SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

Heard a tourist refer to the dreaded, adjacent neighborhood as "Doom-bo" and it warmed my heart.

My new troll for 2024 is that whenever someone messages me about being in LA i'm gonna say "Louisiana or Los Angeles?"

I have updated my newsletter's Year In Review (joshgondelman.substack.com/p/59-a-littl...) to reflect an overlooked accomplishment. (Singing the praises of Polar Seltzer for Slate.) slate.com/human-intere...

Samhita ironically used the word “HERSTORY” in a tweet and I admonished her to use the gender-neutral “thistory.”

Just found an IG account that’s basically all donkeys at a ranch braying.

I need to get back to posting here. How y'all been?

since Garland's CIVIL WAR trailer is making people React, here's my piece on the Speculative American Civil War novel @ali-gharib.theintercept.com let me write in '17 theintercept.com/2017/10/14/t...

Why isn't everyone on here fighting about Israel? What kind of twitter clone is this???

Here's @sambiddle.bsky.social on the mysterious funding behind the group trying to trade your digital security in the name of a far-reaching campaign against sex abuse: New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed by U.S. Political Dark-Money Network theintercept.com/2023/10/01/a...

Wild scoop from @natashalennard.bsky.social about the extent to which the far-right is willing to go in their vigilante campaign against abortion rights: Texas Anti-Abortion Crusader Demands Abortion Patient Information In Court theintercept.com/2023/09/29/t...

Hawley took campaign cash from the Big Three and took a bunch of anti-union positions. Now he wants you to believe he's pro-worker. @premthakker.bsky.social has the details: theintercept.com/2023/09/29/j...

Menendez Indictment Looks a Lot Like Egypt Recruiting Intelligence Source, Say a Bunch of Former CIA Officials @kenklippenstein.bsky.social & @drboguslaw.bsky.social report: theintercept.com/2023/09/27/m...

Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate It Codenamed GAMECHANGER, an AI program helps the military make sense of its own “byzantine” and “tedious” bureaucracy. by @kenklippenstein.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/20/p...

Uninvited and Unaccountable: How CBP Policed George Floyd Protests Thousands of pages of newly released documents detail CBP’s involvement in policing the 2020 racial justice protests. by @premthakker.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/21/c...

AIPAC Targets Black Democrats — While the Congressional Black Caucus Stays Silent AIPAC has given at least $3.6 million to the CBC’s old guard since last year, while members of the Squad draw the Israel lobby’s ire. by @akelalacy.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/21/a...

UAW Files Labor Complaint Against Sen. Tim Scott for Saying “You Strike, You’re Fired.” by @drboguslaw.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/21/u...

Inside Biden’s Secret Arms Deal Leaked documents show how the U.S. helped Pakistan get a bailout from the International Monetary Fund through a secret arms deal to Ukraine. Deconstructed podcast with @ryangrim.bsky.social @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Arif Rafiq theintercept.com/2023/09/22/d...

Menendez “Appreciated” Meeting With Egypt Dictator Amid Alleged Bribes for Arms Sales Sen. Robert Menendez was indicted Friday for taking bribes to approve arms sales to Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. by @kenklippenstein.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/22/m...

North Carolina GOP Hides Redistricting Process From State Public Records Law The change, snuck into the state budget at the last minute, will shield lawmakers from scrutiny in a state with a history of partisan gerrymandering. by @schuylermitchell.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/22/n...

The Secret History of How the Super-Rich Have Kept the Working Class Out of Work Tim Gurner, the viral Australian multimillionaire who wants more workers to be unemployed, was debunked by an economist in 1943. by @schwarz.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/23/t...

Omg what is going on? Is the EARTH in retrograde???

Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three by @ryangrim.bsky.social and @kenklippenstein.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/15/u...

The death penalty is so noxious that even giant corporations don't want to be involved: Companies Already Ban the Use of Their Drugs for Lethal Injection. Now They’re Blocking IV Equipment. by Lauren Gill & Daniel Moritz-Rabson theintercept.com/2023/09/14/l...

"Public defenders across America regularly work triple the cases they can effectively handle, and some work upwards of 10 times too many cases" www.stltoday.com/news/nation-...

Rarely have I said yes as quickly or enthusiastically to an assignment as when The Baffler asked me to review Marty Peretz's memoir

Trump Lawyer Cleta Mitchell Escaped Georgia Indictment — and Still Leads Election Denial Movement Here's Andy Donohue reporting in @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2023/09/13/t...

A weird thing is the different pronunciations of quixotic and Quixote.

This is the Nissan Snail, a small utility van from the late '80s. Except it wasn't actually called the Nissan Snail...its real name was much much better, possibly the greatest corporate product pun ever. This snail-shaped small cargo van was...the Nissan S-Cargo.

The Biden Administration Is Keeping Thousands of Afghans in Limbo Abroad by Alice Speri in @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2023/09/13/a...

Tech Companies and Governments Are Censoring the Journalist Collective @ddosecrets.com by @micahflee.com in @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2023/09/12/d...

A Trump Appointee Is Trying to Gut the FEC’s Ability to Investigate Campaign Finance Crimes by @premthakker.bsky.social in @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2023/09/12/f...

Great colors happening outside right now.

Judge Reverses Course on 2020 Protest Settlement Because Police Union Doesn’t Like It The police union lawyer is the judge's long-time friend with whom she co-hosts a Super Bowl party, and also Ben Smith's dad. @nickpinto.bsky.social for @hellgateny.bsky.social hellgatenyc.com/police-union...

Remember when I got put on the watch list and had to endure all kinds of (modest) humiliations at airports? Thanks a bunch, Al Qaeda!

Excellent piece from @kellyweill.bsky.social detailing the ways in which the slightest hints of social democracy put up during the early days of the pandemic are being ripped away at the first of next month. We truly live in hell. momleft.substack.com/p/at-what-cost

On how I've been digging into the ongoing spate of deaths in Pima County jail. My latest for @azluminaria.bsky.social azluminaria.org/2023/09/08/b...

Gen Z Candidate Launches Campaign That Ignores His Generation’s Priorities Democrat Isaiah Martin’s platform for his Texas congressional race indicates support for Israel — and makes no mention of climate change. by @premthakker.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/07/t...

Pentagon Misled Congress About U.S. Bases in Africa by @nickturse.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/08/a...

Vice Pulled a Documentary Critical of Saudi Arabia. But Here It Is. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2023/09/09/v...

Top Biden Cyber Official Accused of Workplace Misconduct at NSA in 2014 — and Again at White House Last Year Noah Kulwin & @sambiddle.bsky.social report: theintercept.com/2023/09/06/a...

Never forget.

Covid ain't what it used to be.

In Guatemala’s presidential election, the progressive Bernardo Arévalo overcame long odds to restore a distant hope for democracy. But his struggle is only beginning. Victor Blue captures the momentous election in words and photos. theintercept.com/2023/09/10/b...

I am once again thinking about this deleted 2021 tweet

Gonna write a big NYT essay about how a Saudi-Israel agreement is great for the US but never mention that it would further entrench a ruthless dictatorship and an apartheid state.

Who sent me cookies?

Honduras Defense Official and U.S. Drug War Ally Tied to Narco-Trafficker Documents & interviews link Col. Elias Melgar Urbina to a convicted drug trafficker and a security company accused of assassinating activists. by Jared Olson & @jbwashing.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/08/25/h...

Louisiana Rushes Buildout of Carbon Pipelines, Adding to Dangers Plaguing Cancer Alley by Delaney Nolan in @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2023/08/24/c...