New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Trump disappeared immigrants with tattoos to the notorious CECOT prison, alleging they were gang members. But Border Patrol agents are allowed to have literal gang tattoos, as long as they're covered? Read more: interc.pt/4nTELz3 ✍️ @noahhurowitz.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

The double standards are not just maddening, they’re evil. Timely reporting by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social

NY Reps. Nydia Velazquez and Adriano Espaillat are here at 26 Federal Plaza for an unscheduled attempt to visit the 10th floor detention facility where ICE has been holding detainees — sometimes for weeks — after arresting them outside immigration court

🚨Border Patrol detained a nursing mother in Watertown, NY Thursday, separating the woman from her 6-month-old infant daughter. The baby is now “inconsolable” and the mom, unable to nurse, has suffered from extreme pain, according to Workers Center of Central New York

ICE agents camped outside immigration courtrooms across the country yesterday, pouncing on people as they left their hearings, with reports of arrests in NYC, AZ, FL, IL, CA, TX, WA, and more. @theintercept.com by @akelalacy.bsky.social, Jose Olivares, and me theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...

On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case. Must-read reporting by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social byhttps://theintercept.com/2025/05/05/ice-raid-farm-labor-union-new-york-ufw/

Hi everybody. My name is Max. I’m a book critic and this is my newsletter, SEPARATOR, edited by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social maxxpearl.substack.com/p/this-is-my...

NEW: A mother and her three school-aged children detained by ICE/CBP on March 27 in Sackets Harbor, NY, have been RELEASED after an outpouring of anger from locals in northern New York theintercept.com/2025/04/07/t...

“We defeated ISIS in Kobane, but they burned down everything…Now Turkey is doing the same. They want to annihilate the Kurds here.” Reporters w/ @theintercept.com, spent 12 days in Kobane, a majority-Kurdish Syrian city on the brink of siege by Turkey theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

A City on the Brink: Twelve Days in Kobane, Where Syrian Kurds Are Under Attack by Turkey. Great reporting from Patrick Hilaman, @noahhurowitz.bsky.social & others theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

“We defeated ISIS in Kobane, but they burned down everything…Now Turkey is doing the same. They want to annihilate the Kurds here.” Reporters w/ @theintercept.com, spent 12 days in Kobane, a majority-Kurdish Syrian city on the brink of siege by Turkey theintercept.com/2025/02/03/k...

For the first time in their lives, exiled critics of the Assad regime can speak openly with family in Syria, without fear I wrote for @theintercept.com about what Assad’s fall means for families long separated by war and surveillance theintercept.com/2024/12/12/a...

For this week's @theintercept.com Briefing, I talked to @noahhurowitz.bsky.social & @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social about the ways Congress is poised to give Trump sweeping powers to crush non-profit groups (H.R. 9495) and silence critics in the press: theintercept.com/2024/12/06/i...

BREAKING: The House has PASSED H.R. 9495 by a vote of 219-184, with the vote breaking down roughly along party lines. A total of 15 Democrats voted in favor of the bill, which is way down from the 52 who supported it last week. See below for full list!

TODAY: The House is set to vote on H.R. 9495, the "nonprofit killer" bill designed to target pro-Palestine groups — and which could empower Trump to go after other political foes Debate starts at 9am, voting to follow at 10 am. I'll be updating here, with story tk at @theintercept.com

Meet HR 9495: The nonprofit killer.

Rep. Angie Craig, one of 52 Democrats to vote YES on "nonprofit killer" bill H.R. 9495 last week, now says she will vote NO, citing Trump's cabinet nominees. "I've become increasingly concerned that H.R. 9495 would be used inappropriately by the incoming Administration."

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Update: this passed committee by a 9-3 vote and is headed to a floor vote later this week, likely Thursday morning

TODAY: The House Rules Committee set to discuss HR 9495, the controversial "nonprofit killer" bill that could allow Trump's Treasury Dept. to sanction orgs he dislikes The bill was blocked last week, but 52 Democrats voted in favor, as I report in @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2024/11/15/n...

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