Jacob Soboroff
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social
MSNBC Senior Political and National Correspondent. Author of Firestorm (2026) and Separated (2020). Executive Producer of Separated, a film by Errol Morris. jacobsoboroff.com
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I’m writing a book about the devastating 2025 L.A. fires, which I covered in real time as I watched my childhood neighborhood burn to the ground. Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster will be released January 6, 2026. www.harpercollins.com/products/fir...
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
exactly two months until the release of FIRESTORM.
I cannot wait to share this book with you.
what I experienced during the fires, and what I learned after -- about myself, our city, our country, our planet, and our fellow human beings.
preorder here: a.co/d/4a9Df1M
I cannot wait to share this book with you.
what I experienced during the fires, and what I learned after -- about myself, our city, our country, our planet, and our fellow human beings.
preorder here: a.co/d/4a9Df1M
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
exactly two months until the release of FIRESTORM.
I cannot wait to share this book with you.
what I experienced during the fires, and what I learned after -- about myself, our city, our country, our planet, and our fellow human beings.
preorder here: a.co/d/4a9Df1M
I cannot wait to share this book with you.
what I experienced during the fires, and what I learned after -- about myself, our city, our country, our planet, and our fellow human beings.
preorder here: a.co/d/4a9Df1M
Sacramento right now. Huge turnout.
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Sacramento right now. Huge turnout.
voted. now headed to Sacramento for special Election Night coverage on @msnbc.com. hope you’ll join us.
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
voted. now headed to Sacramento for special Election Night coverage on @msnbc.com. hope you’ll join us.
proud to be a part of this team. ❤️
November 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
proud to be a part of this team. ❤️
“They’re out there looking like Buzz Lightyear… they’re fat… just ridiculous. They’re quirky, they’re dorky, they can’t run, they fumble their guns… they can’t even chase after their own cars.”
@eltragon.bsky.social of @lataco.bsky.social on his lack of surprise about ICE’s recruitment issues.
@eltragon.bsky.social of @lataco.bsky.social on his lack of surprise about ICE’s recruitment issues.
October 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“They’re out there looking like Buzz Lightyear… they’re fat… just ridiculous. They’re quirky, they’re dorky, they can’t run, they fumble their guns… they can’t even chase after their own cars.”
@eltragon.bsky.social of @lataco.bsky.social on his lack of surprise about ICE’s recruitment issues.
@eltragon.bsky.social of @lataco.bsky.social on his lack of surprise about ICE’s recruitment issues.
“If you do not measure it you can’t manage it.”
We may never know the final cost of the L.A. fires because Trump stopped keeping track.
Scientist formerly in charge of the project joined me on @lastword.msnbc.com ahead of the release of my new book “Firestorm.”
preorder: a.co/d/83fAJtc
We may never know the final cost of the L.A. fires because Trump stopped keeping track.
Scientist formerly in charge of the project joined me on @lastword.msnbc.com ahead of the release of my new book “Firestorm.”
preorder: a.co/d/83fAJtc
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
“If you do not measure it you can’t manage it.”
We may never know the final cost of the L.A. fires because Trump stopped keeping track.
Scientist formerly in charge of the project joined me on @lastword.msnbc.com ahead of the release of my new book “Firestorm.”
preorder: a.co/d/83fAJtc
We may never know the final cost of the L.A. fires because Trump stopped keeping track.
Scientist formerly in charge of the project joined me on @lastword.msnbc.com ahead of the release of my new book “Firestorm.”
preorder: a.co/d/83fAJtc
hi from the studio — recording the audiobook for FIRESTORM, out January 6 and available for preorder now. cannot wait for you to read or listen.
preorder now: a.co/d/j9eGjHv
preorder now: a.co/d/j9eGjHv
October 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
hi from the studio — recording the audiobook for FIRESTORM, out January 6 and available for preorder now. cannot wait for you to read or listen.
preorder now: a.co/d/j9eGjHv
preorder now: a.co/d/j9eGjHv
in for the great @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com the rest of the week. see you at 10PM ET on MSNBC.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
in for the great @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com the rest of the week. see you at 10PM ET on MSNBC.
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“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“We’re here peacefully protesting, looking as ridiculous as we can, just so maybe we appeal to the president because he’s a ridiculous leader that is normalizing abuse of power. And we cannot stand and act like nothing is happening.” 🦄
standby for video of the pink unicorn interview.
October 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
standby for video of the pink unicorn interview.
Downtown L.A. right now.
October 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Downtown L.A. right now.
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MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings
worst of the worst?
October 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
worst of the worst?
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
October 15, 2025 at 12:39 AM
here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.
for over four months I’ve reported as Trump has put troops and federal agents in cities across America. more than ever I’m seeing and hearing from people pushing back — standing up for immigrants, democracy and members of our military who don’t want this.
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
for over four months I’ve reported as Trump has put troops and federal agents in cities across America. more than ever I’m seeing and hearing from people pushing back — standing up for immigrants, democracy and members of our military who don’t want this.
The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.
Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.
www.msnbc.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
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"It is truly sickening to speak to somebody who raised three boys to go into the Marines because of how much he loved and believed in this country, only to be treated like that."
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social discusses Narciso Barranco, ICE, and more with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Pod
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social discusses Narciso Barranco, ICE, and more with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Pod
October 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"It is truly sickening to speak to somebody who raised three boys to go into the Marines because of how much he loved and believed in this country, only to be treated like that."
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social discusses Narciso Barranco, ICE, and more with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Pod
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social discusses Narciso Barranco, ICE, and more with @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Pod
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"Her mother died suddenly. And so Nori, 18 years old, was in a country that she didn't know, without the family that she grew up with, with basically no place to go and nothing to do."
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks the reality of Trump's immigration policy with @timmiller.bsky.social:
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks the reality of Trump's immigration policy with @timmiller.bsky.social:
October 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
"Her mother died suddenly. And so Nori, 18 years old, was in a country that she didn't know, without the family that she grew up with, with basically no place to go and nothing to do."
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks the reality of Trump's immigration policy with @timmiller.bsky.social:
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks the reality of Trump's immigration policy with @timmiller.bsky.social:
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"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod
October 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod
@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod
“Military occupation doesn’t make our city safer. Resources and investment makes our city safer.” thank you Bri and all the other protestors who took the time to speak with me last night in Chicago.
October 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
“Military occupation doesn’t make our city safer. Resources and investment makes our city safer.” thank you Bri and all the other protestors who took the time to speak with me last night in Chicago.
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If you come for my people, you come through me.
October 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
If you come for my people, you come through me.
Michigan Avenue right now.
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Michigan Avenue right now.
just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.
October 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.
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Gov. JB Pritzker advises Chicagoans to knows their rights and to film everything after President Trump deployed the Federal Guard to the city.
October 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Gov. JB Pritzker advises Chicagoans to knows their rights and to film everything after President Trump deployed the Federal Guard to the city.