The Intercept Investgations

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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/?

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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/?

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ICE Officers at Maine Shooting Scene Were Wearing Body Cameras. They Were Not Turned On.

Federal officers at the scene of a killing by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Maine were wearing body cameras, according to four ICE officials who reviewed images from the scene — but the cameras are on multi-function devices that ICE officers use as radio mics.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/16/ice-maine-shooting-body-cameras/?

Trump’s Formula for Forever Wars

President Donald Trump blew up the temporary ceasefire after the U.S. launched a series of airstrikes against Iran over the weekend. The two nations have continued to exchange strikes throughout the week, with Iran targeting U.S. allies in the Middle East, as Congress debates further entangling the United States military with Israel — a proposal that would give Israel enormous leverage over U.S. defense policy.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/17/spencer-ackerman-lindsey-graham-iran-war/?

Would-Be Platner Replacements in Maine Rally Around “Abolish ICE” (or Something Close)

In the wake of a deadly shooting of a young father in southern Maine on Monday, the abbreviated race to replace Graham Platner on the Democratic Party ticket for the 2026 Senate race quickly became centered on immigration — and most of the serious contenders are on the same page.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/16/maine-platner-replacement-abolish-ice-shootings/?

In the Wake of Fatal ICE Shootings, Democrats Drag Their Feet

Democrats in Congress have remained largely silent and inactive in the wake of ICE agents’ fatal shootings of two immigrant men in Maine and Texas, displaying lackluster energy compared to the party’s response to the killings of two white U.S. citizens earlier this year.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/17/democrats-congress-abolish-ice-killings/?

It’s Scary As Hell Being Black in America Right Now

There is a tangible heat to being Black in America this summer. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/19/nolan-wells-kohen-wiley/?

ps:Not just this year, but for at least 250+ years!!!!!

Two-Thirds of Shri Thanedar’s Campaign Cash Came Through AIPAC as He Lost Over $600K

Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., lost more than $630,000 in investment income last quarter after he put $3.7 million in campaign funds into the cryptocurrency industry, according to a new filing with the Federal Election Commission released on Wednesday. Amid those losses, bundlers from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee have stepped in to prop up his campaign.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/17/shri-thanedar-crypto-donavan-mckinney-michigan-aipac/?

The United States of Betrayal

Donald Trump — America’s self-proclaimed “peace president,” head of the world’s newly created Board of Peace, and the recipient of the first FIFA Peace Prize — has nonetheless been embroiled in more than 20 wars, interventions, and conflicts. And more loom on the horizon. Cuba remains on the chopping block. He began threatening Greenland, again. And Guatemala agreed to joint military operations with the U.S. against cartels.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/18/united-states-betray-allies-trump-foreign-policy/?

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“Cover-Up” Unravels as Pentagon Admits Nearly 100 Injured in Iran Strikes

The Pentagon belatedly admitted that almost 100 U.S. troops have been injured in the last two weeks as Iran has hit U.S. targets across the Middle East, following months of reporting by The Intercept that found the Pentagon’s official tally of dead and wounded personnel is a gross undercount, which one U.S. government official previously called a “casualty cover-up.”

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/21/iran-war-pentagon-casualties-injuries/?

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

While they’re not as common as reviews for cafes and dry cleaners, reviews have poured into Google Maps by the thousands for the growing network of jails operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The reviews have come from internet users sharing their often harrowing experiences in the detention facilities.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/20/google-maps-reviews-ice-detention-centers/?

William Lawrence Is Running in a Purple Michigan District — on His Pro-Palestine Credentials

In key swing districts across the country, Democratic Party leaders have backed centrist candidates with carefully calibrated positions on charged issues such as artificial intelligence and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/22/michigan-primary-will-lawrence-palestine/?

GOP Rep. Called Israeli–U.S. Defense Tech Integration “Dangerous.” The House Passed It Anyway.

The House passed a $1.15 trillion defense authorization bill Wednesday with a controversial provision expanding U.S.-Israel military technology cooperation intact, despite a bipartisan effort to remove it and warnings from Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., that the measure could compromise American sovereignty and national security.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/22/ndaa-defense-bill-pentagon-israel-massie/?

Nancy Pelosi’s Pick for Her SF House Seat Takes Anti-AIPAC Pledge

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s preferred successor for her San Francisco congressional seat has gained the endorsement of the political arm of the pro-Palestine and anti-genocide advocacy group TrackAIPAC after pledging to back an arms embargo on Israel if elected to Congress.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/21/connie-chan-san-francisco-aipac-pelosi/?

