Highly recommend listening to this episode of The Intercept Briefing and reading Empire of AI by @karenhao.bsky.social. Hao sheds light on the largely overseas exploited workforce who actually power so-called artificial intelligence. theintercept.com/2026/01/02/e... @theintercept.com

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

Read @jesswash.bsky.social's piece from November on how White Christian Nationalism is shaping Trump's policies in Africa:

The White Christian Nationalism is at the core of everything theory, just keeps getting stronger.

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

Conditions At ICE Detention Centers Could Fuel Major Measles Outbreaks

People were so mad about this, and I'm still so confused why 🥲

The Future of Media is a $250 million national newspaper devoted solely to the debate over cooking at home vs delivery.

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Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

RSVP for our virtual discussion of Palestine solidarity, immigrant rights resistance, and the crackdown against the two interconnected movements. interc.pt/4q92Bql

College professors once taught free from political interference. Now, they are being watched by state officials, senior administrators and students themselves. The increased oversight comes as conservatives expand their movement to curb what they say is a liberal tilt in university classrooms.

My position at The Post was eliminated, along with many other journalists of color hired after the 2020 racial reckoning.

Official U.S. military film footage shows ace of spades “death cards” being placed in the mouths of dead Vietnamese people in South Vietnam’s Quảng Ngãi province.

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Journalism is a great industry to go into if you want to become speedrun becoming a Marxist.

My ancestors were a part of some of the first free Black colonies to settle in Washington, D.C., in the 1800s. This city is a part of me. And, what I've witnessed over the last year has been devastating.

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Shouting this from the rooftops!

The Intercept and the Press Freedom Defense Fund have signed onto this letter from NABJ about the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. Journalism is not a crime.

Denial of the Gaza Health Ministry’s death toll helped buoy American support for Israel’s genocide.

“We’ve not gotten anything from the federal government,” Moriarty says. “To tell you how odd this situation is, we are getting our information from the media … we are not getting that from the federal government.” theintercept.com/2026/01/30/m...

Even the Top Prosecutor in Minneapolis Doesn’t Know the Identity of the Agents Who Killed Alex Pretti theintercept.com/2026/01/30/m...

I've been finding it really interesting that the outrage after Alex Pretti was killed seems to be focused on ICE, when it was a Border Patrol agent and a Customs and Border Protection officer who killed him.

Journalists should "disable biometrics when they expect to be in a situation where they expect a possible search," @freedom.press' Martin Shelton told @theintercept.com.

Watching the Senate floor debate over the spending bill. Sen. Lindsey Graham continues to hold up the bill to force a vote on his legislation that would target cities with sanctuary policies.

Don Lemon will likely be ok, but this is about cowing every newsroom leader and every journalist in this country into submission. Because our job, at a fundamental level, is to hold power to account and tell the stories our government doesn't want us to tell.

More images of this agent “NS-919,” one of two who shot Pretti and a main instigator of the Pretti incident— from January 21. NS-919 pushed the woman that started the Pretti violence on January 24.

Until Congress decides masked secret police are un-American, Americans are left to try to decipher who is breaking down their door, gunning down their neighbor, or kidnapping their child's friend. These patches are clues to identifying those federal agents theintercept.com/2026/01/28/i...

"Some of these people [federal agents] have been in-theater for eight months" "in theater" Like it's a war zone -- which they've turned it into.

Trip is amazing!!! Any organization would be lucky to have them. Hire Trip before someone else scoops them up.

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

The amount of money the US government spent on troops in DC in 2025 ($223m) would have been enough to give the city's ~5,100 homeless residents each $43,000. Instead, federal troops destroyed their meager encampments.

There are so many elements of this story that are shocking, but these two stand-out: 1) CBP wrote its own Q&A to Congress. Then declined to answer multiple of their own Qs... 2) The vast contradictions between their report and the narrative first put out by this administration. bit.ly/3McseZt

Think about this for a moment. CBP provided a list of questions to itself and then repeatedly declined to offer answers to some of them.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Incredibly worthwhile piece from @alainstephens.bsky.social about the history of the second amendment and how that right has never been fully applied to Black and brown people in this country, or our allies. theintercept.com/2026/01/28/a...

EXCLUSIVE: These Patches Are Clues to Identifying Immigration Agents We built a guide to patches worn by ICE and CBP to help the public determine which federal agents are in their communities theintercept.com/2026/01/28/i...

The funny thing about Bluesky is that people forget it's not Twitter/X and it's all libs and lefties, so people keep fighting with people they agree with making an obviously sarcastic joke because they're scarred from Twitter.

Officials are quickly moving people they’ve apprehended out of state, making it difficult for loved ones to reach them

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When Congress pressed CBP for a report on Pretti’s killing, CBP offered answers to a list of questions. It also supplied the questions itself.

It's a well placed fear. Brilliant writing by @adamserwer.bsky.social in The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...