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Richard Tofel

@dicktofel

11 days

Now to the Questions About Trump’s Age and Health, this morning's Second Rough Draft newsletter

Now to the Questions About Trump’s Age and Health

We need more reporting, perhaps including about his published test results

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Richard Tofel

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4 years

Trump has now made three videos on his own illness, one each the last three days. He has never once mentioned any of the 209,000 Americans who have died of the same illness on his watch.

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The Secretary of Homeland Security said just now that our posting of the audiotape today reflected “the agenda” of those posting it. That is true. Our agenda is to bring the American people facts for their consideration.

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BREAKING: This morning @propublica has what I consider the most important story we have ever published. It concerns a trove of secret IRS files we were given on the tax returns of the nation’s richest people. The findings are extraordinary.

The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes,...

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Tony Fauci is a recipient of the Medal of Freedom and National Medal of Science (both from a Republican president); partial list of honors in photo. Elon Musk paid a $20 million fine and signed a consent decree after he was accused in federal court of securities fraud.

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Breaking at ⁦ @propublica ⁩: 500 videos from Parler users of the storming of the Capitol, arrayed in chronological order. An astonishing record of the day.

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Breaking @propublica : The new director of national intelligence worked for someone the US has banned as an enemy of democracy. That could cost him his security clearance.

Trump’s New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption

Richard Grenell did not disclose payments for advocacy work on behalf of a Moldovan politician whom the U.S. later accused of corruption. His own office’s policy says that could leave him vulnerable...

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Trump’s former deputy chief of staff sold our government $3 million worth of Chinese masks. A quarter million of the masks seem not to work; another 130,000+ are the wrong kind.

The Feds Gave a Former White House Official $3 Million to Supply Masks to Navajo Hospitals. Some...

Zach Fuentes, former deputy chief of staff to President Trump, won the contract just days after registering his company. He sold Chinese masks to the government just as federal regulators were...

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Criminally charged during Nixon’s term: Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, Dean, Colson, Magruder, Chapin, Liddy, Hunt, McCord, Strachan, Mardian, LaRue, Krogh, Parkinson, Kalmbach, Porter, Sturgis, Barker, Martinez, Gonzalez. He pardoned none of them.

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Turns out that many of the ultra wealthy pay NO income taxes for entire years— Soros three times, Bezos and Icahn twice, Musk and Bloomberg once. Bezos one year even claimed a $4000 child credit.

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As a percentage of their gains in wealth, Buffett has paid 0.1% (10 cents on every $100), Bezos 1.1%, Bloomberg 1.3%, the 25 richest as a group just 3.4%. Even on just their income, the richest pay less than 16%, far below the 37% top rate:

You May Be Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than a Billionaire

A new ProPublica analysis of a trove of IRS documents revealed that the richest 25 Americans pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes. But even if you use the most conventional yardstick — income...

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The 25 richest Americans are collectively worth $1.1 trillion. It takes 14.3 million average wage earners to tally the same wealth. The average earner group paid literally 70 times as much in income taxes in 2018 as the 25.

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Filing factually meritless litigation is not just a PR problem for a law firm. It is unethical.

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Just yesterday, @ProPublica gained >55,000 new Twitter followers (>10%). Thanks, @seanspicer !

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This is a bombshell, breaking from ⁦ @propublica ⁩ Clear violations of federal ethics laws and disclosure requirements. Reminiscent of the scandal that forced the resignation from the Court of Abe Fortas in 1969.

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Let’s be clear: especially after last night’s revelation of US pilot concerns, if one of these planes crashes before the software is fixed, the blood of the passengers will be on the hands of Trump. This is why inaugural cash and corporate toadying to the administration matters.

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"Client Copy" signature stamp indicates leak of Trump return came from someone tied to him, NOT from IRS

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So proud of my more than 50 colleagues who worked insanely hard in recent days to mount this critical, historic record.

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Accompanied by a piece on exactly what we are publishing, and why:

Why We Published More Than 500 Videos Taken by Parler Users of the Capitol Riot

This collection of clips from the insurrection, while incomplete, offers a unique experience of the historic event through hundreds of participants' eyes.

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Here’s a note from @steveengelberg and I about why we’re publishing, and what we’re saying about sourcing, privacy and the law:

Why We Are Publishing the Tax Secrets of the .001%

We are disclosing the tax details of the richest Americans because we believe the public interest in an informed debate outweighs privacy considerations.

