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17 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Breaking at ⁦@propublica⁩: 500 videos from Parler users of the storming of the Capitol, arrayed in chronological order. An astonishing record of the day. projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol…
Accompanied by a piece on exactly what we are publishing, and why:

propublica.org/article/why-we…
And an essay by the brilliant @AlecMacGillis on what the videos show, and what they mean.

propublica.org/article/inside…
So proud of my more than 50 colleagues who worked insanely hard in recent days to mount this critical, historic record.

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26 Oct 19
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17 May 19
1/ We’re posting @propublica ‘s audited financials for calendar 2018 today, as we do every year, so this seems a good moment for a mini-rant on the limits of GAAP accounting for non-profit news ow.ly/VwAz50ug1DC
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@propublica 3/ GAAP accounting is good for all sorts of things, but not helpful here. That’s because it places all revenue from multi-year grants in the year the grants are made.
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15 Dec 18
So @GovMattBevin is back, with a defense of why he’s not dog-whistling anti-Semitism in which he can’t manage to use the word “Jewish”, and with all sorts of accusations of partisanship by @ProPublica. What he doesn’t offer are facts, so maybe a few of those are worth adding:
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9 Nov 18
So far, the reaction of the White House press corps (and their editors) to the banning of Acosta has been entirely rhetorical. That seems to me a potentially historic error.
The impetus for talking loudly but carrying no stick has been that actually doing something might help Trump politically. But it is emphatically not the job of the press to play politics.
What is the plan for when Trump concocts an excuse for vetoing a reporter from the NYT or WaPo? Surely we must realize that if it works with CNN, this will just be the first time, and not the last.
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