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Jesse Eisinger
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ProPublica Editor & Reporter. At work on “Unfair Share: The 250-year Fight to Tax the Rich” (Avid Reader). @sarahellison's husband. “Succession” S3 consultant. Green Bay Packers.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · Jan 3
Some personal news 👇

(Which I forgot to post for over a year.)
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Matt Taibbi announces his site is rebooting under the eye of new editor Emily Kopp, most recently an investigative reporter at the Daily Caller
February 9, 2026 at 9:30 PM
jeisinger.bsky.social
Lots of liberals are predictably going to scoff at 15% GDP growth but when inflation falls 4,000%, Trump will have the last laugh.
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 PM
jeisinger.bsky.social
God help me but holding defense contractors accountable & limiting their exec comp and buybacks seems like a good initiative?* **

*Believe it when we see it

**If it doesn’t become corrupt, which it probably will

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
February 10, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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emma-briant.co.uk
"Binance—Whose Founder Was Pardoned—Now Holds 87% Of Trump’s Stablecoin"
zacheverson.com Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 19h
New: Binance holds 87% of the Trump family's stablecoin—$4.7 billion—a higher concentration than any other major stablecoin has at any single exchange.

Its U.S. affiliate holds $1,119.

me, for @forbes.com
Trump's Stablecoin USD1: Binance Holds 87% After Founder's Pardon
World Liberty Financial's founding document describes the company as "pioneering a new era of Decentralized Finance." Its flagship stablecoin is anything but.
www.forbes.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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jameeljaffer.bsky.social
"Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not" is exactly right. (This op-ed from Arne Duncan and David Pressman is excellent; I hope university leaders will read it.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Universities are sending Trump a dangerous message
Higher education is under attack. Drop the appeasement.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:28 PM
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dougbockclark.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid.

@ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice…

www.propublica.org/article/kevi...
The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia
Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
MAGA lobbyists are demanding that Trump's antitrust division settle the monopolization case against Live Nation/Ticketmaster. The top lawyers in the department don't want to do it. So now the #2 at DOJ Antitrust just quit.
Mark Hamer, #2 at DOJ antitrust, quits.
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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"Trump voters urge him to tone down the rhetoric and focus more on domestic issues, especially clearer pathways to legal status for law-abiding immigrants", proving they unaccountably had no clue who they were voting for.
February 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.

- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide

-There's worms & mold in food

-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows

www.propublica.org/article/life...
February 9, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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sirosenbaum.bsky.social
In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
joenoonan.bsky.social Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 1d
Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025.

Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irish man with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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propublica.org
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
1/ @motherjones.com reported extensively on this group, Freedom 250—and the larger effort to whitewash our history and get corporations to fund that destruction—in our cover story that went up last week: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

by @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social
Cover of Mother Jones
February 8, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Leon Black

Joe Gibbs
Former Washington Redskins coach

Dan Snyder
Former Washington Redskins owner

Larry Summers

George Mitchell

Ted Leonsis & Steve Case: AOL

Bob Goodlatte & Charles J. Colgan

Joseph & Jill Robert: Noted financiers

Prince Andrew

📸 ellieleonard.substack.com/p/decoding-a...
February 8, 2026 at 2:39 PM
jeisinger.bsky.social
Yes of course this couldn’t have happened to a nicer Wide Boy but we all know that there’s another guy, the one who okay’d all of Will’s decisions while gazing from the poop deck at his yacht’s yacht and clasping the hand of his plasticine second wife, who made all of the relevant decisions, right?
edmundlee.bsky.social Edmund Lee @edmundlee.bsky.social · 2d
fired

The lack of a Lewis quote in statement is how we know:
February 7, 2026 at 11:57 PM
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Ariane de Rothschild ousted her husband as CEO of his family’s storied bank, negotiated a big DOJ settlement and examined several mergers

Behind every move was none other than Jeffrey Epstein, who had found his backdoor into one of Europe’s most powerful banking dynasties
www.ft.com/content/0d70...
How the house of Rothschild became entangled with Epstein
Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild was in trouble. Ariane de Rothschild turned to Jeffrey Epstein
www.ft.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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amyhanauer.bsky.social
$51 billion could buy a lot of child care slots.
February 7, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds."

