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“This is a guy who came in talking about being a champion for labor and he’s gone pretty quiet on it,” they said. “This is a guy who, since Trump won, is for lack of better word basically a useful idiot for Republicans...it gives them cover to say, ‘Look it’s bipartisan’” via @akelalacy.bsky.social

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Listen to @akelalacy.bsky.social and I discuss how everything is totally fine and we're not at all concerned! @theintercept.com

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Well, the last month has certainly been... something. Our politics reporters, @akelalacy.bsky.social and @jesswash.bsky.social discussed it all on the latest episode of The Intercept Briefing.

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Big win for Larry Krasner today, as the Supreme Court of PA has unanimously reinstated criminal charges his office filed against a homicide detective who allegedly helped his cousin stalk a woman and then lied during, obstructed, and manufactured evidence for the IAD investigation into his actions.

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Tooting my own horn here but I’ve been saying for years that holding a Black man at gunpoint probably means you aren’t really a “progressive.” Welcome to 2025 theintercept.com/2025/02/19/f...

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A former campaign staffer told me Fetterman is bleeding staff because of his hard-right turn - and not just on Israel. “This is a guy who, since Trump won, is for lack of better word basically a useful idiot for Republicans.” theintercept.com/2025/02/19/f...

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NEW: Fetterman is losing 2 more staff - bringing the total to 6 who left since his hard pro-Israel turn. “I think the staff is probably frustrated that working in the Fetterman office means you’re just working on Israel all the time,” a frmer campaign staffer told me theintercept.com/2025/02/19/f...

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The University of Pennsylvania, built on the democratic ideals of Ben Franklin, once a focus of debate and protest from Vietnam to Gaza, is trashing its legacy with bended-knee compliance to its worst alumni, Trump and Musk My new column on how far Penn has fallen www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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ICYMI: we covered a lot at @theintercept.com over the weekend…

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NEW: Trump is saying the quiet part out loud — federal prisons are purposely inhumane. And he wants to keep them that way theintercept.com/2025/02/16/t...

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Residents in Cancer Alley are bracing for the destructive power of Donald Trump’s second term. Tentative reform, achieved after years of grinding advocacy, could be reversed. My piece from Reserve, Louisiana: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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For those outside of metro Philly, the Inquirer is one of the few remaining major city papers owned by a nonprofit foundation, not by a billionaire.

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Trump wants to speed up executions, pursue more capital trials, help states get lethal injection drugs and push them to pursue as many executions as possible. That means less $$ for his purported goals: bringing back “law and order,” cutting crime and aiding victims theintercept.com/2025/02/16/t...

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In an executive order reviving his federal killing spree, Trump said people should be held in “monstrous” conditions commensurate with their crimes. That’s blatantly unconstitutional theintercept.com/2025/02/16/t...

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““It’s hard enough to challenge conditions of confinement when departments of corrections or the Bureau of Prisons is saying that it’s not unconstitutional,” he said. “So I just think it’s going to be a real heavy lift going forward to challenge those conditions,” Baich said.”

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NEW: Trump is saying the quiet part out loud — federal prisons are purposely inhumane. And he wants to keep them that way theintercept.com/2025/02/16/t...

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“Arresting them for hate crimes is not enough. We have to get rid of them.” Inside the Columbia network trying to get students deported, arrested, and investigated by the FBI. theintercept.com/2025/02/15/c...

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SCOOP: A group including Columbia alumni, professors & parents is trying to get students deported & arrested and urged people to tip off FBI. They’ve also disparaged Jewish protesters & tried to compile lists of JVP members. W/ @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/02/15/c...

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“Quite frankly, the mayor does not have the legal authority to suspend the law by executive order,” Speaker Adrienne Adams says of Mayor Adams potentially repealing New York City sanctuary laws through executive order

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NEW: Trump’s EPA administrator bragged about cancelling a grant to a nonprofit over its support for Palestine theintercept.com/2025/02/14/t...

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Careful what you post: ICE is seeking private contractors to conduct social media surveillance including detection of merely "negative" sentiment about the agency's leadership, agents, and general operations theintercept.com/2025/02/11/i...

