Sublime

(In the face of overwhelming documentary evidence and testimony, the Justice Department would later acknowledge the so-called gunwalking campaign and would admit to having given false information to Congress. The story would become the investigative reporting story of the year, receiving an Emmy and the Edward R. Murrow Award.) The Justice Departme

By 2017, Neumann had threatened to crush or buy virtually every one of his competitors.

If Thom had a love language, it would be ratfucking—settling scores and taking out hits on behalf of the people he cared about.

we have to search for a more objectively true account.

It’s telling that Trump had promised to audit the Fed via executive order. It’s almost as if he was trying to co-opt the Liberty Movement that came about as a result of Ron Paul’s last two presidential campaigns.

Conspiracy influencers perform what I have come to think of as a doppelganger of investigative journalism, imitating many of its stylistic conventions while hopping over its accuracy guardrails.

In the drama that Moses suddenly revealed to the public there was also a villain (the President) using the power of money (federal relief funds) to force the Mayor to perform a dishonorable act (ousting from his job a faithful public servant). And this drama had a hero, too—for now that La Guardia had agreed to side with the President, the faithful

Before his gubernatorial campaign, Robert Moses had been a hero because the public had seen him less as an individual than as a symbol of resistance to politicians and bureaucrats. His conduct during the campaign had, by forcing the public to see him as an individual, stripped him of that cause. But now he was once again basking in its aura—and he