Hegseth’s War Department Slashed Civilian Protection Staff, Brought in AI Assessments

Self-styled War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has gutted its premier center devoted to preventing civilian casualties in war zones, cutting staff, scrapping a civilian harm records database, and developing an AI assistant to accelerate assessments, according to a new report shared with The Intercept. These revelations come as the Trump administration has renewed attacks on civilian sites in Iran.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/20/hegseth-civilian-harm-deaths-war/?

ICE Mandates Dress Code After Killings and Botched Arrest

Following a pair of deadly shootings by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, the division of the agency responsible for street arrests and deportations issued a new policy mandating a dress code for field operations.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/21/ice-undercover-plainclothes-uniform/?

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On a West Bank Eviction Tour, Israeli Settlers Advertise “No Arabs Here”

WEST BANK — On a hillside overlooking the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, a crowd of Israelis and Jewish visitors from abroad gathered for an inside look at how settlement works. They listened intently as Netanel, an Israeli settler-soldier in olive fatigues with a rifle strapped to his back, advertised his group’s impact in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/23/west-bank-israeli-settlers-palestine/?

Hegseth Is Pushing Testosterone. The VA Has Already Struggled With the Treatment.

Providing continuing hormone-replacement therapy at “the High-T Department of War,” as Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling it, may prove difficult for the federal government because the department in charge of healthcare for veterans has already documented a struggle to manage service members’ hormone therapy, The Intercept has found.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/24/hegseth-testosterone-hormone-therapy-veterans-affairs/?

U.S. Website Gave False Approval to Green Card Applicants — Then Blamed Glitch and Took It Away

When Jesse Miranda, a U.S. citizen, sponsored an application for a green card for his wife nearly a year ago, he understood the process would take time.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/23/approved-green-cards-uscis-website-glitch/?

Trump’s Crypto Corruption Puts Centrist Democrats in Bind

The latest version of a sweeping crypto bill exposed a deep divide between progressives and moderate Senate Democrats: whether to accommodate the industry ahead of the fall midterms, or declare open war on it.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/23/trump-crypto-conflict-clarity-act-democrats/?

Rubio’s Paranoid Cuba Report Designed to “Justify a Military Attack on Cuba,” Says Democratic Rep.

A report published this week by the State Department is the latest weapon employed by the Trump administration in its campaign for aggressive intervention in Cuba, according to members of Congress and experts on the beleaguered Caribbean island nation.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/26/cuba-marco-rubio-state-department-report/?

Pete Hegseth’s Crisis of Masculinity

On Wednesday at 11:07 p.m. ET, the president went on Truth Social to share an important piece of information with Americans. It wasn’t an update on the sinking U.S. economy, the failing forever war with Iran, a remembrance of the Americans recently killed in that conflict, rising gasoline prices, the more than 800 lawsuits against his administration, a cyclosporiasis outbreak, surging cases of measles, the problems with his Qatari-gifted Air Force One, or comment on any of the swirling crises that typify the day-to-day of Donald Trump’s America.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/25/pete-hegseth-testosterone-military-masculinity/?

Leaked Email Reveals New Requirements for ICE Vehicle Stops

Less than two weeks ago, following a pair of fatal shootings by immigration officers in Texas and Maine, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ordered a halt to vehicle stops nationwide.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/25/trump-ice-vehicle-stops-policy/?

Trump’s National Killer Police Force

Within the span of a week, federal immigration agents shot and killed two people in Maine and Texas, and another was hit by a truck and killed in Florida after trying to avoid ICE agents. A fourth person recently died in ICE custody after reportedly being denied medication. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/24/trump-ice-deaths-mass-deportation/?

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Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses

As munitions streaked through the night sky, a plaintive cry like a whale song echoed in the darkness. U.S. troops grabbed their gear and headed for shelter as the warning sirens rang out, a leaked video shows.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/28/iran-missiles-drones-us-air-defenses/?

Abdul El-Sayed Faces Islamophobic Attacks From GOP and Democratic Establishment

In a July 19 interview with a leading Democratic Senate candidate in the swing state of Michigan, CNN host Jake Tapper homed in on the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran — but he didn’t ask the candidate’s thoughts on the hundreds of Iranian and Lebanese civilians killed, nor the possibility of U.S. war crimes, and not even 18 dead U.S. soldiers. Instead, Tapper posed: “Why were you worried about offending people who support the ayatollah?” 

