LightNews LightNews
marisataylor.bsky.social
@marisataylor.bsky.social
51 followers 60 following 22 posts
Investigative reporter at Reuters. Now business investigations in DC. Before health care, DOJ, national security, cops and U.S. border via Texas, California, Mexico and Virginia. Found elsewhere as @marisaataylor
Posts Replies Media Videos
marisataylor.bsky.social
Exclusive: Trump official accusing president’s rivals of crimes tapped a former registered sex offender for federal housing role www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... w/ @chrisprentice.bsky.social
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
Exclusive: Trump official Bill Pulte enlisted a former registered sex offender as federal housing consultant
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
Exclusive: Trump official bypassed ethics rules in criminal referrals of Fed governor and other foes, sources say w/ @chrisprentice.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
www.reuters.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
US housing agency blames 'Radical Left' for looming shutdown. Democrats panned the messaging as government misinformation. via
@nolandmccaskill.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
My latest exclusive w/ @chrisprentice.bsky.social & Mike Colias: Bill Pulte, President Trump’s appointee as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, has accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His close relatives filed housing claims similar to hers www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
Exclusive: Bill Pulte accused Fed Governor Lisa Cook of fraud. His relatives filed housing claims similar to hers
Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.
www.reuters.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
UPDATE: Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show
The issue has caused a rare fracture within Trump's base of support.
www.reuters.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Reposted
legal.reuters.com
BREAKING: Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show reut.rs/3TNpulG
July 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Donald Trump sues Dow Jones, News Corp, Rupert Murdoch, WSJ reporters for libel, court records show
U.S. President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against Dow Jones, News Corp , Rupert Murdoch and two Wall Street Journal reporters, raising claims under federal libel law, court records show.
www.reuters.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX in Golden Dome missile shield in question www.reuters.com/business/aer... w/ @nanditab1.bsky.social
Exclusive: After Trump feud, role of Musk's SpaceX in Golden Dome missile shield in question
The role of Elon Musk's SpaceX in an ambitious new U.S. missile defense system is in question following the dramatic feud last week between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the project.
www.reuters.com
June 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention www.propublica.org/article/trum... by @hannahallam.bsky.social
“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...
www.propublica.org
June 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
Trump to make Golden Dome announcement on Tuesday, US officials say. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump to make Golden Dome announcement on Tuesday, US official says
President Donald Trump is expected to announce he has selected the path forward for his ambitious Golden Dome missile defense shield, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
Exclusive: Democratic lawmakers call for review of Musk's role in Golden Dome www.reuters.com/world/us/dem...
Exclusive: Democratic lawmakers call for review of Musk's role in Golden Dome
A group of 42 Democratic lawmakers has called for a review of Elon Musk's role in the bidding process for the "Golden Dome" missile defense shield, a project championed by President Donald Trump.
www.reuters.com
May 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Reposted
annabower.bsky.social
So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Re: MTA v. Duffy, No. 25 Civ. 1413 (S.D.N.Y.) Dear Erin: We write with respect to the above-referenced litigation brought by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ("MTA") against the U.S. Department of Transportation ("DOT"), U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, the Federal Highway Administration ("FHWA"), and Executive Director of the FHWA, Gloria Shepherd, to provide you with information concerning (1) the litigation risk that DOT faces in defending the Secretary's February 19, 2025 decision to terminate the New York City Central Business District Tolling Program ("CBDTP") agreement, and (2) a process for terminating the CBDTP agreement outside of the current litigation for DOT to consider. As discussed below, there is considerable litigation risk in defending the Secretary's February 19, 2025 decision against plaintiffs' claims under the Administrative Procedure Act, that the decision was contrary to law, pretextual rocedurally arbitrary and capricious, and violated due process. For the reasons outlined below, it is unlikely that Judge Liman or further courts of review will accept the argument that the CBDTP was not a statutorily authorized "value pricing" pilot under the Value Prising Pilot Program (" ar FHWA may, however, be able to properly terminate the CBDTP value pricing pilot pursuant to established Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") regulations concerning the termination of cooperative agreements. Termination of the CBDTP agreement pursuant to these OMB regulations would still allow FHWA to end the CBDTP for the Secretary's stated reasons, but would do so as a matter of changed agency priorities rather than arguing the CBDTP was not statutorily authorized in the first instance. Importantly, DOT can seek termination of the agreement pursuant to the OMB regulations in addition to, and not in place of, defending the rationale laid out in the Secretary's letter. Case 1:25-cv-01413-LJL Document 65 Filed 04/23/25 Page 2 of 11 Page 2
April 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
marisataylor.bsky.social
100 days of DOGE: lots of chaos, not so much efficiency www.reuters.com/world/us/100...
100 days of DOGE: lots of chaos, not so much efficiency
At the Social Security Administration, lawyers, statisticians and other high-ranking agency officials are being sent from the Baltimore headquarters to regional offices to replace veteran claims processors who have been fired or taken buyouts from the Trump administration.
www.reuters.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reposted
legal.reuters.com
Wire services including Reuters and Bloomberg News will no longer hold a permanent slot in the small pool of reporters who cover President Trump, the White House said, as it moves to exert greater control over who gets to ask him questions and report on his statements in real time reut.rs/42A1BSD
April 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted
npr.org
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
www.npr.org
April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
Judge says Trump administration officials could face criminal contempt charges over Venezuelan deportations www.reuters.com/legal/judge-...
Judge finds Trump administration disregarded order on Venezuelan deportations
A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday found "probable cause" to hold President Donald Trump's administration in contempt of court for violating his order last month halting deportations of Venezuelan migrants under a wartime law.
www.reuters.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reposted
legal.reuters.com
California sues Trump administration to block tariffs reut.rs/42fMtL5
April 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Reposted
ddiamond.bsky.social
White House announces press pool for tomorrow, after booting newswires

Out: Reuters, Bloomberg

Still out: AP

In: The Daily Signal (as secondary print), the Christian Broadcasting Network (as new media), EWTN (as secondary TV)
DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 2025 In-Town Pool TV Corr & Crew: NBC Photos: AFP, NYT, Reuters, Getty Print: Washington Times Radio: iHeartMedia Secondary TV Corr & Crew: EWTN Secondary Print: The Daily Signal New Media: Christian Broadcasting Network
April 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Reposted
carlquintanilla.bsky.social
(Reuters) - One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leading advisers, Dan Caldwell, was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters.

www.reuters.com/world/us/top...
Exclusive: Top Hegseth advisor Dan Caldwell put on leave in Pentagon leak probe
One of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's top advisors, Dan Caldwell, was escorted out of the Pentagon on Tuesday after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense, a U.S. official told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
marisataylor.bsky.social
Exclusive: Greenland ‘Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north via Rachael Levy and
@alexandraulmer.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Exclusive: Greenland ‘Freedom City’? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up north
As the Trump administration intensifies efforts to acquire Greenland from Denmark — or take it by force — some Silicon Valley tech investors are promoting the frozen island as a site for a so-called freedom city, a libertarian utopia with minimal corporate regulation, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reposted
chowleen.bsky.social
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

-FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
April 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Reposted
reuters.com
Exclusive: Trump administration officials have told some US government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda reut.rs/4i5ORZq
Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
reut.rs
April 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reposted
reuters.com
Much of Elon Musk's DOGE remains shrouded in secrecy, but two sources said it's using AI to surveil workers, marking an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings reut.rs/443eKWL
April 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Reposted
reuters.com
Elon Musk's DOGE team is using the Signal app to communicate, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, potentially violating federal record-keeping rules because messages can be set to disappear after a period of time reut.rs/443eKWL
April 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM