Michael Squires

Southwest Editor @propublica | Investigative journalism in #AZ #CO #NV #NM #UT

[Michael Squires @mgsquires]

@MatthewWBenson @azcentral How do you feel about “What to Know” in every other headline?

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

It still blows my mind how @bennyjohnson and Tim Pool @Timcast were both CAUGHT taking money from Vladimir Putin and now they're part of the goddamn American White House press pool.

[G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris]

one of the best tweets of all time

[NBC News @NBCNews]

No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the FDA that was quietly made public. https://t.co/N99uOgFTQ9

[ProPublica @propublica]

ProPublica obtained 3,000 pages of emails sent last year by executives asking that their facilities be exempted from Clean Air Act requirements.

The White House approved more than 180 requests and is considering more.
https://t.co/u2qIsdRz9a

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

So let me get this straight…
What’s in: tanning beds, flavored vapes
What’s out: vaccines, anti-depressants

RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists https://t.co/3UHqLnIkPe

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Interesting how the national debt panic (and the beltway groups that fulminated about it) vanished - even though the total debt has more than doubled since the 2011 debt ceiling wars.

Great @RichardRubinDC story, WSJ A1, no discourse! https://t.co/aAFAhrmboV

[Matt Schick @ESPN_Schick]

Brendan Sorsby has entered a gambling addiction program for sports betting, which could end his college career.

The second paragraph of this story is remarkable.

[Andy Bailey @AndrewDBailey]

One of the interesting things about the NBA is each game is played with its own unique set of rules.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Secret memos by Supreme Court justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how they decided to bypass time-tested procedures and create the modern “shadow docket,” a controversial new way of doing business. https://t.co/xNu6GXxmdl

[Henry Brean @RefriedBrean]

@mgsquires P.S. Because of where its intake and pumps now operate, Las Vegas will still be able to draw from Lake Mead even if the reservoir drops too low for Hoover Dam to release water downstream to those farmers in the Imperial Valley.

[Michael Squires @mgsquires]

The Las Vegas on the right uses the same amount of water as the Las Vegas on the left. As far as what happens, a farming family in the Imperial Valley gets paid handsomely to not use their CO River water to grow alfalfa and melons.

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

I have no idea between what years these were taken but what happens to Las Vegas when Lake Mead dries up? I don’t understand desert power. I am not from Arakis.

[Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW]

The State Department used to have a thing called the Global Engagement Center, which was designed to counter this kind of foreign propaganda.

Trump and Rubio got rid of it.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

[Avi Asher-Schapiro @AASchapiro]

Christmas Eve, 2024: A nuclear energy expert gets an unexpected phone call. It’s Peter Thiel.

The billionaire was vetting staff to work in the incoming Trump administration on nuclear energy issues. And he wanted to talk about rapid deregulation and massive nuclear buildout 🧵

[Jen Fifield @JenAFifield]

.@ProPublica has exclusively obtained the FBI property receipt detailing what an agent collected from the Arizona Senate under the federal grand jury subpoena we wrote about yesterday. 🧵

[Jen Fifield @JenAFifield]

Full story: Election Records Handed Over to the FBI in Maricopa County, Arizona, Could Be Fatally Flawed, Experts Say https://t.co/O46JGHrLHs

[Arpit Gupta @arpitrage]

California has reinvented feudalism from first principles

https://t.co/m5P1hfQkor

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

About $1.7 billion flowed from two accounts at Binance, whose founder was pardoned by Trump, to Iranian entities with links to terrorist groups, a possible violation of global sanctions, investigators discovered. @yaffebellany @PekingMike https://t.co/tBkZOyqsZW

[Michael Squires @mgsquires]

@JerodMacEvoy @azfamily Area Man™️