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A professional over-thinker with a mic, DAW, and deadline — AKA a podcast producer for: Collateral Damage: theintercept.com/podcasts/collatera… The Intercept Briefing: theintercept.com/podcasts/the-inter…

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TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 4h
Skydance is the new name of the company that will own all of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, starting Tuesday. Sure seems like the combined company will own a lot of media assets. thedesk.net/2026/10/skyd...
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16h
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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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 · 15h
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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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16h
Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.
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Axios @axios.com · 16h
JUST IN: The economy added only 29,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2%
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U.S. adds 29,000 jobs in September, unemployment edges up
Economists had expected the economy to add 84,000 jobs last month.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 14/09/2026
Sam Biddle and 404 Media’s Jason Koebler discuss the government’s growing use of private contractors, from Flock to Claude, to surveil and kill abroad and at home.
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The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable
The Intercept and 404 Media discuss the growing use of private contractors, from Flock to Claude and Grok, to surveil and kill abroad and at home.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 18/09/2026
At Leavenworth, former workers say CoreCivic made conditions dangerous, which led to a near-death attack.
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ICE Revives Former “Hellhole” Prison — And Hires the Same Company To Run It
At Leavenworth, former workers say CoreCivic made conditions dangerous, which led to a near-death attack.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 20/09/2026
Billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wants you to know he has spent “decades” supporting the Palestinian people. But The Intercept dug into his claim and found that he actually has spent years donating to.... Friends of the IDF and AIPAC? buff.ly/0Msn7t7
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026
404 Media and The Intercept talk about how private companies empower government surveillance, and how AI is used in warfare.
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404 Media x The Intercept Live: How AI Is Used to Surveil and Kill
404 Media and The Intercept talk about how private companies empower government surveillance, and how AI is used in warfare.
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Noah Hurowitz @noahhurowitz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A disturbing new form of family separation: An Iranian couple fled their homeland after twice being arrested for converting to Christianity. Liam was granted asylum in the U.S., but his wife Hannaneh was denied, and has been locked up ever since theintercept.com/2026/09/21/a...
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Immigration Roulette: Husband Granted Asylum, Wife Locked Up Awaiting Deportation
An Iranian couple seeking refuge in the United States faces a cruel new form of family separation.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 22/09/2026
Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, is sending fundraising emails pledging to “stand with America” and “reject the extremes” — using email lists for Republican candidates and committees. buff.ly/UqKUjGj
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Sources inside and close to the Trump-Vance administration tell Zeteo that the president repeatedly asks about myriad different things in and outside of DC that his allies could work to get his name or face on. Buildings, parks, airports, military bases, US…
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I keep saying: @nickturse.bsky.social and the intercept way ahead of the curve on this
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Rigging the Electoral College isn’t the goal of illegally excluding noncitizens—this map is a minor tradeoff for turbocharging gerrymandering 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 Texas, Florida, etc. Excluding noncitizens from redistricting would let the GOP pack more Dem votes into fewer seats—making the rest whiter & more GOP
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW POD 🎧: What unites House Speaker Mike Johnson’s quest for red heifers, the AI doom spree & the war on immigrants? It has a name. I interview @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social on their new book, End Times Fascism And the Fight for the Living World podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Apocalypse Now: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Investigate the End-Timers Alliance
Podcast Episode · The Intercept Briefing · September 18 · 47m
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lauraflynn.bsky.social @lauraflynn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Intercept Briefing dropped its first full video podcast episode today. Host @akelalacy.bsky.social interviews award-winning authors and documentarians @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social about their new book, “End Times Fascism." theintercept.com/2026/09/18/n...
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Apocalypse Now: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Investigate the End-Timers Alliance
What’s driving religious fundamentalists, tech accelerationists, and anti-immigrant ethnonationalists to bring about the end of the world?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026
Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...
The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New: Ed Markey, Jeff Merkley, and Bernie Sanders have introduced a joint resolution of disapproval against the Trump-Vance admin's new proposed $5 billion sale of bombs and JDAMs to Saudi Arabia.
Senator Markey Introduces Joint Resolution of Disapproval on U.S. Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia
 
Resolution Text (PDF)
 
Washington (September 17, 2026) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), co-chairs of the bicameral Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, along with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), this week introduced a joint resolution of disapproval (JRD) for the Trump administration’s proposed sale of conventional weapons to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The weapons include thousands of joint direct attack munitions (JDAMs) and five thousand 2,000-pound bombs.
 
