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Jessica Washington

@jesswash.bsky.social
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Politics Reporter for @theintercept.com, Co-host of The Intercept Briefing Words in the Guardian, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, etc.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 8h
A year ago, Dasha, 8, was arrested alongside her family by Border Patrol agents downtown Chicago. Her photo, clutching a doll, became a symbol of who was being swept up. Today, the family is home. Dasha is back in school, but she still remembers that Sunday. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/06/c...
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lauraflynn.bsky.social @lauraflynn.bsky.social · 12h
In case you missed it, this is our 🔥 episode from last week. Subscribe to The Intercept Briefing where ever you listen to podcasts so you never miss a conversation. 😀
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lauraflynn.bsky.social @lauraflynn.bsky.social · 12h
The Intercept Briefing's latest video pod episode out now. Host @akelalacy.bsky.social speaks to Mahmoud Khalil about how he became Trump’s top target, the role Columbia University played in that campaign, his new book, “No Land to Stand On,” and more. theintercept.com/2026/10/02/m...
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Mahmoud Khalil: “We Can’t Afford to Stay Silent”
Taken by ICE last year for protesting Israel, Khalil speaks on how his fight is bigger than whether he gets to stay in this country.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gov. Bill Lee has rejected clemency for Christa Pike. Her lawyers say they are "heartbroken." "Christa will be the first person Tennessee executes in the modern death penalty era who was a teenager at the time of the offense and the first woman executed by the state in more than 200 years."
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I did some on the ground reporting this week (spoke to 1 person), and apparently there are real people who feel strongly about the no iced coffee thing.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.
Each detention unit would sit on asphalt or concrete behind an office's existing security fence, with a counter for processing people and a separate holding area fitted with a toilet and sink for detainees according to the draft work statement.
The agency also wants a 300-square-foot unit for interviewing people in custody and a 60-square-foot "Virtual Immigration Court Unit" for hearings run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that operates the immigration courts.
Both must also be designed for their purpose before delivery.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great piece from @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social on the Redemption-Era evils the Roberts Court has resurrected www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/09/2026
Having déjà vu to “Roe v. Wade is settled precedent” coming from the mouths of Supreme Court nominees
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Kennedy Drew $4 Million in Book Advances From Publisher Who Also Monetized MAHA www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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RFK Jr. Drew $4 Million in Book Advances From Publisher Who Also Monetized MAHA
A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to Cheryl Hines, the health secretary’s wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing from his agenda.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
MS NOW reports that their White House reproter was denied access to the White House this morning despite a court order demanding she have access
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just finished listening to the confirmation hearing for Heidi Overton for FDA Commissioner. Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley threw out some truly wild disinformation on abortion during the hearing.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Mass lesbian bar story was a lot more fun before it broke containment and people started using it to call queer people freaks.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Re-upping... Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.” theintercept.com/2026/02/23/k...
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Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.”
Law enforcement sources told The Intercept that Noem’s tale about a cannibal was a fabrication.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: Another U.S. Soldier Is Dead as Iran War Casualties Rise An additional 66 U.S. personnel were wounded in action this month, pushing the official count of Iran war casualties above 850. theintercept.com/2026/09/22/i...
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Another U.S. Soldier Is Dead as Iran War Casualties Rise
An additional 66 U.S. personnel were wounded in action this month, pushing the official count of Iran war casualties above 850.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Ultimately this is going to come down to: Do you have a sufficient number of people organized and prepared to push back when shit hits the fan, or don’t you?” theintercept.com/2026/09/22/i...
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They Trained to Protect Immigrants From ICE. Now They’re Prepping to Defend the Midterm Elections.
ICE-watchers-turned-poll-watchers are preparing for the worst, as the Trump administration hints at potential strategies to disrupt the midterm elections.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I wish everyone could see how unserious the tk, tk, tks in my drafts are sometimes.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s probably going to work out great for the reputation of the FBI now that you can just assume every agent is into bestiality
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The last time ICE had a Senate-confirmed Director was January 2017. It seems we’re likely to reach a decade of Acting officials now.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh. 👀
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The disturbing burnerverse reporting, reminds me so much the online hate campaign against people (mostly women) critical of Charlie Kirk. theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
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Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed
A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
No one has to agree with defunding or abolishing the police, but the idea that it is somehow unserious or "identity politics" to imagine a world where people aren't shot dead in the middle of the street by their government, is wild.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Three states are set to execute people this week. Meanwhile I just got a wave of Google alerts declaring that L.A.'s DA has decided NOT to seek death against Nick Reiner after all, which...No shit. It was gross political posturing to suggest that he might in the first place, as I wrote 9 months ago:
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Prosecutor Floating Death Penalty for Nick Reiner Knows It’s an Empty Threat
Prosecutor Nathan Hochman is playing politics by floating the death penalty for the murders of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New @theintercept.com: I wrote about the man Georgia plans to execute tomorrow night, and the juror misconduct that sent him to death row.
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A Lone Juror Hijacked Deliberations. This Time, a Man Faces Execution.
