"At some point the men began waving to something overhead, which three people familiar with the briefing said logically must have been U.S. aircraft flying above them. All three interpreted the actions of the men as signaling for help, rescue, or surrender."

Video of U.S. Military Killing Boat Strike Survivors Is Horrifying, Lawmakers Reveal theintercept.com/2025/12/04/b...

"Can you do investigative journalism from a position of neutrality?" Still a tricky subject because if you're not neutral that suggests bias. But if you go where the facts go it doesn't. From: "Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh," in Columbia Journalism Preview: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

Here are the people who stood and smiled and laughed as Trump went off on his racist rant. Shame on them. And shame on every last person who has spent the last decade downplaying and normalizing his obvious, constant bigotry.

Donald Trump Jr. has all-of-a-sudden developed a remarkable investing track record. Nice to see the kid find his footing at last. www.ft.com/content/952f...

If new proposals detailed in an FDA memo are put into place, experts told me it would mean the end of annual flu shots. And end of most vaccines for pregnant people. And maybe the end of updates to pneumonia vaccines. And more. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Apparently, possessing anarchist zines makes someone “antifa.” Further proof that this is just a war on the left. The administration is going for more radical and marginalized activists before it turns its attention on more mainstream ones.

End of year hits from my favorite bookstore:

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

thinking more about this: it is highly ironic that at the same time that it serves as a test case for the "unitary executive," this administration is all but being led by two subordinate officials with no immediate political accountability.

We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries. Here's what we found: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

It’s high time for a grown-up conversation which acknowledges that the drug laws are more harmful than the drugs themselves.

People on board the boat were said to have survived an initial strike and were killed in a follow-up attack. Officials said the boat appeared to have turned back toward shore. Three sources, including Sen. Rand Paul said the boat was attacked by one or more drones. theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker. Just to level set

The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false. Lots of people are going to die.

Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview. If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

Judge Smith pretty much wanted to hand Alito and Thomas a table of contents for how to shut it down — partisanship, partisanship, partisanship.

Trump appointed Harmeet Dhillon to the Justice Department so she could own the libs and sue DEI out of existence. But she is a bad lawyer! And her utter incompetence is the main reason why a conservative Trump judge just struck down the racist Texas gerrymander. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Congratulations, @brian-goldstone.bsky.social! Listen to our episode of The Intercept Briefing with Goldstone on working and homelessness in today’s America: interc.pt/47UfVth

New: the airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

"The new number the prince floated today, $1 trillion, is roughly the size of Saudi Arabia’s entire annual economic output."

Your periodic reminder that the U.S. remains at war in Somalia...

Y'all should give Collateral Damage a listen. I have enjoyed Balko's journalism since his very early days. He puts out great stuff. My only complaint about the podcast is that listening to it while I run screws up my heart rate data. But these are good things to be angry about. Go listen.

Episode Six: Airborne Imperialism A U.S.-led program killed a young missionary and her daughter in Peru after mistaking their plane for drug smugglers in 2001. Trump’s Venezuela boat strikes have made their deaths newly and urgently relevant. theintercept.com/2025/11/12/c...

Listen to our episode of the Briefing with @katmabu.bsky.social:

The last time I spoke with @saikatforcongress.bsky.social I was interviewing him about leaving AOC’s office as chief of staff. Now he’s running to replace Nancy Pelosi — and he thinks he has the key to moving progressive policies in Congress. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

Judge Failed to Disclose Personal Ties to Prosecutor in Two Death Row Cases Another must-read article from @lilianasegura.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/11/12/r...

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

A U.S.-led program killed a young missionary and her daughter in Peru after mistaking their plane for drug smugglers in 2001. @schakowsky.house.gov said the actions amounted to "extrajudicial killing." Now Trump admin. celebrates summary execution of alleged drug smugglers w/o a hint of due process.

This is a very good and vital podcast series.

What if the Manosphere podcasters aren't the best political theorists?

I’m late to it—there are already several episodes—but this is a gripping, infuriating, and much-needed podcast on the human cost of the War on Drugs.

For nine months, the formidable @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social and I have been investigating if X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. Our findings suggest it does: news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

In just *two days,* Zohran Mamdani’s transition committee raised over $500,000 from 7,000 donors. In *two months,* Eric Adams raised about $1.94 million from 1,176 donors.

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

The father was a U.S. citizen. But he was Latino, so Brett Kavanaugh says it’s fine. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Scoop: “Trump Wine Hits Government Shelves” me, for @forbes.com 1/

EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administrations says the U.S. is in a state of "armed conflict" with 24 cartel groups The groups don't even know it. The list is secret -- even from members of Congress For more on Trump's secret fantasy wars, see my latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/07/t...

It was a last chance for Paul, Tim Kaine, and Adam Schiff to block U.S. military action in Venezuela with a War Powers resolution.

Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

“On average, one December 2024 document notes, the company shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements – those that show clear signs of being fraudulent – every day. Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year”

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...