I'm impressed by my @propublica.org colleagues every day, but omg the new Paper Trail podcast is so good. Amazing work from @jlussenhop.bsky.social + team. Take a listen: www.propublica.org/podcast/what...

House Dems' letter to DHS on Corey Lewandowski: preserve your documents oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...

NEW: Over the past year, we've been collecting thousands of financial disclosure documents from across the Trump administration. Now we're making them searchable. Look up names, assets, former employers across 1,500+ Trump appointees and 3,000+ ethics documents.

Sen. Blumenthal has written a letter to Kristi Noem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS. "I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record." www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

New: Kristi Noem claimed to the Senate yesterday that Corey Lewandowski has no role approving contracts at DHS. But internal DHS records and interviews with current and former agency officials contradict her testimony: www.propublica.org/article/kris... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

NEW: The Trump administration is planning to use AI to write federal regulations despite the risk of hallucinations. “We don't even need a very good rule,” the Transportation Department’s top lawyer said of the plan, per meeting notes reviewed by ProPublica. “We want good enough.”🧵

A billionaire known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was under indictment for massive criminal tax fraud and very likely going to prison. Then, he hired a “Friend of Trump” and the criminal charges disappeared. How did they do it? Avi Asher-Schapiro and I spent months getting the inside story.

BREAKING: We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing People have had seizures. They passed out. “I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished www.propublica.org/article/vide...

NEW: Here's the searing tale of one woman's struggle to feed her family after the Trump Administration imposed a man-made food crisis. Beautifully written by Brett Murphy & @annamaria.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Amidst the Trump administration's attacks on "illegal" DEI, @propublica.org has found more than 1,000 nonprofits that revised the mission statements on their tax forms to remove terms like "racism" and "marginalized." Half who made changes reported no govt funding. www.propublica.org/article/dele...

NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

So Jim Justice is one of the wealthiest people in the country. And in 2021, we wrote a story about how almost never paid taxes www.propublica.org/article/how-...

New: Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

New: FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends. It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.

NEW: Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris... w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

JOB ALERT! We are hiring a business editor. You have an unerring instinct for the jugular of the wealthy & powerful? Build a team with me and we’ll get after it! job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... You can email me or on Signal at 718-496-5233

SCOOP The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” I got the memo laying it all out www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages www.propublica.org/article/trum... www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

New: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...

New: Kristi Noem fast-tracked millions in disaster aid to Naples, Florida tourist attraction after campaign donor intervened www.propublica.org/article/kris... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

1/ The documents are clear: Lee Zeldin and his wife have two principal-residence mortgages, for properties in Long Island and Washington, D.C. We’ve got the records 👇 Long Island: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... D.C.: legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

New: Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them. www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

NEW: After DOGE outed Mohammad Halimi on social media, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison. They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

Trump admin says everything is hunky-dory at the VA. But we found that the number of doctors at VA has dropped each month since Trump took office. Nurses are way down too We got the records. www.propublica.org/article/vete... by @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social and me.

Citizens, crying kids, pregnant women, people who aren't the target...it doesn't seem to matter who's inside the car when immigration officers want to make an arrest. They smash the window anyway @mckenziefunk.com & I tracked these arrests all over the U.S. projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-sm...

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

NEW: Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations and then failed to disclose it www.propublica.org/article/kris... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

New: The Trump Administration Leaned On Poor African Countries to Give Elon Musk’s Company What It Wants www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Records show Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 and $5 million worth of Trump Media shares on April 2. That same day, after the market closed, Trump announced his Liberation Day tariffs, sending the stock market plunging. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...

NEW from @propublica.org: Records show that Chris Young is simultaneously working as a political adviser to Elon Musk while helping DOGE gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which regulates Musk's businesses. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

New: Helping to lay off 90% of the CFPB’s staff while holding $715K worth of stocks in companies that would benefit from a weakened CFPB “looks like a pretty clear-cut violation” of the federal criminal conflict-of-interest statute, one ethics expert said.

NEW INVESTIGATION from me and @vernalcoleman.bsky.social: Internal emails show doctors and others at VA hospitals around the country begging for help as cuts hurt veterans' care, including "live-saving cancer trials." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: A case of Sock Puppet-Mastery. Ed Martin secretly orchestrated an attack on a judge—in a case he was a party to. Now he’s one of the highest law officers in the land. @andykroll.bsky.social & @jeremykohler.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/ed-m...

1/ So get this: You go on to Facebook & see a loan ad. You click through & apply, giving lots of sensitive information. Unbeknownst to you & sometimes the loan company, guess who also gets all that sensitive info? Meta (parent co of Facebook).

NEW: How Elon Musk’s SpaceX, a major military contractor, secretly allows investment from China. Court records reveal execs there see $ from China as fraught but will let it in if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Caymans. www.propublica.org/article/elon... w/ @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

SCOOP: Before the IRS fired nearly 7,000 probationary employees, a senior lawyer raised the alarm that: - the terminations contained "false" information - they amounted to a "fraud" on the US judicial system Don't miss this @propublica.org exclusive: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“Simply put,” the officials added, “we are quickly heading toward an environmental and life-threatening catastrophe.” (Dioxin! It's really, freaking bad ☠️) www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: Who is *actually* running DOGE? Insiders told us @propublica.org that the named administrator Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run the show. The latest w/ @chrisbing.bsky.social + Avi Asher-Schapiro: www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Yesterday, I published an investigation into a secretive & abusive NYPD unit led by Mayor Eric Adams’ buddies. Adams has embraced the unit, the Community Response Team, even after NYPD officials raised red flags. This is what that has wrought. **All caught on video we obtained.** THREAD.

“When a participant asked him why he wouldn’t more forcefully call out Trump’s continued false claims about widespread Social Security fraud, Dudek answered, ‘This is dealing with — have you ever worked with someone who’s manic-depressive?’” www.propublica.org/article/reco...

NEW INVESTIGATION from me: There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor www.propublica.org/article/eric...

New: HUD officials recently discussed using the blockchain and maybe cryptocurrency at a division that oversees billions in grants for affordable housing, homeless shelters, disaster recovery etc. A staffer said it'd be like paying grantees in "monopoly money." www.propublica.org/article/hud-...

NEW: While all eyes are on Trump and DOGE, a bill recently introduced in both the House and Senate would cripple the EPA's ability to regulate. It's a very serious threat and experts told me it could pass www.propublica.org/article/legi...

NEW: This superintendent runs a small charter school network with less than 1,000 students. He's made up to $870,000 in recent years. Salvador Cavazos appears to be the highest-paid superintendent in Texas and among the among the top in the country. Taxpayers likely have no clue.