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The Pentagon’s Secret Budget

Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies.

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David Vine

ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care

Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees.

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Tanvi Misra

Fetterman Sole Dem Against Investigating His Constituent’s Killer

Despite support from other Democrats, the Senate voted 51-47 against a resolution to force U.S. probes on killings of Americans in the West Bank.

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Matt Sledge

Inside the Business of Trump’s Third-Country Deportations

As the Trump administration fights to keep deporting immigrants to countries where they have no connections, we studied the system that profits from...

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Voices

Prison That Didn’t Report Sex Abuse Allegation Against Staffer to Reopen as ICE Camp

A whistleblower says the warden didn’t make a federally required disclosure. Now the company is turning the Arizona prison into an ICE jail.

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John Washington

The Intercept Sues Texas City Over Refusal to Release Police Records on Prairieland Protest

“This is one of the singularly most distressing cases that I’ve seen in terms of public access to records. This is stonewalling on steroids.”

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Noah Hurowitz

U.S. Has Suffered More Casualties In Iran Since the Conclusion of Operation Epic Fury

The Trump administration’s attempt to rebrand its faltering forever war hasn’t slowed the mounting toll of U.S. casualties.

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Nick Turse

AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Cares

The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers.

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Sam Biddle

The “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.

After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18.

27.09.2026 9

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Liliana Segura

What the Prairieland Jury Never Got to Hear

Lawyers for an anti-ICE protester tried to argue his shot was a ricochet. The theory was squashed by gaps in the evidence and a judge’s suppression.

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Adam Federman

The Backlash to “NAZA” Shows How Little Israeli Citizenship Really Means

By threatening the filmmakers, Netanyahu lays bare how fragile the notion of what it means to be Israeli is in the age of its genocide in Gaza.

25.09.2026 10

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Voices

The Blueprint for Democrats to Win Back Voters

After suffering major losses last election cycle, Justice Democrats resurrected itself, helping put democratic socialism on the map. So what changed?

25.09.2026 9

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Green Energy Is Coming for the Desert

Trump’s Bureau of Land Management is pushing to aggressively expand solar farms into the Mojave Desert, which advocates say would decimate its vast...

24.09.2026 10

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Joshua Frank

Congress Failed Again to Stop Trump’s Iran War. This Group Is Trying Through the Courts.

“It is all hands on deck to stop this full-blown constitutional crisis,” said the head of NIAC Action, which filed suit on behalf of Iranian...

24.09.2026 10

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Noah Hurowitz

Flock Wants The Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

A security researcher’s map revealed more locations of Flock devices than any other. Flock is trying to take it down.

24.09.2026 10

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Nikita Mazurov

As the Pentagon Expands Across the Pacific, Guam Offers a Warning

The U.S. militarization of Guam has left its residents living with a legacy of pollution, environmental degradation, and cultural loss. Other Pacific...

24.09.2026 10

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Anita Hofschneider

Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous War Profiteers

The mockumentary “Lords of War” shows how Pentagon money gets funneled into $20-million-plus paydays for weapons company CEOs — and their lavish...

23.09.2026 10

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Voices

The Ellisons Could Make a Killing in Big Surveillance With the Paramount Merger

With the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger set to proceed, the Ellisons can stoke Americans’ fears — and sell the government its solution.

23.09.2026 10

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Voices

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.

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Meghnad Bose

How a Small Kansas City Became a Critical Hub for Trump’s Deportation Regime Against Its Will

Leavenworth fought ICE’s reopening of a CoreCivic-run prison to detain immigrants through every available avenue. It still wasn’t enough.

22.09.2026 10

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Nathalie Levey

Another U.S. Soldier Is Dead as Iran War Casualties Rise

An additional 66 U.S. personnel were wounded in action this month, pushing the official count of Iran war casualties above 850.

22.09.2026 10

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Nick Turse

They Trained to Protect Immigrants From ICE. Now They’re Prepping to Defend the Midterm Elections.

ICE-watchers-turned-poll-watchers are preparing for the worst, as the Trump administration hints at potential strategies to disrupt the midterm...

22.09.2026 10

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Jessica Washington

Pink Supported Macklemore’s Firing. Now Activists Want UNICEF to Cut Ties With Her.

Activists with Swifties Against Genocide want to impose a cost for trampling pro-Palestine voices.

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Jonah Valdez

Immigration Roulette: Husband Granted Asylum, Wife Locked Up Awaiting Deportation

An Iranian couple seeking refuge in the United States faces a cruel new form of family separation.

21.09.2026 10

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Noah Hurowitz

John Fetterman Is Fundraising on GOP Donor Email Lists

The hardline pro-Israel senator has been flirting with the idea of switching parties. Now he’s using Republican campaign infrastructure.

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Akela Lacy

Decision on Charging Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s Killers Looms Over Minneapolis DA Race

A former public defender and former federal prosecutor both say they’ll make the right call on charging the federal immigration agents who killed...

19.09.2026 10

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Matt Sledge

Robert Kraft Claims His Donations Help Palestinians. Turns Out He’s Funding Friends of the IDF.

