Members phkrause Posted January 14 Author Members Posted January 14 ICE Agent Who Shot Renee Nicole Good Identified as Jonathan Ross The Intercept has identified the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed an observer in a residential neighborhood of Minneapolis on Wednesday as Jonathan Ross, a deportation officer based out of the agency’s field office in St. Paul. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/08/ice-agent-identified-shooting-minneapolis-jonathan-ross/? We Asked for ICE Bodycam Footage. DHS Claims They Don’t Have It. The Department of Homeland Security claimed four times within 48 hours that it had “no documents” in response to records requests from the Freedom of the Press Foundation late last year. These brush-offs raise serious questions about whether the agency is saving its documents anymore, much less creating them in the first place. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/09/dhs-kristi-noem-ice-bodycam-records-foia/? Trust What You Can See With Your Own Eyes It didn’t take long at all for videos to emerge from the scene of the fatal shooting by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during a raid in Minneapolis on Wednesday. And, just as quickly, the videos became a kind of Zapruder film, weaponized by people desperate to misinterpret events everyone can see with their own eyes to justify an innocent woman’s death. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/08/ice-minneapolis-video-killing-shooting/? “They Could See My Color”: Minneapolis Uber Driver Speaks Out on Why Border Patrol Accosted Him Ahmed Bin Hassan was keeping to himself, sitting in the car he was driving for Uber at the airport in Minneapolis. A few hours earlier, elsewhere in the city, an officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/11/uber-minneapolis-border-patrol-somali-american/? Border Patrol Agents Shot Two People in Portland During Immigration Stop Federal agents shot two people in Portland, Oregon, on Thursday afternoon, just one day after a killing by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent sparked national outrage. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/08/federal-agents-portland-oregon-shooting/? Five GOP Senators Vote to Move Forward Bill Blocking Future Trump Attacks on Venezuela Five Republican senators joined Democrats to advance legislation that would block President Donald Trump from launching future attacks on Venezuela without congressional approval, handing the president a symbolic rebuke hours after he said the U.S. could oversee the country’s affairs for years. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/08/war-powers-venezuela-gop-senators/? Americans Are Sick and Tired of Pointless Wars Last weekend, the United States unleashed one of the most intense overseas military operations it has seen in decades. In a meticulously planned strike involving dozens of aircraft, helicopters breaching Caracas airspace, and elite special forces, U.S. troops struck multiple sites across Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, flying them to New York to face conspiracy and drug trafficking charges. The raid, executed early in the morning with what the U.S. described as precision strikes and disabled air defenses, stunned the region and drew international condemnation for violating Venezuelan sovereignty. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/10/venezuela-trump-pointless-wars/? After Undercounting Boat Strike Killings, U.S. Military Updates Death Toll The United States killed 11 civilians in boat strikes on December 30 — eight more people than previously reported, according to new figures provided exclusively to The Intercept by Col. Emanuel Ortiz, Southern Command’s chief of public affairs. This attack on three vessels represents one of the largest single-day death tolls since the U.S. military began targeting alleged drug smuggling boats last September. The U.S military has now killed 123 people in the campaign. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/08/us-military-boat-strike-deaths-undercount/? The U.S. Desperately Wants Back in the Business of Empire With Venezuela The first coup of 2026 is in the books. In the early hours of January 3, the U.S. launched a large-scale military operation involving over 150 airplanes, which culminated in the swift capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who is now imprisoned in New York. Hours after Maduro’s kidnapping, Donald Trump announced the U.S. would “run the country” for the foreseeable future. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/08/venezuela-maduro-trump-oil-american-empire/? Failed U.S. Military Effort in Africa is on the Chopping Block The U.S. attack on Venezuela and abduction of its president Nicolás Maduro was proof that after months of threats, the Trump administration’s talk of hemispheric hegemony isn’t just bluster. The administration is clearly reorienting the U.S. military toward power projection in the Western Hemisphere, as it plots a reorganization that would make it easier to launch strikes across the Americas. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/11/venezuela-africom-trump-military-commands/? Greg Grandin on Trump’s “Universal Police Warrant” How long will the United States claim control over Venezuela? “Only time will tell,” President Donald Trump told the New York Times on Wednesday — potentially years. U.S. troops invaded the country over the weekend, kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Maduro and Flores pleaded not guilty to narco-terrorism charges in New York on Monday. They now sit in a Brooklyn jail, awaiting trial. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/09/trump-venezuela-maduro-greg-grandin/? 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 January 24 Author Members Posted January 24 She Criticized the Mayor’s Support for Israel on Facebook. Then the Cops Showed Up at Her Door. The city government of Miami Beach is under fire from civil rights groups after police visited the home of a woman about posts she made on social media critical of the mayor. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/20/miami-beach-mayor-meiner-police-speech-israel/? Even Democrats Who Crafted ICE Funding Compromise Are Questioning It Top Democrats in Congress are turning against a deal that some of their caucuses’ most powerful members reached with Republicans over the weekend to maintain steady funding for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/21/democrats-ice-funding-compromise/? 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 January 27 Author Members Posted January 27 We Can Fight This: Minnesota’s General Strike Shows How There is a possible future in which the events that unfolded in Minnesota on January 23, 2026, are forgotten. The fact of the largest general strike in the state in nearly a century may be only remembered, if at all, as a big day of protests and walkouts, and no more than that. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/24/strike-minnesota-ice-renee-good-alex-pretti/? New Legal Documents Show Marco Rubio Targeted Students for Op-Eds and Protesting New documents unsealed Thursday as a part of litigation brought by The Intercept and other news outlets reveal a critical discrepancy in Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s rationale for attempting to deport five international students and academics last year. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/23/mahmoud-khalil-palestine-protest-rubio/? New York Women’s Prison Forces People to Go Without Showers or Recreation Screams echoed through the halls of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility as women begged for their solitude to end. The sound of desperate hands banging on cell doors rang out like a solemn chorus. Exhausted, an incarcerated woman named Cici Herrera reached for a book. “That’s the only way I can keep myself from thinking too much,” she said. “I’m going crazy.” https://theintercept.com/2026/01/23/new-york-prison-solitary-halt/? It Always Comes Back to Our Failed War on Drugs The war on drugs is best understood as a political metaphor. It is a thinly veiled tool of geopolitical warfare the U.S. has conveniently deployed to justify extending its hegemony across the world. And now in Venezuela, the U.S. war on drugs — that unwinnable forever war — is proving a useful fig leaf once again. What’s clear is that it’s the latest installment in the United States’ inglorious history of dozens of “regime change” efforts in Latin America over the past two centuries. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/22/venezuela-maduro-war-drugs-narcoterrorism/? “CBS Evening News” With Tony Dokoupil Is a Right-Wing Show for Absolutely No One It’s the 6:30 p.m. ET broadcasting block on Wednesday, and Tony Dokoupil, the shiny new host of “CBS Evening News,” is explaining away the killing of three journalists in Gaza even as a ceasefire deal apparently remains in place. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/25/tony-dokoupil-cbs-evening-news/? 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 January 31 Author Members Posted January 31 These Patches Are Clues to Identifying Immigration Agents When federal Immigration agents gunned down 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti on Saturday, their identities were almost completely concealed. They were mostly wearing civilian clothes, and masks obscured their faces. With authorities refusing to disclose their names and records, the agents involved in the killing have so far remained anonymous. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/28/ice-cbp-patches-guide-to-identifying-immigration-agents/? Read the Report on Alex Pretti’s Killing — and the Bizarre Q&A CBP Gave Congress First Under pressure from members of Congress to produce a mandated report on the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, United States Customs and Border Protection instead sent Congress its responses to a list of questions — which the agency had drafted itself. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/cbp-congress-dhs-death-report-alex-pretti/? It’s Time for Concrete Action on ICE. Sadly, We Have the Democrats. With two U.S. citizens shot to death in the streets of Minneapolis in just over two weeks, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents abducting and detaining children as young as 2 years old, Americans might be forgiven for expecting a forceful response from the country’s nominal opposition party. