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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 25/09/2026
A new map published Wednesday by a cybersecurity researcher reveals Flock’s nationwide reach is even bigger than previously known. Now, Flock is trying to get that map wiped from the internet. buff.ly/IlMa7hN
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 25/09/2026
As Benjamin Netanyahu spoke inside the U.N., protesters were arrested outside. 🎥: @jordanuhl.com
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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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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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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/09/2026
It has been an excellent 48 hours for Schadenfreude, @natashalennard.bsky.social buff.ly/hDB3iA4
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15/09/2026
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15/09/2026
Iran’s ability to overwhelm U.S. air defenses in the Middle East using attack drones and advanced ballistic missiles has left the U.S. military in a precarious state. The Trump administration failed to appreciate Iran’s military prowess, said the first official. buff.ly/VV1tOgM
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 09/09/2026
Flying United? Your checked bags may have an unwelcome neighbor in the cargo hold. United has made thousands of shipments of war materiel to Israel, including parts for fighter jets and tanks — all onboard civilian passenger flights, according to a new report. buff.ly/KVRObyc
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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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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 03/09/2026
“It’s one of the first applications they give new officers so they can start working,” said one ICE deportation officer who came through the hiring surge. “You can access it without full background clearance.” buff.ly/Bgb75vt
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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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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 · 21/08/2026
Dr. Thaer Ahmad and director Poh Si Teng joined the Intercept Briefing to talk about their new documentary "American Doctor," and the conditions in Gaza.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 20/08/2026
Join 404 Media co-founder Jason Koebler and Intercept reporters Akela Lacy and Sam Biddle for a live discussion on how the U.S. government weaponizes private data to surveil and kill abroad and at home. RSVP: interc.pt/465umIR
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/08/2026
Even in detention, Parias remains a journalist. He began reporting on the horrid conditions that he and other detainees endure. Through video recorded by his visitors and accounts relayed to other reporters, Parias exposed the worm-like creatures in drinking water and roaches in the cells.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 16/08/2026
Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 12/08/2026
The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation sued President Donald Trump and his staff Wednesday, challenging a Trump-owned media company’s plan to monetize the president’s social media posts.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 12/08/2026
The War Department delivered its unreleased annual report on civilian casualties to members of Congress on Tuesday, two government officials told The Intercept — one of whom called the report “a fucking joke” while the other called it a “total whitewash.” interc.pt/4q9aLR8
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 07/08/2026
The Trump administration tapped a surveillance giant with a record of attacking the press to advise the State Department on free speech.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 07/08/2026
A bill moving through Congress would give ICE authority to coordinate federal efforts against large-scale shoplifting.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 06/08/2026
“The most important context of Isaiah 6, the part most people miss, is that the devastation falls on God’s covenant people,” said Jemar Tisby, a historian of religion. “The nation doing the sending, not a foreign enemy, is in view here.” interc.pt/4wJjnkd
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 06/08/2026
Complaining that primary voters picked the candidate more likely to lose on Election Day has become a face-saving tactic for moderates as they’ve watched their preferred picks lose against upstart insurgent campaigns like El-Sayed’s.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 05/08/2026
Through its super PAC, the United Democracy Project, AIPAC broke its own single-race spending record by funding $30 million in attack ads against El-Sayed.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 05/08/2026
Bari Weiss’s latest hire for “60 Minutes,” whose major journalistic output includes smearing genocide victims and putting a target on the backs of reporters in Gaza, shows that the full-blown right-wing tabloidification of the television news program is charging ahead. Read more: interc.pt/4fCNeoh
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 04/08/2026
Malik Muhammad was transferred after officials flagged messages where the activist said they “have always been anti-Israel my whole life.” The messages prompted a further review, according to the misconduct report obtained exclusively by The Intercept.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 04/08/2026
The Pentagon is using a new method of tallying the number of U.S. soldiers killed and wounded in the Iran war that a U.S. government official said was “designed to obscure the count.”
