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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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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Rep. Delia Ramirez is bringing a bill to eliminate DHS and immigrant detention in the United States this afternoon, the Chicago Congresswoman shared exclusively with The Intercept. theintercept.com/2026/10/13/a...
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Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security
The bill to eliminate the Department of Homeland Security comes a day after the HSI raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.

Bo French, who is running for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission, has taken this idea a step further, suggesting that the only way to be an American is to be white and Christian.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
“The Afrikaner policy is illuminating, because it proves the catch-22 facing nonwhite immigrants: If you are poor, you are a moocher, and if you are gainfully employed, you are taking a job from a hardworking American. The only way to be a good immigrant is to be white and Christian.”
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The GOP’s Message to Immigrants
Be white and Christian, or America doesn’t want you.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A must read thread 🧵 on the death penalty from @lilianasegura.bsky.social
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I've been thinking and talking and writing about the death penalty for my whole adult life and the past week+ has been truly surreal and exhausting, not only because of the onslaught of horrors but because there seems to be so little historical memory of what this system is and always has been.
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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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
If anyone wants to see the stats. www.guttmacher.org/2025/10/war-...
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The War on Mifepristone: How Junk Science and False Narratives Threaten US Abortion Access
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hawley falsely claimed that more than 1 in 10 women who take mifepristone, one of two drugs typically used to induce an abortion, are sent "to the hospital with a life-threatening condition." But the truth: less than 1% of people who take mifepristone have severe complications.
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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
There's the rampant misogyny of it. But there's also just this disturbing need from some people in our society to sow hate, and the internet throws jet fuel on that.
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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
It was not about anyone specific, but ya that's true.
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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
Ooh great question! I'd have to say Babolat.
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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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