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“We saw people directly sprayed, members of our press, everybody that was with me, my staff member, myself,” Grijalva said in her video report from Friday’s chaotic scene.
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Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”
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YouTube offered multiple explanations for deleting the account of Robert Inlakesh, who covered Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
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YouTube offered multiple explanations for deleting the account of Robert Inlakesh, who covered Israel’s occupation of the West Bank.
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The narrative about dangerous criminals doesn’t match what people are actually seeing as their friends, classmates, and co-workers are being carted off.
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In Appalachia and the Southeast, everyday Americans are standing up to ICE arresting their immigrant neighbors.
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Melat Kiros has been motivated by what she described as a “coercive market” that has chilled speech against genocide in Gaza.
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Justice Democrats endorsed Melat Kiros in Denver as the progressive group looks to recover from crushing losses to AIPAC-backed candidates.
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Veronica and Charity Bowers were killed when the Peruvian Air Force shot down a small passenger plane in 2001. It had been mistaken for a drug smuggling plane.
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A U.S.-led program killed Veronica and Charity Bowers in Peru after mistaking their plane for drug smugglers. Trump’s Venezuela boat strikes make their deaths newly and urgently relevant.
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As of December 1, officials across the U.S. have executed 44 people in 11 states. @Gladwell and Liliana Segura unpacked America's appetite for vengeance. Listen on Spotify: https://t.co/5UM2X2UEhB Apple: https://t.co/L9J8OpCMM3 Elsewhere: https://t.co/1TCi1NzYLR
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ICE’s operation against Minnesota’s Somali community is seen not as an immigration raid but as a racist intimidation campaign.
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ICE’s crackdown on Minnesota’s Somali community is seen not as an immigration raid, but as a racist intimidation campaign.
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Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”
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Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”
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“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
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“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”
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"Legalization is the only way to change the story of cocaine, from field to nose, being written in other people’s blood."
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The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
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Forty-four Palestinian workers have died trying to cross the wall since October 2023, when Israeli authorities revoked almost all permits, according to the Palestinian Workers’ Union. https://t.co/wOUkZ3qQlE
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The tracker has been updated after yesterday's strike.
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The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.
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Civil liberties advocates have decried the case against him as “guilt by literature.”
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In an interview, Daniel Sanchez Estrada speaks about his arrest for transporting anarchist zines after a protest against ICE in Texas.
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NEW POD 🎧: The U.S. has executed 44 people this year & plans to send 3 more people to death this month, making 2025 the deadliest year for executions in a decade. I spoke w/ @Gladwell & @LilianaSegura about our uniquely American penchant for cruelty
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Podcast Episode · The Intercept Briefing · 12/05/2025 · 40m
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Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said the unedited video clearly shows the U.S. striking helpless people. https://t.co/mv4Q4OMpVV
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Malcolm Gladwell and Liliana Segura unpack how the death penalty is administered in America.
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Malcolm Gladwell and Liliana Segura unpack how the death penalty is administered in America.
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Malcolm Gladwell and Liliana Segura unpack how the death penalty is administered in America.
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Malcolm Gladwell and Liliana Segura unpack how the death penalty is administered in America.
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For decades, Appalachia has lived with the same lesson carved into the hills like coal seams: When Washington shows up, it’s rarely to help. https://t.co/ytlpmXcq0G
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The pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, who served less than two years of a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking, comes as Trump threatens war on Venezuela over “narcoterrorism.”
Today, I spoke out against Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernández, a warlord who fueled over 100,000 American deaths and sent 700,000 Hondurans running for their lives. This pardon is a betrayal of justice and of every family still living with the consequences of his brutality.
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