J. David McSwane
Reporter @propublica.org
Author, “Pandemic, Inc.”
Colorado boy. 🐏
david.mcswane@propublica.org.
Signal: 202-556-3836
- 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...
- Being a Coloradan is stressful tonight.
- 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...
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- Ha. Not sure people are chomping at the bit to hear about an award-losing investigation.
- Just checked. Also applies to a 37-year-old.
- Crazy that a bad game for Jokic is a triple double.
- My Alma mater just taking shots at Ohio 😂
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- Sounds vaguely familiar 🤔
- 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."
- In latest media crackdown, White House limits newswire access to Trump www.nbcnews.com/media/latest...
- 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...
- 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.
- He did say prices would go down 🤔
- 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.
- 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.
- So I knew they were spying on me. But I didn’t know the whole story … #txlege
- p.s. please add me to your signal chats
- This is truly astonishing to read. Wow.
- Find someone as committed to you as CVS is to making retail absolutely tedious.
- An update on the Thomas Weiner story. “I would just like to know what information they’re reviewing that sways their determination to renew this man’s license,” said Lisa Warwick, whose husband, Scot, died after 11 years of chemotherapy and other treatments for a cancer he never had.
- My latest @propublica.org & @montanafreepress.org
- Chinese Nationalists Praise Trump’s Cuts to Voice of America www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/w...
- Gah! I’m older than the internet?! I suck.
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- Don’t know what that is. Thanks for making me feel young again!
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- Look, I’m just being cheeky.
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- Ok, doing that.
- Being a millennial in one image.
- A helluva sentence
- The LAFD delivered the best jokes so far 😂
- “There is another way.” Poignant.
- I’ve seen literally none of these. Just here for Conan.
- The “skis in jeans” is such a mountain people burn. Truly incendiary.
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- Ha!
- Wow
- Our December investigation: www.propublica.org/article/thom...
- Some news on Dr. Thomas Weiner. I’ve confirmed a criminal investigation is underway. Yet, the state medical board has renewed his license to practice. W/ @montanafreepress.org
- Some news on Dr. Thomas Weiner. I’ve confirmed a criminal investigation is underway. Yet, the state medical board has renewed his license to practice. W/ @montanafreepress.org
- There is nothing more neurotic than an investigative reporter between stories.
- Excellent distillation.
- "Repeatedly, we found that users, soon after being banned, could create new Tinder accounts with the exact same name, birthday and profile photos used on their banned accounts. Users banned from Tinder were also able to sign up for Hinge, OKCupid and Plenty of Fish ..."
- See y'all soon.
- A dam good story about Czechs and balances. Really flows well -- you otter read it.
- In December, @propublica.org published a story about Dr. Thomas Weiner, the oncologist linked to a trail of patient harm & suspicious deaths. This week the Montana Supreme Court sided with St. Peter's Hospital, which fired him in 2020. @montanafreepress.org reporting.
- Background: bsky.app/profile/davi...
- Our investigation: www.propublica.org/article/thom...
- In December, @propublica.org published a story about Dr. Thomas Weiner, the oncologist linked to a trail of patient harm & suspicious deaths. This week the Montana Supreme Court sided with St. Peter's Hospital, which fired him in 2020. @montanafreepress.org reporting.
- So … pre trial discovery …
