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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 7d

The “suggested” OOO language sent via the Chief Human Capital Officer of SBA goes on: “Every day that Senate Democrats continue oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.”

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 7d

Furloughed SBA employees were sent similar email, suggesting they blame Dems in their out-of-office reply, per an email obtained by MSNBC

“I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill…” SBA advised employees to say

Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 7d

Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

"I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me.

www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of...

Trump Admin Tells Federal Employees To Set OOO Message Blaming Democrats For Shutdown

One health department employee said the directions seemed to be "coercing" subordinates into political activity.

www.huffpost.com

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 8d

In 2016, when Trump made racist comments that Judge Gonzalo Curiel couldn’t do his job because of his Mexican heritage, then Speaker Paul Ryan called it “the textbook definition of a racist comment”

GOP today when President Trump posts racist AI video of a sombrero on Hakeem Jeffries

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 8d

Multiple fed employees tell me they think it’s a Hatch Act violation

Some are also waiting on lists of who will be furloughed. Typically, sources said, those are lists they’d have by now

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 8d

New w/ @alivitali.bsky.social: SSA, SBA, HHS, and other fed employees all got same message from their agencies blaming Democrats for looming shutdown:
"..Any lapse in appropriations forced by Congressional Democrats.."

"Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution..."

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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 8d

New, and a big deal: Based on updated data and changes made by the Trump administration, we now estimate that ACA enrollees would see their out-of-pocket premiums increase by 114% if enhanced premium tax credits are allowed to expire.
www.kff.org/affordable-c...

ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF

KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...

www.kff.org

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 9d

BREAKING: Oregon sues Trump over plan to deploy National Guard

@lbarronlopez.bsky.social has the latest

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 20d

Joining 1A on WAMU at 10:20am ET to talk about this story, ongoing ICE operations in DC and conditions in detention facilities across the country

Tune in here: the1a.org/talk-1a/

Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com
- 1 meal a day = a single burrito
- some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete
- Some held as long as 7 days
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days

"The situation is getting worse by the day," warns Amy Fischer, an organizer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid. "It is an office; it is not intended to detain people."

www.msnbc.com

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 20d

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.”

That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Nicht vor MAGA-Kult einknicken

Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband ruft die Verantwortlichen der großen US-Medien dazu auf, ihren Journalistinnen und Journalisten den Rücken zu stärken, statt…

www.djv.de

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22d

Trump's deportations divert FBI agents off child predator cases

@kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social: www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

President Trump's deportations are diverting FBI agents off child predator cases

Officials warn that President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is leaving domestic terrorists, including online extremists who prey on children, unpoliced.

www.msnbc.com

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 23d

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men."

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Fired By The Post

The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 26d

NEW: FBI Director Patel was at Rao’s the night of posts about a person in custody in Charlie Kirk’s shooting www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

FBI Director Patel was at Rao’s the night of posts about a person in custody in Kirk’s shooting

FBI Director Kash Patel was dining at Rao’s in New York on Wednesday night after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, two sources familiar with his whereabouts

www.nbcnews.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28d

One teen is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in Colorado, injuring two before shooting himself

1 dead after student shoots 2 schoolmates, himself at Evergreen High School

One teenager is dead after a student fired on schoolmates at Evergreen High School in the Jefferson County foothills Wednesday, injuring two before shooting himself, authorities said.

www.denverpost.com

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 28d

Three teens have been hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, authorities said Wednesday.
https://to.pbs.org/3VK0r3I

Three people critically wounded in suburban Denver high school shooting, authorities say

The shooting happened around midday at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, about 30 miles west of Denver, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jacki Kelley said.

www.pbs.org

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Sep 5

by my count, this makes seven confirmed no true bills from grand juries, plus three other felony cases dismissed (two gun cases, one assault of a federal officer), plus two cases downgraded from felony assault on federal officers to misdemeanor

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · Sep 5

The DC US Attorney's Office has filed to dismiss assault charges against Christian Enrique Carías Torres, the moped driver arrested by Logan Circle

GOVERNMENT’S MOTION TO DISMISS
The United States of America, by and through its attorney, the United States Attorney for
the District of Columbia, respectfully moves this Court in the interest of justice to dismiss the
above captioned matter with prejudice

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · Sep 5

ICE said one of countries Abrego claims removal fear of is Costa Rica. But in filing to reopen Abrego’s immigration case, first reported by MSNBC last week, Abrego’s lawyers sought to designate Costa Rica as country of removal bc CR offered refugee status/assurances not to deport him to El Salvador

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · Sep 5

"We hereby notify you that your new country of removal is Eswatini, Africa,” ICE’s principal legal advisor Charles Wall wrote to Abrego’s lawyers

ICE said Abrego has claimed he fears persecution or torture in "at least 22 different countries.” Abrego’s lawyers didn’t dispute fear of removal claims

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · Sep 5

New: ICE notified Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers today that the Trump admin now plans to deport him to Eswatini, Africa, according to an email ICE sent to Abrego’s counsel that MSNBC obtained.

ICE says Abrego’s fear claim that he’d be persecuted and tortured in Uganda “is hard to take seriously”

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · Sep 4

BREAKING: DC's elected attorney general is suing Trump over the National Guard takeover: www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

D.C. sues Trump administration over 'illegal deployment' of National Guard in Washington

"None of this is lawful," the suit from D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says.

www.nbcnews.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Aug 31

BREAKING: A federal judge has *blocked* the Trump administration from abruptly deporting 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children — perhaps within a matter of hours — granting an emergency restraining order after advocates called the plan illegal + dangerous. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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The Weekend on MSNBC @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social · Aug 30

@lbarronlopez.bsky.social shares her new reporting on the humanitarian crisis inside a Virginia ICE field office following Trump's DC federal takeover "This takeover has left them feeling as though they don't really have a home anymore"

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Chantilly has become this black box where people are being sent after they are being arrested in the streets of D.C.
It is an office; it is not intended to detain people”

Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEWS: ICE's Chantilly office is a "black box" where conditions are increasingly dire, attorneys & a relative of person detained tell @msnbc.com
- 1 meal a day = a single burrito
- some 40-90 ppl crammed into room, sleeping on concrete
- Some held as long as 7 days
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/v...

Inside a Virginia ICE office: One meal a day, 40 people in a room and no bathing for days

"The situation is getting worse by the day," warns Amy Fischer, an organizer with Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid. "It is an office; it is not intended to detain people."

www.msnbc.com

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · Aug 29

ACLU’s Sophia Gregg said DHS' denial “conflicts with the information provided to ACLU-VA from an ICE officer” at Chantilly. ACLU "heard directly from people there" & families that ppl are "only provided 1 meal per day, no showers" & there are "hot temperatures" in holding rooms & "illness spreading”

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · Aug 29

DHS denied accounts from attorneys. A senior DHS official said no detainees are staying at Chantilly "for seven days or over the legal limit." They said Chantilly is at 37% capacity, "nowhere near maximum capacity," ppl are getting 3 meals a day, showers, legal representation

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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · Aug 29

Chantilly is a main processing facility for those arrested by ICE during Trump's DC crackdown. ACLU attorney Sophia Gregg told @msnbc.com: Conditions are "rapidly degenerating" & "ICE is holding up to 80 people in a single room for more than a week at a time" w/no access to lawyers

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