Natasha Lennard

1 week ago | theintercept.com | Natasha Lennard

“Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point.”Has there ever been a more perfect moment for this old meme? On Tuesday, talk show host and worst person Tucker Carlson challenged fellow worst person Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over the latter’s dangerous support for further U.S. military action against Iran. In a now-viral video clip, Carlson asked Cruz the simple question of how many people live in Iran. Cruz could not answer.

2 weeks ago | intercept.com.br | Natasha Lennard

Sem anúncios. Sem patrões. Com você. Reportagens como a que você acabou de ler só existem porque temos liberdade para ir até onde a verdade nos levar. É isso que diferencia o Intercept Brasil de outras redações: aqui, os anúncios não têm vez, não aceitamos dinheiro de políticos nem de empresas privadas, e não restringimos nossas notícias a quem pode pagar. Acreditamos que o jornalismo de verdade é livre para fiscalizar os poderosos e defender o interesse público.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Natasha Lennard

2 hours agoCold as ICE! Protestor goes viral for his withering comments on National Guard tactics in LAA man who was caught up in the battle between protestors and the National Guard in Los Angeles has gone viral for his comments on the Trump administration’s response.

2 weeks ago | theintercept.com | Natasha Lennard

When President Donald Trump announced on Saturday night that he would send the National Guard to Los Angeles to crush protests, a narrative emerged on social media that demonstrators had somehow given a gift to the authoritarian president by escalating confrontations with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. “Los Angeles — violence is never the answer. Assaulting law enforcement is never ok,” Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., posted on Sunday.

3 weeks ago | theintercept.com | Natasha Lennard

As the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt has done little to uphold his organization’s claims to fight antisemitism as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.” Instead, he’s shored up the ADL’s role as little more than a fierce pro-Israel lobby group known for defending Israel by attacking its critics. With no sense of irony, much of this effort manifests as defamatory speech — at least in the everyday, if not the legal, sense — by Greenblatt.