Artis Curiskis
@artiscuriskis.bsky.social
Assistant Producer at Center for Investigative Reporting
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Email: acuriskis (at) motherjones (dot) com
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KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--
KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.
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A few years ago, we asked @eamonwhalen.bsky.social to look into an odd story: A mall in Minneapolis hired a group led by a former military contractor in Iraq to crack down on a memorial garden.
Today, we’re publishing the wild story that Eamon dug up.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Today, we’re publishing the wild story that Eamon dug up.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How a mercenary became a Minneapolis mall cop
After the George Floyd protests, a former military contractor named Nathan Seabrook brought the war home.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
A few years ago, we asked @eamonwhalen.bsky.social to look into an odd story: A mall in Minneapolis hired a group led by a former military contractor in Iraq to crack down on a memorial garden.
Today, we’re publishing the wild story that Eamon dug up.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Today, we’re publishing the wild story that Eamon dug up.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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At @insideclimatenews.org, we're keeping track of environmental lawsuits involving the Trump administration thanks to great work by my colleagues @peteraldhous.com and @mlavelle.bsky.social. Keep this one handy: insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
At @insideclimatenews.org, we're keeping track of environmental lawsuits involving the Trump administration thanks to great work by my colleagues @peteraldhous.com and @mlavelle.bsky.social. Keep this one handy: insideclimatenews.org/news/0411202...
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Zohran Mamdani drags the Democratic party into the future
This was a local race with national implications, whether the party's leaders liked it or not.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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“This is essentially despotism as a service.”
Over two decades, a little-known company called First Wap created a surveillance empire. Its phone tracking tech has targeted politicians, journalists, actors, and maybe even you.
A groundbreaking investigation from @lighthousereports.com:
Over two decades, a little-known company called First Wap created a surveillance empire. Its phone tracking tech has targeted politicians, journalists, actors, and maybe even you.
A groundbreaking investigation from @lighthousereports.com:
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
www.motherjones.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“This is essentially despotism as a service.”
Over two decades, a little-known company called First Wap created a surveillance empire. Its phone tracking tech has targeted politicians, journalists, actors, and maybe even you.
A groundbreaking investigation from @lighthousereports.com:
Over two decades, a little-known company called First Wap created a surveillance empire. Its phone tracking tech has targeted politicians, journalists, actors, and maybe even you.
A groundbreaking investigation from @lighthousereports.com:
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Silicon Valley once laughed off OpenAI. Now it’s the world’s most valuable private company.
Tech journalist @karenhao.bsky.social has been writing about OpenAI’s remarkable rise and joins us to examine the AI boom on this week’s “More To The Story.”
🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/4v5by3wm
Tech journalist @karenhao.bsky.social has been writing about OpenAI’s remarkable rise and joins us to examine the AI boom on this week’s “More To The Story.”
🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/4v5by3wm
October 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Silicon Valley once laughed off OpenAI. Now it’s the world’s most valuable private company.
Tech journalist @karenhao.bsky.social has been writing about OpenAI’s remarkable rise and joins us to examine the AI boom on this week’s “More To The Story.”
🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/4v5by3wm
Tech journalist @karenhao.bsky.social has been writing about OpenAI’s remarkable rise and joins us to examine the AI boom on this week’s “More To The Story.”
🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/4v5by3wm
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🎉 We have Circuit 06 Finalists 🎉 Selected from a stunning pool of 72 submissions these 12 fluxworks offer a brilliant sonic spread of creative tension, repetitive sound & color embodiment, just as the prompts called for. Deets here www.audioflux.org/circuit-06 & listen to them all at XMTR.fm (!)
October 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🎉 We have Circuit 06 Finalists 🎉 Selected from a stunning pool of 72 submissions these 12 fluxworks offer a brilliant sonic spread of creative tension, repetitive sound & color embodiment, just as the prompts called for. Deets here www.audioflux.org/circuit-06 & listen to them all at XMTR.fm (!)
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“We were treated like digital peasants.”
What happened after FTX’s collapse? Read @revealnews.org's investigation into the untold tale of a bankruptcy that has ballooned into one of the biggest in US history, and the lawyers and opportunists who have profited from the carnage.
What happened after FTX’s collapse? Read @revealnews.org's investigation into the untold tale of a bankruptcy that has ballooned into one of the biggest in US history, and the lawyers and opportunists who have profited from the carnage.