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The IRS has been stripped of most of the resources it used to devote to audits. But more than a third of those it still does are of the working poor. The effective upshot: a massive tax cut for wealthy tax cheaters. Just out ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩

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Breaking: The City of New York, its police union and the NYCLU are fighting in court about records of complaints about police misconduct. We have the records and have just published many of them ⁦ @propublica ⁩

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Our government seized a 7 year-old, and did not give her anything to eat or drink for 8 and a half hours. She died as a result while being held prisoner.

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The President of the United States is paid $400,000 annually. In four years, Trump has pocketed 20 times that in payments to his business from taxpayers and donors. Just out from the great ⁦ @Fahrenthold ⁩

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And an essay by the brilliant @AlecMacGillis on what the videos show, and what they mean.

Inside the Capitol Riot: What the Parler Videos Reveal

The trove of more than 500 videos recovered from a largely pro-Trump social platform provides a uniquely immersive account of the violence and confusion as seen from inside the insurrection.

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The contrast between Trump’s criticism of civil rights hero John Lewis for a personal snub and his solicitude for indicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, with whom he frequently consorted, is pretty much all you need to know.

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This was done in your name, America

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Just out and important from ⁦ @propublica ⁩: If you had the cynical thought that health insurance companies must sometimes use computers, with no human review, to deny valid claims, a leak from Cigna reveals you’re right.

How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them

Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said.

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I hope everyone understands that this amounts to “Russia, if you’re listening [which they are], please continue to hold this innocent person prisoner for another six months as a political favor to me”

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Here’s @propublica 's methodology on calculating true tax rates as a percentage of gains in wealth by the richest, as well as relative tax burdens on average wage earners:

How We Calculated the True Tax Rates of the Wealthiest

ProPublica started with a trove of private tax data — then analyzed those records, along with sources ranging from Forbes’ list of billionaires to publicly available information from the IRS, the...

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Today’s articles are the first in a series. Here’s how to help @propublica do more reporting:

Help Us Report on the Ultrawealthy and Taxes

Do you have expertise in tax law, accounting or wealth management? Do you have tips to share? Here’s how to get in touch.

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It appears that West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is very anxious about a forthcoming ⁦ @propublica ⁩ story.

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Delighted to announce that we are doubling the size of the ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩ Local Reporting Network for 2019

ProPublica to Expand Local Reporting Network to Focus on State Governments

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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People ask why @propublica considered it so important that all PPP loans be public, and why we posted them in searchable form. This is why.

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New: An online lending platform called Kabbage sent 378 pandemic loans worth $7 million to fake companies (mostly farms) with names like “Deely Nuts” and “Beefy King.”

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On @maddow , @ewarren just eviscerated the Bernie Bros, and put enormous pressure on @BernieSanders to finally do something about them

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reminder: the doctrine that a president cannot be indicted does not necessarily apply to a crime committed before he took office. That is what Cohen has just said happened.

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Starting this morning, ⁦ @propublica ⁩ is posting all the videos introduced in the DC federal criminal cases against the January 6 insurrectionists. Thanks to our 15 press co-litigants who joined us in getting these videos released.

Video Evidence Shown in the Capitol Insurrection Criminal Cases

ProPublica and a coalition of 15 other news organizations have been arguing for access to video exhibits shown in the criminal cases against the accused Jan. 6 rioters. We’ll add new videos as we get...

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Irony is dead

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The Ayn Rand Institute received a PPP loan of between $350K and $1 million

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I know there’s a lot of news out there, but this is a story you really need to read

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Trump's executive order could cost this country 200-300 trained doctors. Here is the story of one of them.

Trump’s Executive Order Strands Brooklyn Doctor in Sudan

A second-year resident at Interfaith Medical Center in Brooklyn was blocked when he tried to board a flight back from Sudan. Now, he worries what will happen to his patients.

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BREAKING: The second major story in ⁦ @propublica ⁩’s Secret Tax Files series. Peter Thiel has $5 billion in an IRA— a Roth (!) IRA.

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It’s unlikely Trump’s tax returns will be required to be disclosed before the election, but the Trump/Barr theory of presidential supremacy has been roundly rejected by seven justices of the Supreme Court, including both of those appointed by Trump.