Separately, the Trump administration recently submitted an agreement on U.S.-Saudi nuclear cooperation to Congress—as is required by law—but has classified two important side letters, which is unprecedented. Because the side letters affect the obligations and operation of the underlying agreement, Congress and the public cannot fully assess what the United States and Saudi Arabia have agreed to without seeing them.
 
On September 16, Senators Markey and Merkley led a bipartisan group of senators to press the Trump administration to declassify and publicly release the two side letters accompanying the proposed U.S.-Saudi civil nuclear cooperation agreement, referred to as a “123 agreement.”
 
“The United States must not send thousands of conventional weapons to Saudi Arabia or allow it to develop a nuclear program. I am deeply concerned by the Kingdom’s human rights abuses, the security of the region as the war in Iran rages on, and the proxy war that is escalating between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen. Further escalation in the Saudi-Iran proxy war will worsen an already dire humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen and risks setting off a nuclear arms race between Iran and Saudi Arabia,” said Senator Markey.
 
As a founder of the national Nuclear Freeze movement, Senator Markey has long been the Congressional leader on ending the proliferation of nuclear weapons. On …
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable Do not miss this this enlightening conversation between @theintercept.com's @akelalacy.bsky.social and @sambiddle.com and @404media.co's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social. They're the the best in the biz! theintercept.com/2026/09/14/s...
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The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable
The Intercept and 404 Media discuss the growing use of private contractors, from Flock to Claude and Grok, to surveil and kill abroad and at home.
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW POD: spoke with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @404media.co & @sambiddle.com live in LA on the AI doom cycle, how the feds are using your financial data to track you down, and what privatizing the surveillance state really means. Listen podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable
Podcast Episode · The Intercept Briefing · September 14 · 50m
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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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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 14/09/2026
it’s so in our faces: these camps are not places people are meant to survive
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Until forced to stop, Israel will continue to expand and destroy
Israeli army expands incursion in southern Syria

The Israeli army has expanded its incursion in the southern Syrian governorates of Rural Damascus, Quneitra and Deraa.

An Israeli forces patrol of four vehicles pushed into the al-Amal Farms in the northern Quneitra countryside, setting fires there before withdrawing from the area, our colleagues on the ground reported.

Israeli forces also fired seven artillery rounds at the edges of Beit Jin in the western Damascus countryside, before pushing into the town’s southern entrance.

The army set up a checkpoint nearby and searched several farmers.