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/27/abdul-el-sayed-haley-stevens-aipac-senate-michigan/?

House Investigation of BreakThrough News Is an Attack on All Journalism

The House Ways and Means Committee last week carried out an attack on journalism that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves. The committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News, a left-wing outlet with deep ties to the Party for Socialism and Liberation that is highly critical of the United States and Israel, along with two other nonprofits with similar ideologies, The People’s Forum and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/27/breakthrough-news-journalists-subpoena/?

Fauci’s Diary Isn’t the Key to Why Covid Ravaged the U.S. — Our Broken Healthcare System Is

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has made it his mission to put Dr. Anthony Fauci in prison.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/29/covid-fauci-diary-rand-paul-healthcare-pandemic/?

Donald Trump and Wars of Choice

President Donald Trump reclaimed the White House last year promising to keep the United States out of conflicts and claiming to be a peacemaker. “Under Trump, we will have no more wars,” he said on the campaign trail in 2024. And Trump has been especially critical of going to war in Iraq. “We should have never been in Iraq,” said Trump during a Republican presidential debate in February 2016. “We have destabilized the Middle East.”

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/29/trump-wars-of-choice-iran/?

Fetterman Might Leave Democratic Party Because the Only Thing He Loves More Than Israel Is Attention

Sen. John Fetterman may switch parties, and the reason is simple: The Democrat from Pennsylvania loves nothing like he loves media coverage.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/27/fetterman-leave-democrat-party-israel/?

The Right Seeks to Capitalize on Berlin Pride Attack — Even as It Poses Its Own Existential Threat to Queer Lives

On Saturday night, a man drove a van into a crowd near Berlin’s Pride Festival, before getting out and stabbing several people, leaving one woman dead and dozens injured.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/27/berlin-pride-attack-afd-trump/?

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Abdul El-Sayed on The Intercept Briefing

On Tuesday, Abdul El-Sayed and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., will face off in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. The race is the next biggest test of whether progressives can win statewide, particularly in purple territory.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/31/democrats-michigan-el-sayed-stevens-left-moderate/?

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows

For more than a year, the Trump administration has sought to blame immigrants for widespread health care fraud. Immigrant communities, the Trump administration’s bunk theory goes, are draining resources and raising costs by defrauding the federal government.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/31/immigrants-healthcare-medicare-fraud-scam/?

Free Speech Crackdown: Germany Deports Bob Vylan Frontman for Anti-Israel Chants

The frontman of British punk rap band Bob Vylan was denied entry to Germany, detained at the Berlin airport, and ultimately deported to the United Kingdom last month due to his pro-Palestine statements.

https://theintercept.com/2026/07/30/bob-vylan-germany-deport-palestine-israel/?

Cori Bush Has No Regrets

The internet had a field day last summer when a picture surfaced of Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., with his arm around a former Democratic member of Congress.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/01/missouri-cori-bush-wesley-bell-primary-aipac/?

Trump’s Truth Social API Is a Blatantly Corrupt Favor to Wall Street

For the low, low price of $100,000 a month, the ever-oxymoronic Truth Social is now selling direct access to its most important posts — or, in the firm’s preferred parlance, “truths” — to Wall Street. That’s an expedited lane to access statements and data from the president of the United States and other government officials, which have significant potential to move financial markets, ahead of us suckers in the general public. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/01/truth-social-api-trump-wall-street/?

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Abdul El-Sayed Beats the Democratic Establishment and AIPAC in Michigan

Despite record amounts of outside spending and attacks from the Democratic establishment, Abdul El-Sayed prevailed in a bitter primary race for the U.S. Senate seat in Michigan.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/05/michigan-primary-results-el-sayed-stevens-aipac/?

The Most Expensive Democratic Senate Primary Has a Winner

Over the course of Donald Trump’s second term, Democratic voters have expressed dissatisfaction with their party over what many view as an inability to stand up to the president and his broader movement. That dissatisfaction with the establishment has manifested in primaries in coastal cities across the country, where the progressive movement appears to be ascendant. On Tuesday, that test played out in Midwestern states, Michigan and Missouri.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/05/michigan-missouri-primary-results-el-sayed/?

