Jesse Drucker
@jessedrucker.bsky.social
Reporter for @nytimes.
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Writing a book on the US tax system.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/jesse-drucker
jesse(dot)drucker(at)nytimes(dot)com. DM for Signal or Whatsapp.
Writing a book on the US tax system.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/jesse-drucker
Jimmy Cliff, RIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHAb...
Jimmy Cliff Recording The Harder They Come In Studio Session
YouTube video by Perry Henzell
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November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Jimmy Cliff, RIP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHAb...
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Behind the gleaming megaproject of Saudi Arabia’s capital subway, migrant workers from South Asia allegedly faced exploitation, abusive working conditions, and meagre wages while constructing the decade-long project.
www.occrp.org/en/news/amne...
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Amnesty Report Details Abuse Behind Saudi Arabia’s Metro Project
Behind the gleaming megaproject of Saudi Arabia’s capital subway, migrant workers from South Asia allegedly faced exploitation, abusive working conditions, and meagre wages while constructing the decade-long...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Behind the gleaming megaproject of Saudi Arabia’s capital subway, migrant workers from South Asia allegedly faced exploitation, abusive working conditions, and meagre wages while constructing the decade-long project.
www.occrp.org/en/news/amne...
www.occrp.org/en/news/amne...
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The auto industry will tell you the car battery is a perfect example of recycling in action. Here's the part they prefer you not see: the lead poisoning of entire villages around the world to produce lead used to make batteries in the US and other rich countries
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The Auto Industry’s Lead Recycling Program is Poisoning People (Gift Article)
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The auto industry will tell you the car battery is a perfect example of recycling in action. Here's the part they prefer you not see: the lead poisoning of entire villages around the world to produce lead used to make batteries in the US and other rich countries
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Join me next Wednesday 11/19 when I speak at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York on my book on China, #AtTheEdgeOfEmpire. It won the Baifang Schell Book Prize from the Asia Society and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize. Ticket info: www.eventbrite.com/e/moca-talks...
November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Join me next Wednesday 11/19 when I speak at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York on my book on China, #AtTheEdgeOfEmpire. It won the Baifang Schell Book Prize from the Asia Society and was a finalist for the Orwell Prize. Ticket info: www.eventbrite.com/e/moca-talks...
My latest: How the Trump Administration is giving even more tax breaks to wealthy and giant corporations: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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November 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My latest: How the Trump Administration is giving even more tax breaks to wealthy and giant corporations: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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In tomorrow's World I’ll be writing about slop. If you don’t know what that is, you’re not the only one! But soon everyone will know. Here's my convo with @kevinroose.com, tech columnist, podcast co-host and...robot lover: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...
A.I. Slop Is Here
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October 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
In tomorrow's World I’ll be writing about slop. If you don’t know what that is, you’re not the only one! But soon everyone will know. Here's my convo with @kevinroose.com, tech columnist, podcast co-host and...robot lover: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...
IRS official Holly Paz was in charge of a crackdown on aggressive tax shelters. Here's what happened next: nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...
I.R.S. Official Sues the Agency, Saying It Leaked Private Data to News Sites
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September 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
IRS official Holly Paz was in charge of a crackdown on aggressive tax shelters. Here's what happened next: nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...
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Ahh yes, those growth promoting investments: microcaptive insurance and basis shifting through complex partnerships
My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters
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September 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Ahh yes, those growth promoting investments: microcaptive insurance and basis shifting through complex partnerships
My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters
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September 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
My latest story - Trump administration rolls back tax shelter crackdown: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
My profile of Ken Kies, the lobbyist behind the biggest, most lucrative tax dodges of the past 30 years -- and is now the top tax policy official in Trump's Treasury Dept: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
He Helped Big Companies Dodge Taxes. Now He’s Writing the Rules.
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July 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
My profile of Ken Kies, the lobbyist behind the biggest, most lucrative tax dodges of the past 30 years -- and is now the top tax policy official in Trump's Treasury Dept: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/b...
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New: How UnitedHealth is trying to quiet its critics through legal threats against journalists, investors, doctors, filmmakers and others. The giant company is invoking the murder of its CEO to argue that intense criticism risks inciting future violence. 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...
UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics
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July 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
New: How UnitedHealth is trying to quiet its critics through legal threats against journalists, investors, doctors, filmmakers and others. The giant company is invoking the murder of its CEO to argue that intense criticism risks inciting future violence. 🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...
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🚨New postdoc job alert 🚨
We are recruiting a two year postdoc here at @taxobservatory.bsky.social in Paris - to start this September
The successful candidate will join our program on Illicit Financial Flows and Real Estate
More info below 👇
www.taxobservatory.eu/postdoctoral...
We are recruiting a two year postdoc here at @taxobservatory.bsky.social in Paris - to start this September
The successful candidate will join our program on Illicit Financial Flows and Real Estate
More info below 👇
www.taxobservatory.eu/postdoctoral...
