Just before noon on Monday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stood on the sidelines of a soccer tournament eating elote. De Blasio, who dropped out of the presidential race in September, had endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for president… Read More ›
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Mike Bloomberg Ran Stasi-Style Police and Surveillance Operations Against Muslim Americans
Subscribe to the Intercepted podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. As mayor of New York, Mike Bloomberg ran a sweeping surveillance operation against Muslim Americans. This week on Intercepted:… Read More ›
When Bloomberg News’s Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the winter meeting for the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, 2020. Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP I am one of the many women Mike Bloomberg’s company tried to… Read More ›
Bloomberg Apologized for Stop-and-Frisk. Why Won’t He Say Sorry to Muslims for Spying on Them?
Muslim community members and supporters protest the NYPD’s surveillance of Muslim communities during a rally in New York City’s Foley Square on Nov. 18, 2011. Photo: Bebeto Matthews/AP The 2016 Republican presidential primaries were a living nightmare for Muslim Americans…. Read More ›
Mike Bloomberg in 2014: “We Should Hope” the NSA Is “Reading Every Email”
In October 2014, on a stage in San Francisco in front of a live audience, Katie Couric asked Mike Bloomberg whether he had ever “sexted on Snapchat.” The former New York City mayor, speaking alongside Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel at… Read More ›
Pete Buttigieg’s Policy Director Has Been Traveling the Country for Months to Meet With “Investors” in His Campaign
The presidential campaign of former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has taken the unusual step of sending its national policy director, Sonal Shah, on the road. For the past several months, she has been headlining high-dollar fundraisers across the country,… Read More ›
Bloomberg Plagiarized Parts of At Least Eight of His Plans
Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign plagiarized portions of its plans for maternal health, LGBTQ equality, the economy, tax policy, infrastructure, and mental health from research publications, media outlets, and a number of nonprofit, educational, and policy groups. The Intercept found that… Read More ›
The Iowa Democratic Party Did the Opposite of What It Should Have Done to Secure Its Disastrous App
Throughout Monday’s caucuses in Iowa, according to press reports, precinct chairs across the state struggled to use a hastily-built and inadequately tested mobile app, developed by a shadowy for-profit tech company, to report results to the Iowa Democratic Party. This… Read More ›
New Details Show How Deeply Iowa Caucus App Developer Was Embedded in Democratic Establishment
Democratic operative Tara McGowan is denying that her high-profile liberal firm ACRONYM played a role in the Monday evening caucus debacle, claiming that her firm was merely an investor in the company Shadow Inc., which developed the app at the center of… Read More ›
Fear Is the Democracy Killer, Not Hackers
Papers cover the floor near boxes of voter registration forms inside an auxiliary Iowa Democratic Party office in Des Moines, Iowa, on Feb. 4, 2020. Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images Something changed, some synapses snapped deep in the American… Read More ›