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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.
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.
What if we actually pulled off a #GreenNewDeal? What would the future look like? The Intercept presents a film narrated and co-written by Rep. and illustrated by . interc.pt/2UktTeE
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: interc.pt/2EoOutW by
Denver’s City Council, led by Democratic Socialist, stuns for-profit prison operators by nuking contracts interc.pt/2yMD0MI by
Rep. 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.”
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. interc.pt/39TOrlP
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."
“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.
Entire staff of Nevada Democratic Party quits after democratic socialist slate won every seat interc.pt/3teNwqv by ,
Rep. & Sen. team up on new legislation that would effectively put the payday-lending industry out of business interc.pt/2VmzIgS by
Mike Bloomberg exploited prison labor to make 2020 presidential campaign phone calls interc.pt/2Mq5fId by
Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for and hand him over to the UK. What comes next? interc.pt/2LcoGGa by
“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 .
“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 ’s interview with Noam Chomsky on the 2020 presidential race:
“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.”
— interc.pt/31k5Gd5
Mnuchin denied that his former bank robo-signed foreclosure documents. The evidence that he's lying is overwhelming. interc.pt/2usqGwE
Watch the video that’s been viewed more than 4.6 million times in 24 hours, a message from a post-#GreenNewDeal future from , , and . interc.pt/2UktTeE
Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate en route, despite company denial interc.pt/3vZdi3U by
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.
"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 speaks to — full interview coming soon.
With bold immigration plan, Bernie Sanders becomes the only candidate to call for break up of ICE and CBP interc.pt/32p5XL1 by
Forty-one delegates are up for grabs in the satellite caucuses. Only the Sanders campaign invested in winning them. interc.pt/2vVNkny #IowaCaucuses
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.
Breaking: Brazilian judge declines to move forward with charges against Glenn Greenwald "for now" interc.pt/2GXLmp0 by
GOP lawmaker who voted against paid sick leave in Florida takes paid leave from Congress interc.pt/2QbMBWs by
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.
Rep. Devin Nunes, at glitzy New York fundraiser, refused questions about his reported contacts with Lev Parnas interc.pt/38hR9Cb by ,
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.
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.
In a secret meeting, Pakistan’s powerful military ordered the press to stop covering Imran Khan interc.pt/3IUhHNX by , ,
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 .
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.
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.
Texas prepares to execute Rodney Reed amid a flood of new evidence pointing to his innocence interc.pt/34F4hP4 by
Edward said that if Trump is concerned about wiretapping, he should fix the NSA mass surveillance programs. interc.pt/2mJSoo1
“Anything fired out of a shotgun at 90 miles per hour is lethal. Calling them ‘less lethal’ is just fun with words.” interc.pt/3d7xN3M
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.
You cannot erase the murderous past of George W. Bush and his allies and act like all that matters is opposing Trump interc.pt/2yGxYUs
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. interc.pt/2vKSwKA
Joe Biden has long facilitated Israel’s impunity. Now, as Gaza burns, he is doing it as president. by
The Intercept's explains the shocking news from Brazil linking the Bolsonaro family to the murder of Rio de Janeiro city councilwoman Marielle Franco.
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. interc.pt/2ztmvoD (video by @JHafiz22)
Jeff Sessions rebuked in surprise vote as House rolls back his asset forfeiture program interc.pt/2fgK6zK by
U.S. Muslims are more accepting of homosexuality than evangelical Christians, Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses. interc.pt/28zIwxK
Watch explain what the Secret Brazil Archive’s revelations mean, and why this reporting is so important for the entire democratic world:
Popovich is using his white privilege in ways perhaps no white man in sports ever has.
Statement by about the threats of imprisonment from Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro toward and our journalists working to expose corruption in his government:
How is it remotely plausible that multiple sources could all innocently and in good faith misread the date in exactly the same way?
In victory, @Ocasio2018 showed that authentic progressive values can redefine political reality.
“What Sanders represents is not the left wing, it is the moral center,” says . “Healthcare for everybody is moral. Education you can afford without student loan debt is the moral center.”
“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.” joins on #Deconstructed.
“Anything fired out of a shotgun at 90 miles per hour is lethal. Calling them ‘less lethal’ is just fun with words.”
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Florida prisoners will stop all work to protest “slave labor,” price gouging, and unexplained deaths in custody.
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.