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/26/alex-pretti-democrats-abolish-ice/? While Minnesotans Rejoice Over Greg Bovino’s Ouster, His Replacement Is a Deportation Hard-Liner MINNEAPOLIS — On Greg Bovino’s last day as a roving U.S. Border Patrol commander, protesters gathered outside the hotel where the 55-year-old was rumored to be staying. Night had fallen and the temperature was well below freezing. The demonstrators had convened to say goodbye in the loudest and least restful manner possible. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/28/greg-bovino-tom-homan-ice-deportation-trump-minneapolis/? Families of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for “Manifestly Unlawful” Killings Family members of Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41 — two Trinidadian men killed in a U.S. boat strike on October 14, 2025 — are suing the U.S. government for wrongful death and extrajudicial killing. Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the ACLU of Massachusetts, and Seton Hall Law School professor Jonathan Hafetz called the entire campaign of attacks in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean “unprecedented and manifestly unlawful” in a complaint filed on Tuesday. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/boat-strike-victims-lawsuit/? After CBP Killed Alex Pretti, His Federal VA Boss Blamed Minnesota Leaders The day After Border Patrol officers shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, his federal employer knew who to blame: Minnesota’s local government. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/26/alex-pretti-va-nurse-minneapolis-cbp-shooting/? The Second Amendment Was Never Meant for Everyone When federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last weekend, the reaction from many white gun-owning Americans was immediate disbelief. Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and licensed gun owner, was killed during an interaction with Border Patrol officers amid a wave of federal enforcement operations in the city. Bystander videos show agents disarming Pretti moments before gunfire rang out. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/28/alex-pretti-shooting-minneapolis-second-ammendment/? Army General Tapped to Lead NSA Said He Doesn’t Know Much About the Biggest NSA Controversy The Army general nominated to lead the National Security Agency was asked repeatedly this month about how he would use the agency’s vast spying powers. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/26/nsa-joshua-rudd-confirmation-hearings-senate-pick/? Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti Just hours after a U.S. Border Patrol officer gunned down Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti, Apple CEO Tim Cook, donned his tuxedo to attend an exclusive screening of a new documentary about First Lady Melania Trump. A growing number of Apple workers are now internally criticizing Cook and the company’s silence in the face of an ongoing campaign of federal brutality. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti/? ICE Arrested Father Who Cared for His Ill Son — Then Denied His Request to Attend Son’s Funeral When Maher Tarabishi got a phone call from his family on January 23, he expected an update on his son’s health. Tarabishi had been held for three months at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, and his 30-year-old son Wael’s health had been on the decline. Still, Tarabishi was hoping for a full recovery. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/28/ice-family-funeral-texas-maher-tarabishi/? Woody Guthrie Sang Against Dehumanizing the Immigrants Killed in a Plane Crash. ICE Is Doing It All Over Again. Folk legend Woody Guthrie was so angered by the dehumanizing language used to describe Mexican immigrants in 1948 that he wrote a song about it. Telling the story of dozens of Mexican workers killed during a deportation flight crash, Guthrie called the tune “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos).” https://theintercept.com/2026/01/28/woody-guthrie-deportee-plane-ice/? 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 February 4 Author Members Posted February 4 He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing. Less than 40 minutes after federal immigration agents shot and killed 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti on Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis, Clayton Kelly was thrown face-first onto the sidewalk, tasting snow and street grime as a federal agent’s knee drove into his back. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/31/minneapolis-protester-witness-killing-alex-pretti/? The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Protest Reporting The FACE Act was written with a very specific purpose: to protect those seeking abortions without restricting First Amendment-protected speech. Passed in 1994 under President Bill Clinton, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act arose after a horrific string of attacks on reproductive care facilities and providers across the United States. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/don-lemon-georgia-fort-protest-reporting-doj/? Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now The recent federal raid on the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson isn’t merely an attack by the Trump administration on the free press. It’s also a warning to anyone with a smartphone. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/washington-post-hannah-natanson-fbi-biometrics-unlock-phone/? Trump Has Already Spent $500 Million Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities President Donald Trump’s military occupations of American cities have already cost taxpayers half a billion dollars, according to a new report released by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. This unprecedented militarization of America could cost more than $1 billion this year if current domestic deployments continue. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/29/trump-military-deployments-cities-cost/? Zohran Mamdani Wants NYC to Divest From Israel — But New Comptroller Pledges to Buy War Bonds In a letter to state and local officials, the human rights organization DAWN warned on Friday that any investment in Israeli sovereign debt by New York City would violate local and international law. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/nyc-israel-bonds-mamdani-mark-levine/? Controversial Warrantless Spying Law Expiring Soon and Trump Officials Are Silent On It Congress has two months to decide whether to abandon, renew, or reform a controversial surveillance law at the heart of Edward Snowden’s leaks. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/29/nsa-702-fisa-surveillance/? Israeli Military Found Gaza Health Ministry Death Toll Was Accurate. Will These Deniers Admit It? After more than two years of denying the number of Palestinians it is killing during its campaign in Gaza, the Israeli military decided the death toll estimate kept by the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip was an accurate count of those killed in the besieged territory. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/israel-gaza-death-toll-accurate-denial/? “Melania” Is as Vacuous as Its Subject It’s darkly fitting that “Melania,” the new $75 million snoozefest from Amazon about America’s first lady, was released in theaters the same day her husband’s Justice Department dropped 3 million pages of documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. As we now know, Epstein and Donald Trump were bosom buddies for years, and the grim specter of that relationship hangs over “Melania.” https://theintercept.com/2026/02/01/melania-trump-movie-review/? An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration When the cops arrived at a party in Cantón la Estancia, a tiny hamlet in the shadow of the San Miguel volcano, Walter Josué Huete Alvarado didn’t think he had any reason to worry. He had a minor infraction on his criminal record — a DUI when he was a teenager — but that shouldn’t matter in El Salvador. It happened in the United States, where he is a citizen. Yet Alvarado’s U.S. passport didn’t deter Salvadoran police from dragging him away, pointing to the tattoos on his hands and claiming he was a member of MS-13. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/01/american-citizen-el-salvador-cecot-prison/? Even the Top Prosecutor in Minneapolis Doesn’t Know the Identity of the Agents Who Killed Alex Pretti In the two months Minnesota has been under siege by federal agents, immigration officers have shot and killed two U.S. citizens, poet and artist Renee Good and ICU nurse Alex Pretti. Local and state law enforcement say they’ve been blocked from properly investigating the shootings of Good and Pretti. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/minneapolis-ice-watch-alex-pretti-mary-moriarty/? 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 February 6 Author Members Posted February 6 Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency A panic pervades the internet: terrified talk of troops in American cities, federal shock troops brutalizing citizens and neighbors, the targeting of gun owners, mass surveillance, the deployment of militarized artificial intelligence, and the suspension of the Constitution. The year is 2015, and the far right is incensed. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/02/trump-ice-military-occupations-surveillance-state-violence/? Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants The cars sat abandoned at the side of the road. Their engines idling, with hazard lights flashing, according to a witness who captured video of the incident on his phone. The occupants of the vehicles had been taken away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers late last month in what a local immigrant rights group calls “fake traffic stops.” During these encounters, ICE vehicles reportedly employ red and blue flashing lights to mimic those of local law enforcement agencies, duping people into pulling over. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/03/ice-death-cards-ace-of-spades-colorado/? Judge Censored an ICE Agent’s Face Over “Threats.” His Info Was a Google Search Away. Days before the federal government falsely claimed cellphone-brandishing nurse Alex Pretti was a terrorist plotting a “massacre,” a jury in Chicago acquitted Juan Espinoza Martinez on bogus charges of a murder-for-hire plot against then-Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino. A recently unsealed court transcript shows the government used that case to bolster its claims about the dangers of “doxing” Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. That pretext was used to convince a judge to obscure an ICE agent’s face during a public court proceeding when his name, face, employment, and location were publicly listed on his LinkedIn page. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/03/ice-dox-unmask-safety/? 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 February 9 Author Members Posted February 9 Pentagon Makes Largest Known Arms Purchase From Israel — For Banned Cluster Weapons The Department of Defense has quietly signed a $210 million deal to buy advanced cluster shells from one of Israel’s state-owned arms companies, marking unusually large new commitments to a class of weapons and an Israeli defense establishment both widely condemned for their indiscriminate killing of civilians. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/06/pentagon-israel-cluster-munitions-weapons-sale/? ICE’s Private Prison Contractors Spent Millions Lobbying to Force Banks to Give Them Loans Some of the largest banks in the nation for years have eschewed the business of private prison giants like GEO Group and CoreCivic, the two firms that operate more than half the private carceral facilities in the country, including many U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/private-prison-corecivic-geo-group-ice-bank-loan/? “Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter The word “terrorist” wasn’t coined on September 11, 2001, but the defining event of the early 21st century ushered it in as the United States’ go-to term for demonizing outsiders and dissenters alike. The so-called “war on terror” transformed the way the U.S. wields power at home and abroad, enabling mass surveillance and a crackdown on the right to free speech. It became reflexive for the U.S. to disparage immigrants and protesters as supporters of terrorism. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/06/spencer-ackerman-9-11-terrorists-ice/? Lawmakers Call on Meta to Stop Running ICE Ad Featuring Neo-Nazi Anthem Members of Congress are demanding answers from Meta after it ran advertisements by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they say included imagery and music intended to appeal to white nationalists and neo-Nazis. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/dhs-ice-ad-facebook-meta-instagram/? The Bloodbath at Washington Post Is All Jeff Bezos’s Fault Billionaire Jeff Bezos’S Washington Post on Wednesday cut one-third of its staff, including around 300 members of the newsroom, a journalistic bloodbath that marks a shift from the “Democracy Dies in Darkness” era back into darkness. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/07/washington-post-layoffs-jeff-bezos/? Senate Dems Who Pushed Meatier ICE Reform Shy Away From Criticizing Schumer’s Softer Package Democratic leaders in Congress requested Department of Homeland Security reforms on Wednesday that would leave the agency’s budget untouched — and were immediately rebuffed by the GOP. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/05/schumer-ice-reforms-elizabeth-warren/? Shipyard Bosses Forced to Pay Overtime to Get People to Stay for Pete Hegseth Speech The bosses at a Maine shipyard are offering overtime to workers there if they attend a speech by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, according to workers at the facility. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/07/pete-hegseth-speech-overtime-pay-maine-biw/? Gavin Newsom’s Biggest Problem Is Gavin Newsom California Gov. Gavin Newsom is widely viewed as a strong contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, particularly by Gavin Newsom. But his record is a real problem, just not in the way pundits think it is. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/04/gavin-newsom-2028-presidential-campaign/? ps:I wouldn't doubt it! Because trump brings out the worst in people!! 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 February 13 Author Members Posted February 13 “Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers MINNEAPOLIS — On Friday, legal observers on an encrypted group call in Minneapolis received a desperate plea. A fellow observer was following federal agents who’d just loaded her friend into an unmarked vehicle. Now, she herself was boxed in. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/09/ice-minneapolis-legal-observers-abduction/? Texas “Antifa Cell” Terror Trial Takes On Tough Questions About Guns at Protests Against ICE A group of activists gathered outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas last July 4 with fireworks and plans to mount more than a polite protest. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/11/prairieland-antifa-trial-pretty-ice-protest/? Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers Google fulfilled an Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoena that demanded a wide array of personal data on a student activist and journalist, including his credit card and bank account numbers, according to a copy of an ICE subpoena obtained by The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/google-ice-subpoena-student-journalist/? AIPAC Strategy Backfires as Progressive Underdog Wins Key House Race in New Jersey A progressive organizer beat the odds against millions in outside spending to win the special primary election for a congressional seat in New Jersey, offering a promising sign to left insurgents in the coming midterms and revealing a severe miscalculation on the part of the pro-Israel lobby. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/aipac-new-jersey-mejia-malinowski/? Officials Dispute Trump Explanation of El Paso Airspace Closure: “There Was Not a Threat” Two U.S. government officials and a member of Congress pushed back on Wednesday on Trump administration claims about the reasons for the sudden closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/11/el-paso-airspace-closure-dispute/? Pam Bondi Is Pushing Death Sentences for People Spared By Her Predecessor When U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi declared that she would seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione — the first capital prosecution announced during Donald Trump’s second term — legal experts immediately raised the alarm. The decision was more propaganda than judicial process, with Bondi broadcasting the news in a press release and Instagram post before Mangione was even indicted. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/trump-death-penalty-execution-pam-bondi/? By Slashing Foreign Aid, Trump Is Fueling the Spread of HIV in Uganda KAMPALA, UGANDA — Ever since President Donald Trump was elected a year ago, sex workers in Kampala have suffered. The sex has suddenly become too painful. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/09/trump-usaid-pepfar-uganda-hiv-aids/? NY Democratic House Candidate Works for Palantir Partners Pushing AI Border Surveillance A Democrat running to pick up one of the party’s top target House seats works for two defense contractors looking to help the federal government use artificial intelligence for border surveillance and military projects. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/09/new-york-cait-conley-ai-palantir-dhs/? Americans Want Accountability With the Epstein Files. Elites Couldn’t Care Less. With each successive trove of documents from the Epstein files the Department of Justice releases, we’re treated to rare insight into how our ruling class behaves in private, and how connected many of them were to the late sex trafficker. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/10/epstein-files-american-consequences/? 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 February 16 Author Members Posted February 16 Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant At first, Steven Saari said, federal immigration agents seemed to think he was one of them. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/12/minneapolis-federal-agents-phone-surveillance-alex-pretti/? The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. MINNEAPOLIS — The struggle that killed Alex Pretti began with a shove. It ended with gunshots. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/alex-pretti-first-aid-emt-federal-agents/? FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, at least one of whom works on counterterrorism, went to the home of a former member of a climate activism group for questioning last week, potentially signaling a new escalation in the Trump administration’s promise to criminalize nonprofits and activist groups as domestic terrorists. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/12/fbi-counterterror-extinction-rebellion/? AIPAC Is Flooding Illinois With Cash. Pro-Palestine Groups Are Backing Kat Abughazaleh. As the pro-Israel lobby seeks to shape a set of congressional races in Illinois, national progressive groups are pushing to elect a vocal advocate for Palestinian rights outside of Chicago. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/12/aipac-illinois-kat-abughazaleh-congress-pal-pac/? Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals New York City’s public hospital system is paying millions to Palantir, the controversial ICE and military contractor, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/15/palantir-contract-new-york-city-health-hospitals/? Jasmine Crockett Swears Off Corporate Cash — But Transferred Thousands From Her House Campaign Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat running for Senate in Texas, wants people to know she isn’t taking corporate PAC money — in her Senate campaign. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-corporate-cash/? Leakers Helped Destroy Deportation Case Against Tufts Student The video was shocking, and devoid of context, it appeared Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted off the street by masked men and hauled to a waiting van. In what turned out to be an immigration operation, the Trump administration arrested Öztürk in March 2025, jailed her in horrific conditions for 45 days, and sought to expel her from the country, claiming she supported terrorism, Hamas, antisemitism, or whatever jumbled combination of the three they lazily regurgitate whenever they target pro-Palestine speech. