NEW: When he was CA Attorney General in 2018, Xavier Becerra’s office pushed to artificially inflate a Black man’s IQ so the state could execute him. Becerra’s cj record has received less scrutiny in this campaign than his past runs. Why? theintercept.com/2026/05/19/x...

New documents show that Trump's own FBI shut down an investigation into a tip that Mahmoud Khalil was a threat - a tip submitted 2 DAYS BEFORE ICE abducted & arrested him. The Trump admin kept calling him a threat anyway. They're still trying to deport him theintercept.com/2026/05/12/m...

NEWS: 2 days before ICE abducted Mahmoud Khalil, the FBI received an anonymous tip claiming he had called for violence on behalf of Hamas. The FBI promptly closed the tip & found Khalil did not warrant further investigation. By that point, it was too late. theintercept.com/2026/05/12/m...

Senate Judiciary ranking member @durbin.senate.gov responds to my reporting: “This is terrifying. After Director Patel purged the FBI workforce, 9,000 seasoned professionals were forced to work on a Trump pet project. …

I’m out in DTLA at the tail end of the morning May Day march. Outside City Hall, police met protesters & pushed them down the street in an apparent attempt to open the road for a prison bus. Protesters moved vehicles & stepped back, but LAPD pushed & then towed the vehicles. March now headed to MDC.

The FBI responded to our reporting but did not answer questions about what its staff are doing as far as "immigration-related work":

NINE THOUSAND people who work for the FBI — either two thirds of their agents or one quarter of their entire staff — have been diverted to doing at least some immigration enforcement by the Trump administration.

This is crazy. Akela found out that the admin has diverted a *quarter of the entire FBI* away from their jobs to instead help Trump and Vance's immigration agents, whose most notable work includes kidnapping pro-Palestine students and murdering two Americans in broad daylight.

I asked Raskin about this exchange w Bash and why he described this kind of journalism to @gregsargent.bsky.social as a “pox on both your houses beltway cynicism.” Listen to our conversation on the latest episode of The Intercept Briefing here podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

NEW POD 🎧: I ask Rep. Jamie Raskin about *that interview* with Dana Bash and blaming Democrats’ “rhetoric” for the WHCD dinner. Plus, we dive into the world of political conspiracy theories with @rothschildmd.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

NEW: Trump diverted >9,100 FBI personnel to work on immigration during the first 9 months of this term, per public records I obtained. He multiplied them by a factor of 23 - from 279 before he took office to >6500 by September. theintercept.com/2026/05/01/f...

Strategists unload on Maine: “This was their star recruit and she couldn’t even make it to the election. No longer can they be the gatekeepers.” theintercept.com/2026/04/30/m...

NEW: Our Revolution is endorsing billionaire Tom Steyer for California Gov. Founded by Bernie Sanders after his 2016 presidential campaign, the group says if progressives don't consolidate after Swalwell's exit, they risk handing the seat to a Republican theintercept.com/2026/04/20/c...

@akelalacy.bsky.social and @ali-gharib.theintercept.com also break down Sen. Bernie Sanders resolutions to block the sales of bombs and bulldozers to Israel. The bills failed mostly along party lines with a handful of defections to the Republican side, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer

New Intercept Briefing, @akelalacy.bsky.social speaks to @mattduss.bsky.social about how Dems can use unpopularity of the war to push an anti-war agenda. Time and time again voters demonstrate they don't want a "foreign policy establishment that is addicted to militarism, that is addicted to war."

NEW POD 🎧: A historic number of Democrats voted for Bernie Sanders’s measures to block bombs & bulldozers to Israel this week. I speak w Sanders’s former adviser @mattduss.bsky.social about Israel, Iran and why anti-war candidates become war-mongering presidents podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

There's still time to vote for The Intercept Briefing to win its first Webby. Voting ends at 11:59 PT. Also new 🔥 ep out early tomorrow am w/ @akelalacy.bsky.social @ali-gharib.theintercept.com & @mattduss.bsky.social Listen and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks!

“What I care about is the answer, and I care that people in this country don’t get health care at the same time that money goes to kill others in another country” @democracynow.org host Amy Goodman tells @akelalacy.bsky.social in new @theintercept.com Briefing. theintercept.com/2026/04/14/a...

SPECIAL EPISODE 🚨 🎧: I speak with Amy Goodman of @democracynow.org about her mantra to mainstream media: "steal this story, please," an eponymous documentary on her life's work, the role of independent media & the pitfalls of news built on access journalism podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

On today's episode, we go deep on the Christian influencers pushing for War with Iran. Plus, @akelalacy.bsky.social and I discuss how the war is shaping the midterms. theintercept.com/2026/04/03/t...

Coming off a loss in IL primaries, Kat Abughazaleh launches a new effort “merging mutual aid, political action, and apolitical events.” @jesswash.bsky.social covered her campaign’s mutual aid program here: theintercept.com/2025/12/26/k...

