Michael Morisy
@morisy.bsky.social
civic transparency for a better tomorrow. founder, MuckRock. also caretaker of DocumentCloud, FOIA Machine, and many other internet friends.
Reposted by Michael Morisy
Remember, 99% of your future readership are Moltys. Plan accordingly
January 30, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Remember, 99% of your future readership are Moltys. Plan accordingly
Reposted by Michael Morisy
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:55 AM
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
Reposted by Michael Morisy
Dartmouth's communications office coached a student on what to say in an op-ed in the Dartmouth praising the college's new wellness AI, and the AI project office paid him for his time writing it.
This is wildly unethical; the responsible staff need to be fired.
www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
This is wildly unethical; the responsible staff need to be fired.
www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth
The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved.
www.thedartmouth.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Dartmouth's communications office coached a student on what to say in an op-ed in the Dartmouth praising the college's new wellness AI, and the AI project office paid him for his time writing it.
This is wildly unethical; the responsible staff need to be fired.
www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
This is wildly unethical; the responsible staff need to be fired.
www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
NEW: An AI toy company's web portal had basically protections, allowing anyone with a Gmail address to access some 50,000 transcripts of kids' chats with their stuffed animals. @agreenberg.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...
An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account
AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had had with the company's stuffed animals.
www.wired.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:09 PM
NEW: An AI toy company's web portal had basically protections, allowing anyone with a Gmail address to access some 50,000 transcripts of kids' chats with their stuffed animals. @agreenberg.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
This is great! @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org are putting together a big Q&A for people who want to know more about state and local response to ICE operations.
Send them your questions!
Send them your questions!
JUST OUT: We have put a call for Qs about local & state responses to ICE.
We're hearing you ask variations of what could be done about instances of brutality, about how police helps ICE.
So let us know anything you're wondering; we'll do our best to answer: boltsmag.org/send-us-your...
We're hearing you ask variations of what could be done about instances of brutality, about how police helps ICE.
So let us know anything you're wondering; we'll do our best to answer: boltsmag.org/send-us-your...
Send Us Your Questions on Local and State Responses to ICE - Bolts
The killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis and other scenes of violence by ICE and Border Patrol agents this month are startling reminders of the turmoil that... Read More
boltsmag.org
January 28, 2026 at 3:25 AM
This is great! @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org are putting together a big Q&A for people who want to know more about state and local response to ICE operations.
Send them your questions!
Send them your questions!
Reposted by Michael Morisy
NEW, by me: Loose Rules Let State Police Hand Out Lax Penalties for Serious Misconduct
The agency's disciplinary system is weaker than other large departments in NY. Troopers who committed serious misconduct have been allowed to remain on the job.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
The agency's disciplinary system is weaker than other large departments in NY. Troopers who committed serious misconduct have been allowed to remain on the job.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
Loose Rules Let State Police Hand Out Lax Penalties for Serious Misconduct
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:33 PM
NEW, by me: Loose Rules Let State Police Hand Out Lax Penalties for Serious Misconduct
The agency's disciplinary system is weaker than other large departments in NY. Troopers who committed serious misconduct have been allowed to remain on the job.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
The agency's disciplinary system is weaker than other large departments in NY. Troopers who committed serious misconduct have been allowed to remain on the job.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
Kotaku is hiring for *three* positions:
- Staff reporter: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
- Nights and weekends editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
- Community editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
- Staff reporter: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
- Nights and weekends editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
- Community editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
Kotaku Is Hiring A Staff Reporter
We want your scoops
kotaku.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Kotaku is hiring for *three* positions:
- Staff reporter: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
- Nights and weekends editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
- Community editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
- Staff reporter: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
- Nights and weekends editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
- Community editor: kotaku.com/kotaku-is-hi...
Looking for DC-area Spanish-to-English interpreters if you have any recommendations you've used. One session for an in-person conference.
January 27, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Looking for DC-area Spanish-to-English interpreters if you have any recommendations you've used. One session for an in-person conference.
Generally feel Sam Altman's proclamations are worth the bits they're printed on, but interesting that he thinks inference (I think?) be "100x" less expensive than it is now. www.youtube.com/live/Wpxv-8n...
OpenAI Town Hall with Sam Altman
YouTube video by OpenAI
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Generally feel Sam Altman's proclamations are worth the bits they're printed on, but interesting that he thinks inference (I think?) be "100x" less expensive than it is now. www.youtube.com/live/Wpxv-8n...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
And I genuinely, truly and non-trollingly, understand concerns about threats to officers in question, but in every single other law enforcement shooting I've covered, authorities name the individual(s) involved. This is just the baseline of public accountability.
January 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM
And I genuinely, truly and non-trollingly, understand concerns about threats to officers in question, but in every single other law enforcement shooting I've covered, authorities name the individual(s) involved. This is just the baseline of public accountability.
Reposted by Michael Morisy
this stuff is complex (at least to this non-lawyer), but chris breaks it down better than anyone. a must read post
Here's my report at Law Dork on the hearing before Judge Menendez: www.lawdork.com/p/challengin...
