Jesse Eisinger

Ingredients for a finl crisis:

-Flirt w/ debt default
-Attack Fed independence
-Withdraw corp regulation
-Stop enforcing white-collar crime
-Start war
-Allow crypto into mainstream finl system
-Encourage AI bubble
-Look other way on private credit bubble

Oh and:

-Destroy faith in govt data

Reputational damage can occur when you do or say something that damages your reputation.

The proper legal standard should be whether it’s true or not.

(Stipulated: death threats not good.)

Journalism lost its culture of sharing Here’s how we rebuild it

I've been thinking about @kleinmatic.bsky.social + @palewi.re's great article about the lost culture of sharing in journalism and wanted to give a big shoutout to my former employer @themarshallproject.org for preserving the flame.

source.opennews.org/articles/jou...

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Haha. Yes turns out there are even worse clubs to be in!

For the record, this is not what I meant by urging prosecutors not to be members of the Chickenshit Club.

BOASBERG: “.. the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell ..

“.. the Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President ..”

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Since people have asked, here's my advice when applying:

1. Along w/ your best clips, explain the story behind the story. What were your extraordinary feats of reporting?

2. Take the memo v. seriously. Offer the best, most specific, most revelatory story ideas about the biggest subjects possible.

I'm thrilled that @jakeswearingen.bsky.social is joining our shop to run a business team!

www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

If you burn to hold superrich billionaires and the largest companies accountable, come join us!

Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

I'm Sick And Tired of All The Winning Gulf War Three is not going well for the United States.

Excellent @dandrezner.bsky.social analysis of what is fast becoming an utter Trump disaster

open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Peter Finn Joins ProPublica, Spearheading Washington Bureau Expansion

Can't think of a better choice to help @propublica.org grow in DC: www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

i tried to explain in this piece why this is, both in structural terms and in terms of the times clearly having a specific bias against mamdani in particular (note the weird negging of him for “communication skills”)

So the news is not all terrible...

The chart of Oracle free cash flow is fun.

@koyfin.bsky.social $ORCL

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JPMorgan marking down loan portfolios of private credit groups
www.ft.com/content/1d4e...

I’m an oil trader. This is a buy signal.

There is no evidence that Epstein blackmailed American policymakers. This is getting insane.

“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory

mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...

What explains it?

Whistleblower Partners LLP, Constantine Cannon LLP, and Whistleblower Law Collaborative: U.S. Government Settles Novel Whistleblower-Initiated Litigation Against Education Recruitment Company for Stud... Whistleblower law firms secure a $1.3M False Claims Act settlement with an education recruiter over improper incentive compensation targeting U.S. students.

Whistleblower Partners announces an education fraud settlement. WP attorneys @poppyalexander.whistleblower.law & @maryinman.bsky.social & co-counsel represented a WB alleging an education recruiter violated rules barring per-student incentive pay for recruiting US students receiving federal funds.

Lmao--having gone to Reed College, one of the only schools that requires Humanities 110 of all students, including works by Heraclitus and Aristotle and the Bible, I can testify that a return to the classics will not have the cultural effect that these middling conservative minds think it will.

1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.

First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP

Meanwhile the Trump boys did a reverse merger of a West Palm Beach drone roll-up into their golf course company.

We are doing penny stock mad libs now.

I wonder if they will score a Pentagon contract? Surely only if the tech is really up to snuff.

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

I wish the Packers were able only to trade against and play against Dallas.

Someone on here yesterday pointed out that you can tell they didn’t see any of this coming because they would have done insider trades on the oil futures market if they had.

Congratulations!

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Some personal news—

I’ve joined @publiccitizen.bsky.social.

As research director.

Of its Trump accountability project.

Have Vance and Trump said thank you?

Very important question. Everything is extremely fragile now and not easily settled down.