Jessica Washington
@jesswash.bsky.social
Politics Reporter for @theintercept.com, Co-host of The Intercept Briefing Words in the Guardian, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, etc.
Kansas voters once against came out to support abortion rights on Tuesday night. www.politico.com/live-updates...
Kansas just affirmed that abortion politics still matter
Voters rejected a measure that was yet another ploy to restrict the right to abortion in the state.
politico.com
Kansas just affirmed that abortion politics still matter
Kansas just affirmed that abortion politics still matter
Voters rejected a measure that was yet another ploy to restrict the right to abortion in the state.
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Wesley Bell handedly defeated Cori Bush in this closely watched rematch. apnews.com/projects/ele...
2026 Midterm Election Results: Senate, House and Governor Races
Follow elections for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor and more across all 50 states with real-time vote counts, county-level maps and race calls from AP.
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Polls have closed in Missouri and are beginning to close in Michigan. @justicedemocrats.com seem hopeful heading into these races that they can add to the ascendant progressive movement in Congress.
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
One of the crazier stories I've worked on recently. In May, I began covering Malik Muhammad, an incarcerated BLM activist's story. They had been transferred thousands of miles away and effectively disappeared. Last month, I finally got some insight into why! theintercept.com/2026/08/04/m...
BLM Protester Transferred Thousands of Miles Away After They Organized Against Their Solitary Confinement
A misconduct report before the transfer noted that Malik Muhammad, a Black Lives Matter protester, was critical of Israel in communications from prison.
theintercept.com
Some more reporting from @projectsaltbox.com about how the immigrant detention state is expanding across the country.
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 23h ago🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.
We're going to be recording a special primary episode of the @theintercept.com briefing podcast tonight for Michigan and Missouri! Let us know if you have any burning questions for our politics team @jonahmv.bsky.social and @akelalacy.bsky.social
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Corey Johnson@coreygjohnson.bsky.social · 2d agoMy latest story has some intrigue. FCC finally released Chairman Brendan Carr’s financial report for 2025 late Friday. The report states Paramount gave him tickets to the gala worth $12,390. But he and his wife sat in skybox seats that sold for $125,000 a piece. www.propublica.org/article/fcc-...
Another example of the lunacy of thinking discrimination against a marginalized group won't affect you if you're not part of that group bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Great piece by @akelalacy.bsky.social about Cori Bush's race to reclaim her seat. theintercept.com/2026/08/01/m...
Cori Bush Has No Regrets
The incumbent Rep. Wesley Bell has AIPAC on his side, but the grassroots energy seems to be behind Cori Bush in the rematch for a House seat.
theintercept.com
MSG’s lawsuit against @wired.com targets a core part of journalism: confidential sources. If MSG’s theory were the law, investigative reporting as we know it couldn’t exist. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain.
So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms
Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.
nytimes.com
Agree that Islamophobic rhetoric is allowed to go largely unchecked. And no hate to the author, I just always hate this last "forms of bigotry" framing. I promise there is still plenty of bigotry to go around.
Columbia Journalism Review@columjournreview.bsky.social · 5d agoRead @banikarim.bsky.social on how the Islamophobic coverage of Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, is representative of one of the last forms of bigotry this country still tolerates, in this week's Laurels and Darts. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
“We are seeing a trend around the administration scapegoating immigrants and not pointing to the actual bad actors: corporations,” said Isha Weerasinghe at @clasp.org theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...
Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows
Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.
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Leaving this article from @jonahmv.bsky.social showing all of the racism @abdulelsayed.bsky.social has faced from Democrats here because wtf. theintercept.com/2026/07/27/a...
Abdul El-Sayed Faces Islamophobic Attacks From GOP and Democratic Establishment
AIPAC has spent nearly $30 million against Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, fueling ads that paint him as a terrorist sympathizer.
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Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7d agoWhat the fuck?? “While Mr. El-Sayed is fringy and radical, he’s also a Muslim man. Ms. Stevens is a white woman. This puts her at a disadvantage in the identity Olympics that internal Democratic Party politics have become.” www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
We've been talking a lot about where the anti-war movement has gone in the newsroom. Was not expecting this answer.
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 6d agoAlex Jones called for Trump's removal from office while warning of a military draft and full-scale ground invasion in Iran.
I have been really watching to see when the conversations around the systemic issues in local policing and federal immigration enforcement would collide for the public.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 6d agoI wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
newrepublic.com
Really great piece from @adamserwer.bsky.social on the commodification of masculinity and what it means for the rest of us when manhood is defined as your ability to lash out. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Masculinity Scam
The manosphere’s campaign strategy
theatlantic.com
Interesting analysis from @perrybaconjr.bsky.social on the electability myth
Perry Bacon@perrybaconjr.bsky.social · last wk."But moderates and progressives win at similar rates, according to Adam Bonica’s research. What really matters is incumbency—progressive and moderate Democratic candidates tend to lose to Republicans in office but win open seats or when they are the incumbents." newrepublic.com/article/2136...
I covered the story of an asylum seeker who was left to rot in ICE detention as a large mass grew on their arm, leaving their fingers completely numb. theintercept.com/2026/06/23/i...
ICE Tried to Deport an Asylum-Seeker. Now He’s Being Denied Care for a Growing Tumor in a Private Prison.
A Belarusian asylum-seeker describes medical neglect at Farmville Detention Center, which was recently bought by CoreCivic.
theintercept.com
Katiesaurus@katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · last wk."The document, published online in February by the ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC), discloses that an unnamed patient who began hunger strikes...and 'was subject to force feeding, hydration, or forced urinary catheterization, or involuntary blood draws.'"
I wrote about how these grifters were successfully pushing grievance politics onto young men for a profit for Teen Vogue before the 2024 election. www.teenvogue.com/story/young-...
What Trump and the Manosphere Can Teach Us About Young Men
"There's a growing current among a lot of young men of grievance.”
teenvogue.com
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last wk.Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The growing popularity of DSA policies is going to really test the Never Trump/Woke 2 alliance.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w agoThe vibes may be exciting, but if Democrats are going to win this year and in 2028, they must reject the DSA. If you’re tempted by a democratic socialist this year, think of what use Republicans will make of these victories, and ask whether you want to do favors for fascists.
Hundreds of people protested in Madison, Wisconsin, on Wednesday after footage of a police officer fatally shooting a man circulated online. Local officials said the man had injured the officer with a knife. nyti.ms/4gUoitp
HAPPENING NOW Hundreds are in the streets right now in Madison, WI, after police earlier today shot and killed a Black man. The demonstrations have taken over the city’s downtown.
Why is this giving the Nixon Library Security Guard (and long lost son) from Bojack Horseman.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w agoThe kids are “Nixonmaxxing”: More than half-a-century after Watergate, conservative youth are discovering the aesthetic, and adopting the attitude, of the late president. 🔗 www.wsj.com/politics/ric...
I continue to lack the time or energy to read or consider engineered hate-reads in The Atlantic but I admire anyone who still has this capacity on top of everything else going on