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested an undocumented man Tuesday morning during a joint raid with local police at a commercial property in Upland Borough. @whyynews.bsky.social whyy.org/articles/upl...

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On the last Intercept Briefing pod 🎧 we tried to answer the question, where have Democrats been? Today, Sen. Bernie Sanders & Dems Sen. Ed Markey & Rep. Ilhan Omar launched a campaign calling to end giveaways to Trump's big oil allies & "demanding effective opposition from congressional Democrats"

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"Elon Musk is far more vulnerable than most people recognize." - @sunjeevbery.bsky.social to @jordanuhl.com and @akelalacy.bsky.social on The Intercept Briefing. Listen to the full podcast on ▪️ Spotify: interc.pt/4aSLras ▪️ Apple Podcasts: interc.pt/3CHFkt9 ▪️ Everywhere else: interc.pt/3Q4Onr8

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“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”

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I spoke on @theintercept.com podcast about why Democrats have been so slow to respond to Trump and Elon Musk. Thank you to @jordanuhl.com @akelalacy.bsky.social and the Intercept team for the opportunity. theintercept.com/2025/02/07/b...

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Trump's new attorney general, Pam Bondi, released a flurry of memos on her first day of office. @elizabethweill.bsky.social and @ethanscorey.bsky.social break down some of the most significant takeaways here: theappeal.org/pam-bondi-at...

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The opposition to the Trump/Musk regime is coming from activists and organizers, not Dem leadership. @akelalacy.bsky.social & @sunjeevbery.bsky.social joined me to discuss on this week's @theintercept.com Briefing: theintercept.com/2025/02/07/b...

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Why did it take Democrats in Congress weeks to start opposing Trump’s agenda? New @theintercept.com pod today with @sunjeevbery.bsky.social & @jordanuhl.com listen 🎧: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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One Hundred NYC Immigrants Arrested in Week One of Trump ICE Raids --- And Lawyers Can't Reach Them www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/05/i...

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“[Georgia Department of Corrections'] mortality data categorizes many deaths that obviously were homicides as having an [..] unknown [..] cause of death." "In August, B.B. said they witnessed prison staff order other prisoners to beat a man up in a locked dorm. The man then died." @theappeal.org

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“Who’s gonna get up off their a** and do something about this?” - @akelalacy.bsky.social Listen on ▪️ Spotify: interc.pt/4hpusiK ▪️ Apple Podcasts: interc.pt/3WzlSWh ▪️ Everywhere else: interc.pt/40IjcXx

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Trump just said he wants the U.S. to take over Gaza and redevelop it. Tune into the latest episode of The Intercept Briefing to hear more about the mainstreaming of Israel’s colonial project podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...

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This latest NYU story looks like farce but is actually tragedy. The hypocrisy alone will stun you but let it sink in and it actually gets worse. Thanks to @akelalacy.bsky.social and @theintercept.com for shining a light on this…

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"NYU’s administration has very clearly bypassed & thus undermined norms of academic freedom, faculty governance, & due process,” Rebecca E. Karl, a history professor at NYU, said. “Mills’ interventions demonstrate a serious lack of judgement & a clear bias.” Read this by @akelalacy.bsky.social ⬇️

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“I just sent you $13,000 the other day. As a parent and a consumer I’m outraged,” she wrote to Mills.”

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NEW today on The Intercept Briefing: as attention on Gaza recedes post-ceasefire news, there's little understanding of what it will actually take to rebuild -- or who will do it. Meanwhile, Trump & allies are daydreaming about homes in Palestine. Listen 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Not only is this NYU parent trying to get students deported -- she pushed NYU to crack down more aggressively on protesters while at the same time pressuring the NYU president to drop a disciplinary meeting with her son. We have the receipts theintercept.com/2025/01/31/n...

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NEW: An NYU parent & online activist is trying to get students deported and urged people to tip off ICE around the country. She also used a direct line w NYU's president to push the school to crack down harder on protesters & took credit for suspensions. theintercept.com/2025/01/31/n...

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Over the weekend, about a dozen trans women at a Ft. Worth prison were taken from their rooms and told they were being transferred to a men's prison ASAP. theintercept.com/2025/01/28/t...

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