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 03/08/2026
New York Police Department investigators deployed an extensive array of high-tech surveillance and investigative tools to identify the alleged vandal, according to documents from the court case provided exclusively to The Intercept.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 31/07/2026
The report, which covers enforcement actions over a six-month period, highlights the obvious: Corporations are responsible for the vast majority of alleged fraud in the American health care system.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 24/07/2026
Providing continuing hormone-replacement therapy at “the High-T Department of War,” as Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling it, may prove difficult for the federal government which already has struggled to manage service members’ hormone therapy, The Intercept has found. Read more: interc.pt/4pFXr6T
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 22/07/2026
In a purple congressional district in Michigan, William Lawrence, a founder of the progressive Sunrise Movement, is calling for a moratorium on new data centers and labeling Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide. While Lawrence is making a strong showing in the polls, now the centrists are fighting back.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 22/07/2026
“Whatever else MAGA says about wars,” says Ackerman, “what it wants is domination. It wants domination not only at home, but abroad.” Listen to the full episode: theintercept.com/2026/07/17/s...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 21/07/2026
Following months of reporting by The Intercept that found the Pentagon’s official tally of casualties is a gross undercount, which one U.S. government official previously called a “casualty cover-up", the Pentagon belatedly admitted that almost 100 U.S. troops have been injured in the last two weeks
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 21/07/2026
ICE is issuing a new nationwide policy mandating a dress code for field operations. The policy, shared with The Intercept by a DHS whistleblower and confirmed by multiple ICE officers, details a new set of appearance standards aimed at making it easier for the public to recognize ICE officers.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 20/07/2026
A US official told The Intercept that recent attacks had wounded “far more” personnel than are reflected in the Pentagon’s current casualty count. They did not provide numbers but said “dozens” had received medical attention.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 20/07/2026
“This is a formula for a forever war,” national security reporter Spencer Ackerman tells The Intercept Briefing. Listen here: theintercept.com/2026/07/17/s...
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 20/07/2026
Google purges reviews of ICE detention facilities and blocks the ability to write new ones, according to newly published research shared with The Intercept.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 02/07/2026
RFK Jr. is taking up a right-wing push attempting to link the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the US, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, to terrorism. The problem? The organization has never received nor solicited federal funding from HHS.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 01/07/2026
A judge’s order barred ICE from making arrests at Manhattan immigration courts. Last week, ICE arrested people at them anyway. interc.pt/4xQr4G2
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 30/06/2026
The Intercept’s analysis shows that from 2011 to 2020, the per capita rate of women dying by suicide or homicide in the Army was 15 per 100,000. From 2021 to 2024, following the Army’s attempted reforms in the wake of Vanessa Guillén’s killing, the rate increased over 35 percent, to 21 per 100,000.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 30/06/2026
Research and Pentagon data indicate that rates of domestic and intimate partner violence in the military, particularly in the Army, are higher than the civilian population. Most victims are women, who also make up most of the homicide cases tied to that violence.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 30/06/2026
But data compiled by The Intercept identified at least seven cases that year in which service members were suspected of killing a spouse or partner in acts of domestic or intimate partner violence — more than double the official count.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 29/06/2026
Democrats and Republicans in Congress have struck a deal on the KIDS Act, which could pass on the House floor as soon as next week; if enacted, it would fundamentally change the way everyone accesses the internet. At stake is your ability to use many social media platforms anonymously.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 27/06/2026
If the mythic Overton window shifts to the right, and you obligingly follow suit, it will simply move further toward that extreme, and reward only the tip of the spear.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 26/06/2026
Daniel Sanchez Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for transporting a box of zines he didn’t even write. The prosecution’s theory was that Sanchez moved zines, which discussed anti-government ideas, to conceal evidence in the case against his wife, Maricela Rueda.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 25/06/2026
A law enforcement intelligence hub in New Jersey fretted that the growing class divide in the U.S. could drive a wave of lone-wolf attacks on high-flying corporate executives, according to a report obtained by The Intercept.https://interc.pt/4w2PPx8
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 25/06/2026
Jeffries and his ilk were quick to discount Mamdani’s political project as one that could never take root beyond New York City. But as other primary races this cycle have shown us, that’s simply not true.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 24/06/2026
As results rolled in Tuesday night in NYC, one message was clear: The left isn’t just having a moment — it’s dictating how Democrats play the game of electoral politics. Read more here: interc.pt/4oSGVQw
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 23/06/2026
Daniel Sanchez Estrada wasn’t accused of attempted murder or material support of terrorism after a protest turned catastrophically wrong outside an ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. He was convicted of obstructing the investigation by moving a box full of antifascist zines after the protest.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 23/06/2026
35-year-old asylum-seeker from Belarus has spent nearly a year at Farmville Detention Center, recently bought by CoreCivic. There, he says, he’s experiencing medical neglect as a tumor grows on his arm. Read the full story here: interc.pt/4xJCxaf
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 22/06/2026
Since arrests began stacking up at the protests, at least half of those taken into custody have received calls from federal agents looking for information, according to Benjamin Van Meter, a deputy public defender who represents a number of protesters facing charges.
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