Bari Weiss’s “60 Minutes” Hires Producer Who Downplayed Gaza Starvation, Justified Killing Journalists

Bari Weiss’s latest hire for “60 Minutes,” whose major journalistic output includes smearing genocide victims and putting a target on the backs of reporters in Gaza, shows that the full-blown right-wing tabloidification of the television news program is charging ahead. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/04/60-minutes-bari-weiss-cbs-news-israel-gaza/?

Wesley Bell Again Defeats Cori Bush — With Plenty of Help From AIPAC

Fueled by pro-Israel funding, Rep. Wesley Bell, D-Mo., fended off a primary challenge from former Rep. Cori Bush, whom he ousted from Congress two years ago.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/04/wesley-bell-cori-bush-missouri-aipac/?

Liberals Are Ceding Ground to the Far Right on Ceuta Border Crossings

Over 50,000 people last week risked their lives to cross the border between Morocco and Ceuta, the tiny Spanish enclave in north Africa, in the hope of making it to mainland Europe.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/03/ceuta-spain-morocco-refugee-border/?

The Pentagon Found a New Way to Undercount U.S. Casualties in Iran

The Pentagon is using a new method of tallying the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in the Iran war that a U.S. government official said was “designed to obscure the count.”

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/04/us-military-casualties-count-iran-war/?

NYPD Used High-Tech Surveillance to Find Gaza Paint Splatter Protester, Docs Show

Columbia University had just resumed classes for the first time since a major crackdown on pro-Palestine demonstrations roiled campus throughout the first half of 2024.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/03/nypd-surveillance-gaza-protest-columbia/?

There’s No Time for Centrists to Be Doomers About El-Sayed’s Victory

Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic Party’s nominee for the Senate in Michigan after besting Rep. Haley Stevens by less than 1 percentage point. Not long after The Associated Press called the race on Wednesday morning, Stevens threw her “full support” behind El-Sayed. While the votes were still being counted on Tuesday night, state Sen. Mallory McMorrow — who had dropped out of the running in July — also endorsed her former opponent, acknowledging that despite a “brutal” primary race, what is most important now is to head into November as a “unified party.”

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/05/abdul-el-sayed-michigan-democratic-senate-primary/?

When a President Promises a Massacre

“I want to give them every last chance before decapitation,” President Donald Trump said on Tuesday when asked about his floundering war with Iran. “It’s a very, very tough thing to do.” 

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/05/trump-colonial-extermination-asymmetric-warfare/?

BLM Protester Transferred Thousands of Miles Away After They Organized Against Their Solitary Confinement

A political activist serving the longest federal prison sentence of any 2020 Black Lives Matter protester was transferred without warning to a detention facility thousands of miles away from their supporters and attorney.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/04/malik-muhammad-black-lives-matter-prison-transfer/?

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Black Residents Warned of Abusive Cops for Years. Then Police Shot and Killed a Toddler.

Outside the Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, where police shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, a shrine of stuffed animals sits between the garden center and the pharmacy. There are teddy bears, elephants, and kangaroos with babies in their pouches. There is a Bluey plush toy — Kohen’s favorite cartoon — along with matchbox cars, a green plastic tractor, and an array of artificial flowers.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/06/kohen-wiley-senatobia-mississippi-police-shooting/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The Intercept Newsletter

Congress Might Give ICE the Power to Go After Shoplifters

To counter the purported national scourge of “organized retail crime,” a bill moving through Congress would deliver the Department of Homeland Security unprecedented policing powers, granting even more authority to what experts say is an already lawless ICE.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/07/congress-ice-shoplifting-theft-surveillance/?

Rubio Is Trying to Keep Leftists Out of U.S. by Banning Supporters of “Economic Sabotage”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last month a policy banning visas for foreigners accused of links to “far-left terrorism.” The policy cited Donald Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 as well as the law Rubio used to try to deport the pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/08/state-department-rubio-leftists-visas-terrorism/?

State Department Wants Palantir’s Advice on Free Speech and “Countering Digital Surveillance”

The Trump administration tapped a surveillance giant with a record of attacking the press to advise the State Department on free speech.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/07/state-department-palantir-free-speech-surveillance/?

The Pentagon Is Posting Cryptic Biblical Messages on Social Media

As senior military leaders privately warned that the war with Iran was straining U.S. forces, depleting key missile defenses, and leaving the military without sufficient naval resources to continue protecting Israel, the Pentagon turned to Christian scripture in its official social media messaging.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/06/pentagon-department-defense-isaiah-6-8-send-me-iran-war/?