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There has frequently been little love lost between the WSJ news and opinion pages. But tonight’s dueling stories are a real embarrassment to the latter, and a great short course on the difference between reporting and stenography.

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The @nytimes exploded the myth of Trump as self-made. Now, ⁦ @ProPublica ⁩ and ⁦ @WNYC ⁩ demolish the idea that the Trumps’ latter-day business was “mere licensing.” Welcome to the world of Pump and Trump

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Ways to end it: 1) the Senators could withdraw the objections, and ask to complete the certification 2) the VP and Cabinet could invoke the 25th Amendment and restore leadership committed to Constitutional govt Either of those seem preferable to using force to clear the Capitol

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Breaking: the latest in ⁦ @propublica ⁩’s Secret Tax Files reveals how ⁦⁦ @SenRonJohnson ⁩ got hundreds of millions in tax breaks for two contributors who had given him $20 million for his campaign into the Trump tax bill.

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One of the most consequential stories of this awful year has been the collapse of the CDC. Now, after months of work and based on more than 30 insider interviews and hundreds of emails, here from ⁦ @propublica ⁩ is the inside story of how it happened.

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We’re up to five videos about his own illness from Trump in six days, and still no mention of the 211,000 Americans we have lost, including more than 700 today and more than 2300 just during Trump’s stay in the hospital.

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Perhaps John Yoo’s best legal analysis since torture. Andrew Johnson came within one vote of removal at his impeachment trial less than six months before he was eligible for election.

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Fox guest John Yoo says the framers of the Constitution "would never have wanted impeachment within a year of an election"

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And with a reporting team on this story co-led by WSJ alum @eisingerj

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In defense of Clarence Thomas @WSJ slams @propublica as “Left-Leaning” website- omitting that it was founded by former WSJ assistant publisher Richard Tofel & former WSJ managing editor Paul Steiger:

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Trump’s Opportunity Zones are emerging as a huge scandal, a giveaway to the rich, often those with political connections. Here are three stories, in order of their appearance. First, about the CEO of ⁦ @UnderArmour ⁩

One Trump Tax Cut Was Meant to Help the Poor. A Billionaire Ended Up Winning Big.

Opportunity zones are meant to spur new investment in poor areas. But Under Armour’s Kevin Plank is getting a tax break for investments that are not new and not in a poor tract. And Plank’s area was...

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Some news: After 14 years, I will retire as president of ProPublica once a successor is in place. It has been an amazing experience, by far the best of my working life, and a profound honor to work with such talented and committed colleagues.

Richard Tofel to Retire as ProPublica President; Board Launches Search for Successor

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

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Mueller notes 12 separate investigative matters referred to others for possible prosecution which are redacted in their entirety. Summary: there are as many as a dozen shoes left to drop about which we may know nothing at the moment.

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In the early morning hours 47 years ago today, the Watergate burglars were arrested 5 months later Nixon was overwhelmingly re-elected It was 13 months til his approval ratings fell to where Trump’s are today 26 months before a majority first favored his removal, and he resigned

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Translation: forgetting I am supposed to be a journalist, I parroted a White House talking point, got slammed for it in social media because it is deeply unfair, and now walk it back a bit, while trying to keep the base happy

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I deleted an earlier tweet that said Democrats don’t love America. It was based on a Gallup poll that found only a minority of Dems now very proud of this country. A number of people said they think that’s not a fair conclusion from the poll. I agree and thus the deletion.

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We are not the Opposition. We are just trying to report the truth. And we will not shut up.

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A FISA warrant would have required "probable cause to believe he... was an agent of a foreign power"

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Just out: In the words of the Bard, “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

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Here’s what she was talking about if you haven’t yet heard it:

Listen to Children Who’ve Just Been Separated From Their Parents at the Border

ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, in which children can be heard wailing as an agent jokes, “We have an orchestra here.”

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If you read one story NOT about the virus today, make it this one. Just out ⁦ @propublica ⁩

Walmart Was Almost Charged Criminally Over Opioids. Trump Appointees Killed the Indictment.

Even as company pharmacists protested, Walmart kept filling suspicious prescriptions, stoking the country’s opioid epidemic. A Republican U.S. Attorney in Texas thought the evidence was damning....

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If a member of the senate moved not to seat the 5 senators elected in November who have now publicly stated their contention that the election was not sufficiently legitimate to confirm the electors elected at the same time, how would the 7 other Republicans of this view vote?