An analysis of tax forms by The Intercept show Kraft’s charity and LLC have donated to Friends of the IDF and AIPAC’s super PAC.

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Jonah Valdez

ICE Revives Former “Hellhole” Prison — And Hires the Same Company To Run It

At Leavenworth, former workers say CoreCivic made conditions dangerous, which led to a near-death attack.

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Nathalie Levey

Apocalypse Now: Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Investigate the End-Timers Alliance

What’s driving religious fundamentalists, tech accelerationists, and anti-immigrant ethnonationalists to bring about the end of the world?

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Pete Hegseth’s Unholy War

What kind of Christianity is being proclaimed when the language of Jesus is attached to military power?

17.09.2026 10

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Liz Theoharis

Facing Outraged Residents, Flock Got Help From Group That Uses AI to Rally Public Support

Beset by critics in Knoxville, Flock partnered with a nonprofit accused of “astroturfing” for a campaign to generate support for its surveillance...

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Matt Sledge

The New York Times Conveniently Forgets the Real Stakes of Attacks on Free Speech

The paper published a long recounting of Trump’s attacks on the press, without ever mentioning Israel, Gaza, or ICE.

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Voices

Ed Sheeran’s Craven “Neutrality” Is a Watershed Moment for Mainstreaming Palestine Solidarity

Ed Sheeran’s entire tour quitting in solidarity with Palestine and Macklemore proves the logic of BDS.

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Voices

NYPD Misconduct Payouts Still Soar Under Mamdani — And May Keep Growing

So far, settlement payouts under Mamdani are holdover cases. Without policy changes, however, they might keep growing toward a $1 billion total since...

16.09.2026 10

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Akela Lacy

Crypto Darling Gillibrand’s 11th-Hour Flip-Flop Helps Block Trump Crypto Bill

Just hours before switching sides, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was lobbying fellow Democrats to advance the bill.

15.09.2026 10

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Matt Sledge

A Lone Juror Hijacked Deliberations. This Time, a Man Faces Execution.

While many fixated on the man who refused to acquit Lindsay Clancy, Georgia is set to kill Stacey Humphreys despite “extreme juror misconduct.”

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Liliana Segura

Iran War Has the U.S. Military on the Brink of a “Breakdown”

As the U.S. military faces relentless attacks on its bases, the Iran conflict is “ultimately unsustainable,” one U.S. official told The Intercept.

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Nick Turse

Tech CEOs’ Doomsaying Is a Distraction from Real, Existing Harms of AI

The binary between AI apocalypse and AI redemption asks us to ignore data centers and AI war machines — all as tech executives get incredibly rich.

14.09.2026 10

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Voices

The AI Doomsday Future Is Not Inevitable

Sam Biddle and 404 Media’s Jason Koebler discuss the government’s growing use of private contractors, from Flock to Claude, to surveil and kill...

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Columbia Gives Big Money to Pro-Israel Groups — But Not to Pro-Palestine Ones

Groups like the ADL and AIPAC’s charity arm received cash from Columbia over the past three years, as the school cracked down on student protests.

14.09.2026 10

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Meghnad Bose

Centrists Are Soft-Launching the Idea That We Have a Little Too Much Democracy

As the right attacks mass participation head on, the center is telling the rest of us to pipe down while the elites are talking.

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Voices

Osama Bin Laden Won

The architect of the September 11 attacks dreamed of the destruction of America. In the last 25 years, his wish has come true.

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Nick Turse

Fired After the Charlie Kirk Revenge Purge, They’re Still Unemployed

A year after his killing, people who lost their jobs for criticizing Charlie Kirk are still suffering under the erosion of free speech.

10.09.2026 10

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Jessica Washington

Far-Right Hacker Touting Cyber Attacks on Leftist Sites Has Close Ties to Pentagon Influencer

DataRepublican, the X account of Pentagon employee Jennica Pounds, is frequently one of the first to post about hacks against the left.

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C. Frances

United Airlines Ships War Materiel to Israel Aboard Passenger Flights

The unfriendly skies: On United, your checked bags might be riding alongside some tank parts bound for Israel.

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Noah Hurowitz

Cops Are Using Flock to Spy on People for the Crime of Standing Around

Police scanned Flock cameras in a single town in Illinois more than 1,200 times to investigate cases of loitering.

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Sam Biddle

FAA Investigates Drone Pilot Who Films Animal Abusers

The cattle ranch at the center of the case demands strict drone regulations, saying legal flyovers threatened “food security.”

08.09.2026 10

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Matt Sledge

The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No

The U.S. military’s desire for an AI tool with “minimal refusal rates” was revealed through a FOIA lawsuit filed by The Intercept.

08.09.2026 20

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Sam Biddle

AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal

The Intercept sued to obtain records that reveal an intimate relationship between the military and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI.

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Sam Biddle

Right-Wing Speech Crackdowns Turned Charlie Kirk Into a Meme

By elevating Kirk to a martyr, the right made his ridicule a logical reaction to their repression.

07.09.2026 10

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Voices