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Religion reporters: @andreasuozzo.com also noted a brand new feature she built in @propublica.org's 990 explorer that shows which nonprofits are not required to submit tax filings because of their designation as a church. So, that's handy!
Inspired by ProPublica’s new database, I created a visualization of the nearly 400 LLCs that make up Trump’s business empire.
That and more in this week’s newsletter. Read! Free!
www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...
Quick H/T to @propublica.org's new financial disclosure search tool — which helped surface the ethics filing behind our DHS scoop. A former Anduril Industries insider is now overseeing Department of Homeland Security’s massive biometric surveillance dragnet.
Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you
jacobharr.is/personal/i-d...
We did use lists of names from the excellent PLUM website (woo PLUM Act!), so doing something like this now is much easier than it was 10 years ago, but yes, we need legislation to finish the job.
Screenshot of ProPublica webpage titled “Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees,” accompanied by this blurb: “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.” A search bar prompts the user to search for a person or financial holding.
THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees.
Here’s how it works 1/
GREAT new resource from us:
You can now flip through the financial disclosures of Trump officials.
See what they own --and how much they're worth.
See who's worked where-- and how much they banked.
Want the folks connected to Palintir? Please enjoy.
projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
Kristi Noem was asked during Senate testimony yesterday whether Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving DHS contracts.
"No," Noem said.
That's.....BS. And my colleagues have the goods.
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
So much great work here from @bxroberts.org, @jdf.bsky.social, @coreygjohnson.bsky.social, @kevinuhrm.bsky.social and many others. If you see something interesting in the data, reach out to us on signal:
Highlight of a table row from an interactive database showing the following text: King & Spalding LLP, Services as Partner, As a partner at the law firm of King & Spalding LLP, the legal services I provide are subject to District of Columbia Bar Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 and New York Bar Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 on "confidentiality of information," which prohibit knowingly revealing a confidence or secret of a client, including the identity of a client or the fact of such representation. Notwithstanding this, I have disclosed representations of clients where the client consented to the disclosure or the fact of the representation is known through public filings. I provided services to 51 additional clients who are entities where Rule 1.6 applies and where disclosure of the client identity and the fact of representation would reveal a client confidence or secret.
You can also link directly to individual lines in the disclosure forms by copying the link in the "Line No." column. Here's a link to where US Trade Rep Jamieson Greer withheld the names of more than 50 former clients from his time at King & Spalding.
projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
With our app, you can do deep searches across entities that show up in the data. Here's a way to search for everyone who mentioned these Elon Musk-connected companies in their disclosure forms:
xAI OR "X Corp" OR Twitter OR Tesla OR Neuralink OR "Boring Co"
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Steve Feinberg, until last year, ran Cerberus Capital Management, which has received contracts to build the "Golden Dome for America." He is now the deputy secretary of defense and oversees the office in charge of the Golden Dome project. w/ @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @bxroberts.org
This data has been powering our reporting. In December, @coreygjohnson.bsky.social and I used it to look into Todd Blanche's crypto holdings. Now you can dig into it yourself.
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.
Instead of this, Apple could have done the funniest thing (gone back to using Apple Garamond)
“The A.I. industry is selling a dream of digital slavery—infinite human labor with no actual human involved. […] here’s Sam Altman encouraging us to compare the energy cost of training an L.L.M. to the energy cost of raising and educating a human child”
between the new IBX stop and Williamsburg
Did you look at rail or BRT on Nostrand? It would be perfect for a Mexico City-style crosstown BRT line.
The folks behind Dark Sky spun themselves out of Apple and have built a new weather app: Acme Weather. “We missed those days as a small scrappy shop. So let’s try this again…” [acmeweather.com]
“Four new reservoirs ‘had to be constructed’ to supply vast amounts of snow for only a few days of competition for the Olympic ski runs, half-pipe, and snow park …the organisers started pumping as much water as their infrastructure allowed from the already drought-stricken alpine rivers.”
We're launching a news desk! And at the center of it is a weekly newsletter headed up by our News Director
@joshnathankazis.bsky.social. First one is out—sign up at jewishcurrents.org/newsletter to read it.
a couple recent ones I found interesting:
www.unpopularfront.news/p/i-built-a-...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/minimum-st...
This is a good essay, but sometimes as a thought experiment I think about how we defended the ubiquity of cars 100+ years ago. Sure, we can't really walk places anymore and they kill tens of thousands a year and gasoline makes the air toxic, but getting places fast in a personal bubble is cool!
Data labeling is notoriously brutal and underpaid work. Workers sometimes earn as little as a few dollars a day, work under algorithmic management, and, because they’re sometimes trying to train AI what not to do or show, they are often shown graphic, violent, or sexual content for hours at a time.
New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>
floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know.
Save this one and reshare it please! 📊
I watched two 16-year olds get abducted, I have not been able to get any organization to try to help them, I think about them every day, I read stuff like this and I want to puke
"To make a cheese soufflé is to drive a trusty Peugeot slowly but purposefully down a road signposted in French [...] You can't power your way through it as you would with its Italian cousin, the frittata—the Ferrari of egg cookery, built for speed and crowd-feeding efficiency."
Practice picketing with my NYC colleagues today for Just Cause and common sense AI protections. Let's get this contract done!
