THE INTERCEPT: Right-Wing YouTuber Behind Viral Minnesota Fraud Video Has Long Anti-Immigrant History, Dan Goldman Supported Warrantless Spying on Americans. Now His Primary Opponent Is Hitting Him for It., My Quest to Make the Pentagon Care About the Crimes It Covered Up, These Apps Let You Bet on Deportations and Famine. Mainstream Media Is Eating It Up., CIA Was Behind Venezuela Drone Strike, Source Says, Prosecutor Floating Death Penalty for Nick Reiner Knows It’s an Empty Threat, AIPAC Is Retreating From Endorsements and Election Spending. It Won’t Give Up Its Influence., International Pressure Was Building to Hold Israel Accountable. What Happened?, Cop Group Alleges “Discrimination” by Prosecutor for Being Too Nice to Immigrants, Reuniting With Family in Gaza During the Break Between Bombings, Trump Spent 2025 Making Trans Lives Unlivable. It’s Time for Democrats to Defend Them., The Feds Keep Prosecuting Protesters Against ICE — and Losing, War on Christmas: Trump Announces Wave of Airstrikes Targeting ISIS Militants in Nigeria, Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People 1JAN26

 

Most Read Right-Wing YouTuber Behind Viral Minnesota Fraud Video Has Long Anti-Immigrant History Jonah Valdez Before alleging fraud in Minnesota’s Somali community, right-wing YouTuber Nick Shirley built a following with anti-immigrant clips. Read More → Dan Goldman Supported Warrantless Spying on Americans. Now His Primary Opponent Is Hitting Him for It. Matt Sledge Goldman was among a clutch of Democrats who voted for an NSA spy program, despite warnings about Trump’s return to power. Read More → Protecting freedom of the press has never been more important. Be the next person to support The Intercept’s independent journalism by becoming a member today. BECOME A MEMBER → Top Stories My Quest to Make the Pentagon Care About the Crimes It Covered Up Nick Turse For years, I’ve shared names of former soldiers implicated in atrocities with the Pentagon. It’s shown no interest in punishment until Mark Kelly dissed Trump. Read More → These Apps Let You Bet on Deportations and Famine. Mainstream Media Is Eating It Up. Tekendra Parmar “The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion.” Read More → CIA Was Behind Venezuela Drone Strike, Source Says Nick Turse The December 24 drone strike in Venezuela is the latest in a long tradition of CIA interventions in Latin America — which often lead to destabilization and blowback. Read More → Prosecutor Floating Death Penalty for Nick Reiner Knows It’s an Empty Threat Liliana Segura LA District Attorney Nathan Hochman is playing politics by raising the specter of the death penalty for the murders of Rob and Michele Reiner. Read More → AIPAC Is Retreating From Endorsements and Election Spending. It Won’t Give Up Its Influence. Akela Lacy The lobbying group is taking a quieter approach this midterms cycle, but it’s still seeking to keep Congress in Israel’s pocket. Read More → International Pressure Was Building to Hold Israel Accountable. What Happened? Jonah Valdez After Trump’s plan for Gaza went into effect, governments seemed eager to return to the status quo. Read More → Cop Group Alleges “Discrimination” by Prosecutor for Being Too Nice to Immigrants Akela Lacy The pro-police group wants the Justice Department to investigate a reformist prosecutor for violating the civil rights of against American citizens. Read More → Reuniting With Family in Gaza During the Break Between Bombings Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi For a brief period, the pause in Israeli violence gave us a sense of normalcy. Then the airstrikes started again. Read More → Trump Spent 2025 Making Trans Lives Unlivable. It’s Time for Democrats to Defend Them. Natasha Lennard Elected Democrats haven’t done nearly enough to oppose attacks on gender-affirming care. They risk being on the wrong side of history. Read More → The Feds Keep Prosecuting Protesters Against ICE — and Losing Noah Hurowitz Prosecutors for the Trump administration have been quick to bring charges against ICE protesters. They’ve also been quick to lose the cases. Read More → War on Christmas: Trump Announces Wave of Airstrikes Targeting ISIS Militants in Nigeria Nick Turse Trump cast the Nigeria strikes as an assault on those “who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians.” Read More → Kat Abughazaleh Thinks Campaign Funds Should Help Feed People Jessica Washington The Illinois congressional candidate turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub. Read More →

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THE INTERCEPT: The Incredible Disappearing Human Rights Reports, ICE Deportation Airline Avelo Relies on Blue-State Subsidies. Will Dem Governors Do Anything About It?, DNC Leadership Pressured Gen Z Member to Kill Resolution on Banning Arms to Israel, Trump the Landlord Plans to Speed Up Evictions From Public Housing, Court Filings Reveal New Details About Oklahoma AG Flip-Flopping on Freeing Richard Glossip, Can Congress Stop Trump From Starting a War in Mexico?, Chaos on New York’s Streets, Brought to You by the NYPD, Beyond Dobbs: How Abortion Bans Enforce State-Sanctioned Violence 17AUG25

