NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers. Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp. “The irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

You may have seen reports about the release of Venezuelans the Trump administration sent to a Salvadoran prison and called "the worst of the worst." But when we set out to learn more about them, that's not what we found. 🧵

The former *police commisioner* said a “rogue” NYPD unit was run by Adams cronies and reported directly to direct City Hall — exactly as we reported. Adams was so tight with the unit, sources told us, he had secret access to live body-cam footage. www.propublica.org/article/eric...

“If this program is implemented in its current form, it’s extremely likely that incorrect addresses will be given to DHS and individuals will be wrongly targeted.”

The IRS is building a database that would let ICE access people's home addresses to speed up mass deportations. It could make dangerous mistakes. Great scoop from @williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social, and Avi Asher-Schapiro. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

They were “pushing the boundaries of the law,” one official said. “Everyone at IRS felt the same way.” @williamturton.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: The IRS is building a vast effort to help the Trump Admin deportation apparatus. A Trump-appointed IRS official objected. Now he’s out. & the effort is going forward. @williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social & Avi Shapiro: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

SCOOP: The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers’ Data With ICE www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Just saw this movie at Film Forum. Did anything happen while I was gone

NEW: At least 38 DOGE members work, or have worked, for one of Elon Musk’s companies. Meanwhile, nearly two dozen DOGE officials are making cuts to the same federal agencies that regulate the industries that employed them.

THREAD: An ex-DOGE engineer with no government or medical experience used AI to identify which Veterans Affairs contracts to kill, labeling them as “MUNCHABLE.” @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social and I got the code. Here’s what it tells us 1/

Have y'all ever experienced the signal bug where it asks you to do a capatcha but never actually verifies you, making you unable to send new messages? Any solution to fix?

"One of Elon Musk’s employees is earning between $100,001 and $1 million annually as a political adviser to his billionaire boss while simultaneously helping to dismantle the federal agency that regulates two of Musk’s biggest companies." www.propublica.org/article/doge...

UPDATE: We've confirmed the identities and roles of 9 more key figures affiliated with Musk, bringing our DOGE tracker to a total of 86 staffers.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

TeleMessage has taken everything down from their website www.telemessage.com

NEW from us: The IRS inspector general is probing whether Trump and his office improperly accessed taxpayer data. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

New: A former senior Treasury official told @propublica.org the probe could lead to a criminal investigation if reviewers find evidence of lawbreaking. But That same official said it’s possible those leading the review could face political repercussions.

NEW: A Treasury Department inspector general is probing efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE to obtain private taxpayer data and other sensitive information, internal communications reviewed by ProPublica show.

SCOOP: A Treasury inspector general has asked the Internal Revenue Service to provide details on any instances where President Trump or DOGE tried to obtain taxpayer data and other sensitive information. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Our DOGE tracker is updated with a whole slew of new names, and now you can filter by agency to see which of the DOGErs have been where. Great work by @williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social, @kirstenberg.bsky.social and others! projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

The cyber team inside DHS's Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans will be cut from 20-25 to 8 by June as part of DHS HQ's massive downsizing, per a person familiar with the matter.

My @propublica.org colleagues @jeffernsthausen.bsky.social and Avi Asher-Schapiro and I discovered a little-known company started housing ICE detainees at a tent facility in El Paso in mid-March 🧵: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I have a new gig @propublica.org to report on the Department of Government Efficiency. If you work in the federal government, I'd like to hear from you. On Signal at: 804-295-7201 or [email protected]

A UK court has blocked the UK government's attempt to keep secret a legal case over its demand to access Apple users' encrypted data. Judges said in a ruling Monday that authorities’ efforts were a “fundamental interference with the principle of open justice”: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

*TRUMP: MARKET IS GOING TO BOOM

Creep Loser Wonderwall

This story for the New Yorker is the culmination of many years of reporting on and thinking about one thing: What's the deal with pitching? It was nice to reconnect with people I know from the baseball world, and I have now seen the inside of a person's elbow. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport...

"In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security confirmed Phil Hegseth’s job title and said this 'interagency mission is part of Mr. Hegseth’s preview,' presumably meaning 'purview.'" apnews.com/article/hegs...

I’m at the federal courthouse in New Jersey this morning for a hearing in the case of Columbia student protest organizer Mahmoud Khalil. Here’s what’s at stake in today’s hearing: open.substack.com/pub/williamt...

At this risk of sounding overly cynical, my work investigating the weird world of mercenary hackers has made me a little less surprised by these moves than I would’ve been otherwise. Here’s why: ↘️

Elon Musk recently called out Reddit users for banning links to X and threatening DOGE staffers Turns out he was also texting Reddit’s CEO www.theverge.com/command-line...

New: Judge Boasberg orders that counsel for Hegseth, Gabbard, Rubio et al, appear in court today at 4PM in the Signalgate lawsuit brought by American Oversight. The lawsuit was brought in an attempt to force compliance with the Federal Records Act.

NYU has made a decision to punish everyone who wants to walk around the area with arbitrary security theater. It’s a reminder that some of the city’s largest landowners, like NYU and Columbia, operate public spaces that they can reclaim whenever they see fit. www.williamturton.com/p/these-are-...

Not much of a gotcha here. This applies to anyone who has used the internet in the last decade

Hunter Biden didn’t have a government job, he was merely the son of the Vice President.

Interesting to revisit this James Bamford piece, where he not so subtly implies Canary Mission is, at least in part, an Israeli intelligence operation. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

These Are the Dumbest Fences in New York open.substack.com/pub/williamt...

NEW: Elon Musk's Brother Gets Paid in the UAE williamturton.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

NEW: Elon Musk's Brother Gets Paid in the UAE williamturton.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

FELLED BY FOIA?: Judge refuses, for now, to block Trump takeover of U.S. Institute of Peace. Says it may be executive agency, in part because it answers #FOIA requests

NEW: The Mahmoud Khalil case has been transferred to New Jersey. In a recent filing, Judge Jesse Furman implied that the government may have broken the law by arresting and attempting to deport Khalil. williamturton.substack.com/p/mahmoud-kh...

🚨 The Iran War Plan 🚨 www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-iran-w...

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