BREAKING: This morning @propublica has what I consider the most important story we have ever published.
It concerns a trove of secret IRS files we were given on the tax returns of the nation’s richest people. The findings are extraordinary.
propublica.org/article/the-se… Turns out that many of the ultra wealthy pay NO income taxes for entire years— Soros three times, Bezos and Icahn twice, Musk and Bloomberg once. Bezos one year even claimed a $4000 child credit.

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…

Trump’s Opportunity Zones are emerging as a huge scandal, a giveaway to the rich, often those with political connections. Here are three stories, in order of their appearance. First, about the CEO of ⁦@UnderArmour⁩ propublica.org/article/trump-… Then yesterday the owner of the @cavs propublica.org/article/how-a-…

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 @propublica 2/ As you’ll see, revenue, per the financials, fell 39% YOY, while expenses rose 31%. Yikes, right? But revenues actually received during the year rose to a new high, at roughly $30.2 million. So what’s up?

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:

https://twitter.com/GovMattBevin/status/1073787907490627585

This year, @ProPublica, @ProPublicaIL and the @chicagotribune were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Loacl Reporting for a series that resulted in the electoral defeat of the Cook County Democratic Chairman. propublica.org/article/politi…

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.