By the great @ahjohnson.bsky.social, catch us in convo at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social on May 21 pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/49852

The Intercept was kind enough to publish and visualize key data findings from my new book on media bias and Gaza. Here are some examples - Emotive words in print/ - cable news - Antisemitism vs Islamophobia mentions - Coverage of Claudine Gay “scandal” v the Hind Rajab killing

U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.

A legal disciplinary panel won’t disclose any details about its inquiry into John Sarcone, a Trump loyalist in New York.

The controversial event and the NYPD’s response to resulting protests present a test for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

"That’s the real danger: making it so FOIA evasion is only a crime if the administration has a score to settle," writes @laurenleharper.bsky.social, @freedom.press’s Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy.

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 People in Boat Strikes. Two more were killed on Friday and one remains missing. We’re tracking them all, @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

JOURNALISTS: More and more services are integrating AI features. Our workshop will help you develop policies that safeguard your journalism from unwelcome AI interference.

What is with the obsession over this horse de-wormer? theintercept.com/2026/05/08/h...

Before any courts can assess the merits of the case, the SPLC is already suffering severe financial consequences.

Whoever takes the Democratic primary will square off against Paul LePage, a brash, plainspoken businessman and Republican former governor whose time running Maine was marked by proto-MAGA far-right populism.

"Right-wing redistricting efforts go beyond a scramble for November, though, and sit within a larger project of white supremacist backlash," writes @natashalennard.bsky.social in her latest Voices column.

“There is no meaningful clinical evidence for ivermectin against hantavirus, full stop,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

"The door on all this apologizing only swings one way. You’ll never get an apology out of Donald Trump," writes @kathkrueger.bsky.social.

The website for the expo includes a reference to Gush Etzion, a cluster of some 20 settlements in the West Bank, southeast of Jerusalem, that are considered illegal under international law.

"For the left, [mainstream] criticism rings more like an endorsement, and Piker has hit the campaign trail for a number of progressive Democrats," writes @devintoshea.bsky.social. interc.pt/4wzNmvg

The U.S. killed two more people in a boat strike in the Pacific Ocean yesterday. One person is still missing. 193 people are now dead from extrajudicial boat strikes.

The DOJ is now treating evading a records request as a crime, a stunning act of hypocrisy from the Trump administration.

It's just one example of many of the crypto sector trying to elect industry-friendly officials.

Blocking donations to the SPLC based on this bogus indictment is wrong on every level. My new article in the Intercept: theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...

SCOTUS's fatal blow to the VRA has sparked a new wave of redistricting. In quick succession, Southern states began redrawing their maps to eliminate majority-Black districts. Journalist @ariberman.bsky.social and Tennessee Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social explain the right’s “power grab.”

Given the Trump admin’s "open hostility to journalism and its novel legal tactics to attack the press, it’s entirely possible that the next target of financial censorship could be a news outlet," @reitman.bsky.social, FPF board president, wrote in @theintercept.com.

"And to anyone who says I would have been there with Dr. King...As one pastor said to me, “Whatever you are doing now is what you would have done then.” And people need to realize they have a responsibility now to do more." @justinjpearson.bsky.social

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...

The ink had barely dried on the Supreme Court’s ruling to gut the Voting Rights Act when Republicans raced to deliver on the promises of the court’s decision: the decimation of Black political power and a revival of Jim Crow-era voter suppression. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/05/08/g...

Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are tamping down on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s donations, acting as the government’s de facto censors.

With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee’s GOP rushed to eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

The truck circled JFK terminals asking travelers “Do you trust ICE with your phone?” and advising them to “turn it off at the airport. It’s harder for authorities to pry data from your phone if it’s shut down.” www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-...

“Anyone who says that racial gerrymandering and voter suppression and racism no longer exist are lying.” - Tennessee State Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social on SCOTUS' latest blow to voting rights. Listen on Apple: interc.pt/3PumT1h Spotify: interc.pt/3Pf1SHL Elsewhere: interc.pt/4nglqs3

Those who cheered ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment are now making unsubstantiated claims about its use against hantavirus.

As Tennessee eliminated its only majority-Black district, @ariberman.bsky.social and Tennessee state Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social explain how SCOTUS enabled the right’s “power grab.”

"What is likely to happen is the most significant purging of Black political power and elected Black leaders since the end of Reconstruction.” @justinjpearson.bsky.social

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...

Pleased to speak with @nickturse.bsky.social.

Insurgent candidates like Bush are tapping Piker as a campaign surrogate — but they still face an uphill battle to winning. interc.pt/4uvxWpL

“It is truly a sad day for anyone who cares about civil rights to see what the EEOC is spending its resources on today.”

It's a good day to fund independent journalism.

National Democrats put their weight behind a candidate in Maine's hotly contested House race just weeks before the primary. Locals are pissed.

I got inside the "Great Israel Real Estate Event" at Park East Synagogue on Tuesday evening. Everyone's talking about what happened outside. Here's what I saw inside: ads for illegal settlements and defiant scorn for international law via @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2026/05/05/z...

"Misogyny is not a secondary issue. It is foundational to the entire right-wing project."

“One of Trump’s standard plays with respect to Iran is resorting to belligerent threats of potentially illegal violence in the hopes of coercing Tehran,” Brian Finucane, a senior adviser for the U.S. Program at the International Crisis Group, said.

Sightline Intelligence, a firm focused on AI video processing, has made at least 10 shipments of hardware to the Israeli weapons giant Elbit Systems since 2024, according to investigators with the Movement Research Unit. interc.pt/3PdloV0

A former EEOC chair said, “They’re putting out their best facts in this complaint, and the facts are pathetic.”

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.

"A president for peace" An analysis by @theintercept.com found that the “peace” president has embroiled the U.S. in more than 20 military interventions, armed conflicts, and wars. theintercept.com/2026/03/30/t...

TI reporter Noah Hurowitz got inside the event. At least one company, Harey Zahav, displayed a map of properties in Kfar Eldad, Karnei Shomron, and other Israeli settlements in the West Bank. interc.pt/3PcaSxg

A crypto mogul gave $2.5 million to a candidate running against state Sen. Nicole Cannizzaro in the Nevada attorney general race.

The U.S. Has Murdered More Than 190 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All. theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

The shift started as soon as Trump returned to office.

Past real-estate expos that included illegal Israeli settlements have come under scrutiny for discrimination — and led to violent confrontations.