John Dell'Osso
Investigative journalist focused on corruption, money laundering and other forms of skulduggery. Semi-random thoughts on transportation, bikes, music and life's mysteries.
- Reposted by John Dell'OssoThis sounds familiar... 🤔 But growing a newsroom from the ground up takes time and money — and frankly, we need way more resources than we have now to fill this massive gap. You can help us build the newsroom D.C. deserves: 51st.news/signup
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- I don't know what "holistic" means in this context. But, I know that today I watched several elderly people and families with young kids walking on major roads because massive snowbanks created by plows blocked sidewalks and bus stops.
- DC politics getting lively.
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- Fun fact. I recently sat next to this guy and one of his aides on a flight from Houston. They were talking about their Twitter posts pretty much the entire time.
- Reposted by John Dell'Osso‘The more that other countries look to escape US financial coercion, the more the US will scale it up… The global dollar system may now be a source of instability rather than stability.’ Our new paper by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social & @himself.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...
- Reposted by John Dell'OssoTomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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- Reposted by John Dell'OssoEverything old is new again
- Reposted by John Dell'OssoThis week, a man in ICE custody bravely went on the record telling me he witnessed guards choking another detainee to death -- an account supported by medical examiner findings. Now, DHS is trying to deport him and another one of my sources. Gift link: wapo.st/4qR1T1U
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- Reposted by John Dell'OssoPhoto by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
- It's perhaps a bit much, but finding a lot of relevant symbolism in this show for the current moment. In particular, this guy...
- Reposted by John Dell'OssoThe Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)
- For no particular reason...
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- Scavengers Reign is a staggeringly imaginative and entertaining show with really haunting music.
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- My new year wish is for peace and solidarity.
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- "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
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- Where do DC mayoral hopefuls stand on firing jacked up trucks into outer space?
- 2026 will be the year of the bollard.
- Reposted by John Dell'OssoAmazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
- Reposted by John Dell'OssoWarm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...
- Someone needs a little visit from Establishment Claus.
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- The spot in the middle makes a great filipino box-spring hog.
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- 🎶 Ain't no party like a related party 🎶
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- The Americans, season 7. The FBI reassigns Stan to arrest farm workers in Iowa. Philip and Elizabeth are redeployed to DC and have regular access to cabinet officials. The KGB relocates Martha to Europe to set up a publicly traded payment processor.
- Vision Zero
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- DC politics today.
- It true.
- A haunting song, and fitting for a bout of bronchitis.
- 💥💥💥 honored that our @postandcourier.bsky.social, @ajc.com and @istories.bsky.social pieces on sanctioned Russian bankers and their US property investments were featured in The Sunday Long Read (@thesundaylongread.bsky.social) newsletter! cc @tbartelme.bsky.social
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- There is a special place in hell reserved for people who throw dog shit in streetside residential garbage cans where the city only picks up whatever is in an actual garbage bag.
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- Reposted by John Dell'OssoOne analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
- If I weren't a po' boy, Ya ha deedle deedle bubba bubba deedle deedle dum
- a+ pun
- The coldest cut is the deepest.
- Big day for sandwiches.
- Whenever someone noteworthy dies, I think of this.
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- Reposted by John Dell'Osso🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
- Thinking of this for no particular reason.
- I'm really excited to see this in the world. I collaborated with German civic education nonprofit CRISP and the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga to pilot a corruption-related simulation game in Colombia.
- You're welcome.
- A car ran a stop sign as I was turning on my bike. I yelled at them because how else can I express my displeasure? Another driver in the next lane rolled his window down and yelled at me for having the audacity to yell at a dangerous driver! Lots of sociopathy.
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- Reposted by John Dell'OssoAnother reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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- The plot thickens!
- The outlook for intellectual freedom at my alma mater is not promising.
- www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... UT Austin is one of the 9 schools offered a deal: accede to White House demands and get funding priority
- Tried to sign up for the Commerce Department online #FOIA platform a while back. The system says you'll receive an email to finalize registration...🦗🦗🦗 Sent an email to the FOIA address, expecting an acknowledgment, even automated...🦗🦗🦗 Transparency!
- The falcon has just been informed that the falconer is dead.
- New with the @postandcourier.bsky.social, @ajc.com and @istories.bsky.social... After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US sanctioned Sergey Khotimskiy and the bank he co-founded, Sovcombank. He finalized the transfer of as much as $43 million in real estate to his ex-wife before the sanctions.
- The investigation tells a bigger story about corporate secrecy and how hard it is to know who your neighbor (or your landlord) is. It turns out that the US has a bit of a problem in this regard, and it makes it easier to hide potential misconduct. This can even undermine national security.
