NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/metada...

Hey that's me!

RIP fintech companies selling futures instruments on tariff rebate income

🏜️Today, the longest piece I've ever written is publishing, on how public lands along the southern border are being damaged or otherwise pulled from public hands and militarized with little pushback. Length doesn't determine quality, of course, but I am proud of it. To celebrate, a small 🧵

(1/4) That shouldn’t happen. Ever. FOIA delays like this block access to information the public has a right to see. Transparency delayed is transparency denied.

Unhappy and penitent Ash Wednesday to all my lapsed Catholics out there

Let's get this spice

BREAKING: We’re suing the FBI for refusing to release records on its abruptly closed investigation into Tom Homan’s alleged pay-to-play scheme. If a senior White House official took $50K to peddle contracts, the public has a right to know.

Tom Homan took a $50,000 bribe in 2024 in an FBI investigation. In 2025, DOJ told Emil Bove about the investigation, and it was dropped. This morning, representing Democracy Defenders, we sued the FBI to find out why www.democracydefendersfund.org/prs/02.17.26...

i would like to read a deeply-reported, 10,000-word investigative piece about the procurement process that ends up sourcing a luxury 737 for the head of DHS which only seats 17 people

Ok HOLD THE PHONE. "He said that his previous research shows that humans have the start of a third set of teeth already embedded in our mouths." Just drop that right at the end of this article WHAT?! www.popularmechanics.com/science/heal...

Big news tooth-heads we got more teeth

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Didn't expect periodic corporate fillings to be so existential when I opened the law firm. Like damn I guess we're just doing our best, you know

New season of love is blind

Unindicted ham sandwiches continue clowning on prosecutors like the Globetrotters

Just recorded a podcast episode with Nevin Kamath of @resisttrump.us! Talking, naturally, bout FOIA, its utility for street organizing, and my prior experience litigating for records on the Lafayette Square protests in 2020. Check it out on the next ep of Rise & Resist pod.

“kid rock? isn’t that what they called epstein island?”

Thanks for your support @freedom.press. Journalists must pushback against any attempts by those in power - locally & nationally - to stifle the media because every time they succeed, it emboldens others to follow suit, which can lead to the dismantling of democracy & a government-controlled media.

My favorite part about the DOJ is how careful and consistent they are when redacting. Truly upholding their duty as custodians of the public record with. From pages EFTA01624280-81

if you had told people back during the Kavanaugh hearings that disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was working the phones getting Ken Starr to lobby Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton to vote yes people would have said you need to get your head checked. But this is literally what was happening.

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

I have FOIAd the CIA World Factbook and the reasons for its removal

I have FOIAd the CIA World Factbook and the reasons for its removal

Homan works at the White House

And today the Treasury Department told me it wouldn't expedite processing of a FOIA for the agreement allowing Qatar to hold the money because it couldn't identify an immediate public interest. To help out Treasury: It rhymes with corruption. It's also spelled the same as corruption.

All sorts of process stuff in addition to the substance in the Epstein Library. Here are SDNY's elite AUSAs relaying secondhand "I asked ChatGPT" research to inform litigation decisions

Part of the problem here is that both are designated security agencies, granting many CBP and ICE agents the same kind of protections as secret service and FBI employees.

i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Genuinely the funniest possible panel line-up of all time and it's for a real estate conference in Riyadh

Look ma, my case is on TV wjla.com/news/local/d...

Also we did a press conference! Keep an eye on channel 5 and 7 tonight in case we get picked up 🤞

This morning, FIG sued the D.C. OUC for a 911 call documenting the last minutes of Will Ostertag, the deceased son of our client Stephanie Clemans. He died of a cardiac arrest just 250 feet from DC Firehouse 11, which 911 took nearly 8 minutes to dispatch.

Loving the FOIA implication that these accounts are all agency controlled records

If you're one of the Border Patrol agents I've spent months making videos of and you want to talk about any of this, I'm mlm335.27 on Signal, mlm335 on Telegram, or mandawritesthings at proton dot me. I'll protect your identity, and I won't flinch when I see you in the next city.

FOIA guarantees you the right to know exactly how many DHS employees used the words "Bovino" and "loser" in the same email today

Tomorrow at 10:00 am, the Free Information Group will be hosting our first Press Conference at Busboys & Poets, 450 K St. NW, to announce new litigation against D.C.’s 911 call center, the Office of Unified Communication. If you are a DC journalist or OUC-watcher, please come! DM/email for details

Houston officials: please stay home and do not drive on the ice, you will crash your car Houstonians: i have got to go crash my car on the ice

no matter how bad you are at your job, no matter how crazy things might get, very few people in modern history have ever been more over their head while in charge of a more fucked up situation than kristi noem

Tango down

Doing my part to help the community prepare for the storm

There was a huge dump of documents related to the American Association of University Professor's lawsuit against the government for abducting students. Among them is a memo March 21, 2025 memo from State Dept. that verifies Rümeysa Öztürk, a student at Tufts, was detained only for writing an op-ed.

We're doing Quadro Tracker "plastic box full of dead ants" again

What they take down we will put back up twice over. You can't erase the public record.

I have FOIAd the pentagon loot box machine