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“He should apologize to the children that have been separated from their parents,” said Rep. @AOC of GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who demanded she apologize for calling ICE detention centers “concentration camps.” by @nicholasballasy
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Sen. Bernie Sanders will propose a sweeping 10 percent cut to Pentagon spending, with the savings redirected as grant money to “high-poverty” areas in the U.S.
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The Intercept obtained a leaked Pakistani document showing the U.S. threatened severe consequences if Imran Khan were to stay on as prime minister because of his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Scientists warn that losing another fifth of Brazil’s Amazon will trigger the feedback loop known as dieback, in which the forest begins to dry out and burn in a cascading system collapse, beyond the reach of any subsequent human intervention or regret.
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“If the no-confidence vote against the Prime Minister succeeds, all will be forgiven in Washington because the Russia visit is being looked at as a decision by the Prime Minister.”
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A Texas elementary school speech pathologist refused to sign a pro-Israel oath, now mandatory in many states — so she lost her job. Watch our 3-minute video of this story: by @ggreenwald
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Denver’s City Council, led by Democratic Socialist, stuns for-profit prison operators by nuking contracts by @ryangrim
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The Intercept obtained a leaked Pakistani document showing the U.S. threatened severe consequences if Imran Khan were to stay on as prime minister because of his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Rep. @AOC responds to Republicans who say a physical barrier should be part of a border funding bill: “They should not be using a humanitarian crisis as a bargaining chip.”
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The five New York City ZIP codes with the highest rates of positive tests for the coronavirus have an average per capita income of $26,708, while residents in the five with the lowest rates had an average income of $118,166.
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For years, the FBI knew — but did not warn the public about — the fact that white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement could result in "abuses of authority and passive tolerance of racism."
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“I do not think that for the future of humanity, and for our country to continue to prosper, that we cannot have another presidential cycle where climate change is not being asked about at almost every debate.” — Rep. @AOC
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Mike Bloomberg exploited prison labor to make 2020 presidential campaign phone calls by @jbwashing
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Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for @JulianAssange and hand him over to the UK. What comes next? by @ggreenwald
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“We are seeing people being fired from their jobs, being investigated by HR over their social media posts or conversations with colleagues, and having job offers rescinded. There is a clear trend that people’s jobs are being targeted right now.”
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“We have a newsroom in Rio de Janeiro, full of Brazilian reporters — 25, 30, 32 years old. They’re hearing your threats. Do you know what they’re doing? They’re reporting. And that’s exactly what they’re going to keep doing.” — @ggreenwald
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“You can debate a lot of things, but not arithmetic,” says Noam Chomsky on the #NeverBiden movement. “Failure to vote for Biden in this election in a swing state amounts to voting for Trump.” Watch @mehdirhasan ’s interview with Noam Chomsky on the 2020 presidential race:
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For every two Palestinian deaths, Palestinians are mentioned only once in the coverage of major newspapers we analyzed. For every Israeli death, Israelis are mentioned eight times — or a rate 16 times more per death that of Palestinians.
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“If CNN lied about Davis having refused comment (when, in fact, he was one of their anonymous sources), then this is obviously a major journalism scandal,” writes @ggreenwald .
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Mnuchin denied that his former bank robo-signed foreclosure documents. The evidence that he's lying is overwhelming.
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Watch the video that’s been viewed more than 4.6 million times in 24 hours, a message from a post- #GreenNewDeal future from @AOC , @NaomiAKlein , and @mollycrabapple .
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Imran Khan, former prime minister of Pakistan, is charged with compromising his country’s secret communications. A crucial document leaked to The Intercept says that compromise didn’t happen. Read more from @RyanGrim and @MazMHussain .
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The document of a March 2022 meeting encouraging the removal of Imran Khan as prime minister was provided to The Intercept by an anonymous source in the Pakistani military who said that they had no ties to Imran Khan or Khan’s party.
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"As far as I can tell, American democracy deceives its people into voting, but neither the government nor the people actually govern. It's the transnational corporations who govern." Bolivia's @evoespueblo speaks to @ggreenwald ⁠— full interview coming soon.
