EXCLUSIVE: Bombshell ⁦@RawStory⁩ investigation about Ivan Raiklin, Trump’s “secretary of retribution,” who has created a ‘target list’ of 350 people he wants arrested rawstory.com/raw-investigat… After reading the list, @RepRaskin told @RawStory: “His hit list is a vigilante death warrant for hundreds of Americans and a clear and present danger to the survival of American democracy and freedom.” rawstory.com/raw-investigat…

1/ On Friday, @ThisIsInsider identified two more members of Congress — @RepSusieLee (D-Nev.) & @RepKevinHern (R-Okla.) — who violated the federal STOCK Act.

• businessinsider.com/gop-rep-kevin-…
• businessinsider.com/susie-lee-neva…

How many other lawmakers have violated this law in 2021? A thread: 2/ @SenFeinstein (D-Calif.) has violated the STOCK Act. businessinsider.com/dianne-feinste…

1/ Appears that the @ALTAonline political action committee is the latest PAC to get hit in a string of thefts.

Per new @FEC filing: 2/ Dozens of PACs and other political committees fell victim to theft during the 2019-2020 election cycle. businessinsider.com/biden-campaign…

1/ @BusinessInsider has found yet another member of Congress who's violated a federal transparency law designed to defend against conflicts of interest. This time, it's @RepBlakeMoore, R-Utah. businessinsider.com/rep-blake-moor… 2/ In January, @SenFeinstein, D-Calif., was months late disclosing tens of thousands of dollars in trades by her husband. businessinsider.com/dianne-feinste…

1/ A year ago, people across the United States & Canada were performing all sorts of wacky trick shots in honor of @ChrisSnowCGY — and to raise serious cash ($439,906) for ALS research and new treatments.

Today's as good a day as any to give: nhl.com/flames/fans/sn…

https://twitter.com/davelevinthal/status/1285222624554029056

2/ @ChrisSnowCGY was diagnosed with a rare form of ALS two years ago. We all expected to be attending Chris' funeral within a year. Two years on, Chris is more alive than most of us could ever hope to be. Here's him this month on @CBSSunday:

1/ Since Donald Trump left the White House on Jan. 20, @BusinessInsider has been tracking the diaspora of his top lieutenants and aides. Today, we released a searchable database of where they've all landed. businessinsider.com/trump-white-ho… 2/ It's not easy out there for some Trump alumni. Many corporations won't employ alumni of Trump's White House, so they're building a 'dumb cash' MAGA ecosystem instead, report @cryanbarber and @tomlobianco businessinsider.com/trump-alumni-m…

1/ A Trump fundraising triple bait-and-switch, unpacked.

This morning, Trump’s campaign sent this text message. It would appear, in a plain reading of it, that any money you donate would go toward ongoing efforts to overturn Election 2020 results. 2/ But click on the Trump fundraising text link, & you get nothing about the presidential election. Instead, you get a solicitation for the “GEORGIA ELECTION FUND,” referring, of course, to the two runoffs in Georgia that will determine the Senate’s balance of power in 2021-2022.

1/ DEEEEP DIVE: How QAnon infiltrated the @GOP, leaving many Republicans leaders with a brutal choice:

1) Reject it & alienate supporters who also ♥️ Q
2) Flirt for political gain w/ a bonkers conspiracy theory about Satan-loving, child-trafficking Dems businessinsider.com/how-qanon-infi… 2/ Our investigation took weeks to report/write & published as social media cos have effectively declared war against Q.

Reporter @eliza_relman spearheaded the piece, w/ reporting from @elvina_nawaguna @KaylaEpstein @tomlobianco @angelareplica & yrs trly businessinsider.com/how-qanon-infi…

1/ "Abandoned in America" published 2 years ago this week. Been thinking about the people my colleagues and I met, all of whom shared endless frustration w/ a government they felt didn't care about them. All before COVID-19, all before the economy crashed. apps.publicintegrity.org/abandoned-in-a… 2/ In all, @publicintegrity's "Abandoned in America" spanned six stories, dozens of photos/videos and more than 27,000 words. It began with this soaring narrative from @suhaunah, writing from the border of Presidio, Texas, and Ojinaga, Mexico. apps.publicintegrity.org/abandoned-in-a…

1/ Big welcome to healthcare reporting sleuth @leonardkl, who today officially joined @BusinessInsider's new D.C. Bureau. businessinsider.com/author/kimberl… 2/ @leonardkl makes eight in the @BusinessInsider D.C. Bureau, which opened this spring. She joins @dsamuelsohn @elvina_nawaguna @tomlobianco @KaylaEpstein @rbravender @TinaSfon and yrs truly.

