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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...

coming up at 10:45am ET/7:45am PT I'll be on @UpfrontKPFA talking about this story, the Platner campaign and the Maine Senate race. tune in: 94.1FM or at www.kpfa.org theintercept.com/2025/10/25/g...

NEW: An NYPD camera points directly into their bedroom. They’re suing the city over it. It’s the first suit to take on the NYPD’s massive surveillance network, the largest in the world, that police use to track and profile millions of New Yorkers every day theintercept.com/2025/10/28/n...

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Many of Platner’s most vocal supporters have simply doubled down after the Nazi tattoo and Reddit scandals. And his critics have celebrated what they perceive as his downfall and the folly of the left. I think both are wrong - here’s why theintercept.com/2025/10/25/g...

NEW: I wrote about the Graham Platner saga, the ghosts of John Fetterman, and who gets to be deemed as “authentic” theintercept.com/2025/10/25/g...

"When the status quo isn't working, bad ideas beat no ideas. And we've often been the party and candidates that are no ideas. What we are seeing is that Democrats can win when they have ideas." @alyssacass.bsky.social on the latest Intercept Briefing podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

NEW POD 🎧: I sat down with @alyssacass.bsky.social @chiosse.bsky.social & former mayoral candidate Jim Walden to talk Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and what the New York City mayoral race could mean for the future of the Democratic Party podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Justice Dems backing its 4th candidate this cycle - Cori Bush in her return to run for MO-01

Trump is quietly expanding control of state & local police. "Their larger project is to blur the lines between different law enforcement agencies in the military and create one national police force that is essentially under the command of the president.” theintercept.com/2025/10/20/t...

NEW: the Trump admin is partnering with environmental, fisheries and wildlife commissions to recruit cops to go after migrants. Trump’s massive expansion of federal control into local & state police includes commissions for wildlife, gaming & lottery in 3 states theintercept.com/2025/10/20/t...