Unredacted NIH records detail early efforts to rule out lab origin of Covid — my latest for @theintercept and @thenation. It took more than a year of #FOIA litigation to obtain the documents featured in this story:

RT @ddayen: 🚨NEW: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent belatedly slipped a protection for Big Tech firms, and in particular Elon Musk’s X, int…

Rev. John Buchanan, former pastor of Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church, dies at 87

RT @JamesCTobias: 74 pages of heavily-redacted Top Secret documents concerning Covid origins that I received from the Energy Department thi…

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The documents were produced after a search by DOE's Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.

RT @lhfang: The actual scandal in ultra-expensive DC news services (many cost $10-150k) is that these entities will dig up vital public int…

RT @HMNorthey: Civil servants are being asked to waive rights to legal or other efforts to seek recourse if they agree to the administratio…

@RizomaSchool These are probationary employees, so they likely dont have full civil service protections. EPA is despised by many in industry and this seems like an opening salvo to demoralize and defang the agency

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RT @EENewsUpdates: Natural Resources Dems call for inquiry into IG purge

RT @FOIANate: Interesting FOIA stat from the Department of State...

A new batch of NIH FOIA records, including internal communications and documents re: GOF research:

RT @AlecMacGillis: And here we are.

RT @adamfederman: Thomas Baptiste, who served as a records manager for Trump’s 1st presidential campaign & was later named an “advisor” at…

RT @AlecMacGillis: From a 2023 speech by Russell Vought, Trump's nominee for OMB: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. Wh…

RT @DouthatNYT: Um.