2020: THE INTERCEPT (215)

MAY

There’s No Telling What Data Facebook Will Collect If You Use Its Zoom Clone

New York City And Los Angeles Slash Budgets — But Not For Police

Inside The Influential Evangelical Group Mobilizing To Reelect Trump

ICE Detainee Who Died Of COVID-19 Suffered Horrifying Neglect

At Debate, Progressive Jamaal Bowman Hits Israel Hawk Eliot Engel’s Defense Industry Backing

It’s Official: 100,000 Are Dead Of Covid-19 In America, And Their Blood Is On Trump’s Hands

Right-Wing Group Seeks To Purge Up To 800,000 Voters In Pennsylvania, A Key Battleground State

The George Floyd Killing In Minneapolis Exposes The Failures Of Police Reform

As Police Attack Protesters In Minneapolis, Speculations About “Outsiders” Draw On Fraught History

JUNE

Louisville Police Left The Body Of David McAtee On The Street For 12 Hours

New York Police Are Attacking Protesters – They Know They Won’t Face Consequences

Getting Real About The Job Of Police: A Letter To Barack Obama

Brooklyn Man Was Arrested For Curfew Violation, The FBI Interrogated Him About His Political Beliefs

Hundreds Of Activist And Elected Officials Call On Mayors And Cops To Decrease Police Power

Police Attacks On Protesters Are Rooted In A Violent Ideology Of Reactionary Grievance

The NYT Admits Key Falsehoods That Drove Last Year’s Coup In Bolivia: Falsehoods Peddled By The U.S., Its Media, And The NYT

He Tweeted That He Was The Leader Of Antifa. Then The FBI Asked Him To Be An Informant

Bill de Blasio Promised To Change The NYPD. His Courage Failed HIm, And Us.

As Calls To Defund The Police Grow Louder, Joe Biden Wants To Give Them More Money

Organizers In Minneapolis Weigh Role Of Community Defense Groups In A Police-Free Future

George Floyd’s Murder May Finally End The Army’s Fealty To Defeated Confederate Traitors

I Saw My Friends Beaten By Police. This Is What Happens When Cities Prioritize Property Over Black Lives

GOP Money Flowing To Super PAC Backing Rep. Eliot Engel, Documents Show

Philadelphia Bungled Its Vote Count, And Republicans Took Note

Poll Claims Mondaire Jones Is New York Dems Best Chance

As States Struggle With Vote-By-Mail “Many Thousands, If Not Millions” Of Ballots Could Go Uncounted In November

Armed Vigilantes Antagonizing Protesters Have Received A Warm Reception From Police

Beyond Jamaal Bowman, Progressives Targeting New York Incumbents Up And Down The Ballot

The Movement For Black Lives Confronts The Confederate Legacy In Rural Tennessee

William Barr Has Turned The Justice Department Into A Law Firm With One Client: Donald Trump

De Blasio’s Fireworks Crackdown Is The Same Violent “Quality Of Life” Policing That Got Us Here In The First Place

Defunding The Police Must Include The Surveillance Of Muslims

Law Enforcement Scoured Protesters Communications And Exaggerated Threats To Minneapolis Cops, Leaked Documents Show

Black Lives Matter Wants To End Police Brutality. History Suggests It Will Go Much Further.

How The NYPD Weaponized A Curfew Against Protesters And Residents

In Buried Report, U.S. Government Admits Major Failures In Confronting Domestic Terrorism

A North Carolina City Bans Protests, Protecting Confederate Monument

JULY

Confederacy Inc: Donald Trump, Racist Police, And The Whitewashing Of History

House Democrats, Working With Liz cheney, Restrict Trump’s Planned Withdrawal Of Troops From Afghanistan And Germany

How The Coronavirus Became A Death Sentence At A Geo Group Halfway House

Carl Reiner’s Life Should Remind Us: If You Like Laughing, Thank FDR And The New Deal

No ID, No Job: How Coronavirus Left Parolees In Excruciating Limbo After Leaving Prison

Amid Coronavirus, A Flawed Guardianship System Can Make It Impossible To Care For Relatives In Assisted Living Facilities

The Census Is Reopening Too: Workers Fear Being Sacrificed To Coronavirus For The Sake Of A Speedy Tally

An Interview With Nancy Pelosi Challenger Shahid Buttar And A Look At The History Of Fascist Movements In The U.S.

Police Surveilled George Floyd Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr

Protests Against Policing Could Help Make Formerly Homeless Candace Valezuela The First Afro-Latina In Congress

The Far-Right Revolution Was Waiting For An Opportunity Now, It’s Here.

