The Intercept

06/23/2026

35-year-old Aliaksei Shcharbachenia, an asylum seeker from Belarus has spent nearly a year at Farmville Detention Center, recently bought by CoreCivic. There, he says, he’s experiencing medical neglect as a tumor grows on his arm. “It hurts when you touch it,” Shcharbachenia told The Intercept, holding his arm up on a video call to show a growth the size of an egg. He said he’d lost feeling in the fingers on his right hand, and though he requested to see a specialist in December, as of last week he hadn’t seen one nor received a diagnosis. Instead the U.S. government illegally tried to deport him back to Belarus, where he fled political persecution in 2021.

“Dogs” live better than detainees there, Shcharbachenia told The Intercept. “I want people to know what really happens inside here.”

The Intercept reviewed several complaints Shcharbachenia submitted to the DHS Office of Inspector General about the lack of medical attention for the enlarged mass on his arm and his treatment on the attempted deportation flight. When The Intercept called the inspector general’s office to discuss Shcharbachenia’s case, the number was no longer in service.

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06/23/2026

New York City democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier has pointed to the incumbent’s dragging response as a key reason why she’s running for Congress.

New York democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier has pointed to Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s dragging response as a key reason why she’s running.

06/23/2026

After a whirlwind trip to Turkey and Azerbaijan in a botched deportation attempt, a Belarusian describes medical neglect in a detention center recently bought by CoreCivic.

A Belarusian asylum-seeker describes medical neglect at Farmville Detention Center, which was recently bought by CoreCivic.

06/22/2026

The situation has only gotten worse for Dalton Eatherly, the race-baiting online pest better known as “Chud the Builder”. Earlier this spring, Eatherly was out on bond after being arrested in Nashville on theft, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest charges after allegedly walking out of a restaurant on an almost $400 tab. Days later, prosecutors say he went on to do something far more serious: allegedly shooting and nearly killing a man outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville, Tennessee.

On Wednesday, a Davidson County judge revoked his bond after reviewing his conduct and new evidence surrounding the shooting.

“It sounds premeditative, like he’s going to kill somebody,” one Montgomery County investigator said at the hearing, pointing to Eatherly’s videos and social media posts.

There’s no mystery about what drives Eatherly, who livestreamed his violent, racist goals to thousands of supporters every step of the way.

In an age where racist rhetoric can not only be mainstreamed but can also be monetized, Dalton Eatherly represents its newest and lowest violent common denominator. He’s part of a new wave of right-wing streamers who profit by coaxing donations to push out racist hate speech via social media.

06/22/2026

On May 29, along with scores of others, John Mark Rozendaal responded to calls on social media to gather outside of Delaney Hall, the immigration detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. When Rozendaal went to Delaney Hall, he took his cello with him. “I consider music to be a de-escalatory thing to do,” he told The Intercept. “I sat down on the concrete barricade facing north and started to play.”

New Jersey State Police and ICE agents issued a dispersal order and began to clear protesters from the area by force — with officers deploying chemical weapons and charging protesters on horseback. “As I played, I saw this wall of plastic riot shields and cops in tactical gear advancing,” Rozendaal recalled. “There were tear gas canisters flying overhead. I could see horses behind the riot shields, flash-bangs. So it was quite dramatic.”

Moments later, Rozendaal was arrested by the New Jersey State Police and, according to an arrest report viewed by The Intercept, charged with one count of obstructing law enforcement. A week later, things took a strange turn when Rozendaal received a call from the FBI. “The agent said, ‘We’re calling because you were arrested at Delaney Hall,’” Rozendaal told The Intercept. In the following minutes, Rozendaal said the agents asked if he would be willing to provide the FBI with information on protesters that they described as “anybody planning to go to Delaney Hall with not the right intentions… So, I mean, they were asking me to inform,” Rozendaal said.

In the weeks since arrests began stacking up at the protests — approximately 90 people have been arrested so far — at least half of those taken into custody have received calls from federal agents looking for information, according to Benjamin Van Meter, a deputy public defender with the Essex County Public Defender’s Office who represents a number of protesters facing charges.

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06/22/2026

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06/20/2026

Despite extracting extraordinary concessions, the reaction in Iran isn’t entirely jubilant. Past betrayals are too recent to forget. https://interc.pt/3Qr9fwx

06/20/2026

“They were asking me to inform,” said a protester, one of dozens contacted by the feds, who was arrested while playing the cello. https://interc.pt/43NFlWh

06/19/2026

Dalton Eatherly streams his racist provocations online. It was only a matter of time before the violence rhetoric entered the real world. https://interc.pt/4el927b

06/19/2026

As Iran and the U.S. reach a deal to supposedly end this cycle of war, Tariq Kenney-Shawa and Jonah Valdez discuss what’s happened since Israel’s October 2025 “pseudo-ceasefire” in Gaza.

As Iran–U.S. reach a deal, Tariq Kenney-Shawa and Jonah Valdez discuss what’s happened since Israel’s October 2025 “pseudo-ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip.