i honestly always thought the triumph of nihilism would be good and fun
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John Cook
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Investigations editor at Insider. Former executive editor of Gawker Media and editor-in-chief of The Intercept. DMs open.
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The Texas Medical Association gave $297k to politicians who sponsored or signed “trigger-law” abortion bans. businessinsider.com/healthcare-cor
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The Texas Medical Association has asked regulators to step in after several hospitals allegedly prevented doctors from treating patients with serious pregnancy complications for fear of violating the state’s abortion ban.
#txlege dallasnews.com/news/politics/
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It’s official!
I am very excited to join this team and thrilled to stay in Chicago.
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Extremely excited to announce that @kcecireyes will be joining @thisisinsider's investigations team next week as a senior reporter. Cecilia’s meticulous reporting on Chicago’s failure to protect residents from firetraps won a Pulitzer earlier this year. Thrilled to work with her!
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Extremely excited to announce that will be joining 's investigations team next week as a senior reporter. Cecilia’s meticulous reporting on Chicago’s failure to protect residents from firetraps won a Pulitzer earlier this year. Thrilled to work with her!
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Lot of talk lately about the Hyde Amendment, which is named for a guy that the FBI thought was on the take gawker.com/5459639/conser
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hate to be that guy,* but what Rob Manfred told ESPN about MLB's baseballs was patently false.
MLB admitted they intentionally created, manufactured, and used both a juiced and deadened ball in the same season ~seven months ago~. We reported it! businessinsider.com/mlb-used-two-d
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And actual women’s lives, and the lives of other pregnant people, were so much a distant afterthought that none of these states bothered to plan for the chaos they have just unleashed onto our lives
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And these are the corporations that backed them
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JPMorgan Chase gave more than $100,000 to state politicians who sponsored the abortion bans that will now go into effect businessinsider.com/wall-street-fi
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good blog ryantate.com/winds/
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Thrilled that a investigations team project led by has been awarded a grant from the Lipman Center’s Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justice. journalism.columbia.edu/lipman-center-
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The idea for Fox News was hatched by criminals in the Nixon White House gawker.com/5814150/roger-
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"Roger Ailes was a political ad maker. He had this insight that if Fox was a pseudo news organization, it would have greater influence on what other news organizations covered."
@danpfeiffer on how we got to this point. Right wing ref-gaming is central:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/
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The woman that Epstein introduced Kimbal to was directed by Epstein to marry another woman as part of a scheme to keep members of his foreign-born entourage in the US
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The story, by , also reported that Kimbal Musk invited Epstein and his entourage on a private tour of SpaceX’s headquarters. Elon Musk has since denied that a tour ever happened.
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Insider reported in 2020 that Kimbal Musk, Elon’s brother and business associate, dated Jeffrey Epstein’s ex-girlfriend after Epstein introduced them. businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei
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🧵One thing that's come up again and again in my recent conversations with dozens of survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of Rosemead High teachers:
"There's no way I'd let this happen to my daughter."
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And and stay on top of our reporting on the fate of Roe v. Wade with a report on Oklahoma, where Republicans have been so eager to ban abortion they've done it 5 times in mutually incompatible ways
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Two excellent follow-ups from the investigations team today: First on the reckoning caused by his reporting on sexual misconduct at his former high school
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I pretty much only take the time to write when I am very angry. And I am fucking LIVID.
So here's an incomplete list of all the other people with blood on their hands.
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In case you are curious, this is the last story Rich McHugh covered for Insider, before tonight’s Elon Musk story.
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For those interested, we reached out to the principals for comment regarding this story at ~9 a.m. eastern yesterday (Wednesday May 18).
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If the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade in June US companies will face shock waves inside their organizations.
No co's will feel it more intensely than the top employers in states with "trigger laws" on the books — starting with Walmart, Amazon, McD's.
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🧵Many of you who read my story yesterday were struck by what “Sarah” did. I was, too. I want to take a moment to share about when we met - and how stunned I was when I first heard the voicemails that our former teacher had left for her.
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He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationships with teenage girls.
Stunning reporting and storytelling from
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When went digging into his old high school's record on protecting students from teacher misconduct, he found a familiar face: his journalism teacher.
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There is more to come from this project next week. Thanks to for providing the data.
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One fascinating detail: One of the largest supporters of trigger-law politicians in our review was the Democratic Party of Louisiana, which collectively gave a total of more than $500,000 to lawmakers who sponsored the state's trigger law — 40 of whom were Democrats.
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And shockingly, the healthcare industry was a HUGE supporter of the lawmakers seeking to imprison doctors for performing abortions — including medical groups who represent physicians.
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On Wall St., huge banks like Citigroup — which says it will pay for employees to travel for abortions if they are in a state that has banned them — have funded the political effort to ban abortion at the state level.
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AT&T, for instance, which counts the feminist icons Serena Williams and Rosario Dawson among its paid spokeswomen, is the top publicly traded corporation in its support for the trigger-law politicians, with more than $1 million in support for the movement.
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And when you look at who donated to those politicians and helped bring their campaign to criminalize reproductive healthcare to the brink of success, you see some familiar names.
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