If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear. I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Devastating, detailed review of the interlocking corruption of Eric Adams and Donald Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

The depth and breadth of corruption described in this piece is astounding - "The thing is, corruption actually is a matter of faith — it corrodes what little of it the public has in our government." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

If you’re not already, pay attention to the names ERIK SIEBERT and LINDSEY HALLIGAN.

Why bother negotiating with some who is telegraphing on national television that he will cave?

The Times' AI reader pronounces my name better than some friends and colleagues I've know for decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

The Roberts Supreme Court's campaign finance rulings have “left us with the situation that allows virtually unlimited wheeling and dealing,” says the Brennan Center's Daniel Weiner.

Espionage is a hard charge to prove, and the subtle corruption of elected officials to act as an “agent of influence” is often more easily charged under corruption statues (as well as FARA violations).

Without speaking to the particulars of the Greco case, counterintelligence investigations often morph in corruption ones, b/c spy services try to compromise public officials via their greed. Worth noting NYT reported the Homan probe started as a CI investigation—though we don’t know what country.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Remember Winnie Greco? The cash-in-the-chip-bag lady? You may recall this longtime Eric Adams adviser is also at the center of fundraisers with the hallmarks of illegal, "straw" donations. These activities were under investigation. One of the big Adams-world mysteries is ... what happened to them?

You gotta read this, it will make your head spin. It has gotten kinda fashionable among centrists to downplay public corruption (Yglesias thinks the case against Adams was trumped up), but these permissive attitudes just lead to more serious corruption.

Tom Homan just weeks after taking money in the FBI’s sting operation.

This meditation on official corruption by @noahshachtman.bsky.social is the finest reported opinion article I’ve read in a long time. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Trained lawyer: "we don't care" about alleged cash payments for government favors.

"Corruption is sometimes described as a victimless crime, just skimming from a bottomless pool of government cash. The story of the [NYPD] under Mr. Adams should put that idea to rest" Great column on how SCOTUS's gutting of public corruption laws helped get us here www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

This story builds in no small part on the incredible reporting of @thecity.nyc. A lot of what we know about the corrupt practices of Eric Adams' cronies is due to them.

If you want to understand this Trump administration's rampant corruption ... you have to go back to Eric Adams, and how they made the case against him disappear. I got a bunch of new details on this deep dive for @nytimes.com ... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

To quote another right-wing grift: “Imagine my shock”

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

NEW: US Attorney Erik Siebert has resigned this evening after investigators found insufficient evidence to bring charges against NY AG Letitia James, contrary to President Trump's wishes. Below an email Siebert sent his staff—via Glenn Thrush / NYT.

“.. Those who refuse to sign the new policy will be stripped of or denied permanent credentials to cover the Pentagon.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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BREAKING: A federal judge just sumamrily struck Trump's complaint against the New York Times, essentially calling it, essentially, garbage. Must be rewritten within 28 days. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

9-0 SCOTUS ruling from last year: “Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors.”

The folks at Rupert Murdoch's tabloid complained for *years* when a story of theirs got throttled -- and they had good reason to be pissed. Now, they're cheerleaders for censorship.

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Just the paramilitary secret police manhandling an opposition political candidate.

There is no justification whatsoever for this shit.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

If this isn't the album of the year, it's damn, damn close. open.spotify.com/album/5jUCvc...

If you've got experience with New York City's insane FOIL system, DM me?

It’s darkly funny that the search for the shooter’s politics never provided much clarity about *his* politics but brought the politics of a lot of powerful people into sharp relief.

The day Zohran uses eminent domain to take the Knicks away from this man is the day his approval rating hits 107 percent. www.amny.com/law/msgs-jam...

@lurabardley.bsky.social sees this for what it is www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

“When was Joe Biden president?” remains the most difficult question in politics

anti-anti-fascist feels like it should have a one-word synonym

Bunch of crazy details here -- payoffs, sudden reversals, giant-sized trolling www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

There is no legal category as “major terrorist organization.” It does not exist. And he can’t do this. Just an administration of posters, basically.

Oh for fucks sake.