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Jenna Johnson

@wpjenna

Washington Post immigration editor // Midwesterner at heart. Mom of the world's greatest preschooler. Once described as "stubbornly cheerful" by Vogue.

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Arelis R. Hernández (@arelisrhdz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the hours after the Dallas ICE office shooting, Trump officials cast LEOs as the victims and asked people to pray for them, seldom mentioning the migrant victims. Our story about anti-ICE violence & dehumanizing rhetoric about immigrants wapo.st/3Igv5Pm

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The U.S. military’s openness to the press was never a favor to journalists, but an obligation to a country that asks its sons and daughters to volunteer for service. The Defense Department's new media policy puts that in jeopardy, Nancy Youssef, نانسي يوسف writes. theatlantic.com/national-secur…

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“As New Jersey goes, so goes the nation." Okay, while that's still a bit of a stretch, Russell Berman explains how the state's rightward shift in recent years has made the November governor's race a must-win for Democrats. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Jonathan Lemire (@jonlemire) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Few things are important enough to justify the security risk of putting the entire top U.S. military command, the secretary of defense, and the president all in the same room” theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…

Yoni Appelbaum (@yappelbaum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you want to understand what Pete Hegseth announced this morning, it helps to have read this from Missy Ryan in June: theatlantic.com/national-secur…

Jonathan Lemire (@jonlemire) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The federal government has shut down And now, the Trump administration might use that to finish the job that DOGE started Inside the White House’s shutdown plan - which may include permanent mass firings theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Griff Witte (@griffwitte) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pete Hegseth gathered generals from around the globe to unveil new physical-fitness standards in a speech that felt like a TED Talk. Nancy Youssef, نانسي يوسف and Missy Ryan talked to military officers about what it all means: theatlantic.com/national-secur…

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Hegseth wants to return the military to 1990, which had the afterglow of “Top Gun” and a swift victory in the first Gulf War -- and the Navy was rocked by the Tailhook sexual assault scandal, exposing a dark underside of military culture, Karen Tumulty writes. washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Russell Berman (@russellberman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My piece on the most foreseeable government shutdown of the past 3 decades, which became all-but-inevitable from the moment Democrats surrendered the last spending fight in March: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Griff Witte (@griffwitte) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Since Donald Trump ordered National Guard troops to Portland, Isaac Stanley-Becker has spent a lot of time at the demonstration that the president wants to crush. What he's found is an atmosphere that is more like a carnival than combat. theatlantic.com/national-secur…

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Even with billions in new funding, ICE has not increased its immigration detention capacity and overcrowding has worsened in short-term holding cells, Nick Miroff reports. The number of arrests it’s made peaked in June and has declined in the months since. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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“Violence is not the cause of Trump and Miller’s desire to use state power to crush their opposition. It is the pretext for which they transparently long” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Nearly a quarter of the FBI’s roughly 13,000 agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing to upward of 40 percent in the nation’s largest field offices, Perry Stein reports. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

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"Trump’s threats are no longer bluster. The guardrails of his first term are gone. He is instead surrounded by enablers... The federal government is taking legal action against those whom Trump wants punished. Retribution is here," Jonathan Lemire writes. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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NEW: The Trump administration is portraying its boat-bombing campaign in the Caribbean as an anti-drug mission. The evidence suggests it's about a lot more, report Nancy Youssef, نانسي يوسف, Gisela Salim-Peyer and Jonathan Lemire theatlantic.com/national-secur…

Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An important detail: “For one thing, the boats—there have been four of them—have not been carrying enough fuel to travel from the South American coast directly to the United States.” theatlantic.com/national-secur…