More from @akelalacy.bsky.social: theintercept.com/2026/04/02/b...

EXCLUSIVE NEWS: Sen. Bernie Sanders endorses Claire Valdez in NY-7, siding with Mamdani & NYC socialists in a fight that has split progressives in New York. Outgoing Rep. Nydia Velázquez & NY WFP are backing Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso. theintercept.com/2026/04/02/b...

World War Trump An analysis by The Intercept reveals 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...

Where in the world has Trump made war? We're keeping count!

NEW POD 🎧: how do we value protest in an age massive repression? Trump’s “homeland empire,” state violence and bringing global wars home with Nikhil Pal Singh & @jesswash.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This is funny because I have no clue if these donors are Jewish. They just gave to AIPAC!

This story does not “conflate” donors with AIPAC - they gave hundreds of thousands of $$ to AIPAC and it’s super PAC and DMFI. Almost $5 million in total. And as we note in the story, Krishnamoorthi has also taken hundreds of thousands of $ from pro-Israel groups & Kelly has taken pro-Israel $ too

SCOOP: you know AIPAC is spending millions on Illinois races. It’s publicly stayed out of Tuesday’s Senate race - but AIPAC donors have been giving to Lt. Gov. Julianna Stratton’s campaign since August. & a former AIPAC president is on her finance committee. theintercept.com/2026/03/12/a...

NEW POD 🎧: Iran is the *8th* country Trump has launched attacks in. W/ help from AI, strikes in Iran outpaced the 1st days of Israel’s siege on Gaza “by more than double” per @nickturse.bsky.social. & @sambiddle.com explains: AI is making war more reckless & deadly podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

In addition to the 14 people who got sick, 112 other individuals have been isolated in connection to the outbreak, according to Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas. “There has been nothing but crisis after crisis inside the walls of this tent city," Escobar said in a statement, NBC News reported. #ICE

The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE. Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009. A quick thread:

While Talarico calls for partially defunding ICE (not abolition) in favor of services (like healthcare) he also supports boosts to border funds, such as The Dignity Act, which increases militarization and surveillance at ports of entry. w/ @akelalacy.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/03/04/jam…

EXCLUSIVE: The pro-Palestine group @imeupolicy.bsky.social is spending $2 million on ads against Republicans in toss-up districts over ties to Israel & for Dems who support blocking weapons to Israel, taking advantage of GOP vulnerability amid Trump's war on Iran theintercept.com/2026/03/04/i...

NEW: Progressives are already pushing Talarico on Israel & Gaza, ICE. Organizers saw little daylight between he & Crockett on those policies but saw more room to move him than they did her. Also heard he’s being advised on improving on Gaza. W/ @jonahmv.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/03/04/j...

Crockett's pastor, Freddy Haynes III, has officially won her seat in TX-30. Haynes ran to Crockett's left on issues from Israel & Gaza to ICE and crypto. In response to q’s I sent him in February, he minced no words about where Dems are failing voters theintercept.com/2026/02/04/tex…

Most of Trump's SOTU was carbon copy talking points from other speeches, but @jesswash.bsky.social, @akelalacy.bsky.social and I sought out some of the more unexpected moments to drill down on: theintercept.com/2026/02/25/p...

@akelalacy.bsky.social, @jesswash.bsky.social, and @jordanuhl.com stayed up late to talk Trump’s speech and the Democratic Party’s response.

NEW POD 🎧: we listened to the State of the Union so you don’t have to. W/ @jesswash.bsky.social & @jordanuhl.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We listened to Trump's State of the Union so you don't have to podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @akelalacy.bsky.social @jordanuhl.com @theintercept.com

operation midnight hammer

I don't see Republicans acting like this crosses a line at any point in the near future. even though he was attacking the entire caucus, Trump says far worse about progressive women (Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, etc) on the regular. this is the baseline

The murder he's referring to was a horrific crime...one of hundreds of tragic murders that have happened this year. There have been dozens of killings that have gone unmentioned in this speech of course, that are the result of Trump's immigration policies--Alex Pretti and Nicole Good being just two.

this went from "america is hot" to dateline

really remarkable how trump seems to relish sharing this lurid stories about the terrible pain people have experienced, and he does it exclusively to score some partisan points

he's really mad they're not standing which is kinda wild to watch in real time like he keeps remembering it every few minutes and mumbling under his breath except it's into the mic

The first half of the speech was designed to get pundits to grade Trump on a curve (wow, he's talking about the economy! he's pivoting!), but the second half is where the real action is, shoring up the collapsing base

Last year a state Corrections employee told me she was troubled by prison officials’ failure to request autopsies after people died in custody. I looked into it for @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The U.S killed three more people in a boat strike in the Caribbean yesterday. The toll of these these extrajudicial killings now exceeds 150 people. All known attacks are chronicled in our tracker, @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

We're doing a #SOTU pod tomorrow night for The Intercept Briefing. What are the topics you care most about ahead of the State of the Union? @theintercept.com