A Bail Reform Tool Intended To Curb Mass Incarceration Has Only Replicated Biases In The Criminal Justice System

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Campaign Workers Just Ratified A Union Contract

The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, And The Azure Cloud.

Leaked Documents Show Police Knew Far-Right Extremists Were The Real Threat At Protests, Not “Antifa”

New York Could Throw Out 1 in 5 Mail-In Ballots In One District, Disproportionately Hitting Brooklyn

Masks Off: How The Brothers Who Fueled The Reopen Protests Built A Volatile Far-Right Network

John Lewis And The Dangers Of Mythmaking

The Coronavirus Brought Federal Prison Transfers To A Halt. Now People Are Stuck In Limbo

The Right Way To Honor John Lewis: Restore And Extend The Voting Rights Act

America’s Problem With Policing Doesn’t Stop At The U.S. Border

NYPD Disappeared Black Lives Matter Protesters Into Detention For Days At A Time. Lawmakers Want To End The Practice

Shahid Buttar’s Bid To Unseat Nancy Pelosi Roiled By Accusations Of Staff Mistreatment

In Portland, Questions Swirl Around Local Police’s Coordination With Federal Officer

Before Portland, Trump’s Shock Troops Went After Border Activists

Baltimore’s Violence Interrupters Confront Shootings, The Coronavirus, And Corrupt Cops

Tom Cotton Thinks Slavery Was A “Necessary” Evil. Here Are Some Others

National Guard Major Calls Assault On D.C. Protesters “Deeply Disturbing”

Inside The ACLU’s Fight For Civil Rights In The Trump Era

The Unemployment Crisis Is A True National Emergency

How Cops Can Secretly Track Your Phone

AUGUST

Trump’s Pick To Manage Public Lands Has Four-Decade History Of “Overt Racism” Toward Native People

Border Patrol Launches Militarized Raid Of Borderlands Humanitarian Aid Camp

As Schools Reopen, Teachers, Parents, And Students Are Pushing Back

A New Hamilton Book Looks To Reclaim His Vision For The Left

Rashida Tlaib And Slate Of Local Wins Signal Progressive Revival In Michigan

How Not To Lose The Lockdown Generation

ICE Resisted Coronavirus Testing To Avoid Releasing Detainees

Ravaged By COVID-19, Polluted Communities Demand Environmental Justice

Private Company Moves To Profit From New York’s Police Reforms

The Rise Of Hakeem Jeffries Is Being Disrupted From Below

The Race To Replace Joe Kennedy In Congress Is Heating Up

The Junk Science Cops Use To Decide You’re Lying

Biden’s Promise Of A Deportation Moratorium Is Nowhere In His Platform

Party Leaders Investigating Origin Of Anti-Morse Campaign Helped Orchestrate It, Documents Reveal

Inside The Prison Where California’s Coronavirus Outbreak Exploded

Progressive Boston Doctor Seeps To Unseat “Do-Nothing Moderate Democrat” In Congress

Massachusetts State Part Leader Told College Democrats To Destroy Communication Records

As A Rising Star, Joe Kennedy Didn’t Want To Help Democrats Beat Republicans

Law Enforcement Websites Hit By BlueLeaks May Have Been Easy To Hack

Gina Haspel Hangs On At CIA, With Little Support From Trump Or Democrats

Democratic Convention Special: Do Biden And Harris Have What It Takes To Beat Trump?

Her Former Colleagues Called In A “Wellness Check.” Then Police Shot Her To Death.

PFAs Contamination Divides An Alabama Town

Psychological Torture: ICE Responds To COVID-19 With Solitary Confinement

Minnesota Paramedic Speaks Out Against Police Use Of Ketamine Injections

GOP Lawmakers Asked Trump For Low Wage, Migrant Worker Visas

Protesters In Multiple States Are Facing Felony Charges, Including Terrorism

The UFT Will Vote On Whether To Authorize A Strike Over School Reopening

How William Barr Is Weaponizing The Justice Department To Help Trump Win

Online Lenders ARe Preying On Desperate Borrowers And Could Trigger A New Consumer Financial Crisis

Doorbell Cameras Like Ring Give Early Warning Of Police Searches, FBI Warned

SEPTEMBER

Rebuilding The Economy Will Require Joe Biden To Think Very Differently Than 2009

Massachusetts Hopeful Alex Morse Couldn’t Overcome Homophobic Smear

Amid Coronavirus, Trump Moved To Expel Immigrants – But Border Patrol Didn’t Test Any Of Them

