There are now ETFs that track the disclosed stock holdings of members of Congress and their spouses.
The Dem ticker is symbol is NANC and the GOP symbol is KRUZ -- presumably in "honor" of Nancy Pelosi and Ted Cruz
Follow
Click to Follow SchreckReports
Ben Schreckinger
@SchreckReports
Covering politics, tech and finance .
Contributing to Digital Future Daily: politi.co/3K27212
Author of "The Bidens": bit.ly/3L0J0VJ
Open DMs.
Ben Schreckinger’s Tweets
Those are just a couple data points, but they make me less likely to assume the New Yorker exercises better judgment than Hersh about fact vs. fiction.
Either way, I'm glad that Hersh still publishes reporting about important events, even if much of it is thinly sourced
1
Show this thread
In 2018, the New Yorker published a story about a Japanese company that hires actors to provide clients with surrogate family members.
The story won a National Magazine Award, but it turns out key sources had fabricated much of the story.
1
Show this thread
This was around the time Hersh published an account of the Bin Laden raid in the London Review of Books that differed sharply from official accounts.
Though it was subject to lots of skepticism, the eminent reporter Carlotta Gall and others published corroboration...
1
Show this thread
How credible is Sy Hersh?
The New Yorker stopped publishing his work in 2015. The insider view of this I gleaned in DC was basically that an institution with sound judgment had decided to cut loose someone who had become an old crank.
But...
1
Show this thread
But the credulity with which they treat their fellow institutions -- in the face of contrary evidence -- further undermines public trust in institutional authority.
1
Show this thread
This is in part because discourse is being mediated by legacy institutions that are invested in the deteriorating authority of their follow legacy institutions.
1
Show this thread
As with Hunter Biden's laptop and the Covid lab leak theory, purveyors of public discourse have been placing undue weight on the statements of institutional authorities.
There is a failure to subject these statements to critical thinking.
1
1
Show this thread
...the failure of American public discourse to make it clear that -- given the circumstantial evidence already available -- the U.S. has been a prime suspect all along represents yet another failure of our sense-making institutions.
1
1
Show this thread
Sy Hersh reports that the U.S. took out Nord Stream. He cites a single unnamed source, so treat this with extreme caution.
But...
1
1
2
Show this thread
NEW: The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against WinRed in the donation-processing site's efforts to block subpoenas from the Minnesota AG's office investigating its recurring donation program ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/23/02/2
2
17
36
Show this thread
It has come to my attention that people under 30 are not familiar with the term “drop a dime.”
We are doomed.
2
3
14
The crypto industry is at war with itself and the only guaranteed losers are its customers. The downturn sparked a torrent of lawsuits and legal threats between financiers who are scrambling to salvage what they can from the wreckage. DC is watching.
2
5
6
U.S. and Dutch officials struck a deal in Washington D.C. late Friday to impose new export restrictions on the export of advanced microchips technology to China. w/ &
4
17
23
Show this thread
George Santos reported dozens of campaign expenses that were exactly one cent or one dollar below the $200 legal threshold for keeping receipts.
This is a total statistical anomaly, i.e. extremely unlikely to occur by chance per a analysis
4
26
51
Oil & gas industry helped enact #Ohio law declaring natural gas "green energy," documents show. "Emails reveal how closely Ohio lawmakers coordinated with a natural gas industry group on the new law that misleadingly defines methane gas as green energy"
5
13
👀 White House HBCU Initiative (run by Ed Dept) just blasted out promotional content for Wells Fargo.
Two paragraphs are reprinted, word-for-word (without quotation marks) from a WF website.
The email also includes a link to a WF page promoting the bank's debit card products.
read image description
ALT
read image description
ALT
23
267
931
Show this thread
It’s impossible to capture in tweets how I feel about losing Blake Hounshell, my longtime mentor and friend. He was my first editor, for years the voice in my head, the first person who saw talent in me as a journalist and editor and encouraged it, my work partner in crime. 1/
22
71
689
Show this thread
THREAD —->
Quote Tweet
For this week's "great weekend reads," @RyanLizza pulled together some of the many great pieces @blakehounshell had a hand in at @POLITICOMag.
Take a glance, and add them to your reading list:
politico.com/newsletters/pl
Show this thread
2
Here’s a classic headline from 2014 on a joint with me and :
“Obama Libre”
Blake was so proud of this headline that he would occasionally bring it up for years afterwards and just chuckle to himself.
politico.com/story/2014/12/
Quote Tweet
Young Trumpies Hit D.C.
… And D.C. hits them right back.
w/ @dlippman
politico.com/magazine/story
Show this thread
4
12
Young Trumpies Hit D.C.
… And D.C. hits them right back.
w/
3
6
Show this thread
Just another day in Fucknutsville*
*Which has since been unceremoniously changed
Via (H/T )
politico.com/magazine/story
1
1
8
Show this thread
How Trump wore out his Scottish welcome
Tweeddale lord: ‘Somewhere along the lines his Scottish heritage has gone awry.’
(This one is all about the subhed)
politico.eu/article/how-do
1
3
Show this thread
Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course
(P.S. some of these were probably group efforts, but Blake's sensibility suffuses them all)
3
2
Show this thread
. was a master of communicating the spectacle and the absurdity of politics — especially Trump era politics — in the space of a headline and a lead image.
I'll share a few of my favorites here. If anyone wants to add others, post in the replies or DM me.
2
10
16
Show this thread
💥 Top MEP quits over Qatargate, hours after story revealed she failed to declare free flights and hotel stay she received from Qatar
2
20
36
I’m moved by the outpouring of love and support for our beloved colleague and amazing journalist Blake Hounshell. You can help support his family here:
17
356
1,350
"In Remembrance of a Beloved and Very Online Journalist:
Blake Hounshell loved great scoops, pithy framing and a sharp tweet. In fact, he would have made this headline much better."
1
5
Rest in peace, . I'm going to miss your brilliance in conceiving of stories and editing them and your mischievous sense of humor.
I'll remain humbled by your work ethic and grateful for all the ways you quietly made the work of the people around you better.
7
19
278
Can't say enough about the great work by my colleagues on the Congress team this week.
That includes this post-mortem on the speaker election from and that published at *checks notes* 3:12 a.m.
4
28
108
Wall Street Journal reporter was conducting interviews outside of a Chase Bank before he was handcuffed and detained by police
abc15.com/news/local-new
1:15
211.7K views
223
1,555
2,941
Every year, consistently publishes some of the most engaging stories, per , proving that readers do value quality longform journalism.
This superb interview from February by is a perfect example: politi.co/3HVQ5bd
2
7
17
Show this thread
Wild.
Quote Tweet
EXCLUSIVE: Part 2 of the @floodlightnews investigation with @NPR highlights a real incidence of Fake News.
Have you heard or been interviewed by ABC News producer Kristen Hentschel? Then you might want to read this.
npr.org/2022/12/21/114
Show this thread
1
2
1
2
While advising Trump on judges, Conway sold her business to a firm with ties to judicial activist Leonard Leo
Via
2
4
7
SCOOP: a legal fight over the ownership of key software infrastructure for DeFi and Web3 is heating up thanks to a ruling from a cantonal court in Zug, Switzerland