If you’ve spent any time on Twitter, there’s a good chance you’ve come across Ken Klippenstein. From getting into a fight with Elon Musk to tricking GOP congressman Steve King into retweeting the words “Steve King is a white supremacist” to his own followers, the former Young Turk and reporter for the Nation has helped to elevate the humiliation of awful people into an art form.

His legendary trolling notwithstanding, Klippenstein has also emerged as one of the Trump era’s most intrepid reporters — regularly delivering scoops on the inner machinations of federal agencies, the administration’s efforts to crack down on activists, and the far right.

Klippenstein spoke to Jacobin about his work, his somewhat heterodox investigative method — and, as we can exclusively report, his forthcoming move to a new role at the Intercept.