A @propublica.org investigation pinpointed at least 75 people across federal agencies who stood up to protect the integrity of the 2020 election.
Today, nearly all of those people are gone, having resigned, been fired, or been reassigned, esp. at DOJ and DHS.
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What's angered Trump re Noem? Her testimony about a $200 million self-promotional ad campaign at DHS — about which @propublica.org broke the critical details last year:
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Asked by Congress whether Corey Lewandowski has “a role in approving contracts” at DHS, Sec. Kristi Noem said: “No.”
Internal DHS records reviewed by @propublica.org show Lewandowski personally approved a multimillion-dollar equipment contract last summer.
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Excited to have William onboard. Send him your tips…unless they’re really good and then send them to me.
Some fun news…
A conservative researcher — who was once described in a court filing as “a goddamned fraud” and “a known fabricator” — may have fueled the recent seizure of 2020 voting records in Fulton County, Georgia.
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Note from the editors: ProPublica is publishing the names of the two federal immigration agents involved in the fatal shooting of Minnesota protester Alex Pretti. We believe there are few investigations that deserve more sunlight and public scrutiny than this one, in which two masked agents fired 10 shots at Pretti as he lay on the ground after being pepper-sprayed. The Department of Justice said it is investigating the incident, but the names of the two agents have been withheld from Congress and from state and local law enforcement. The policy of shielding officers’ identities, particularly after a public shooting, is a stark departure from standard law enforcement protocols, according to lawmakers, state attorneys general and former federal officials. Such secrecy, in our view, deprives the public of the most fundamental tool for accountability.
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.
The fugitive known as “Bitcoin Jesus” was indicted for tax evasion and facing prison.
Then he hired a “Friend of Trump.”
This is how it went down, from Avi Asher-Schapiro & @mtredden.bsky.social
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Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
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As Russ Vought attempts to dismantle one of the nation's most prestigious scientific research institutions, watch @propublica.org's YouTube doc about who Vought is, how he got so much power — and what, in the end, he wants: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Lu...
Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances:
“I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
(Published October w/ @newyorker.com)
Yikes. His response makes it look…worse?
Oy. Missed this at the time
Chomsky! Didn't see that one coming...
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ProPublica’s @andykroll.bsky.social spent months chronicling Russ Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to one of the most influential players in the current Trump administration, where he has tried to fulfill his desire to put federal workers “in trauma.”
1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”
By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com