 

Most Read The Incredible Disappearing Human Rights Reports Nick Turse The State Department’s new reports whitewash the records of some of the world’s most notorious nations and target Trump’s enemies. Read More → ICE Deportation Airline Avelo Relies on Blue-State Subsidies. Will Dem Governors Do Anything About It? Matt Sledge Activists want blue states to stop handing out cash to Avelo, the airline that operated 10 percent of ICE’s deportation flights. Read More → Protecting freedom of the press has never been more important. Be the next person to support The Intercept’s independent journalism by becoming a member today. BECOME A MEMBER → Top Stories DNC Leadership Pressured Gen Z Member to Kill Resolution on Banning Arms to Israel Matt Sledge Democrats say they need enthusiasm among young voters. They aren’t listening to what Gen Z wants. Read More → Trump the Landlord Plans to Speed Up Evictions From Public Housing Jessica Washington The Trump administration is pushing a rule change that would speed up the eviction process by providing tenants less notice. Read More → Court Filings Reveal New Details About Oklahoma AG Flip-Flopping on Freeing Richard Glossip Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith AG Gentner Drummond, who is running for governor, told Glossip’s lawyer that the timing of his release hinged “on his own political calculus.” Read More → Can Congress Stop Trump From Starting a War in Mexico? Nick Turse More than 30 human rights groups urge congressional leaders to block Trump’s attempt to target Mexican cartels. Read More → Chaos on New York’s Streets, Brought to You by the NYPD Ian F. Blair The police seem to run reds whenever they feel like it — and only they could say whether it’s a real emergency. Read More → Podcasts Beyond Dobbs: How Abortion Bans Enforce State-Sanctioned Violence The Intercept Briefing Journalist Kylie Cheung on why post-Dobbs restrictions “aren’t unintended consequences.” Listen →

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REP SUHAS SUBRAMANYAM D-VA 10TH DISTRICT SUPPORTS ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE, WAR CRIMES & CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ON PALESTINIANS IN GAZA AND THE WEST BANK 20MAR25

    HE HAS BEEN BOUGHT BY AIPAC, THE PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY FOR $44,750.00! 

I have been e mailing this bastard and calling his office for weeks hounding him to take a stand against Israel's campaign of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. I have been hounding him to stop the flow of weapons and ammunition to the idf  and fascist Jewish settlers. Now I find out this is why fascist fotze rep suhas subramanyam D-VA refuses to condemn Israel for their campaign of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity on Muslim and Christian Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. He refuses to take any action to stop the flow of weapons and ammunition to Israel because they bought him. He has blood on his hands.....

MOTHER JONES DAILY: Trump's darkest vision—and the hyperpoliticized agency that could help him realize it, At Harris Rally in Philadelphia, the Return of “Joy”,Tim Walz is leading the way on Long Covid funding, Why the Border Patrol went MAGA, One of the most vocal proponents of a ceasefire in Gaza just lost, “He’s an agent. No one will believe me over him.”, No boundaries 7AUG24

 

August 7, 2024 Hi folks. I'm Ian Gordon, an editorial director here at Mother Jones. In the spring of 1924, shortly after passing an exclusionary immigration law known as the National Origins Act, Congress earmarked $1 million for "additional land-border patrol." The country’s newest law enforcement agency staffed up so quickly that it didn’t bother with a test for new recruits—and then watched as many of them suddenly quit.  It was an inauspicious start, and it foreshadowed the Border Patrol’s longtime status as a bureaucratic backwater. Even as late as 1993, the Border Patrol employed only 4,000 agents nationwide. Then came 9/11. As "securing our borders" became a key component of the new national security paradigm, the Border Patrol became the beneficiary of extreme largesse. Yet the oversight necessary to manage a ballooning federal agency—let alone one that for decades had made its own rules—never really caught up. The Border Patrol added thousands of agents, and scandals quickly followed. Infiltration by cartels. Corruption. Assault. Rape. Murder. Within a few years, the Border Patrol had become one of the nation’s largest, and least accountable, law enforcement agencies. At the same time, the US-Mexico border became even more politicized. And then Donald Trump entered the fray. Trump’s latest campaign relies on a familiar script: decrying an “invasion” at our southern border, calling for mass deportations, and still promising to build that wall. The Border Patrol is once again a key part of his plans. So for our September+October issue, we investigated the agency’s sharp growth, its troubling record on civil liberties, its culture of impunity, and its role in shaping the current political moment—one that echoes the anti-immigrant fever that led to the agency’s creation a century ago. —Ian Gordon

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