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-deportation-case-dismissed/? The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk During the Super Bowl, Anthropic ran a dystopian AI ad about dystopian AI ads featuring an AI android physical trainer hawking insoles to a user who only asked for an ab workout. Not to be outdone, Amazon ran a commercial for its AI assistant Alexa+ in which Chris Hemsworth fretted over all the different ways AI might kill him, including severing his head and drowning him in his pool. Equally bleak, the telehealth company Hims & Hers ran an ad titled “RICH PEOPLE LIVE LONGER” in which oligarchs access such healthcare luxuries as facelifts, bespoke IVs, and “preventative care” to live longer than the rest of us. It was an anti-billionaire ad by a multibillion-dollar health care company. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/super-bowl-ad-capitalism-honesty/? Attorney for Epstein Survivors Warns That Justice Is Impossible With Bondi as AG Attorney General Pam Bondi testified before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, defending the Justice Department’s widely criticized rollout of the Epstein files against accusations that her department is shielding powerful men, including President Donald Trump, at the expense of survivors. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/13/epstein-survivors-attorney-justice/? 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 February 19 Author Members Posted February 19 U.S. Sent a Rescue Plane for Boat Strike Survivors. It Took 45 Hours to Arrive. The conditions were treacherous in the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles off the Mexico–Guatemala border. There were gale-force winds and 9-foot seas. It would be dangerous if you were on a boat, nevermind if yours was blown out of the water. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/17/boat-strike-trump-southcom-survivors-rescue-plane-hours/? Air Force Maintenance Staff Can’t Stop Buying Fancy Knives With Tax Dollars They call them “box cutters,” but everyone on the flightline knows what the term really means. The blades slide out at the push of a button, revealing high-end knives made and marketed for active combat. They cost the federal government hundreds of dollars each — and come free to maintenance workers in the Air Force who order them through the supply system and hand them out as favors. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/17/air-force-maintenance-luxury-knives-procurement/? Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us American prisons have never been much for the First Amendment, and now, the Trump administration is exporting prison-style censorship to the general population. In tactics that are easily recognizable to incarcerated people like me, they’re doing it in the name of “security.” https://theintercept.com/2026/02/16/daniel-sanchez-estrada-prairieland-trial-zines/? Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped? The scale of the Trump administration’s plans to warehouse human beings is hard to fathom. Here’s one way to put it in perspective: On a given day, New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail complex holds approximately 7,000 detainees. President Donald Trump’s regime, which is currently holding a record 70,000 people in immigration detention, now plans to develop a network of Rikers-sized concentration camps for immigrants nationwide. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/17/warehouses-immigration-detention-camp-prisons-immigrants/? Philadelphia Could Elect Its First Muslim Congressman. He’s Not Sure Where He Stands on Israel. Sharif Street is something of an anomaly. A Democratic state senator running for Congress, he’s angling to replace retiring Rep. Dwight Evans in a deep-blue Philadelphia seat. He’s Black, Muslim, and relatively moderate. He would not necessarily be a vocal critic of Israel in the House. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/18/sharif-street-philadelphia-israel-palestine-congress/? It’s Correct and Moral to Use the Olympics to Speak Out About Politics At the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, competing under the American banner has put some athletes at odds with their own government, transforming them — in a handful of candid remarks — from cereal-box patriots into political liabilities swiftly pilloried by the conservative establishment. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/17/hunter-hess-amber-glenn-olympics-trump/? 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 February 26 Author Members Posted February 26 A New PAC Wants to Counter Israel’s Influence. It Also Welcomes Hitler Apologists. For a month, Michael Rectenwald had been trying to get Nick Fuentes to notice him. Rectenwald had a new political action committee devoted to anti-Zionism, and he hoped the far-right influencer would promote it to his legions of perpetually online, often antisemitic fans. But Rectenwald, a former New York University professor and one-time presidential hopeful, had struggled to stand out to the ascendant Fuentes, who has come to symbolize the formerly fringe extremes of the online right. So in October, Rectenwald posted something sure to catch Fuentes’s eye: “Nick has sold out to the cabal.” https://theintercept.com/2026/02/19/israel-palestine-antisemitism-azapac-michael-rectenwald/? Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told a preposterous story demonizing immigrants in high-profile public remarks alongside President Donald Trump and on Fox News last summer, about a cannibal who ate other people and then, on his Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation flight, began to eat himself. At the time, The Intercept was unable to substantiate any part of the tale. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/23/kristi-noem-ice-cannibal/? 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 March 1 Author Members Posted March 1 Mexico Got Help Killing Drug Lord From Secretive U.S. Campaign Led by FBI and ICE A new player in the U.S. military’s decadeslong war on drugs announced itself to the world on Sunday, providing intelligence that supported a Mexican military operation that killed the head of the infamous Jalisco New Generation Cartel. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/24/el-mencho-mexico-fbi-task-force-counter-cartel/? Trump Won’t Stop Trying to Punish Kilmar Abrego Garcia Almost a year after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was first targeted by the U.S. government as part of its violent mass deportation campaign, the Trump administration is still not done punishing him. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/24/trump-kilmar-abrego-garcia-vindictive-prosecution/? Trump Demanded El Mencho’s Head. Mexicans Are Paying the Price. On Sunday, in the wake of a military operation to kill one of the country’s most infamous drug traffickers, clashes broke out across the Mexico, leaving dozens dead and producing shocking images of roadblocks, armed men in the streets, and panicked civilians ducking for cover. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/23/trump-el-mencho-mexico-cartel/? A Supreme Court Win Didn’t Free Richard Glossip. But This Judge Could. Oklahoma prosecutor Jimmy Harmon was making his usual points about why Richard Glossip belongs behind bars when he trotted out a not-so-casual dig at his opposing counsel. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/25/richard-glossip-judge-natalie-mai-oklahoma/? Democrats Should Never Again Rise to Trump’s Anti-Trans Bait “These people are crazy! I’m telling ya — they’re crazy,” President Donald Trump exclaimed, pointing to Democratic members of Congress near the start of his lengthy and lie-drenched State of the Union speech. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/25/trump-state-of-the-union-trans-attack/? Cuban Border Guards Attacked by Florida Speedboat The Cuban government said it returned fire following an attack by passengers on a Florida-based speedboat that had entered its territorial waters on Wednesday. Cuba’s Ministry of the Interior said its border guards killed at least four people aboard the U.S. boat and wounded six others. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/25/cuba-florida-speedboat-attack/? There’s No “Progressive Foreign Policy” Without a Reckoning for Dems Who Supported Genocide Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s high-profile trip to the Munich Security Conference earlier this month sprouted 1,000 takes, counter-takes, editorials, op-eds, and analyses from the right, the center, and the left. Ocasio-Cortez, along with her new foreign policy adviser Matt Duss, attempted to paint a vision for a “progressive foreign policy” that would embrace “working class-centered politics” to “stave off the scourges of authoritarianism.” https://theintercept.com/2026/02/25/democrats-gaza-genocide-accountability/? Rambling Man: Trump’s State of the Union “The deliberate cruelty that they found humor in stood out to me,” says Jordan Uhl of Donald Trump’s Tuesday evening State of the Union. This week on the Intercept Briefing, co-hosts Uhl, Akela Lacy, and Jessica Washington disentangle Trump’s nearly two-hour-long speech so you don’t have to. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/25/podcast-trump-state-of-the-union/? 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 March 3 Author Members Posted March 3 Texas Progressives Say Democratic Establishment Is Blowing It In the Rio Grande Valley Just four years ago, a progressive primary challenger with endorsements from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., fell 281 votes short of toppling scandal-stained incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/01/texas-cuellar-progressives-democrats-primaries/? Zohran Mamdani Kept Columbia Student in New York — Then Phoned With Trump to Secure Her Release A Columbia student detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday morning has been released from federal immigration custody. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/26/columbia-university-student-detained-dhs/? Private Prison Falsified Records in Detainee’s Death in ICE Custody Staff at a for-profit Pennsylvania immigrant prison serially falsified detention records about a man who died in 2023, according to a federal death review obtained exclusively by The Intercept earlier this month. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/26/ice-geo-group-moshannon-death-falsify/? Florida Might Make Its Own Spy Squad. Muslims Think They Have a Pretty Good Idea Who’ll Be Targeted. Under a bill gaining traction in its state legislature, Florida could soon have its own spy squad. