• Mayor Jacob Frey, who once told ICE to “get the fuck out”, has doubled down on his attacks, telling the President on X: “The job of our police is to keep people safe, not enforce fed immigration laws.”
• A new poll from the centre-left Searchlight Institute found the view that “immigrants living in the US illegally should not be deported” commands no more than 30% support even among Democrats — and far less among other groups.
• The problem facing Democrats is this: most people want order over chaos. If the electorate is asked to decide between an extreme crackdown on illegal immigration — or crime — on the one hand, or no enforcement of laws on the other, they will always choose the former.
• Another Democrat who understood this is Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, who chose to coordinate rather than fight with the administration as it deployed the National Guard to combat crime in her city.
• Walz appears to be taking his cue from Bowser. He understands that continuing to fight with the Trump administration is a losing battle and could even make the situation worse.
• And whereas other leaders might feel the pressure of their base, Walz is not running for re-election this year, which may give him some cover to do what he thinks is right, even if it’s not popular with his party.
• Total resistance has proved ineffective — and won’t suddenly succeed now.

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• Though Republicans have signaled they are open to some of the ideas Democrats have proposed, including requiring independent investigations, some in the GOP are raising warning flags about a fight to come.

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  Graham told reporters Thursday that while he was “willing to entertain some reforms … the cancer that we’re dealing with is sanctuary-city policy.” He wants a vote on legislation cracking down on those jurisdictions that don’t comply with federal immigration laws, an idea Trump also backed this month.

• US health officials are 'monitoring' the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in India that has put nearly 200 people under surveillance and triggered COVID-era travel restrictions over fears of a fresh pandemic.

• Couples who sign up with Nucleus IVF+ are presented with an electronic “menu” of up to 20 embryos they have conceived, allowing them to view the sex of each baby, their anticipated hair and eye color, and predictions about the height and IQ of each as well as their risk for various diseases. The company notes that all these characteristics are only framed in terms of probabilities — they cannot make any guarantees.