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Apr 9, 2022

1) Let me tell you a crazy story. It's consumed 2 years of my life. As COVID-19 shut down the world in April 2020, I decided to follow the money. I began with a call to a no-name federal contractor who’d somehow landed a $35M deal for masks. Hours later, I’m on a private jet …

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CNN just reported that a water bottle will freeze in … freezing temperatures. Covering weather is rough man

Feb 3

Kinda hoping it's just Balloon Boy all over again.

Michael Hall

@mikehalltexas

Feb 3

40 years ago, a gay Apache Indian named James Reyos was convicted of killing an Irish Catholic priest named Patrick Ryan in a seedy Odessa motel room—even though Reyos had an airtight alibi & there was zero evidence he had been at the crime scene. 1/

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A senior

official, after

's trip to China today has been postponed: "This [Chinese surveillance] balloon in our airspace is a clear violation of our sovereignty and international law." Diplomatic channels remain open.

It’s a shame y’all can’t see the riveting, routine discussions in a writer’s text thread.

propublica.org/article/united

Jesse Eisinger

@eisingerj

Feb 2

Drugs had finally gotten a student’s severe colitis under control But they were expensive So United decided… they weren’t medically necessary & then they had a long laugh Listen to the call. Read the article by

@DavidArmstrongX

@PatrickMRucker

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Alexis Benveniste

@apbenven

Jan 26

the worst month of the year starts next week and this is still the best video on the internet

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Update. We’re out. Kevin lives. For now.

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I’m hoping it doesn’t come to this, but I am mentally preparing to eat my friend Kevin. twitter.com/davidmcswane/s…

I’m hoping it doesn’t come to this, but I am mentally preparing to eat my friend Kevin.

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We’ve been on I-70 for 8 hours. twitter.com/ColoradoDOT/st…

Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)

We’ve been on I-70 for 8 hours.

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@ColoradoDOT

Tow is on the scene, hoping to have it cleared and reopened in next 60-90 minutes. Hang in there.

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Jan 27

“I don’t know, Lloyd, people from France …” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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David B. Larter

@DavidLarter

Jan 27

This might be the greatest "Shot, Chaser" in the history of Twitter.

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Jan 21

Skiing in aspen and lol. You’re not supposed to match this hard on the mountain. Also, the plastic surgery quotient 👌I belong at A Basin.

Jan 21

Fingers crossed, about to double my money 🤞

Jan 15

Considered dropping my life’s savings on this one. But chose $5 instead. I chose poorly.

Jan 15

Aiden, you fool

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And Just Like That...

@AndJustLikeThat

Jan 13

Shh. Don’t tell anyone.

Jan 15

The Seahawks may lose this game, but they’re still winners for dumping Russell Wilson and fleecing the Broncos. #SEAvsSF

Jan 13

Randomly stopped at the Texas Roadhouse in my hometown, and a guy in a MAGA hat sits next to me. Guy next to him says, “I like your hat.” “Not in this state, they don’t.” Please god don’t pull me into this conversation. 🤞

Ken Armstrong

@bykenarmstrong

Jan 11

"We Were Once a Family," by

@strawburriez

, is coming out in March from

@fsgbooks

. And as bleak and enraging as the subject is, this book is going to the top of my must-read list.

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Publishers Weekly

@PublishersWkly

Jan 11

Broken Homes: PW Talks with Roxanna Asgarian pwne.ws/3vTKbAj

Jan 9

Cris Collinsworth does not understand momentum transfer.

36 Hours in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

Jan 5

The Times makes no mention of making the Pilot police blotter. Fail. 36 Hours in Steamboat Springs, Colo.

nytimes.com

Winter sports enthusiasts flock to this northwestern Colorado resort town in the Yampa Valley, a spot that is typically blessed with an abundant blanket of low-moisture snow.

Jan 5

I swear I never intended to be a business reporter.

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Porchlight Book Company

@porchlightbooks

Jan 4

The 2022 Porchlight Current Events & Public Affairs book of the year is PANDEMIC, INC. by @davidmcswane, published by @AtriaBooks/@OneSignalPub. Head to our website to read an excerpt → bit.ly/plbba22pi #PLBBA22 #PorchlightBookCompany #WeBelieveInBooks

Jan 4

I associate Ike with Eisenhower Tunnel, which I associate with agony and rage.