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/26/florida-spy-counterterrorism-muslims/? Made-in-America Guns Are Fueling Death and Destruction in Mexico The images from Mexico looked like a modern global battlefield. Security forces engaged in torrents of gunfire on the beach. Commercial flights into Puerto Vallarta promptly canceled as military helicopters took up airspace to run strafing fire on narco positions below. Highways filled with stalled traffic as buses burned along major routes, the smoke sending visible plumes across the city. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/28/mexico-cartel-violence-american-guns/? 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 March 6 Author Members Posted March 6 Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It” Tennessee Republicans are pushing forward with a bill that could force undocumented children out of public education and turn school administrators into immigration informants against their own students, making Tennessee the frontier of an effort led by the Heritage Foundation to fundamentally injure the right to public education. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/04/tennessee-undocumented-immigrant-school-plyler/? Dem Candidate for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s Seat Donated to Far-Right Republicans — Including Laura Loomer A new Democratic candidate in California’s 14th Congressional District primary raised eyebrows when she announced she raised $2 million in the first two weeks of her campaign. Rakhi Israni threw her hat into the race for Rep. Eric Swalwell’s seat in the strongly Democratic leaning district just a few weeks ago and quickly brought in the big cash from donors whose identities are, for now, unknown. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/04/california-eric-swalwell-rakhi-israni-donations-maga-gop/? House Iran War Powers Resolution Could Lose Support to Competing Bill by Pro-Israel Democrat The U.S. Senate declined an opportunity to rein in President Donald Trump’s unauthorized war on Iran in a vote Wednesday as the conflict’s toll mounted. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/04/iran-war-powers-gottheimer-fetterman/? Rubio Admits That America Is Fighting Israel’s War Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted that the U.S. was forced into the war with Iran by Israel while speaking with reporters on Monday. He explained that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had effectively boxed in the Trump administration, taking the decision out of American hands. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/03/rubio-trump-iran-israel-war/? Will James Talarico Really Fight for Justice in Texas? Texas state Rep. James Talarico’s victory in a heated Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday offered a potential bright spot to the state’s progressive organizers — not necessarily because they prefer his policies, but because some see him as more malleable than his opponent, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/04/james-talarico-jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-primary/? Democratic Leaders Avoid Criticizing Trump’s Iran War. Now Voters Will Have a Say. If Democratic voters wanted party leaders to give a strong, unanimous condemnation of President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, they would probably be disappointed. Leaders of the liberal party have instead sought to criticize the process leading up to Trump’s multiday onslaught, rather than the onslaught itself. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/02/iran-war-democratic-primaries-trump/? CNN Could Be Next Up for a Right-Wing Reboot Thanks to the Ellisons Shortly before CNN’s launch in 1980, founder Ted Turner — displaying what could politely be described as impressive foresight – instructed that a special video be prepared. The tape, which was leaked online by a former CNN intern in 2015, portrays members of the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine bands performing a melancholy rendition of the hymn “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” As the legend goes, this somber sign-off was meant to be the last thing broadcast by CNN should the end of the world become assured. In light of recent events, CNN employees may be considering digging it out of the archives. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/03/cnn-warner-bros-paramount-deal-ellisons/? Trump’s Iran War Is Dividing Republicans. Pro-Palestine Groups Want Democrats to Exploit the Rifts. Midterm elections have kicked off against the backdrop of the U.S. and Israel’s intensifying war on Iran — and a progressive pro-Palestine group is spending $2 million on ads this cycle targeting Republicans over their support for Israel and backing Democrats who favor blocking weapons sales to the country. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/04/iran-israel-us-war-republican-democrat-midterms/? 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 March 10 Author Members Posted March 10 Sources Briefed on Iran War Say U.S. Has No Plans for What Comes Next The Trump administration’s war on Iran is reckless and ill-planned, four government officials briefed on the attacks told The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/trump-iran-war-plan-cia/? OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us OpenAI claims it has accomplished what Anthropic couldn’t: securing a Pentagon contract that won’t cross professed red lines against dragnet domestic spying and the use of artificial intelligence to order lethal military strikes. Just don’t expect any proof. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/08/openai-anthropic-military-contract-ethics-surveillance/? Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online In August 2024, the Biden administration hosted hundreds of influencers at the White House for the first-ever Creator Economy Conference. Neera Tanden, a senior Biden adviser, took to the stage and bemoaned anonymity online. The influencers alongside her agreed, pushing the idea that anonymous speech on the internet is harmful, and regulation is needed to force the use of real names on social media. The audience whispered excitedly as those on stage spoke about how proposed laws like the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, could unmask every troll. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/? Federal Agents Are Intimidating Legal Observers at Their Homes: “They Know Where You Live” Former Minnesota state Sen. Matt Little was lawfully observing federal immigration agents in a Dakota County neighborhood last month when the drive took an unexpected turn. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/ice-cbp-minnesota-surveillance-intimidation-observers/? ICE Poses a Real Threat to Our Elections A high-profile election denier is leading election integrity work at the Department of Homeland Security. Trump and congressional Republicans are pushing the SAVE America Act and threatening to “nationalize” elections, purportedly to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting. But despite an occasional murmur from Democrats that they are concerned about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deploying to polling places around the country, they’re doing almost nothing to stop this nightmare scenario. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/06/democrats-dhs-ice-reform-midterm-election-integrity/? Columbia Flouted Its Own Policies and Let ICE Into University Buildings After Elmina “Ellie” Aghayeva, a neuroscience student, was taken by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from Columbia University housing, a story about ICE’s villainy quickly took hold. During the arrest, the school administration said, federal agents got into the building without a judicial warrant by telling a security guard that they were searching for a missing child. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/08/columbia-ice-raids-warrant-khalil/? Military Leaders See Iran War as “God’s Divine Plan” — a Chilling Turn for Trump’s Fascism The United States is waging a religious war. This is, at least, how dozens of fanatical U.S. military commanders understand President Donald Trump’s illegal assault on Iran: a messianic battle to bring about Jesus Christ’s return. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/iran-war-end-times-christian/? Nida Allam Concedes to Valerie Foushee With Razor-Thin Loss for Progressives in Key Midterm Primary Progressive insurgents lost a close North Carolina primary this week, when Rep. Valerie Foushee, D-N.C., narrowly defeated a challenge from Durham County Commissioner Nida Allam in a race inundated with outside spending from the artificial intelligence industry. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/nc-house-primary-valerie-foushee-nida-allam/? 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 March 15 Author Members Posted March 15 Islamophobic Think Tank Helped Write Indictment Against ICE Protesters A researcher at a far-right think tank helped Justice Department prosecutors craft their indictment for terror charges against an alleged “north Texas antifa cell,” the researcher testified Monday. The charges were brought in relation to a protest outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center outside Dallas. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/09/prairieland-antifa-ice-protest-frank-gaffney-islamophobic/? It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention” Wars have been distinctly out of fashion as of late, especially since the quagmires of Iraq and Afghanistan. Whether those quagmires are to be blamed on “dumb, politically correct wars” in the eyes of War Secretary Pete Hegseth or not, the idea of putting boots on the ground, doing regime change, occupying a country, and putting American lives in danger is political suicide. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/10/iran-trump-forever-war/? Israel Destroyed Gaza’s Roads and Transit. Now, We Walk Everywhere. In Gaza, movement is no longer a mundane part of daily life. Israel’s military assault and prolonged siege have dismantled Gaza’s transportation system so thoroughly that journeys that once took minutes by car now require hours of walking through rubble and grotesque debris. What used to be an ordinary act — leaving home, reaching a clinic, visiting kin — has now become a form of physical labor, a calculation of pain, and a risk weighed against necessity. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/09/israel-gaza-iran-war-transportation/? Pentagon Report: U.S. Military Fired Missile at Elementary School in Iran A U.S. military investigation determined in its preliminary findings that the United States conducted an attack on an Iranian elementary school that killed at least 175 people, most of them children, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the ongoing inquiry. The findings directly contradict assertions by President Donald Trump that Iran struck the school. