Kieran Meadows
Don't fit in a box.
🖊 Journalist @forbes.com
🎙️ Editor & Host, Forbes Daily Briefing
🎶 Musician. DJ. Producer.
📍Brooklyn-native. NYC🗽
Falo🇧🇷português.
📻 Former Radio Host @ The REFRESH
Formerly: Democracy Now!; ABC News Investigative Unit; WNYC Radio
- Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
- Not sure which stat blows me away more. That Donald Trump's name shows up more times in the Epstein Files (38K) than Harry Potter's does in the Harry Potter books (~19K) or that Joe Rogan has had more guests that were named in the Epstein Files (10+) than he's had Black women guests (~5).
- Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Well that's headline you don't see everyday: "Jill Biden’s Ex-Husband Charged With Murder Of Wife In Delaware" www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...
- Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works. Exhibit 14829497.
- I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.
- Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
- New: “Why The Trump-UAE Crypto Deal Made No Financial Sense—For The Emiratis” 💰🤷🇦🇪 @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social (whom you should follow) and me for @forbes.com
- You don't have to believe that the fascists are competent enough to suppress voting everywhere in 2026 or 2028. You just have to believe that they can depress minority turnout in 5-10 cities to affect entire Senate races & the Electoral College. 2024 was decided by 120K votes in 3 states, after all.
- 1/ Ian Austin has since been re-arrested along with Don Lemon, which he believes is bc the video we made of him (below) criticizing the Trump regime and encouraging fellow vets to wake up had gotten millions of views. It's not just journalists. It's ANYONE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti
- I find it kinda astonishing all these people who have spent so many years in public life, many of them media/ PR pros, didn’t think to get ahead of these stories. Did they really think it’d never come out? Bowles & Weiss never thought to mention it to ‘Free Press’ subscribers?
- "Every American should be worried about that, because if they can lie about this, what else could they lie about? And if it's your family member who gets killed, what recourse do you have?" www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...
- "This price tag for one single documentary film is pretty extraordinary and I’ve never, never encountered — never heard of something at that level. ... So, it’s pretty blatant." - @richardrushfield.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/news/triumph...
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- Yes, this friendly 2019 Jeffrey Epstein email exchange is about the owner of the Patriots, Robert Kraft. But it's more important who it is WITH: Brad Karp, the chairman of Paul, Weiss. And Karp was still chairman when Paul, Weiss became the first law firm to cave to Trump's demands in 2025. 1/
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- It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.
- 🚨NEW🚨 The FBI used facial recognition to identify then charge ICE protestors causing damage to gov property in Minneapolis. Agents have been looking through YouTube footage, as well as video sent in by tipsters at the protests, before deploying the surveillance tech. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
- Warsh being announced as Fed chair nominee and being featured in the latest Epstein Files release is next-level synergy.
- My colleagues @Forbes constantly blow me away with their scoops and in-depth features. Follow them here.at://did:plc:moye3apncjjbyqgb7orp5quj/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laogqldw6h2w
- If you're saving for your kids (or grandkids), here's why a Trump account might not be your best bet. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...
- “The modern attention-span crisis is not limited to the written word,” Rose Horowitch reports. “Now professors are finding that they can’t even get students—film students—to sit through movies”:
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- ICE Masks, Billionaires and the Politics of Anti-Accountability talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ice-m...
- Rep. @ilhanmn.bsky.social has consistenly been personally targeted with some of the most vile rhetoric from President Trump. And she has continually refused to back down.
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- 🚨 NEW 🚨 The Men Making Millions Selling Pepper Spray To ICE Safariland, owned by billionaire Warren Kanders, remains the number one supplier of pepper spray and tear gas to ICE and CBP, via a large federal distributor run by a MAGA-aligned former Marine. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
- as ever, @marissarmoss.bsky.social is skillfully calling out hypocrisy in country music bsky.app/profile/mari...
- I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
- President Trump’s assertion of near-total control over the executive branch — leveraged to grow his net worth by more than an estimated $3 billion since returning to office — alongside dark money, shows why a new era of anticorruption reform is overdue. We outline nine solutions. #[bit.ly/4r62EnZ
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- Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
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- NEW: From @davidgilbert.bsky.social on the all-too-quick smear campaign that erupted after today's killing, from the White House to an array of government officials and influential accounts.
- Philando Castile informed the police that he was lawfully carrying. He was killed.
- And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.
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- Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
- Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.
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- Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
- Mayor Jacob Frey: "How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? "
- I don’t think we should be using words like “innocent” or “US citizen” or “bystander” or things like that because — what if someone was an undocumented immigrant with a criminal record? Would they deserve this? No one deserves to be executed on the street in cold blood.
- Stop calling people trying to protect their neighbors and their communities "protesters."
- All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
- is "meaningful control of the algorithm" in the room with us right now
