Yes this is as strange and alarming as you think it is: www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

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In March, we reported on how two leaders of a white supremacist network allegedly helped create a detailed hit list of U.S. politicians, execs, academics and others, according to court documents. Each entry included a photo of the target and their home address. W/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Moskowitz on Mike Johnson: "If he was lying then, is he lying now? ... I don't think in the history of this country we've had a Speaker of the House say the president was an FBI informant ... we need to hear from the FBI."

#ScienceUnderSiege www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/c...

Oh. My. Gosh. This is wild.

The Senior League Baseball World Series is a tournament for 13- to 16-year-old baseball players from around the world. A qualifying Venezuelan Little League team will not be in attendance this year because players were unable to secure visas.

New podcast with MCJ where I discuss how climate science is under attack and why it matters now more than ever: mcj.vc/inevitable-p...

NEW: A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.

So the former NYPD commish is suing Mayor Adams and the NYPD, accusing them of a "coordinated criminal conspiracy." As evidence, the commish points to my investigation of a "rogue" that answered directly to City Hill. That story, from March. www.propublica.org/article/eric...

The Trump administration has chosen not just to trivialize the danger presented by climate change, but to revoke funding for the very data collection and research that would help the country better understand and prepare for this moment. By @abrahm.bsky.social

Th-th-that’s all, folks!

Opponents of social safety net programs claim that gobs of cash are being paid to people who refuse to work. But as @propublica.org showed in 2021, several states have refused to spend BILLIONS in federal funds meant for families in need - or made it effectively impossible for them to qualify.

President Trump's financial disclosure shows more than $630 million in income from 2024 including tens of millions from cryptocurrency and Trump-branded products touted on the campaign trail.

The Trump admin has agreed to release from prison a three-time felon and spare him from deportation in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

I get that they're all-in on climate denial, but now hurricane denial?

federal immigration agent arrived at World Cup party attended by Miami-Dade County’s mayor, who is calling the incident “deeply troubling” and a potential warning sign that international soccer fans won’t feel safe traveling to Miami next year for World Cup www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Climate.gov is the main source of timely climate-related information for the public. It will stop publishing new information because the Trump administration laid off everyone who worked on it.

He's not "Trump's top general"; he works for us and swore an oath to the Constitution

Ho-leeeeee cowwwwww NYT.

RFK Jr. names new members of CDC’s vaccine advisory panel. The list includes several well-known critics of vaccines, writes @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social for @statnews.com. www.statnews.com/2025/06/11/r...

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After law firms struck deals to appease Trump, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

NEW: He Died Without Getting Mental Health Care He Sought. A New Lawsuit Says His Insurer’s Ghost Network Is to Blame. @maxblau.bsky.social

American citizens keep getting rounded-up by ICE. And it's gonna keep happening. During the first Trump admin, 70 Americans were mistakenly **deported.** From March, by @nicolefoy.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/more...

UPDATE: ICE has awarded a new contract worth up to $3.8 billion for the company to operate a migrant detention camp on Fort Bliss — its largest contract yet. It's the first time ICE is moving ahead with plans to detain thousands of people arrested on U.S. military bases in tents before deportation.

NEW: NOAA scientists are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Commerce Department failed to renew contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT and building maintenance. By @lisalsong.bsky.social

A STAT Special Report Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become unglued

The bad news: Climate change is still happening, no matter what the federal government says. The good news: Your choices still matter. Our solutions hub can help you pick the climate action that works best for your life. You can grow your impact by organizing your friends and neighbors to join in.

Musk’s offer of free Starlink for the White House puzzled some former officials. But it immediately struck ProPublica reporters as the potential Trump-era iteration of a tried-and-true business maneuver they’d spent months reporting on last year. By @reneedudley.bsky.social

It's been only 77 days.

Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why. Here is what this means:

Top Wall Street institutions are prepping for global warming that blows past the Paris Agreement. "We now expect a 3°C world," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote, a scenario in which harvest failures are widespread and sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches. www.eenews.net/articles/big...

Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this? Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..

BENNET: Did you know that the president's Middle East adviser was in Moscow on this thread while you were as director of the CIA participating in this thread? Were you aware of that?! RATCLIFFE: I'm not aware of that BENNET: It's am embarrassment

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

The ongoing measles outbreak in West Texas has doubled in size to 48 cases, mostly in children and teens, making it the state’s worst in nearly 30 years.

As the U.S. struggles with a housing shortage, investors continue to exploit a gap in an affordable housing law to raise rents on 115,000 apartments. Congress has repeatedly failed to act. By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

The acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two top Justice Department officials in Washington, D.C., resigned after the case against New York City's mayor war order dropped.

"Musk’s ‘efficiency’ agency site adds data from controversial rightwing thinktank" by Michael Sainato and Dharna Noor for The Guardian. Read more here: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts, much of the deleted DOJ database can be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. And thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot live on ProPublica’s website and other places. 👇