Last weekend, I was talking to my grandmother about the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. She has early stage dementia so it's hard for her to keep track of recent news, but she was absolutely devastated. She grew up in DC during Jim Crow, and she marched and protested for those rights.

Experts say reproductive coercion more often occurs when a partner forces someone to get or remain pregnant. The anti-abortion movement is seizing on rare instances of forced abortions as a justification to ban telehealth pill prescriptions. The woman's lawyer here is the notorious Jonathan Mitchell

New episode of The Intercept Briefing is out! 🚨 We speak with @theintercept.com reporter @noahhurowitz.bsky.social about his coverage from outside Delaney Hall. And then we get into the broader war on immigrants with @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social and Andrea Sáenz. theintercept.com/2026/06/05/n...

highly recommend this episode of @theintercept.com briefing because @jordanuhl.com, @jesswash.bsky.social and @jonahmv.bsky.social have a great conversation on what really causes homelessness and how candidates in the la mayoral race are framing it:

My latest on the mess that is the LA mayor’s race: Rae Huang supporters say Nithya Raman is compromised. Raman’s base calls Huang a spoiler. Looming over it all: reality TV star Spencer Pratt. ✍️with @jesswash.bsky.social @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/05/29/l...

So if I have this correct, since the end of 2024, the following news outlets have gutted their climate desks: CBS CNN Hakai Magazine (folded into Biographic after losing its namesake funder, which also lost its major funder recently) NPR Washington Post Have I missed anyone lol

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BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The DOJ should be investigating THESE murders.

SCOTUS' decision to allow telehealth & mailing of #mifepristone to continue is in line with robust evidence that it is safe & effective. But threats to access are far from over, as Guttmacher expert Anna Bernstein shared with @jesswash.bsky.social. More via @theintercept.com#mifepristone https://gu.tt/4tFmOG1

Thinking a lot about this quote today.

New from PP: You know those 'Kavanaugh stops,' where justice allowed racial profiling but said they'd be no big deal? Well, ICE agents have now stopped and held this American *3 times* Earlier this month, they *shackled him* He's thinking of moving to Mexico www.propublica.org/article/immi...

New episode: This week on The Intercept Briefing, @jesswash.bsky.social @nickturse.bsky.social and @noahhurowitz.bsky.social dissect the Trump administration's new counterterrorism strategy which paints anyone it wants to go after as terrorists — a "useful means of tamping down on dissent.”

A real pleasure to talk with my brilliant colleagues @jesswash.bsky.social and @noahhurowitz.bsky.social about Trump's frightening declaration of war on his enemies: foreign and domestic, real and imagined.

The VA abortion ban is the strictest nationwide: It blocks care & counseling for vets & dependents pregnant from rape/incest or when their health is endangered by carrying a pregnancy to term. I broke the news of its re-implementation back in December: www.ms.now/news/abortio...

❗SCOOP: The first lawsuit over the Trump administration’s abortion ban for veterans & their dependents was just filed. Minority Veterans of America says one of its members w/ chronic health issues + a history of pregnancy complications is currently being impacted. More from me at @ms.now:

Taps sign* The Trump administration is threatening to "find" and "kill" the President's enemies. theintercept.com/2026/05/15/p...

The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy turns its political enemies into enemies of the state.

Trump's new Counterterrorism Strategy is a road-map for how to target his enemies and label dissent as terrorism. theintercept.com/2026/05/15/t... @theintercept.com

Trump’s new Counterterrorism Strategy puts targets on people all around the world -- including here in the U.S. @jesswash.bsky.social, @noahhurowitz.bsky.social and me delve deep into the document to highlight the dangers. theintercept.com/2026/05/15/t...

The Supreme Court has issued a stay allowing Telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone to continue, but in their dissent Alito and Thomas hinted at the looming threat posed by the Comstock Act. Definitely not the time to take your eyes off the ball.

SCOTUS stay in the mifepristone case- Justice Thomas and Alito dissent. Thomas: the 1873 Comstock act bans mailing mifepristone (basically reviving a nationwide ban on mailing items used in abortions) Alito: medication abortion undermines our decision in Dobbs www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Alito: mailing abortion medication violates The Fugitive Womb Act bsky.app/profile/stev...

Not if @freedom.press, @citizensforethics.org, @weareoversight.bsky.social, and the @historians.org have anything to say about it.

The saint who created Legistorm deserves our eternal gratitude.

If telling on yourself was an olympic sport

The Supreme Court just ended the project of multiracial democracy, as we know it. In Tennessee, they have already moved to decimate Black political representation, and other states are not far behind. Listen to what we do next on The Intercept Briefing. theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...

nice "abortion pills lead to coercion" argument you got there, far-right groups. be a shame if @melissagiragrant.com deftly explained that abortion bans harm women and coerce pregnancies

"It is information funded by taxes, and that belongs to the American people. This data is often how the government decides what to do: what is a problem, what is a policy priority, what should be funded. It tells the story of America." theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Two big stories today, the first on voting rights: Alito claims that black voters in Louisiana had higher turnout than white voters in two of the last five elections. But that's really only true if you use a measure of voter turnout that no expert would ever use

A really powerful episode about what the Supreme Court took from the people when it dealt a final death blow to the Voting Rights Act last week. theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...

This is true. It’s hitting the elite journalists and NOW it’s a journalism crisis.

Respectfully, Santiago, they already do this and has for a while. I have plenty of bones to pick with the DSA, but the vast majority are with national entities like the international committee. The state and local chapters do a ton of good work and their candidates almost always run as Democrats.

The proposed redistricting map splits Memphis, a majority-black/Democrat city, into 3 districts that swirl through the western half of the state. The map would put slices of Memphis into 2 of the same districts as Williamson Co, one of the whitest, wealthiest, GOP-leaning counties in the nation.

Having a lot of talks with friends in the industry about what the future looks like for those of us who are early or mid-career, and whether there is any future at all.

We discuss the ruling in the podcast this week, and what it actually means to live in a country where the states are allowed to disenfranchise voters of color en masse.

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

"Federal agents are conducting a raid at the office of L. Louise Lucas, a Democrat who serves as Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore." Lucas, one of Virginia's most powerful lawmakers, was at the forefront of the state's redistricting fight

read my still relevant andor take from last may!

Both headlines are from today.

Really important reporting from @nickturse.bsky.social who bursts the administrations false claims about boat strikes.

This is one of the most important articles re to the courage of survivors juxtaposed against systemic features that attract and protect the likes of Epstein and Swalwell. Jessica also illustrates how quickly power can shift, what that looks like, and the motivations behind it. Simply brilliant.

We don't talk enough about how ugly an acronym looks in a written piece.

Why won't you just be nice to us about taking your rights away. --- is what I took from this. thehill.com/regulation/c...

One day I will write an article that references alleged violent sexual abuse of women, and a man won't be in my inbox saying I'm crucifying ALL men for "an unwanted back rub," decades ago. Today is not that day.

I wrote about how survivors have fought to make sexual abuse and violence a salient political issue, and how that contributed to the swift takedown of Swalwell after the news broke on Friday. theintercept.com/2026/04/14/e...

Swift Swalwell Fallout Suggests the Democrats Have Finally Learned From Epstein Voters see accountability for abuse as a key electoral issue. More must-read reporting by @jesswash.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/04/14/e...

If the DOJ’s history killer memo stands, Trump - and every future president - will be able to operate in total secrecy. We can’t let that happen. My latest for @theintercept.com:

Not a knock on the article, which definitely touches on this aspect. But, having interviewed students who had to flee the country with only the things they could carry, a drop in on-campus activism, particularly around Israel and the ME, is not surprising. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-campus...