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/11/iran-school-missile-investigation/? Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars In the last few days, President Donald Trump has said that the U.S-Israel war on Iran will end soon, after oil prices jumped and the growing regional conflict continued to shake markets. After a wave of heavy bombardments throughout Iran, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth promised another round, “The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes.” https://theintercept.com/2026/03/11/podcast-trump-ai-world-wars/? 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 March 19 Author Members Posted March 19 Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges for Wearing All Black A federal jury handed prosecutors a mixed victory in the trial of nine protesters for their roles during or after a chaotic demonstration outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility last July, convicting eight defendants of terrorism charges but sparing some of them on attempted murder counts. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/13/ice-protesters-terrorism-prairieland-antifa/? In the Room Where Death Row Prisoners Say Final Goodbyes, He Learned He Would Live On the day after Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey commuted his death sentence, halting his execution two days before he was supposed to die, Charles “Sonny” Burton sat in his wheelchair in a visiting room at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, Ala., drinking a Coke and eating a Reese’s peanut butter cup. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/14/alabama-sonny-burton-execution-commutation/? AIPAC Is Staying Out of Illinois Senate Race — But Its Donors Back Juliana Stratton The leading pro-Israel lobbying group has kept quiet on the race for an open Senate seat in Illinois while pouring its largest investments this cycle into the state’s high-profile House primaries, leaving observers to wonder whether it would really sit out the Senate contest. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/12/aipac-illinois-senate-stratton-kelly-krishnamoorthi/? I Wrote a Movie Review. Cops Took It From a Protester’s Home to Make the Case That He’s a Terrorist. It was a Saturday in February, and I was checking my email inbox on my phone for no particular reason, during a conference. A Mother Jones reporter had written a note, so I opened it. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/13/movie-review-antifa-prairieland-trial/? Wearing All Black at Protests Makes You Guilty of Terrorism, Prosecutors Tell Jury Federal agents raiding the home of two alleged antifa “operatives” seized a telling piece of evidence, a defense attorney said during closing arguments in a landmark trial Wednesday. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/12/antifa-ice-protest-texas-trial-terrorism/? Israel’s Deadly Blockade Traps 7 U.S. Doctors in Gaza The Israeli government is blocking medical workers from entering or leaving Gaza, twice canceling the departure of seven U.S.-based physicians on a medical mission there, according to a group of doctors in Gaza who spoke to The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/13/israel-blockade-gaza-iran-war-doctors/? Why Dems Keep Saying Trump Has “No Plan” Instead of Calling to End the War With Iran Key Democrats in Congress are, once again, vaguely opposing a war instead of forcefully opposing it on moral or ideological grounds. Just as Democratic leadership slow-rolled a war powers vote for two weeks after President Donald Trump began amassing his armada to attack Iran, and four days after the bombing was underway, Democrats are refusing to speak out clearly against the war, instead resigning themselves to process-based criticism and demands for “more information” and “plans.” https://theintercept.com/2026/03/13/iran-war-democrats-schumer-jeffries/? Crypto Spends Big in Illinois House Races to Say Consumer Rights Supporters Are Corrupt The cryptocurrency industry has a new line of attack against candidates who have voted for consumer protections on digital coins: calling them corrupt. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/15/crypto-spending-illinois-house-primaries/? 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 March 23 Author Members Posted March 23 Illinois Results: Daniel Biss Beats Kat Abughazaleh in Blow to Left and AIPAC Alike Democratic voters in Illinois’ 9th Congressional District chose Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss as their nominee to replace retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky Tuesday night, dealing a simultaneous defeat to progressives who rallied behind Palestinian American activist Kat Abughazaleh and pro-Israel interests that pushed to elect state Sen. Laura Fine. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/17/illinois-house-senate-primary-results-biss-abughazaleh/? Trump’s War on Iran Could Cost Trillions The Trump administration is drastically undercounting the price tag of the U.S. war with Iran, peddling fragmentary estimates that offer Americans a skewed understanding of the costs. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/17/trump-iran-war-cost/? Senate Dem Leaders Are Trying to Sink Graham Platner. Voters Aren’t Convinced. Maine oysterman-turned-politician Graham Platner has been drawing consistently packed crowds across the rural state for months as he aims to take on longtime incumbent Republican Susan Collins in this year’s Senate race. He’s regularly outpolling his only other viable competitor for the Democratic nomination, Gov. Janet Mills. At 41, he could hold a seat for decades that Democrats have long had their eyes on. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/16/graham-platner-janet-mills-democrats-maine-senate/? Dem in Maine House Primary Funneled PAC Money to Republicans A Democratic candidate for a key House race in Maine oversaw a political action committee that donated thousands of dollars to Republican candidates across the country, Federal Election Commission records show. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/16/maine-primary-democrat-jordan-wood/? Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized database containing intimate details about every resident of this country, fully searchable by artificial intelligence. This powerful tool would empower the government to conduct previously unimagined levels of surveillance and harassment against its own people. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/17/government-surveillance-centralized-database-privacy/? Why We Have to Fight Back Against ICE Protesters’ Terror Convictions It started on President Donald Trump’s very first day in office in 2017. Over 200 Inauguration Day protesters were mass arrested and charged with hefty riot and conspiracy felonies for simply being present and wearing black at a rowdy demonstration. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/17/ice-protester-terrorism-convictions-trump-prairieland/? 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 March 27 Author Members Posted March 27 More Than 1 Million People in Lebanon Have Been Displaced. These Are Their Stories. BEIRUT — It is morning outside Mohammed Al-Amin Mosque in downtown Beirut, and beneath the gigantic crescent moon statue, a woman in a white hijab and dirtied floral dress is calling for her children. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/22/beirut-lebanon-displaced-israel-iran-war/? Air Force Academy Prepares Ideological Overhaul, With Erika Kirk Bringing “Bold Christian Faith” Records from the United States Air Force Academy’s oversight board show leaders dismantling diversity programs and reviewing curriculum as the board embraces what critics call a concerning ideological turn toward Christian nationalism and prepares to seat conservative activist Erika Kirk. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/19/air-force-academy-charlie-erika-kirk/? Seth Moulton Saw Trans Rights as a Political Liability. It Could Doom His Senate Campaign. Days after Donald Trump won his second election to the White House, Democrats flocked to the New York Times to blame their stunning electoral defeat on alleged capitulations to minority groups — and cement themselves as the future leaders of the party. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/19/seth-moulton-ed-markey-senate-democrats-trans/? Pentagon Implores Civilian Workers to Join ICE “Volunteer Force” The Pentagon has put out a call to its civilian employees to volunteer with the Department of Homeland Security as the embattled agency enters its second month without funding and weathers a public relations crisis over its brutal immigration enforcement tactics. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/20/pentagon-ice-dhs-cbp-civilian-volunteer-force/? U.S. Warmongering Hits Historic Level as Trump Attacks 3 Continents in 3 Days The United States made war on three continents over three days earlier this month, conducting attacks in Africa, Asia, and South America. During that span, the U.S. also struck a civilian boat in the Pacific Ocean. The globe-spanning scope of the attacks represents one of the few instances since World War II that the United States has been simultaneously involved in armed conflicts with such a wide geographic sweep. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/19/trump-world-wars-iran-somalia-boat-strikes/? Hegseth Makes Troops Prove “Sincerely Held” Faith in Latest Beard Crackdown The latest edict from beard-obsessed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth adds strict new regulations to his crusade on facial hair, which rights groups have characterized as an attack on troops’ civil liberties. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/21/hegseth-military-beard-hair-crackdown/? Pentagon Claims It Needs Additional $200 Billion to Pay for War on Iran The Pentagon wants $200 billion in supplemental funds to pay for its war on Iran, a defense official told The Intercept. That sum is four times the amount originally floated by Pentagon officials. War Secretary Pete Hegseth said that number could even increase. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/19/pentagon-budget-iran-war-hegseth/? Joe Kent’s Resignation Could Bolster a Wave of Conscientious Objectors to Trump’s Iran War https://theintercept.com/2026/03/20/joe-kent-iran-military-conscientious-objectors/? “Liberate Their Bodies From Their Souls”: The Lies That Sell the Iran War From the White House to Iran’s former crown prince, proponents of the U.S.