When a political party is demolished, the principle responsibility belongs to one entity: the party that got crushed interc.pt/2g4dQSB
New evidence supporting credibility of Tara Reade's allegation against Joe Biden emerges interc.pt/2KJfhTT by
Science guy asked Rep. 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: interc.pt/2TGECnh #AOCintercept
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 .
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.
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 .
“None of this is about the flag or the anthem,” writes . “It’s about anti-blackness and the culture war.” interc.pt/2hGDJWP
“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.” — . interc.pt/2Eqg1uV
Fromer Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should be released from prison and his conviction should be annulled, said Sen. . interc.pt/2Ib28lW
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 . interc.pt/2Qf10BL
Finally, can we all agree? Everything we were told about Bernie Sanders was wrong interc.pt/3978eP2 by
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.
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.
NEW: Sanders campaign says internal caucus numbers show them winning Iowa, with Biden a distant fourth interc.pt/2SjC8sr by , , , #IowaCaucuses
Stephen Paddock’s whiteness has already afforded him many outrageous protections in the media. interc.pt/2xakDTI
Joe Biden claimed “zero” parallels between U.S. withdrawals from Afghanistan and Vietnam. As the Taliban take Kabul, he’s proved wrong. interc.pt/3xO8AG5
Poll: 37 percent of Americans now say they prefer socialism to capitalism.
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.
Concerns about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline were first raised not by Trump operatives nor by Sanders supporters, but principally by Democratic Party officials and their most loyal allies in the media, writes .
Shooting suspect in Quebec mosque attack is a white man who is, by all appearances, an anti-immigrant nationalist. interc.pt/2kMPjQm
Kushner companies filed lawsuits against tenants in New Jersey and Maryland, even as governors in both states called for a halt to evictions.
Colin Kaepernick is righter than you know: The national anthem is a celebration of slavery.
Under current law, the power to appoint McConnell’s replacement falls to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear. But new legislation McConnell is pushing in the Kentucky General Assembly would strip the governor of that power and put it into the hands of the state GOP.
A reminder to federal employees: if you see something, leak something. Here's how to do it safely. theintercept.com/leak/
The fact that Mohammed bin Salman has been embraced closely by everyone from Donald Trump to Emmanuel Macron to Theresa May should be a source of shame for those of us living in the West, writes . interc.pt/2XmKG6a
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.
No one seems to be aware that our national anthem literally celebrates the murder of African-Americans.
WashPost makes history: 1st paper to call for prosecution of its own source (after accepting Pulitzer) interc.pt/2cg98dY
The order came through a police automation system in Ürümqi, the capital of China's northwest Xinjiang region. interc.pt/2YtoRAM
Brazil’s Justice Minister Sérgio Moro, while serving as a judge in a corruption case that upended Brazilian politics, took to private chats to mock the defense of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and direct prosecutors’ media strategy.
Exclusive: Internal NYPD documents shed new light on the Strategic Response Group, the heavily militarized police unit behind the crackdown on George Floyd protesters.
.’s campaign staff secured a salary floor of at least $4,000 per month, an $18 minimum wage for hourly employees, and a number of paid leave policies. Notably, the contract caps salaries for managers. interc.pt/3j9OHTA
Pfizer has made an estimated $975 million from the vaccine this year, and is expected to earn another $19 billion in 2021.
Pfizer’s profit margin on the vaccine is estimated at between 60% and 80%.
Moderna is projected to make more than $10 billion from its vaccine next year.
“What Sanders represents is not the left wing, it is the moral center,” says . “Healthcare for everybody is moral. Education you can afford without student loan debt is the moral center.” interc.pt/3ajTkW9
Consultants working on the Brexit deal in London and in Washington, D.C., have asked to limit the ability of British regulators to set the price for pharmaceutical drugs, and lift safety restrictions on pesticides and agricultural products.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s imprisonment forced him out of the 2018 Brazilian presidential race, which he was widely expected to win. This paved the way for Jair Bolsonaro. interc.pt/2I9v8KK
There’s never been a major leak of documents relating to the U.S. drone program. Until now. theintercept.com/drone-papers
“We got people with a DUI in ’97 who still can’t vote.”
Democrat tried to bully a fellow senator to “back off” from investigating Facebook, where his daughter works, and which gives him more money than any other member of Congress. Why isn’t this a bigger story? asks .
The ethical problem this creates — that people in developing countries have less access to medical breakthroughs despite shouldering a disproportionate share of the risk that enables their development — far predates the coronavirus pandemic.
