Me writing about how white Christian nationalism is the explanation for literally everything.

"Organizing gets the goods,” says @mauricewfp.bsky.social on The Intercept Briefing. Don't miss our post election coverage, which just landed on the podcast feeds. @jesswash.bsky.social @amandalitman.bsky.social of @runforsomething.net, and Mitchell of the @workingfamilies.org on lessons from Tues.

“If this is supposed to be an intimidation tactic, you really picked the wrong girl,” @katmabu.bsky.social told @theintercept.com

I interviewed @katmabu.bsky.social an Illinois Congressional candidate facing federal conspiracy charges for protesting ICE for @theintercept.com. Here's what she had to say about the right to protest and what a leader owes their community. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Collateral Damage from @theintercept.com is a must listen investigative podcast about the decades-long impact of the war on drugs and how it relates to the challenges we're facing now. theintercept.com/2025/10/08/c...

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Whenever I'm talking about politics with my husband we have a nuclear weapons don't exist rule so that we don't panic. Seems like it's time to abandon that.

The DOJ indicted a congressional candidate for protesting. Here's what happened: theintercept.com/2025/10/29/k...

Trump's DOJ is targeting House candidate @katmabu.bsky.social — who went viral earlier this year after video emerged of ICE agents slamming her to the ground — with conspiracy charges. Read more: interc.pt/4ns4JrW ✍️ @jesswash.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

The idea that a remotely mainstream Democratic policy agenda item is "abolish the police" or "abolish prisons" is deeply unserious.

This retired cop has been in jail for months after posting a Charlie Kirk meme on Facebook. His bail is set at $2 million. Read more: interc.pt/3WhLINV ✍️ @lilianasegura.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

The Trump administration is leaving $10 million worth of contraceptives to rot, rather than allow non-profit organizations to deliver it to women in Sub-Saharan Africa. theintercept.com/2025/10/24/t...

this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”

I cannot have another conversation about transphobia being a result of people pushing too hard for civil rights. I will scream.

I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

After ICE set off tear gas next to a Chicago Elementary School, teachers had to explain why the U.S. government was targeting their communities. My latest for @theintercept.com on how children have become collateral damage in the administration's war on immigrants. theintercept.com/2025/10/19/c...

Curious to hear from people in DC if the increased Fed presence is making you scared to come out for the second No Kings protest.

This my official (late) announcement that I'm thrilled to share the podcast series I've been working on with a dream team over the last few years. Collateral Damage is a gutting examination of the half century long war on drugs that has built a massive war machine aimed at the public.

I'm working on a story about what's happening in Chicago with ICE, and it's so clear to me that things people have been warning about are already here.

This is how the pre-planned no-knock raid — a violent, volatile tactic that became a common tool of the drug war — led to tragic consequences.

This does feel like the natural conclusion of an ethos that is entirely based on eventually being able to say the n-word again without getting in trouble www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The next time someone tries to use Chat GPT in front of me I am throwing their phone away.

This is a super important case to watch!

Make America Healthy Again? We've got the receipts on what the Trump administration is *actually* doing. Read more: interc.pt/432nx9M ✍️ @jesswash.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

The Trump administration says reporting about its acceptance of the Qatari jet is "scandalous" and "immaterial" and should be cut from our FOIA complaint. The administration’s secrecy is the scandal. Thanks to @weareoversight.bsky.social for working with @freedom.press to fight it.

I haven't had the time to report on this, but I'm really interested in how these deals impact the credibility and standing of the universities that signed.

The compact from the Trump administration looks to provide a handful of universities with funding advantages in exchange for changes to their policies on grading, international student enrollment and diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

@akelalacy.bsky.social, @radleybalko.bsky.social, and @nickturse.bsky.social discussed Trump's rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home.

You simply have to read this @juliannemcshane.bsky.social and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social joint and not just because there's way more levitation in it than you would think possible. The Archangel Michael is also somehow involved www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE isn't supposed to detain pregnant women except in extenuating circumstances, but our reporting found that the Trump administration appears to be detaining pregnant women at alarming rates in deplorable conditions. Read my latest for @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/10/10/i...

ICE claims assaults on its officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.

NEW POD 🎧: The Trump admin has executed 21 people it claims were “narcoterrorists.” It's a dark turn in U.S. drug war policy. It’s also in line with the U.S. legacy of killing innocent people chalking it up to “collateral damage,” says @radleybalko.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

I wrote about the inherent contradiction between the Trump administration's MAHA agenda and its refusal to investigate or halt the dumping of toxic chemicals into our food, water and air. theintercept.com/2025/10/02/r...

People not responding to my emails (who were probably already not going to respond) is obviously not the worst part of the shutdown, but it is personally annoying.

Really vital reporting from @streetsensedc.bsky.social

"The Sinister Reason Trump Is Itching to Invoke the Insurrection Act" by the incomparable @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/10/07/t...

Looking to speak with families with young children in Chicago for a story on how the ICE raids are impacting them. Reach out to [email protected], if you're interested.

Don't love the "use AI so you can more efficiently delete records and not provide as many documents in response to FOIA" angle

Some good news on a story I covered for once! elpasomatters.org/2025/10/01/e...

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder: * There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Amid the Republican-Democrat shutdown blame game, a federal judge’s extraordinary ruling is taking on Trump’s unlawful detentions of pro-Palestine protesters. Listen on Apple: interc.pt/4o6oPZG Spotify: interc.pt/3ITmDFI Everywhere else: interc.pt/3VNv3l8

I wrote about the political marriage between crony capitalism and fringe health conspiracism in the Trump administration, and its many many contradictions. theintercept.com/2025/10/02/r...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Went to the Hill yesterday to cover the shutdown. The anger from Republicans about Dems picking this healthcare fight is really interesting given the last decade.

A judge just smacked down the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestinian speech, comparing it to the Red Scare. The Reagan-appointed judge kind of went off. Read more: interc.pt/483AWlr ✍️ @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

What a time to be covering the White House and health care.

Based on some of my conversations with veteran groups about the culture of military sexual violence under Hegseth, this feels deeply concerning.

Ohhh this was significantly weirder than I thought it would be.

The Trump administration is trying to hold a DACA recipient and activist in immigration detention indefinitely, even after a judge dismissed her case. Read my latest for @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/29/t...

The Trump Administration Is Arguing It Can Hold Dreamers Indefinitely  More must-read reporting by @jesswash.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/09/29/t...