Chris Bing

Some personal news: Friday was my last day at ProPublica after joining last January. More on what’s next later. It was an incredible journey in that short time. ProPublica’s mission and its ability to attract top talent is what makes it special – the people who work here are really good.

New: Elon Musk, the world's richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing. https://buff.ly/4aO1jLq First byline at new job!

The way that some federal workers learned today they had been laid off was their badges wouldn't scan at different federal building entrances. Wild scenes and lots of confusion/anger

Some personal news: I am very excited to be joining ProPublica as an investigative reporter covering national security and technology starting in January.

Legendary journalism here: We never get to see how the campaign finance system is corrupted. It’s shrouded in everyday DC influence games. Now you can

Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/g...

Can’t have some of your most important players have their worst games in memory… Pulisic, Dest, Freese really rough

National Geographic is still so good. A breath of fresh air - with stories of exploration and new mystery. If you haven’t read a copy in a while it’s a great time to subscribe again 🙌

Saddened to hear the news of the passing of Stewart Baker. Stewart was an important person in my career, providing contrarian view points, smart analysis and the occasional bombastic quote. Even when we disagreed, I learned a lot speaking to him on any number of natsec topics.

For once, very good news! So cool www.cnn.com/2026/04/01/s...

The thing about metro-ing an hour into Virginia is you get to see every form of weapons grade depression that exists

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www.nytimes.com/interactive/... impressively reported and deeply embarrassing

sharing a theory I am researching below 1.) claims of cyber-related effect in Venezuela darkreading.com/cybersecurit... 2.) potential BGP anomaly event fits timeframe x.com/blackorbird/... 3.) leaked snowden doc suggests possible relevant tooling blog.fox-it.com/2015/04/20/d...