J. David McSwane
Reporter @propublica.org
Author, “Pandemic, Inc.”
Colorado boy. 🐏
david.mcswane@propublica.org.
Signal: 202-556-3836
- Reposted by J. David McSwanenot sure how i can be expected to focus on anything else today now that i've seen the promo photo from the Madden movie with Christian Bale as Al Davis and Nicolas Cage as John Madden
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneI hope management hears our members and reconsiders this anti-union position.
- 1/ 🚨 Yesterday, @propublica.org management confirmed that it will again deny steward representation at disciplinary meetings. Our full statement 👇
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneBig week for Villanova alums. ✝️🏀
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- Reposted by J. David McSwaneMonths before Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became the first American pope, he expressed criticism of Vice President JD Vance on social media, sharing an article that called the vice president’s interpretation of Christian doctrine “wrong.”
- The Smoking Popes are also from Chicago. Vatican -> Smoke -> New Pope -> Chicago. It's only logical we get Pope Prevost to @riotfest.bsky.social to see @smokingpopesmusic.bsky.social 🤘 #newpope #chicago
- Evergreen story.
- United Airlines urges people to consider avoiding Newark, find a different airport Gift link: www.nj.com/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneOur “America’s Mental Barrier” series, which examines how insurance companies interfere with access to necessary mental health care across the United States, was also named a finalist in the explanatory reporting category: www.propublica.org/series/ameri... Via @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneJUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
- Being a Coloradan is stressful tonight.
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneBarry Blitt’s cover for this week’s issue, “The First Hundred Days.” #NewYorkerCovers nyer.cm/ysrCZ47
- Just checked. Also applies to a 37-year-old.
- Just registered for the “Reporting and Writing for Scene” master class with @pamelacolloff.bsky.social and @bykenarmstrong.bsky.social who are the best in the business. Figure it’s about time someone got paid for the wisdom I’ve plied from these two. Glad it’s @ire.org www.ire.org/product/ire2...
- Crazy that a bad game for Jokic is a triple double.
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneNEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."
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- Reposted by J. David McSwaneOur DOGE tracker is updated with a whole slew of new names, and now you can filter by agency to see which of the DOGErs have been where. Great work by @williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social, @kirstenberg.bsky.social and others! projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...
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- Reposted by J. David McSwanePlease share! A U.S. born citizen has been arrested in Florida and placed in an ICE hold!! They want to transfer him to immigration detention DESPITE acknowledgment he is a citizen. This is happening in Leon County and we were at his hearing earlier this morning.
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneWith Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)
- FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, stop using the word "crackdown." It connotes a crackdown on wrongdoing. You crackdown on actual crime, not constitutionally protected activity. Other words: "suppression," "repression" - or my fav - "clampdown."
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneState and Federal resources are flowing to border security, while local communities lack access to clean drinking water and full-service hospitals. @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Perla Trevizo report, with photography by me for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/trum...
- My Alma mater just taking shots at Ohio 😂
- Reposted by J. David McSwane"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
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- Reposted by J. David McSwaneHere's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."
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- Reposted by J. David McSwaneI have a new gig @propublica.org to report on the Department of Government Efficiency. If you work in the federal government, I'd like to hear from you. On Signal at: 804-295-7201 or william.turton@propublica.org
- This is the type of headline that would likely have been investigated by the DHS civil rights office. Our Tuesday story breaks down how that closure portends further rights abuses. www.propublica.org/article/home...
- “Mommy, no. Mommy.” Daughter captures the moment masked ICE agents smash the window of her mother's car in order to take her into custody. The government claims the 52-year old seamstress is an associate of the MS-13 gang. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/lo...
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneIt’s the stupid, economy.
- I'm carving out a new beat here @propublica.org - CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER TRUMP. It's a big and important beat and one I'm thrilled ProPublica has committed to. Here's my first of many stories to come. Advocates, lawyers, teachers and fed workers. Send me your tips! david.mcswane@propublica.org
- My latest with @hannahallam.bsky.social
- Here for the @liseolsen.bsky.social chat at politics and prose. We met more than a decade ago at the mayborn. Both of us wanted to write books, and here we are.
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- Reposted by J. David McSwaneThere's so much going on right now that it's hard to know where to focus, but please take a moment to read this @mikehalltexas.bsky.social story about an 18-year-old Venezuelan who was in Texas legally who ICE seized, and who is now in a Salvadoran megaprison. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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- He did say prices would go down 🤔
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- Reposted by J. David McSwaneNEW: Edgar Barrientos-Quintana spent 16 years behind bars wrongly convicted for a shooting featured on “The First 48.” The Minnesota attorney general’s office effectively alleged that the show shaped the case instead of the case shaping the show. By @jlussenhop.bsky.social
- I have found hell. It’s an Uber, caught in DC traffic, with a driver playing, and enjoying, an actual album all the way through - U2’s Joshua Tree.
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- In an aborted plan to roll out the news, the agency would have emphasized the importance of vaccinating people against the highly contagious and potentially deadly disease that has spread to 19 states, the records show.
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- Reposted by J. David McSwaneNEW: The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines. By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
- Reposted by J. David McSwane1/ A year ago, I was examining North Carolina’s budget when two unusual items caught my attention–spurring an investigation that reveals how political and religious favoritism by lawmakers can harm some of society’s most vulnerable people. #ncpol @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/nort...
- So I knew they were spying on me. But I didn’t know the whole story … #txlege
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- Reposted by J. David McSwaneDer Spiegel found mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth on the internet. Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use. 😳
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneWhen scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry.
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ICE has abducted an Iranian mechanical engineering doctoral student at the University of Alabama. thecrimsonwhite.com/120415/news/... - Reposted by J. David McSwaneAn international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1
- Reposted by J. David McSwaneSCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
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- Reposted by J. David McSwaneNEW: How Elon Musk’s SpaceX secretly allows investment from China. They are funneled through offshore secrecy havens, according to court documents. @justinelliott.bsky.social & @josh-kaplan.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/elon...
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- Reposted by J. David McSwaneAn easygoing DJ led a dual life as an online propagandist for white supremacist hate and, prosecutors say, inspired followers to kill LGBTQ+ people and people of color. @propublica.org @frontlinepbs.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/matt...