Sam Bankman-Fried and the multibillion-dollar drama over FTX’s ruins
In exclusive prison interviews, the convicted crypto king is still fighting to control the narrative ahead of a high-stakes appeal.
www.motherjones.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“We were treated like digital peasants.”
What happened after FTX’s collapse? Read @revealnews.org's investigation into the untold tale of a bankruptcy that has ballooned into one of the biggest in US history, and the lawyers and opportunists who have profited from the carnage.
What happened after FTX’s collapse? Read @revealnews.org's investigation into the untold tale of a bankruptcy that has ballooned into one of the biggest in US history, and the lawyers and opportunists who have profited from the carnage.
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Please consider supporting our non-profit newsroom as we double down on fearless reporting—just as corporate media caves to Donald Trump.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It's the last day of our September fundraiser!
Please consider supporting our non-profit newsroom as we double down on fearless reporting—just as corporate media caves to Donald Trump.
Your donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Thank you so much!
Please consider supporting our non-profit newsroom as we double down on fearless reporting—just as corporate media caves to Donald Trump.
Your donations will be matched dollar-for-dollar. Thank you so much!
FTX’s collapse wasn’t just about Sam Bankman-Fried. It’s about billions in customer money, a high-powered law firm steering the case, and who really profits when companies implode.
With exclusive interviews, we retrace the collapse of FTX in part 1 🔊 @revealnews.org
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With exclusive interviews, we retrace the collapse of FTX in part 1 🔊 @revealnews.org
ow.ly/ttwq50X34Mv
Sam Bankman-Fried recounts FTX’s collapse and why he feels he was wrongly convicted of fraud
Through exclusive prison interviews with Sam Bankman-Fried and others, we put fresh eyes on the dramatic collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
ow.ly
September 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
FTX’s collapse wasn’t just about Sam Bankman-Fried. It’s about billions in customer money, a high-powered law firm steering the case, and who really profits when companies implode.
With exclusive interviews, we retrace the collapse of FTX in part 1 🔊 @revealnews.org
ow.ly/ttwq50X34Mv
With exclusive interviews, we retrace the collapse of FTX in part 1 🔊 @revealnews.org
ow.ly/ttwq50X34Mv
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FTX’s collapse wasn’t just about Sam Bankman-Fried. It’s about billions in customer money, a high-powered law firm steering the case, and who really profits when companies implode.
🎧 Listen to part 1 of our new series with @motherjones.com:
🎧 Listen to part 1 of our new series with @motherjones.com:
Sam Bankman-Fried recounts FTX’s collapse and why he feels he was wrongly convicted of fraud
Through exclusive prison interviews with Sam Bankman-Fried and others, we put fresh eyes on the dramatic collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
revealnews.org
September 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
FTX’s collapse wasn’t just about Sam Bankman-Fried. It’s about billions in customer money, a high-powered law firm steering the case, and who really profits when companies implode.
🎧 Listen to part 1 of our new series with @motherjones.com:
🎧 Listen to part 1 of our new series with @motherjones.com:
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Bringing wind power to Staten Island used to be a bipartisan project. Now, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to squander those efforts.
The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.
The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.
Has Trump ended Staten Island’s wind power dreams?
The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.
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September 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Bringing wind power to Staten Island used to be a bipartisan project. Now, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to squander those efforts.
The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.
The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.
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Bringing wind power to Staten Island used to be a bipartisan project. Now, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to squander those efforts.
The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.
The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.
Has Trump ended Staten Island’s wind power dreams?
The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.
www.motherjones.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Bringing wind power to Staten Island used to be a bipartisan project. Now, the Trump administration is doing everything in its power to squander those efforts.
The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.
The GOP-leaning borough is just one community hoping courts roll back the administration’s assault on green energy.
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CDC Exodus Includes Lead Official Tracking Food Safety and Animal Agriculture Disease
CDC Exodus Includes Lead Official Tracking Food Safety and Animal Agriculture Disease
Health expert warns that personnel losses at the Centers for Disease Control and low morale are ‘strangling public health.’
buff.ly
August 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
CDC Exodus Includes Lead Official Tracking Food Safety and Animal Agriculture Disease
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I've been waiting for MAHA's anti-industry stances to run smack into the administration's pro-industry positions. Pesticides are proving to be the first major battleground and the MAHA Moms are losing. My latest with @rachelcohrs.bsky.social (gift link)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The GOP Is Choosing Pesticides Over the MAHA Moms
RFK Jr.’s MAHA coalition is already made up of unlikely GOP allies, from anti-Big Food activists to regenerative farmers. The issue of pesticides threatens to come between the movement and its Republi...
www.bloomberg.com
August 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I've been waiting for MAHA's anti-industry stances to run smack into the administration's pro-industry positions. Pesticides are proving to be the first major battleground and the MAHA Moms are losing. My latest with @rachelcohrs.bsky.social (gift link)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This story is wild!