Postdoctoral fellow (Illicit Financial Flows) - Eutax
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March 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🚨New postdoc job alert 🚨
We are recruiting a two year postdoc here at @taxobservatory.bsky.social in Paris - to start this September
The successful candidate will join our program on Illicit Financial Flows and Real Estate
More info below 👇
www.taxobservatory.eu/postdoctoral...
We are recruiting a two year postdoc here at @taxobservatory.bsky.social in Paris - to start this September
The successful candidate will join our program on Illicit Financial Flows and Real Estate
More info below 👇
www.taxobservatory.eu/postdoctoral...
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Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist
Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed, warned that a recent measles outbreak shows how confidence in science and public health is being “undermined.”
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March 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator.
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”
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This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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March 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth’s wife reportedly attended meetings with foreign defense officials
Defense secretary, already under fire for chat group blunder, faces new scrutiny for having wife in high-level meetings
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March 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Why is Pete Hegseth bringing his wife to top security meetings and hiring his brother at the Pentagon? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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👊🇺🇸🔥 response by WilmerHale to Trump’s “unlawful” order against it
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March 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
👊🇺🇸🔥 response by WilmerHale to Trump’s “unlawful” order against it
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thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Der Spiegel found mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth on the internet. Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use. 😳
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
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March 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Der Spiegel found mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth on the internet. Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use. 😳
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Hours after Trump’s executive order against Paul Weiss, the firm’s rivals were circling. Our latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...
At Paul Weiss, Panic, Poachers and a Fight for the Bottom Line (Gift Article)
Fears that competitors could take its top rainmaking talent added to the law firm’s worries about a Trump executive order that targeted it.
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March 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Hours after Trump’s executive order against Paul Weiss, the firm’s rivals were circling. Our latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/b...
Congrats to the hardest working man in book-writing:
MURDER THE TRUTH is finally out in the world!
The book reveals how a group of conservative lawyers, activists, judges and politicians have waged a years-long and increasingly successful campaign against press freedoms and the First Amendment.
A brief thread. www.harpercollins.com/products/mur...
The book reveals how a group of conservative lawyers, activists, judges and politicians have waged a years-long and increasingly successful campaign against press freedoms and the First Amendment.
A brief thread. www.harpercollins.com/products/mur...
Murder the Truth
"Authoritarian governments abroad have long used legal threats and lawsuits against journalists to cover up their disinformation, corruption, and viole...
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March 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Congrats to the hardest working man in book-writing:
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In which Sarah Palin goes hunting for a defamation case that she can use to shoehorn herself back into the national conversation. MURDER THE TRUTH excerpt in @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
Sarah Palin Is Eyeing More Than Just Money in Her ‘New York Times’ Defamation Suit
In his new book, ‘Murder the Truth,’ David Enrich chronicles how the former Alaska governor ensnared the paper in a long and winding legal battle that could overturn decades of Supreme Court precedent...
www.vanityfair.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
In which Sarah Palin goes hunting for a defamation case that she can use to shoehorn herself back into the national conversation. MURDER THE TRUTH excerpt in @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...
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My oped today. Trump's tariffs are about wrapping a harmful fiscal switch in a veneer of nationalism. Don't fall for it.
What This Tariff War Is Really About www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
What This Tariff War Is Really About www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
Opinion | Trump’s Tariff War Is Being Fought to Lower Taxes for the Wealthy
President Trump is remaking the tax code to favor the well-off even more, and cloaking these changes in a veneer of nationalism.
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February 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
My oped today. Trump's tariffs are about wrapping a harmful fiscal switch in a veneer of nationalism. Don't fall for it.
What This Tariff War Is Really About www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
What This Tariff War Is Really About www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/t...
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Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry (Gift Article)
The Finance Committee’s top Democrat sent a letter last month to Dan Morehead, the founder of Pantera Capital, about the investigation.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/t...
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‘Surrounded by his students as he sat at the piano, Messiaen would speak as much about “the dances of planets and atoms”, and the poetry of Breton and Éluard, as he did about music.’
Adam Shatz on Messiaen’s mystical, deeply Catholic compositions:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz on Messiaen’s mystical, deeply Catholic compositions:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Wash out your ears: Messiaen’s Ecstasies
While few would question Messiaen’s importance in 20th-century music, his religious modernism has always been met with...
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February 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
‘Surrounded by his students as he sat at the piano, Messiaen would speak as much about “the dances of planets and atoms”, and the poetry of Breton and Éluard, as he did about music.’
Adam Shatz on Messiaen’s mystical, deeply Catholic compositions:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz on Messiaen’s mystical, deeply Catholic compositions:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Billionaires represent about 0.00024% of the U.S. population and about 10% of Trump's political appointments
February 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Billionaires represent about 0.00024% of the U.S. population and about 10% of Trump's political appointments