Maurice Mitchell and Amanda Litman discuss the lessons from Tuesday night, as Democrats and progressives prepare for the midterm elections.

Good read here from @akelalacy.bsky.social on the Zohran-NYPD question. theintercept.com/2025/11/05/z...

MEANWHILE: Bari Weiss' "anti-woke" University of Austin just announced a $100 million donation from Jeff Yass, the Pennsylvania billionaire who recently funded the Gov. Greg Abbott's school voucher push in Texas. UAustin says they will no longer charge tuition or accept government money.

I love the random Twitter accounts being like wow Mamdani barely broke 50% seems like he’s not that popular. He won more votes than any mayoral candidate since 1969!

NEW: Mamdani now faces the difficult challenge of navigating the NYPD and its powerful union. He avoided campaigning hard against police. Will it pay off? theintercept.com/2025/11/05/z...

tonight actually belongs to Curtis

Zohran Mamdani is New York City’s next mayor. Read @noahhurowitz.bsky.social from Mamdani HQ theintercept.com/2025/11/04/n...

Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

The New York City Board of Elections announced that 2 million people had cast ballots — the highest number since 1969.

you know what that means

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

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

Update: The charges against Larry Bushart Jr have been dropped! About time.

NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

SCOOP --> Major new Bidenworld autopsy just dropped: 45 former Biden officials candidly assess their mistakes and failings in new Roosevelt Institute report. They lay out the beginnings of a Project 2029 agenda to reverse authoritarian tide. Details in my new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2023...

i took a stab at answering six of your questions in an elections mailbag: perhaps the most fun I’ve had writing this year check it out if any of these interest you! boltsmag.org/elections-ma...

coming up at 10:45am ET/7:45am PT I'll be on @UpfrontKPFA talking about this story, the Platner campaign and the Maine Senate race. tune in: 94.1FM or at www.kpfa.org theintercept.com/2025/10/25/g...

New lawsuit challenging NY's semi-pervasive AI camera system, similar to systems now used in many American cities. This is the next frontier in modern Fourth Amendment law. More here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

NEW: An NYPD camera points directly into their bedroom. They’re suing the city over it. It’s the first suit to take on the NYPD’s massive surveillance network, the largest in the world, that police use to track and profile millions of New Yorkers every day theintercept.com/2025/10/28/n...

I love this song

What part of Dems moved left on immigration? Was it Biden deporting 2 million+ people? Or Biden breaking international law to functionally end asylum? Is it Kamala Harris literally running on far-right Oklahoma Senator James Langford's immigration bill? Or her saying the wall is a good idea?

Many of Platner’s most vocal supporters have simply doubled down after the Nazi tattoo and Reddit scandals. And his critics have celebrated what they perceive as his downfall and the folly of the left. I think both are wrong - here’s why theintercept.com/2025/10/25/g...

NEW: I wrote about the Graham Platner saga, the ghosts of John Fetterman, and who gets to be deemed as “authentic” theintercept.com/2025/10/25/g...

"When the status quo isn't working, bad ideas beat no ideas. And we've often been the party and candidates that are no ideas. What we are seeing is that Democrats can win when they have ideas." @alyssacass.bsky.social on the latest Intercept Briefing podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

NEW POD 🎧: I sat down with @alyssacass.bsky.social @chiosse.bsky.social & former mayoral candidate Jim Walden to talk Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, and what the New York City mayoral race could mean for the future of the Democratic Party podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

This might be the most emblematic story of these insanely ridiculous times. Incredible reporting by @lilianasegura.bsky.social

At 11:15 p.m., police knocked on his door again. This time there were four officers, one of whom was holding a warrant for his arrest, which had been sent from Perry County.

Justice Dems backing its 4th candidate this cycle - Cori Bush in her return to run for MO-01

We also do accountability reporting that's sorely lacking in this space—stories that other repro-focused publications wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole. Notably, workers trust us to tell these stories.

Trump is quietly expanding control of state & local police. "Their larger project is to blur the lines between different law enforcement agencies in the military and create one national police force that is essentially under the command of the president.” theintercept.com/2025/10/20/t...

NEW: the Trump admin is partnering with environmental, fisheries and wildlife commissions to recruit cops to go after migrants. Trump’s massive expansion of federal control into local & state police includes commissions for wildlife, gaming & lottery in 3 states theintercept.com/2025/10/20/t...

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.

This war machine is now in the hands of Donald Trump who has wasted no time unleashing it on cities across the country and now on civilians in international waters. In each subsequent episode we examine how we got here, one case at a time.

In episode 1 @radleybalko.bsky.social tells the story of Kathryn Johnston, a 92-year-old Atlanta woman who was gunned down in her own home by police during a botched drug raid. And we dig into some of the shocking practices by APD’s narcotics unit at the time, like “thunder runs."

This week, we released episode 2, which examines how a pre-planned no-knock raid — a violent, volatile tactic that became a common tool of the drug war — led to tragic consequences, in the story of Ryan Frederick and Detective Jarrod Shivers. "What do you do when the police are telling you a lie?"

For a little more on how the stories we tell in Collateral Damage fit into the realities of today, checkout another podcast I produce, The Intercept Briefing. Last week @akelalacy.bsky.social @radleybalko.bsky.social & @nickturse.bsky.social unpack troops in US cities & extrajudicial killings.

I pitched a story last month looking at how both his supporters and critics have put Mamdani in an almost impossible position on Israel and Gaza. I’ve seen a surge in comments like this in the last few weeks and I decided to write about it theintercept.com/2025/10/16/z...

Guys if you think this is a hit piece I’m not sure you read it

Twitter was breaking my brain. I wrote this so it doesn’t break yours theintercept.com/2025/10/16/z...

NEW: Can Mamdani really win on Israel and Palestine? With critics from his left wondering if he’s a closet Zionist, and critics on his right still pushing him to condemn a phrase he’s never used, Mamdani’s detractors may be playing into each other’s hands theintercept.com/2025/10/16/z...

What happens when a massive war machine aimed at the public falls into the hands of a president like Donald Trump? “Trump has been clear about his intent to turn the National Guard into a national police force with the President as its chief,” @nickturse tells me. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

License to Kill: Trump’s Extrajudicial Executions @akelalacy.bsky.social, @radleybalko.bsky.social and yours truly discuss the Trump administration’s rhetoric and rationale to justify extrajudicial killings abroad — and possibly at home. theintercept.com/2025/10/10/b...

“There are a lot of parallels between what Trump is doing with immigration now and what we saw during the 1980s with the drug war. There was an effort to bring the military in.” Listen on Apple: interc.pt/4o61Gq3 Spotify: interc.pt/3KKL6xB Everywhere else: interc.pt/4h414ix

Great to speak with @akelalacy.bsky.social and @radleybalko.bsky.social on Trump's efforts to bring the War on Terror to the Caribbean -- and maybe the United States

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...

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

NEW 🎧 POD: the government shutdown memory hole PLUS a scathing federal ruling from a Reagan appointee blasting Trump for his attacks on pro-Palestine students and making up his own definition of antisemitism as a cudgel. All on the latest Intercept Briefing podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Intercept is launching a new podcast series reported and hosted by @radleybalko.bsky.social, a trailblazing investigative journalist who has been covering the drug war and the criminal justice system for more than 20 years. theintercept.com/2025/10/01/c...