After Trump’s executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S., government agencies have cut back on services for other languages.
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After Trump’s executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S., government agencies have cut back on services for other languages.
Police reports obtained by The Intercept show how sloppy op-sec led to criminal charges under a squishy state law.
How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps.
Advocates for immigrants and low-wage workers said the companies owe it to their drivers to speak out.
At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed. We join with more than 150 other media outlets across the world to condemn these crimes. Read more: interc.pt/3HS71C2
"And when you confront the radical evil that is war, that self-sacrifice, that courage, that empathy can get you killed."
Add these to your TBR.
The Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority is laying the legal foundation for unchecked executive lawlessness — and signaling to Trump that it won’t stand in his way.
Anti-genocide organizers viewed Reps. Deborah Ross and Valerie Foushee’s anti-AIPAC pledges as evidence of a sea change within the Democratic Party.
“ Democrats are screaming into a void,” @repsummerlee.bsky.social says.
Things are changing. interc.pt/47PQNDW
One man, his voice trembling, said, “I swear, this thing could crush a child any moment. Who will be responsible then?”
“It’s an engineered abandonment of not thousands, not hundreds of thousands, but millions of families,” @brian-goldstone.bsky.social told us about homelessness.
“It does not matter if you’re a citizen, here on a green card, or visiting Las Vegas for the weekend — you shouldn’t have to fear retaliation because the government doesn’t like what you have to say.”
Lawyers for Gerald Pizzuto say Idaho officials defied court orders to hand over information on lethal injection drugs.
“As we approach 2026, it’s not going to go away, the more we delay having a hard conversation like this one.”
Video shows one man wrapping what appears to be a chain around the neck of one of the brothers, while another man beat him with a stick-like object.
The prospect of LLMs creating an infinite firehose of expertly crafted propaganda has been received by alarm — but generally in the context of the U.S. as target, not perpetrator. interc.pt/461tC7n
“We’re losing on voter registration in 30 states—the only 30 states that track voter registration between parties,” says longtime Democratic strategist Nina Smith. Listen to full podcast episode on Apple Podcasts: interc.pt/4n7kMMb Spotify: interc.pt/425WERM Everywhere else: interc.pt/4n5yrDg
It's important to think about what you will do if a border agent asks for your personal devices well before you head to the airport.
@flyingwithsara.bsky.social said to me, about my book: "Before we can fix the crisis, we have to FEEL the crisis." I talked to @theintercept.com about the organized abandonment of poor & working families — and why homelessness must be faced in its devastating reality, not softened into abstraction.
Rep. Deborah Ross became the latest Democrat to swear off AIPAC amid pressure to hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza.
SCOOP: Another AIPAC Dem has pledged to refuse AIPAC money. Rep. Deborah Ross of NC confirmed that she won't accept AIPAC donations in the 2026 midterms, following fellow NC Dem, Rep. Valerie Foushee. Ross previously took more than $100,000 from AIPAC. theintercept.com/2025/08/29/a...
“How extremely profitable all of this precarity has become.” Author Brian Goldstone on working and homelessness in today’s America.
"There is nothing just about this process. It is ICE using its power to punish and cover up its mistakes,” Rep. Ilhan Omar said.
We know you're busy. So we made One Daily Story, an Instagram Broadcast Channel that sends you one of our stories to read each weekday. interc.pt/4mzAZtv
“This is what abortion bans function to do, which is to police and control pregnant people,” journalist @kylietcheung.bsky.social told us. Listen to the full podcast episode on Apple Podcasts: interc.pt/426K3hh Spotify: interc.pt/45Fco0D Everywhere else: interc.pt/3UTH4F4
I wrote about how more and more Democrats who took thousands from the conservative pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC are now supporting the “Block the Bombs to Israel Act” The House bill’s supporters call it “the litmus test for 2026 midterms” ✍🏽 @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/08/27/b...
Arizona uses a shady nonprofit and sus lawsuits for a surveillance tool that tracks innocent ppl's remittances and other wire transfers. ICE is a top user. Now, there's proof that ICE uses it to track those accused of basic immigration violations. Stories by @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social ⬇️
One student newspaper is fighting back.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WANTS TO BANISH KILMAR ABREGO GARCIA TO UGANDA Trump aims to expel Abrego Garcia as his global gulag expands to Uganda, which has a long record of human rights abuses. theintercept.com/2025/08/25/t...
“When senators went home, if they voted the wrong way, they were getting angry outreach from their constituents about ‘Why would you have tried to continue sending bombs to Israel?’” interc.pt/47PQNDW
A college newspaper is challenging the arcane laws used against Mahmoud Khalil and other noncitizens targeted over their criticism of Israel on campuses. theintercept.com/2025/08/26/s...