–Israel war on Iran sell it to the American people — and Iranians themselves — as a crusade for liberation. Instead, the regime remains in place as the death toll grows, environmental hazards proliferate, and civilian infrastructure is decimated. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/20/podcast-war-beirut-lebanon-iran/? 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 March 30 Author Members Posted March 30 Pentagon Reveals Attacks in Latin America Are Just the Beginning As the Trump administration continues to bombard Iran, a top Pentagon official revealed that U.S. wars in the Western Hemisphere are also expanding, unveiling an effort dubbed “Operation Total Extermination.” https://theintercept.com/2026/03/23/trump-operation-total-extermination-ecuador-colombia-cuba/? Democrats Might Save Mike Johnson’s Push to Give Trump Domestic Spying Power Thanks to opposition from inside his own party, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was forced to delay a vote on President Donald Trump’s request to extend a major domestic spying law — but Democrats could ride to the rescue. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/23/trump-domestic-spying-fisa-702-democrats/? How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Phone at the Airport With Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deployed to more than a dozen airports across the U.S. and border device searches growing increasingly common, it’s more important than ever to consider your digital security before you travel. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/25/ice-airports-phone-security-privacy-safety/? U.S. Oil Blockade Could Condemn Cubans to Die Without a Deal “Take a picture of a bus, if you see one, because it’s the last one you’ll see here in Cuba,” my taxi driver said. We were headed into Havana in his Chinese electric car during a trip I made to the island earlier this month. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/24/cuba-oil-blockade-trump-rubio/? Leaders of Elite Paratrooper Unit Ordered to Middle East as Trump Weighs Iran Ground War Maj. Gen. Brandon Tegtmeier, the chief of the 82nd Airborne Division, and his headquarters staff have been ordered to the Middle East as the War Department awaits a White House decision about the deployment of the unit to the Middle East for possible ground operations in Iran, two government sources tell The Intercept. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/24/82nd-airborne-leadership-ordered-to-middle-east-as-trump-iran-war/? Palantir Will No Longer Profit Off of New Yorkers’ Health Data A controversial multimillion-dollar deal between New York City’s public hospital system and military contractor Palantir, first reported by The Intercept, is coming to an end, according to recent testimony before the city council. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/24/palantir-new-york-city-hospitals-contract/? 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 April 2 Author Members Posted April 2 How Does TrackAIPAC Actually Track AIPAC? The social media outfit TrackAIPAC’s signature anti-endorsement cards have become a fixture of the 2026 midterms. The ubiquitous graphics show a disapproved candidate’s face in grayscale over a smoky red backdrop. To the right, a number denoting their pro-Israel funding glows. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/26/track-aipac-midterms-2026-israel-palestine/? Protesting the Smash-and-Grab Presidency With Nikhil Pal Singh Donald Trump’s second term has been broadly defined by an overwhelming sense of chaos. Every week the U.S. finds itself in a new crisis of the president’s making. The war in Iran and the broader Middle East is stretching into its fourth week, as the administration prepares to send thousands of troops to the region for a possible ground invasion. The U.S. oil blockade on Cuba has plunged the country deeper into a humanitarian crisis. The Department of Homeland Security sent ICE to airports across the country on Monday to allegedly assist TSA agents who have gone without pay due to a partial government shutdown over congressional efforts to apply the most minimal of reforms to ICE. Meanwhile, Trump’s sons are backing a new drone company vying for a Pentagon contract as the president and his family have amassed about $4 billion in wealth this term, according to the Wall Street Journal. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/27/briefing-podcast-nikhil-pal-singh/? Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions A judge last week struck down the Pentagon’s restrictions on journalists seeking “unauthorized” information, siding with the New York Times in its lawsuit against the government. In response, the Pentagon on Monday added some meaningless window dressing and essentially reissued the same restrictions. The administration pledged to “immediately” appeal the decision on the original policy, and on Tuesday, the Times filed a motion to compel the administration to comply with the judge’s order. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/26/pentagon-reporters-first-amendment/? The Regime Survives, Trump Has to Deal, and Iranians Are the Biggest Losers The U.S.–Israel war on Iran was supposed to end quickly in either an “unconditional surrender” or regime change. Weeks into the conflict, none of it has happened. There appears to be little cause for celebration in Washington, notwithstanding Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s daily jingoistic proclamations. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/27/iran-regime-survives-trump-talks/? DNC Resolution to Reject AIPAC Funding Puts Democratic Leaders in the Hot Seat A Democratic National Committee member is proposing a symbolic resolution for consideration at a DNC meeting next month to reject the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s massive spending on Congressional races. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/27/dnc-aipac-funding-democratic-party/? Sunrise Movement Pushes Anti-War Candidates, Endorsing Melat Kiros in Denver The youth-led Sunrise Movement is seizing on the U.S.–Israel war in Iran to boost challengers to sitting Democrats, joining a coalition of progressive groups arguing that lawmakers who take money from defense contractors and AIPAC cannot meaningfully oppose the war. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/27/sunrise-movement-war-denver-melat-kiros/? ICE at Airports Trains Us to Accept Being Terrorized in Our Daily Lives The night before we were set to fly out of John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, I approached my partner with a confession: For the first time that I can remember, I was afraid of flying with a Latino last name. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/28/ice-airports-tsa-fear/? 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 April 6 Author Members Posted April 6 Two-Thirds of People Arrested by ICE in Minnesota Surge Had No Criminal Records, New Data Reveals The majority of immigration arrests made by federal agents during President Donald Trump’s enforcement surge in Minnesota last winter were of people with no criminal background, according to The Intercept’s analysis of newly revealed government data. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/30/ice-minnesota-criminal-records-data-arrests/? “Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East Almost 750 U.S. troops have been wounded or killed in the Middle East since October 2023, an analysis by The Intercept has found. But the Pentagon won’t acknowledge it. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/01/iran-war-us-casualty-numbers-trump-hegseth/? Trump Wanted to Replicate His Venezuela “Success” in Iran. What Has It Even Looked Like? “What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, the perfect scenario,” U.S. President Donald Trump told the New York Times in a March 1 interview about his plans for war on Iran. Things have not gone as Trump hoped, to put it mildly. Trump’s search for the Iranian Delcy Rodríguez — a regime insider willing to comply with U.S. demands, as Rodríguez has since she ascended from Venezuela’s vice president to acting president following the January 3 U.S. attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of its president, Nicolás Maduro — hit a snag when the U.S. and Israel killed most of the would-be successors to Ayatollah Khamenei in the opening days of the war. During a March 3 meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump told reporters, “Most of the people we had in mind are dead.” (Trump omitted the crucial fact that the U.S. is to blame.) https://theintercept.com/2026/03/31/trump-iran-war-venezuela-maduro/? ps:The man has no clue! He thinks this is a game of some kind!! Trump’s FCC Chief Says His Censorship Protects the Little Guy. It Really Serves One Powerful Man. When Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr talks about broadcast licensees serving the “public interest,” he loves to emphasize “localism.” https://theintercept.com/2026/03/31/brendan-carr-fcc-censorship-localism-cpac/? What Would We All Say If Iran Razed MIT Because of Military-Related Research? Over the weekend, the U.S. and Israel bombarded two universities in Iran, the Isfahan University of Technology and the Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/30/iran-universities-mit-weapons-israel/? Trump’s Secret Wars on the World Keep Expanding President Donald Trump talks endlessly of “peace.” He ran for office promising to keep the United States out of conflicts, claims to be a “peacemaker,” has campaigned for a Nobel Peace Prize, and founded a so-called Board of Peace. “Under Trump we will have no more wars,” he said on the campaign trail in 2024. Yet Trump has immersed the U.S. in constant conflict, outpacing even other presidential warmongers like Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/30/trump-secret-wars/? Conversion Therapy Gets Speech Protections — But Trans Kids’ Existence Gets No Protection at All On Tuesday, the Supreme Court marked International Trans Day of Visibility with yet another ruling that puts the lives of trans people at risk. The justices ruled that Colorado’s statewide ban on conversion therapy for young people likely violates a Christian counselor’s First Amendment rights. The decision threatens conversion therapy bans nationwide, which are currently on the books in nearly half of all U.S. states. