Akela Lacy

NEWS: ICE agents are camped outside immigration courts to arrest people after they've had their cases dismissed in court. Other agents spotted in AZ, CA, IL, MA, MD, TX. w/ @noahhurowitz.bsky.social & Jose Olivares theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...

SCOOP: Police shot UCLA protesters in the head w/ rubber bullets @ the encampment against Israel's war on Gaza. Now they're suing. "These attacks also happened in Democratic-run cities and blue states. That is a clear, direct path to what’s happening now with Trump." theintercept.com/2025/05/05/u...

NEW: Shai Davidai is leaving Columbia. Davidai posted today that an investigation into him by the school found no wrongdoing. Students Mahmoud Khalil and Mohsen Mahdawi have said Davidai called for their deportations ahead of their arrests by ICE theintercept.com/2025/07/09/p...

Nirav Shah has pushed back on criticism that he's pivoted left after entering the race to replace Graham Platner in Maine. “Critics who are suggesting that this is a newfound policy position, they are putting politics over the facts,” he told me. theintercept.com/2026/07/10/m...

NEW: DSA members circulated a letter calling on candidates & elected officials to refuse to work w/ Morris Katz & Fight Agency after Platner’s campaign. Progressive strategists I talked to pushed back, pointing to the rehabbing of other Dem consultants theintercept.com/2026/07/10/d...

i'm on 1A @npr.org talking about democratic socialism! will be joined by @melatkirosco.bsky.social later in the hour t.co/SADeWvJnNO

Platner suspends his campaign x.com/grahamformai...

In a statement, a DSCC spox slammed Platner's campaign for claiming its staff are pushing a closed-door process in Maine: "This is false." Maine Democrats have referenced an "open" or "public" process without saying publicly what that would entail. theintercept.com/2026/07/08/g...

an anonymous google doc making the case for Troy Jackson circulated in progressive group chats this AM, I'm told, hitting Platner for having "attempted to sell himself as the populist solution." theintercept.com/2026/07/08/g...

NEW Intercept Briefing episode ➡️➡️ the people who stand by Graham Platner — until he was accused of rape. I speak with Dem strategist @admcrlsn.bsky.social about what he says he got wrong, and whether people are taking the wrong lessons from Platner’s downfall podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

NEWS: Speaking now, Dr. Nirav Shah tells me he has *not* heard from any national Democrats encouraging him to officially jump into the Maine Senate race

Bernie Sanders: “I have spoken with Graham Platner about the best path forward for Maine. In light of these very serious allegations, I have recommended that he step aside.”

NEW: DSA might bristle at the idea that it's building a machine. But it's playing the game. And with more than 300 dem socialists elected in 39 states since 2018, democratic socialists are bucking the claim that they can only win among white coastal elites theintercept.com/2026/07/06/d...