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“Many countries are feeling so squeezed for funding that they will take the deal.” interc.pt/4owX9wX
December 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“Many countries are feeling so squeezed for funding that they will take the deal.” interc.pt/4owX9wX
Juan Orlando Hernández has been promised a pardon for drug trafficking. Trump is threatening to oust Nicolás Maduro over similar allegations.
Hondurans Called Right-Wing Ex-President a “Narco-Dictator.” Trump Plans to Pardon Him — but Threatens War on Venezuela
The promised pardon for Juan Orlando Hernández, who’s serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, comes as Trump threatens war on Venezuela over “narcoterrorism.”
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December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Juan Orlando Hernández has been promised a pardon for drug trafficking. Trump is threatening to oust Nicolás Maduro over similar allegations.
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I’ll be on reporting internationally on @democracynow.org tomorrow for the first time, live from Kampala, Uganda. I’ll be talking to Amy Goodman about our @pulitzercenter.org - Fund for Investigative Journalism series for @theintercept.com. Tune in!
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’ll be on reporting internationally on @democracynow.org tomorrow for the first time, live from Kampala, Uganda. I’ll be talking to Amy Goodman about our @pulitzercenter.org - Fund for Investigative Journalism series for @theintercept.com. Tune in!
It’s high time for a grown-up conversation which acknowledges that the drug laws are more harmful than the drugs themselves.
Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War
The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
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December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
It’s high time for a grown-up conversation which acknowledges that the drug laws are more harmful than the drugs themselves.
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The end of PEPFAR and global cuts to HIV prevention and treatment are a longterm health crisis and an immediate, fast-moving economic crisis—not dissimilar from the ways that conservatives are waging war on queer and trans people by coming for their jobs:
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The end of PEPFAR and global cuts to HIV prevention and treatment are a longterm health crisis and an immediate, fast-moving economic crisis—not dissimilar from the ways that conservatives are waging war on queer and trans people by coming for their jobs:
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Something upsetting I learned in my travels: an HIV-prevention worker whose org in South Africa went from 86 ppl to 4(!) told me that if I went on Grindr (& he suggested I do not, as it's dangerous), I'd find many of his "former colleagues offering services"—bc sex work is their only option
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Something upsetting I learned in my travels: an HIV-prevention worker whose org in South Africa went from 86 ppl to 4(!) told me that if I went on Grindr (& he suggested I do not, as it's dangerous), I'd find many of his "former colleagues offering services"—bc sex work is their only option
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
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9/ Grateful to @pulitzercenter.org, the Fund for Investigative Journalism & @theintercept.com for their support of Afeef’s and my work.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
9/ Grateful to @pulitzercenter.org, the Fund for Investigative Journalism & @theintercept.com for their support of Afeef’s and my work.
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Follow @nickturse.bsky.social to stay up-to-date with all of The Intercept's coverage of boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean.
He broke the story that the U.S. attacked a Venezuelan boat multiple times to kill survivors on September 10:
He broke the story that the U.S. attacked a Venezuelan boat multiple times to kill survivors on September 10:
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Follow @nickturse.bsky.social to stay up-to-date with all of The Intercept's coverage of boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean.
He broke the story that the U.S. attacked a Venezuelan boat multiple times to kill survivors on September 10:
He broke the story that the U.S. attacked a Venezuelan boat multiple times to kill survivors on September 10:
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4/ Also, Lenacapvir, an injectable HIV prevention medication which lasts for six months, is just ready to roll out. But as @gregggonsalves.bsky.social explained—and as I have seen in South African & Uganda—Trump just DESTROYED the needed distribution infrastructure
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December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
4/ Also, Lenacapvir, an injectable HIV prevention medication which lasts for six months, is just ready to roll out. But as @gregggonsalves.bsky.social explained—and as I have seen in South African & Uganda—Trump just DESTROYED the needed distribution infrastructure
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3/ In every country we reported, Trump's health budgets have been a crisis of LGBTQ *employment*. HIV is a slow-acting virus & while "the cuts" have caused death, overwhelmingly, the biggest and fastest form of harm has been Black & brown LGBTQ people losing work theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
3/ In every country we reported, Trump's health budgets have been a crisis of LGBTQ *employment*. HIV is a slow-acting virus & while "the cuts" have caused death, overwhelmingly, the biggest and fastest form of harm has been Black & brown LGBTQ people losing work theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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2/ First, a simple acknowledgment of World AIDS Day, and the impact of HIV over the last half-century: the virus has already taken the lives of approximately 44 million people, and 40 million people are currently living with HIV. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
2/ First, a simple acknowledgment of World AIDS Day, and the impact of HIV over the last half-century: the virus has already taken the lives of approximately 44 million people, and 40 million people are currently living with HIV. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
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For more on the CIA's lethal Afghan proxies -- the "Zero Units" -- make sure you revisit this essential reporting: theintercept.com/2022/11/20/t...
