Members phkrause Posted Tuesday at 03:27 PM Author Members Posted Tuesday at 03:27 PM Armed Israeli Settlers Detained Ro Khanna. He Wants Their Illegal Outposts Demolished. On a hot Wednesday afternoon in the Palestinian village of Zanuta, California Rep. Ro Khanna walked through the ruins of a Palestinian school demolished by Israeli settlers several years earlier. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/11/ro-khanna-west-bank-settler-violence-palestine-israel/? Rebecca Nagle on the Boomerang of Empire Last spring, President Donald Trump issued the “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order, taking aim at federal parks, monuments, museums, and sites that have cast the United States’s “founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light.” On the Fourth of July this year, the White House published its 162-page “Saving America’s Story,” attacking the Smithsonian Institution directly for “anti-white activism,” “illegal alien activism,” “transgender activism,” and more broadly for adopting “an ideological framework that no longer treats the American story as a shared national inheritance to be taught or celebrated, but as a political instrument to divide, dispirit, and discourage our citizens.” https://theintercept.com/2026/07/11/america-250-history-myths-native/? Maine Senate Candidates Claim They’re Just Like Platner — But Entirely Different Candidates entering the Maine Senate race after Graham Platner suspended his campaign following a rape allegation are walking a fine line between distancing themselves from the disgraced candidate and embracing his base, which they’ll need to beat Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in November. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/10/maine-senate-platner-replace-nirav-shah-troy-jackson/? Company That Bragged It Could Track U.S. Spies Hired to Investigate “Havana Syndrome” The U.S. military inquiry into the so-called Havana syndrome, the mysterious illness claimed by a litany of American intelligence officers, is tapping a controversial contractor: a private surveillance firm that once boasted of its ability to stalk American intelligence officers. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/12/anomaly-6-havana-syndrome-surveillance/? The Trump Administration Is Overhauling Birth Control Access for the Pronatalist Movement The Trump administration is quietly turning a federal program designed to help lower-income Americans access birth control and other reproductive health services into an engine for pronationalism, a far-right movement with roots in eugenics that pushes people to have more babies. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/10/rfk-jr-pronatalism-birth-control/? DSA Members Urge Campaigns to Ditch Platner Consultant Who Advised Mamdani Members of the Democratic Socialists of America circulated a letter calling on candidates and elected officials to refuse to work with the consultants who handled Graham Platner’s campaign, according to screenshots of the letter shared with The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/10/dsa-graham-platner-morris-katz-consultant/? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Members phkrause Posted 18 hours ago Author Members Posted 18 hours ago ICE Orders an End to Vehicle Stops After Deadly Shootings by Federal Agents Internal orders handed down by leaders at U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement instructed officers in the field to stop making vehicle stops, according to five ICE officials around the country. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/14/ice-order-vehicle-stops-killings-shootings/? Intel Pick Jay Clayton Won’t Tell Congress Whether Trump Ordered Subpoenas of NYT Journalists At his confirmation hearing to serve as the nation’s top intelligence officer, Jay Clayton dodged questions about whether the White House ordered him to send subpoenas to New York Times journalists as part of an FBI investigation into alleged leaks of classified information. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/15/jay-clayton-confirmation-hearing-journalist-subpoenas/? ps:Of course he won't, he doesn't want to lie! Not sure why all the others have!!!!! Trump’s Sanctions Against the ICC Are Unconstitutional, Rights Groups Say Two pro-Palestine groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday that takes aim at U.S. sanctions against international human rights groups linked to efforts to hold Israel accountable for war crimes. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/15/trump-sanctions-international-criminal-court/? Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Wants to Save Crypto — But Trump Windfall Is a Political Obstacle Donald Trump is cleaning up on crypto, recently disclosing a $1.4 billion windfall. Yet cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have, after a year of flying high in the wake of Trump’s election, plummeted. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/13/gillibrand-crypto-trump-profit-clarity-act/? Democrats Are Desperate to Flip an Arizona House Seat. They’re Rallying Around a Former Republican. As the Democratic Party establishment consolidates around a former Republican they hope can flip a key Arizona congressional seat, super PACs are spreading their resources across candidates in the district’s upcoming Democratic primary — and three of the top spenders have ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/15/arizona-democrats-republicans-aipac-house-race/? How ICE Arrests Went Quiet — and Got Even More Deadly For the second time in a week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have shot a man dead. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year-old father from Colombia, was driving slowly in Biddeford, Maine, when an agent shot into his vehicle. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/14/ice-shootings-maine-houston/? Harlan Crow Maxed Out Campaign Donations to John Fetterman Billionaire Republican megadonor Harlan R. Crow gave the maximum allowed contribution to the campaign for Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/15/harlan-crow-john-fetterman-donation/? Iran Claims to Kill 3 U.S. Service Members in Kuwait After Iran claimed to have killed three U.S. personnel in Kuwait over the weekend, the Pentagon’s official toll of injuries and deaths in the war quietly climbed on Monday. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/13/iran-us-death-toll-casualties-kuwait/? Trump’s Intel Pick Played Key Role in NYT Subpoenas — But Some Democrats Still On the Fence Progressive groups are demanding that Democrats on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence oppose Jay Clayton’s nomination as director of national intelligence, pointing to his role in an attempt to intimidate the New York Times over critical reporting on the Trump administration. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/14/jay-clayton-nyt-subpoenas-national-intelligence/? Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
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