@tomlatchem
Lead global correspondent covering all things US for @thedailybeast.bsky.social - without fear or favour and questioning authority for the past five decades. Contact me in complete confidence via Signal at https://tinyurl.com/6w34bxj7
Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
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Apparently she just wants to have a family. So I’m told.
Alex Jeffrey Pretti’s “care for others” led the intensive care nurse to protest immigration agents’ presence in Minnesota, his family have said
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Rachel Sayre compares what's happening in Minneapolis to what she saw in conflict zones working for USAID. Listen to her. #resist #altfam
They do, all the time.
MAGA brains breaking everywhere trying to decide if the Second Amendment means more to them than ICE and Border Patrol.
But they won’t will they.
One of them was in prison!
What “smells fishy”? We simply reported the leak had happened, not any of the names in the leak. The names were never going to go up en masse. Read the original story properly. And if you can’t see the site? This will be why.
www.thedailybeast.com/massive-ice-...
BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.
Story updated with new brand new photos of Jonathan Ross, one in Iraq, and with more new info about the officer who killed Renee Good:
theintercept.com/2026/01/08/i...
Who will be the first member of Congress to introduce legislation named after Renee Good that abolishes DHS?
Go and doorstep him.
Ivanka Trump will assist White with the planning of the White House event, because she holds a blue belt in jiu-jitsu, according to reports. Hilarious.
The Pentagon reporters who have been kicked out of the building continue to break huge stories every day while the right-wing New Media continue to post selfies of themselves hanging out in the Pentagon.
‘I can categorically say that stories being told about me from 50 years ago are not true’
- a statement from Nigel Farage tonight on claims he racially abused fellow school pupils
That firm denial tonight is different to what he said in interview with BBC Wales Political Editor Gareth Lewis 👇
NEW: Trump has offered his personal support to MAGA influencer Nick Sortor and invited him to the White House as a star journalist. While Sortor was at an event with Trump, Bondi, Patel and Noem, a warrant for his arrest was active in Kentucky.
jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/maga-influ...
Loads of them are women.
Judge Blasts ICE Special Agent William Carl's ‘Fictional’ Attempt to Jail Man for 20 Years Over Goon’s Self-Inflicted Injury (Reporting by @tomlatchem.bsky.social) www.thedailybeast.com/judge-blasts...
We write the headlines when they get praised. When they don’t: we dOn’T WriTe tHe HeAdLiNeS!!!
Yet another fun lil' scoop by me for @thedailybeast.bsky.social
Another day, another “DHS lies” exclusive by me for @thedailybeast.bsky.social
Latest by me for @thedailybeast.bsky.social on Donald Trump’s health.
My four-year-old daughter randomly kissing my hand as we walked down the road holding hands.
Columbia cancelled my class on race and media, and Washington Post fired me for speaking about race..
But I’m teaching (again) and speaking anyway.
Behind the scenes of rehearsal for the Fall cohort of Race, Media and International Affairs.
600+ students this fall.
We move! ✊🏾
Photos of the day, in a crowded field, by @winmc01.bsky.social and @gettyimages.com
Started / Going
BREAKING: Per MSNBC, Nexstar has ALSO CAVED and will stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! Way to go, everyone!
Good little spot for this latest scoop.