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“Total Whitewash”: New Pentagon Report Claims U.S. Killed No Civilians in Boat Strikes

The War Department delivered its unreleased annual report on civilian casualties to members of Congress on Tuesday, two government officials told The Intercept — one of whom called the report “a fucking joke.” The report found that U.S. attacks likely killed or wounded hundreds of civilians.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/11/war-department-civilian-casualties-boat-strikes-yemen/?

The Intercept Sues Trump for Selling Premium Access to Truth Social Announcements

The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation sued President Donald Trump and his staff Wednesday, challenging a Trump-owned media company’s plan to monetize the president’s social media posts.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/12/trump-media-truthsocial-premium-first-amendment/?

Francesca Hong’s Loss in Wisconsin Is a Win for AI Data Centers — for Now

Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong’s narrow defeat in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday night wasn’t just a stinging blow to the left — it marks a political loss for a nonpartisan anti-data center movement that has been picking up significant steam across the country. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/12/francesca-hong-wisconsin-governor-data-centers/?

No, AOC: “Woke” Wasn’t “Crazy” the Way You Say It Was

Democrats have a lot to be embarrassed about when it comes to their actions during 2020. Like when Democratic members of Congress, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Chuck Schumer, and then-Sen. Kamala Harris, clad in kente cloth stoles, took a knee on Capitol Hill after introducing the 2020 Justice in Policing Act.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/11/alexandria-ocasio-cortex-woke-one-crazy/?

The Pentagon’s Obsession With China Puts Hawai‘i at Risk

The Pentagon is reportedly overhauling its nuclear strategy, focusing on shorter-range tactical nukes rather than longer-range, higher-yield missiles, for possible regional wars with China and Russia. The man drafting this madness masquerading as a plan is policy chief and China hawk, Elbridge Colby. (You may remember him as the Pentagon official who wasn’t sure the U.S. was at war with Iran more than a month into the conflict.) 

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/10/china-war-hawaii-military-cost-nuclear/?

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Cornell to Pro-Palestine Students Targeted by ICE: Come Back to the U.S. or Lose Funding

Cornell University is reneging on its pledge to help two graduate students avoid immigration detention by threatening to cut their funding if they don’t return to the United States, where the Trump administration has targeted them for possible deportation over their participation in a pro-Palestine protest. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/14/cornell-pro-palestine-student-targeting-ice/?

Israel Justified Its Wars by Calling Enemies “Crazy.” Now, the Warning Signs All Apply to Israel.

In July 2020, Aluf Benn, the editor of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, interviewed a 92-year-old retired Hebrew University professor named Yehezkel Dror. Benn described him as the “doyen of public policy experts in Israel.” For his part, Dror fashioned himself after Herman Kahn, the American defense intellectual who made his name by “thinking the unthinkable” — how to fight a thermonuclear war. In 2005, Dror’s work on policy planning and strategic thinking won him the coveted Israel Prize.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/13/israel-palestine-benjamin-netanyahu-likud-crazy/?

ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.

Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his drinking water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/16/ricardo-parias-ice-detention-journalist-los-angeles/?

Has the Left Really Met Its Limit?

The stunning momentum of the insurgent left hit a roadblock this week when democratic socialist Francesca Hong narrowly lost her primary race for Wisconsin governor to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, a moderate who garnered significant support from establishment Democrats.  

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/14/david-sirota-democratic-establishment/?

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ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents appear to have worked directly with government officials in Iran to deport over 100 Iranian nationals as the United States prepared to bomb their home country, according to a newly released trove of internal emails from ICE.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/18/iran-trump-deportation-flights-ice/?

The Short Life of a Newborn During the Iran War

Mohammad Ali Kialha’s first hours were all he knew of peace. He was born on February 26 in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Two days later, President Donald Trump began his war on that country. “Bombs will be dropping everywhere,” Trump wrote on social media on February 28. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/18/iran-war-civilian-deaths-families-infant/?

Immigrant Wants to Pay $368,000 in Fines, but Broken Payment System Won’t Let Him

When Daniel arrived in the U.S. about two decades ago, he came on a legal tourist visa. Once here, having fled his home country in South America, he filed an asylum application. A judge, however, eventually denied his claim.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/20/trump-immigration-civil-fines-deport/?