Greystone Nursing Homes, Whose Executives Gave $800,000 To Trump, Are Epicenters Of COVID-19 Deaths

As The Coronavirus Descended On The Border, The Trump Administration Escalated Its Crackdown On Asylum

In California’s Wine Country, Undocumented Grape Pickers Forced To Work In Fire Evacuation Zones

Covid-19 Workers’ Comp Claims Are Being Held Up Or Denied

The Sunrise Movement, A Growing Electoral Force, Faces “Painful Moment”

Trump’s Execution Spree Continues At Federal Killing Ground In Indiana

Oregon Police Beg Public To Stop Calling In False Reports Blaming Antifa For Wildfires

Rhode Island’s Progressive War Was Four Years In The Making

BlueLeaks Documents Bolster Account Of Intelligence Tampering At Homeland Security

Amid Terror Warnings, Railroad Industry Group Passed Intel On Environmental Journalist To Cops

A Slate Of Insurgents Is Taking On The “Delaware Way”

“He Just Empties You All Out”: Whistleblower Reports High Number Of Hysterectomies At Ice Detention Facility

A Progressive Prosecutor Faces Off With Portland’s Aggressive Police

Fool Me Twice: How Democrats Risk Repeating The Mistakes Of The Financial Crisis In The Era Of COVID-19

Firefighters’ Union, A Key Biden Ally, Confronts A Barr Investigation And Trump’s Pardon Power

As The West Burns, The Trump Administration Races To Demolish Environmental Protections

Trump Prepares To Execute Christopher Vialva For A Crime He Committed as a Teenager

Surveillance In An Era Of Pandemic And Protest

Texas Deployed SWAT, Bomb Robot, Small Army Of Cops To Arrest A Woman And Her Dog

Fires Turn Brazil’s Tropical Wetlands Into Wildfire Death Traps

With Chamber Of Commerce Defections, A GOP Mainstay Finds Allies Among Democrats

Progressives Wrestle With How To Address Allegations Of Mistreatment In San Francisco Race

How A Canadian Mining Company Infiltrated The Guatemalan State

Democrats Need To Wake Up: The Trump Movement Is Shot Through With Fascism

Trump’s Taxes: A Thousand Scandals In One

Excess Mortality Data Shows Trump Is Lying About COVID Being More Deadly In Europe

OCTOBER

Trump Campaign Looks To Make Good On Poll-Watching Threat In Philadelphia

Panic Over Mail-In Voting Only Feeds Trump’s Chaos, Says Top Pennsylvania Democrat

Trump Is Hospitalized With Covid-19, Days After Mocking Biden For Wearing A Mask

Trump’s Turn From Immigration To The Enemy Within

The Real Cancel Culture: Pro-Israel Blacklists

Infected Trump Returns To White House, Risking Lives To Record Video On Behalf Of Virus

Mitch McConnell Put The Senate In Recess. What Happens Now?

The House Just Passed Another “Save Our Seas” Act. Here’s Why It Won’t

Fed Lending Saved Corporate America. It Could Do The Same For Cities And States.

Bear Fights And Attila The Hun: A Look At The 2020 Landscape

Federal Agents Used Toxic Chemical Smoke Grenades In Portland

The Fight For Reproductive Justice In A Post-Ginsburg World

Locked In Tight Race, GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan Caught In Environmental Scandal

Facebook Contractor Downplays Coronavirus Risk For Content Moderators

American Mythology: The Presidency of Donald Trump – Part One: Manufacturing The Carnage

A Desperate Trump Rallies In Iowa As He Cancels Ads, Loses Ground

Amy Coney Barrett And The Looming Google Antitrust Case

The Hidden Cruelty Of Trump’s Executions

Losing Could Expose Trump To Prosecution For Any Number Of Crimes

Bolivians Return Evo Morales’ Party To Power One Year After A U.S.-Applauded Coup

Department Of Homeland Security Sued For Chemical Weapons Use

South Carolina Could Reject A Record Number Of Absentee Ballots

Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party Isn’t Ready For This Fight, But Its People Might Be

I Watched War Erupt In The Balkans.  Here’s What I See In America Today.

Congressional Progressives Are Revamping Their Caucus With An EyeToward 2021

Number Of Women Alleging Misconduct By ICE Gynecologist Nearly Triples

Rep. Don Bacon Used Taxpayer Expense Account To Pay Campaign Consultant

On The Ballot In Missouri: A GOP Effort To Undo Redistricting Reform

Federal Prosecutors Engaged In Unprecedented Push To Jail Protesters Before Trial

NOVEMBER

The Trauma Of Trump’s Border Wall

A Public Defender’s Lonely Fight Against Family Separation

ICE Medical Misconduct Witness Slated For Deportation Is A U.S. Citizen, Says Lawyer

How Hunter Biden Stumped The Media

Democrats Underperformed Among Voters Of Color – Except In Arizona. Here’s Why

Trump Says The Election Is Being Stolen. GOP Leaders Aren’t So Sure.

