Zack Kopplin
@ZackKopplin
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Investigations @GovAcctProj. Find me on the other site
New Orleans, LA
Joined December 2011
Something crazy to think about in Mike Johnson’s sudden rise to power. About eight years ago, while he was simply the lawyer for the Creationism Museum, he gave me his cell phone because his lack of prominence made it worth it for him to give me quotes to write mean things about.
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City installs homeless Jesus statue. *20 minutes later* We regret to inform you a NIMBY called the cops on homeless Jesus. Hell of a milkshakeducking.
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This summer, I was tipped off about a Delaware shell company, Delta Crescent Energy, with deep connections to State Department leadership and the Trump administration that had been granted special permission to deal in Syrian oil.
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The Supreme Court is bad, if expanding it makes it illegitimate, that is a good outcome.
So we're okay with each party expanding the Supreme Court whenever they're in power, I see. I'm sure the people now advocating for that will be very understanding when the other side does it.
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Remember how we just found out Bret Stephens did an actual ethical violation by having an undisclosed paid gig for a pro-Israel lobbying group while writing about Israel and still has a job?.
Associated Press staff received a memo this morning that @vv1lder is no longer with the company, after conservatives rallied to get her fired because she was part of Students for Justice in Palestine in college
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Buttigieg’s work in Iraq and Afghanistan is extremely relevant and if you give me the names of the companies McKinsey was involved in privatizing, I’ll tell you the oligarch who bought them.
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Last year, I obtained documents showing American military contractors making payoffs to companies connected to Iranian-backed militias and two former Prime Ministers of Iraq on a $2 billion contract. Now that story is out and this is how I put it together.
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I'm so furious right now. It's just emerged that the Biden administration is going to implement Trump-era rules to strip au pairs, who are vulnerable domestic workers, of the limited labor rights they had gained in some states. It's a disgrace.
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Nah, they were pretty clear.
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These are illegal gag orders that violate whistleblower law.
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Coincidentally, a million years is also far older than Mike Johnson thinks the Earth is.
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This is a coup.
So between Barr, McConnell, Esper today, tell me why I shouldn’t think this is a coup?.
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TBH I respect this man's dedication to guzzling diarrhea.
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Can someone please ask the Speaker of the House how old the Earth is, so I don’t have to get in trouble with my boss for doing it.
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@pamelacolloff @maggieNYT @benyt I've got so many criticisms of this, but first off, if she already had the sources, it's not early career. Second off, this is sociopathic.
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Seems like you should go to a doctor then?.
I don't remember Americans succumbing to their worst impulses after 9/11, but that seems to be the recollection of whoever wrote this speech.
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Couldn't even wait until Amy Coney Barrett decided it wasn't a First Amendment violation.
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Actually, I think Feinstein will forget about it quickly.
👀!. It’s unorthodox for a senator to back a primary challenge to a senator in the same party. Maybe Feinstein retires. But either way, this should make for an awkward couple of years between Warren and Feinstein.
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Never in a million years would I have imagined this dude becoming speaker, and uh, it’s not great.
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These days, if you're buying gas, it doesn't cost more than $2. But, the U.S. military, which is buying fuel in bulk, is paying more than $10 a gallon in Iraq. My latest investigation gets into the corrupt networks allowing that to happen.
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@kenklippenstein didn’t even have to trick Republicans into endorsing war crimes this time.
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Israeli and American politicians say this on a literally daily basis.
Israel never “said it represents all Jews.” . Israel is a pluralistic, diverse democracy that was created as a safe haven for Jews of all kinds after the Holocaust, when no other country (including the U.S.) would accept us. This statement below is quintessential antisemitism.
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In case anyone doesn’t know, Louisiana has a law that allows teaching creationism and climate denial in public school. I spent a large part of high school and college trying to get rid of it, unsuccessfully.
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Congratulations to Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and every other smaller military contractor making in the low billions.
War in Afghanistan has cost the US over $2.3 trillion, per new analysis by Brown University published today:.
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@patdennis Actually, one note, you forgot about the tax evasion, sanctions evasion and money laundering schemes.
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Anyway Aaron Rupar couldn’t actual journalism work if it hit in the face. I try not to be obnoxious about people who don’t break into hard journalism but he’s a loser who doesn’t provide value to society with what he does.
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A weird quirk of my career is I’ve probably met every prominent creationist in the country. And Mike Johnson is definitely one of them.
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Everyone knows that if you agree to stop robbing banks, you get to keep the money.
NEW: SCOTUS has booted the remaining emoluments cases against Trump as moot, and vacated the judgments against the former preisdent in the lower courts
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Mike Johnson becoming speaker is the kinda thing that only happens once every 4,000 years.
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🚨 A very brave whistleblower I worked with needs some temporary financial assistance. She resigned from her job in an ICE prison and exposed its human rights violations. If you want to help her out until her next paycheck comes that would be super cool.
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TBH feels extremely dumb that my most viral tweet will be about a statue of Jesus given *gestures at years of very opposite advocacy*.
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When you dm someone to get them to delete a dunk that's coward shit.
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There is no way this could be done without the consent of Kurdistan's ruling family, the Barzanis, who would have to take a cut of the proceeds. The State Department stepped in to help bring the Barzanis on board. This was confirmed in a House Foreign Affairs Hearing yesterday.