A Democratic Socialist Aims to Oust a Top AIPAC Beneficiary in Florida

The conventional thinking for Democrats hoping to win in Florida is to be tough on Cuba, friendly to Israel, and careful to avoid appearing too liberal. It’s a tactic aimed at courting powerful voting blocs, and one that helped Rep. Jared Moskowitz take office in the land of sunny skies and low taxes.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/17/florida-congress-oliver-larkin-jared-moskowitz-aipac/?

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Pentagon Spokesperson Admits There’s a Secret Blacklist of Journalists

U.S. Central Command maintains a secret directory of journalists who have been blacklisted by the press office, according to an official with CENTCOM public affairs. The disclosure comes amid a failed war in Iran, a “cover-up” of U.S. casualties from that conflict, and repeated refusals by CENTCOM to address questions about civilian deaths in Iran, including the killing of a family recently disclosed by The Intercept.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/24/pentagon-military-journalist-blacklist-press-media/?

What American Doctors Saw in Gaza

It’s been nearly three years into Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians, and still no step closer to its end. Since the latest “ceasefire” began in October 2025, Israel has continued to bombard Gaza and has killed more than 1,200 people, United Nations experts reported earlier this month. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more recently rejected President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace agreement with Hamas for Israeli troops to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/21/gaza-hospitals-american-doctor-documentary/?

RIP to the Russiagate Liberals

Alexander Vindman lost to Angie Nixon in the Florida Democratic senatorial primary on Tuesday, marking a long-overdue end to one of the worst liberal mass delusions of the Trump era: Russiagate.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/22/russiagate-resistance-liberals-alex-vindman-angie-nixon/?

This Mysterious “Astroturf” Group Popped Up to Defend the Paramount Merger

A state attorney general challenging the controversial mega-merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery is under attack from a newly created mystery nonprofit accused of being an “astroturf” front group.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/21/paramount-merger-warner-discovery-david-ellison-antitrust/?

The Dawn of a New Cold War

In my youth, pop culture told me that the Cold War would end in one of two ways: a Soviet–Cuban invasion that would necessitate my taking to the hills and fighting a guerrilla war against the Communists, à la “Red Dawn,” like a young Patrick Swayze; or riding out an atomic winter after a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, as in “The Day After.” The only other hope was Rocky besting Drago in a proxy war held in a boxing ring (“In here, there were two guys killing each other, but I guess it’s better than 20 million”). Instead, in November 1989, I watched the Cold War end on a TV with an antenna, as the Berlin Wall came crashing down. Suddenly, there was only one superpower left standing.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/23/trump-china-ai-chips-rare-earth/?

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A New Tree-Sit Movement to Block Trump’s Border Wall

Of the more than $170 billion that President Donald Trump secured for his border regime in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” nearly $50 billion is allocated to border wall construction. Even with these enormous resources, however, the administration continues to face challenges constructing its monument to violent exclusion along the southern border through tribal, private, and state lands.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/27/trump-us-mexico-border-wall-tree-sit-arizona/?

“They Want People Scared”: Former Palestine Action Member Blasts Trump’s Terror Sanctions

When police in Kent, United Kingdom, arrested American peace activist Max Geller in 2021 for chaining himself to a van parked in front of an Israeli-owned weapons factory, he knew he might be jailed and face charges for his protest. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/27/palestine-action-terrorism-sanctions-trump-ban-israel/?

Palestinians Asked for Help Against Settlers. Israelis Detained Palestinian Workers Instead.

Shortly before midnight on August 4, Israeli settlers arrived at the home of Loui Abu Ridi, a Palestinian American, in the village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/26/settlers-israel-soldiers-west-bank-siege-qusra/?

Conservative Groups Side With Minneapolis Protesters Against Trump Crackdown

A trio of conservative and libertarian-leaning groups have asked a federal judge to force the disclosure of confidential files about undercover agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement infiltrating left-wing protest groups in Minneapolis.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/25/minneapolis-ice-protesters-undercover-agents/?

It’s Time to Rein in Lethal AI Drones

Drone warfare, for many years, meant mostly one thing: A U.S. Predator drone, a missile-armed winged lawnmower in the sky, stalked a single target and then assassinated him. Or someone, at least. Top-secret Pentagon documents showed that 90 percent of those killed during one campaign in Afghanistan were not the primary targets, according to a 2015 investigation by The Intercept.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/26/ai-drone-warfare-russia-ukraine-openai-anthropic/?

Local Cops Flout Sanctuary Law to Help ICE Deport Immigrants

Minutes after Riverton police officer Brad Herzog ran 31-year-old Daniel Torrez Perez’s name through a law enforcement database one night in April 2025, his phone rang. It was the FBI.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/25/illinois-trust-act-ice-deport-police-collaboration/?

