAA to do it -Traded for two rentals with their playoff odds below 20% -Lost a lefty reliever when