Jesse Eisinger
@jeisinger.bsky.social
ProPublica Editor & Reporter. “Chickenshit Club" author. http://bit.ly/2mI34A0 @sarahellison's husband. “Succession” S3 consultant. Green Bay Packers. Also @Eisingerj
Larry Summers was emailing with Jeffrey Epstein up until a day before he was arrested (again).
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Larry Summers was emailing with Jeffrey Epstein up until a day before he was arrested (again).
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
A dubious endorsement but I guess in book promotion, anything goes...
November 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A dubious endorsement but I guess in book promotion, anything goes...
I know this is old man yells at cloud but there is something in the constitution about this
November 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I know this is old man yells at cloud but there is something in the constitution about this
“No longer?”
I have news for MAGA…
I have news for MAGA…
November 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“No longer?”
I have news for MAGA…
I have news for MAGA…
NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration.
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem.
@justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social:
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
NEW: About 100 male veterans a year get diagnosed w/ breast cancer.
It’s usually due to a toxic exposure.
Now the Trump Admin is making it harder for them to get their treatment covered.
The reason?
Basically: Real men don’t get it.
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
It’s usually due to a toxic exposure.
Now the Trump Admin is making it harder for them to get their treatment covered.
The reason?
Basically: Real men don’t get it.
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
NEW: About 100 male veterans a year get diagnosed w/ breast cancer.
It’s usually due to a toxic exposure.
Now the Trump Admin is making it harder for them to get their treatment covered.
The reason?
Basically: Real men don’t get it.
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
It’s usually due to a toxic exposure.
Now the Trump Admin is making it harder for them to get their treatment covered.
The reason?
Basically: Real men don’t get it.
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
A great passage from a great novel.
The Oppermanns, 1933.
The Oppermanns, 1933.
October 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
A great passage from a great novel.
The Oppermanns, 1933.
The Oppermanns, 1933.
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Don’t feel very Lasting Peace and Stability Has Arrived in the Middle East
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
October 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Don’t feel very Lasting Peace and Stability Has Arrived in the Middle East
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
TIL there's an investment firm called Carl Marks & Co.
Named for a real guy with that name.
Named for a real guy with that name.
October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
TIL there's an investment firm called Carl Marks & Co.
Named for a real guy with that name.
Named for a real guy with that name.
Once they wanted to dismantle the Dept of Education.
Now these activists want to use it for their own goals.
One of those? Eliminating public schooling.
@megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Now these activists want to use it for their own goals.
One of those? Eliminating public schooling.
@megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
October 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Once they wanted to dismantle the Dept of Education.
Now these activists want to use it for their own goals.
One of those? Eliminating public schooling.
@megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Now these activists want to use it for their own goals.
One of those? Eliminating public schooling.
@megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social
www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Just got an email from something called the “Columbia Free Speech Alliance” asking me what I thought about the climate of debate on my alma mater’s campus.
The email then complains about… an act of speech!
The email then complains about… an act of speech!
September 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Just got an email from something called the “Columbia Free Speech Alliance” asking me what I thought about the climate of debate on my alma mater’s campus.
The email then complains about… an act of speech!
The email then complains about… an act of speech!
Obama doing [something] with Solendra justifies anything Trump wants to do to businesses forever.
September 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Obama doing [something] with Solendra justifies anything Trump wants to do to businesses forever.
Let's compare the weight of this evidence to that of the NYAG's civil suit against the Trump Org, shall we?
abcnews.go.com/US/trump-off...
abcnews.go.com/US/trump-off...
September 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Let's compare the weight of this evidence to that of the NYAG's civil suit against the Trump Org, shall we?
abcnews.go.com/US/trump-off...
abcnews.go.com/US/trump-off...
I'd love for someone to explain to me, a layman 1. if QBR is a good measure of performance and 2. Why Love's WAS game's score is so low.
He missed a bunch of throws but that seemed far from a middling game.
@minakimes.bsky.social? @jumosq.bsky.social? @aaronnagler.bsky.social?
He missed a bunch of throws but that seemed far from a middling game.
@minakimes.bsky.social? @jumosq.bsky.social? @aaronnagler.bsky.social?
September 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I'd love for someone to explain to me, a layman 1. if QBR is a good measure of performance and 2. Why Love's WAS game's score is so low.
He missed a bunch of throws but that seemed far from a middling game.
@minakimes.bsky.social? @jumosq.bsky.social? @aaronnagler.bsky.social?
He missed a bunch of throws but that seemed far from a middling game.
@minakimes.bsky.social? @jumosq.bsky.social? @aaronnagler.bsky.social?
Getting close to needing more firings at the BLS.
September 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Getting close to needing more firings at the BLS.
The Trump Admin’s smashing of the IRS may well be the biggest giveaway to corporations & the rich.
(I know, a lot of competition)
@jessedrucker.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
(I know, a lot of competition)
@jessedrucker.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
September 9, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The Trump Admin’s smashing of the IRS may well be the biggest giveaway to corporations & the rich.
(I know, a lot of competition)
@jessedrucker.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
(I know, a lot of competition)
@jessedrucker.bsky.social:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Oops.
The Labor Secretary was going to be asked about my guys' story on Bloomberg (see it here: propublica.org/article/trum...)
...but she seems to have had to wash her hair or something.
The Labor Secretary was going to be asked about my guys' story on Bloomberg (see it here: propublica.org/article/trum...)
...but she seems to have had to wash her hair or something.
September 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Oops.
The Labor Secretary was going to be asked about my guys' story on Bloomberg (see it here: propublica.org/article/trum...)
...but she seems to have had to wash her hair or something.
The Labor Secretary was going to be asked about my guys' story on Bloomberg (see it here: propublica.org/article/trum...)
...but she seems to have had to wash her hair or something.
Oh I probably should say that Paul Kiel & I are writing a book on how we got here.
It's a popular history of wealth & taxes in America, from the Constitution, to the 16th Amendment, thru Mellon, FDR, the rise of tech & finance, Trump, etc.
I hope you'll buy it... whenever the hell we finish it.
It's a popular history of wealth & taxes in America, from the Constitution, to the 16th Amendment, thru Mellon, FDR, the rise of tech & finance, Trump, etc.
I hope you'll buy it... whenever the hell we finish it.
August 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Oh I probably should say that Paul Kiel & I are writing a book on how we got here.
It's a popular history of wealth & taxes in America, from the Constitution, to the 16th Amendment, thru Mellon, FDR, the rise of tech & finance, Trump, etc.
I hope you'll buy it... whenever the hell we finish it.
It's a popular history of wealth & taxes in America, from the Constitution, to the 16th Amendment, thru Mellon, FDR, the rise of tech & finance, Trump, etc.
I hope you'll buy it... whenever the hell we finish it.
6/ Interestingly, when they measure true income, including unrealized gains, they say that billionaires pay about the same as avg Americans.
(This is a standard way economists think about income, called Haig-Simons method.)
(This is a standard way economists think about income, called Haig-Simons method.)
August 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
6/ Interestingly, when they measure true income, including unrealized gains, they say that billionaires pay about the same as avg Americans.
(This is a standard way economists think about income, called Haig-Simons method.)
(This is a standard way economists think about income, called Haig-Simons method.)
5/ Money-losing, you say? I mean: "losing."
They produce accounting losses, which are then used to lower taxable income--which means lower taxes.
What the authors find is fascinating: These businesses actually make real income.
They lose $$ according to our tax laws but they make $$ for the rich.
They produce accounting losses, which are then used to lower taxable income--which means lower taxes.
What the authors find is fascinating: These businesses actually make real income.
They lose $$ according to our tax laws but they make $$ for the rich.
August 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
5/ Money-losing, you say? I mean: "losing."
They produce accounting losses, which are then used to lower taxable income--which means lower taxes.
What the authors find is fascinating: These businesses actually make real income.
They lose $$ according to our tax laws but they make $$ for the rich.
They produce accounting losses, which are then used to lower taxable income--which means lower taxes.
What the authors find is fascinating: These businesses actually make real income.
They lose $$ according to our tax laws but they make $$ for the rich.
One big question here is how Bill Pulte has gotten access to individual mortgage records — and if that itself is a legal violation
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
August 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One big question here is how Bill Pulte has gotten access to individual mortgage records — and if that itself is a legal violation
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
Via Adam Levitin:
www.creditslips.org/creditslips/...
TIL I learned that U of Alabama’s traditionally white sororities integrated five years after we had a Black president.
apnews.com/article/univ...
apnews.com/article/univ...
August 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
TIL I learned that U of Alabama’s traditionally white sororities integrated five years after we had a Black president.
apnews.com/article/univ...
apnews.com/article/univ...
We're weirdly inured to routine stuff like turnover in the Trump Admin but here's a chart of IRS commissioners per year going back to 1862.
via @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
via @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
August 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We're weirdly inured to routine stuff like turnover in the Trump Admin but here's a chart of IRS commissioners per year going back to 1862.
via @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
via @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
NEW: Big law is abandoning potential clients who might anger Trump.
@mtredden.bsky.social has your story:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
@mtredden.bsky.social has your story:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
August 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
NEW: Big law is abandoning potential clients who might anger Trump.
@mtredden.bsky.social has your story:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
@mtredden.bsky.social has your story:
www.propublica.org/article/trum...