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Decca Muldowney is a former reporter-researcher for The Daily Beast. She was previously an investigative researcher at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, a Senior Research Fellow at ProPublica; and an NYC real estate reporter. Send her tips: decca.muldowney@thedailybeast.com or tips@thedailybeast.com. You can also use our anonymous document submission system, SecureDrop. Click here to find out how.

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Meet the Woman Training Parents How to Get Books Banned

CHIEF PUPPETEER

Karen England is successfully teaching people how to remove books from school libraries, even outside of their school districts, starting with refusing to use the term “book ban.”

Decca Muldowney | Published Dec 01, 2023

MAGA Influencers Are Sold on This Grifty Wellness Company

GOOP FOR THE GOP

The Wellness Company has helped underwrite the online programming of Kari Lake, Laura Loomer, Naomi Wolf, and others. But critics say the Goop-like firm is a “prolific grift.”

William Bredderman, Decca Muldowney | Published Nov 18, 2023

Far-Right Board Now Feels $4M Resignation Offer Is Excessive

NO RETURN POLICY

Michigan's Ottawa County made its Health Department boss an offer she couldn’t refuse to quit. Now, it appears the ultraconservative group thinks it may have overdone it.

Decca Muldowney | Published Nov 16, 2023

Study: Musk’s X Is an Antisemitic, Islamophobic ‘Hell-Scape’

HATE-FILLED

Researchers found that 98 percent of hateful posts flagged via X’s internal reporting system were still up after a week.

Decca Muldowney | Published Nov 14, 2023

Far-Right Board Offers Health Boss $4 Million to Quit

AN OFFER SHE CAN’T REFUSE

The offer is equivalent to roughly 30 years’ worth of Adeline Hambley’s salary as Ottawa County’s public health officer.

Decca Muldowney | Published Nov 09, 2023

Steve Martin Has Perfect Response to His Book Getting Banned

CLAPBACK

This is the only murder in the building today.

Decca Muldowney | Published Nov 07, 2023

School Board Candidate Pursued Porn Lawsuit Over LGBT Books

‘OBSCENE’

Teri Patrick, a school board applicant in West Des Moines, Iowa, was part of a group of parents who attempted to get criminal obscenity charges brought against the school district

Decca Muldowney | Published Nov 03, 2023

Murder Plot Charge Against Hilton’s Ex Biz Partner Dropped

SHOCK TWIST

Fred Khalilian is now being held on a separate witness tampering charge and will remain detained.

Decca Muldowney | Published Nov 02, 2023

Paris Hilton’s Ex Biz Partner Accused of Bribing Witness

SILENCE IS GOLDEN

Fred Khalilian allegedly offered his former bodyguard $400,000 to change his testimony in a bizarre murder-for-hire plot, according to new court documents.

Decca Muldowney | Published Nov 01, 2023

NYT Bestseller Banned By North Carolina School Library Board

‘DON’T CENSOR THE QUEEN’

An advisory board for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district told The Daily Beast while it was banning the Sarah J. Maas book from libraries it would still be available online.

Decca Muldowney | Published Oct 31, 2023

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