Favorite No Labels, the centrist political organization that has raised tens of millions of dollars to support a third-party ticket for president, is facing multiple legal challenges over its efforts to qualify for the 2024 general election ballot in states across the country. In Maine, the secretary of state’s office sent the group a cease-and-desist…
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Erdogan Arrested and Expelled International Officials Observing Turkish Election
Favorite The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan swept up and jailed a team of international observers on hand to monitor election day activity in Turkey on Sunday, members of the team told The Intercept in a statement. The delegation had not been granted official observer accreditation by the Erdogan government, but were formally invited by…
U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
Favorite Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, alerted a federal law enforcement agency to pro-abortion protests and rallies in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request. Internal emails show that the U.S. Marshals Service received regular alerts from Dataminr,…
Desperate Families and Gun-Toting Vigilantes Converge in Arizona After Title 42 Ends
Favorite The travelers stood atop the steep, rolling hill. They were just a few steps north of the border wall, having passed through a gap in the towering steel barrier. They gathered beneath Coches Ridge, a remote feature of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona where, last summer, a white nationalist border…
Josh Hawley Won’t Let Go of His Manhood
Favorite Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Across the ages, right-wing politics has had an enduring fixation: manliness, whatever that means exactly. You may remember that Hogan Gidley, the press secretary for former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, declared that Trump…
Claude Garrett Was Wrongfully Imprisoned for Decades. He Died After Five Months of Freedom.
Favorite Just over a year ago, on May 10, Claude Garrett walked out of the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tennessee, and into the arms of his daughter, Deana. Exonerated after 30 years for a murder he always swore he did not commit, Claude had fought tirelessly for his freedom. After two trials, decades…
Tragedy in Texas as Pandemic Border Policy Ends — and a Rush to Judgment
Favorite A man lights a candle at a memorial for eight migrants who were struck by a car and killed waiting at a bus stop on May 7, 2023, in Brownsville, Texas. Photo: Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images The man who crashed into a group of mostly Venezuelan migrants in Brownsville, Texas, on Sunday — killing eight…
Biden Is Selling Weapons to the Majority of the World’s Autocracies
Favorite Since President Joe Biden came into office in 2021, he has described a “battle between democracies and autocracies” in which the U.S. and other democracies strive to create a peaceful world. The reality, however, is that the Biden administration has helped increase the military power of a large number of authoritarian countries. According to an Intercept review of…
The “Power, Pride, and Politics” Behind the Drive to Execute Richard Glossip
Favorite Two weeks before he was scheduled to die at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Richard Glossip packed his belongings in a box. Of the personal items that could fit in his death row cell, these were his treasured possessions: letters, cards, and most importantly, photos of his wife, Lea, which he’d carefully taken…
Rep. Rashida Tlaib Asks Congress to Condemn “Israel’s Ongoing Nakba” Against Palestine
Favorite A day after Israeli bombs ripped through residential buildings in the Gaza Strip, Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduced a resolution calling on Congress to recognize “the ongoing Nakba and Palestinian refugees rights.” Tlaib’s resolution comes ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe” that is widely used to describe the…