Israel has escalated raids and artillery shelling across southern Syria despite US-brokered security talks between Damascus and Israel
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: Romanian prosecutors indict social media influencer Andrew Tate on charges of trafficking minors, sex with a minor, and money laundering. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Romanian prosecutors indict Andrew Tate on trafficking minors and money laundering
The agency said on Friday that Tate and his brother coerced a victim by pretending to be in a loving relationship and then forcing her to produce pornographic material for an online webcam business.
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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW POD 🎧: @rozinaali.bsky.social on Islamophobia then and now — 25 years after 9/11, Ali says Islamophobia has only accelerated. Our conversation on how anti-Muslim rhetoric is shaping this year’s midterms, and why hate picks up every election cycle: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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25 Years After 9/11, Muslims Are Still Politicians’ Favorite Scapegoat
Podcast Episode · The Intercept Briefing · September 4 · 43m
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 04/09/2026
25 years after 9/11, Muslims are still politicians' favorite scapegoat. @rozinaali.bsky.social joined @akelalacy.bsky.social on this week's Intercept Briefing to discuss her new book "Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America"
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 04/09/2026
Trump and MAGA have waged a campaign of racist lies and fear on Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian community — from ICE raids to the president’s destruction of Temporary Protected Status (TPS). @swin24.bsky.social reports on the crackdown that is unlike anything else. Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-spri...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"But in Springfield, the heightened level of fear is so widespread, & the state-imposed terror vs a vulnerable minority so constant, that it is impossible to see this as anything but [Trump's] proof of concept for the president’s militarized vision of what America should be" - @swin24.bsky.social
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Inside Trump’s Nightmare for Haitians in Springfield: ‘We’re Following Our Orders’
The most urgent moral test in all of Trump’s America today is happening in a small Ohio city – and we as a country are failing it miserably.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I tracked just how obsessively cable news has covered Hasan Piker over the last month. According to my research, Fox News mentioned him in 566 segments across 267 programs since 8/4. And in the last week alone, they ran 107 segments totaling nearly 8 hours of airtime! zeteo.com/p/why-wont-m...
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Why Won’t Mainstream Media Talk to Hasan Piker?
The streamer tells Zeteo which shows he’d love to go on – if they’d just ask. Plus, the latest BBC censorship on the genocide in Gaza.
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lauraflynn.bsky.social @lauraflynn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“shovel a staggering $1.2 billion into federal races this cycle …the lineup shows the rising power of the tech industry and is dominated by Republican-leaning donors, reflecting how the party has steadily built an advantage in midterm money.“
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hasan Piker isn't part of the Abdul El-Sayed campaign. Lorenzo Sewell is a member of the Mike Rogers campaign. And he's a proper extremist and bigot who the media isn't covering. I brought receipts in the Guardian today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The first sentence of this piece says it all: "After Indiana’s near-total abortion ban, a new study shows emergency room doctors are less likely to treat pregnant women who are bleeding." www.jconline.com/story/news/l...
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Indiana’s abortion ban has a ‘chilling effect’ on ER pregnancy care
A study found ER doctors are more hesitant to care for pregnant patients who are bleeding.
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Jessica Washington @jesswash.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Rep. Seth Moulton made a play for maverick status by throwing transgender kids under the bus, instead Mass voters stuck by their popular, but elderly Senator. theintercept.com/2026/03/19/s...
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Seth Moulton Saw Trans Rights as a Political Liability. It Could Doom His Senate Campaign.
Rep. Seth Moulton is challenging Sen. Ed Markey — and struggling to land his message with his past anti-trans comments haunting him.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NEW: ICE is creating a national voter database to "support Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) fraud detection and data segmentation activities," according to documents reviewed by @wired.com. @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...
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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 29/08/2026
The WNBA is having a moment. Viewership is up. Attendance for this year’s WNBA All-Star Game surpassed the NBA’s All-Star Game. But the stories about the WNBA capturing national attention in recent weeks are about none of that.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 01/09/2026
This week on The Intercept Briefing podcast, host @jesswash.bsky.social speaks to journalist @katelynburns.com about how the WNBA has found itself at the center of a right-wing manufactured panic.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk. A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID to see his identity.
NEW: Evidence filed in a Colorado case reveals how ICE officers are arresting people without a warrant, which is illegal unless ICE determines the person is a flight risk.

A man was dragged from his car after ICE showed him a warrant for someone else and refused to check his ID.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Hello?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
ICE approved the shock gloves for the shock troops.
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ICE awards $16.7M contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver electric shocks
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks, saying officers would use them to control deta...
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/08/2026
I went on the Intercept Briefing podcast to chat about the transphobia problem in the WNBA.
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lauraflynn.bsky.social @lauraflynn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New @theintercept.com Briefing w/ @jesswash.bsky.social @katelynburns.com, arperry01.bsky.social “The right has made such hay out of trans women in women’s sports that they need to keep inventing controversies in order to keep this issue front of mind,” says Burns.
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Right-Wing Trans Hate Comes for the WNBA
Katelyn Burns and Angela Perry on how the right’s attacks on trans people have infiltrated the WNBA, a sports league with no trans women.
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chelsey b. coombs @chelseybcoombs.com · 28/08/2026
i think it’s fun that workers took a tiny bit of power back during the first year or so of covid and the rich have clawed it back so thoroughly that corporate profits are at record highs
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