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About 65 percent of people in local jails across the U.S. have not been convicted of a crime. Many are in jail simply because they cannot afford bail. They, too, are separated from their families.
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At least 280 Israeli teenagers have announced their forthcoming refusal to join the Israel Defense Forces by signing a letter that condemns “the regime of occupation and Jewish supremacy.”
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Forty-one delegates are up for grabs in the satellite caucuses. Only the Sanders campaign invested in winning them. #IowaCaucuses
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The New York Times, LA Times, and Washington Post play an influential role in shaping U.S. views of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The Intercept’s analysis of major newspaper coverage of the Gaza war showed a consistent bias against Palestinians.
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The White House is stuck in a surreal alternate reality in which reporters and government officials continue to do their jobs as if the president were not mad as a hatter, writes James Risen.
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. @prem_thakker : It’s been 110 days since journalist Samer Abu Daqqa was killed by the Israeli military, 65 days since Hind Rajab’s killing. Today would be Shireen Abu Akleh’s birthday. If there are no updates into these cases, how can monthslong investigations and no policy…
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has compiled a short list of successors in his home state of Kentucky, preparing for the possibility that he does not serve out his full term, Kentucky Republicans tell The Intercept.
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Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey — all countries that hosted vaccine trials — will have to be satisfied with Pfizer’s gratitude, because (like most countries in the world) they won’t be receiving enough of the vaccine to inoculate their populations anytime soon.
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At least 280 Israeli teenagers have announced their forthcoming refusal to join the Israel Defense Forces by signing a letter that condemns “the regime of occupation and Jewish supremacy.”
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Rep. Devin Nunes, at glitzy New York fundraiser, refused questions about his reported contacts with Lev Parnas by @lhfang , @paulabowd
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The collection effort has been met with little resistance from telecom providers asked to turn over voluminous data on the activity that day. “No one wants to be on the wrong side of the insurrection,” a source involved in the collection effort said.
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In 2020, a study of thousands of Florida police officers found that officers who were fired for misconduct or resigned while under investigation were three times more likely to be fired for misconduct at their next job within three years.
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The former prime minister of Pakistan is currently behind bars, facing charges that he mishandled a sensitive secret document. But according to an analysis leaked to The Intercept, that claim is entirely false. Read more from @RyanGrim and @MazMHussain .
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Two Brazilian firms owned by a top donor to President Trump and Mitch McConnell are significantly responsible for the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, carnage that has developed into raging fires that have captivated global attention.
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Trump officials want to put Assange behind bars because he revealed U.S. war crimes. Democrats want to put him behind bars because he revealed corruption at the highest levels of the DNC, writes @ggreenwald .
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“Anything fired out of a shotgun at 90 miles per hour is lethal. Calling them ‘less lethal’ is just fun with words.”
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There is no democracy without a free press. We ask advocates for press freedom everywhere to join in condemning the Bolsonaro government’s transparent effort to intimidate and criminalize journalists.
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Joe Biden has long facilitated Israel’s impunity. Now, as Gaza burns, he is doing it as president. by @jeremyscahill @PaulAbowd
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You cannot erase the murderous past of George W. Bush and his allies and act like all that matters is opposing Trump
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The Intercept's @ggreenwald explains the shocking news from Brazil linking the Bolsonaro family to the murder of Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco.
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Edward @Snowden said that if Trump is concerned about wiretapping, he should fix the NSA mass surveillance programs.
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The secretly taped audio reveals how senior Democratic officials have worked to crush competitive primaries and steer political resources to hand-picked candidates, long before the party publicly announces a preference.
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A tenacious voter drive has emerged on Standing Rock in response to a voter ID law introduced by North Dakota Republicans, and it’s being led by tribal members who helped organize the fight against the Dakota Access pipeline. (video by @JHafiz22 )
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Under international law, the crime of genocide implicates not only those carrying out the crime, but also those complicit in it, including by “aiding and abetting.”
