Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

Heard a tourist refer to the dreaded, adjacent neighborhood as "Doom-bo" and it warmed my heart.

My new troll for 2024 is that whenever someone messages me about being in LA i'm gonna say "Louisiana or Los Angeles?"

Freud's only American speeches were a five days of lectures at Clark!

Worcester is truly an unappreciated gem of history.

One Seltzer Brand Towers Above the Rest—and It’s Not Even Close I don’t even have words for the seasonal flavors.

I have updated my newsletter's Year In Review (joshgondelman.substack.com/p/59-a-littl...) to reflect an overlooked accomplishment. (Singing the praises of Polar Seltzer for Slate.) slate.com/human-intere...

Samhita ironically used the word “HERSTORY” in a tweet and I admonished her to use the gender-neutral “thistory.”

Lots of repeats but whatever

Just found an IG account that’s basically all donkeys at a ranch braying.

I need to get back to posting here. How y'all been?

The Speculative Civil War Novel Comes Home Christopher Brown's "Tropic of Kansas" and Omar El Akkad's "American War" reimagine speculative secession novels with haunting overtones for the Trump era.

since Garland's CIVIL WAR trailer is making people React, here's my piece on the Speculative American Civil War novel @ali-gharib.theintercept.com let me write in '17 theintercept.com/2017/10/14/t...

Why isn't everyone on here fighting about Israel? What kind of twitter clone is this???

New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed by U.S. Political Dark-Money Network The Heat Initiative, formed to attack Apple encryption in the name of stopping child abuse, is part of a political dark-money network.

Here's @sambiddle.bsky.social on the mysterious funding behind the group trying to trade your digital security in the name of a far-reaching campaign against sex abuse:

New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed by U.S. Political Dark-Money Network theintercept.com/2023/10/01/a...

Texas Anti-Abortion Crusader Demands Abortion Patient Information In Court The lawyer behind Texas's bounty hunter abortion ban is retaliating against people who get abortions and those who help them.

Wild scoop from @natashalennard.bsky.social about the extent to which the far-right is willing to go in their vigilante campaign against abortion rights:

Texas Anti-Abortion Crusader Demands Abortion Patient Information In Court

theintercept.com/2023/09/29/t...

Sen. Josh Hawley Received Campaign Donations From General Motors and Ford The senator, who joined striking UAW workers on the picket line this week, no longer accepts money from corporate PACs.

Hawley took campaign cash from the Big Three and took a bunch of anti-union positions.

Now he wants you to believe he's pro-worker.

@premthakker.bsky.social has the details:
theintercept.com/2023/09/29/j...

Menendez Indictment Looks Like Egypt Recruiting Intelligence Source, Say Former CIA Officials The indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez looks like an effort by Egyptian intelligence to recruit a spy, former CIA officials said.

Menendez Indictment Looks a Lot Like Egypt Recruiting Intelligence Source, Say a Bunch of Former CIA Officials

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social & @drboguslaw.bsky.social report: theintercept.com/2023/09/27/m...

Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate It The Pentagon budget is so bloated that the Department of Defense built an AI program called GAMECHANGER to make sense of all its policies.

Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate It

Codenamed GAMECHANGER, an AI program helps the military make sense of its own “byzantine” and “tedious” bureaucracy.

by @kenklippenstein.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/20/p...

Uninvited and Unaccountable: How CBP Policed George Floyd Protests Thousands of pages of newly released documents detail CBP’s involvement in policing the 2020 racial justice protests.

Uninvited and Unaccountable: How CBP Policed George Floyd Protests

Thousands of pages of newly released documents detail CBP’s involvement in policing the 2020 racial justice protests.

by @premthakker.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/21/c...

AIPAC Targets Black Democrats — While the Congressional Black Caucus Stays Silent AIPAC has given at least $3.6 million to the CBC’s old guard since last year, while members of the Squad draw the Israel lobby’s ire.

AIPAC Targets Black Democrats — While the Congressional Black Caucus Stays Silent

AIPAC has given at least $3.6 million to the CBC’s old guard since last year, while members of the Squad draw the Israel lobby’s ire.

by @akelalacy.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/21/a...

UAW Files Labor Complaint Against Sen. Tim Scott for Saying “You Strike, You’re Fired.” “Telling workers they’ll be fired for striking is violating federal labor law, and that’s not something becoming of a senator.”

UAW Files Labor Complaint Against Sen. Tim Scott for Saying “You Strike, You’re Fired.”

by @drboguslaw.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/21/u...

Inside Biden’s Secret Arms Deal Leaked documents show how the U.S. helped Pakistan get a bailout from the International Monetary Fund through a secret arms deal to Ukraine.

Inside Biden’s Secret Arms Deal

Leaked documents show how the U.S. helped Pakistan get a bailout from the International Monetary Fund through a secret arms deal to Ukraine.

Deconstructed podcast with @ryangrim.bsky.social @mazmhussain.bsky.social & Arif Rafiq theintercept.com/2023/09/22/d...

Menendez "Appreciated" Meeting With Egypt Dictator Amid Alleged Bribes for Arms Sales A federal indictment says Sen. Bob Menendez took bribes in exchange for approving weapons sales to Egypt’s dictatorship.

Menendez “Appreciated” Meeting With Egypt Dictator Amid Alleged Bribes for Arms Sales

Sen. Robert Menendez was indicted Friday for taking bribes to approve arms sales to Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

by @kenklippenstein.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/22/m...

North Carolina GOP Hides Redistricting Process From State Public Records Law Republicans in North Carolina shielded the redistricting process from the public records law in a state with a history of gerrymandering.

North Carolina GOP Hides Redistricting Process From State Public Records Law

The change, snuck into the state budget at the last minute, will shield lawmakers from scrutiny in a state with a history of partisan gerrymandering.

by @schuylermitchell.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/22/n...

The Secret History of How the Super-Rich Have Kept the Working Class Out of Work In a viral speech, the Australian multimillionaire argued for more unemployment as a corrective to workers’ attitudes toward employers.

The Secret History of How the Super-Rich Have Kept the Working Class Out of Work

Tim Gurner, the viral Australian multimillionaire who wants more workers to be unemployed, was debunked by an economist in 1943.

by @schwarz.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2023/09/23/t...

Omg what is going on? Is the EARTH in retrograde???

Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three A UAW official said the union’s paid Twitter account was verified until Friday morning, hours after the strike began.

Automaker CEO Elon Musk Strips UAW Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three

by @ryangrim.bsky.social and @kenklippenstein.bsky.social theintercept.com/2023/09/15/u...

Manufacturers Say States Can’t Use Their IV Equipment for Lethal Injection Companies already ban the use of their drugs for lethal injection. Now they’re blocking IV equipment.

The death penalty is so noxious that even giant corporations don't want to be involved:

Companies Already Ban the Use of Their Drugs for Lethal Injection.

Now They’re Blocking IV Equipment.

by Lauren Gill & Daniel Moritz-Rabson theintercept.com/2023/09/14/l...

Public defenders work 3 times too many cases, milestone study and new data show

"Public defenders across America regularly work triple the cases they can effectively handle, and some work upwards of 10 times too many cases" www.stltoday.com/news/nation-...

Everybody Hates Marty | David Klion Martin Peretz still has something to say—but is anyone listening?

Rarely have I said yes as quickly or enthusiastically to an assignment as when The Baffler asked me to review Marty Peretz's memoir