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/01/supreme-court-trans-conversion-therapy-dangerous/? Iranian Americans Have Turned Against the War, New Poll Finds https://theintercept.com/2026/04/01/iranian-americans-against-war-poll-israel/? 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 April 7 Author Members Posted April 7 Grandmother Faces Trial in Alabama for Wearing Penis Costume to No Kings Protest In the body camera footage, a police officer parks his black SUV on the grass, a rosary swinging from the rearview mirror. He exits his car, moves briskly past a pair of protesters, and points an accusatory finger at the suspect: a 7-foot-tall inflatable penis holding an American flag. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/03/penis-costume-no-kings-protest-alabama-censorship/? DHS Launches Massive “Less Lethal” Chemical Weapons Buying Spree U.S. Customs and Border Protection is set to order a vast arsenal of chemical grenades, sprays, projectiles, and other weapons, according to procurement materials reviewed by The Intercept. The purchase follows months of abuse of these very munitions on American streets. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/03/less-lethal-chemical-weapons-tear-gas-protests/? Iran Shoots Down F-15 Fighter Jet After Trump Bragged They Had No Capability Iran shot down a U.S. Air Force F-15 fighter jet, U.S. officials said on Friday. At about the same time, a second U.S. plane, an A-10 Warthog, crashed near the Strait of Hormuz. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/03/iran-war-fighter-jet-shot-down-trump/? Bernie Sanders Backs Claire Valdez in NYC House Race Dividing Left and Progressives Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed socialist New York State Assembly Member Claire Valdez on Thursday in a Democratic primary shaping up as a test of how factions of New York City’s progressive wing will work together under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/02/bernie-sanders-claire-valdez-congress-nyc/? Far-Right Religious Leaders Advising Trump See Iran as an End Times Holy War Since the Trump regime launched its war on Iran, his administration has gotten a lot more biblical. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/04/paula-white-iran-war-christian-evangelicals/? Mother of the Last Afghan in Guantánamo Bay Begs Trump to Free Her Son The mother of the last remaining Afghan detained at Guantánamo Bay is pleading with the Trump administration to free her son, who has been held in detention for nearly two decades without ever being charged with a crime. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/02/guantanamo-bay-mohammad-rahim-release-trump/? Trump’s Holy War Abroad and at Home After more than a month into the U.S.–Israel conflict with Iran, President Donald Trump addressed the nation directly for the first time on Wednesday about why he dragged the country into an unprovoked illegal war. During his wide-ranging speech, Trump made numerous false claims, including repeatedly emphasizing the nuclear threat Iran posed. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/03/trump-christian-right-iran-evangelicals/? 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 April 11 Author Members Posted April 11 GOP Megadonor Leonard Leo Is Bankrolling a Website on the Warpath Against Somalis As the deadly federal immigration crackdown fueled by a racist obsession with Somali people kicked into high gear in Minnesota, a right-wing local news site in Maine had a clear message: Bring the chaos here. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/08/maine-wire-conservative-news-leonard-leo-somalis/? Where There Is Salt An American Company Drilled for Oil in Kenya — and Left Behind Soaring Cancer Rates https://theintercept.com/2026/04/06/amoco-bp-oil-kargi-kenya-cancer/? The Media Just Can’t Help Turning Iran Fighter Jet Rescue Into “Black Hawk Down” Neither Josh Hartnett nor Ewan McGregor was there, but the way the mainstream media is telling it, they might as well have been. The Sunday morning rescue of a U.S. airman shot down over Iran launched a thousand breathless tick-tock retellings from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and many, many more — helpful water-carrying for an administration prosecuting a deeply unpopular war without a clear end in sight. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/06/iran-fighter-jet-rescue-media-coverage/? How the War Strengthened Iran’s Hand Against the U.S. and Israel The war in Iran has entered its first ceasefire — a two-week break from hostilities brokered largely by Pakistan that all sides have agreed to, with negotiations on a permanent end to the war to follow starting in a few days. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/08/ceasefire-iran-war-israel-us/? With Trump Threatening Genocide in Iran, Military Must Disobey His Orders, Former Pentagon Officials Say President Donald Trump threatened to commit genocide in Iran, ahead of warnings of a wave of attacks on civilian infrastructure on Tuesday night. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” he wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday. This followed a drumbeat of similar threats of wanton and criminal destruction. “The entire country could be taken out in one night. And that night might be tomorrow night,” he said on Monday, having recently warned he would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages.” https://theintercept.com/2026/04/07/trump-iran-civilian-power-plants-bridges/? Iranian Women Elected to Office in U.S. Reject Trump’s Iran War A group of Iranian American women in elected office and civic life released a letter Tuesday calling for an immediate end to the U.S.–Israeli war on Iran as the deadline for President Donald Trump’s macabre threat to kill “a whole civilization” loomed. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/07/iranian-american-women-trump-letter/? We Called Out the Pentagon for Undercounting U.S. Casualties in Iran. They Keep Doing It. The Pentagon continues to peddle misleading U.S. casualty figures from the Iran war, even after The Intercept reported on what one defense official called a “casualty cover-up.” https://theintercept.com/2026/04/08/us-military-casualties-wounded-iran-war/? 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 April 14 Author Members Posted April 14 A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury. Social media giant Reddit has been ordered to appear before a grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a federal effort to unmask anonymous online critics of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/reddit-ice-protest-grand-jury/? The Forever Spoiler: Netanyahu Has Been Blowing Up Diplomacy With Iran for Decades The ceasefire announced Tuesday night by President Donald Trump and confirmed by Iranian officials is on life support. If Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu gets his way, it may soon be dead. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/09/netanyahu-iran-ceasefire-israel-lebanon/? The Democrats Don’t Know Who They’ll Be in 2028. Michigan May Offer an Answer. Speaking to a modest crowd of voters inside a Canton brewery on Tuesday evening, Mallory McMorrow, a leading candidate for Senate in the swing state of Michigan, made an anti-war appeal as President Donald Trump’s threats to kill “a whole civilization” hung over Iran and the world. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/09/michigan-senate-abdul-el-sayed-mallory-mcmorrow-hasan-piker/? Government Ordered to Turn Over Files on ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are being forced to turn over critical information on the shooting of Renee Good by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross in relation to a separate case involving Ross. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/09/renee-good-killing-minneapolis-jonathan-ross-videos/? DOGE Cuts Left U.S. Unable to Help Americans Stranded in Iran War Zone When the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran, it put as many as 1 million Americans living in the Middle East at risk. Many found themselves stranded in an expanding war zone by a government without a plan, much less the personnel and expertise, to rescue them. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/12/americans-stranded-middle-east-iran-war-doge-cuts/? “I Want to Occupy”: Inside the Israeli Movement Pushing to Raze and Settle Southern Lebanon Eyal Adom, head of security for an Israeli community on the border with Lebanon, has a clear vision for the land just a few hundred meters away. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/11/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-attacks-iran-war/? Trump Administration Wants to Make It More Difficult to Evade a Military Draft The Selective Service System, the government agency that keeps a list of draft-eligible American men, will begin automatically registering names later this year, abandoning a decades-old process in which young men self-registered. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/military-draft-automatic-registration-selective-service/? DNC Shoots Down Resolutions Calling Out AIPAC and Limiting Arms to Israel In the latest fight to expose the yawning chasm between Democratic Party members and their leaders on Israel, the Democratic National Committee on Thursday shot down symbolic resolutions targeting AIPAC and arms transfers to Israel. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/09/democrats-dnc-israel-aipac-resolution/? DOJ Wants to Scrap Watergate-Era Rule That Makes Presidential Records Public President Donald Trump recently threatened genocide as political leverage on social media, which begs the question whether there are even more extreme conversations happening in private in the Oval Office, or if anyone in Trump’s orbit is cautioning him against this immoral threat of mass violence. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/09/trump-documents-library-presidential-records-act/? ps:Please we know who wants this and why!!!!! Putting Fuel on a Ceasefire: Israel Tries to Kill U.S.–Iran Talks Vice President JD Vance is set to lead renewed negotiations with Iran this weekend to bring an end to the U.S.–Israel war on the country that stretched into a second month. The talks come after a roller coaster of a week, which began with President Donald Trump threatening genocidal war crimes against Iran. https://theintercept.com/2026/04/10/iran-ceasefire-israel/? 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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