What The Intercept Is Reading theintercept.com/2025/08/27/b...
Here’s what your favorite TI editors and reporters are reading.
The “Block the Bombs” bill’s supporters are presenting it as a litmus test for the 2026 midterms.
“As authorities round up their work force, the big players in the world of Silicon Valley-developed delivery apps have largely remained silent. Three of the biggest — Uber, Grubhub, and DoorDash — did not respond to requests for comment.” theintercept.com/2025/08/26/t...
The weapons ban resolution was put forward by a first-time DNC member to represent the views of younger party members. interc.pt/4oUNbGQ
As part of the federal takeover of D.C., ICE agents have been targeting delivery drivers for the likes of Uber, Grubhub, and DoorDash.
The Stanford Daily argues the First Amendment protects journalists from arcane laws used against Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk.
This is wild.
The Trump administration has expelled more than 8,100 people to places where they do not hold citizenship since January 20. interc.pt/3HIfZBS
Restrictions are lifted! Here's the petition: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's more on The Intercept's work (supported by a small army of attorneys) to lift these kinds of docket restrictions in cases across the country: theintercept.com/2025/07/09/s...
UPDATE: In response to our letter, D. Maryland clerk says PACER restrictions will be lifted in Abrego Garcia's case this afternoon!
In the meantime, here's my colleague @nickturse.bsky.social on Kilmar's case and the Trump administration's threat to send him to Uganda. theintercept.com/2025/08/25/t...
Kilmar's counsel told me they wouldn't oppose lifting the restrictions, so we've sent a letter to Judge Xinis about the issues that the remote access restrictions under Rule 5.2(c) impose on reporters. In other cases, judges have lifted restrictions without requiring a formal motion — we'll see!
U.S. Special Operations Command, recently implicated in a covert anti-vax campaign targeting Asian countries, is seeking machine learning tools to automate digital propaganda and “suppress dissenting arguments" online, according to a procurement document I obtained theintercept.com/2025/08/25/p...
Trump aims to expel Abrego Garcia as his global gulag expands to Uganda, which has a long record of human rights abuses.
The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas.
“I am being punished for my journalism, for my views,” Kaushik Raj, who was set to study data journalism at Columbia University, told The Intercept.
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“I talked to a parent today who has been hiding in their apartment since there was a raid next to their building,” said an elementary school teacher who has assisted with emergency carpools. “They’ve not left their house since over a week ago. So they weren’t planning on sending their kids.”
In May, Hillary, a D.C. elementary school teacher and a group of other teachers, parents, and community volunteers formed a rapid response team to counter increased ICE and homeland security presence in D.C. interc.pt/3JxYYuM
Teachers claim that the D.C. school system has been unhelpful, treating the situation as business as usual and even discouraging organizers from providing guidance to families on school grounds.
Instead of worrying about having the right notebooks for the school year, many families are now afraid of getting detained by ICE on their way to school drop-off and pickup. interc.pt/3JxYYuM
I've reached out to Kilmar's lawyers about lifting the restrictions to the docket, which are automatic since it's an immigration case, not because it's habeas. theintercept.com/2025/07/09/s...
“My aunt died beneath the debris, alongside many others who carried nothing but their faith and a small hope for survival.”
What is there to even say?
“If this is what’s being done today, we must ask: what else are we surrendering to unchecked surveillance under the guise of enforcement?” interc.pt/47EV6Sw
“Voter registration is like the layup of Democratic basketball politics,” says @ninasophia81.bsky.social. “How do we expect to win elections if we’re not registering voters who are committed to us on our issues?”
While parents fear pickup and drop-off, teachers say the D.C. public school district has offered little support.
So weird that these things keep happening!
Israel and countries like El Salvador, South Sudan, and Eswatini, which have agreed to accept and in some cases imprison U.S. deportees as part of Trump’s growing global gulag, got a soft touch.
“We needed food, yes. But not like this. Not at the cost of my father’s life. Not at the cost of our dignity.” interc.pt/4lLcTuT
With interview slots vanishing and arbitrary visa denials, the U.S. could see 150,000 fewer international students this fall.
Yasin Elsamak, 22, and Ali Elsamak, 15, both U.S. citizens, were protesting the Egyptian government’s role in blockading the Rafah crossing into Gaza. We spoke to their parents. interc.pt/464lEva
ICE agents have access to detailed data about hundreds of millions of wire transfers to Mexico through a secretive database run by the Transaction Record Analysis Center, a nonprofit in Arizona.
