The MacArthur Foundation is withholding $625K from the San Francisco DA's office, citing worries over rising jail populations. In a response, the DA's office accused the foundation of racism: "Our office will not be used as sharecroppers." via Joe Rivano Barros missionlocal.org/2024/08/macart…

“It was Jamaal and I this time,” said Rep. Cori Bush, who was ousted by AIPAC millions, “but who is it going to be in two years?” interc.pt/3XrZmQ1

The suit alleges that officials routinely share sealed records with prosecutors and the media — specifically with pro-cop tabloids. interc.pt/3yPTMx4

NEW: Top AIPAC donors are tied to prominent cultural institutions and universities across the US. Link: littlesis.org/news/top-aipac… Map: littlesis.org/oligrapher/999…

It's been 20 years since TX executed Cameron Todd Willingham on junk arson science. Now it's ready to kill Robert Roberson on similarly debunked forensic evidence--and despite a state law passed to prevent such miscarriages of justice. w/Jordan Smith: theintercept.com/2024/09/09/tex…

Pennsylvania officials won't release 911 tapes from the Trump rally without a court order. So we're getting one! #FOIA theintercept.com/2024/09/10/tru…

Right after Trump was shot, Akela Lacy asked Butler County for 911 recordings under the PA Right-to-Know Law. The county denied the request, and we appealed to the state Office of Open Records.

Akela Lacy The Office of Open Records agreed that we made a “compelling” argument about the public interest in these historic recordings. But OOR ultimately decided it couldn't second guess Butler County, which also denied requests from reporters at NBC, Scripps, and NYT.

Akela Lacy That left us no choice but to take this to court. Many thanks to our excellent local counsel, Joy Ramsingh, who's also representing Scripps and NBC!

With the presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump less than an hour away, a massive pro-Palestinian protest is taking place outside of the National Constitution Center. Get live debate updates HERE: on.nbc10.com/HRBZeHu

"I said that?" is so funny

Harris didn’t counter the central ideological violence of Trump’s message. In the moderated tones of a Democratic border authoritarian, she upheld the right-wing lie that immigration — the migration of poor people, that is— should be stopped. The Intercept theintercept.com/2024/09/11/kam…

The narrative of a “border crisis” was taken for granted from the jump – specifically, that it is a “crisis” for the U.S., not the desperate people who must face brutal, unforgiving barriers to seek refuge in the wealthiest nation on earth. The Intercept theintercept.com/2024/09/11/kam…

Anyway read this piece I did for The Nation about Haitian migrants and the way they’re treated in the U.S. thenation.com/article/societ…

Trump and Harris Agree: More Bombs for Israel interc.pt/3TqoCDs by Sunjeev Bery interc.pt/3TqoCDs

Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are keeping their children home and reporting damage to their property as anti-immigrant conspiracy theories spread, fanned by statements by Trump and Vance haitiantimes.com/2024/09/11/hai…

BREAKING: NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban will resign Thursday — a week after the feds raided the top cop’s home as part of a corruption probe involving possible influence peddling, The Post has learned.