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At least Sean Spicer tried to talk Trump out of it after he was asked to lie (although he then capitulated). Sarah Sanders just volunteers to lie. White House reporters should now make a practice of asking her if she has any proof for anything she asserts.

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Just out: ⁦ @propublica ⁩ editors on Alito’s pre-buttal, the additional questions it raises, the 2 million page views so far for their story about his ethics, and why they will continue to send “no surprises” letters.

Behind the Scenes of Justice Alito’s Unprecedented Wall Street Journal Pre-buttal

The Journal editorial page accused ProPublica of misleading readers in a story that hadn’t yet been published.

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There is a ⁦ @propublica ⁩ story Jerry Falwell Jr. is apparently really angry about our having reported

Jerry Falwell Jr. says warrants are out for 2 journalists after critical stories on coronavirus...

The president of Liberty University, which he partially reopened to students during the pandemic, accuses a NYT photographer and ProPublica reporter of trespassing.

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Most under-reported fact from Iowa: Sanders got about 1/2 of the votes he received in 2016. Yes, in larger field, but he couldn’t hold thousands who once voted for him. In N.H. in 2016, he got 153,000 votes, or 60%. Everyone agrees he’ll do far less well Tuesday. Seems important

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Border Patrol has now had the names of three of their people involved in offensive posts to this Facebook group for more than two days. So far, no action of any kind seems to have been taken.

Investigation of Secret Border Patrol Group Launched as New Degrading Facebook Posts Surface

A ProPublica story revealing demeaning posts directed at Latina lawmakers prompted widespread revulsion. Immigration officials said such comments violate the agency’s code of conduct and promised...

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This story makes a big deal of rising support among Republicans for Trump, which is surely noteworthy. But only in the 33rd graf does it hint at the fact that the number of Republicans has fallen nearly 15% since his inauguration per Gallup

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On the 13th anniversary of the day we began publishing, @propublica tonight won five National Magazine Awards! So incredibly proud of our entire team.

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Translation: we are actively considering how to suppress criticism of our regime

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Q: Is POTUS considering a constitutional amendment to change press laws? PRIEBUS: "I think it's something that we've looked at."

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The NYT endorsement editorial is, sadly, a classic result of groupthink. Voters are permitted one choice, the NYT makes two. They acknowledge that voters crave electability, then say “who knows?” The biggest issue is healthcare; one of their choices is, they say, wrong on it.

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Times the presidential election was not delayed: 1864, during the Civil War. On August 23, expecting to lose, Lincoln wrote “ it will be my duty to co-operate with the President-elect.” 1944, during the Second World War, with more than 11 million on active duty

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Very proud of @propublica policy, announced this afternoon and effective immediately, paying for travel necessary to obtain an abortion for employees and family members covered by company insurance

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Remember a month ago when there weren’t enough N95 masks for health workers? The TSA was hoarding more than a million of them, even as airports were empty. Breaking ⁦ @propublica ⁩

The TSA Hoarded 1.3 Million N95 Masks Even Though Airports Are Empty and It Doesn’t Need Them

TSA officials stockpiled a huge shipment of N95 masks they knew they didn’t need even after two agency officials asked to donate them. Airport traffic fell 95 percent, and the masks have sat unused...

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@ProPublica @MichaelGrabell @roepcke So this week, out of the blue, we at @ProPublica got a check for $107,391.46. We deeply grateful, and promise to use it to help right more wrongs. 8/

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just to review: we now have written proof that TrumpJr and Jared knowingly colluded with the Russian government during the campaign

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As the pandemic rages out of control this morning, with case counts at their highest level ever, the outgoing president has tweeted 17 times in the last 16 hours. Every single one of those tweets has been about himself and his delusions about an election he lost.

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I run the business side of @ProPublica . Reaction to Gov. Bevin’s first tweak brought in about $25,000 from donors who think politicians who try to bully reporters before they even start work need standing up to. If you agree, we’d welcome your support:

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Turns out that SBF was Semafor’s largest investor, providing 40% of its initial round.

Media Start-Up Semafor Plans to Buy Out Sam Bankman-Fried’s Investment (Published 2023)

Semafor is one of several media companies that received money from Mr. Bankman-Fried or his affiliates before his cryptocurrency company fell apart and he was charged with crimes.