BREAKING: I spoke with the parents of the two pro-Palestine protesters, including a 15-year-old teenage boy, who were dragged into an Egyptian government building in New York and allegedly beaten by Egyptian officials, and were then arrested by the NYPD: theintercept.com/2025/08/22/g...
The protesters’ parents said the officials beat their sons with chains at Egypt’s UN mission. The NYPD charged the brothers with assault.
Veteran strategist Nina Smith warns the Democratic Party is failing at the basics.
Human rights groups have stressed that it’s safer to provide aid by land. Israel is killing Palestinians by dropping it from the sky.
"A strategy I think we’re very much seeing among the anti-abortion movement is this pivot to framing or just equating taking abortion pills with coercion and abuse."
“The daily cost of the D.C. troop deployment is more than four times what it would cost to operate affordable housing for D.C.’s entire unhoused population.” interc.pt/45PvcJf
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If you know of similar cases where ICE has used data about remittances to track folks down for deportation, I'm still digging! My Signal: shawnmusgrave.82
“The guards were with us day and night, and they wrote down everything we did, even when I went to the bathroom."
Civil liberties advocates have warned about this for years: an ICE agent used data about remittances to Mexico to track down an immigrant, solely on a charge of unauthorized reentry — not money laundering or any other crime often used to justify such surveillance theintercept.com/2025/08/21/i...
Important article by @jesswash.bsky.social @theintercept.com explaining yet another Trump policy designed to hurt, rather than help people with low incomes.
ICE is using sensitive data about wire transfers between the U.S. and Mexico to track down immigrants for deportation.
The New York Civil Liberties Union and other organizations have sued the Trump administration, seeking to end the practice of courthouse arrests nationwide. interc.pt/4mXIlHj
“Spending tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars to deploy the National Guard to the nation’s capital... is a massive distraction from the military’s mission,” Gabe Murphy of Taxpayers for Common Sense told @theintercept.com
“These are third-world tactics.”
“The daily cost of the D.C. troop deployment is more than six times what it would cost to operate affordable housing for D.C.’s entire unhoused population. The government’s priorities could not be more clear," said @hannahomestead.bsky.social of @nationalpriorities.bsky.social
"The Free Press is actively stoking genocide denial, but it’s not the first media organ to take this odious tack of minimization," writes @natashalennard.bsky.social. interc.pt/45quXFB
EXCLUSIVE: Price Tag for Trump’s D.C. Military Surge: At Least $1 Million a Day An analysis conducted for the Intercept found that the militarization of D.C. could end up costing hundreds of millions theintercept.com/2025/08/20/t...
It's illegal for cops to run a red light when there's not an emergency, but they sure seem to do it a lot... Read more: interc.pt/3JogwJG 📹 @jordanuhl.com
An analysis conducted for the Intercept found that the militarization of D.C. could end up costing hundreds of millions.
"...we are supposed to be less horrified by the fact that children with disabilities like cerebral palsy and cystic fibrosis are starving to death under the deliberate siege policies of a wealthy, occupying nation-state..." writes @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/08/19/b...
In a rare win against ICE last month, a judge ordered that a detained 19-year-old asylum-seeker be released back to his family. It could lead to ICE releasing others. interc.pt/4mXIlHj
This was not the first time the Holy Family Church had been targeted. interc.pt/4mnLuzZ
The Free Press did an “investigation” into preexisting conditions in starving kids in Gaza — the same logic that would have you believe typhus killed Anne Frank. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/08/19/b...
Here's my story about the origins of TRAC, its relationship to the Arizona attorney general's office, and the nonprofits insistence that HSI agents would NEVER use the data for pure immigration enforcement theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
The Free Press’s so-called corrections are a ghoulish reminder: It is not a problem of insufficient evidence, it is not a problem of knowledge, that continues to fuel, with support and funds, this genocide. ... latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/08/19/b...
The site did an “investigation” into preexisting conditions in starving kids in Gaza — the same logic that would have you believe typhus killed Anne Frank.
"The one thing I know for sure is that you don’t create terrorists by feeding very hungry children — it’s the inverse." Listen to the full podcast episode on Apple Podcasts: interc.pt/4mpo3Xj Spotify: interc.pt/4mobYBv Everywhere else: interc.pt/4oIh2lT
“I was obviously very scared of being deported, but my principal fear was being deported without my baby,” Galvis said. “I don’t think I could have survived that.”
ICE Held an NYC Child Incommunicado at Secret Hotels, Then Deported Him
"The DSCC’s corporate donors won’t let them support the candidate who can win.”