Sixty More U.S. Soldiers Reported Injured in Iran War

The U.S. military revealed that an additional 60 service members have been injured in the Iran war, lifting the official toll to 776 troops wounded or killed. Some 345 of these casualties have occurred since July 7, after a second ceasefire imploded. As the numbers of dead and wounded troops have recently mounted, the Pentagon has quietly been seeking casualty and mortuary services, according to government contracting documents analyzed by The Intercept.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/25/military-soldiers-wounded-casualties-iran-war/?

Trump Admin Said She Was Lying About Stillbirth in ICE Custody. New Evidence Points to Lack of Prenatal Care.

Two months after Iris Dayana Monterroso Lemus lost her son to a stillbirth last year while detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration issued a public response to her allegations that she did not receive prenatal care.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/27/trump-ice-custody-pregnancy-stillbirth-deport/?

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Trump Goes After Anonymous Email Provider in Italy. The Real Target Is Free Speech in the U.S.

In the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s war on the left, the U.S. government’s designation of a popular antifascist webhosting provider as a terror group could shutter a swath of radical websites in the U.S.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/28/trump-antifa-terrorist-websites-free-speech/?

The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”

Top military officers from a secretive command watched a speedboat cut through the waters of the Caribbean Sea, early last September. A plane above provided live video of the vessel and the 11 men on board. In the early morning hours, Adm. Frank Bradley sought the counsel of his top legal adviser, Col. Cara Hamaguchi. Then he ordered SEAL Team 6 operators to attack the packed boat.

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/02/military-boat-strikes-killings-year/?

Western North Carolina Pleaded for Hurricane Help. It Got ICE Instead.

After Hurricane Helene, a group called Latinos Aventureros covered more than 4,300 miles crisscrossing Western North Carolina, spending 650 volunteer hours delivering food, water, medicine, and other supplies to an estimated 1,700 people.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/29/hurricane-helene-ice-asheville-nc-g20-trump/?

Christian Employers Can Now Discriminate Against Trans People

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency tasked with protecting workers from illegal discrimination, inked an unprecedented settlement with a conservative Christian employer association that could have long-term, wide-ranging consequences.

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/01/christian-employers-settlement-gender-discrimination-eeoc/?

ICE Is Paying a Controversial AI Firm to Hide the Identities of Agents

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is launching a new “Doxing Mitigation Initiative” using AI to help ICE personnel keep their identities hidden from the public, according to an email addressed to all agency employees on Monday.

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/02/ice-ai-whistleblower-doxing-zerofox/?

CBS News Spins El-Sayed’s 9/11 Tweets Into a Manufactured Anti-Muslim Scandal

It always felt inevitable that Bari Weiss’s tenure at CBS News would see the network devolve into rank Islamophobia — but even for most of us, who took a dim view of her takeover of the news behemoth, tying Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed to the 9/11 attacks was an unexpected new low. To make matters worse, many centrist Democrats and their allies cleared the way for just this kind of attack. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/01/cbs-news-abdul-el-sayed-9-11-tweets/?

Seth Moulton Sold Out Trans Kids — and Lost His Senate Race

Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey comfortably defeated Rep. Seth Moulton in his Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, in what the media — and Moulton himself — had described as a “generational” challenge.

https://theintercept.com/2026/09/02/markey-moulton-massachusetts-senate-primary/?

Ecocide in Iran

“We won,” ‌President Donald Trump declared in March, less than two weeks after launching his war of choice against Iran. Claiming that nation was “very much destroyed and, even, obliterated,” Trump had already promised the conflict would bring peace to the region and, somehow, the globe. “The heavy and pinpoint bombing … will continue, uninterrupted … as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!” Trump wrote. But more than six months and two failed ceasefires later, the floundering conflict sputters along. And you may have noticed that world peace has yet to be announced.

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/31/iran-war-environment-toxic-chemical-exposure/?

Right-Wing Trans Hate Comes for the WNBA

The WNBA is having a moment. Viewership is up. Attendance for this year’s WNBA All-Star Game surpassed the NBA’s All-Star Game. Games and events can be viewed in a record number of places, from broadcast to cable and streaming. And just this week, Angel Reese of the Atlanta Dream set a single-game record. 

https://theintercept.com/2026/08/28/wnba-women-basketball-sports-trans/?