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Statement by @TheIntercept about the threats of imprisonment from Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro toward @GGreenwald and our journalists working to expose corruption in his government:
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Jeff Sessions rebuked in surprise vote as House rolls back his asset forfeiture program by @ZaidJilani
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We can’t feign surprise at politicians cynically generating populist fervor. The problem isn’t that the fascists are hypocrites, it’s that they’re fascists, writes @natashalennard .
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The FBI is “searching cell towers and phones pinging off cell sites in the area to determine visitors to the Capitol,” a recently retired senior FBI official told The Intercept. The data is also being used to map links between suspects, which include members of Congress.
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“Anything fired out of a shotgun at 90 miles per hour is lethal. Calling them ‘less lethal’ is just fun with words.”
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“What coronavirus has essentially done ... is it has taken these slow moving crises that we have already been experiencing in the United States, and basically pressed fast forward on every single one.” @AOC joins @mehdirhasan on #Deconstructed .
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“What Sanders represents is not the left wing, it is the moral center,” says @RevJJackson . “Healthcare for everybody is moral. Education you can afford without student loan debt is the moral center.”
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In victory, @Ocasio2018 showed that authentic progressive values can redefine political reality.
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Popovich is using his white privilege in ways perhaps no white man in sports ever has.
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U.S. Muslims are more accepting of homosexuality than evangelical Christians, Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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Joe Biden claimed “zero” parallels between U.S. withdrawals from Afghanistan and Vietnam. As the Taliban take Kabul, he’s proved wrong.
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“Biden should never be permitted to escape the cold fact that he served as the arms dealer and most consequential public propagandist for a war of choice against an overwhelmingly defenseless civilian population,” writes @JeremyScahill .
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Right-wing extremists have carried out 329 murders since 1994. In the same period, a grand total of zero murders have been attributed to antifa participants.
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Science guy @BillNye asked Rep. @AOC if she has a plan to work with people in Congress who are afraid of change. “One of the keys to dismantling fear is dismantling a zero-sum mentality,” she explained. Watch her full interview at #SXSW : #AOCintercept
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On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Florida prisoners will stop all work to protest “slave labor,” price gouging, and unexplained deaths in custody.
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“We should not be in the position of thinking about legislation in the context of personal investment. As long as you own stocks, it’s hard to rule out of your mind.” — @SenJeffMerkley .
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Fromer Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should be released from prison and his conviction should be annulled, said Sen. @BernieSanders .
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George W. Bush should be treated as a pariah not because he is a Republican or a conservative, but because he caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people and tortured hundreds of others, writes @mehdirhasan .
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A 6-year-old Palestinian boy was killed in suburban Chicago. Three Palestinian students were shot in Vermont. Now, Columbia University students rallying for Gaza have been chemically attacked. Members of Congress have had little to say thus far.
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How is it remotely plausible that multiple sources could all innocently and in good faith misread the date in exactly the same way?
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“None of this is about the flag or the anthem,” writes @ShaunKing . “It’s about anti-blackness and the culture war.”
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What if we actually pulled off a Green New Deal? What would the future look like? As part of our year in review, The Intercept presents a film narrated by @AOC .
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If employees actually had to pee in bottles, Amazon said, “nobody would work for us.” Yet the practice is so widespread due to pressure to meet quotas that managers frequently reference it during meetings and in formal policy documents and emails provided to The Intercept.
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The Intercept is both alarmed and dismayed at recent unconfirmed reports that Brazil’s Federal Police, under the command of Justice Minister Sérgio Moro, has asked for an investigation into the personal finances of The Intercept's co-founding editor Glenn Greenwald.
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Hillary Clinton made $2.9 million from just 12 speeches to big banks: #DemDebate
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Finally, can we all agree? Everything we were told about Bernie Sanders was wrong by @mehdirhasan
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When a political party is demolished, the principle responsibility belongs to one entity: the party that got crushed
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NEW: Sanders campaign says internal caucus numbers show them winning Iowa, with Biden a distant fourth by @ryangrim , @aidachavez , @lhfang , @akela_lacy #IowaCaucuses
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Scott Warren, a 36-year-old academic, faces 20 years in prison if convicted and sentenced to consecutive terms for providing food, water, and a place to sleep to two undocumented men over three days last January.
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