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The Intercept seeks to sustain the mythology that Trump is omnipotent, and the states and the people are powerless, for the purpose of generating a readership that thinks they have special access to information the general public does not.
orangecrush (33,661 posts)
Well, the Intercept totally went there.
IT’S EVEN WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT.
What we’re seeing right now from Donald Trump is a full-on authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government.
This is not hyperbole.
Court orders are being ignored. MAGA loyalists have been put in charge of the military and federal law enforcement agencies. The Department of Government Efficiency has stripped Congress of its power of the purse. News outlets that challenge Trump have been banished or put under investigation.
Yet far too many are still covering Trump’s assault on democracy like politics as usual, with flattering headlines describing Trump as “unconventional,” “testing the boundaries,” and “aggressively flexing power.”
The Intercept has long covered authoritarian governments, billionaire oligarchs, and backsliding democracies around the world. We understand the challenge we face in Trump and the vital importance of press freedom in defending democracy.
https://theintercept.com/2026/10/15/ice-omar-raid-midterms-political/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
Kid Berwyn (26,977 posts)
1. What guard rails?
No good traitor has no use for the Constitution of the United States, otherwise he would uphold and defend it from enemies foreign and domestic.
Fiendish Thingy (26,311 posts)
2. The Intercept jumped the shark years ago
One cannot praise and accept particular reports from them that resonate and tickle our amygdalas, and then ignore the numerous times they have published hysterically wrong hit pieces on Democrats.
The fact is, despite acting with lawless impunity on a daily basis, this administration is an evil clown car of incompetent goat rodeo rejects that fails more often than it succeeds, and has a long history of being stopped, stalled, stymied or otherwise restrained by the courts, the states and the people.
The Intercept seeks to sustain the mythology that Trump is omnipotent, and the states and the people are powerless, for the purpose of generating a readership that thinks they have special access to information the general public does not.
lostincalifornia (6,636 posts)
5. The Intercept with Greenwald and Scahill did their darndest to push hit pieces on Hillary, Biden, and Harris, and
ncourage people, especially in 2016 NOT to vote for Hillary when we lost the supreme court.
As far as I am concerned they can go to the blazes.
Remember Reality Winner? The jackasses at The Intercept exposed her as the source after they published a leaked NSA report regarding Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.
They are directly responsible for putting her in jail.
screw them.
https://democraticunderground.com/100221571482
SAN FRANCISCO – The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries both left the court before the national anthem ahead of Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Saturday at Chase Center.
And they were back within seconds of it ending.
Both teams were on the floor beforehand, warming up for the game, then disappeared for roughly the two minutes it took to perform the "Star-Spangled Banner." Almost immediately after the singer concluded, both teams jogged back onto the floor.
Guess that's just part of the pregame routine.
Shavuah tov, may this new week bring new blessings that lead to real peace and safety for the land of Israel, the State of Israel, and the people of Israel.
For war continues to be waged on them and all of us in so many ways,
The DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), having lost their court battle to force the U.S. to withdraw support from Israel, have now created an entirely new battleground: JFK Airport. They are trying to pressure workers on the tarmac and at the airport to stop loading any goods to Israel. This would include passenger luggage, as well as any cargo such as computer or technical equipment, weapons being shipped by the U.S. government that have been bought by Israel, etc. These are the same people who put Zohran Mamdani and others in office; are seeking to make Abdul El-Sayed a senator, God forbid; and are the wing of the Democratic Party that Nithya Raman claims in her quest to become the mayor of Los Angeles, and in all cases, one of their foundation stones is antisemitism and a hatred for Israel and Jews.
WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by a Democratic-appointed member of the National Labor Relations Board to challenge the legality of her firing by President Donald Trump.
The justices turned away former NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that said the Republican president’s January 2025 firing of her was a valid exercise of executive authority.
The court’s action follows its June decision backing Trump’s firing of Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic Federal Trade Commission member.
That ruling overturned the court’s 1935 precedent in a case called Humphrey’s Executor that had recognized the authority of Congress to protect leaders of certain regulatory agencies from presidential removal at will. The Slaughter decision capped a decades-long conservative push to strengthen the president’s grip on key levers of government power.
Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s chief international anchor and a fixture of the 24/7 news network for more than four decades, plans to leave the company next June.
“After more than 43 years at CNN, Christiane has decided that the time is right to begin a new chapter,” Mark Thompson, CNN’s chief executive, said in a letter to newsroom employees that was obtained by NBC News.
Thompson said Amanpour, 68, plans to “scale back” her eponymous CNN International show to once a week early in 2027. “The program will conclude in May,” Thompson added, “and she will leave CNN at the end of June.”
Maybe Democrats expect Trump to make a big show of it, because that's what Democrats would do.
“We need to hold accountable the people and institutions who stole billions of our taxpayer dollars and weaponized the government against its people,” she said.
Because Canada is a very capable country, Trump probably had an army or air force official quietly offer Carney or the provincial governor assistance, choosing not to speak publicly so as not to detract attention from the people and situation who/that matter.
MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian was caught spreading fake news about FBI Director Kash Patel on live television Wednesday, adding to a long history of peddling propaganda such as the debunked Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
MS Now’s Peter Alexander paused his show Wednesday, announcing FBI Director Kash Patel “landed in Russia for a meeting scheduled to take place there. That’s according to two people familiar with the matter.”
MS Now’s Ken Dilanian joined, telling Alexander, “We don’t know what Kash Patel’s doing in Russia, and that’s one of the things concerning our FBI sources.”
The only problem with this scoop is that it was entirely false. Less than three hours after providing this breaking scoop, Dilanian was back on the network apologizing for the fake news, Mediate reported.
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Dilanian, like many others of the propaganda press, has a record of publishing dubiously sourced claims that hurt Republicans and help Democrats, with corrections coming only after the stories have shaped public debate. When the Hillary Clinton campaign commissioned the Steele dossier, a compilation of salacious rumors about then-candidate Donald Trump, during the 2016 election, the media was a key co-conspirator in what would become the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. ...
Dilanian was deeply involved in the Russia hoax. In April 2017 he and Carol Lee published a story about the June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort were also reportedly present.
“Two sources tell NBC News that Manafort’s smartphone notes from the meeting included the words ‘donations’ in close proximity to the reference to the Republican National Committee,” the report read. The report used this “evidence” to make the meeting appear more significant to investigators trying to determine if there was any collusion with Russia.
NBC News eventually issued a correction after Sen. Chuck Grassley’s team indicated the word “donation” was not present in the notes, though the outlet held that the “donor” may have been used. But as Lee Smith wrote in these pages, that “difference … nullified the thrust of the story, which was to suggest that Russia was funneling money directly to the Trump campaign.”
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Dilanian reported in October of 2017 that Sen. Richard Burr and Sen. Mark Warner had said “they had been able to corroborate some aspects” of the Steele dossier.
But as Smith reported in these pages, “neither Burr nor Warner suggested anything of the sort.” Instead, as Smith reported, Burr said that “the committee cannot really decide the credibility of the dossier without understanding things like who paid for it, who are your sources and subsources?” Dilanian further claimed that his sources “told NBC News the committee has corroborated parts of the dossier.”
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The day after the New York Post broke the laptop story, Dilanian swooped in with an “exclusive” spreading speculation that the laptop was “linked to a foreign intelligence operation.” ...