While many fixated on the man who refused to acquit Lindsay Clancy, Georgia is set to kill Stacey Humphreys despite “extreme juror misconduct.”
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Other officials tell a different story. As the U.S. military faces relentless attacks on its bases, the Iran conflict is “ultimately unsustainable,” one U.S. official told @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/09/15/i...
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Iran War Has the U.S. Military on the Brink of a “Breakdown”
As the U.S. military faces relentless attacks on its bases, the Iran conflict is “ultimately unsustainable,” one U.S. official told The Intercept.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is a big win for the anti-abortion movement, which has been pushing for this as a backdoor way into a national abortion ban for a while.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Is this the time to finally release my Thrift Shop by Macklemore spirit week dance from when I was inexplicably captain of my high school tennis team?
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We're going to get The Running Man as a real show before the decade is over.
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Netflix Sets ‘New Stanford Prison Experiment’ Unscripted Series for October Release (EXCLUSIVE)
Netflix has commissioned an unscripted series based on the notorious Stanford Prison Experiment, Variety has learned exclusively.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Trump administration is deliberately withholding and redacting documents that legal residents need to prove their status. Claiming they can't find the documents is bad enough. But to turn them over only after redacting them to the point that they're useless is another level of evil.
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Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status (Gift Article)
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
In October, we covered how the Trump administration was detaining pregnant women at alarming rates in terrible conditions, despite an ICE directive to avoid their detention, without any clear record-keeping. This is the horrifying end result. theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...
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The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention
The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really curious to see how Republicans deal with the fact that these technologies (AI, Flock) are unpopular with voters in a uniquely bi-partisan way, and yet Trump insists on championing them.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The FBI lowering its standards to allow for applicants who engage in bestiality was somehow not on the bingo card.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Today Radley published Part 2 in his series on the case of Chris Duncan, focusing in part on a video of forensic fraud Michael West manufacturing the evidence used to convict him. It's truly shocking. And it's sickening to contemplate the years prosecutors relied on West to send people to death row.
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The framing of Chris Duncan: Part Two
“God doesn’t let innocent babies die for no reason. Somebody has to be punished.”
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
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Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed
A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's not that I don't think the AI will kill us, as much as it is not at all new information that many of the people working on AI believe this. theintercept.com/2026/01/02/e...
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AI’s Imperial Agenda
“Empire of AI” author Karen Hao on how Silicon Valley’s young AI companies parallel colonial empires of old.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Do read this important piece by @radleybalko.bsky.social and consider supporting his day-to-day work through one of the options on this page. (Our dogs will thank you.)
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About - The Watch
Reporting and commentary on civil liberties and the criminal justice system. Plus other stuff. Click to read The Watch, by Radley Balko, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A year later, we spoke to the everyday people who found themselves at the epicenter of the one of the largest mass censorship campaigns in modern history in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death. Most say they still aren't "whole." theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
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Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed
A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech. A must-read by @jesswash.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/09/10/c...
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Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed
A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Re-listening to this episode with @karenhao.bsky.social author of Empire of AI. So much of what people are freaking out about right now was documented in her book, which is also excellent. theintercept.com/2026/01/02/e...
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AI’s Imperial Agenda
“Empire of AI” author Karen Hao on how Silicon Valley’s young AI companies parallel colonial empires of old.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Re-listening to this episode with @karenhao.bsky.social author of Empire of AI. So much of what people are freaking out about right now was documented in her book, which is also excellent. theintercept.com/2026/01/02/e...
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AI’s Imperial Agenda
“Empire of AI” author Karen Hao on how Silicon Valley’s young AI companies parallel colonial empires of old.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've been working on a story about the people whose lives were destroyed in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, and the one thing that is still bugging me is just what makes someone become the kind of person who would spend all day harassing someone they've never met for no obvious gain.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Evergreen tweet.
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Three years ago, @jordansmith.bsky.social and I published an investigation into the case of Jeff Prible, sent to death row by a TX prosecutor-turned true-crime celebrity. Prible swore he was framed by a ring of snitches. Now a key part of the case has fallen apart. Our latest for @theintercept.com:
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A True-Crime Star’s Lurid Claims Sent a Man to Die. Her Key Witness Just Recanted.
The DNA expert at Jeff Prible’s trial accused then-prosecutor Kelly Siegler of using his testimony in an “inflammatory” way.
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jonah valdez @jonahmv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
SCOOP: billionaire CEO Marc Rowan, a member of Trump’s Board of Peace tasked with “rebuilding” Gaza, has been funding AIPAC’s super PAC, the United Democracy Project — $1.5 million this year alone — as it seeks to defeat pro-Palestine candidates in the midterms. theintercept.com/2026/09/03/a...
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“Board of Peace” Billionaire Backs AIPAC Fund Targeting Pro-Palestine Candidates
Marc Rowan, a Trump appointee overseeing Gaza’s redevelopment, has given $1.5 million to AIPAC’s super PAC this cycle.
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