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Dan Friedman

@dfriedman33

Covering lobbying and corruption for Mother Jones. Signal: danfriedman.67

Washington D.C. Inscrit le Şubat 2009
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Dan Friedman@dfriedman33·
Our hot new MJ cover story on all the stupid shit Trump is doing to ruin America's 250th anniversary celebration, and more broadly to control the presentation of US history and culture, is online. Read it before the First Amendment gets canceled.
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NBC News reported today on allegations that while working as DHS Sec Kristi Noem's top aide, Corey Lewandowksi sought kickbacks from contractors he steered DHS business to. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/d… The article includes this wild section involving DHS contractor Salus Worldwide.
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Nick Schwellenbach@schwellenbach·
A court filing mentioned in this CNN piece, which @dfriedman33 and I first reported last week, also shows that Project Homecoming's contractor only provided “9 chartered aircraft flights” for “917 voluntary departures” b/t May & Dec 1st. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…
Priscilla Alvarez@priscialva

NEW: Around 72,000 people have self-deported through the Trump administration's "Project Homecoming" program, according to documents reviewed by CNN. The majority of those were in ICE detention. cnn.com/2026/03/18/us/…

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As we reported then, Event Strategies is just one of a bunch of Trump-linked companies and people getting taxpayer money to help plan events for the country’s 250th anniversary. motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
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NYTimes with more info on Event Strategies, the firm that organized the Jan 6 rally, getting no bid contracts from the Trump administration, much of it for America250 work. (We first reported they had that gig last year, though without contract detail.) nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/…
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Me and @noturtlesoup17 last year broke news that a federally-funded group planning America's 250th anniversary celebration hired Event Strategies, a firm that organized Trump's 1/6 rally. Wired reveals here that the firm has since received more than $26M in contracts.

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This is a terrible story suggesting that politically powerful people can get special access to medical care regular people can't, at the whim of the president.
Benjamin S. Weiss@BenjaminSWeiss

😬Awkward moment at Kennedy Center board meeting when Trump forces Speaker Johnson to talk about FL Rep. Neal Dunn’s illness. Johnson: “I think it was a terminal diagnosis.” Trump: “He would be dead by June.” Johnson: “That wasn’t public, but yeah, okay.”

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Some people would dial back the trying-to-sound-like-a-movie-bad-guy act after confirmation they'd helped a blow up a couple hundred school girls. But Hegseth is not a pussy. nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/…
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Mother Jones@MotherJones·
Kristi Noem is out as Homeland Security Secretary, but the luxury 737 she has traveled on remains in government hands. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…
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Events Strategies' contracts seem to be related to the 250th anniversary, and were awarded with little competition. Shows, as we wrote, that "the anniversary celebrations have become a source of job and contract opportunities for Trumpworld operatives." motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
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Me and @noturtlesoup17 last year broke news that a federally-funded group planning America's 250th anniversary celebration hired Event Strategies, a firm that organized Trump's 1/6 rally. Wired reveals here that the firm has since received more than $26M in contracts.
David Gilbert@daithaigilbert

SCOOP: In 2021, they helped organize Trump's January 6 rally. In the last year, Event Strategies has raked in federal contracts worth $26M, many of them with no other bidders w/ @zoeschiffer @leahfeiger @hudsongiles wired.com/story/they-hel…

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Bombing the school may have been a mistake. But the war -unprovoked, unauthorized by Congress, lacking any coherent goals and incredibly stupid- is deliberate. That is the moral context in which the United States is blowing up children.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur

Asked Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., about the bombing of the girls' school in Iran. "It was terrible. We made a mistake," he said. "Other countries do that sort of thing intentionally, like Russia. We would never do that intentionally. I think the department is investigating it now, and I'm sorry. I'm just so sorry it happened. It was a mistake."

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The Trump administration is spending some undisclosed amount of US tax dollars on shit like this that has nothing to with the 250th anniversary of US independence as part of a supposed celebration of the 250th anniversary of US independence. More here: motherjones.com/politics/2026/…
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle

It’s official: The Freedom 250 Grand Prix IndyCar is coming to D.C. on August 21-23. The promotional video that was just shown is… something. The course is 1.66 miles with seven turns.

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