'I learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disppear'

It's not just Justice Alito.

Here's the 'Appeal to Heaven' flag flying outside of conservative powerbroker Leonard Leo's home in Maine.

Photo taken by a nearby resident who shared it with @ProPublica and gave us permission to publish it. 1/x

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What happens when a faction of grassroots activists believes that democracy has been stolen — and doesn’t trust the ability of democratic processes to restore it?

I embedded with the 'America First' movement in Michigan, my home state, to find out: propublica.org/article/michig…

Allen, who spent 10 years of his career reporting for ProPublica, was a fierce advocate for transparency and fairness in health care, guided by his strong faith and belief in honesty and integrity. propub.li/44YrLiI

RIP to a great journalist and father. Help his family if you can.
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For years, I wished someone inside 3M could give me insight into the company’s decision to keep making and selling “forever chemicals” even though they were accumulating in people. Then I met Kris Hansen... propublica.org/article/3m-for…

Paul Kiel of ProPublica and I teamed up to crack open a long-running IRS audit of how Donald Trump turned his financial failure in Chicago into huge and dubious tax write-offs.
nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/…

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In 2019, an IDF soldier shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian on the side of the road. The soldier’s punishment: three months of community service.

On Friday, Blinken decided that was fair; and the soldier’s unit remains eligible for U.S. assistance. propublica.org/article/blinke…

Following our reporting on how billionaire sports owners use their teams to avoid hundreds of millions in taxes, the IRS has launched a campaign to examine whether team owners are violating the law.
propublica.org/article/sports…

One man started a 'predatory' lending operation. The other was a retired hedge fund legend. A private credit fund had what both were looking for. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Businessweek

NEW from Brett Murphy:

A special State Dept panel sought in Dec to BAN Israeli military & police units from receiving US military aid.

The units are alleged to have committed gross human rights violations.

Killings. Rapes.

Blinken sat on it.

propublica.org/article/israel…

New: The Biden Diplomat Who Never Cut Ties With the Defense Industry

Biden Presidential Envoy Joseph Yun negotiated big agreements with Pacific Island nations—all while holding a job at The Asia Group, a powerful defense consulting firm whose clients may benefit from the deals.

Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin has issued a subpoena to conservative activist Leonard Leo as part of the panel's Supreme Court ethics inquiry. Leo's lawyer says he will not comply. ⁦Reuters⁩ reuters.com/world/us/us-se…

NEW: Trump’s lawyers told the court that no one would give him a bond.

Then he got a lifeline from a billionaire. But his lawyers didn't tell the judges.

That may be an ethics violation.

Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott & Alex Mierjeski:

propublica.org/article/trump-…

Take a look at this heated editing fight in document Heather Vogell obtained. It’s between US Trade officials and US health officials over regulations on the marketing of formula globally. Guess who won? Really worth looking at the whole thing projects.propublica.org/toddler-formul…

The US has been working on behalf of the baby formula industry to quash regulation around the globe — even for questionable products like “toddler milk,” which critics call unhealthy and doctors say is unnecessary. My story: propublica.org/article/how-am…

I wrote about Direct File—a new site that is the government's answer to TurboTax. It's way better than you might think. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Fascinating draft article by tax professor Omri Marian arguing that some of the gifts we reported to Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito were taxable income, and that if they did not pay taxes on them, they should be audited.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New: Customer Service Company That Worked With Disney, Comcast Will Pay $2M to Workers to Settle Lawsuit Over Pay Practices propublica.org/article/arise-…