Even Fox News Wants To See Proof Of Trump’s Vote Fraud Claims

As Trump Is Defeated, The Murdochs Try To Dodge Backlash For Fox News

During The Trump Era, Everyone And Everything In America Failed

The Battle To Count Every Vote In Philadelphia

Democratic Officials Lied About Role In Alex Morse Smear, Interlan Report Finds

Georgia Senator Dismisses Climate Change While Enjoying Protected Beachfront Mansion

Zoom Censorship Of Palestine Seminars Sparks Fight Over Academic Freedom

In The Mercenaries Own Words: Documents Detail Tigerswan Infiltration Of Standing Rock

Hurricane Eta Devastates Central America As U.S. Withdraws From Climate Accord

DHS Plans To Start Collecting Eye Scans And DNA – With The Help Of Defense Contractors

Defeated Trump Campaign Tells Supporters “The Left Hates You” In Fundraising Emails

Biden Treasury Pick Could Defund The Fossil Fuel Industry, Climate Organizers Say

Joe Biden Doesn’t Need The Senate To Boost The Economy And Tackle Climate Change

A Biden Administration Can Raise Wages And Give Workers More Power – If It Wants To

Dispatches From A California Prison Amid The Climate And Coronavirus Crises

The Other Race On Georgia’s January Ballot

Generational Forever War: Biden’s National Security Picks Herald Return To Hawkish Normalcy

Remote Learning Looks Radically Different On Opposite Sides Of The Digital Divide

How The Criminal Justice System Fails People With Mental Illness

Beyond Bronna: Louisville Police Make The Case For Abolition

Obama Book Explains How Birtherism Made Trump’s Presidency

Austin Fusion Center Spied On Nonpolitical Cultural Events

DECEMBER

Comparing Biden’s Administration Picks To Obama’s Is Revealing

Toxic PFAs Chemicals Discovered In Hundreds Of Products

Immigrants Detained By ICE Say They Were Punished For Requesting COVID-19 Tests

Congress Stalls On Stimulus Checks For Families While Corporations Continue To Reap Millions From CARES Act

Loophole Allows Biden Nominees To Avoid Disclosures. Will They Use It?

PFAS Chemical Associated Associated With Severe COVID-19

The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie

Why Is Marcia Fudge Being Nominated To HUD, If Not Tokenism?

Lobbyists Mobilize For Priority Access To Coronavirus Vaccine

Tom Vilsack For Agriculture Secretary Is Everything That’s Wrong With The Democratic Party

Trump’s Ban On Foreign Workers Has Left Schools With Teacher Shortages

Indeigenous Groups Push Insurers To Abandon Fossil Fuel Projects

After George Floyd, Carbon Capture Tech Tiptoes Into Racial Justice

COVID-19 Relief Draft Bill Provides $100 Billion “Double-Dip” Tax Deduction For The Wealthy

Led By Black Women, Organizers In Georgia Work To Replicate Election Success In Senate Runoff

Russian Hackers Have Been Inside Austin City Network For Months

Puerto Ricans Voted For Statehood (Again). What Happens Now?

Trump To CIA: Say Goodbye To Your War On Terror

Hospital CEOs Have Gotten Rich Cutting Staff And Supplies. Now They’re Not Ready For The Next Wave.

Facebook Let’s Vietnam’s Cyberarmy Target Dissidents, Rejecting A Celebrity’s Plea

Inside The Scramble For Power In The Board Controlling Puerto Rico’s Financial Future

I Sued Blackwater For The Massacre Of Iraqi Civilians. Trump Just Pardoned Those Convicted Killers.

SolarWinds Hack Infected Critical Infrastructure, Including Power Industry

How A Man Serving Life Without Parole For $20 Of Weed Gained His Freedom

The Death Penalty’s Other Victims

Hiding COVID-19: How The Trump Administration Suppresses Photography Of The Pandemic

Mitch McConnell Rushed To Save His Senators, But Left Trump Twisting In The Wind

FBI Counterterrorism Informant Spent A Decade Committing Fraud

Reality Winner Endures Holiday Hardships As Advocates Turn To Biden For Reprieve

World Faces Covid-19 “Vaccine Apartheid”

News Source: The Intercept

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