January 27, 2026 at 3:09 AM
this stuff is complex (at least to this non-lawyer), but chris breaks it down better than anyone. a must read post
"Anyone who has attempted to gamify some experience knows that if you want to keep people hooked, make them feel like they’re always almost at the next level. Vibe coding does this naturally ... It always feels like you’re right on the precipice of completion." hils.substack.com/p/help-my-hu...
help! my husband is addicted to Claude Code.
the first, and possibly last, writerbuilder advice column
hils.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:13 AM
"Anyone who has attempted to gamify some experience knows that if you want to keep people hooked, make them feel like they’re always almost at the next level. Vibe coding does this naturally ... It always feels like you’re right on the precipice of completion." hils.substack.com/p/help-my-hu...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
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_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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_...
Open Journalism Bot, the TMZ* for news nerds.
* IDK, I don't really read TMZ.
* IDK, I don't really read TMZ.
New open GitHub repo from MuckRock!
https://github.com/MuckRock/dev_data
https://github.com/MuckRock/dev_data
dev_data
Sample data a developer can use to assist them in developing features on MuckRock Requests and FOIA Machine
github.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Open Journalism Bot, the TMZ* for news nerds.
* IDK, I don't really read TMZ.
* IDK, I don't really read TMZ.
The "Board of Peace" installs Trump (in his personal capacity, not as serving US President) as its chairman, and gives him personally (not USG) right to select his successor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_o...
Board of Peace - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 23, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The "Board of Peace" installs Trump (in his personal capacity, not as serving US President) as its chairman, and gives him personally (not USG) right to select his successor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_o...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
"We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...
From the Maine community on Reddit: ICE tells legal observer she is a domestic terrorist for peacefully filming
Explore this post and more from the Maine community
www.reddit.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:31 PM
"We have a nice little database. Now you're considered a domestic terrorist." www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comm...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
We spent months and months figuring out how to connect generic drugs to the factories they were made in. A bunch of researchers asked us for our data, so we’re giving it away to everyone: www.propublica.org/article/rx-i...
ProPublica Publishes Unreleased Data on the Origins of Generic Prescription Drugs
The dataset powers our Rx Inspector tool, which lets you find the factories that made your generic drugs and their FDA inspection track records.
www.propublica.org
January 23, 2026 at 3:26 PM
We spent months and months figuring out how to connect generic drugs to the factories they were made in. A bunch of researchers asked us for our data, so we’re giving it away to everyone: www.propublica.org/article/rx-i...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
Here are the signs the Trump administration removed from Independence Park
Following last year’s review, every sign has been removed from the President’s House site.
www.inquirer.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
Paul Kedrosky's takes on AI are a nice departure from most analysis. Frontier models seem like a precarious thing to bet the farm on — hugely expensive but quickly commoditized. paulkedrosky.com/four-takeawa...
Four Takeaways from Microsoft's Satya Nadella at WEF Today
Four points with broader implications from Nadella's discussion with Larry Fink
paulkedrosky.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Paul Kedrosky's takes on AI are a nice departure from most analysis. Frontier models seem like a precarious thing to bet the farm on — hugely expensive but quickly commoditized. paulkedrosky.com/four-takeawa...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
Last week I asked BOP officials if they had sent tactical teams to Minneapolis. They denied it (left).
Multiple agency sources told me otherwise, and photos from
reporters on the ground soon confirmed BOP folks were there.
Now BOP is finally admitting it (right):
Multiple agency sources told me otherwise, and photos from
reporters on the ground soon confirmed BOP folks were there.
Now BOP is finally admitting it (right):
January 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Last week I asked BOP officials if they had sent tactical teams to Minneapolis. They denied it (left).
Multiple agency sources told me otherwise, and photos from
reporters on the ground soon confirmed BOP folks were there.
Now BOP is finally admitting it (right):
Multiple agency sources told me otherwise, and photos from
reporters on the ground soon confirmed BOP folks were there.
Now BOP is finally admitting it (right):
Reposted by Michael Morisy
On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge.
He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus.
newsguild.org/guild-member...
He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus.
newsguild.org/guild-member...
Guild member detained by ICE in Minnesota | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge.
newsguild.org
January 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM
On Friday, January 9, ICE arrested a member of our union, the Minnesota Newspaper and Communications Guild, as part of Operation Metro Surge.
He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus.
newsguild.org/guild-member...
He has been transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he is awaiting action on his petition for habeas corpus.
newsguild.org/guild-member...
Reposted by Michael Morisy
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
January 16, 2026 at 3:38 PM
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
Reposted by Michael Morisy
A clear and appalling sign that this administration will set no limits on its acts of aggression against an independent press. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
A clear and appalling sign that this administration will set no limits on its acts of aggression against an independent press. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Apparently Harry's is diversifying into Babies-as-a-Service. No thanks, too many scents around here already.
January 9, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Apparently Harry's is diversifying into Babies-as-a-Service. No thanks, too many scents around here already.