Wow. I thought today was going to be the start of the pre-convention slowdown in terms of political news, but Gawker just grabbed the news cycle by the nose:

Today, we are publishing more than 950 pages of internal audits, financial statements, and private investor letters for 21 cryptically named entities in which Romney had invested—at minimum—more than $10 million as of 2011 (that number is based on the low end of ranges he has disclosed—the true number is almost certainly significantly higher). Almost all of them are affiliated with Bain Capital, the secretive private equity firm Romney co-founded in 1984 and ran until his departure in 1999 (or 2002, depending on whom you ask). Many of them are offshore funds based in the Cayman Islands. Together, they reveal the mind-numbing, maze-like, and deeply opaque complexity with which Romney has handled his wealth, the exotic tax-avoidance schemes available only to the preposterously wealthy that benefit him, the unlikely (for a right-wing religious Mormon) places that his money has ended up, and the deeply hypocritical distance between his own criticisms of Obama's fiscal approach and his money managers' embrace of those same policies. They also show that some of the investments that Romney has always described as part of his retirement package at Bain weren't made until years after he left the company.

At the end of the post, they ask their readers to help sift through the complicated documents. So far, they've uncovered some of Romney's tax-dodging tricks, information that suggests Romney's involvement with Bain continued for years after his retirement, suggestions that Bain was pro-stimulus, more information on how Romney became ridiculously wealthy, and proof that Mitt Romney "Is the National Enquirer's Banker." There's nothing major so far—everybody already knew that Romney is a tax dodger and that he built his company on weird financial tricks—but there will probably be more dropping throughout the day. Keep checking the master post for new additions, and if any serious bombs drop, we'll let you know here on Slog.

(Thanks to Slog tippers Kara, Melissa, and Joe, who all wrote in with this.)