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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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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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"For us it is a call to shut down their fascist deportation machine," @natashalennard.bsky.social writes of the disgusting video.

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The Trump administration's attempts to dismantle DEI initiatives are alarming public health researchers, who fear they could thwart efforts to reduce the outsized mortality rate for Black mothers in the U.S.

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Nothing gives me cringe anxiety quite like watching a Senate hearing

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This is why the Super Bowl halftime performer who raised a Palestine and Sudan flag did it. Read more: interc.pt/4hSnmTG ✍️ @jesswash.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

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“I can’t live in America — live in a lap of luxury — while those are suffering, without trying to help or bring attention to it.” theintercept.com/2025/02/10/s...

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🚨 @jesswash.bsky.social at @theintercept.com talked to the demonstrator who waved a Palestinian and Sudanese flag during Kendrick Lamar's halftime show performance last night🚨 theintercept.com/2025/02/10/s...

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Popular or not Dems cannot bend on the need for trans people to be treated with basic humanity and respect. If we give up that because the right made trans people unpopular, we give up everything. They’ll dice us group by group like a salami. We die on this hill or we die alone in a ditch

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Breaking News: The Trump administration is laying off nearly the entire staff of USAID, people with knowledge of the plans said. Follow live updates.

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My latest for @theintercept.com

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STOP — are you about to relitigate the 2024 election on social media? put the phone down. go outside. eat a sandwich. take a nap. anything else will be a better use of your time

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My latest story for @theintercept.com looks at the troubling new direction of foreign assistance under the Trump administration, and what that means for the world theintercept.com/2025/02/06/t...

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This is evil. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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Being a reporter means getting to see the absolute best of humanity and the worst. But I have to say that seeing people speak out in this moment at great personal risk gives me a lot of hope.

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i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that actual racism and discrimination divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

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i think people who complain about the language police are, by and large, just cowards. say whatever you want! no one is going to stop you. but people may judge you or even, if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, pop you in the mouth. but that’s life!

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Morning: Desperately trying to understand the impact of freezing foreign assistance Mid-morning: Frantically trying to understand the impact of freezing federal assistance to countless independent programs

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Signal: Jessw.39

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Looking to speak with humanitarian workers about the immediate impact of freezing foreign assistance projects for the next three months for @theintercept.com Email: [email protected]

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I heard someone say recently that we have seven Lex Luthers running around and no Superman. Feels very true 😅

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We got into the weeds of how the tech bros are re-shaping our reality.

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This bill pretends to be about protecting women, it would actually make it easier to deport survivors! theintercept.com/2025/01/24/r...

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On this week's @theintercept.com Briefing, @justinhendrix.bsky.social & @jesswash.bsky.social join me to talk about the "Broligarchy" surrounding Trump and the mass concentration of wealth in the room during Trump's inauguration. theintercept.com/2025/01/24/p...

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i am very struck by how the trump program is fundamentally that americans need to be poorer and suffer more material deprivation

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My latest story for @theintercept.com tackles Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought's transparent efforts to re-write history.

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Schedule F would politicize the workforce in a way that would impact even the federal employees who don’t get fired.

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Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought tried to whitewash Trump's first term and the real intent of Schedule F.

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🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?

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Such an important read. My own conversations with people who've been in these rooms tells a very similar and deeply troubling story. www.propublica.org/article/bide...

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Sometimes I get annoyed when sales and PR people send me a million emails, and then I remember that 90% of my job is begging people to talk to me.

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NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

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Must read from @sambiddle.com theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

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Also read @sambiddle.com on the new Meta content guidelines, including a bunch of racist, anti-immigrant stuff that is now fair game theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

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Read this story if you're interested in free speech, the war in Gaza, and a big part of why so many Republicans fear TikTok! theintercept.com/2025/01/09/t...

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For this week's @theintercept.com Briefing, @pearlmania500.bsky.social joined me to talk about the looming TikTok ban. Then @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social & @jesswash.bsky.social update listeners on the SCOTUS hearing this week & how a ban would impact free speech: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Checkout the latest for @theintercept.com podcast where I get to discuss one of my favorite topics, TikTok, with the incredible @jordanuhl.com, @shawnmusgrave.bsky.social, with a bonus conversation with @pearlmania500.bsky.social about the stakes!

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