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The San Jose Mercury News once led the whole nation in many aspects of technology reporting. Sad to see that, as of layoffs yesterday, they now have no reporters on the tech beat.

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Translation: private company with billions at stake in political process creates secret, opaque process for ranking news orgs that cover it, and which depend on it for traffic. And we are supposed to trust their approach is neutral and free of conflicts

Facebook Has Begun To Rank News Organizations By Trust, Zuckerberg Says

A responsibility "to find common ground."

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Five Pulitzer Prizes and 11 finalists in the last 10 years for @ProPublica

ProPublica and Partners Win Pulitzer Prize for MS-13 Coverage

Three articles in ProPublica’s “Trapped in Gangland” series on MS-13 by reporter Hannah Dreier won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing.

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The horror in the analogy of the terrible decision to shoot a man seven times in the back to missing a three foot putt is precisely that it dehumanizes the victim. In the first case there are two people, in the second one person and a golf ball.

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If you oppose the BuzzFeed decision to publish, you need to explain why citizens should not be allowed to see the dossier /1

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An on-scene report from @ProPublica 's AC Thompson, who has been covering white supremacy all year

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The CBS Board actually signed a contract with its CEO giving him $115 million in severance if he was fired for cause. This sums up much of what is wrong with corporate America.

CBS Directors, Les Moonves Negotiating His Exit as CEO

The independent board members of CBS are negotiating the exit of CEO Leslie Moonves and asking for assurances of autonomy from controlling shareholder National Amusements.

www.wsj.com

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Here’s the story Clarence Thomas’s apologists were so worried about: the happy travels of the Supreme Grifter

Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to...

The fullest accounting yet shows how Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

www.propublica.org

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4 years

As of midday on the 21st, this month has seen the most traffic ever to @propublica

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5 years

DC's Attorney General says the Trumps skimmed $1 million from the inaugural for themselves. Complaint about it was brought directly to Trump (contra Sarah Sanders denial at the time). He assigned the issue to... Ivanka. Just out @propublica

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now appears that 2 of the biggest leaks of the last few months (confirming NK ship, ISIS/airplanes to Russians) have been by @POTUS himself

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4 years

This is a significant factor in why the Trump Administration was caught so flat-footed in a crisis

Job Vacancies and Inexperience Mar Federal Response to Coronavirus (Published 2020)

Unfilled jobs and high turnover mean the government is ill equipped for a public health crisis, said many former and current federal officials and disaster experts.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

If Cleta Mitchell “has no client” (her words) in her work with Trump, her communications with him and Meadows are not privileged. Also further puts the lie to any claims of “settlement negotiations” on call, as Trump side had no attorneys on call. @stphnfwlr

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4 years

This is a remarkable editorial, for at least 2 reasons: 1) the WSJ calls on Trump to resign, but also 2) it says “he was never fit to be President” and that’s been clear for years. Funny, I don’t recall them saying it before. And I read them every day.

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5 years

We don’t have Trump’s tax returns (yet) but ⁦ @hvogell ⁩ found previously-unrevealed documents that seem to indicate some of the fraud the returns would reveal. Just out ⁦ @propublica ⁩ and ⁦ @WNYC ⁩

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7 years

It may turn out that intentionally ignoring bad news for Trump is bad business for Fox

CNN

@CNN

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Fox News faces challenges in the prime-time ratings race amid President Trump's turmoil

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4 years

Here is one of the investigations Barr and Trump may be trying to shut down.

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@dicktofel

6 years

Harvard accepts alumni children at a rate almost four times that of others. More than 20% of white students there are such “legacies.” And more than 16% of Harvard’s white students are admitted as athletes. Another side of the “affirmative action” debate.

How the Fight Against Affirmative Action at Harvard Could Threaten Rich Whites

If preferences for black and Hispanic applicants are abolished, expect a backlash against admissions boosts for children of alumni and donors.

www.propublica.org

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5 years

For those who may have forgotten, the Constitution defines treason as follows: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” Opposition to the President is not treason.

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6 years

We made a big mistake. But the forthright way it is addressed here only increases my admiration for my friend and business partner @SteveEngelberg

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4 years

That question about pollution near chemical plants? This is what they were talking about.

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7 years

Thought for today: It is possible that Comey deserved to be dismissed AND that Trump fired him in an attempt to obstruct justice

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5 years

One of Jefferson’s list of the King’s tyrannies in the Declaration was that “He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither”

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