In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Mamdani. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/23/doordash-delivery-nyc-mamdani-wage-theft-settlement
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Why would three multibillionaire tech CEOs all come together to agree that the technologies their companies are developing might be too dangerous? One thing is clear: Talk of existential risk is a highly convenient way to not address the already known harms produced by AI technologies overseen by fascist billionaires like Musk and Palantir CEO Alex Karp.
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/14/ai-doom-apocalypse-risk/
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“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.” https://theintercept.com/2026/09/02/military-boat-strikes-killings-year
Trump designated an Italian web-hosting provider as a foreign “terror” group. It could take antifascist sites in the U.S. offline. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/28/trump-antifa-terrorist-websites-free-speech
ICE-watchers-turned-poll-watchers are preparing for the worst, as the Trump administration hints at potential strategies to disrupt the midterm elections. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/22/ice-voting-midterm-election-polling-sites
A single tree sit harnessed a cross-border movement to defend the Arizona borderland ecology. So far, the activists are blocking Trump’s wall. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/27/trump-us-mexico-border-wall-tree-sit-arizona
The public health official faced down AIPAC — and the entire Democratic Party establishment — to beat Haley Stevens. That’s well worth celebrating. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/05/abdul-el-sayed-michigan-democratic-senate-primary
Beset by critics in Knoxville, Flock partnered with a nonprofit accused of “astroturfing” for a campaign to generate support for its surveillance cameras. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/17/flock-cameras-ai-astroturf-support
Documents about a stillbirth in ICE custody show a lack of basic care needed for a healthy pregnancy. One describes a “pregnancy complicated by lack of PNC” — meaning prenatal care.
For nearly a month, the key force standing in the way of Trump’s border wall project in southeast Arizona has been a person sitting in a 200-year-old tree.
The Trump administration designated an Italian antifascist webhosting service as a terrorist organization. It could affect an anarchist radio show in Asheville, a blog documenting attacks “crisis pregnancy centers,” and the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/28/trump-antifa-terrorist-websites-free-speech/
Illinois law prohibits local collaboration with immigration enforcement officials, but the cops often find workarounds. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/25/illinois-trust-act-ice-deport-police-collaboration
Anti-genocide organizers say the "terrorism" label is intended to crush direct action against Israeli weapons shipments. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/27/palestine-action-terrorism-sanctions-trump-ban-israel
In the first 15 months of Trump's second term, officials from at least 75 Illinois agencies fed information to federal immigration agents, sometimes in apparent violation of state law. https://interc.pt/4hOjBSo
House candidate Connie Chan is backed by Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and now TrackAIPAC, signaling the growing influence of a politics skeptical of Israel. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/21/connie-chan-san-francisco-aipac-pelosi
A bill intended to halt the supposed threat of “organized retail crime” would put ICE in charge of the federal response. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/07/congress-ice-shoplifting-theft-surveillance
While U.S. casualties from the Iran War tick up, the Pentagon has been quietly seeking mortuary services. https://interc.pt/3UCvmSd
A settlement with the Christian Employers Alliance blocks the EEOC from ever investigating the group’s members for gender identity discrimination. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/01/christian-employers-settlement-gender-discrimination-eeoc
Right-leaning and libertarian groups told the court that ICE engaged in illegal “ideological targeting” of the left in the Minneapolis 15 case. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/25/minneapolis-ice-protesters-undercover-agents
Western North Carolina asked the Trump administration for hurricane recovery help. It got ICE instead. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/29/hurricane-helene-ice-asheville-nc-g20-trump/
Democratic leaders keep backing centrists, but a Michigan progressive is trying to harness left-leaning energy on Palestine. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/22/michigan-primary-will-lawrence-palestine
The Trump administration claimed Iris Dayana Monterroso Lemus received “FULL medical, prenatal care” in ICE custody. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/27/trump-ice-custody-pregnancy-stillbirth-deport
Humans need to act, as AI agents scheme in the digital shadows. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/26/ai-drone-warfare-russia-ukraine-openai-anthropic
Bari Weiss’s latest hire for “60 Minutes,” whose major journalistic output includes smearing genocide victims and putting a target on the backs of reporters in Gaza, shows that the full-blown right-wing tabloidification of the television news program is charging ahead.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2026/08/04/60-minutes-bari-weiss-cbs-news-israel-gaza/
In a purple congressional district in Michigan, William Lawrence, a co-founder of the progressive Sunrise Movement, is calling for a moratorium on new data centers and labeling Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide.
