@stefanieostfeld.bsky.social
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"Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency — and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors."
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
"Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency — and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors."
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-inf...
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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
www.nytimes.com
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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The Importance/Coverage ratio of this ongoing story has to be one of the highest all-time.
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey
WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...
www.justice.gov
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The Importance/Coverage ratio of this ongoing story has to be one of the highest all-time.
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My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:
The resistance reaches into Trump country
As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on Oct. 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground.
wagingnonviolence.org
October 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Hammam, & Chris Shay) has a new piece, whose title speaks for itself. A 🧵 with some key descriptive takeaways:
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This rollover for the criminals and kleptocrats who hide in U.S. shell corporations is a real national security problem.
POLITICO Pro: Treasury will delete beneficial ownership data after rule rollback, FinCEN chief says
subscriber.politicopro.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This rollover for the criminals and kleptocrats who hide in U.S. shell corporations is a real national security problem.
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Best Practices for Bystanders and ICE Watch! #WeKeepUsSafe
August 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Best Practices for Bystanders and ICE Watch! #WeKeepUsSafe
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Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
August 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)
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The final version of my "Corruption and the Supreme Court" has been published in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, and is available for download here: ssrn.com/abstract=497...
Corruption and the Supreme Court
Corruption is everywhere at the Supreme Court. The justices routinely rule on what is—and, more frequently, what is not—corrupt. Simultaneously, their off-the-b
ssrn.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The final version of my "Corruption and the Supreme Court" has been published in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, and is available for download here: ssrn.com/abstract=497...
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I will turn 50 this September. I was born in 1975, and I represent the only generation of American women born with full rights that have been lost in the same lifetime.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Gen X: The Only Generation of American Women to Live With Rights
My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon...
open.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I will turn 50 this September. I was born in 1975, and I represent the only generation of American women born with full rights that have been lost in the same lifetime.
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
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NEW: Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation.
But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
“You Feel Like You’re Being Cheated”: Oil Companies Unfairly Take Millions, North Dakota Mineral Owners Say
Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation. But the industry has an outsize influence in the…
www.propublica.org
August 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Oil companies are holding back a large portion of revenue payments to the people they lease drilling rights from, often with little explanation.
But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
But the industry has an outsize influence in the state, and public officials have refused to take action.
With @northdakotamonitor.com
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"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"
cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
August 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations"
cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
cpb.org/pressroom/Co...
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Shell and other fossil-fuel companies have abandoned the Science Based Targets initiative—a six-year-long attempt to define a global, corporate “net zero” emissions strategy—after being told that such a standard would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields. 😶
July 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Shell and other fossil-fuel companies have abandoned the Science Based Targets initiative—a six-year-long attempt to define a global, corporate “net zero” emissions strategy—after being told that such a standard would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields. 😶
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Exclusive: The State Department is placing strict limits on its public assessments of foreign elections, according to an internal State Department directive, a sharp shift.
U.S. to Curtail Practice of Declaring Foreign Elections Free and Fair
The order says the U.S. will only comment if “there is a clear and compelling U.S. foreign policy interest to do so.”
on.wsj.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Exclusive: The State Department is placing strict limits on its public assessments of foreign elections, according to an internal State Department directive, a sharp shift.
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America has never seen corruption like this. Not the scope, nor the scale, nor the speed.
My latest for @theatlantic.com, on this high-water mark of American kleptocracy:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
My latest for @theatlantic.com, on this high-water mark of American kleptocracy:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
America Has Never Seen Corruption Like This
Trump’s Qatari jet was just the beginning.
www.theatlantic.com
July 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
America has never seen corruption like this. Not the scope, nor the scale, nor the speed.
My latest for @theatlantic.com, on this high-water mark of American kleptocracy:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
My latest for @theatlantic.com, on this high-water mark of American kleptocracy:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Local Journalist Index is live: A first-of-its-kind report from @muckrack.com and Rebuild Local News reveals a more widespread, severe shortage of local journalists across the U.S. than previously understood.
Read the report: localjournalistindex.com
Read the report: localjournalistindex.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The Local Journalist Index is live: A first-of-its-kind report from @muckrack.com and Rebuild Local News reveals a more widespread, severe shortage of local journalists across the U.S. than previously understood.