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Cole Leiter

@coleleiter

Jan 4

From @GovNedLamont at the Gold Star Memorial Bridge: "I've heard a lot of Presidents say I'm going to be the first infrastructure since Ike. Well... The first infrastructure President since Ike is Joe Biden." nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/u-s

Dec 30, 2022

Relative to the Broncos, my life is in perfect order.

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Christopher Noel

@TheCrizno

Dec 30, 2022

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At least you have The Denver Broncos.

Dec 29, 2022

I'm calling 2022 the worst non-tragedy year of my life. Nothing irreparable - on paper, totally fine -- but every little thing went wrong from trips to relationships to publication goals to cars to money to pets, etc. Satan is in retrograde or something. Praying 2023 sucks less!

Dec 28, 2022

Why

After

reported AG Ken Paxton's office asked for lists of transgender Texans, I filed records requests with both agencies. I'm starting to get responses. I asked the OAG for any license data DPS provided. They said "no responsive records." dallasnews.com/news/politics/ #txlege

Hey, thanks!

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Porchlight Book Company

@porchlightbooks

Dec 16, 2022

The 2022 Porchlight Business Book Awards Shortlist

Current Events & Public Affairs Book of the Year: PANDEMIC, INC. by J. David McSwane (@davidmcswane / @AtriaBooks / @OneSignalPub) Learn more → bit.ly/PLBBA22nb #PLBBA22

CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.

Lynzy Billing

@LynzyBilling

Dec 15, 2022

1/ What started as a personal journey in 2019 looking into the deaths of my family, turned into a deep dive into the Zero Units—secretive, CIA-backed Afghan special forces that left a trail of loss and destruction across eastern Afghanistan. propublica.org/article/afghan

@propublica

propublica.org

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If my account is deleted, please find me never.

Dec 15, 2022

Legit forgot how to craft an out of office reply.

Trump Sells a New Image as the Hero of $99 Trading Cards

Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

Dec 15, 2022

Some of Trump's own aides were cringing at the release of the NFTs, which is diverting money that could be donated to the Trump campaign to Trump personally

@MichaelCBender

and me

nytimes.com

Money from sales of the digital trading cards, which depict the former president as characters like a superhero and a “Top Gun”-style fighter pilot, will go directly to him instead of his 2024...

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‘Next mass killer’: Dropped case foretold Colorado bloodbath

Dec 7, 2022

My god. The club Q killer literally warned cops during a standoff last year he would be "the next mass killer." Charges dropped, no guns seized. DA won't say why.

apnews.com

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Anderson Lee Aldrich loaded bullets into a Glock pistol and chugged vodka, ominously warning frightened grandparents not to stand in the way of an elaborate plan to...

Andrea Bernstein

@AndreaBNYC

Dec 6, 2022

BREAKING NEWS: TWO TRUMP ENTITIES GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS

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Andrea Bernstein

@AndreaBNYC

Dec 6, 2022

guilty of scheme to defraud

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After a Stillbirth, an Autopsy Can Provide Answers. Too Few of Them Are Being Performed.

Lizzie Presser

@lizziepresser

Dec 6, 2022

Every year, 20k pregnancies in the US end in stillbirth, and up to a quarter may be preventable. In a third of cases, the cause of death is never determined.

@deldeib

's reporting is critical here:

propublica.org

One in three stillbirths goes unexplained, leaving parents desperate for information. Many doctors don’t perform autopsies or tests that could offer insight, while some patients decide against them...

How Hospice Became a For-Profit Hustle

A damning story by

on the "untamed frontier" of for-profit hospices. It fuses the investigative chops of

@propublica

with the literary writing of The

@NewYorker

, and was published by both. bit.ly/3uoMR8k.

newyorker.com

It began as a visionary notion—that patients could die with dignity at home. Now it’s a twenty-two-billion-dollar industry plagued by exploitation.

Dec 5, 2022

Man on street: Do you have a minute to save the children? Me: Do you have your most recent 990s and audited financial statements?