“Today, we fight for her legacy.”

.@KamalaHarris fundraising this morning for the Biden campaign and @dscc, evoking the death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

Not long ago such political fundraising would’ve been considered churlish. We’re far past that, though. Good catch from @IAStartingLine:

https://twitter.com/iastartingline/status/1307129179998171139

1/ Investigative journalism is slow. It's tedious. There's no guarantee your efforts will ever pay off.

But sometimes, they do—big time. Three years ago, @sarahkleiner9 of @publicintegrity began investigating telemarketer Mark Gelvan. This happened today. publicintegrity.org/politics/veter… 2/ For months, @sarahkleiner9 contacted dozens of people, read thousands of documents and drove up and down the Eastern seaboard to piece this puzzle together. Few reporters I've worked with have ever worked so hard. Let Sarah herself tell you more:

https://twitter.com/sarahkleiner9/status/1306334219027742721?s=20

1/ Just wrapped up one of the most joyful, thoroughly rewarding and only occasionally maddening experiences of my time in journalism — being a member of the @dailyorange board of directors. (Thanks for this great article, @KJEdelman!) dailyorange.com/2020/09/decade… 2/ The @dailyorange also just got itself five new and absolutely awesome board members — @LATSeema, @MeredithGoldste, @StacyFernandezB, Dave Curtis and Stephen Dockery dailyorange.com/2020/09/meet-n…

SCOOPLET: Trump's campaign, Republican National Committee, @NRSC and other @GOP committees have together taken money from 80+ people representing themselves — potentially in violation of federal law — as QAnon employees and the like. businessinsider.com/qanon-donation… We reached out several times to @TeamTrump, the @GOP and @NRSC to ask about these QAnon contributions. None of them returned @businessinsider's messages. businessinsider.com/qanon-donation…

1/ You may have read a few stories this week suggesting Trump's campaign is running thin on cash.

This is a story about why it is not. businessinsider.com/trump-biden-mo… 2/ Of note:

* Trump's campaign had 3x more cash on hand in August 2020 that it did in August 2016, per fed records.

* Republican National Committee had more than 3x the available cash.

* Trump could contribute his own $$ at any time (but hasn't yet). businessinsider.com/trump-biden-mo…

Eating Cheerios in my third-story walk-up apartment in Manchester, N.H., watching CNN and getting ready to drive to the statehouse in Concord for a seemingly typical day at work as an @EagleTrib reporter. Then came the pictures of smoke from the World Trade Center. Most days are blurs. You can’t clearly remember a moment. This day is a series of freeze frames. Calling my editor. Throwing my “go bag” into my red Pontiac Grand Am. Racing down I-93 toward Boston. Turning around at the Route 111 exit and racing back to Manchester’s airport.

NEW: @kanyewest's presidential campaign tells the @FEC that it won't disclose campaign income/spending until later this month.

Stated reason? A change from filing its disclosures on a quarterly to monthly basis.

Problem: Pres campaigns MUST file monthly during election years. .@bryson_morgan brings up a good point that the monthly filing requirement for a presidential campaign is triggered by a campaign raising or spending more than $100,000 in a month. But ...

1/ Republicans getting very, very upset about potential Hatch Act violations: a brief thread.

rollcall.com/2014/04/30/sen… 2/ jsonline.com/story/news/pol…

1/ So, fairly significant federal appeals court ruling today in @CREWcrew v. @FEC / @CrossroadsGPS, a case involving political "dark money": s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citize…

But ... 2/ It appears the ruling provides a loophole for the kind of "dark money" often used in politics during Election 2020. That's money initially raised by a "social welfare" nonprofit group, which doesn't have to disclose its donors, and given to a super PAC, which does.

Eighteen years from now, a lot of Kamalas may be graduating from high school. google.com/amp/s/www.busi… FWIW: By 2018, "Donald" had fallen to the 526th most popular name — as unpopular a baby name as it's ever been in the United States during either the 20th or 21st centuries, Social Security Administration records show.

"Kuh-MAH-lah" Harris — "that's another real beauty" — is part of a Democratic plot to bring socialism to the United States, @realDonaldTrump says on a tele-town hall for Florida supporters just now. If Democrats win in 2020, Trump says the 2nd Amendment will go away. "It will be ended," he says.