🧵1/ A celebrated startup promised Eastern Kentucky green jobs. Workers say it delivered "a grueling hell on earth." Tomatoes, tech dreams, and a trail of trauma — the rise and fall of AppHarvest is a story you won't forget.
grist.org/agriculture/...
#Food ##Kentucky #Farms
🧵1/ A celebrated startup promised Eastern Kentucky green jobs. Workers say it delivered "a grueling hell on earth." Tomatoes, tech dreams, and a trail of trauma — the rise and fall of AppHarvest is a story you won't forget.
grist.org/agriculture/...
#Food ##Kentucky #Farms
A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a 'grueling hell on earth.'
The inside story of how the celebrated startup AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.
grist.org
July 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This story is wild!
🧵1/ A celebrated startup promised Eastern Kentucky green jobs. Workers say it delivered "a grueling hell on earth." Tomatoes, tech dreams, and a trail of trauma — the rise and fall of AppHarvest is a story you won't forget.
grist.org/agriculture/...
#Food ##Kentucky #Farms
🧵1/ A celebrated startup promised Eastern Kentucky green jobs. Workers say it delivered "a grueling hell on earth." Tomatoes, tech dreams, and a trail of trauma — the rise and fall of AppHarvest is a story you won't forget.
grist.org/agriculture/...
#Food ##Kentucky #Farms
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you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT
“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.
slate.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
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It was a pleasure speaking with @motherjones.com about the primary, how we need collaborative—not divisive—politics, and what comes next.
(And that Liberty game offer is still open, Tim Robinson!)
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
(And that Liberty game offer is still open, Tim Robinson!)
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It's Brad Lander's victory, too
The former NYC mayoral candidate weighs in on Mamdani’s win, his own campaign, and what’s next.
www.motherjones.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It was a pleasure speaking with @motherjones.com about the primary, how we need collaborative—not divisive—politics, and what comes next.
(And that Liberty game offer is still open, Tim Robinson!)
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
(And that Liberty game offer is still open, Tim Robinson!)
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained.
They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N
They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N
June 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Fuerza responds to scenes where alleged ICE enforcement is reported. If officers are indeed with ICE, they hit record and spread the word. They also speak directly with those being detained.
They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N
They are part of a growing scrappy network of volunteers protecting neighbors from ICE. bit.ly/4lgke5N
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Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.
Federal agents handcuff and detain New York City mayoral candidate
Brad Lander was taken into custody at an immigration court in Lower Manhattan.
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June 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Zohran Mamdani, who recently cross-endorsed with Lander, called for the comptroller’s immediate release. “This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice,” said Mamdani.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold hearings on the first proposed federal rule to prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths at work by requiring water and rest breaks when temperatures surpass certain levels, put forward by the Biden administration.
Will Trump End OSHA’s Federal Heat Protections for Workers?
As workplace deaths from heat increase, OSHA will debate the future of the first federal rules to protect workers from extreme heat.
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June 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold hearings on the first proposed federal rule to prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths at work by requiring water and rest breaks when temperatures surpass certain levels, put forward by the Biden administration.
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“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”
Defying a ban, Long Islanders masked up for "No Kings"
“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can."
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June 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”
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“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”
In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.
In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.
June 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform, then I can.”
In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.
In August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public from wearing masks. Protesters showed up today masked anyway. We asked them why.
No Kings crowd marching to the Nassau County legislative building on Long Island.
Speaking with protestors about the existing county wide mask ban for a @motherjones.com story with @juliametraux.bsky.social
Speaking with protestors about the existing county wide mask ban for a @motherjones.com story with @juliametraux.bsky.social
June 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
No Kings crowd marching to the Nassau County legislative building on Long Island.
Speaking with protestors about the existing county wide mask ban for a @motherjones.com story with @juliametraux.bsky.social
Speaking with protestors about the existing county wide mask ban for a @motherjones.com story with @juliametraux.bsky.social
No Kings crowd gathering in front of Nassau County Court House in Mineola, NY.
June 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
No Kings crowd gathering in front of Nassau County Court House in Mineola, NY.