This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.
While the Court’s decision granting Defendants’ and Intervenors’ motions to dismiss are firmly grounded on the application of law, Plaintiff’s conduct and written demands on states for disclosure of their highly sensitive voter information should not be ignored. Defendants’ and Intervenors’ expressed concerns about Plaintiff’s ulterior motives for seeking the sensitive data require attention. The presumption of regularity that has been previously extended to Plaintiff that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds. When Plaintiff, in this case, conveys assurances that any private and sensitive data will remain private and used only for a declared and limited purpose, it must be thoroughly scrutinized and squared with its open and public statements to the contrary.
February 6, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.
February 6, 2026 at 9:13 PM
jeisinger.bsky.social
So what I don’t understand and haven’t seen: What is the impact of the bitcoin crash on Trump and his family’s businesses?

Were they leveraged?

Obviously his wealth is dropping as the values drop but I’m curious if there’s more.
mattpeterson.bsky.social Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 4d
Just checking in on American Bitcoin, the Eric Trump venture that is a leveraged bet on Bitcoin.
The image features a line graph set against a white background with a light red shaded area beneath the trend line. The Trend: The line starts on the left (around Feb 1) at approximately $1.50. It maintains a jagged but relatively flat level until midday on Feb 3, where it begins a sharp, consistent decline. The Vertical Axis (Price): Ranges from $1.10 at the bottom to $1.60 at the top. The Horizontal Axis (Time): Marked with dates from February 2 through February 5. Current Position: The line ends at its lowest point on the far right of the chart, marked with a solid red dot at the $1.15 mark. (Summary written with AI)
February 6, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
The #SellAmerica trade: 🇺🇸

“.. The year-to-date underperformance of US equities relative to the rest of the world is the worst since at least 1995.”

- Auger
February 6, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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sarahellison.bsky.social
I'm much more accustomed to writing about media layoffs than experiencing them. But yesterday I was among the 300 journalists let go from the @washingtonpost. I have been so lucky for so long in this industry. -1-
February 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
There are drawdowns. And then there’s Melania Coin.
February 5, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
Senator Katie Britt would like us all to know that she really really really doesn't want to use children as bait or for DHS to go off the chain even though she authored the legislation that allowed them to do just that and has supported Trump 100% of the time: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
The G.O.P. Senator Who Can’t Stop Thinking About the Boy ICE Detained
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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kathleenclark.bsky.social
There's been lots of attention on 1 particular inexperienced & untrained govt lawyer
But I want to give a shout-out to Kira Kelley,
climatedefenseproject.org/profile/kira...,
who focused on ICE's horrific treatment of an immigrant prisoner -- all occurring *after* the court had ordered him released
And I would point Your Honor to two declarations in a recent filing, which if Your Honor would permit, I could file in a supplement in this case. The first is a petitioner -- is a affidavit written by my client Oscar. And that was filed at Docket 67, The Advocates for Human Rights, et al., v. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, et al., Case Number 26-cv-749. And Oscar's declaration is important for a few reasons. One, it articulates just his horrific experience throughout this proceeding. And it's easy for us to see court orders not being complied with and the e-mails back and forth on the computer, but his affidavit really just shows what it's like to experience that and in ways that were personally for me just sickening to read as his attorney. That he was without food. He was without clean clothes. He was subject to physical danger, both through reckless driving of ICE agents transporting him from one location to another, watching people screaming in pain with medical neglect, being exposed to COVID. Just the conditions of his confinement; eating food that he conflated with dog food. That people are just being treated like less than human. And all of this was happening while he had a court order for his release. And while all of this is happening, ICE agents are telling him to self-deport because he's got no chance to get out of there other than self-deport, so he's being deprived of access, and this is all in his affidavit. Myself and his immigration attorney, who's here in the courtroom today, were not able to talk to him. His immigration attorney in particular made diligent efforts to ensure compliance with the court order, and these are e-mails that are in Oscar's case. I think you've seen these. We're trying to get ahold of him. We're trying to get access to him. We're trying to bring him home. And, meanwhile, he is sleeping on the floor, if he gets to sleep at all, and he's being lied to, denied access to phone calls to call his loved ones or his attorneys. I would encourage Your Honor to read this declaration, and I would defer to the Court if you would like me to submit it formally in Oscar's own case. And the second declaration also in The Advocates
February 5, 2026 at 12:03 AM
jeisinger.bsky.social
That a company whose business “model” is “We buy Bitcoin so buy our stock” was taken seriously in some quarters — & still is — might be more absurd than anything we saw in the dotcom bubble.

www.barrons.com/articles/str...
February 5, 2026 at 12:19 PM