DHS has built a national police force with massive surveillance capabilities — which it could use to interfere with our elections.
@lauraflynn
A professional over-thinker with a mic, DAW, and deadline — AKA a podcast producer for: Collateral Damage: https://theintercept.com/podcasts/collateral-damage/ The Intercept Briefing: https://theintercept.com/podcasts/the-intercept-briefing/
DHS has built a national police force with massive surveillance capabilities — which it could use to interfere with our elections.
The U.S. killed six more civilians in a boat strike in the Pacific Ocean yesterday.
More than 150 people have been slain in these extrajudicial killings since September 2025. @theintercept.com is tracking them all here:
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED
We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.
When you’ve lost LINDSEY GRAHAM
Asked if we're at war, Pete Hegseth replies: "The lawyers will debate all these things ... Call it what you want."
*Sigh.*
The US under 'antiwar' Trump has now also launched military operations in Ecuador too:
Intercept senior editor @ali-gharib.theintercept.com discusses the human and political toll of the Israel–U.S. war on Iran with @seamus-malekafzali.com.
Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”
Hegseth’s press conference featured questions from the Daily Wire, Daily Caller, and the MyPillow guy’s website
The fact that so many House Dems are blaming their challengers for their predicament rather than acknowledging the deep-seated anger that voters feel is probably a reason why more of them will lose!
All you need is the willingness to follow orders; being actually smart or good at the law is irrelevant.
The Speaker of the House defending the outsourcing of the decision to go to war not just to the executive branch but to a foreign government.
Article I Crisis on steroids.
Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to strike Iran.
Both countries have major financial ties to Trump & his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
War gives dictators like Trump (and his family) more power and more wealth. Period.
https://popular.info/p/the-money-behind-the-new-iran-war
Recent months have seen the escalation of a brazen campaign by separatists in the oil-rich province of Alberta to dismember the country and lease its resources to an expansionist American regime—with direct support from officials in the U.S. government. trib.al/jPu1QtT
copy pasta regime change
With midterm elections approaching, Trump will inevitably escalate these attacks on trans kids.
"The Peace President."
He told The Washington Post that the aim of the war would be “freedom for the people” of Iran ... The New York Times that he had “three very good choices” for who could take control of Iran. ... ABC News that the “attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates” for leadership.
Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.
NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military. The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY. Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow. WE will decide the fate of our Country — NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP”
Trump: “The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service…
Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology.“
Always a pleasure to talk to Lizzie! Here is my big thoughts on the Anthropic/DOD fight: it’s really a fight about the future of warfare.
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. How it works:
SCOOP: Mahmoud Khalil has requested to move his deportation case to New York from Louisiana "on remand" where he hopes to present new evidence of the Trump admin's retaliation against him, according to a recent immigration court filing obtained by @theintercept.com
theintercept.com/2026/02/26/m...
For those unfamiliar w/ Stew Peters, he's in my profile of the Anti-Zionist America PAC, which he promotes. Peters often uses Israel's genocide to rail against Jewish people, using antisemitic slurs and spreading conspiracies of a "satanic" agenda of global control.
theintercept.com/2026/02/19/i...
With Congress not reconvening until next week, there’s a chance the vote might come after attacks start.
“The whole thing, if you read it, if you listen to it, it reads like a white nationalist speech.”
Mayes: We’re talking about having to physically protect the machinery of democracy. And to me, it is surreal that we are at that place.
But what I want Americans to know is that you have a team of AGs that has been working together for more than a year now to protect democracy.
ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable."
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...