Read the report: localjournalistindex.com
Read the report: localjournalistindex.com
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Thanks for all the engagement on this. If you want to go beyond the data and into the stakes for democracy, I just wrote an article on the topic:
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
How to Dismantle a Democracy, Legally
The unitary executive theory is a masterclass in autocratic legalism.
open.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Thanks for all the engagement on this. If you want to go beyond the data and into the stakes for democracy, I just wrote an article on the topic:
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
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What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵
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1. Trump's megabill will slash nutrition assistance for poor families, cause 17 million people to lose their health insurance, and add over $3 trillion to the deficit -- all to finance tax cuts for the rich.
IN THIS THREAD, I WILL LIST THE COMPANIES THAT PUBLICLY SUPPORTED THIS BILL.
IN THIS THREAD, I WILL LIST THE COMPANIES THAT PUBLICLY SUPPORTED THIS BILL.
July 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
1. Trump's megabill will slash nutrition assistance for poor families, cause 17 million people to lose their health insurance, and add over $3 trillion to the deficit -- all to finance tax cuts for the rich.
IN THIS THREAD, I WILL LIST THE COMPANIES THAT PUBLICLY SUPPORTED THIS BILL.
IN THIS THREAD, I WILL LIST THE COMPANIES THAT PUBLICLY SUPPORTED THIS BILL.
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The Big Beautiful Bill is known for taking from millions to give to the rich, but don't overlook one of its acts of charity: Giving $18 billion more to Big Oil, which already gets $7 trillion a year in subsidies
🎁 link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
🎁 link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The GOP Wants to Give Big Oil a Handout It Doesn’t Need
Lawmakers are proposing giveaways to fossil-fuel producers that would cost the US $17.9 billion over a decade.
www.bloomberg.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The Big Beautiful Bill is known for taking from millions to give to the rich, but don't overlook one of its acts of charity: Giving $18 billion more to Big Oil, which already gets $7 trillion a year in subsidies
🎁 link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
🎁 link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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This would be the death blow to the Bureau of Democracy, Rights and Labor at State www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US state department told to terminate nearly all its overseas pro-democracy programs
Exclusive: All but two of the programs awarded under the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor would be cut, affecting nearly $1.3bn in grants
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This would be the death blow to the Bureau of Democracy, Rights and Labor at State www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Created after the Watergate scandal, the US Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section has fought political corruption for nearly half a century. Five months into President Donald Trump's second term, it has been stripped of power reut.rs/43HTPGA
June 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Created after the Watergate scandal, the US Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section has fought political corruption for nearly half a century. Five months into President Donald Trump's second term, it has been stripped of power reut.rs/43HTPGA
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A company looking to develop an oil field in the North Sea has funded a computer game aimed at UK school children as young as 7, promoting the idea that fossil fuels are part of a future energy mix
Oil giant Equinor funds game that promotes fossil fuels to children
An online game used in UK schools portrays oil, gas and coal as part of a green transition.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A company looking to develop an oil field in the North Sea has funded a computer game aimed at UK school children as young as 7, promoting the idea that fossil fuels are part of a future energy mix
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NEW: After pouring millions into GOP super PACs, the fossil fuel industry is cashing in with the One Big Beautiful Bill, a sweeping budget reconciliation package loaded with giveaways for oil and gas companies. readsludge.com/2025/06/05/b...
Big Oil Wins in Trump-GOP Megabill
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act is chock full of items from the oil and gas industry's wish list.
readsludge.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
NEW: After pouring millions into GOP super PACs, the fossil fuel industry is cashing in with the One Big Beautiful Bill, a sweeping budget reconciliation package loaded with giveaways for oil and gas companies. readsludge.com/2025/06/05/b...
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The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
🔗 www.404media.co/directfile-o...
🔗 www.404media.co/directfile-o...
The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."
www.404media.co
June 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
🔗 www.404media.co/directfile-o...
🔗 www.404media.co/directfile-o...
Reputation laundering, fossil fuel style
🚨 NEW STORY 🚨
Did you know the US's most powerful oil trade group sponsored the Girl Scouts USA as "nontraditional local allies" useful in the battle over policy issues? or that BP funded Ford's Theatre to access "Members of Congress, the Administration"? Internal company documents tell all ...
Did you know the US's most powerful oil trade group sponsored the Girl Scouts USA as "nontraditional local allies" useful in the battle over policy issues? or that BP funded Ford's Theatre to access "Members of Congress, the Administration"? Internal company documents tell all ...
REVEALED: Now There’s Proof That the Fossil Fuel Industry Uses Cultural Sponsorships to Block Climate Action
BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors back arts and community groups to protect their business models, subpoenaed documents show.
www.desmog.com
May 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reputation laundering, fossil fuel style