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This is part of Trump's policy to take the oil in Syria. American troops guard the wells and Delta Crescent, through its unique position as the only company allowed by the U.S. government to deal in Syrian oil, holds a monopoly.
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*Axios voice* Be Smart: The President is planning a coup. Raytheon stocks are likely to rise in value.
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The story is published here, with @OCCRP, and it gets even more important now, with the withdrawal of U.S. troops planned for September, as the bulk of the American involvement in Afghanistan will be through contractors.
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This man has tried to call me, email me and message me nonstop for disagreeing with him. It would be really nice if he just stopped. I had to block his phone number, his Twitter and then he sent me repeated emails.
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@conor64 @jh_swanson Love to wake up and stare at my Hitler paintings to reflect on the evil of the third reich and my George Bush paintings to reflect on his war crimes and my Norman Rockwell paintings because just fuck that dude. That’s why i keep all those paintings in my dining room.
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@pamelacolloff @maggieNYT @benyt Emotional blackmail is not the way to treat your sources. And this is also so disrespectful to her peers in the field.
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With the news that Ghani arrived in the UAE with $169 million in cash, everyone should read our investigation into corruption he facilitated *from April*.
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A Noah’s Ark playground for every school in the country under Mike Johnson.
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And that's it. Everything else, I mean everything, out of these 134 pages of documents is classified as a trade secret. Let's be clear, this is not legitimate. The @GovAcctProj is calling for Treasury to undo these redactions and come clean.
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Hmm, maybe it has something to do with the current Secretary of State trying to suppress people's views.
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@Stanford_GOP @vv1lder @AP Waiting for @bariweiss to publicly condemn the Stanford College Republicans for this heinous act of college cancel culture advocacy.
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The plan was a stupid one. The oil would be smuggled through Iraqi Kurdistan into Turkey, at best causing a region wide diplomatic crisis. Worse, to pull this off would require wild corruption.
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Famous journalist bashes candidate for doing work of journalist.
@DavidMDrucker Don't want to RT this because I don't want to put these people's names in my feed but this is dangerous, by any campaign.
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@jonathanchait You have no redeeming qualities. Quit your job. Delete your account. Go cry because everyone hates you.
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But I also filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit as soon as I got ahold of the sanctions waiver license number for Delta Crescent.
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Treasury told our judge that they would release records to me last week. But, coincidentally, they held off until 15 minutes after the House Foreign Affairs committee hearing started yesterday.
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Guys, I've done it, Glenn Greenwald finally blocked me for making fun of him.
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Al Monitor broke the news in late July that Delta Crescent had reached a deal with Kurdish Syrian leadership to export Syrian petroleum. (It's not like they had much choice.).
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This is still a war crime despite the correction.
⚡️Correction: Ukrainian special forces will no longer capture Russian artillerymen. The command of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces has warned that it will not spare Russian artillerymen in response to their “brutal shelling” of civilians and cities.
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Everyone should read what Grant Wahl had to say about Qatar before he died.
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Must be torture.
Anger at Gina Haspel has been building for months among Trump allies.
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Send Rahm to Antarctica.
NEW: President Biden is considering fmr. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for a high-profile ambassadorship, potentially to China, three people with knowledge of the discussions tell @NBCNews.
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On a similar note to this, if you’re a young reporter and ask me for advice, I will find time for you. That’s what older, more established reporters should be doing.
Legacy media reporters who didn’t have the time of day for me when I was coming up but asking for help now I see you 👁.
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I mean I remember being bullied in middle school for loudly opposing the Iraq War in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Published this morning with @theprospect, we trace an $18.3 million property investment by Masrour Barzani, whose family has ruled Iraqi Kurdistan for decades and siphoned the regions wealth while committing human rights abuses.
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Joe Biden's refusal to address the Supreme Court and the broader death of our democracy is his legacy.
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Who likes war crimes? Donald Trump, Mike Pompeo, and a politically connected Delaware company that has exclusive rights to extract Syrian oil.
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@CarlBeijer @thetomzone yes, it broke me, I was going to not be petty and leave this be, but that made it impossible not to post, just the fucking ego, and like my man, I was on HBO as a 20 year old, had plenty of non obscurity and I'm pretty fine with the way my work is now.
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The records are redacted to shit, but let's go through them, because there's still things to be learned from them. A full copy is available on my documentcloud.
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Also, if someone finds me the full Pompeo personal connection to Delta Crescent, I'll give you a prize.
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So apparently the Barzanis are doubling down on their sexist slur and sending out a picture of two people having lunch that's supposedly proof of me having an affair. The person in the picture is not me and looks nothing like me.
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The Pentagon was paying these guys $10 a gallon for gasoline, which, if you've been to a gas station recently (and international fuel prices roughly track), is wildly overpriced.
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@jake_bittle My favorite mega rich person in college story was a kid from one of the wealthiest families in a small South Asian country who kept doing these terrible shirtless w/ a horse photoshoots. So much entertainment from those photos.
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Oh, and on the topic of Rainfloods, it was used to rip the Pentagon off for hundreds of millions, including $50 million which appears to have been funneled into luxury Beverly Hills mansions for the Barzani family.
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