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
For more on the CIA's lethal Afghan proxies -- the "Zero Units" -- make sure you revisit this essential reporting: theintercept.com/2022/11/20/t...
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1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time
By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...
An aid agreement template would require countries to share vast amounts of health data, including on abortion, to receive funds to combat HIV and other infectious diseases.
Trump Wants to Make African Countries Share Abortion Data to Get AIDS Funding
An aid agreement template would require countries to share vast amounts of health data, including on abortion, to get PEPFAR funds.
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December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
An aid agreement template would require countries to share vast amounts of health data, including on abortion, to receive funds to combat HIV and other infectious diseases.
In Gaza, where universities lie in rubble and classrooms have been replaced by screens, education has refused to die.
Gaza’s Students Kept Studying Amid the Rubble. Now Universities Hope to Rebuild.
Palestinian students learned remotely, with flickering internet, through two years of Israel’s genocide. Now universities need funding to rebuild.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:24 AM
In Gaza, where universities lie in rubble and classrooms have been replaced by screens, education has refused to die.
This episode revisits Lebron Gaither’s case and others in which police were reckless and careless with the lives of those they pressured to become informants.
Episode Three: Blown Cover
How confidential informants like LeBron Gaither, recruited by police as a teen and killed by a drug dealer, are seen by the criminal system as disposable.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This episode revisits Lebron Gaither’s case and others in which police were reckless and careless with the lives of those they pressured to become informants.
“The GHF model is one of the worst ‘aid’ — and I use ‘aid’ in quotes — models that’s been tried in the 21st century, if not longer than that,” said Anastasia Moran, advocacy director at MedGlobal, a Chicago-based medical aid organization that has teams inside Gaza.
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Calls It Quits After Thousands Die Seeking Its Aid
The aid group GHF oversaw relief in Gaza during a period defined by the killings of Palestinians seeking food during famine.
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November 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
“The GHF model is one of the worst ‘aid’ — and I use ‘aid’ in quotes — models that’s been tried in the 21st century, if not longer than that,” said Anastasia Moran, advocacy director at MedGlobal, a Chicago-based medical aid organization that has teams inside Gaza.
The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War
The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
“Real wages — that is, wages adjusted for inflation — are going down for most people. The bottom 90 percent of Americans are in very bad shape,” says Reich.
Robert Reich Thinks Democrats Are On the Brink of a New Era
Robert Reich speaks to The Intercept Briefing podcast about the economy and the state of Democratic Party politics under Trump.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“Real wages — that is, wages adjusted for inflation — are going down for most people. The bottom 90 percent of Americans are in very bad shape,” says Reich.
Just as Donald Trump demonizes leftist organizers today as domestic terrorists, both federal officials and local police in the South and North condemned civil rights activists as rioters and insurrectionists. interc.pt/4oAs2k8
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Just as Donald Trump demonizes leftist organizers today as domestic terrorists, both federal officials and local police in the South and North condemned civil rights activists as rioters and insurrectionists. interc.pt/4oAs2k8
This is how the pre-planned no-knock raid — a violent, volatile tactic that became a common tool of the drug war — led to tragic consequences.
Episode Two: A Death in the Dark
How the pre-planned no-knock raid — a violent, volatile tactic that became a common tool of the drug war — leads to tragic consequences.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
This is how the pre-planned no-knock raid — a violent, volatile tactic that became a common tool of the drug war — led to tragic consequences.
After J. Edgar Hoover cast the civil rights leader as a “liar,” NYPD’s spy unit heeded the call. interc.pt/4pvs8Ko
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
After J. Edgar Hoover cast the civil rights leader as a “liar,” NYPD’s spy unit heeded the call. interc.pt/4pvs8Ko
This isn’t even the first time Grok has praised Hitler.
Elon Musk's Anti-Woke Wikipedia Is Calling Hitler “The Führer”
Grokipedia, the anti-woke Wikipedia alternative, aims to create a parallel version of the truth for the right wing.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This isn’t even the first time Grok has praised Hitler.
With a Bitcoin crash wiping out a trillion dollars of value in the past few weeks, the industry is counting on friendly regulators in Washington to give it a boost.
This Commission That Regulates Crypto Could Be Just One Guy: An Industry Lawyer
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is a crypto regulator, and its sole member could be Trump nominee Mike Selig, a former crypto industry lawyer.
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November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
With a Bitcoin crash wiping out a trillion dollars of value in the past few weeks, the industry is counting on friendly regulators in Washington to give it a boost.