NEW: I spent months tracking every single dollar AIPAC spent this year. This investigation paints a picture of just how much the pro-Israel lobbying group has reshaped elections after starting to spend directly on candidates just 2 years ago 🧵 theintercept.com/2024/10/24/aip… There are few seats in Congress that AIPAC spending hasn’t touched. The group soent on more than 80% of the seats up for election this cycle: AIPAC backed 389 candidates

Uncommitted Dearborn cofounder Layla Elabed just left the podium in tears as Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan described treating a child with his face blown off in Gaza and hearing another child say he wanted to die because all of his family was gone Haj-Hassan: “I don’t know a single health care worker who has not lost multiple members of their family”

Something pretty alarming is happening to elected attorneys around the country. They ran on prosecuting bad cops. They prosecuted bad cops. Then the cops started fighting back theintercept.com/2024/03/22/mar… In San Francisco, Chesa Boudin became the first SF DA in history to charge a cop with homicide. The police poured money into fighting his election and attacked him ahead of and throughout his recall theintercept.com/2022/06/03/san…

Short 🧵 on what’s happening among Dems in Congress right now… It’s no secret that Democrats have long prioritized protecting incumbents. They’ve launched PACs to do it, condemned and fought efforts to primary members, and at one point cut off vendors working with primary challengers

Oz says Fetterman supports "socialized medicine," Fetterman says he never did, healthcare is a fundamental right and he supports expanding #PASenateDebate Oz and Fetterman now going back and forth on who supports fracking more

Thread of the 4+ years of efforts by state lawmakers to oust Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner since he took office in 2018. Contrary to claims that the current impeachment efforts are based on spiking gun violence in Philly, lawmakers have tried to curb DA's authority for years In 2019, Republicans pushed a bill through the state legislature that stripped Krasner's office of authority to prosecute certain gun crimes and gave that power to the state attorney general. The bill applied only in Philly, and in no other state county theintercept.com/2019/07/08/da-…

NEW: PA lawmakers will likely vote this week on impeaching Philly DA Larry Krasner. Cmte published a report today linking his policies to homicides by relying on a widely questioned study by a former Republican DA & adjunct fellow at Manhattan Institute theintercept.com/2022/10/24/lar… linking some of the critiques here:

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One reason Biden might seek to extend this policy rather than ending it out right - it would be easy for Republicans and law enforcement to say the president legalized fentanyl analogues, even though that wouldn't be true 1/4 theintercept.com/2021/04/12/fen… but Biden campaigned on ending mandatory minimum sentencing, which this would fly in the face of. there's also ample evidence that criminalizing drugs compounds harm, so the idea that they need more time to explore the impacts of class-wide scheduling is a little weak 2/4

New: Cops in Washington raised >$70k for their K9's medical bills after he was shot in January. They made him a TikTok star, and were promoting merch with his image to fundraise for the K9 unit last month. Not mentioned? The cops were the ones who shot him theintercept.com/2021/04/05/pol… this story isn't funny but it is