Read more on the Michigan race here: https://theintercept.com/2026/07/22/michigan-primary-will-lawrence-palestine/
Following months of reporting by The Intercept that found the Pentagon’s official tally of dead and wounded personnel is a gross undercount, which one U.S. government official previously called a “casualty cover-up", the Pentagon belatedly admitted that almost 100 U.S. troops have been injured in the last two weeks as Iran has hit U.S. targets across the Middle East.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2026/07/21/iran-war-pentagon-casualties-injuries/
The U.S.–Israeli war has caused massive environmental devastation, adding to the long history of American wars with toxic legacies. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/31/iran-war-environment-toxic-chemical-exposure
“Men who take testosterone will have a reduction in their sperm counts,” one medical professor said. There’s no stated plan for continuing care. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/24/hegseth-testosterone-hormone-therapy-veterans-affairs
How the right’s attacks on trans people have infiltrated a sports league with no trans women. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/28/wnba-women-basketball-sports-trans
Right and libertarian-leaning groups came to left-wing protesters' aid, arguing the Trump administration illegally targeted the Minneapolis 15 based on their ideology. https://interc.pt/4wZJiU8
The Department of War disclosed a massive spike in U.S. military casualties, but it’s still not showing in the official count. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/21/iran-war-pentagon-casualties-injuries
Malik Muhammad was transferred after officials flagged messages where the activist said they “have always been anti-Israel my whole life.” The messages prompted a further review, according to the misconduct report obtained exclusively by The Intercept.
Providing continuing hormone-replacement therapy at “the High-T Department of War,” as Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling it, may prove difficult for the federal government because the department in charge of healthcare for veterans has already documented a struggle to manage service members’ hormone therapy, The Intercept has found.
Read the full report: https://theintercept.com/2026/07/24/hegseth-testosterone-hormone-therapy-veterans-affairs/
As the U.S. runs short of interceptor missiles, Iran is carrying out strikes with a mix of attack drones and advanced ballistic missiles. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/28/iran-missiles-drones-us-air-defenses
ICE and Border Patrol’s purviews have transformed from immigration enforcement to being a political tool of the White House — all under the pretext of public safety. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/24/trump-ice-deaths-mass-deportation
New York Police Department investigators deployed an extensive array of high-tech surveillance and investigative tools to identify the alleged vandal, according to documents from the court case provided exclusively to The Intercept. The documents also detail how NYPD investigators appeared to have abandoned the case, before being spurred to reopen it by federal officials.
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2026/08/03/nypd-surveillance-gaza-protest-columbia/
The secretary of war’s obsession with testosterone reveals the anxieties he harbors about himself and the military he leads. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/25/pete-hegseth-testosterone-military-masculinity
Moderate Democrats want to put a stop to Trump’s meme coin self-dealing. But that might cut off campaign donations from crypto interests. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/23/trump-crypto-conflict-clarity-act-democrats
In the besieged West Bank village of Qusra, the workers were building a fence for keeping settlers out. Soldiers allowed the settlers to trespass. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/26/settlers-israel-soldiers-west-bank-siege-qusra
ICE is issuing a new nationwide policy mandating a dress code for field operations. The policy, shared with The Intercept by a DHS whistleblower and confirmed by multiple ICE officers, details a new set of appearance standards aimed at making it easier for the public and fellow law enforcement officials to recognize ICE officers in the field.
Get the full story: https://theintercept.com/2026/07/21/ice-undercover-plainclothes-uniform/
Updates to ICE’s code of conduct ban deportation officers from wearing jeans, hoodies, and graphic tees, according to a leaked document. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/21/ice-undercover-plainclothes-uniform
A government official accused the Pentagon of “an accounting trick” in its slow tally of Iran war casualties. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/25/military-soldiers-wounded-casualties-iran-war
“It was heartbreaking,” said one recipient of a false approval who was told about a USCIS website snafu. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/23/approved-green-cards-uscis-website-glitch
"There are no Arabs here,” one soldier told me, as government-backed settler violence spikes. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/23/west-bank-israeli-settlers-palestine
Rep. Thomas Massie had tried to strip the provision from the $1.15 trillion Pentagon budget, calling it “lopsided” in Israel’s favor. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/22/ndaa-defense-bill-pentagon-israel-massie
As the G20 descends on Asheville, the communities that helped rebuild after Hurricane Helene live in fear of Trump’s immigration regime. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/29/hurricane-helene-ice-asheville-nc-g20-trump
Day in and day out, it is the likes of Germany’s conservative parties, and the Republicans at home, who are assaulting LGBTQ+ rights. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/27/berlin-pride-attack-afd-trump
The U.S. militarization of Guam has left its residents living with a legacy of pollution, environmental degradation, and cultural loss. Other Pacific islands may be next. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/24/guam-military-buildup-base-pollution
The latest CBS News hire shows that the way to get ahead in journalism is to act as a tool for the powerful. https://theintercept.com/2026/08/04/60-minutes-bari-weiss-cbs-news-israel-gaza